To water or Not to water a 10 year old mango tree (forum)

Gary starts with ...
Hi All,

Need help re above as i am getting confusing advise.

My mango tree is 11 years old and is about 5-6 metres tall - reasonably healthy. This year it has a good crop of fruits about 100-150 small to tiny fruits.

How should i water and fertilise to assist the tree in developing those fruits. Someone said that I dont need to water and fertilise the soil as the fruits will split.

Am quite confused now!!

Time: 1st December 2009 9:24am

Reply | LIKE this Answer(0) | LIKE this Question (0) | Report
About the Author Gary9
Sydney suburbs
#UserID: 3058
Posts: 2
View All Gary9's Edible Fruit Trees

Michael says...
Hi Gary,
I am also confused like you. I live in Sydney so our climate is similar. Last year my trees were full of fruits and listening to other people's advice I did not water the tree because they like to be on the dry side. Only 4 fruits survived to maturity from two trees. This year I also stop watering them and the fruits continue to fall off . Just a few weeks ago I started to deep water the trees. Meaning I left the hose on for 10 minutes soaking the ground .Since then my mangoes are staying on and are growing in size each day. They are about the size of a large lime at the moment and there are around 70 mangoes left on two trees. I will be happy just to get 20 mangoes from my two trees.
Hope this helps

Time: 1st December 2009 1:36pm

Reply | LIKE this Answer(0) | LIKE this Question (0) | Report

About the Author Michael
Wakeley
#UserID: 1746
Posts: 178
View All Michael's Edible Fruit Trees

Wayne says...
Mango trees do need more water when flowering and fruiting, it's just that they do not like continuous wet feet. Sorry if you got the wrong impression, I deep water my tree once a week in the dry season and don't worry about during the wet and it's fruiting fine, but if you need to do it more often that's fine. A lot depends on your soil to I guess

Time: 1st December 2009 2:58pm

Reply | LIKE this Answer(0) | LIKE this Question (0) | Report
Original Post was last edited: 1st December 2009 3:14pm

About the Author Wayne
Mackay QLD
#UserID: 338
Posts: 908
View All Wayne's Edible Fruit Trees

Gary says...
Thanks Michael and Thanks Wayne

Because of the high winds today - I lost quite a bit of small fruit :-(

I will take up your advise and deep water the plant twice a week - depending on rain conditions, etc.

Thanks

Time: 1st December 2009 11:39pm

Reply | LIKE this Answer(0) | LIKE this Question (0) | Report
About the Author Gary9
Sydney suburbs
#UserID: 3058
Posts: 2
View All Gary9's Edible Fruit Trees

Biraj says...
in winter ,during November December no water is given. when summer stats by the end of January i watered plants once in a week approximately 25 to 50 litres each. last year I gave twicw or thrice a week. there was much vegetative growth and less flowering. this year I added Ferrous sulphate 100 gms to each plant and sulphex dusting to prevent fungus on flowering. good tesult. fruits are growing in size as well as in number.

Time: 3rd March 2017 6:26pm

Reply | LIKE this Answer(0) | LIKE this Question (0) | Report
About the Author Biraj
India dry zone
#UserID: 15684
Posts: 1
View All Biraj's Edible Fruit Trees

denise1 says...
The healthiest small mango tree with crop I have seen, has been a tree with permanent trickle irrigation from a dribbling hose, though in great free draining soil. I have seen a big mango tree on a mound in the middle of a taro swamp. Trees in India go through the monsoon. The best you can do is just avoid wet foliage when you can, and open up the middle of the tree to prevent anthracnose which flourishes in cluttered foliage. Also keeping trees small to facilitate spraying, picking, pruning and fungus avoidance. A 5x5m spacing has been suggested. Many other trees such as avocados respond also to that spacing.

Time: 5th March 2017 8:45pm

Reply | LIKE this Answer(0) | LIKE this Question (0) | Report
Original Post was last edited: 5th March 2017 8:47pm
About the Author denise1
auckland NZ
#UserID: 6832
Posts: 688
View All denise1's Edible Fruit Trees