Questions about growing a mango tree.

maksydney

11 years ago

I live in Mt Druitt Sydney.

I own my own house.

The garden already has an orange tree which one of the previous owners of the house planted.

I have never grown a fruit tree before.

I want to grow my own mango tree and hopefully get some fruit in a few years.

Which is easier to grow R2E2 or Kensington Pride?

Is it easy enough to grow from a seed from a store bought mango or should I buy a mango seedling?

Do I need to buy insecticide to protect it from insects?

If you can give me any more information on growing a mango tree in a home garden I will be grateful.

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alisonoz_gw
11 years ago
I hope you receive some local input, but these forums are a little slow now.
Mango is more of a warm climate crop - doing better in sub-tropical or tropical areas. They are certainly a nice shade-tree but as such could take up a lot of yard for small return in fruit, in more southern climes.
Mango is very easy to grow from seed of purchased fruit. Seed-grown trees may be more vigorous, but are potentially "duds". That is, they may produce a little or a lot, and the quality of the fruit may be anything from good to terrible (even if they grow "true").
So, if you were going to devote the space, I would go for a grafted tree every time.
RsE2 can't be relied on from seed anyway.
But really, given they won't exactly excel in Sydney's climate, why not just give in and buy the fruit when there's an excellent Qld glut, as we all do.
There are some good fruit trees more suited to temperate climates and with grafting, getting even more manageable to find room.
Also with mangos yes you may have some diseases to cope with but up here it's fruit bats (flying foxes) and you might even find birds damaging your nearly-ripe fruit.
I know I am further north (near Bris), but I'm now growing some dwarf avocados (yet to flower but going great) but my dwarf mulberries and figs have already fruited.
As you are already growing one citrus, there are now super multi-grafted varieties, but a lime is always useful and grapefruit/tangellos are super bearing trees and don't take too long once established.
Go look at sites like Daleys fruit (no financial interest) for ideas
Don't want to put you off, but I think you could make better use of space and time than a mango.
If you want to persevere then check out a few more websites like DPI for NSW
http://www.dpi.nsw.gov.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/0006/119787/mango-growing.pdf
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