Herbie
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)
Herbie was selected by Jenny and David Burd of Naples, FL and is of unknown origin.
The fruit are small, ovoid-oblong, often with bumpy skin, developing some attractive red color with yellow background.
The flesh is light yellow, soft and fiberless. The flavor is in the Indochinese group and the fruit that we have sampled have been quite good. We planted one in 2017 and it first fruited in 2020. It has fruited consistently each year since. The fruit have been highly resistant to bacterial black spot and anthracnose thus far.
Herbie has a vigorous growth habit with spreading, open canopy. It is a mid-season mango for us ripening primarily in July. We feel this variety is good enough to warrant trialing as a backyard mango in humid sections of Florida where anthracnose could be a problem for certain varieties.
Flavor: Indochinese
Country: Florida - USA