Growing Mango trees in Southern California

[gozp]

Is this the Mango Tree at Atkins Nursery your talking about.

It's on the right side of the main entrance area as you drive in. Not sure if it is their property. I took this Photo several years ago

Johnny

It’s behind the cashier’s hut where they sell fruits at the back of the property. I brought it up because it could be a vigorous rootstock for grafting even better than Manila. The seedlings I bought from maddock are strong and vigorous.

Where did u get those long pots?

[hawkfish007]

Is this the Mango Tree at Atkins Nursery your talking about.

It's on the right side of the main entrance area as you drive in. Not sure if it is their property. I took this Photo several years ago

Johnny

It’s behind the cashier’s hut where they sell fruits at the back of the property. I brought it up because it could be a vigorous rootstock for grafting even better than Manila. The seedlings I bought from maddock are strong and vigorous.

Where did u get those long pots?

I bought them in long pots from Maddock nursery for $28 each. Unfortunately they don’t sell the pots individually.

[spaugh]

Theses guys make and sell the tall pots
https://www.stuewe.com/products/treepots.php



Those atkins rootstocks grow pretty good.  Healthy trees. 

[gozp]

Theses guys make and sell the tall pots
https://www.stuewe.com/products/treepots.php



Those atkins rootstocks grow pretty good.  Healthy trees.

These wud be good for starting seedlings to develop taproot... thanks brad.


The lz u were selling on a long pot was  cp612r? Ty in advance

[spaugh]

I have some TP815Rs, its a good medium sized pot.  Its a good one to start mango and avocado seeds.  The roots fill in that size pretty quickly.  They are at the bottom of that page, scroll down.

If you just want a few pots they will sell singles.  You just email them and they will send you a bill to your email.

[barath]

It's a little ugly, but I've had good luck with stacking cardboard half gallon milk containers (cut the bottom off of one and stick it in the other).  You get a tall container that avocados do great in, and when you plant you don't have to disturb the roots at all -- just put the whole thing in the planting hole, cut the bottom, slide it out from underneath, fill around with soil, and then slip the whole double-height container off the top.

Edited to add: mango seeds sometimes do well in these, and sometimes not.  Really big seeds don't fit, but smaller ones do well.

[OCchris1]

Even with the tall pot, I would pain the insides with MicroKote or something similar. Everything I've grown in MicroKoted pots has taken off like rocket ships. Zero root spin in these pots.

[ManVFruit]

My very young mango tree, should I cut it as soon as it flowers? need advice from our experienced local mango growers :

[Oolie]

My very young mango tree, should I cut it as soon as it flowers? need advice from our experienced local mango growers :

Try the search function at the top of this thread or read the thread. Key words being "cut" and "flower".

[gozp]

My very young mango tree, should I cut it as soon as it flowers? need advice from our experienced local mango growers :

Let it fruit till its a size of a pea. Then u remove the pea-sized mango.


If u take out flower now. Chances are it will try to re-flower...

I know simon talked about this. Use the search button for a more descriptive post.

[ManVFruit]

My very young mango tree, should I cut it as soon as it flowers? need advice from our experienced local mango growers :

Try the search function at the top of this thread or read the thread. Key words being "cut" and "flower".

Do you sit on this all day and troll all day long? man most unhelpful member I met in this group, get a life bud. It's a forum open for discussion.

[ManVFruit]

My very young mango tree, should I cut it as soon as it flowers? need advice from our experienced local mango growers :

Try the search function at the top of this thread or read the thread. Key words being "cut" and "flower".

Do you sit on this all day and troll all day long? man most unhelpful member I met in this group, get a life bud. It's a forum open for discussion.

Thank you sir appreciate your help, I tried the search but it brought me to the last page of this post.

[BonsaiBeast]

My very young mango tree, should I cut it as soon as it flowers? need advice from our experienced local mango growers :

Try the search function at the top of this thread or read the thread. Key words being "cut" and "flower".

Do you sit on this all day and troll all day long? man most unhelpful member I met in this group, get a life bud. It's a forum open for discussion.

