Totapuri mango tree
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pramilla elaine barreto
Jul 18, 2011, 7:38:42 AM7/18/11
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Hi,
I have a tree of totapuri mangoes which bear a lot of fruit. However, just when the fruit is ready to be plucked, it develops worms and falls. Can someone tell me what I should do?
Thank you
Pramilla
I have a tree of totapuri mangoes which bear a lot of fruit. However, just when the fruit is ready to be plucked, it develops worms and falls. Can someone tell me what I should do?
Thank you
Pramilla
Nityanand Mehendale
Jul 19, 2011, 12:33:07 AM7/19/11
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Hi Pramilla,
When the mango trees are in flowering stage (mohor in marathi), the fruit flies, beetles, and other insects lay there eggs in the flower. The eggs stick to the stigma along with the pollen. The flower then developes into a fruit. The nature has synchronised the hatching time of these eggs with the ripening of the fruit. The hatching of eggs is triggered by rising humidity in the air due to rains or continuous cloudy weather
Once the eggs are laid, and if the fruit remains on the tree till the rain advances for more than 2 days, nothing can be done about the maggots which come out of the eggs inside the fruit, eat the flesh of the fruit, and go into further stages of their life cycle.
The remedies for this include 1. Pest-control in flowering stage, 2. Increasing the presence of more aggressive honey bees in your garden, 3. lighting small fires of dry cow dung and not so dry twigs in which you can add eucalyptus leaves or lemon grass, in the flowering stage, 4. plucking the fruit at least 5 days before the rain starts and ripening the fruit in dry and hot atmosphere. ( you can keep silica gel and number of onions in the 'aadhi', and use non-glossy clean newspaper to spread below the fruit and to cover it; also spread woolen blankets over the 'aadhi' instead of using dry grass. (this is possible since you have only one tree)
Before laying the plucked fruit for ripening clean them with cloth dipped in boiling water (you can add a spoon of turmeric in the water).
You can also keep one or two almost ripe bananas/ pineapples or ripe apples in the 'aadhi' as a natural source of ethylene.
You can adjust the plucking time by controlling the water supply to the tree. The flowering has to be preceeded by a dry spell depending on how high is the water table in the soil.
So much for the time being. ( If I have gone wrong somewhere, our friends will set it right).
Nityanand
When the mango trees are in flowering stage (mohor in marathi), the fruit flies, beetles, and other insects lay there eggs in the flower. The eggs stick to the stigma along with the pollen. The flower then developes into a fruit. The nature has synchronised the hatching time of these eggs with the ripening of the fruit. The hatching of eggs is triggered by rising humidity in the air due to rains or continuous cloudy weather
Once the eggs are laid, and if the fruit remains on the tree till the rain advances for more than 2 days, nothing can be done about the maggots which come out of the eggs inside the fruit, eat the flesh of the fruit, and go into further stages of their life cycle.
The remedies for this include 1. Pest-control in flowering stage, 2. Increasing the presence of more aggressive honey bees in your garden, 3. lighting small fires of dry cow dung and not so dry twigs in which you can add eucalyptus leaves or lemon grass, in the flowering stage, 4. plucking the fruit at least 5 days before the rain starts and ripening the fruit in dry and hot atmosphere. ( you can keep silica gel and number of onions in the 'aadhi', and use non-glossy clean newspaper to spread below the fruit and to cover it; also spread woolen blankets over the 'aadhi' instead of using dry grass. (this is possible since you have only one tree)
Before laying the plucked fruit for ripening clean them with cloth dipped in boiling water (you can add a spoon of turmeric in the water).
You can also keep one or two almost ripe bananas/ pineapples or ripe apples in the 'aadhi' as a natural source of ethylene.
You can adjust the plucking time by controlling the water supply to the tree. The flowering has to be preceeded by a dry spell depending on how high is the water table in the soil.
So much for the time being. ( If I have gone wrong somewhere, our friends will set it right).
Nityanand
Arjun Rebelo
Jul 19, 2011, 8:15:56 AM7/19/11
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Hi Nityanand,
Thanks for the insights . I have the same problem with the totapuri/ bottle Mango tree.
