Growing Mangos in Areas with Occasional Freezes
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 12 ก.ย. 2024
- We traveled to Lynn's house in Orlando, Florida to talk growing mangos! Since 2002, Lynn has had a mango tree. His discusses the challenges of growing a tropical fruit tree outside of the tropics in an area that has occasional freezes. Included are discussions of pests, fertilizers, bloom, fruit production and more!
For more information about the 'Glenn' Mango (the mango variety that Lynn grows), check out our 'Glenn' Mango Video!
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Delightful video & enjoyed the feedback as well.
thank you for the video, i lost a 6yr old maha chanok mango tree last winter due to freeze in the kissimmee area. loosing that established mango tree still haunts me up to this day. i realy love the growth habbits, looks and fruit from Maha. Lesson learned, covering ur tree might take an Hour, but its better than loosing 6years of beautiful tree.
Live and learn...sorry you lost a tree.
👍's up from the Orlando Gardener
thanks!
More videos with Lynn! And an update Scott's yard. I want to see how it looks in a year or so. Cheers!
I also have a Glenn Mango tree in Central Florida. Only I live on the East Coast in Brevard County. The freeze you reference in this video also wreaked havoc with my mango trees. Both of my Glenn's experienced die back, one of my Alphonso mango's died, and my mamey sapote was ruthlessly ravaged by the freezing temps. I managed to save it but I had to sacrifice half of the canopy to do it. The spring after that cold snap I transplanted all those tropical trees to the side of my house where the southwest facing wall can be heated up by the setting winter sun. The idea is the concrete wall can radiate that heat back out a night and keep the air surrounding these trees just above freezing. Time will tell if it was a good move or not but I can tell you that during the transplant I almost lost the smaller of the two Glenn mango trees. Luckily thought she survived and is thriving now thanks to quick action on my part.
Thank you so much for sharing your experiences with freezing temperatures and how you treated your plants. The viewers are always interested in what other climates tropical fruit trees can successfully grow and fruit.
Same story here in south brevard lol digging up and moving soursop sugar apples and mangoes wind also has big effect for me when the fronts come in it comes from north west so anything to help block that also helps on another note cold snap made glo peaches ,plum,mullberry,and citrus come in amazing
This video hit close to my heart. I moved to Orlando 2.5 years ago from Miami for a new job. I was going to cry thinking no more mangoes for me. As soon as I moved into my house, I planted a Glenn mango. Almost the same size as his when he planted. I’ve been babying it and it’s full of flowers and very healthy right now. I know since it’s small I should cut the flowers off but I just can’t with the hopes I can get 1 mango. Hopefully mine can get as big and beautiful as his tree. Now I planted a baby PPK 20ft. away and will look for one more. Just don’t know what type. Maybe Kent or Carrie. It’s a little hard to find specific mango varieties here. Thanks for this wonderful video and it helps give me hope.
Excellent video and beautiful story and wonderful tree. Blessing to you and yours.
Thanks for all the input.
Thank you for your Mango update. I enjoyed your posting of one of my favorite fruits. Florida grown Mango.
you keep giving us more excellent videos 😊
Thanks
Much appreciated. I'm growing two on Phoenix and we can get a few weeks in the danger zone. I have reptile heat lamps hooked to a greenhouse thermostat I got from Northern Tool, and plastic sheeting. We'll see if it works.
Good luck! Let us know how it goes!
This is inspiring. I’m moving to New Orleans zone 9b and everyone says it is not possible to grow mango there, but I’ve seen many people in North/central FL, Phoenix, and Northern California grow mango. All zone 9. How is it that they can survive Northern California but not New Orleans?? I’m still going to try and really hoping I can prove them wrong.
Ayyyy! I'm in South Mississippi and the nursery right here grows several varieties of fruit bearing plants, to include mangos. I'm currently trying my own but at the moment it is only a sprout (30 days in soil). Because it's winter I plan on moving the plant in and out during cold weather but so far I've only had to once as the winters here aren't too bad.
I hope you prove them wrong.
This Lynn dude ROCKS!
Thanks for all the positive comments!
You are welcome!
Great video. and thanks for all the information.
Glad it was helpful!
Wow last years flowering. Great job. Hi from fiji. We mostly have wild mangoes. Very envious of the varieties in the usa
GREAT information, thanks!
This is awesome...zone 9b? Just wow. Start planting people ;)
What's crazier is that a good amount of gardeners have mango and papaya plants in large parts of Arizona and Southern Nevada, a hot dry place with extreme heat (120° F +) and cold (20°F). Look up Jake Mace, Sheamus O' Leary and greenies garden.
Good tip about the plastic sheeting
I really enjoyed your video. I live in north Florida and Im sad to know a mango tree wouldn’t make it here. 😥😥
Unless you live on the north eastern part of Florida like Jacksonville. That’s a zone 9a over there. Anything in zone 8 and lower 🥶❄️
Great video thanks! I’m in Lakeland zone 9b and am hoping with frost cloth to be able to grow all 6 varieties I have planted (NDM, Carrie, Glenn, Pineapple Pleasure, Orange Sherbet, Lemon Meringue). I’m not sure if any of those are more cold sensitive than other varieties so I have my fingers crossed.
Last year everyone's tree got hit hard with the freeze. The freeze almost killed my keitt and glenn was damaged pretty good too.
I have a 10' 7 year old Mango in the SF bay area. Cut nearly to the ground in 2012 its comeback and given some fruit the last three years. We DO NOT get the type of growth you get. It would take all summer to recover here. Its a Manila.
