Best mangoes for cooler climates (forum)
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Jo starts with ...
What are the best varieties of Mango for cooler climates?
Time: 4th September 2007 8:36pm
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Anonymous says...
This is a vexed issue that I have had no proper info . from any source . I can say that Kensington Pride aka Bowen after 10 years produced a meagre but v . tasty crop in the mid Blue Mts.
Time: 6th September 2007 8:26am
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Jo says...
Thank you ever so kindly for your response.
Yes, I think you are quite right. This does seem to be quite vexed issue but, perhaps we have an oppertunity to gather some factual information to help those of us who are out in the cold ;) (boom-boom!).
After some largely unsucessful ground work I contacted Daleys to see what they thought. They referred me to Louis Glowinski's "The Complete Book of Fruit Growing in Australia". Lucky for me I had a copy on the shelf. I must say that I have found it t be a wonderful resource. However, it highlighted some rather conflicting information when I referred back to Daleys website so. that put me back to square one.
Is anyone else out there in a cooler climate (like Melbourne for example) having sucess with Mangoes? If so, which variety are you growing?
Time: 6th September 2007 1:57pm
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Correy says...
On this forum one guy said he has planted an R2E2 mango tree in melbourne.
http://www.au.gardenweb.com/forums/load/oztrop/msg0105592122205.html?17
I notice that the Nam doc mai says it is a regular cropper in cooler climates on daleys mango page:
http://www.daleysfruit.com.au/fruit%20pages/mango.htm
Jo what was the conflicting information you got from the book. Can you copy it in here?
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Time: 30th October 2007 10:14pm
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John says...
hay guys, mangoes are very tuff creatures that once weaned can servive anywhere and produce quality fruit. Stick to your bowens.
Time: 14th January 2008 7:28pm
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Nick says...
I agree with John, bowens rule! They may be tropicals but they are quite tough. I even have one flowering right now after just 2 years! They won't perform at their best in these marginal climates, but they'll still grow and hopefully produce. :)
Time: 26th November 2010 9:41pm
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allybanana says...
I thought the problem with bowens in cooler climates was they tended to produce male flowers and no female flowers. Not a reflection on there ability to grow well or even flower.
Glowinski says about Kensington pride on the top of page 306 "its intolerance of cool or wet conditions makes it an unreliable bearer" he is however basing this on the susceptibility to fungal and bacterial disease which he suggests are exacerbated by cool wet conditions and this is responsible for its unreliable bearing.
The only variety that he mentions, "may be useful for cooler spots" is Florigon.
Which Daleys have in stock and they agree, "Sets well in subtropics."
Daleys also mention three other varieties, which, are good for cooler areas see http://www.daleysfruit.com.au/plant/Mango.htm
Time: 26th November 2010 11:21pm
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Nick says...
Yeah, I don't think they tolerate cooler and wetter conditions but I get around this this by covering flower panicles with plastic bags when rain threatens. And about there being only male flowers, I'm pretty sure that there are already fruitlets forming at the moment. The added bonus of having the flowers inside a bag is that even in rain, the pollinators (flies, mosquitoes etc..) are hopelessly trapped and are basically forced to pollinate.
Time: 27th November 2010 11:17am
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allybanana says...
Nick, I like that spirit, I have no drought by hook or by crook you will get mangos, The rats ate out the bottom of my grafted Bowen below the ground.
At the moment I am trying to grow a R2E2 mango from seed as this variety is supposed to be relatively cold tolerant. I just read an article were they tested the seedlings of polyembryonic mango seedlings genetically to see which embryos were true to type. 90% of the biggest seedlings were cross pollinated and the position of this embryos varied within the seed http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?pid=S0100-29452006000300025&script=sci_arttext. This is so different from what is being said on cloud forest caf
Time: 27th November 2010 1:01pm
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grub says...
godday i would stay with bowen kp mangoes i have 6 and they had 10 frost this year and have now got mangoes on them.they produced 90 mangoes last year ..you do have to baby them for a few years but once they are use to the conditions they will do fine mine are 8 years old ,
Time: 27th November 2010 3:46pm
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