Sindhu
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)
Sindhu was a project of India's national breeding program, a cross between Ratna and Alphonso and has been in existence for several decades.
It gained a false reputation for producing "seedless" fruit, when in reality the fruit often just have small, undeveloped seeds.
The fruit are small, oval-to-roundly shaped, and of superb eating quality. The flesh is yellow, fiberless, and has a pronounced Indian-Alphonso flavor, tasting extremely similar to the Alphonso. The seed is small and monoembryonic.
We obtained a tree in 2015 and planted it in 2017 for evaluation here. It has produced well a number of seasons, performing better than some other Indian varieties including Alphonso itself, but has also been prone to mango bacterial black spot. The tree is a very modest grower with spreading, open growth habit. It is a mid-season producer for us, with fruit ripening in July and sometimes August.
Flavor: Indian-Alphonso
Country: India