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How to Grow Mangos

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After eating a mango, instead of throwing away the seed, try planting it to make a beautiful, fruitful houseplant or replant it outside to grow a fruitful mango tree in your yard. The following steps will show you how to grow mangos from a regular mango seed.

Difficulty: Moderate
Instructions

Things You'll Need:

  1. Step 1

    Purchase a very ripe mango and eat it.

  2. Step 2

    Scrape off the extra fruit from the husk in the middle of the mango, which holds the seed.

  3. Step 3

    Pry open the husk very carefully with a butter knife. This is difficult and will require patience and a little elbow grease.

  4. Step 4

    Find the dried seed inside the husk that is shaped like a huge lima bean with a light-colored area on the top of it (called the eye). Remove the seed from the husk.

  5. Step 5

    Use a medium-sized pot with drainage holes for your seed and fill the pot with a good quality potting soil.

  6. Step 6

    Dampen the soil and place the seed with its eye up. Cover the seed with about half an inch of the soil. Let the seed germinate for a few weeks.

  7. Step 7

    Water the soil with lukewarm water when the surface starts to feel dry, which will be in a few days after planting. Water the soil whenever it starts to look dry.

Tips & Warnings
  • Mango trees grow smaller in pots. It is possible that a mango houseplant may never produce fruit. If you live in a warm environment all year, you will have to replant your tree outside once you've got a good sized plant to get the best results.
  • Feed your mango tree once a week with liquid plant food that you would use for tomato plants.
  • Mango trees will not grow well outside in cold environments. If you live in a climate that gets cold, you'll have to leave your mango tree indoors.
  • Be careful not to damage the bean-shaped seed when prying off the husk. It is difficult to pry the husk off the seed, so be patient.

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