Great video! I love coconut cream, but ours took 3 to 4 years to start producing. Now it’s one of our most productive trees. Happy to see you still have some growing.
We have grown Coconut Cream for over 20 years. The problem is not their precocity, but rather their need for maintaining a certain size in order to bear well. Our orchard is all about efficiency per square foot. If we cannot find a rootstock to consistently dwarf Coconut Cream, it will never be a long-term option in our orchard. We do not have anything personally against the fruit mind you, it is not a good economic choice for us. Fifty fruit per tree over 6 years is not going to earn you a spot in our orchard.
I agree with you coconut cream is a vigorous growing tree. But I've been getting a lot of mangos off my trees. Even this year. Great video. Thanks for all your info. Lake Wales fl
Commenting on growing this channel. Diego Footer is one of many that might be helpful. He has an Instagram that is worth looking into. Diego is a Geo Engineer that transitioned to the Ag space. He is all about science and facts. Not heresay,conjecture or wild guesses. Thanks for the tutorial.
Thank you for the informative video. I learned to graft Mango from the video you did with Pete. I am currently top working trees to Orange sherbet and Carrie because they fruit so well as small trees. We are also seeing good results from Nelum and Little Gem fruiting as small trees. And of course pickering has worked well for us. Lately I have been Bud grafting like Mr. Walter Zill especially when material is limited. The Buds grow supper fast.
M-4 is good to eat for sure, but the tree is not small and it has serious disease issues at times.....but we have some trees as well. They are not too big yet and we tend to eat the fruit ourselves.
Would you still recommend a vigorous and maybe less productive tree like coconut cream for a container grower on the 9a/9b, ormond beach Florida? I have many varieties in containers that are getting to fruiting size, some better suited than others like Pickering and mallika.
Just wondering if this top-work was successful. I've tried grafting onto a couple of small branches on my coconut cream and it seems that it never heals well and the grafts fail. In the past, I have successfully top-worked Glenn and Nam Doc Mai #4 trees. I've read once that coconut cream does not tend to heal it's wounds as well as some other mango cultivars so it's not even a good candidate for a top-work project, so I am wondering if that is true or not.
We have had good success with Juliette given a robust array of pollinizers in our orchard. Juliette is out of a Julie line and thus not self-compatible. If you have other cultivars that bloom at the same time it will help it set. The Coconut Cream on the other hand does not bloom consistently without attaining a certain size. No amount of pollinizers will set fruit on a tree that does not bloom. And again, we are not passing judgement on Coconut Cream if it works for you. We would have loved nothing more than consistent fruiting on the Coconut Cream. Great name and great flavor. But alas, in our case, a whole lot of chicken, not much egg!
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Great video! I love coconut cream, but ours took 3 to 4 years to start producing. Now it’s one of our most productive trees. Happy to see you still have some growing.
We have grown Coconut Cream for over 20 years. The problem is not their precocity, but rather their need for maintaining a certain size in order to bear well. Our orchard is all about efficiency per square foot. If we cannot find a rootstock to consistently dwarf Coconut Cream, it will never be a long-term option in our orchard. We do not have anything personally against the fruit mind you, it is not a good economic choice for us. Fifty fruit per tree over 6 years is not going to earn you a spot in our orchard.
I agree with you coconut cream is a vigorous growing tree. But I've been getting a lot of mangos off my trees. Even this year. Great video. Thanks for all your info. Lake Wales fl
Unfortunately just has not worked well in our orchard. We still have 2 trees if truth be told. I can't reconcile the removal of them all.
nice gafting
Commenting on growing this channel. Diego Footer is one of many that might be helpful. He has an Instagram that is worth looking into.
Diego is a Geo Engineer that transitioned to the Ag space. He is all about science and facts. Not heresay,conjecture or wild guesses.
Thanks for the tutorial.
Thank you for the informative video. I learned to graft Mango from the video you did with Pete.
I am currently top working trees to Orange sherbet and Carrie because they fruit so well as small trees. We are also seeing good results from Nelum and Little Gem fruiting as small trees.
And of course pickering has worked well for us.
Lately I have been Bud grafting like Mr. Walter Zill especially when material is limited.
The Buds grow supper fast.
Yes, budding can be an effective method. However, in the field I do not like to use it because I cannot control the conditions very well.
Wow
M-4 is an improved Coconut Cream in my experience. Plus productive and late!
M-4 is good to eat for sure, but the tree is not small and it has serious disease issues at times.....but we have some trees as well. They are not too big yet and we tend to eat the fruit ourselves.
There's still nothing like Orange Sherbet though!!!
@@mangomenhomestead994 Thanks for the insight.
Would you still recommend a vigorous and maybe less productive tree like coconut cream for a container grower on the 9a/9b, ormond beach Florida? I have many varieties in containers that are getting to fruiting size, some better suited than others like Pickering and mallika.
Just wondering if this top-work was successful. I've tried grafting onto a couple of small branches on my coconut cream and it seems that it never heals well and the grafts fail. In the past, I have successfully top-worked Glenn and Nam Doc Mai #4 trees. I've read once that coconut cream does not tend to heal it's wounds as well as some other mango cultivars so it's not even a good candidate for a top-work project, so I am wondering if that is true or not.
My coconut crème is way more productive than my Juliette. My Juliette is a low producer.
We have had good success with Juliette given a robust array of pollinizers in our orchard. Juliette is out of a Julie line and thus not self-compatible. If you have other cultivars that bloom at the same time it will help it set. The Coconut Cream on the other hand does not bloom consistently without attaining a certain size. No amount of pollinizers will set fruit on a tree that does not bloom.
And again, we are not passing judgement on Coconut Cream if it works for you. We would have loved nothing more than consistent fruiting on the Coconut Cream. Great name and great flavor. But alas, in our case, a whole lot of chicken, not much egg!