From my experience in NY state, sour citrus..ie. lemons, calondins, will flower and fruit indoors. I have been trying and trying to get tropical fruit trees to flower and fruit indoors. The only time I ever had a mango bloom indoors was when I had it under a 750 watt HPS light. I lost that tree sadly but now I keep all my tropical under 1000 watt HPS and that has seemed to make a huge difference, I have several citrus that are blooming and also with maturing fruits. My Maha Chanok mango is flushing new growth, but I know it's from th3 supplemental light I'm providing.

Hi Mangobaby. I lost my mango tree. My mother in law was very sick last year. She was hospitalized for 8 months. I lost all my trees due to not being home very often, but I am slowly rebuilding my collection. Right now I have a nice sized Maha that I got a few days after Christmas. It makes me sick because the tree I had, was about 6ft tall and had 4 huge(well huge for me) thick branches. I pugged it again, and it responded very well but I was gone when the growths started after pugging and it died. The tree was fruiting size too. I'm hoping to get a Pickering and a few annonas along with passion fruit and a banana and avocado.
Thanks for asking

Puerto Rico truly is a tropical fruit lovers dream come true! I've had the pleasure of travelling to Puerto Rico and enjoyed some excellent fruits before! Jay, last year I was actually there the week after you guys went

I totally understand the risk here but I want to see how large the fruits will grow.
Can someone please tell me approximately how long the fruits would take to mature?

Hello everybody. I know it's been quite a long time since I have posted here. This year I bought a Pickering mango tree and after it bloomed, the tree held to mangoes. Right now they are about the size of silver dollars. Since I have never had a mango tree that held any fruit, I really have no idea how long it will take for them to mature, if they don't drop first! Can anyone give me a rough idea of how long it will take for them to mature? Also, I remember reading that fertilizing the tree while fruit is on the tree can affect the flavor of the fruits. Should I stop fertilizing? I've been feeding it Foliage Pro and Sea Weed extract. Thanks again for any help!

Hi Nancy,
Great looking tree! I just pugged mine a few days ago. The tree was over 6ft tall but has a nice frame work of branches. I have seen it bloom once 2 years ago, and I think it would have bloomed this year but I was afraid by the end of summer it would have been to tall and wide for me to get it indoors.

I need to get a picture of how it looks now. Today I found buds all ready swelling below the stumps.

I wish you the best with your new tree, and I look forward to seeing pictures of it's progress!

Take care,
Andrew

Hello everyone,
I just tried emailing Roger Meyer today to see if I could put together an order for a couple cherimoya trees. I googled his name and used the email address that was provided but when  I tried to send the email, it wouldn't go thru. I copied and pasted it so I'm not really sure what was wrong there.

 I am hoping he still does mail order as he has the nicest cherimoya trees and VERY reasonable. If I cannot order from him, can anynoe recommend a nursery that will ship? I am really wanting a 'Honey heart' and last time I checked with Roger, he told me he didn't have this variety. I know this was a few years ago, so maybe now he does have it.

Thank you,
Andrew Scott

I am looking for nursery that sells grafted cherimoya trees. Years ago I bought 2 from Roger Meyer. I will email him today to see if he can still ship to me or not. I lost both trees from him about 2 or 3 years ago from sooty mold. Very upsetting as both were growing very nicely and my grafted 'Fino de Jete' had actually bloomed for the first time.

I also am interested in purchasing a 'Gefner' atemoya, as I have heard that they are very cherimoya like, and one of the best atemoya you can grow.

IF anyone has any suggestions on where I could order these trees, I would greatly appreciate it, also if anyone has any other suggestions for better cherimoya varieties, please let me know and also why you like that variety. Finding the 'Gefner' I know wont be difficult. If I decide to order a 'Pickering' mano from Plantogram, I may just buy the Gefner from there also.

Thanks,
Andrew

Hi Lycheeluva,
I agree with you about keeping saucers under potted mango trees. I am not doing it right now, but I did over the winter last year. Man, I wish I only had to water every couple weeks! I tried this with my Carrie last year, and it almost died on me. The thing is, the soil wasn't even really dry. It was actually moist from the soil surface to the bottom of the pot. Once I started watering every 2 or 3 days, it perked right up, and even started flushing growth.

Same with my Maha Chanok but that tree is almost 5ft tall. The tree needs to be repotted. I water that tree about the same. Every 2 or 3 days and when I water both mango trees, I saturate the root balls. IF I don't they seem to go down hill VERY fast.

This has been my experience with potted mango trees BUT, for the past 2 years, I have had them under my 600 watt HPS light and that makes my ave. room temps around 85 degrees. That has to play into why the need much more water.

I have read that people in FL pot there mango and other tropical fruit trees, into Al's gritty mix. I know that in FL during the rainy season, they can get a ton of rain, and that maybe the reason why the gritty mix works so well. Personally, I think if I used the gritty mix, I would have to water my mango trees daily. The only trees that I would keep in the gritty mix, would be my citrus trees.

What mix do you use for your citrus and mango trees? I cannot wait to see how your Maha fruits turn out. The fruit I tried was EXCELLENT!! I have not had extensive exprience with tasting many diffrent mango varieties.  I did try mangoes in FL from diffrent fruit stands but they were not labelled as to what variety they were. They were all very good fruits but nothing to rave about. I hit Puerto Rico during mango season, and that was awesome to me! Mango everywhere!! I remember buying 8 for $2.00! But nothing so far has beaten, or come clost to the Maha Chanok! I am hoping to be in S. FL around 4th of July so I am hoping I can try some named varieties...especially Carrie considering that from what I hear you either love the fruit or you hate it!

Hi guys,
Looks like Pickering is a real winner. I have been trying to decided on a 3rd mango variety that I could grow in a pot. I have heard planty about how this variety is a great candidate for potted culture.

Swrancher,
Awesome pic of your Pickering! If you could get around 30 fruits off a tree that's under 5ft tall, than I should have no problem with still getting a bunch of fruits on a potted tree.  From what I remember the flavor is described as coconut and pineapple. What's your opinion, and does it have any tartness to it(is the tartness what people call the "twang"?

Thanks,
Andrew

Jsvand,
Thanks for your comments on 'Page'. I ordered 3 citrus from Four Winds nursery. I bought 'Kishu', and a Variegated Pink lemon. Harry had mentioned to me before that he really liked 'Page'. Do you think the fruit has excessive seeds? I read on another forum that a few people didn't like it because of it's high seed count.

I think I will have at least 1-2 years before I get to enjoy my first fruit.

Andrew

I have had one growing in a pot for three years now. Hardly any growth at all..I got mine from Top Tropicals before I really new anything about them. I wish I would have done my research! LOL.That's all I'm saying.


In the past 3 years, I have had maybe 8inches of good growth and that's about it. It is a nice looking tree. The back of the leaf is nice and shiny.

Lycheeluva, as far as fruiting goes, I think I will be long gone before this tree eber grows large enough to fruit! LOL!

Andrew

Lol Jay, I hear ya. i should have known better but now our night time temps are supposed to stay in the 50's for at least the next 7 days.

Hi Nancy. Thanks for the warm welcome. I know you have been in my shoes. I wish you the best and hope all your trees are recovering nicely. You have had one hell of  time with them these last few years.

Andrew