Actually, you're going to want to search "troll" and "no life" for the answer to that question.

[ManVFruit]

lol How are your plants doing?

[BonsaiBeast]

lol How are your plants doing?

They're still small of course haha, so is the way of the Garcinia.

But I got a few of them in the ground. We'll see what happens.

[ManVFruit]

Tell me about it, I have a new trick recommended by a friend, I don't want to hijack this thread so I will message you about it if you are interested. I am currently experimenting with it early days..

[simon_grow]

For the blooms, just leave them for now as gozp mentioned and you can remove them when they are pea to marble size. Alternatively, if your average nightly lows are 62F or above, you can remove the blooms/fruit regardless of the size of the fruit. When you remove the blooms/fruit, cut below where the panicle started and above a node facing the direction where you want a future branch to be.

If the flower panicles becomes too heavy and starts to cause the stem to droop, you can cut about half the panicle off to relieve some of the weight.

Simon

[ManVFruit]

For the blooms, just leave them for now as gozp mentioned and you can remove them when they are pea to marble size. Alternatively, if your average nightly lows are 62F or above, you can remove the blooms/fruit regardless of the size of the fruit. When you remove the blooms/fruit, cut below where the panicle started and above a node facing the direction where you want a future branch to be.

If the flower panicles becomes too heavy and starts to cause the stem to droop, you can cut about half the panicle off to relieve some of the weight.

Simon

Thanks Simon, I think we live pretty close so far the nights are just below 60F, so I will wait a little longer in that case. I just did approach graft using manila rootstock that is the branch you see in the picture. I am trying to make a copy a of my Pina Colada and OS after reading about florida rootstocks in this post. I am hoping to visit brad in the coming months to pick up some more tips, I am new to mango ..

[Oolie]

If anyone here has experience fruiting mangoes it is likely they have encountered internal breakdown issues, especially if applying nitrogen and potassium rich fertilizers. It is also likely that some experience salt burn issues in the summer time if you are growing in clay rich soil and irrigating with municipal Colorado River water.

Gypsum can help with both of these issues, and I have a source for free gypsum for pickup in the East County San Diego region.

If you are interested, send me a PM and I can give you the info, but the gypsum will only be available for the next few days, after that it will be gone.

[Exoticfruits]

Hello,

I just joined this site not too long ago and just wondering if you have a suggestion to cut off 1/2 of the 3 flower panicles or cut 1 or 2 panicles and just leave one? (pic enclosed)  This Cat Hoa Loc mango tree was planted a little over a year and is 5ft tall with skinny trunk. Last year I cut off the flowering at the top, hoping it will grow taller. But it didn't .
AVG temp in OC  is  57F  to 76F.
Thanks for your help.  Steven

[simon_grow]

Those are big panicles and are weighing Dow the branches. You can remove 2/3 of each panicle. If you completely remove two panicles and leave one, the tree will likely re bloom beneath your cut.

Simon

[Exoticfruits]

Thank you Simon for your prompt reply.

[CA Hockey]

My very young mango tree, should I cut it as soon as it flowers? need advice from our experienced local mango growers :

Let it fruit till its a size of a pea. Then u remove the pea-sized mango.


If u take out flower now. Chances are it will try to re-flower...

I know simon talked about this. Use the search button for a more descriptive post.

Usually removing the flowers this early would result in new flowers, but it's been so hit that my trees are mainly pushing out all leaves. It may be worth a shot if you are impatient

I personally would wait... but I have a large orchard to obsess over and can find lots of other plants to distract me.

If I had to stare at that set of flowers every day I probably would pinch some off and see how it goes.

[JF]

Pinching flowers at this time will give you mix results. You’ll be lucky if you get 50/50 ( bloom new growth) even so the ratio of fruits setting is very low.

[jtnguyen333]

Is this the right way to pinch off flower?  according to the video, he pinch off the entire panicle, 2 to 3 leaves below it. (skip to 2:40 mark)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ndQ3GnBLjYw

-James