How to Grow a Mango from a Seed at Home: Even Amateurs Can Handle It
Mango is a beautiful plant that produces tasty and healthy fruits.
It is doubly pleasant to eat mango grown on your own windowsill.
This plant will definitely decorate the interior. The tree will grow up to 1.5 m and will attract many admiring glances.
But an ungrafted plant will not bear fruit. Therefore, lovers of "green pets" primarily plant mango for a small experiment and to get a beautiful tree.
You can grow a mango from the seed of a ripe fruit. It needs to be washed thoroughly and then opened with a knife, like a clam shell.
Before further manipulations, it is better to soak the bone in a weak solution of potassium permanganate. After processing, the planting material is wrapped in damp gauze.
In a couple of weeks, sprouts will appear. For mango, choose a tall, spacious pot with drainage holes and a tray.
Mango prefers loose and nutritious soil. A small hole is made in the soil, into which the seed is placed with the root down.
In order for the tree to produce its first harvest, which in natural conditions occurs approximately 10 years after planting, a graft from a fruit-bearing plant is required. You can do this yourself.
1. Using a sterile and sharp knife, cut a bud from a fruit-bearing tree along with the heel.
2. Make a cross-shaped cut on the seedling right at the root collar.
3. Place the cut bud into the incision and then secure the graft tightly with soft tape.
A grapefruit seedling is suitable as a rootstock for mango. The plant is hardy and rarely gets sick. In order for the graft to take root, the seedling must be fed with nitrogen-containing complexes.
You can take a simpler route - buy a mango seedling in a botanical garden or nursery.
