How to grow mangoes at home. Mango growing at home

Instruction

To try your hand at growing this exotic fruit, seed is better. Moreover, for this is quite suitable bone from mangobought on the market or in the supermarket. The main thing is to start planting immediately after the fruit has been eaten. Make sure that there is no pulp left on the bone or completely remove the outer shell by prying it with a sharp knife. This will help the seed to quickly take root, not overcoming the obstacle of a solid "shell".

Treat the seed with a fungicide (if you did not remove the shell, it is not necessary), then plant in with dense walls and a bottom, on which there should be several drainage holes. Take 2 parts of the sheet and sod soil and 1 part of the sand. The soil should be loose. Plant the stone in a horizontal position and sprinkle with earth. Or, plant the narrow end down so that ¼ of the seed remains outside. Whatever method you choose, after the bone is in, do not forget to water it at room temperature.

At the time of rooting and after the plant protect it from drafts, as well as monitor the temperature regime. It should be stable and be approximately + 22- + 24 degrees. After about 2-3 weeks, the first shoots should appear. To stimulate further growth, the tree needs the sun. If not, take care of artificial light.

The soil should be hydrated, but remember that the plant is very sensitive to excess moisture, so do not "pour" it. Use a watering can with small holes. From time to time, spray the leaves with a spray bottle, and also cut the shoots in some places, forming a crown. Repot mango in a larger pot every 2 years.

The plant needs top dressing with nitrogen and organic fertilizers. You can use those that are suitable for citrus. Fertilize mango follows quite often: about 1-2 times a month during the first year, then increase the feeding in the spring-summer period (1-2 times per two weeks) and gradually decrease in the autumn-winter period (1 time per month).

Do not wait from mango fast fruits - with proper care, they can appear approximately in the sixth year after planting and only six months later. Up to this point on the plant may appear. In order not to have a tree from ticks or powdery mildew, make sure to maintain the humidity of the air. Her level should stick to 90%.

Bone preparation

To plant a pineapple at home, you need its leafy tops. We buy mango without leaves and twigs. Therefore, we will use the bones.

For planting fit bone of ripe fruit. Go to the store and select the desired fruit.

We evaluate the mango visually. The peel should be of a bright shade (the color itself is not important, since different varieties are presented on the shelves), taut, smooth, with no visible defects. Wrinkles indicate no immaturity. You can eat this fruit. And the chances of growing a tree from its bones are close to zero.

Flabbiness of a peel speaks about staleness of a fruit. Even eating it is dangerous.

We evaluate the mango by smell. Ripened fruits have a resinous aroma, brighter at the tail. Fruit is odorless and tasteless. He has not yet ripened. An acidic smell with a hint of alcohol indicates the fermentation process inside the fruit. Overcast And how long.

We estimate the elasticity of the fetus. Ripe - not very hard and not very soft. If the skin is moist and mucous, do not buy.

They bought a delicious mango, ate it. Stone is preparing for planting. It is necessary to thoroughly peel off all the flesh. Otherwise, it will start to rot. If the bone is already split (it is found in very ripe fruits), the flesh must be cleaned carefully. Not to damage the making sprout.

Pot, Drain and Soil

Mango grows rapidly and has a fairly strong root. Therefore, for planting take a pot with a strong thick bottom and drainage holes. The root of the tree with growth should meet a reliable barrier. Then he cannot develop excessively. All plant juices will be given to the trunk and leaves.

Mango loves wet soils. After all, his homeland - the tropics. To prevent overmoistening and rotting, put a good layer of drainage during planting.

Young plants need a light ground. The ideal option would be a mixture of leaf and sod land plus river or lake sand. You can use the purchased ground for cacti, adding sand to it.

All prepared. Now to the point. How to plant a mango from a stone?

How to grow mango from bone?

The first way.

Scrape the flesh off the bone, press it into the ground with a sharp end. A quarter of the bones should remain on the surface. We pour water at room temperature and arrange a greenhouse from a plastic bottle.

With this method, mango grows very long, as the bone has a hard shell. Emergence sprout will have to wait about a month.

The second way.

Open the sharp tip of the mango bones with a knife. Forcibly not open. Put in some hot water and leave for a day. Then twist the bone in polyethylene with a small amount of water, pack it in a foam container (in such they sell meat products in stores) and send it to a warm radiator.

