Organic Mango

CRFG Mango Fruit Facts

mang01.jpg 71.13 Kb 9/4/97 1:31:44 PM This is the way I like to eat my mango. I slice around the seed and then score the fruit and eat. then eat around and suck the seed clean. Here you can have peaches in summer and mango in winter.	mang02.jpg 12.60 Kb 9/4/97 1:29:00 PM I end up with this seed from a polyembronic mango. Which has a good chance of being true to and as good as the mother..	mang03.jpg 23.77 Kb 9/4/97 1:29:28 PM I split the husk and gently take out the seed.	mang04.jpg 59.28 Kb 9/4/97 1:27:34 PM This is the seed and as you can see it has a little horse shoe shape or half moon shape	mang05.jpg 119.38 Kb 9/4/97 1:27:12 PM I plant it with the points of the moon shape down	mang06.jpg 100.59 Kb 9/4/97 1:24:44 PM I don't plant it two deep
mang07.jpg 114.86 Kb 9/4/97 1:24:18 PM If it comes up with more that one stem I know it is polyembronic and may breed true.	mang08.jpg 98.46 Kb 9/4/97 1:23:06 PM As it gets big I move it to a much bigger pot as mango has a deep tap root.	mang09.jpg 154.79 Kb 9/2/97 11:07:28 AM Second generation from a seedling I got from Paul Thomson who knows mango. He said it was a good seedling and now I have a seed of the seedling and it also looks good. Let you know after I taste it this year. God willing.	mang10.jpg 168.74 Kb 9/4/97 1:22:36 PM With each generation I feel the mango will get more and more use to growing here.	mang11.jpg 159.12 Kb 9/4/97 1:21:58 PM	mang12.jpg 105.90 Kb 9/4/97 1:21:36 PM This second generation plant looks good to me.
mang13.jpg 143.89 Kb 8/30/97 12:25:20 PM This is a good seedling. I buy the fruit from the store and plant the seed and taaa daaa my own mango tree. hummm what wilI I name you.	mang14.jpg 155.47 Kb 8/30/97 12:26:16 PM These trees made it throught the freeze I lost about 20 mangoes over 10 years old below the graft so now I will use mostly seedlings . this is one of the only grafts that lived.	mang15.jpg 106.40 Kb 8/30/97 7:21:48 PM We can grow great mangoes here in Carpinteria Ca. this one is called vivi sinore	mang16.jpg 144.38 Kb 9/1/97 11:18:14 AM another seedling	mang17.jpg 122.97 Kb 9/1/97 11:18:40 AM another seedling. Look for Ca. mango to be one of the best.	mang18.jpg 115.49 Kb 9/1/97 7:09:48 PM another seedling
mang19.jpg 145.35 Kb 9/1/97 7:10:20 PM mango grow slow in Ca. because they only push growth 2 or 3 time where as in the tropics they push all year long. Here in winter they just hold on and do not push so for a mango to get this big it takes time . But the best mango I ever tasted I grew right here.	mang20.jpg 136.70 Kb 9/1/97 7:18:42 PM another seed coming of age.	mang21.jpg 103.10 Kb 9/2/97 11:04:18 AM This seedling is looking good must be 12 years old and only up to my chest.	mang22.jpg 80.66 Kb 9/2/97 11:04:46 AM Can't wait to try this seedling out.	mang23.jpg 144.85 Kb 9/2/97 11:05:08 AM Hope we have a warm winter . Yes you can grow mango in Carpinteria Ca.	mang24.jpg 150.46 Kb 9/2/97 11:05:48 AM mango tree seedling