Here are additional images of my mango tree. One of the whole tree, one of a "fading" leaf, and one of some other contorted/crumpled green leaves.

mmm, you need to pay closer attention to the tree, it just got bigger. You have a flush of new leaves, it is normal, it is good. Congratulations.

The leaves will slowly fade to green as they "harden off".

The crumpled leaves are not exactly right but the issue is not everywhere on the tree. I don't think that you have anything to worry about, the tree looks healthy.
Others should be able to better help you what causes the crumpling.

As the others have said, the colour is normal for a flush of new leaves. The odd bit of leaf crumpling/distortion isn't unusual. More extreme cases of it can happen with herbicide overspray or too much fertiliser/salt build up in soil.

If there is too much fertilizer in the soil, is there anything I can do to remedy that?

You could pull any fertilizer stakes that are still around, and slow your fertilizing schedule. Most anything else would probably do more damage than good.
Don't be rash with anything you do. Plants grow slowly you have time to monitor and make choices, the only thing plants do quickly is die. I bet that you can find a thread in every forum on this website that should be called "loved to death."
The leaves are not showing any signs of burnt tips, it is flushing (growing). It looks like a fine tree, have patience.

Make sure there's good drainage, then you can just flush it with clean water. That's enough to get excess salts out. But yours doesn't seem to have that problem.

Mangos are a tough plant, you only have to look where they come from amd where they grow best - poor soil, hot dry intense sun dry season, hot humid soggy wet season. And that's what they love. A bit of extra calcium in their diet is good, just depends on what your local soil is like in that respect. And not too much nitrogen, it makes them tall, lanky and brittle, with few fruit. And cold wet is a pet hate.

Thank you for all your responses. Should I be "pruning" my mango tree, or simply let it grow as is natural? I'm not exactly sure how pruning works. Is pruning just choosing a few random branch tips, and cutting them off, so that they re-heal bigger(stimulate their growth) or something? ....

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Also, tropicbreezent: Your garden and your mango tree looks really really good, and really really healthy. How often &how much do you water the mango tree? ...How do you make it so gorgeous?

One thing that I notices is that your mango tree branches are broad and wide, whereas mine are bunched up. If I were to cut off some of the branches, would that encourage them to grow broader as opposed to clustered? Or would that action be a non-factor (breadth only comes with age?)

Also, what do you mean when you say, "Don't water from above, only at ground level." Are you saying that I should only trickle water onto the plant (hose on the floor)? Is there some danger to just using the "shower" feature on my hose and showering in a few gallons from above? --Is there a special technique? And I'm still curious to how often you water the tree when there is no raining. Every other day, twice a week, or how often?

Based on the appearance of my mango tree, any other tips?

I would like to take a moment to thank you greatly for all of your assistance, tropicbreezent.

Willpower, my trees are at least 10 to 15 years old, so they've had time to spread out. Also, as preferred here, the trees are all grafted. This keeps them naturally shorter, but they're cut to be no more than 4.5 metres tall. Mine need pruning, but I have a "day job" that demands a lot of my time and I'm not doing mangos commercially any more.

Your tree is still young so I wouldn't worry too much about pruning yet. More leaves means more photosynthesis and so more food for growth. What you could do is what they do for bonsai. They use wire to train branches into forms they want. You could do it to shape your tree without loss of leaves. Once the tree is larger you can then remove any branches that just won't conform to what you want.

Too much water on the leaves and wood encourages anthracnose, a fungal disease. The spores of it are around every where anyway, but those wet conditions just give it a boost. It's worst in humid climates but even in drier climates it's good practice to have water on leaves at a minumum. If you have automatic irrigation, set it so it waters the base of the tree. It's a way of avoiding or reducing possibility of problems

Our dry season (winter) there's no rain at all, no fogs, etc. The temperatures are still 32C to 33C every day, cloudless skies and dry winds. The mangos don't get watered until mid dry season when flowering has started. Then they get it every day until about 80% of flowering is done. The ground isn't saturated, though. Just enough to be wet. Most of the feeder roots are close to the surface.

The first lot of storms come at roughly fortnightly intervals and in between it's still hot and dry. So the trees are still getting very little. As someone else mentioned, they're more likely to die of "over loving" than of neglect. So if you can avoid the temptation to micro-manage it, you should end up with a very good tree.

I would look at it, "where do you see this mighty tree being in 10 years? Is that branch still there?", or does it get pruned. It is a bit like building frankensteins monster, you got a torso now work on the upper arms, then forearms, etc. Prune for the long game. Remember that mangos flower from the terminal so less pruing now means less branching and less fruit. But you have a whip, which will produce little if any anyways (for now). Better pruning practices now....

Baby steps in whatever you do, patience.

What is the cultivar of the child?

I have a keit mango in the ground 3 years old and the ends of the leaves are browning and turning brittle but the leave close to branch is not. Ideas?? Help

a picture, jimco, would help.....

M-Dog

Without a photo I can I'll venture a guess and say it might be from hard water and or fertilizer (salt) burn? Photos will help like M-Dog mentioned :o)

I have a small potted mango sapling that recently lost nearly all of it's leaves to browning. It only had one leaf that was unaffected, now that one is also browning off and drying out. Is this Anthracnose Fungus, and what can I do to save my mango sapling if it is? There are still new leaf buds starting to grow, but if it keeps browning off like this there will be no leaves at all soon.

Here are some more images.

Another image.

And another.

And one of the trunk.

I have a large mango tree in my garden and more than half of the leaves are brown like the ones in tropicbreezent's photo. We've had hardly any fruit this year, but had lots for the previous two summers. Are these signs that our tree is dying?

Pantherkat(7), yours looks like it might have fertiliser burn. Are you on town water? Do you fertilise a lot? Your plant might just need to have the pot flushed with clean water.

Kaykay79, if the tree has a lot of leaves like the ones in my photo then it's growing well. A lot of nitrogen promotes good leaf growth, but it retards flowering and fruit production. Have you fertilised around it recently? As far as fruiting goes, mangos are biennial, that is they produce really well every second year. Generally all trees in a geographic area are on the same cycle. Commercial growers always try to force their trees into higher production in the poorer years because prices are likely to be higher due to low supplies.

The new leaves have that colour....it's normal !!

Hello everyone! I am having problems with my young mango tree. I have searched the web trying to find out what's wrong with it. Here are some images, could someone please help?

Hello, two questions: first picture is a sapling from the seed, it always dies at that stage, i cut it open it seems roten inside. What may be the problem? is it fungus or overwatering? Second is a bigger plant and leaves gets brown & brittle, again whats the problem here?