At what size do I let my Mango Tree hold Fruit 🥭 🥭

[@GardenloveHomestead]

Great video Orlando! Wish i can grow mangos! I love them

[@OrlandoBackyardGardening]

Try one in a container… look for a Pickering Variety

[@MsFishingdog]

Great info. Thanks

[@user-su5du9ln8r]

Thanks for a great video. So, as I understand it, your decision is primarily based on the girth of the grafted trunk and the time since planted vice the height or the canopy size? Is this the same regardless of whether the plant is planted in the ground or in a container?

[@OrlandoBackyardGardening]

Same whether or not in ground or container.. tall height and big canopy with a thin trunk is not ideal for me… I would keep tipping off new growth while allowing for an increase in trunk size or just (pug )cut back down to a stump and restart the canopy

[@Namita.Makeup]

Very helpful video!! Thank you

[@OrlandoBackyardGardening]

Glad it was helpful!

[@LostandFoundFarms33952]

Great video, and great information!

[@themangovista]

👍 I can’t wait to eat some delicious Mangoes 🥭

[@OrlandoBackyardGardening]

Me too

[@djfireproof8716]

This was a great video. For those mango trees that you intend to not let fruit…would you allow the panicles to flower and bud so that the tree knows that it can produce fruit, or would you recommend snipping the panicles early on before they flower at those small width mango trees?

[@OrlandoBackyardGardening]

I let it go through the whole process… snipping off the panicle when fruitlets are pea size

[@geriannroth449]

​@@OrlandoBackyardGardeningexcellent answer

[@GurjitSingh-zd7tp]

Sir, what variety of mango you think is best for Arizona weather ?

[@OrlandoBackyardGardening]

I know people growing all varieties of mango in Arizona… the drier weather results in clean fruit. Your issues are with the extreme sun and heat at certain times of the year and extreme cold in the winter.Your Arizona buddies use shade cloth to protect your trees from the sun and cover in the winter… just be be prepared to do those things

[@nuroldemirbag2798]

Sir why do you have the blackpipe by the trunk. Whats the purpose.

[@garytrimble8033]

To prevent damage from weed eater.

[@OrlandoBackyardGardening]

Weed whacker protection…

[@greatergood3706]

I thought the rule of thumb 👍 was 2" diameter trunk 6" about soil line with a 4 × 4 ft canopy

[@greatergood3706]

Some have reported on the Tropical Fruit forum that they had severely stunted their trees, some never recovering from allowing fruiting on small trees.

[@greatergood3706]

I have a Julie with stout trunk but is only 3½ × 3½. I'll remove fruit if any develops, so from this time forward, I have an opportunity for fruit every year. Have a Dwarf Hawaiian with the same scenario.

[@greatergood3706]

Thank you for posting your video! 🎉

[@OrlandoBackyardGardening]

A 1 in wide across the trunk tree will have a 2 1/2 to 3 inch circumference .. I visually look at the width..

[@OrlandoBackyardGardening]

@@greatergood3706I did that too a Pickering… but after a couple of years of not letting it hold fruit and finally transferring back into a container I was able to get it too flush out and triple its size in one season. It is back in the ground and currently blooming.

[@weiss613]

This is an interesting entertaining video but it is 100% misinformation. This guy has his tree’s in the ground vs Orlando gardener has his in pots. This makes a big difference in the criteria of when to allow the trees to fruit. Judging when based on trunk diameter is plain dumb. If one buys and plants even a 25-50 gallon fruit tree according to this guy the diameter will be big enough to let it fruit as soon as it’s planted in the ground. This is not right. Do some research on your own and don’t listen to this sweet man. Time in ground is the criteria not size of trunk. Why time in ground? Just in 2 examples. 1) the Bible says all fruit trees must be in the ground for 3 years before you can eat the fruit and that prohibition even includes giving that fruit away to anyone and 2) this 3 year period of waiting is exactly what UF says about newly planted citrus trees. Think about it you plant a 2 incher and get fruit now the fruit sits on the ground and the tree bends over severely and now you are going to have to cut the branch off. If you trimmed the branch off at the beginning and weren’t excited like a big baby to grow your own mangoes and gave the tree the 3 full years to grow up big and strong and be deeply rooted at the end of the 3 years you would have had a big strong perfectly shaped tree even prepared to take on a tropical storm. Do it the other way and you have a tree with stunted growth above and below ground because all its energy went towards making fruit and not a big strong root system and a tall wide healthy canopy.