Cleaning lady

[Mangilook]

I am interested in growing wild mango from highlands, does anyone know nurseries or locations where fruits/seeds available?

David

[whiterussian]

I didn't know about 'wild' mangoes... good luck

you need to ask here:

http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/Farming-Thailand-Forum-f104.html

or visit Tesco Kamtien garden/farm market on the super highway .. and ask there...

How to grow mango trees: history, grafting, cold weather, tree identification, growing tips, pictures">

The civilized grafted mango trees we have now are nothing like the ancient, wild trees whose small fruit tasted like turpentine and had the texture of nylon yarn. The old test of a mango fruit was it's stringiness, it's fiber content. You used to judge a mango by how much dental floss it had. The advent of the free exchange of scientific and agricultural data changed all that. Grafting began to be widely practiced.

Mango fruit from seeds is never the same as the mother tree's fruit. So the seed out of a great tasting fruit will likely produce a tree yielding horrible tasting fibrous fruit. The only certain way to be sure you'll have tasty fruit is to propagate (by grafting, and in some cases cloning) an existing particular, individual tree (DNA-wise) whose quality is proven.

The odds of a seed producing worthwhile fruit are very, very small. Like one in a hundred million.

All mango trees grown from any seed are properly called "Wild Mango Trees". These trees, at 2 foot tall no more, are suitable to graft to but are only worth about $.25 each. Don't sprout a mango seed unless you are able to finish the job by grafting onto it!

Edited June 12, 2010 by whiterussian

[Mangilook]

Thanks white russian, will post there.

[gotlost]

Wild Mangoes are toxic even the locals don't touch them.

[eek]

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