When the core splits into two halves, the sprout and the roots will be clearly visible, untie the polyethylene. Periodically add some water to keep it moist. But a little. As soon as the sprout turns green, plant in light soil.

The third way.

Scrape flesh off the bones and split it. Do not remove the shell. Hold for a day in warm water. Plant in the ground.

Put the pot in the heat and constantly maintain the humidity.

The fourth way.

Spill fresh mango bone and remove the nucleolus. Wrap it in a damp paper napkin. Dig in the ground. But not very deep. Water periodically.

The fifth way.

Looks like the fourth. It is necessary to remove the nucleolus from the bone and wrap it in a damp cloth. Put on some plate and put in a warm place. Moisten the cloth all the time with warm water.

After a week or two there will be a sprout. Sit in the ground so that the sprout "looked" up. Put the nucleolus and sprinkled with earth a centimeter by two. Do not forget about watering. In about a month, the nucleus will germinate.

The sixth way.

Brush off the bone pulp. Splitting the shell with a knife. "Push" the bone into the container with expanded clay. Pour water so that half the bone was covered with liquid. Place the container in a transparent bag and tie it.

Every day you need to update the water and "air" the greenhouse. When the shell swells and sprouts, we take a seed and transplant it into the ground.

Young plant periodically pinch. Then it will start side stalks. Do not forget to spray, maintain soil moisture and heat of the surrounding air. The result will please you.

Unusual exotic mango fruit can be seen on store shelves. It attracts buyers with a beautiful greenish-red color, a pleasant smell in the area of the stem. Mango contains many nutrients - it is carotene, vitamins, trace elements. From it you can make jam, jam, add to salads. The juice of the plant is used to treat dermatitis, can relieve heartburn, is a hemostatic and diuretic.

Mango - an evergreen tree, has a height of about 23 meters. Sufficiently long green leaves in a mature plant, and yellowish - in young. The mango fruit ripens in the sixth year, its size is different, it all depends on the variety. The fruits are soft, fragrant and very tasty, inside the fruit is an oval-shaped stone.

Many fans of exotic plants probably have a desire to grow mangoes at home. If you follow the rules and recommendations, it is quite possible. Before you plant a mango from the bone at home, you need to remember that the mango is a thermophilic and light-loving plant.

How to choose a fruit to grow a tree?

Before you plant a mango from the stone at home, you must carefully pick the fruit. Mango is one of the most widely grown fruit crops in the world. Thanks to his exotic look, he will help decorate the room and give it an original look.

When buying a fruit you need to pay attention to its quality, it should be ripe and soft. The ideal color is red or yellow. After that, you should clean the bone from the pulp. If there is a fear that the mango will not germinate, you can also remove the peel.

It is grown in two ways: by vaccination, and you can plant the seed of this plant. It is removed from a ripe fruit, which is cut lengthwise and the bone is carefully removed.

See in the video below how to grow mangoes at home.

How to plant a bone mango at home?

It is possible to germin a seed not only in the soil, but also in water, it should be at room temperature. The stone is placed in it for about 2 weeks (until the germ appears). At the same time you need to change the water every two days.

To plant a bone, you need to open it with a knife, drop it into a weak solution of potassium permanganate and plant it in the ground, determining where the root should appear, and in order not to be mistaken, it is better to lay the seed horizontally; of air.

It is necessary to wait for the emergence of seedlings, about a month, then the bag can be removed.

If you are unable to split the bone, you can not remove the seed. You need to soak it in a glass of water, regularly changing the water, about two weeks. And then put in the ground, again covered with a can. Transplant mango at home is possible when the sprout reaches 20 cm in length. The most important thing is to keep the ground dry.

Plant Care

To form a beautiful and branched crown, you will need to remove the top, for the development of side branches. It is necessary to replant, or rather, transfer to a larger pot, every six months.

Mango care at home is quite simple. Soil is recommended to choose on the basis of peat mixed with sand. It is necessary to use good drainage. To increase air circulation, it is recommended to add marble chips. The optimum planting depth is 2 cm. The growth of young trees is quite fast. Transplanting should be done after the roots are woven over with an earthen ball in a pot. Usually this procedure is carried out once a year, but it all depends on the individual characteristics of the plant. Mango likes abundant watering, especially in a period of rapid growth. Between irrigation, the soil should dry out, but it should not be dried out.

