ST Maui
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)
ST Maui originated in Hawaii and was evaluated by the University of Hawaii's research program under the name S-T (which is someone's initials, not an abbreviation for "saint"). No literature exists describing it but we speculate Piri or White Piri was in its parentage. It did not receive recommendation from UH but was sent to Florida by Richard Hamilton to Richard Campbell, who introduced it to the germplasm collections in Miami-DadeCounty.
The fruit are round in shape, medium sized, developing striking red blush with green/yellow background at maturity. The flesh is firm, fiberless, and light yellow, often displaying unusual (but harmless) white spots. The flavor is tremendous and very unique, with a sweet and resinous spice character and a detectable note of guava fruit. The seed is monoembryonic.
Though it is difficult to classify, It probably belongs in the Indian/West Indian flavor group, and It's one of our favorite tasting mangos, with a nice shelf life as well.
The trees are extremely vigorous growers with spreading growth habit and dense canopy, not suitable for small yards.
They have medium anthracnose tolerance, and set fruit well when they flower. They are not precocious trees though, and have had only partial blooms during warm winters.
Still, we feel ST Maui is a special mango. We are evaluating it for resistance to the newer diseases and so far it is holding up well.
It is a mid-season variety in Florida, maturing mostly in July.