I remember my first Mango was also very deformed like yours... so it can be due to the unsuitable climate we have here in mainland Europe... just keep trying and you will be rewarded!
Well, that gives me hope!
May this be the first fruit of many to come, and may this encourage as much people as possible into mango growing!
Those first fruits are the best for sure!! Got my first lemon meringue, coconut cream and sugar apple this year. Now waiting on my first bananas that are a few months away from ripening, and some red lady papayas!! Hopefully this winter I will be able to harvest my first mulberries and loquats!! It is very addicting and rewarding.
Really, it is! Best thing is, first crop is probably the one that gives your most satisfaction, but next ones are the ones that give you best quality fruits, so from first crop things can only get better!
you ended up with a nice looking heart mango
The plant must have felt my love.
Congrats!!! I only can see the little seed was at the heel of the 'right foot' and none of the seed extended into the bigger toes area; is this true? You might not have a full size fruit in your area but I'm sure I don't mind to have hundreds of those smaller foot shape mangoes, in Italy of course
I got a seed in both of the two lobes of the fruits, and apart from their connection, they were pretty normal. Opening it was a bit a surprise for me too because when a fruit is so heavily deformed, you don't really know what to expect.
Congrats Panz you dd it!! If anyone deserves to eat a home grown mango in this forum is you! As your tree establish your fruit production should improve. We've enjoy reading your progress and admire your determination.
Thank you for your kind words! I really hope to have some mild winters in future to keep my plant alive as long as possible. Would love to have a real crop hanging from my plant!
I have to admit that this topic title gave me a laugh before I discovered that it was about a mango.
Mission accomplished.
It's small. It's deformed. It's ugly.....BUT it's still your first born. So you should still be the proud father.
Would guess that fruit was not properly pollinated. Cold temperatures can affect good pollination.
Right on the spot Oscar! The fruit suffered by incomplete/defective pollination. This seems to be my biggest issue, even if i manage to get an healthy plant, pollination is really tricky. The main problem is that on 44°N, even if our summer can be decently warm, springs is cold and lasts a lot, and i have problems with getting fruit with a normally developed embryo. For that problem, i usually remove my first flowering from my mango, but this has lead to its own class of problems that i won't detail here.
All your efforts have been reward .....without the Florence June's storm you would have more fruits....interestingly you got the fruit from first flowering and not for second even if you had much more flowers of the second.
Should it be better to let the "April" flowers? How do you explain the fact that you lost all fruits of the second flowering while the only fruit from first flowering is ripen?
Anyway congrats....let's hope your experiment will last for many years
I don't have any kind of explanation for the fruit drop of my second flowering. If i had, my mango problems could be considered solved! I just want to point that my second flowering was way less abundant than my first flowering. This is pretty regular, as far as i know. However the second flowering consisted in what i could estimate in about the 30% of the flowers i got on the first flowering.