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  • From: Tvoivozhd <tvoivozd AT infionline.net>
  • To: homestead AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: [Homestead] Mangoes,fruit of gods
  • Date: Thu, 11 Nov 2004 13:29:32 -0800

I only regret two things in moving to Roanoke area---the inability to grow mangos and avocados (not those nasty, oily little California avocados) http://www.freshmangoes.com/varieties.html
(Haden, Atkins, other mango cultivars)

http://www.horticultureworld.net/cultivars.htm
(many mango cultivars around the world)

http://www.actahort.org/books/455/
(book, numerous online articles on mango cultivation)

http://www.mango.co.za/moreabout/tommy.html
(South African cultivzrs)

http://www.tropfruit.com/fourfillies.html
(experimental farm, large variety of mangoes that taste good, have good texture, yield well in native locality, do not duplicate qualities in different location)

http://www.producepete.com/shows/mangoes.html
(early, midseason, late mangoes from Florida, Mexico, Haiti)

http://www.ftg.org/horticulture/mangofest.html
(Fairchild Troical Gardens, annual show and best source of mango information)

http://www.mgonline.com/mango.html
(180 varieties grown at Fairchild Tropical Gardens, big trees hard to pick, prune small varieties to keep them small and pickable, use copper fungicide to control anthracnose in seasons of high heat and humidity)





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