Ah Ping
IMPORTANT READ BEFORE Make your Grafting Request Order
We are only able to graft twice a year, Late Spring & Late Summer.
- If we receive the order between after September 24th and before May 1st, The trees will be grafted in Spring & should be ready by the end of the year.
- For orders made after May 01st and before of September 24th will be grafted in late Summer and should be ready in the Spring following year, May most likely.
Only Once the small tree has completed two flushes of growth since it was grafted do we consider it ready to leave our nursery.
(Estimated time is 6 to 8 months. Some varieties take longer time to growth)
Ah Ping was selected in Hawaii and named after Mrs. Chun Ah Ping of Mapulehu, Molokai.
The tree has a spreading, moderately vigorous growth habit with long internodes and very open canopy. It is a very good producer of *beautiful* medium-to-large red oval fruit with very firm, yet fiberless texture and extremely sweet classic flavor with strong notes of stone fruit. The seed is monoembryonic and paper thin. The tree has a tendency to produce a lot of "nubbin" fruits, which are small mangos that contain aborted seeds. Nubbins from Ah Ping usually taste superb though and can be eaten like a peach.
Not as well known as it should be, we really like this fruit and it has proven to be quite popular with people who try it. In our opinion, it is one of the best tasting classically flavored mangos.
Ah Ping is an early season mango and usually ripens from May to June. Sometimes it will have fruit ripen as early as April here.
We have discovered that Ah Ping is highly prone to bacterial black spot. The fruit can also be prone to post-harvest anthracnose as well, so Ah Ping is a better choice for areas which aren't so humid that anthracnose is a regular problem.
Flavor: Classic
Country: Hawaii-USA