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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Grafting woes in Thailand
« on: July 08, 2025, 07:19:23 PM »In my experience, the tree will eventually reach normal size but in at least two cases, I decided to keep the seedling because it grew more vigorously than the airlayered tree I had intended to approach graft it to. I instead grafted scion from the airlayer to the seedling and now I have two trees next to each other.In order to address the lack of tap root, I grew a seedling and approach grafted it on the airlayered mango. In one case the tree has both root systems but in a couple of cases I decided to keep the seeding and the air layer is doing well without a tap root. Not as vigorous but doing just fine by itself.
So air-layering mangoes are good for door-yard dwarf trees other wise too vigorous for the small space dwellers.
SoCal growers would not want these.
Here are two pictures taken recently.
In this first picture, the airlayer is the thicker tree that is leaning, and the grafted seedling is the one growing straight up and much thinner.

In this second picture, however, the airlayer is the tree that branched almost at the ground, and the seedling, which was grown much later, grew straight up to find light and developed a thick stalk and very healthy canopy.
