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growing fuerteventura mangoes

Growing Mangoes on Fuerteventura
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I buy mangoes from Fran and Chemi from time to time when the price is reasonable, less than 3€ a kilo, one to eat fresh and the rest for making chutney. I refuse to pay the 5/6/7€ that Mercadona charge. When i was in our local bar a week ago a Majorero came in offering his home grown mangoes for 2€ a kilo, well I couldn't resist! And they were the best mangoes I'd ever tasted, maybe because they hadn't been chilled? So a few batches of chutney later I was left with a pile of stones/seeds and thought I'd give it a try at growing them myself as this was obviously a variety that liked growing here. I had no idea how to start but a few YouTubes later I was ready to go. However the videos also warned that the variety probably wouldn't come true, for that I would need grafted rootstock. I was hooked on the idea though so decided to still give it a try - I have room in my garden for a couple of the trees that these would hopefully become.

If anyone else fancies giving it a try I would recommend having  a look at YouTube for the prep and methods.

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I started them off on 13th August and 5 days later I have a root on the first one!

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All the rest have indications that a root is about to emerge:

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A good start, just another 6 or 8 years until I might get my own fruit  Rolleyes
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Great stuff Tamara, I wish you the best of luck with your endeavours. If anyone can do it you can 👍🏼
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#3
The one in the lead is going great guns and it looks as if the shoot is about to break out  Thumbs Up

Little root on most of them now.

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I love mango chutney with chilli in it.
Do you know if a lemon tree/bush will grow in Fuerteventura? 
Mrs G would like to grow a small lemon tree if it's possible when we get out there next.
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#5
My mango chutney blows your head off🤣
Lemons, most citrus, grow well here given the right conditions. Buy the trees at Happy Plants or Oasis garden centre or the Cabildo place at Pozo Negro if you can find it open!
I've got planting holes excavated ready for planting oranges and limes (not keen on 🍋) but I'm waiting for the heat to ease off a bit before planting. Most important is good drainage.
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We grow lemons, oranges, limes and grapefruit. And we're in a really windy spot.

Down in the valley they grow like weeds and twice as fast!!

Good luck with the mangoes, Tamara.


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Hooray! The shoot popped out and unfolded today on mango no.1:

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Typing 'mango number 1' put the song 'Mamba number 5' into my head and now I can't shift it  Wink
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Mango number 1 growing well. I'm going to plant it in a deep but narrow pot shortly so the tap root can continue developing. Hopefully I'll be able to get it in the ground in a couple of months time.
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Tamara at the rate that tap root is developing when you plant it out in the garden in a couple of months you will one hell of a deep hole to dig🤗🤗
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It went happily into the pot (15" high, 6" across). Layer of grava in the bottom, then Happy Plants' 'Happy Mix', then molida on the surface. I'll keep it shaded for a week and then gradually introduce it to more sun and wind.
More need potting up now ........
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WMG - the hole is already dug (JCB), it's going in my new banana bed with 2 Canarian bananas as opposed to my Cavendish banana which really gets too tall for our windy spot. 
Just waiting for my Majorero helper to recover from a knee injury so he can assist me with the heavier jobs like barrowing soil and shifting rocks. He's a sweet old boy, doesn't understand a word of English but we chatter away with my basic Spanish. He's fascinated by 'English' food - he lives on his own so when I've been baking I often give him something to take home: banana bread, key lime pie, cornish pasty, Christmas cake, scones etc. He calls me Tamarita   Big Grin . I took him with me to Oasis Garden Centre one time to pick up a bag of something or other and they were out of stock - he really laid into them on my behalf - along the lines of how dare they not have what his Tamarita needed! Sorry, I've digressed  Rolleyes .
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