Mango grown from seed

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  1. liliana

    liliana Total Gardener

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    I have skinned and chopped 2 mangoes for tea time, and it seems a shame to throw away the seeds.

    Therefore any ideas how/what I should do to get them to sprout?:spinning:
     
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    Hi Liliana
    get a knife a very carefull try to open the seed shell from the bottom and get the seed out.

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    then get the seed in a paper kitchen tissue , get it wet and place it in a plast food bag , the one you use for sandwich , put in the propagator untill germinate .
    then just plant .
    it funny but eventually will die.......the only one still alive is the honey mango from pakistan
     
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    My honey mango stones just get chucked in the compost heap where they germinate without any messing about.
    They were still germinating in there in January!
    The honey mango is quite unusual in as much as they are poly embryonic.
     
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    Found it - Marley did a thread on this very thing which can be found here.

    Interestingly, he says that they need light to germinate, but mine are in the dark in the heap or the bin. :dunno:
     
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    This is my honey mango the only one who ever survived

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      We used to grow mangoes and they germinate quite easily. We never bothered to split them first and had a very good germination rate from the ones we bought for eating.

      Although we have had them last for up to five years they never flowered or bore fruit.

      The variety that we call honey mango is actually an Alphonso (Alfonso) and was produced for Afonso de Albuquerque in Goa about 500 years ago. It was a grafted mango. Absolutely superb taste and a heady scent. :dbgrtmb:
       
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      Thank you for all your advice, I will keep you updated.;)
       
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