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- How do you get a mango seed to germinate?
- The essentials in brief:
- Repot the young mango tree
- Tips & Tricks
How do you get a mango seed to germinate?
There are two ways to get a mango seed to germinate, one requires a lot of patience, the other a little skill. For both methods, you need a ripe mango, which you should first enjoy.
Then clean the kernel thoroughly from the remnants of the pulp and water it for a few days. Then the core is planted in seed soil and germinate after a few weeks. The second method works much faster, with which you carefully open the cleaned core with a sharp knife or corkscrew and remove the germ.
The germ is not watered, but immediately planted flat in substrate. For germination it needs a temperature of about 25 ° C. Place the seed pot in a warm place, for example near the heater, and sprinkle the seedling daily with lime-free water. Rainwater is particularly well suited.
When wet, the sensitive germ rots, but it must be kept moist all the time. Cover the potting pot with a clear foil or put a transparent cup over the seedling. Both look like a miniature greenhouse.
The essentials in brief:
Repot the young mango tree
If the seed pot becomes too small, the mango tree must be repotted. That should not happen too soon, if possible. That's why you choose a very high pot for germination, because mango trees are very fast form long taproots.
If the young plant needs to be repotted and the long root breaks off, then the mango tree often comes in and all the effort was in vain. Give your mango tree a permeable soil from a mixture of equal parts of garden soil, compost and coconut fibers. To prevent excess irrigation water from accumulating, ensure a good drainage layer.
Tips & Tricks
Use only seeds of really ripe fruits. The core of an immature mango will not germinate because it is not mature itself.
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