Blackie
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)
This mango is from Jamaica, where in some parts of the country it is also known as Green Gage mango.
The fruit are oval in shape and turn greenish yellow at maturity.
Among the Jamaican mangos, Blackie is not as commonly found as varieties like Julie and East Indian despite being one of the older varieties cultivated there.
A kind customer provided us with budwood in 2022 and we grafted some trees with it. We planted one of them in 2023 for observation.
Flavor: Classic
Country: Jamaica
