I wish!

It was late when I answered-lol. Kidding you. Actually,I planted it 4 or 5' from the studio. We had work done on it and that included that porch. I didn't think they were going to build right to within inches of the Mango. I had made it clear I didn't want them to harm that plant. Some of my plants they butchered,stepped on,broke, and others that were small and nice,disappeared.

btw- I am bummed out at the home repair business. I have yet to find one that does the job on time,at price,and nothing was stolen. They do that like its a right.

At least the Mango is doing fine!

Are you going to prune it back, so it can branch out? It looks very tall and slender.

I think Tony it needs in my climate all the foliage it can get for the near future. I doubt it will ever get too tall for 10' ladder to reach. We do have frosts..and I probably can count on some tips getting nipped back every couple of years. Natural pruning.

Florida can do anything with Mangoes. I watch the Youtube vids. Coastal California- bay area rules change. If you let them flower and then fruit on all stems?..they skip a years growth. Pruning can only be done in spring..it takes virtually all summer for it to send out new growth. But,the fruit sure taste great. Other tropical fruits I've tried were a little on the weak side as far as being sweet. Manila Mango does get sweet.

My two small mango trees fell over during Hurricane Irma. I stood it back up and pruned it back. It flowered every year so far.

Mangoes are so cheap here. I grow a bunch of lychee trees. I can buy mangoes very cheap anywhere around here. I can't buy lychee and it is expensive.

There are not many lychee farmers because they don't fruit every year and the farmers can't go without income for two or more years.

Home grown is always freshest most pure fruits you can eat. I planted a Santa Rosa plum because market plums are like half composted in flavor. But the Plums are super cheap. I have some Guava,banana and Cherimoya,pineapples that have been outdoors now long enough that I think I can get them to flower..in spring.

And..everything home grown is free. Cant beat that price!

I killed my durian sapling last year, but my brother got two new sapling he grew from seeds last week. They are very sensitive to fertilizer when they are young. I put down granular fertilizer and the heavy rain killed it. This time I am only going to use miracle gro liquid fertilizer.

I got two mango saplings grown from seed. I thought I killed them by over fertilizing them. Now it is very healthy. It is very hard to kill a mango tree here. I try to get the trees to grow fast by putting as much fertilizer as I can.

I believe it. I've seen vids of Florida Mangoes 20' dug out of the ground ( I could see mangoes have a very shallow but wide root system) then they took a saw to the roots and top of the tree. Moved it, and it did fine. In Florida. Here? I wouldn't try that here unless its that or you had to move it for some reason- construction say. Odds that it would die go way up.

That is what I got here. The limerocks is less than a foot down and the roots can't penetrate the limerocks. The roots on all my trees are very shallow. All of my larger trees blew over during Hurricane Irma. I stood them all back up and trimmed them back and all are doing fine.

The farmland is all limerocks, but in the city there are up to 6 feet of sand that the builder brings in for the foundation of the house. The houses are built on higher grounds due to flooding.

The ground water table in the city is about 6 feet deep. In the farmland, you hit water within 2 feet.