Mango Tree The Ultimate Guide to Growing Mangoes from Seed

hello welcome to go guard with scarlet today want to talk to you about mangoes this is little mango tree that grow from seed now this is the second mango tree I've grown from seed back in the army had beautiful mango tree which was going for four years this little mango tree started the day after we arrived here which is pretty simple we went grocery shopping day after we got here and bought mango eat the mango and thought shall start my new tree and here it is so I've been doing some research and looking up online how other people like to take their seed and actually sprout it and there's lot of information on how you can start sprouting your seed in today's video we're going to dive into lot more than just how to start it I'm going to talk to you about how to prune it how to plant it what kind of soil it likes obviously how to actually start it how to get the little root to start growing we're also going to talk about how long it takes to actually grow mango before you'll get fruit and if you can grow in your house at all first of all you cannot grow mango in your house and get fruit it won't work and here's what mango tree requires extremely high heat and humidity and nobody nobody that know anyway heats their home to 40 degrees Celsius in the summer and then turns it into steam bath mango really does require that type of temperature it's tropical fruit now that being said you can definitely grow it as an indoor plant which will look beautiful and as it grows taller you can trim it and I'll talk about that in minute so how I'm getting around this problem is we are going to build little greenhouse specifically for my tropical trees so that means lemons mangoes peaches and figs will all live in this tropical greenhouse and this will be space where everything is in pots so that can bring them into the house or if we put in wood stove then can just heat it but it'll be heated during the winter and it will be hot and humid during the summer and it likes dry cool temperatures in the winter so home would be perfect 19 20 22 degrees Celsius is more than sufficient for mango tree they are full Sun lovers so you want to put them in south-facing window for sure somewhere where they're gonna get lots of light and like to rotate my tree so as young tree it will require little bit of nitrogen potassium and phosphorus the older of the tree the less nitrogen mango tree does not want fertile soil so if you don't fertilize it at all or only give it very very little bit once year it's gonna be fine now my tree has few little dead spots here on some of these leaves and that's because the tree was too close to the window and the window was frosty and so it got little bit of frostbite here on the end of the leaf and all do about that is simply cut the leaf off so you can see this one it's chopped halfway this one in this one as well and and the plant will continue to grow and it doesn't mind could take these leaves off entirely but because the base of the leaf is still healthy I'm just removing the part that's actually touched the window and has some frostbite it is very important that if you are growing in window in the winter that you move the plant away from the window at nighttime because of course in the daytime it's gonna be nice warm wonderful place for your plant to be but at night time it's going to be even colder and that cold is going to kill your entire plant I'm really cold days like we've been taking this guy and put him in front of the fireplace for little while not to close of course but just enough to if you can warm them up and always water him with warm water in the winter to make sure that the roots are not too cold you want to crack it open cut right along the edge gently pull it open and pull out the seed the seed itself has fat end and small end there's lots of different ways that people talk about doing this you can submerge the entire thing you can put it in paper towel you could put it right into the soil stem rot is big deal for lot of seeds and it really doesn't matter what kind of seen this but they can always rot so would avoid putting it directly in soil if you submerge the entire seed there's good chance the seed will drown and you could submerge it for one day one to two days just to soften it up but what like to do fast is the bottom the pointy side is the bottom and just take tiny little shot glass and put it in there and then fill it up halfway and leave it alone put this next to my sink don't worry about full Sun or anything like that just put next to my sink wherever my sink happens to be in this case and when grew that when it was both in the north side of the house and believe even the one grew in Germany was also sitting on the north side of the house so it didn't get full Sun which is perfectly okay only fill the little shot glass halfway so the top can breathe and the bottom can drink and that's really important you don't want to drowned your seeds when you're dealing with any seed no matter what it is you never want to drown your seed this one started week ten eleven days ago and it's pretty big so another thing like to do when dealing with seeds is when am watering them I'll take them out and I'll give them little wash and sometimes I'll even take little brush and wash them off don't want them to get gooey or sticky or or start rotting if you place it into paper towel also think that that is recipe for disaster because the paper towel is moist for little while and then that's inside plastic bag but mildew and mold can can develop in there and also you can forget to water it and you can't you know you can't see it in this case know the water is going down fill it back up and wash the jar and wash off the seed put it all back I'm very very careful not to disturb the root at the bottom but can see when it requires more water so once I've gotten it to this stage will let it continue to grow like this for probably another month maybe even two really want to see that the first root go down and the stem come up and turn around and before it has its first leaf I'm gonna plop it into some soil mangoes like to grow in spurts so they'll they'll come up without an inch and they'll put whole bunch of leaves out and then they'll come up another inch and put whole bunch of leaves out and another inch and pull when she leaves out so right at the very top there's just tiny little leaves and they don't look like normal leaves they come out as any the little spikes that come up and then they they kind of Bend apart and then they grow into large leaves and they're always at the same point if you want to keep your mango trees small it's really really simple once your tree is established and it's growing and it's healthy make sure that you do not over water they want moist soil but they do not want damp soil they don't want wet feet they want to be able to breathe within that soil you want something nice and fluffy no he said perlite or vermiculite vermiculite begin the better option and keep it in Folsom once here mango is established you can always cut it off by one third your initial little trunk in the middle will split and you'll end up with branches and on just about any plant dealing with anything one third is always maximum you never want to cut more than that because you're going to stress your plant and by stressing your plant there's like if you cut tomato plant way way back there's good chance it won't produce fruit because it's been stressed you can easily keep mango that's going to be meter 2 meters height by constantly trimming it and pruning it back some interesting facts about the mango tree mango is actually an evergreen of course it doesn't look like an evergreen but it does not lose its leaves which makes it very lovely plant to have in your home so the old leaves will turn deep dark green and the fresh new leaves coming out will be almost an Auburn or brownish red as they come out and then they will turn into the light green and eventually the dark green as they go don't have to worry that it's got some kind of deficiency going on it's simply that the leaves are young and they haven't turned nice and dark yet if your mango tree can grow to 35 meters in height and 15 meters wide that's pretty big so something like that would not be able to put into little hothouse outside mango tree as cutting versus mango tree growing from seed on the negative side the seed will take significantly longer to eventually produce fruit but on the positive side the seed the plant grown from seed is going to be stronger harder plant heart of your tree and it will produce way more fruit another interesting thing is do not get mango SAP on your skin the SAP of mango tree will actually burn I'm funny enough the mango SAP will actually burn the mango as well so when you're picking your mangos in five to eight years when it eventually comes off your tree when your tree has eventually grown mangos make sure that when you do pick them you avoid getting snap onto the mango because that will burn the mango and cause it to rot much faster than if you didn't have any SAP on it another thing to remember when growing mangoes is don't over love them they don't want too much water or too much fuss am going to repot this guy he's in very small pot right now and this was the pot he's been in since he went up three months old will repot my mangoes once year and every year double the pot in size and then quickly the mango tree is going to have double in size so this guy is ready for new pot for sure and can also see that it's ready for new soil so when do repot the mango I'm going to take it out give it good cleaning take brush and gently remove all the soil that's on there and give it full fresh soil the soil that is in this pot is going to be all used up there will be no more nutrients in it little guy will be very happy when it has new pot and new soil I'm Scarlett thanks for watching hope this answered all of your questions when it comes to mango so you can grow mango if you grow it in pot keep it in really hot warm steamy place outside and bring it in your house in the winter wish you the best of luck to new