mango help (forum)

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Can anyone help me with my Alison variety dwarf mango sapling?I removed flowers in hope of more leaves,but not so.There are small red stems doing nothing and it seems dormant.It is 2 yrs.tiny spiders are also there.It's 1 and a half mtrs.
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Time: 4th November 2011 8:33pm

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Wazza McG says...
To be honest, I don't see anything wrong. You might be a tad impatient? - don't expect dwarfs of anything to grow at similar rates to normal plants.

New branches/leaves will form at the base of the flower. If you a giving a good soak once a week and regular feed of liquid fertiliser eg seasol you will be on the right track.


Time: 5th November 2011 8:31pm

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David says...
Maggie, they are flowering because there has been a flowering stimulus, and the way I understand it is that if you remove the flowers while the stimulus is still present then you may just get more flowers. I understand that if you wait until the fruit forms on the flower and gets to around pea size before you remove the panicle then the plant thinks it has fruited and gets on with making leaves rather than flowers. I have heard a few people say their mangoes just want to keep flowering this season, so I wouldn't worry about it.

Time: 10th November 2011 1:16am

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maggie says...
Thanks David.Now there is a peasized fruit.Is this a panicle? As you can see this is my first mango.I would so appreciate any more tips you may have.Leaves are hanging vertically.

Time: 15th November 2011 11:24pm

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maggie says...
thanks Wazza.i have been worrying for nothing.New leaves have formed on the lower trunk.and 2 new stems with many flowers.I wont touch this lot.It's great having this forum,isn't it?

Time: 15th November 2011 11:36pm

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David says...
Maggie, the whole flowering branch is the panicle. It holds hundreds of flowers, and only a tiny percentage of these turn into fruit. Depending on how effective pollination is there will be a lot of very small fruit form, a lot of which will fall off by pea size and again by cherry size. You probably end up with one fruit per panicle, but some varieties are known for bunch bearing. Once the new flush of leaves comes they will first be a brown / red colour and floppy, then as they mature the will turn green and become rigid. A light application of a flowers & fruit type of fertalizer will help it along if you are not already fertalizing.

Time: 16th November 2011 1:46am

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Smita says...
Hi Mate,

I have a farmhouse having 160 plants of mango which is having 10 year old and nowdays the trees got flowring and due to environmental condition like (raining in last week) the flowering turns into black mode .Some of the flowering turned black . I am very serious about this problem what to do here??? How to get rid from this problwm .Will you please share your thoughts , in this condition which spray should i want to go for .Is Mancozeb gives me a proper result .Please guide


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Smita

Time: 4th December 2011 1:17am

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