Any one doing this for the Fall/winter? Going on Week 3 now and three have flushed. Pickering, Orange Sherbet, and Valencia Pride. Very interested in what set-up and settings for DLI, PPFD, and RH is working for you.
No but mine will be in a greenhouse
Coconut cream
Mahachanok
M4
Lemon zest
What zone are you in Melon and how will you manage it?
I have some planted in ground in a greenhouse in zone 7B. I’m going into the second winter. I about killed them last winter with a stonefruit chill cycle, ~37/54F for 45 days. They suffered chilling injury but only one died.
The DLI in my GH is about half of outdoors. This summer average DLI ~24. I expect ~10 this winter but haven’t measured that yet.
8b i think, Olympia Washington
Room heater with possibly artifical lighting as well depending on what they tell me they need 
I grow mine outside also, have a grafted Ice Cream and two seedlings (maha chanook and lemon zest)
I had my greenhouse minimum set at 37 and the mango did just fine, fruited this year. That is at least until wind broke that branch off before the fruit was able to get enough size to ripen.
I think I can get away with that minimum due to not having much low temperatures in general and daytime temps almost always getting well above freezing.
I agree. 37 at night is OK if days warm up and it isn’t 37 every night. My chill cycle was 37 minimum but every night for 45 nights in a row. And it seldom got above 60 by day. That damaged mango and took all the leaves off banana even thou it never got below 37.
Gotcha, I’ll keep a closer eye this year. We had a very mild winter. I just want to ensure I get a couple fruit next year. I need to repot it and my Silas woods sapodilla they are in like 7g and 3 gallon ish. Neither seem too rootbound but I prefer to repot before it’s too rootbound. I tend to cap mine out at 20g due to wanting to be able to move them still. Also messed up saving money on pots and after a season or two they become super brittle and break when you try to move them roughly. Large pots are hard to come by for a reasonable price but I now know to spend more, I’ll try and hit some nurseries to see if they have any they wouldn’t mind getting rid of.
I have one mango tree that gets to come indoors, this zygotic seedling of my brother’s tree in Ft Lauderdale. It’s currently just near a sunny window after being outside until last week. It’ll get a supplemental LED grow light (white type, not purple) once the Seattle winter pattern asserts itself over the coming weeks.
That just finished hardening a flush, but will probably start another one once I put a light over it.
In my greenhouse there are an assortment of younger, less lucky mangos that will maybe get time under a light at some point this winter, but mostly forced to sit in a damp, cold, dark greenhouse for a few months. Very few survived this treatment last year.
