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Gary starts with ... Hi All, Need help re above as i am getting confusing advise. My mango tree is 11 years old and is about 5-6 metres tall - reasonably healthy. This year it has a good crop of fruits about 100-150 small to tiny fruits. How should i water and fertilise to assist the tree in developing those fruits. Someone said that I dont need to water and fertilise the soil as the fruits will split. Am quite confused now!! | About the Author Gary9 Sydney suburbs 1st December 2009 9:24am #UserID: 3058 Posts: 2 View All Gary9's Edible Fruit Trees |
Michael says... Hi Gary, I am also confused like you. I live in Sydney so our climate is similar. Last year my trees were full of fruits and listening to other people's advice I did not water the tree because they like to be on the dry side. Only 4 fruits survived to maturity from two trees. This year I also stop watering them and the fruits continue to fall off . Just a few weeks ago I started to deep water the trees. Meaning I left the hose on for 10 minutes soaking the ground .Since then my mangoes are staying on and are growing in size each day. They are about the size of a large lime at the moment and there are around 70 mangoes left on two trees. I will be happy just to get 20 mangoes from my two trees. Hope this helps | About the Author Michael Wakeley 1st December 2009 1:36pm #UserID: 1746 Posts: 178 View All Michael's Edible Fruit Trees |
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Wayne says... Mango trees do need more water when flowering and fruiting, it's just that they do not like continuous wet feet. Sorry if you got the wrong impression, I deep water my tree once a week in the dry season and don't worry about during the wet and it's fruiting fine, but if you need to do it more often that's fine. A lot depends on your soil to I guess | About the Author Wayne Mackay QLD 1st December 2009 2:58pm #UserID: 338 Posts: 908 View All Wayne's Edible Fruit Trees |
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| About the Author Gary9 Sydney suburbs 1st December 2009 11:39pm #UserID: 3058 Posts: 2 View All Gary9's Edible Fruit Trees |
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Biraj says... in winter ,during November December no water is given. when summer stats by the end of January i watered plants once in a week approximately 25 to 50 litres each. last year I gave twicw or thrice a week. there was much vegetative growth and less flowering. this year I added Ferrous sulphate 100 gms to each plant and sulphex dusting to prevent fungus on flowering. good tesult. fruits are growing in size as well as in number. | About the Author Biraj India dry zone 3rd March 2017 6:26pm #UserID: 15684 Posts: 1 View All Biraj's Edible Fruit Trees |
denise1 says... The healthiest small mango tree with crop I have seen, has been a tree with permanent trickle irrigation from a dribbling hose, though in great free draining soil. I have seen a big mango tree on a mound in the middle of a taro swamp. Trees in India go through the monsoon. The best you can do is just avoid wet foliage when you can, and open up the middle of the tree to prevent anthracnose which flourishes in cluttered foliage. Also keeping trees small to facilitate spraying, picking, pruning and fungus avoidance. A 5x5m spacing has been suggested. Many other trees such as avocados respond also to that spacing. | About the Author denise1 auckland NZ 5th March 2017 8:45pm #UserID: 6832 Posts: 688 View All denise1's Edible Fruit Trees |
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