I have not been getting too many figs, since most my plants are 1-2 years old. So I have been supplementing my cravings with guavas, avocados, and especially my favorite fruit....MANGOS.
Here is my third haul from local growers, my trees will not be ready until next year. This is smallest haul of the three. The main season is coming to an end.

very nice Wayne! Mangos are one of my favourites too. I have 3 potted mango trees about 3' tall.

We just planted our first mango in March.  Manila variety.  I can't wait for mangos!  We have a pink tropical guava with it's first fruit.  It has 3 fruits.  Looking forward to trying those more.  I've tasted many mangos, but never a guava.

Suzi

I will keep about 8 condo mangos in 25 gallon pots and the other 14 go in the ground. Thanks tylerj.

Hi Suzi, I have been picking white tropical guava for the last month and still have more to go. The pink guava will be ready next month. Some people do not like guavas, but I do.

That's awesome! 

Don't tell my figs this, but to my palate, nothing beats a good mango :)

How true, but figs are a close second. Now, some people are highly allergic to mango sap including my wife. She was rushed to the emergency room when her face and body broke out and throat started to swell. I never have heard of this happening to a person eating a fig.

waynea, I heard if you pick the pink ones when they start to turn yellow, they will ripen on your counter and the birds won't get them.  Is that true? 

Suzi

PS, Please go to your control panel and put your zone in the signature field, so we all know where you are...

Wayne, I'm envious of you to be able to buy or grow such a variety of Mangos. I love them, I used to buy them by the case from Asian markets, but now I only get a few fruits a year. I am allergic to poison ivy, but have never had a problem with mangos. I have always wondered if I would be allergic to the foliage, since i have heard some people are. It's hard to believe that mangos and poison ivy are in the same botanical family.

Mike in Hanover, VA

Hey Wayne that's a nice haul! I'm going to pull the trigger on some Mango's in the near future. Probably at least 3 different condo varieties. If you had to pick 3 condos, what would they be and why? I know being in FL you have a humid environment so leaf disease will come into consideration. I'm facing the same thing here on the Gulf Coast. I will probably have to keep mine in 25 gallon pots unless I can get a green house to put over them if in ground. From what I've read there are a few that recommended for the Houston Area. Carrie, Cogshall, Mallika and Nam Doc Mai. I've never eaten one of these varieties knowingly so cant comment on any of them.

The problem with forums is they become addictive, or get you addicted to something you never thought about.  Growing up, I knew there are tons of apple varieties, and I knew they don't grow in Southern California, until we moved to this home and discovered an old Anna Apple.  How could this be?  An apple in So CA?  Yep, and it's the best anyone I know has ever tasted!  They don't sell it at the grocery stores, but we got two now! 

I've heard of bananas and plantains in PA, and figs!  What are people thinking?  LOL!

So, now because of this thread, I will have to at least get another variety of Mango.......... 

Suzi

So true Suzi, so true. I have Florida peaches, Florida plums, bananas that taste like vanilla ice cream, papayas, persimmons, lychees, longans,.............etc(a lot more), read on.

Rob. I am originally from NH and moved permanently to FL in 1976. In NH, we never thought of growing mangos, now the condo mangos are grown in several households in the north by keeping them at a height of 8-10 ft. I just picked some Keitts that were close to 1.5 lbs and had about 20 of that size tree. I have all that you mentioned and you can keep them under 10 ft if pruned every year and they will do okay in 25 gallon pots. Julie is a natural small tree, some people have problems with black sooty mold, but mine does not have this problem (very little pruning to keep it small), I do not have a Rosigold but some growers say it can be kept at 8 ft. All that you mentioned except possibly Carrie would make good pot mangos if pruned every year. Again, Carrie can but not as easy. Carrie is delicious, Check with these two websites, surf around and you will get descriptions and container grown recommendations.

http://www.toptropicals.com/cgi-bin/store/store.cgi?group=mango

http://www.tropicalfruitnursery.com/container-trees.shtml

Thanks for the links. I will check them out. I would love to put a few in the ground here and keep them small enough to cover quickly during the winter because with all the other plants I have in pots the shuffle becomes too much at times. Most my pots are big, like 25-30 gallon size. I've already got a lychee in a 20 gallon but need to put it in a 30 this winter some time or put it in the ground as well. I want one more lychee as well! Decisions decisions!!!!

I want to grow mangos SO BAD! I'm uber jealous.

Mangoes, and more mangoes!
I have 1 mango I think it is Neelum...

We enjoy mangos. We almost always have them in the house. Those look really good. How do they taste?

