Names of natural growing dwarf mango?

[franklazar26]

I like growing my own dwarf trees from seed and rootstock, it's all a part of the experience. I am stumped on what people use for dwarfing rootstock of mango? Reason: I am limited to containers and wish to get produce. Any help is appreciated on what people might use!

[Oolie]

http://tropicalfruitforum.com/index.php?topic=20816.msg287101#msg287101
Unfortunately the links to many of the research articles has changed.

See page 11.

I believe this was the best resource. "Smith, M. W., Bright, J.D., Hoult, M.D., Renfree, R. A. and Maddern, T. 2008. Field evaluation
on
64 rootstocks for growth and yield of ‘Kensington Pride’. Hortsci
ence
. 43: 1720-
1725"

That said, it was in Australia, ymmv.

[franklazar26]

Thank you!! I'll read through!

[lebmung]

Frank virtually any mango can be dwarfed. There are dwarf mangoes like Falan or moderate growth like Irwin, and others. Still Irwin is not good as a rootstock. I am testing Falan seedlings and see progress under cold and containers, ask me from time to time.

It's about the method of dwarfing the roots, such as trimming the tap root at the right time and promote adventitious root, but I tell you in your zone mangoes are difficult to grow in the first 3-4 years.