Oh wow, that is super interesting!! I will need a huge greenhouse then if they grow so big!!
To be honest I started the tree sprout just as an experiment because I believed it wouldnāt grow, grow it did and now I like my little mango tree as it will grow with my daughter since it was planted around the same time she was born. I didnāt realize I was zone pushing because there was a big debate that the zones shifted and I believed I was in zone 10 but after digging and really looking into it our zone is 7a-8b sadly. I already have my tree growing and donāt really want to quit on it.
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Thanks! Iāll have to look around for scions when the seedlings are a bit bigger.
Yeah like I said donāt quit, just donāt expect fruit from it more than likely. It will just be all but impossible to fruit a seedling mango in a container.
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Mango seedlings arenāt necessarily true to type, nor are Citrus. Obtaining a true-to-type seedling is not simplistic and the methodology varies among species. Beware of advice from persons claiming otherwise.
ā¦ unless it is growing year-round in zone 10B or better conditions (including light intensity) and a 25+ gallon pot.
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Yeah I kinda mentioned that also, but definitely accurate point. I like the Orlando mango grower on YouTube. He grows tons in pots to fruit. But again they donāt need to be moved
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My wife Janet likes YouTube for instruction of applique stitchery. Itās purposely uninstalled on my devices.
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I should do the same, it would save me a lot of time haha
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I am ok with taking care of my tree for a couple of years with no fruit, at least until I can get a good greenhouse and a home where I can plant things in the ground.
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I have an ice cream mango growing in a container, from my research itās a variety particularly adept at container life.
Not sure how relevant that is since youāre doing a seedling.
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Where did you acquire it? I would love to have more than one mango tree, Iād like my daughter to experience fruit from home. Have you had fruit from this tree yet?
In that case youāre going to have to acquire scions and graft it over to a container adapted variety. Like ice cream, Julie, Pickering something along those lines. Thats if you want fruit off of it. Otherwise just grow it for fun thats fine I do that with many plants. I know truly tropical sells mango scions every year, almost got some before. Not sure what time of year they offer them for sale but I think around this time of year.
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I actually think a mango should be a good potted fruit tree. I havenāt done it. But have many other things. Mango bloom at a young age. Pots hugely dwarf any tree. And cool winters dwarf mango massively. Iāve seen in ground mango planted 7x3 ft. Thatās my greenhouse spacing. So far the issue is getting enough growth. Mango in California with their cool, for mango, winters, donāt grow much. Richardās mango 9 years in ground is 9 ft tall.
A 30 gal pot should work well for mango.
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Good luck moving a 30 gallon mango in and out of a house haha
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30 is ideal. 20 will work. I moved three 30 gal today all by myself at 81 and 140 lbs.
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I didnāt necessarily mean the strength but mangos will be wider than a doorway will allow pretty fast. Unless you have double doors. But my house door I have a lot of plants I couldnāt manage to get inside based on their width.
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In a pot a mango could easily be pruned fan shaped and tied together to get through a normal sized door. My experience is that after about 4 years potted fruit trees need to be root pruned and repotted because they lose so much vigor. Repotting is more of a challenge than moving them about.
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What would you say the main differences between those mango types are?
Compact growth habit and more conducive to being grown in a pot. Also bearing fruit while being very small. You could likely keep most mangos in a container, but there are some that just wonāt be compatible at all. Like a Valencia Pride for example will never be happy in a container Iād say. But happy is relative, maybe it could work, I just know when Iām planning on moving a plant around for its whole life; Iād like to make my selection to my advantage.
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Iāll keep that in mind!! I had no idea there were so many different varieties of mango honestly
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