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Need suggestions for Mango variety to plant

MattyB

By MattyB
in TROPICAL LOOKING PLANTS - Other Than Palms

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MattyB

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Hi y'all. We've had our first Mango harvest ever and it was the bomb!!!!!!!!! I've decided to take out my palm garden and replace it with mangoes!!!!! OK, well maybe not, but I am taking out a few fruit trees that are "so so" and I'm gonna put in more mangoes.

So, I need suggestions for which mango to plant. I have Timotayo (tastes great and grows well here in CA) and Valencia Pride (tree has struggled so far). The spot I'm thinking of calls for a large tree and because we're in California I'm thinking that it needs to be an early ripener. I was looking into Keitt, but it seems that it ripens in Aug-October in Florida, which means that it'll be trying to ripen in January-Feb here in CA and that's just not going to work.

What's a large, early ripener?

Matt Bradford

"Manambe Lavaka"

Spring Valley, CA (8.5 miles inland from San Diego Bay)

10B on the hill (635 ft. elevation)

9B in the canyon (520 ft. elevation)

mnorell Veteran

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Matty, California Rare Fruit Growers has a whole rundown of cultivars and their performance in California in coastal, inland and desert areas (or greenhouse only types) along with ripening times, etc. You can find it here.

Michael Norell

Rancho Mirage, California | 33°44' N 116°25' W | 287 ft | z10a | avg Jan 43/70F | Jul 78/108F avg | Weather Station KCARANCH310

previously Big Pine Key, Florida | 24°40' N 81°21' W | 4.5 ft. | z12a | Calcareous substrate | avg annual min. approx 52F | avg Jan 65/75F | Jul 83/90 | extreme min approx 41F

previously Natchez, Mississippi | 31°33' N 91°24' W | 220 ft.| z9a | Downtown/river-adjacent | Loess substrate | avg annual min. 23F | Jan 43/61F | Jul 73/93F | extreme min 2.5F (1899); previously Los Angeles, California (multiple locations)

DoomsDave Grand Master

DoomsDave

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I had a bunch of San Gabriel mangoes that bore fruit in the boxes, and a crazed Indian guy bought them all back in 1999.

Don't know about large or early, but they should rock for you, too.

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Rosigold is an early ripener. it might need some irrigation where you are though.

Zeeth Grand Master

Zeeth

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I don't know how they'll perform in Cali compared to Florida, but you can try to get ahold of a coconut creme or lemon zest mango. I've heard they're the best tasting mango varieties.

Keith 

Palmetto, Florida (10a) and Tampa, Florida (9b/10a)

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Fascell Origin Miami, 1936. Seedling of Brooks. Pat. #451. Tree open, slow. Fruit medium to large, elongated flattened, yellow with pink blush, flesh acid. Early. For coast and inland.

Wow - I'd love to get a hold of a Fascell Mango. It was developed by Mike Fascell, an old Miami Nurseryman. Have not been able to find one, I work with his great niece and she would love to plant one at her home. She actually lived at the nursery in an apartment above the office when her family moved here when she was 7.

Coral Gables, FL 8 miles North of Fairchild USDA Zone 10B

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Palmdude

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Not certain if they would grow in California but my favorites are the Asian varieties. A tie for my favorite would be Nam Doc Mai and lemon merengue. They both make you say "OH MY GOD!!!!!" While the juice is dripping down your chin and off your elbows

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