Mango and Papaya

Hi Guys , as the new growing season will soon start , das anyone had some success with growing mango or papaya? but I mean grow them to a decent size!!!
so far I`ve tryed for the last 3 years , always manage to grow them to a foot and usually by December they all die .

 

Hi Shiney , thank you for the information , may I ask you , how did you overwintered and when did you start to grow the seed?
Mango and Papaya are very easy to germinate , I`ve tryed to owerwinter both on the window chill and soon as December arrive they die down.
I heard that mango can produce fruit even on a small 3 years old tree , but if after 6 years you didn`t get anything , I don`t really know if I want to try again.
About the papaya , same story except that it look really tropical and will worth growing one just for the look.
For who is reading this threat 2 years ago I`ve started a small pip garden.
so far.
so far I`ve managed.

lemon.
lime
mandarin
guava
avocado (apparently somebody managed to grow outside in uk)
laquet (took -14 no frost damage)
pomegranate (took -14 no frost damage but very slow grower 4" in 2 years)
kiwi (took -14 no frost damage)
dragon fruit
opuntia
date palm
fig
passion fruit
lemon grass (a must try for tropical border)
cassava
addos
yam yam
sugar cane (only grown 3 feet in a season)
turmeric (a must try)
goji berry
pineapple

Failed
papaya (die in winter)
ginger (keep die in winter)
acai (keep die in winter)
mango (keep die in winter)
rumbutan (keep die in winter)
melon (short season)
liches (die in winter)
turmerick (die back in winter)


avocado tree in west London

 

I grew a papaya for about three years.
By then it was far too big to overwinter anymore.

Being tropical I guess they dont like the dark winter days.
Had mine in the conservatory for the winter with good light and daytime minimum of around 20C.

 

Thank you Pete
I was just thinking that the main proplem is the light , with the price of electricity going to the roof i really don`t think i can manage to keep my green house so worm just for them .
two more out of my list even if I seen some mountain papaya on some seeds catalogue.....that`s the problem with tropical sunshine lover plants ....the only plants that we can grow over here with no light problem are all the shadow tropical lover.
I `m really surprice about my pinapple and dragon fruit , but one is a bromeliad and the other a jungle cactus , who grow well in the forest and loves rain.

 

avo are easy to get going ....

take an avo pip .... stick 4 toothpicks into the pip halfway down (in the centre)

place in a glass of water with the bottom half of the pip imersed in water

within a few weeks, you will have an avo plant

Grew up in zambia (northern Rhodesia) .... we had a massive one in our front garden .... was a nightmare, as the ripe avos used to fall off and dent the car

 

Lol.... I don`t thing that falling avocado will be a problem in UK....
they need 10 years before able to produce fruit and I still think they will not produce any fruit....plus not a great tropical look tree , look like a pear tree ...my point is will it really worth growing one?
It would be interesting to know other peoples experince with pips growing.
I would love to have a go with .

cardamon
grape
olives
few more pinapple
platano (apparently they have seeds)
jack fruit
durian.

 

Interesting what you find when you search for “mango”

I have just shucked three seeds from their husks, and am about to try to grow them. Well, why not? We have date palms that have been growing now for 3 years, and are finally starting to grow palmate-type leaves. A 2 year old avocado plant that is about a metre tall, and quite happy (the second one is covered with scale insects, so is in isolation) we have a lemon tree that’s producing 8-10 large lemons each year.

Watch this space!

 

This is our 12 years old avocado, it grew to the ceiling at around 6 years old and is now pruned quite heavily every spring. Our Degus love to gnaw the branches. Sadly, it's now turning deciduous in the darkest winter so may have to be replaced with something else.



Mango has always germinated well but they tend to die young. I'll have to try again though, as well as papaya. The famous have-seeds-must-plant- syndrome

 

Less than 4 weeks later, and I have 3 mango plants!

Two came up within a day of each other (after 14 days or so), the third a week later...



Second shot with my hand folding the leaf, showing how soft it is.

I am wondering what to do - the plants would benefit from being in their own pots, but with leaves and stem so soft, handling them will be difficult. Should I try to separate, or keep together until the plants firm up a little? What do you reckon, @Selleri ?

 

No idea Selleri but well done

I will follow this thread for advice too

 

I've never tried a mango, but got a couple of papayas.


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