December 30th, mango update.

Today I went into the office and watered the trees with a very weak fertilizer solution. I also took pics.

Southern Blush, Maha Chanok & ST Maui

  

For both SB & MC; its been 22 days since repotting. So it bodes well that they'l survive! Both of them are still holding onto what's left of their leaves. Hinting that their roots may have regenerated.
I cut off all of ST Maui's old leaves. They had insect parasites and I didn't want to bother treating it, so off they came.

Coconut Cream, Irwin & Spirit of '76

  

I see Spirit pushing out a bud, which makes me happy. But I shouldn't count my chickens yet. The trunks are still green (except for some bit on the top) so there is hope. With Irwin, I see latex still being pumped out of the wound from the pruning. This makes me hopeful that it'll recover form the transplant shock and make new leaves.

Julie #4 & Lemon Zest

 

Julie is lopsided. Lemon is doing nicely.

Graham & Lancetilla

 

Both Graham and Lance shows signs of their buds swelling larger. So maybe new growth next year.

Edward & Carrie

 

Nothing happening with either these two.

Pickering & Julie #1

 

Pickering is hardening off its growth. Julie is driving me crazy because its still pushing out flowers. I keep pinching them off but it keeps growing.

Glenn

Glen is also showing signs of swelling buds but maybe its too soon?

Dead "Maha Chanok A" graft.
Amazingly, the rootstock isn't dead. Maybe I can re-graft onto it?
"Maha Chanok B" is totally dead.

Et voilá.

Plants over the holidays

Oh, I went to work and checked on my trees. They look fine (only three days past). The pruned Irwin, Spirit of '76 and Cocnut Cream are still alive but no new push for growth yet.
Maha Chanok and Southern Blush, dropping more leaves but still look alive.

NPK ratio in plant tissue

I thought this was interesting, so I copy pasted it from elsewhere online.

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Nitrogen, being the largest nutrient component, has been given the value of 100. Other nutrients are listed as a weight percentage of N.
N 100
P 13-19
K 45-80
S 6-9
Mg 5-15
Ca 5-15
Fe 0.7
Mn 0.4
B(oron) 0.2
Zn 0.06
Cu 0.03
Cl 0.03
M(olybden) 0.003 -----

Chopped! Irwin, Coconut Cream & Spirit of '76 get pruned!

Taking a gamble, I chopped Irwin down to about 16 inches. Seeing that it was pushing out flowers, I took a chance that it had enough reserve to maybe push out leaves after pruning. I must admit chopping all these trees today made me feel guilty; as though I had committed some great evil against the plant kingdom.

Coconut Cream chopped down to about 16 inches as well. It was slowly pushing out new growth so I thought it would be okay. I put a plastic sleeve over it after cutting it. Coconut Cream & Spirit of '76 now reside at my office.

Spirit of '76 got chopped down to a little over 14 inches. This was a big gamble as its last flush of leaves still looked light green and I'm not sure if it got a chance to build back up its reserves for pushing out new growth? I really hope it doesn't die. I also covered it with a plastic sleeve after pruning.

When I look at the chopped off pieces (below), I think to myself, "what have I done?!"

I'm trying to think of grafting the material but I have no seedlings to graft onto. How sad.

Well, I hope it all works.

Irwin flowering!?

I was so surprised to discover Irwin is pushing flowers. I'm thinking that I have to cut these flowers off. I'm also wondering if I should prune down Irwin and see if it has enough energy to make new growth?

Newly repotted mangoes.

Maha Chanok & Southern Blush. Two more weeks will tell if they'll survive the transplant. I'm optimistic for SB because of the new root growth I saw during repotting.

Irwin looks like a giant lollipop.

Et voilá.

Repotting new mango trees.

I made a nice batch of potting medium. I think my best mix so far. Coir, Diatomaceous Rock, Floor-Dry, granite, perlite, hydroton, Growstones, mycorrhiza fungus, Azo bacteria, seaweed and glacial rock dust.

First I repotted Irwin. I couldn't get all the original dirt off so I just plunked it into the fabric pot that once held Tebow.

Maha Chanok

 I discovered that using a sharpened chopstick was an excellent tool for breaking up the dirt ball and removing compacted soil. I wish I figured that out when I was bare-rooting Irwin.

 In its new 3 gallon SmartPot.

Southern Blush

Bagged for recovery.

 Irwin and Maha Chanok also bagged.

Et Voilá.

Repotting tomorrow

Southern Blush, Maha & Irwin prepped for repotting tomorrow morning.

I'm putting Irwin into Tebow's former 5 gallon Gropot. I'll be getting a couple of 3 gallon Smartpots for the other two.

Tebow/Young "A" roots

Well Tebow/Young "A" is dead and I dug it up to see how the roots developed over the two years.

It seems that mango roots don't get very big.

My new kids.

Introducing my new kids!

From left to right; Irwin, Southern Blush & Maha Chanok #4.

Irwin

I like the multiple branches but its way too tall for me. The fruit of this mango, once fetched a price of $5000 for a single perfect fruit at a Japanese auction.

Maha Chanok #4

So after killing three Maha's so far, I am determined that 4th time is the charm.
I have to say, that this Maha from Toptropicals looks way better than the ones from Plantogram.

Southern Blush

This is my second Southern Blush. I'm surprised that Southern Blush has what looks like a weird appearance with the bark. It looks healthy, don't get me wrong, just a strange texture. I'm guessing fungus or something? Maybe the dry California air will clear it up?

Graft lines of Irwin, Maha Chanok & Southern Blush.

Et Voilá.