Hello everyone.
First and foremost sorry for making my first post a question, I've been "lurking" for a bit and stealing all your wonderful opinions and ideas while planting a tropical garden
. I know its bad forum/internet etiquette.
I live in Cape Coral, or Lee County in SWFL. I've been purchasing and planting over the past few months in an attempt to both have tons of fresh fruit for my family, but also trying to get rid of my 'lawn' (such as FL lawns are without chemicals and regular watering... weed plantations that is). I purchased a "Glenn" variety mango in a 7 gallon from a local nursery here (Top Tropicals retail center, if that matters) and planted it in my back yard. That was around 3 months ago. Since then, it's flowered and set fruit, one is rather large and two are starting to grow. I've noticed that it is getting a concerning amount of browning at the tips of its leaves that my other Mango trees do not seem to exhibit, but otherwise seems like a healthy tree. I'm looking for advice on what it could be and any possible solutions, my initial thoughts are wind burn and/or salt burn due to having to hand water frequently due to our winter drought, and the abnormally windy days we've been having (this past weekend for instance with its 20 mph+ winds).
I have attached 4 pictures, the first 2 are a Nam Doc Mai variety I bought about 1 month after the Glenn. It was a 15 gallon from a different nursery (fruitscapes on pine island in north lee county) and it seems extremely happy with no leaf burn.. some of the leaves are tattered but that was from the truck ride home tearing the leaves a bit. The NDM pictures are for comparison to the Glenn. The NDM is planted in my front yard, where the soil is much sandier. Both locations receive around the same light.
The next 2 pictures are the Glenn, while it is flushing and holding onto three fruit, the leaves shown concern me.
NDM
NDM pic #2
Top of the Glenn / new flushes and fruit
Example of the browned leaves
Thanks for the look at the thread!