Mango Tree - Stop Fruiting

Dean100 starts with ...
I have just moved house and we have a massive mango tree in the back yard. We have been there for one week and in that week picked up 460KG of mangoes off the ground took them to the dump.

We like the shade but not the smell, fruit flies, bats at night and picking up 50+ mangoes EVERY DAY. The council wont take the mangoes in the bin because they are to heavy and we cant cut it down because its protected.

How can i stop a mango tree from getting mangoes!!!

sternus1 says...
Are you positive the mango tree is protected? I think somebody might be telling you porky pies. Mangifera are not a protected species and unless it's own crown land there is no other caveat that I'm aware of that would forbid you from removing it unless stipulated as a condition of sale in your contract which I would find exceedingly unlikely.

sternus1 says...
There's actually a way around this Bruce. You are legally permitted to engage in tactics of... Dispersing, fruit bat colonies if you can establish a loss of equity or income as a result of their presence. That's one way. Another is to cite risk and put local council in a position whereby them doing nothing violates their own health and safety codes. Considering that ablv is pretty much rabies, this constitutes a severe risk indeed. This is how my landlord and I beat them.

I used the councils own data; the smarmy green moron I had to deal with told me that I didn't have to worry about ablv because it's only present in 3% of any given colony. I told her she must be mathematically Illiterate if she genuinely believed that living 3 metres from a colony of several thousand bats with a 3 % infection didn't constitute risk. I got up at 4am and filmed the bats returning and gathered evidence from my neighbours which entailed of dozens of photographs of laundry smeared with guano and in one case, sputum. I sent them what I had and they folded.

When the dust settled, I called the green Moron again just to rub shit in her face. It was glorious.

Really all you have to do is claim that you let a room or whatever and that you cannot Aquire or hold on to tenants owing to the noise, smell and risk of disease presented by the bats. It has to be all stick though-- you have to be willing to go to court if necessary, in my case this didn't happen because council basically knew they were boned.That's if you own the property. Refer to option b above if the colony is on crown land and infringes on your property.

Waterfall says...
Fruit needs to be around pea size then cut off. If you just cut the flowers off there is a good chance it will re-flower.

echinopora says...
We have a tree protection order in the tweed shire as well. I don't know how your council is but usually Laurels and Mangoes will be approved for removal, especially if you say you want to plant a native in it's place. You have nothing to lose by applying, and state on the form you want to plant a more suitable native like a tuckeroo. Councils will often have their own nurseries, I know you can get native trees for a very good price through the tweed shire nursery.