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chillilover starts with ... Can someone advise me what size pot to use. I am getting an established mango plants about 3m high. It was planted into the ground and is currently flowering. The person i am getting it from wants it dug and sold asap. Anyhow i was wondering what size pot should i get for a plant as such. How to trim the roots to fit the pot. I have a 50cm pot with 40cm depth. Is that good enough. Should i cut all the flowers back. Anymore advise welcome. | About the Author Chillilower sydney 6th December 2011 8:31pm #UserID: 6128 Posts: 123 View All Chillilower's Edible Fruit Trees |
John Mc says... Not the best situation in all your aspects raised. Mango trees do transplant well though. Mine was around 3.5m tall but I was lucky, there was an excavator nearby to dig it out and there was no way it was going into any pot of any size. It wen't into a hole 3m x 3m and then I had to trim the roots back severely. You've missed the boat as to timing of the moved as well. August in my opinion is the best time to move a mango tree in Sydney. Anyway, if it has to go asap and you're not paying too much for it it's worth a try. You can get very large woven poly bags off ebay cheaply. There's a large range that go up to 1,000 litres that I know of. The pot you have is, in my opinion, far too small for the job. And yes, remove all the flowers. | About the Author JohnMc1 Warnervale NSW 7th December 2011 10:24am #UserID: 2743 Posts: 2043 View All JohnMc1's Edible Fruit Trees |
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BJ says... 80cm pot would be better than 50cm. Maybe even a garbage bin. An old guy up the street grows mango trees to 3m in them. Or those big tree bags. Either way, sounds like you'll do a fair bit of damage to the tree when uprooting it - try to dig wide and get as many of the surface roots as possible. It should have a fairly deep tap root and you will almost certainly break it - which will knock the plant back - but it is not nessicary for plants in pots. Depending on the amount of damage to the surface roots, it should bounce back - maybe. | About the Author Theposterformerlyknownas Brisbane 7th December 2011 11:10am #UserID: 3270 Posts: 1552 View All Theposterformerlyknownas's Edible Fruit Trees |
BJ says... Hi, the *&%#$ kids down the street ripped my mango out of the ground (this is the third time they've done it - I don't understand their mentality). Anyway - it was a very hot day when the mango was ripped out so its leaves are all crispy. I've soaked it in seasol solution for 48 hours, and potted it in good potting mix to recover. Should I cut it right back (I think it will loose its leaves), is there any more I can do for it. So disappointing, it had grown over 50cm this year as it recovered from their last destructive activities. If anyone has any ideas about how to prevent reoccurance I'd like to know that too (Kei apples in a ring around it maybe?) | About the Author BJ11 7th December 2011 3:29pm #UserID: 3414 Posts: 215 View All BJ11's Edible Fruit Trees |
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