Also , I think we should stick to varieties that are native to Goa and have adjusted to the weather conditions here. This way we reduce the chances of being disappointed !
Could you throw light on which local varities are ready to pluck / ripen around June ?
Thanks,
Arjun
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Nityanand Mehendale
Jul 19, 2011, 9:23:18 AM7/19/11
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Hi Pramilla,
Early flowering varieties like Hapus, Pairi, Ratna, Mankur are better suited for Goa and Konkan.
Kindly nurture your Totapuri tree also. Try manuring in October. Fish meal will be the best manure. Dig the 9 inch deep manuring ring in the soil as far as the leaves have gone horizontally. For a 5 year old plant, this can be as far as 7 to 8 feet from the trunk, radially, if it is planted in jambha rock. The sucking roots are present there. Don't manure closer to the trunk. Keeping the soil moist is enough, instead of flooding.
Sweep away the falling leaves in the winter and keep the soil absolutely clean and weedless. You can burn the dry leaves in small shekotees near the tree when the wind stops blowing in the evening, i.e when the insects start flying around.
The widening or thickening of the green twigs should be visible. This means that the nutrition has become available at the place where the tree will bear flowers and then the fruit.But, if you get cloudy weather or rains before the flowers fruitify, and develope to pea-size then everything will be at risk.
For planting new trees sow the Raywal seeds (koy) and graft the good varieties in situ. If you cannot, then buy fresh grafts in small polybags and plant them in May, in 6x6 pits in the rock and 4x4 in the soil. Don't buy the grafts which have long grown their roots in circles in the bag.
Pardon me (a Punekar) for taking the liberty of telling things about the mango to a Goan.
Nityanand
Early flowering varieties like Hapus, Pairi, Ratna, Mankur are better suited for Goa and Konkan.
Kindly nurture your Totapuri tree also. Try manuring in October. Fish meal will be the best manure. Dig the 9 inch deep manuring ring in the soil as far as the leaves have gone horizontally. For a 5 year old plant, this can be as far as 7 to 8 feet from the trunk, radially, if it is planted in jambha rock. The sucking roots are present there. Don't manure closer to the trunk. Keeping the soil moist is enough, instead of flooding.
Sweep away the falling leaves in the winter and keep the soil absolutely clean and weedless. You can burn the dry leaves in small shekotees near the tree when the wind stops blowing in the evening, i.e when the insects start flying around.
The widening or thickening of the green twigs should be visible. This means that the nutrition has become available at the place where the tree will bear flowers and then the fruit.But, if you get cloudy weather or rains before the flowers fruitify, and develope to pea-size then everything will be at risk.
For planting new trees sow the Raywal seeds (koy) and graft the good varieties in situ. If you cannot, then buy fresh grafts in small polybags and plant them in May, in 6x6 pits in the rock and 4x4 in the soil. Don't buy the grafts which have long grown their roots in circles in the bag.
Pardon me (a Punekar) for taking the liberty of telling things about the mango to a Goan.
Nityanand
pramilla elaine barreto
Jul 19, 2011, 12:08:12 PM7/19/11
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Hi Nityanand,
Thank you very much.
Pramilla
Date: Tue, 19 Jul 2011 18:53:18 +0530
Subject: Re: Totapuri mango tree
clea cc
Jul 23, 2011, 3:53:01 PM7/23/11
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Hi Pramilla,
before i share my views on this i would like some more information. What colour are your larvae/grubs.And,their size roughly. Are they near the seed/boring in the seed or in the flesh near the top of the fruit. Are they in fruit picked early and ripened at home?
If you provide me with this info we can diagnose exactly what you have and its remedy. There can be many reasons for you to see grubs in your mango.
My best wishes
Clea
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my best wishes
Clea
before i share my views on this i would like some more information. What colour are your larvae/grubs.And,their size roughly. Are they near the seed/boring in the seed or in the flesh near the top of the fruit. Are they in fruit picked early and ripened at home?
If you provide me with this info we can diagnose exactly what you have and its remedy. There can be many reasons for you to see grubs in your mango.
My best wishes
Clea
my best wishes
Clea
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