i tried my first pickering mango today. one fell prematurely from the tree a few days ago and i let it ripen to a lemon yellow color (uglied from brown/spots on the skin but it’s what’s inside that counts). it definitely has a pronounced coconut flavor, mildly sweet, almost no tartness and hardly any fiber. though i prefer mangos with tartness, this is still a good mango. i’m letting the rest ripen on the tree. it’s in a pot but i do eventually want to put it in the ground. i think if i was able to protect fruiting bananas during this past winter, i should be able to protect a mango.
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Let us know how that works over the next year.
I absolutely love mango. If there is a dwarf variety I can keep potted and will still fruit, it would be worth a try.
If I could a dozen or so mangos a year, I’d be more than pleased.
Hell maybe even a half dozen!
Ah…I looked it up. I think I’ll buy one. Wish I had done so in April, but since I will grow it in a pot and protect it over winter, it doesn’t matter as much when I buy it.
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how long did it take to fruit in a container? ive always wanted a mango. especially one that tastes like coconut.
Wonderful!!
What size pot is the tree in?
Do you prune it? If so, how?
How old is the tree?
Please share a picture of the whole tree!
I have a mango tree in a pot, grown from a seed in which the parent had a delicious coconut flavor to as well!
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Pickering is one of the dwarfiest mangos I believe. Fruits well at a small size. Could likely keep it under 8ft for years in a big pot.
I’ve seen plenty of mangos fruiting in pots at nurseries. Standard size trees too not just dwarf. Though a dwarf like pickering would be your best bet for maintaining in a pot without outgrowing it.
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Would love to see and hear more about people with dwarf container mangos. Java green trees on Etsy seems to have a lot of dwarf condo varieties.
The good news about container growing a dwarf variety of mango is that you can mimick the dry spell they require regardless of how much rainfall you receive.
I’m going to give it a go.
Zone 9a, south Louisiana
How long should the dry spell be?
I read water 2-3 times a week in the warmer months and once every 2 weeks in winter.
Let the top 2-3 inches dry out between watering.
We get 60+ inches of rain a year here, so growing in a pot will allow me to cover the soil to keep from overwatering from natural rainfall.
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another one fell off the tree today, it’s ready when it’s a little more yellow. it’s in a 7 gallon pot. it’s grafted so i don’t know how old it is. i got it last year from Lowe’s. all the local nurseries sell mango trees but they don’t always have dwarfs. i kept it in my greenhouse this past winter. you must protect it from freezes. i think the kill temperature for mango is around 28F for a mature tree, probably just below freezing for a young tree. i pruned it late winter. it flowered this spring and had about 10 fruits but most dropped, so i ended up with just 4. i don’t think the tree could have supported that many, it’s still quite small. by the way you can eat the little ones but they are very sour and mostly seed. this year i got a nam doc mai #4, also in a 7 gallon. they grow really well here during the rainy season here (May through October), and my average rainfall is 70 inches per year, though we can get over 100 inches, i am in the rainiest part of Florida - the western panhandle. we get lots of pop up thunderstorms, locally heavy in spots during the summer. one time the weather outlets reported 2 inches of rain but i had 8 inches in my buckets. so i don’t really know if 70 inches is the average, i feel like we get more than that. in the winter time i would water about once a week, depending on the temperatures, because sometimes it can get hot in the winter, like a few years ago we had 2 weeks of 80s in February. once it’s done fruiting, i will up-pot it and prune it. by the way, i recommend reading Tropical Acres descriptions of mangos before purchasing one so you know which types are dwarfs, which ones have good disease resistance, which has a particular flavor profile, etc. there are lots of mango growers, collectors and enthusiasts in Florida, so they would also be good resources. i’d love to go to south Florida to attend one of the many mango festivals. it really is the king of fruits. i grew up eating Philippine mangos. there are so many varieties of mangos, there are probably hundreds of varieties grown in the Philippines.
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here’s the list of mangos from Tropical Acres Farms:
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do you know the variety because only polyembrionic mangos will be the same as the parent.
Yes, and no. It was from a seed grown fruit by my Aunt’s boyfriend. He named it himself and has been getting those mangos for I dont know how long. I will ask him about it. 
Parent trees are Haden x Carrie. At one time they were the only two trees near each other at his parents’ house. He planted the seed 25 years ago.
“We call it Edward mango, but there is a variety already named that.”
“We also call it Coconut Dream, as there is another named Coconut Cream, already.”
There we go!
Fun fact: the oil in the skins of mangoes is the same as that found on Poison Ivy, Poison Oak, etc.
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