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Here's our first ripe mango of the season these are from one of my Glenn mango trees and are rather big (Glenn mangoes aren't usually this big). The Glenn mango is a great eating variety and importantly it's one of the best disease resistant mango trees you can grow.
Mango trees are easy to grow and they grow well in all types of soil (even heavy) but it's the fruiting that can be challenging because of diseases (mainly anthracnose - fruit not setting or black spot) and animals getting to the fruit first!
I don't spray my mango trees with pesticides or fungicides so good mango tree management is important and it starts with tree selection, pruning, and fruit protection. I've mastered none of these but we are still managing to get some good crops and over the past few years I've planted some excellent varieties which are cropping already so the future is looking up.
We have about 10 trees and the plan is to keep them at a manageable size so the fruit can be netted and trees easily maintained. We do have one large Bowen mango tree and the fruit is terrific eating when it actually sets fruit but unfortunately that isn't very often... Some heavy pruning last year has helped with cropping this season.
At my place we have to compete with possums and flying foxes for our fruit and I'm trialing different ways to protect our mangoes ATM - making some progress... I hope
Economically, the trees pay for themselves once they produce about 10 fruit @ $2.50 - $3.50 each mango so it's well worth the investment IMO.
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Mango trees are easy to grow and they grow well in all types of soil (even heavy) but it's the fruiting that can be challenging because of diseases (mainly anthracnose - fruit not setting or black spot) and animals getting to the fruit first!
I don't spray my mango trees with pesticides or fungicides so good mango tree management is important and it starts with tree selection, pruning, and fruit protection. I've mastered none of these but we are still managing to get some good crops and over the past few years I've planted some excellent varieties which are cropping already so the future is looking up.
We have about 10 trees and the plan is to keep them at a manageable size so the fruit can be netted and trees easily maintained. We do have one large Bowen mango tree and the fruit is terrific eating when it actually sets fruit but unfortunately that isn't very often... Some heavy pruning last year has helped with cropping this season.
At my place we have to compete with possums and flying foxes for our fruit and I'm trialing different ways to protect our mangoes ATM - making some progress... I hope
Economically, the trees pay for themselves once they produce about 10 fruit @ $2.50 - $3.50 each mango so it's well worth the investment IMO.
[photo]147[/photo]
[photo]146[/photo]