Here in Brazil everywhere was has a mango

The bad thing about growing from seeds is that it takes 5 to 8 years for it to fruit. One very cold winter and the tree is dead without ever producing a fruit. The amount of time, care and fertilizer is not worth it. It is better buying a grafted mango.

Ten. I know. I google Mexico's warmer cities and Mangoes are in every yard and every sidewalk space.

Here? I have only seen in person two others..one larger than mine and the other smaller.

Btw- Keitt is what is grown in the Coachella Valley in soucal. This one must have been from Mexico- it was in the poundage size.

Tony,you never know. People in Florida have posted on YouTube "I grew this from seed five years ago and it has fruit". Funny thing is- I think the cooler temps here spur them to flower even if the foliage isn't near as fast as Florida or the tropics.

I just throw down some potassium nitrate to get the mango to flower during the mild cooler weather. I have about 400lbs of potassium nitrate. I will fertilize the mango with potassium nitrate in January.

You know, a Mango that goes 5 years from seed with no flowering is a good thing here. All that energy goes into growth. I know I lost at least one full year of growth because when it had lots of little fruit..it never grew a single leaf that summer/year.

But,easy for me to say "cut off panicles" when you've waited to taste your first bay area Mango homegrown. Its almost impossible to resist letting them set fruit.

i had planted out a seed from "FLorigon" and got fruit in the 3rd year... i had cut most of the flowers, and let 2 fruits grow (1 fell off) so i had 1 fruit.

It was actually really good... The 1 thing was the fruit to-seed ratio wasnt as good as most top-tier mango,

\but ... hell... it wasnt bad.

that was last summer... in Jan this year we had 1 night that hit 27F

coldest ive seen in 10 to 15 years.

it died back to the trunk, almost to the ground.

but...

its already 6ft tall with several branches.

obviously no fruit this year, but, i am hoping we dont get under 30F for the next several years so it can get a nice large strong trunk.

fruit last summer

this is a few weeks ago

its about 6 inches taller with a new flush.

its growing now in a bush fashion with 4 trunks

Hows the Baileys,Larry? Mine was growing so fast. Only to have a frost kill off the graft and now its a Manila.

2017 Trunk with some residual damage from 2012.

The first cold front came early this year. It might get really cold this year. I hope it does so I can get my lychee trees to flower. I might have to put the potassium nitrate on my mango tree in December.

Last week-end during our block party, I visited a woman's house just down the street from mine, and she had a small mango tree (about seven feet high, at most) that was loaded with mangoes. I asked her what kind of mango it was and where she got it, but she just told me that she didn't know what kind it was, and that she grew the tree from a seed. She also gave me a ripe mango, as I told her that I wanted to grow one also. Today I ate the mango (it was very sweet and good, but not all that large), and I broke open the husk to start the seed. The seed already had a small root, and I wrapped the seed in a damp paper towel, but it in a plastic bag, wrapped that in a black napkin and put it in the warmest place in my house.

I don't know whether I need to check it every day - one video said that he likes to give his new air every day, and so I might do that. I plan to plant it into a pot later this week. I had a Manila mango tree in Venice that got extremely tall, but I never got more than a dozen fruit from it, and so I'm hoping that I will get a tree from this seed that will replicate what I found down the street. The woman also had a chili plant that is about six feet high, and she gave me one of the chilies so that I can plant seeds from that, but I will wait until January or February to germinate those seeds.

Anything else I should know about getting a mango seed started?

As warm and sunny as possible. If possible Lars,avoid a peaty soil mix. Those peatless mixes that plants I buy, are in? THAT would be perfect for Mango. I had some kind of strawberry plants in a 10" pot of that. Eventually they died off of course and that soil was great on other plants I used it on.

I used once a pro's sandy type mix on Mango seeds and it too worked great. Peat? Sometimes spoils,goes sour.

I only wonder where the pro's get that? Monrovia sure isn't using peat.

It would be interesting to buy some vastly over potted annual or cheap plant...take that out and put the Mango seedling in it.