Harvest Moon
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)
Harvest Moon was an Edward seedling from Gary Zill's breeding program in Boynton Beach, FL (planting number 4-20) which may have crossed with Carrie or Val-Carrie.
The fruit are huge, weighing up to more than 3 pounds, round, and shaped more like a Kent mango. They turn light orange at maturity sometimes with some red blush. They are firm fleshed, sweet in the classic-flavor group with notes of plum. The fruit have been resistant to anthracnose and do not seem to get bacterial black spot; they do have a problem with sometimes splitting open on the tree before maturity, however. The seed is large and monoembryonic. Harvest Moon has a superior flavor compared to most large-sized varieties we grow.
The trees are very vigorous, upright growers with dense canopy. They have developed a reputation as poor producers that drop a lot of the fruit they set, but our Harvest Moon trees have performed acceptably and are best described as average producers considering the size of the fruit.
Harvest Moon matures from July into August in West Palm Beach, making it a later-midseason variety here.
Flavor: Classic - Acidic
Country: Florida - USA