How to Grow Green Mango Seeds in Pots? Detailed Planting Guide

Nowadays, shopping on e-commerce platforms like Taobao and JD.com is becoming increasingly convenient and fast, making it common for many friends to buy fruit online. Actually, after eating a green mango, you can use the seed to grow it. Below, we will teach you how to grow green mango seeds in pots.

1. How to Grow Green Mango Seeds in Pots

1. Remove the thin film from the seed and soak it in water, changing the water every day. After about five days, once a small sprout appears, it can be planted.

2. Choose a relatively large and deep container to plant it in, keep the soil moist, and place the end with the young sprout facing up while burying the rest in the soil.

3. Water once every one to two days, adjusting the amount of water according to how dry or moist the soil is. After about a week, a small seedling will grow.

4. During the growing period of the young mango tree, nitrogen fertilizer and phosphorus fertilizer can be applied appropriately. In addition, pay attention to preventing and controlling damage from pests and diseases such as anthracnose, powdery mildew, mango leafhoppers, and fruit flies.

2. How to Tell Whether a Mango Is Ripe or Unripe

If you want to eat a delicious mango, first you need to see whether it is unripe or ripe, because there are quite a few mango varieties in the world, so there are green-skinned, yellow-skinned, and red-skinned ones. Only unripe ones can be ripened. Below, the judging methods are explained one by one:

1. Judge by smelling with your nose: Whether the mango skin is green, yellow, or red, once ripe it has a rich fragrance. If the mango you bought does not have much fragrance, it means it is not ripe yet.

2. Judge by squeezing the firmness with your hand: Gently pinch or press the mango with your hand. If it feels soft or deforms slightly when pressed, it means it is ripe. If it is especially hard, it needs to be ripened.

3. Judge by looking at the color of the skin with your eyes: For varieties such as Large Taiwan Mango and Narcissus Mango, whose ripe fruit itself has yellow skin, if it is very green, it needs to be ripened before eating. But this does not apply to Large Green Mango, because Large Green Mango still has green skin when ripe, so it can only be judged by smell and firmness.