To stimulate the growth of the tree using various methods of feeding and care:

Fertilizers can be added to the water to promote faster plant growth. In winter, due to the increased dryness of the air, the leaves must be sprayed.
It is recommended to build a home-made greenhouse from a plastic bottle, polyethylene or glass jar. The temperature inside it should be about 25 degrees, it is also necessary to air the sprout from time to time. When he grows up, the greenhouse can be removed.
During the growth and development do not forget to make feeding. At home it is better to grow dwarf plants. They will be a wonderful decoration of your apartment and balcony in the summer.

After about 5 or 6 years, the mango will bloom with flowers of red or yellow, with proper care can grow fruits. You need to make sure that they do not appear, while the plant is still small, has not gained strength. In the first year of fruiting, only a few fruits are left.

This kind of fruit trees needs a lot of diffused light. The best option would be to make a seedling on the street (if possible). Sometimes from one stone several sprouts can ascend at once. This is a common occurrence and does not indicate a plant pathology.

First harvest

Home-grown trees are not analogous to mangoes, which are usually presented to people. Home-grown mangoes bear fruit only 6 years after planting, and the crop is usually quite modest. The fact is that most modern varieties are hybrids of different species and because of this can not give full-fledged offspring. Also, trees used in the food industry are grafted against various diseases and pests, in contrast to domestic specimens.

Mango is a tropical evergreen tree. Having thought about growing it in room conditions, you need to understand that you will have a large, fairly fast-growing plant that you need to provide with light and heat.

Mangoes are easy to grow from a large flat ovoid, extracted and fruit. Of course, the fruit must be taken mature. The choice of this fruit is hampered by the fact that the skin does not turn yellow or red, not all varieties, for some, it remains green when ripe. To extract the bone, take the fruit softer, slightly over-ripe, sometimes you can find a broken bone with a sprout looking out. Before planting, clean the bone from the pulp as much as possible, which is not so easy to do because of its fibrous surface. And yet you need to try to scrape the pulp with a knife, otherwise mold will appear after planting.

Use the stone should be immediately after removal from the fruit, dried or frostbitten do not germinate. The open bone can be immediately planted by placing the spine down, close to the ground surface.

If the bone is not disclosed, lower it into a glass of water at room temperature for 1-2 weeks (it must be changed every 2 days), and then land, once again brushing the swollen pulp on the surface. Another way is to let it swell in a wet towel, as we used to germinate pumpkin seeds or zucchini. It is impossible to prevent drying.

The soil for planting should be light, as for succulents, mixed with expanded clay or pebbles. The pot have a drain hole. From above, you need to organize a "greenhouse" of a trimmed plastic bottle. Unscrew the plug for ventilation.

Put the pot with a stone in a bright place and keep the soil moist. Especially important regular watering becomes after emergence, after 4-10 weeks. From one bone sometimes several shoots appear at once. At first they grow very slowly, then growth accelerates.

As soon as the seedlings are stronger, gradually acclimatize the plant, remove the "greenhouse", and transplant them into individual, more spacious, capacity, with fertile soil with the addition of marble chips. Mango is demanding on the humidity of the air, so the seedlings need to be periodically sprayed. When keeping plants, it is necessary to take into account that they love space and warmth, they absolutely cannot tolerate crampiness and coldness.

Plants bloom at the age of 6-10 years. In our climatic conditions, flowering usually does not happen not only in indoor conditions, but also in greenhouses. In the southern regions it is more real. But fructification even in southern latitudes on the windowsill is a very big rarity. The fact is, a huge number of flowers in the paniculate yellowish or reddish inflorescence (there may be up to 10,000), it is not pollinated even on plantations, and very few fruit form. On the windowsill, where conditions are far from those required by the culture, the probability is even lower.

Therefore, get ready for what you get just a beautiful tropical plant with lanceolate, slightly wavy at the edges, leathery leaves. Young leaves are usually painted in yellow-green or reddish tones, then become dark green on top, slightly lighter from the inside.

Mango is the most common tropical tree. This evergreen plant comes from Burma and eastern India, belongs to the Anacardia family. Tropical tree is one of the main national symbols of India and Pakistan.

