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Mango (Mangifera indica L.) is Egypt's third major fruit crop. The latest study aimed to evaluate 11 foreign mango cultivars Kent, Palmar, Yasmina Rose, Shelly, Nam Doc Mai, Osten, Glenn, Sensation, Kensington Pride, Heidi, and Joa, in two successive seasons of 2018 and 2019, under Egyptian environmental conditions. The experiment comprised a randomized complete block design (RCBD) with 11 treatments and three replications to analyze the mango cultivars for floral aspects, fruit yield, its components, and fruit quality characteristics. Results indicated that cultivars Sensation and Yasmina Rose produced the highest fruit yield per tree. Cultivars Osten, Yasmina Rose, and Kent gained the maximum fruit weight. The study noted the uppermost value of fruit retention (%) for cultivars Palmar, Osten, and Joa. As for the initial fruit set, the highest value appeared in cultivars Heidi and Yasmina Rose, while cultivars Heidi and Kensington Pride revealed the highest value of fruit pulp firmness at the early stage of ripening in July. The Shelly cultivar recorded the highest percentage of pulp per fruit, while the lowest fruit fibers and total acidity percentage came from the Glenn cultivar. The fruits of Nam Doc Mai cultivar contained the highest total soluble solids and total sugar percentages, whereas fruits of the Heidi cultivar contained the highest value of vitamin C. Cultivars noted with the alternate bearing habit consisted of Kensington Pride, Palmer, and Shelly, while all other cultivars exhibited regular bearing. Mango cultivars Glenn, Nam Doc Mai, Osten, Kensington Pride, Shelly, Joa, Yasmina Rose, Sensation, Kent, Palmer, and Heidi (first mentioned, most recommended in descending order) received high recommendations for successful cultivation under the Egyptian environmental conditions based on relatively better fruit setting and quality. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This study was carried out during two successive seasons 2021 and 2022 on the Thirteenth-year-old Mango (Mangifera indica L.). cv. Keit cultivar trees grafted on sokary stone and grown in Al-Busaili - Central Laboratory for Agricultural Climate of the Agricultural Research Center at the North West of the Nile Delta, Rashid Center, Beheira governorate, Egypt. The trees are grown in a greenhouse to impact the soil application of farmyard manure, pigeon wilt and humic acid on vegetative growth, yield and fruit quality of “Kiet” mango cultivar. The distance between trees was 2.0 m and the distance between rows is 2.0 meters. This factorial experiment consisted of thirteen treatments arranged in a Randomized Complete Block Design (RCBD) design with five replicates for each treatment and one tree for each replicate. The treatment consisted of 13 treatments (control, farmyard (5, 10 and 15kg), mixture of farmyard with pigeon wilt and humic acid). Results showed that the treatment of OM at 15 kg + 1/2 kg HA+ 3.5 kg Pio. recorded the best values of fruit weight, the number of fruit and yield/plant, physical characters i.e. (fruit length, fruit width, pulp weight and fruit firmness), and all chemical compositions i.e. (TSS, TSS/ acidity, vitamin C content, total sugars, reducing sugar and nonreducing sugar percentage), as compared with the control treatment which recorded the minimum values of this studied characters, during both seasons. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]