San Felipe
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 Cuba, but most Cubans have never heard of it. It was probably a seedling of Haden or Kent, and has received some publication largely due to its promotion as a Curator's Choice cultivar by Fairchild Garden for their mango festival several years .
It is a medium-to-large, round-shaped fruit developing beautiful red skin blush with some yellow background color appearing as it ripens. The flesh is very firm, fiberless, and contains a small monoembryonic seed. The flavor is very mild, plum-like in the classic group, and The fruit seem to have a prolonged shelf-life.
The trees are vigorous growers, with open canopy and somewhat vertical growth habit. They flower well and tend to bunch-set fruit on the distillate ends of their panicles.
Anthracnose resistance is poor in the interior and it struggled to fruit in Loxahatchee for us, but fruits very well in West Palm Beach where it also flowers easily. Unfortunately We have discovered that San Felipe is somewhat prone to Mango Bacterial Black Spot.
The trees are vigorous growers with spreading, open canopies. San Felipe is a mid-season mango in south Florida, ripening from late June through July.
Flavor: Classic
Country: Cuba