Seacrest/Triplesec
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)
Seacrest was an Edward seedling from the breeding program of Gary Zill in Boynton Beach, FL (planting # 40-36), with 'Gary' as its likely pollen parent. It was named after Seacrest Blvd, a road running between the communities of Lantana and Delray Beach. The Zill nursery now propagates it under the name 'Triplesec', a reference to its citrus-like flavor. The seed is monoembryonic.
The fruit are medium sized, yellow at maturity and have an ovate shape with fiberless flesh of rich and sweet flavor with some Gary-type citrus notes and spice character. It has a very good shelf life and doesn't go overripe as quickly as most mangos. We are excited about this mango's potential and have planted several of them for evaluation purposes.
The trees are very vigorous growers with spreading, dense canopy. They are anthracnose resistant but the flowers are very prone to powdery mildew. When they are young, Seacrest trees tend to producer a lot of male flowers which can severely limit fruit set. As they grow older they produce more female flowers though and fruit production becomes very good. Seacrest is also very resistant to mango bacterial black spot.
Flavor: Citrus-Gary type
Country: Florida - USA