Pina Colada
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)
From Gary Zill's breeding program, Pina Colada is a cross between the Dot and Gary.
The Trees are of low-vigor, spreading open canopy with thin leaves.
The fruit are small, often under 8 oz in weight, shaped similarly to the Fairchild mango, with poor flesh-to-seed ratio.
The Fruit go from green to light yellow at maturity. The flesh is yellow, fiberless, extremely rich and sweet, with pina colada flavor coming out when fruit are on the riper side. The seed is large relative to the fruit itself and is polyembryonic.
Production appears to be light for many and trees are highly disease
prone in western areas. Closer to the coast in our area they can fruit acceptably, though the actualy pounds produced is never high owing to the weight of the individual fruit themselves. A superbly flavored mango whose low yield and small fruit size hold it back.