Description
The Madame Francis is from Haiti, and is the most popular and commonly grown mango in that country. It is a large, flattened, kidney-shaped mango, light-green, slightly yellowish when ripe, with orange, low-fiber, richly flavored flesh.
It's very sweet, with a rich mang dessert / candy flavour and also extremely juicy and somewhat fibrous They smell very nice almost like vanilla mango cake.
The tree can grow to 15-20 ft tall but can be trimmed as well.
Harvest time: June-July
Care instruction:
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Full-sun required
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Water daily when the tree is small. Water every other day for medium tree.
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Fertilizer: every 3 months with 10-10-10 or 12-8-6. Don't add fertilizer when first planting it in the ground or transplanting to the bigger pots.
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Soil: well-drained with good potting soil or organic soil.