Hi Rich, just like figs, each variety of mangos taste different. I am terrible at taste description, but I can say bad, good and excellent. Some people can be very descriptive. Here is a thread (viewed more than 15.000 times) that is excellent in description of many mangoes http://tropicalfruitforum.com/index.php?topic=6398.msg83768#msg83768 I have not had a bad mango if let them fully ripen. All yucky mangoes are culled before being put on the market. Unlike figs, mangoes can be picked before they are ripe. Set them on (or wrap) a newspaper and they will ripen between 4-10 days.

Mohammad, I have a  Neelam and I personally could eat them everyday. It is an Indian variety and almost everyone likes them. You need some more varieties.

Barry, most that are allergic to the skin will peel them, my wife has not tried them since being rushed to the emergency room. I was covered in sap when I picked the last bunch, it is like pine pitch and is very tough to scrub off, but I did not even have a touch of irritation.

Nicole, northerners are proving, even in cold NH that mangoes can be grown in containers.

Mike, I missed your post, you are correct about being in the same family, my wife is also highly allergic to poison ivy, poison oak, etc..etc..even most antibiotics. Anyways, several growers will ship to any state that allows shipping. You will find that almost all mangoes grown in Florida are fiber-less. They are shipped unripe, matter of fact, it takes a couple of weeks before I can make the trip to WPB, FL so I will buy at different stages of ripeness so I will have some each day without spoilage.

Hey Wayne, thanks again for the links. I researched Mango's all last night at work....busy night;) After much deliberation I have narrowed them down to a few that I think will do well here on the Gulf Coast. My demands are that they will grow well in a humid environment and be able to stay at a manageable size. I'm still on the fence as to put them in large pots or the ground but either way I must have 3 varieties. I've narrowed them down to Rosigold, Pickering, Lancetilla, Maha Chinook, Graham and Mallika.  If you could only have 3 of these varieties which would you choose? I have my heart set on Rosigold, Maha Chinook and Lancetilla at the moment but I'm sure that will change by tonight. I tend to flop around depending on what I read from one variety to the next for at least a month or two before I pull the trigger on any of them.

I have all except Lancetilla, almost bought one, have huge fruits (2-4 pounds even larger if grown in ground), but I do not think it is dependable as the others. I know what you mean by flopping. The order I would choose is Pickering, Mallika, Graham, Rosigold, Maha Chinook. I would switch Rosigold and Graham if I knew the taste of Rosigold. I do not know the growth habits of Maha Chinook but the taste is excellent. I bought 2 for placing in the ground, so good that I want maximum output. It is a slow grower for me which says minimum pruning to keep in a container. Tough choices. All taste great and dependable producers. I am told that Rosigold is also very tasty. Good luck. Keep researching, especially on  http://www.tropicalfruitforum.com/

waynea,
You have a wide range of excellent varieties. We LOVE mangoes. When tree ripened those condo mangoes are GOOD: the Ice Cream, Cogshell Carrie, and Glenn are delicious. What a great harvest. I am surprised to see Keitts this early. I grew up in what is now Miami Gardens and much of my extended family resides in South Florida. Thus when mango season starts, I am calling friends and family to either ship them or hold until I can get back home. We make summer mango runs and we fill multiple banana boxes.

I love mangos and have tried to grow them. I just gave up, but I love them. Those look so good.

JD, I know what you mean. I picked up the Keitts at Walter and Verna Zill, they will have them all the way into September. I have all the trees that you mentioned and a lot more. I have even planted some polyembryonic seeds  and have several plants from one seed. I will grow them until I realize which is a clone and which one is from fertilization which no doubt will be a cull. I picked all the others from a nursery in Wimauma. The other hauls came from Excalibur, Truly Tropical, and Zills again. You are in a perfect situation for a lot of tropical fruits if your relatives live in the Gardens. Shipping is okay for mangos, up front, the larger mangos(not labeled) are Keitts and came from Zills and will take 10-12 days to ripen. The smaller Keitts (labeled) came from Wimauma. Try Coconut Cream...excellent....Lemon Zest....excellent. So far I have tested 40+ and I think I liked all of them. Send me an email through PM so I can forward some articles.

waynea,
Are you able to make it to any of the mango festivals? They usually sell grafted mango trees and fruit from all over the world. Last summer we made it to the Annual International Mango Festival at Fairchild Tropical Gardens and to the Fruit & Spice Park Mango Fest (or whatever it was called). Unbelievable.

Last month at Fairchild was the 22nd Annual and Mangoes of Colombia. I had a few family members get there but none made it back to Tallahassee.

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