Re: Re: Rain/ trop. fruit

Probably right, Zem. Hayden is a popular variety down here. Much better fruit than Tommy Atkins, but likewise a big tree.

On Mar 27, 2006, at 2:38 PM, Zemuly Sanders wrote:

I think we had Haydens in the Keys, or am I wrong? Tell me, Jim.
zem
----- Original Message ----- From: "james singer" <islandjim1@verizon.net>
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Subject: Re: [CHAT] Re: Rain/ trop. fruit


I think avocados are easy to graft, although the Louisiana guy told me he tried both T-bud grafts and cleft grafts and only the cleft grafts took. I'm not a grafter so I don't know much about success rates in different plants and different types of grafts [although, I think clefts are the easiest]. The scion wood was from our Brogdon tree--the producer of the fruits that I sent to your mother that time--which, with the successful grafts, has taken a step toward immortality.
Do you know the variety of your mango seedling? If it's one of those bright red and green ones most common in the supermarkets, it's probably a Tommy Atkins--a very productive, but very large, tree. If thats it, I would top it and try to get it to form a low head. We have one but didn't know enough to do that when the tree was small--so now we're going to have to hire an arborist to whack it down enough so I can reach the top-most fruits with with one of those 12-foot extension fruit pickers. [These old bones do not belong on ladders.]
Tommy, incidentally, is an early bloomer. Ours has set hundreds of fruits this year--of course, it won't keep anywhere near all of them, but even at 10 percent that will mean 40-45 fruits.
The other two mangos are "alanpur banishan," which we've had for 5 or 6 years and which is a shy barer, and "Carrie," which we planted last year. Both of these are small trees naturally; the guy who grafted the alanpur also did one of those reverse grafts on it--he grafted a short alanpur trunk upside down on the rootstock, then grafted fruit wood rightside up on the upside down trunk; a technique that is supposed to dwarf the tree. Carrie bloomed after Tommy and alanpur is blooming now.
On Mar 26, 2006, at 5:46 PM, TeichFlora@aol.com wrote:
That's great, Jim!! Must be easy to graft, or not? What variety were the
Avocado??

Question about a Mango I grew from seed....it's about 7 foot tall, but no
branching...should I chop the top to encourage such, or will it do so on it's
own eventually????
Noreen
zone 9
Texas Gulf Coast

In a message dated 3/26/2006 11:02:24 AM Central Standard Time,
gardenchat-owner@hort.net writes:

Other good news--just heard from a guy in Louisiana that two grafts he
made with avocado scion wood I sent him have taken.

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Heat Zone 10
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Maximum 100 F [38 C]
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Maximum 100 F [38 C]

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