Growing Mangoes on Fuerteventura

[TamaraEnLaPlaya]

I've been potting up some more young mango plants, love the way the leaves change from bronze to green.

 the green leaf one was potted up on the 6th, the bronze one today.

   this is what it looked like in the jar. Root headed left and down, shoot headed right and up. For scale, these are the large jars that kidney beans etc come in from Mercadona.

[TamaraEnLaPlaya]

Well, I managed to loose all the mangoes that I had grown from seed, not quite sure why, but they gradually all succumbed. I was in two minds anyway about planting them in the garden after being told their fruit probably wouldn't be true to the original. So today I bought two trees from Agrayco at Tetir market (has shop in Puerto). Am keeping them in half shade while I acclimatise them and have sprayed their leaves with a kaolin solution as extra sun protection. They are grafted trees so hopefully will produce nice fruit.