The height of a tree trunk can reach 30 meters, and its crown in girth - up to 10 meters. The long dark green leaves of the mango have a lanceolate shape, and their width is no more than 5 cm. Young glossy leaves of a tropical plant are characterized by a red or yellow-green color.

The mango bloom period falls on February-March. Yellowish inflorescences are collected in pyramidal brooms. Panicle-inflorescences consist of several hundred flowers, and sometimes their number is measured by thousands. Their length can reach 40 cm. Mango flowers are predominantly male. The aroma of the opened flowers is almost identical to the smell of flowering lilies. Between the period of withering flowers and mango fruit ripening takes at least three months. In some cases, this process is delayed up to six months.

A tropical plant has long, durable stems that are capable of supporting the weight of mature fruits. Ripe mangoes can weigh up to 2 kilograms. The fruit has a smooth and thin peel, the color of which depends on the degree of maturity of the fruit. The color of the peel can be green, yellow and red, but on one fruit there is often a combination of all the colors listed. The state of its pulp (soft or fibrous) also depends on the degree of ripeness of the fruit. Inside the mango pulp there is a large hard bone.

In modern times, more than five hundred varieties of tropical fruit are known. According to some reports, there are up to 1000 varieties. All of them are different among themselves in shape, color, size, inflorescence and taste of the fruit. On industrial plantations, they prefer the cultivation of dwarf mangoes. It is recommended to grow them in the home.

The evergreen tropical tree comes from the Indian states. Often mangoes grow in tropical forests with high humidity. Nowadays, tropical fruit is grown in various points of the planet: Mexico, South America, USA, Philippines, Caribbean Islands, Kenya. Mango trees are also found in Australia and Thailand.

India is the main supplier of mango to foreign countries. About 10 million tons of tropical fruits are harvested on the plantations of this South Asian country. In Europe, Spain and the Canary Islands are considered the largest suppliers of mango.

Location, lighting, temperature

The location of the tropical tree in the house plays a key role in the proper development of the plant. If possible, the lightest and brightest place in the apartment should be allocated for mango placement.

An evergreen tree must be kept in a free pot, as its root system is growing rapidly. Mango likes to be in the sun. Lack of natural lighting often leads to plant diseases.

Mango is quite a heat-loving plant; for a plant, the optimum temperature at any time of the year ranges from 20-26 degrees.

The soil

The ground under the mango tree should be fairly loose. Do not forget to take care of good drainage!

Watering and humidity

Moderately moist land is the optimum soil for growing tropical trees. It is very important to minimize watering during the mango flowering. At the same time, attention should be paid to the state of the leaves - they will wilt without moisture. After removing the fruit irrigation regime becomes the same. The plant needs to gain new strength for further development. Moderately moist soil is especially important for young trees that do not tolerate existence in a dry substrate.

Mango does not like excessive moisture, but dry air can also harm it. Humidity in the room should be moderate.

Fertilizers and fertilizers

To form a beautiful branched crown, it is necessary to feed the plant in early spring. During the period of active growth of a tropical tree, organic fertilizers should be introduced into the soil (once every 2 weeks). Microfertilizers are used for additional plant nutrition, which is carried out no more than 3 times a year. In the autumn period mango does not need fertilizer. In order for the plant to develop properly, and to please its owners with healthy and tasty fruits, it is advisable to select for it a complete balanced fertilizer.

Previously, mangoes were propagated by seeds and grafts. Nowadays only the latest method of reproduction of a tropical plant has retained its relevance. This is due to the fact that vaccination gives a guaranteed result. Graft plants exclusively in the summer. For grafted trees, you can choose any soil, provided that the earth is light, loose and nutritious. Good drainage is also a must.

If the young grafted tree in a hurry to bloom and bear fruit, so you should remove the flower panicle after its absolute blooming. Mango blooming with all the ensuing consequences can be allowed only 1-2 years after vaccination.

It is noteworthy that the first harvest of mango will be minimal, and this is normal. The plant tries to protect itself from exhaustion, and allows you to get several large and tasty fruits. In the future, the number of mango fruits will increase.

How to grow mango from stone

By the way, mango is quite easy to grow from the stone. How exactly to sprout a mango tree bone - see an interesting video.

Diseases and pests

For mangoes, the greatest danger is and. Of the diseases most commonly found bacteriosis, anthracnose and.