Cushman
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.
Preorder: Graft Me a 1 Gallon Tree is an order for us to produce the specific tree that we don't currently have available in stock.
We must graft the tree and then it must go through a multi-month process to heal and grow.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 was selected in Miami many decades ago by E.L. Cushman, and is of uncertain parentage. The budwood made its way into the hands of the mango-growing Dupuis family at some point and they labeled it 'Big Yellow'. Walter Zill later recognized that this mango was synonymous with 'Cushman'.
It is a round-shaped yellow fruit that often resembles a grapefruit. Its flesh is fiberless, yellow, with a distinctive orange "halo" outlining the periphery of the flesh near the skin when it is cut in half. The seed is small and monoembryonic. The flavor is of the classic group and comparable to Edward.
The trees can be very disease-prone and unproductive depending on where they are being grown. We don't consider them good choices for humid interior areas. They have moderately vigorous growth with spreading, dense canopy.
Cushman is a midseason cultivar and usually ripens July-August in south Florida.
Sadly we have discovered that Cushman is highly prone to mango bacterial black spot of the fruit. In 2019 we cut the tree to a stump to be topworked, but have since planted another Cushman tree to resume propagation and budwood distribution.
Flavor: Classic
Country: Florida-USA