Stan TheObserver just noticed you are fro my neck of the woods! Like I mentioned before I'm growing a Glenn mango about 5ft tall.
Glenn is good for the bay area. Manila,Baileys Marvel,Valencia Pride. A good MANGO for us GG,Is a fast growing type. No point getting a slow grower that wants tropically hot summers. Like Tony told you..it DOES HELP to amend the planting hole. I like to use lots pf perlite..gives the tree fast drainage and perlite doesn't sink away deep like gravels will.
Have you checked out the "Northern California Mango" in Fremont vid? Dang,that tree is unreal at 5 years in ground its 2 storys already.
Stan TheObserver Yes, I have seen the video from greengardenguy's channel. Plus, I have visited that mango tree off of Bruce st. Fremont. It's proof that with some TLC it can be grown here. I have a 4ft Kohala Longan tree, Strawberry tree aka Muntingia calabura tree, 3ft tall Jaboticaba Sabra, figs galore, 5ft cherimoya w/Atemoya African pride grafts done recently. Pakistan mulberry 3-4ft, espalier apple & pear. Black surinam cherry 3-4ft, 5ft cherry of the Rio grande, guavas, 3gallon pitangatuba, grumichama 1gallon & seedling pitomba. Everything is in its infancy.
Stan TheObserver I have my mango tree in a 15gal with citrus/cactus mix , lots of worm castings, sand & slow release granular osomocote. Give it fish emulsion/kelp liquid fertilizer every 2weeks. Starting to flush new growth. The trunk is brown no longer green.
I see Cherimoya all over Hayward. Dragon fruit thrive also. Bizmarckia palms..its different from decades ago thats for sure. Btw- Google that Bruce st. tree and watch it go from stick to tree in 4 years on the maps time display. That's because..its in all sun all day. Mine? Mostly sun,but gets cut off by 5pm. Best I can do. When it gets to 20'? THEN it will get all day sun-lol. Soon,I'm sure.
Im in brevard and lost 4 varieties this year to freeze but my glenn looks great . Within a week or so i can see small dust spots were boring pests are eating that lets me know what is not going to grow back
amazing !it wont work for us because our summers don't get above 75 most of the summerperhaps its your hot summers that make the difference even though the 30s are the same
Chris, what is a better mango. The Zill or Irwin?
Thank you.
Why are you only considering those two varieties?
Actually, I have most all the top tier mango trees already. From Carrie, Sweet Tart, Glenn, Venus, etc. I have maybe 20 different varieties. Mostly 3 gallon, but a few 7 gallons.. I'm trying to narrow down my last few. I learned from your video on Zill it's small and has a hint of pineapple. I heard Irwin is good, but some same not top tier and kind of bland. Sounds like Tommy Atkins with no fiber? I don't know. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks!
The Zill mango is small, but the tree is big. I've grafted over half of our Zill tree to another variety because the variety isn't that strong.
Could you look at our list of mangos that we grow and tell me which ones might be of interest to you?
There's a video with the varieties that we grow, but it's probably easiest to look at the list (with pictures!) at TheMangoPlace.com
Also, what characteristics are important to you? Tree Size? Texture? Flavor? Season? (etc)
Thanks for the info. I like firm, tasty mangos. I don't care for the ones that are are too soft and messy. Soft is ok, but not like jelly like mess with some. Something with a bite to it.
Other varieties I might interested in are that I don't have is Sunrise, Beverly, Angie, Bombay, Jakarta, Van Dyke, and Rosigold, and Ice Cream. Firm, juicy mangoes that have good production is what I'm looking for.
When young mango trees starts to branch ?
It would be great to get a follow up on this tree
Good idea!
Do you think it can grow in Boston
Chris, I recently purchased a Glenn Mango in a 7gallon. I live in NorCal (sf bayarea zone 10a) and figured a 7 gallon would give me the absolute best chance of success! Any suggestions??
I'm in Northern, CA zone 10a as well. I bought a 3 gallon Glenn and planted it in the ground 4 years ago. It's doing fine with zero protection year after year.
Also, I use mostly cactus soil mixed with potting soil. Maybe 60/40. Mango trees love it!
I'm a little worried about planting it in the ground with this cold snap we are experiencing. Any suggestions?
Yes, wait until the end of March until you plant it in good, well draining soil is important. The tree takes off so much faster when you do. Dig a large whole and use cactus soil, good potting soil, and sand if you have some. Used coffee grounds are good as well to feed the tree. I use egg shells as well. Also I would plant it in the ground facing the west or south facing fence. Your Glenn will do really well once the roots take off. The tree will explode with new growth and do very well.
Also, besides Glenn? Bailey's Marvel, CAC, Edward, Chaunsa, Langra, and Valencia Pride are the most cold hardy mango trees.
I live in New port Richey and was able to keep my trees from freezing. My rosigold has fruit set.
Yay!
Those gas ripened mangos in the grocery store taste like crap. Especially if they're fibrous too! And lots of flies on a mango is a good thing, because they're pollinating it.
The wife saw you pull that leaf off the tree and she is restraining from slapping you upside your head
can I ask how low your temps go every year ?we have 30's about 14 days a year
Generally 4-8 days in the 30s, but not of long duration. Warms to 50s most of these days.
they love summer heat
This dude tells you the entire story lol
Too much info that not needed! Sorry dude just get to the point so we can trim and go!