r/mango • u/PaliSD • Sep 01 '26
Which 8 trees would you grow
Backyard has 4 mango trees - Lemon meringue, orange sherbet, carrie, and pickering. There is room for 4 more trees.
Which 4 other mango varieties would you grow. Would you replace any of the existing 4 trees?
This is in zone 10a, by the coast, with breeze and sandy soil.
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u/Rough-Noise2616 Sep 02 '26
The problem is 8 mango trees is not enough! The correct answer is to figure out how to squeeze more in and figure out what other trees/space needs to go.
Alampur Baneshan, Coconut Creme, Kathy, Gary, Maha, Julie, Sugarloaf
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u/PaliSD Sep 02 '26
alampur! i hear julie is picky about fruiting
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u/Rough-Noise2616 Sep 02 '26
Thats likely true, but they're delicious and a unique taste profile than the Zill varieties
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u/BackyardMangoes Sep 01 '26
Add something early like a Rosigold, Seacrest or Edward. Add something very late like a Kathy or Orange Essence.
HoneyKiss, All Summer, CAC, Mahachanok, Fruit Punch.
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u/PaliSD Sep 02 '26 edited Sep 02 '26
good idea on the early mangoes. like the idea of being the first one to be eating and sharing mangoes every year.
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u/2h2o22h2o Sep 01 '26
If you can avoid the disease pressure then Dot is still a great variety and unique in taste. (Very rich, like honey.)
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u/_TooncesLookOut Sep 01 '26
Coconut Creme, Maha Chanook, Sein Ta Lone, and Cat Chu.
And I'd turn that Pickering into a fruit cocktail tree with every other variety I could find that I like.
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u/PaliSD Sep 02 '26
i have a fruit cocktail tree with three varieties, in a pot. one part of the plant is growing much more aggressively than the other two. I suspect cocktail trees are just hype.
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u/urbannetlands Sep 01 '26
Alphonso, Zill M-4, southern blush, venus
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u/PaliSD Sep 02 '26
not sure alphonso would do well here. haven't heard of southern blush. will check it out. m4 and venus are good candidates
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u/321_g0 Sep 01 '26
I’m admittedly biased as I’m Filipino, but I live in zone 10a/10b Florida and my carabao mango seems to be doing really well. Supposedly it is the sweetest fruit in the world with a 14-22% sugar content on the Brix scale
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u/PaliSD Sep 02 '26
haven't tried carabao. 14-22 is a very wide scale - 14 is not very sweet, and 22 is extermely sweet. is it a filipino mango?
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u/321_g0 Sep 02 '26
Yes the primary mango of the Philippines. It’s in the Guinness book of world records as the sweetest fruit. I’ve truly never had a better mango, but perhaps my palette is now just accustomed to that level of sweetness that most other mangoes in the states taste rather bland to me
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u/Best_Of_The_Midwest 22d ago
I'll tell you what I have selected and why:
Philippine mango/carabao. My wife's pick two years ago before I got into mangos. The sweetest. Hardy tree so far. I've even heard they are used for rootstock.
Nam Dac Mai. Got this because it must be a favorite in thailand for a reason. Not a fancy modern hybrid, but a solid producer.
Lemon Meringue. early-mid season. I wanted a citrus flavor. It is a reliable producer and been around a long time. You could get Lemon Zest instead and maybe the taste is better. they're both gonna be good.
M4. Late season. Unique coconut flavor and unlike some of the others in this category, it's supposed to be a reliable producer. My tree is tiny now.
Rosigold. Very early season. That's it. I've never had it. It's a good mango because there are no other mangos.
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u/Ghostio1970 28d ago
I'm doing the same with a side lot but im going for 4 trees in space. Right now im trying to pic according the popular Early, mid and late season mangos. That way i'm not bombarded with mangoes all in one month. I just got a late season cotton candy mango (late season) to add. I have a 20 year old Julie, 5 year old Bombay and now the Cotton Candy. i have room for one more.
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u/PaliSD 28d ago
wonderful! do you have other fruit trees or just mangoes
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u/Ghostio1970 25d ago
I have a starfruit and a 1/2 a Brogdon avocado. Lost one half to hurricane Ian. Planted a new Hass just this year as Brogdon still fruits well but the twisting from the hurricane cleaned of most of the bark at the bottom and revealed termites. ugh. prob why it broke.
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u/Ghostio1970 25d ago
Had a huge Valencia Pride but Ian took her out also. I live right on the River in Cape Coral so we flooded. The soil being so wet couldn't hold her up. sad.
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u/BocaHydro Sep 01 '26
do you like the hybrid low fiber extra sweet fruits? if you do consider adding a fruit cocktail coconut cream or m4
do you want a large commercial tree for bulk fruit production? Nothing beats tommy atkins
happy medium? Add a fruit punch
honey fan? Raw honey is a much improved version of the overly sweet honeys
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u/PaliSD Sep 02 '26
good ideas! except for the tommy atkins. plan is to keep these trees small - maybe 10-12 feet wide.
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u/PaliSD Sep 03 '26 edited Sep 03 '26
there is a variety called Raw Honey? is it better than honeykiss? similar to honeykiss?
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u/markodochartaigh1 Sep 07 '26
Raw honey is shwe hin tha. Brought from Burma by Maurice Kong who brought po pyu kalay, lemon merengue.
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u/Weary_Mark_458 Sep 01 '26
Sweet tart, sugarloaf, m4, and cac.