Pickering Mango Tree Live Plant – Grafted Dwarf Variety – 1/2 Gallon Pot

Overview

Experience the joy of harvesting your own tropical fruit with the Pickering Mango Tree live plant. This exceptional dwarf variety is renowned for its compact growth habit, making it an excellent choice for gardeners with limited space, whether you’re cultivating a patio garden or adding a unique specimen to your landscape. Each grafted mango plant ensures robust growth and earlier fruit production, offering a quicker path to enjoying its delectable harvest. The Pickering Mango is celebrated for its rich, juicy, and aromatic fruits, which are a true culinary delight. Beyond its bountiful yield, the tree’s lush green foliage and stunning seasonal blooms add significant ornamental value, transforming any space into a vibrant, tropical oasis. Cultivating a Pickering Mango Tree live plant is an investment in both beauty and flavor, bringing a taste of paradise directly to your home.

The Pickering Mango is a highly sought-after cultivar due to its exceptional fruit quality and manageable size. Originating from Florida, it has adapted well to various warm climates and is particularly favored for its disease resistance and consistent fruiting. This dwarf mango tree is perfect for those who dream of fresh, homegrown mangoes without the need for extensive orchard space. Its adaptability to container life further expands its appeal, allowing even urban dwellers to partake in tropical fruit gardening.

Key Benefits

The Pickering Mango Tree live plant offers a multitude of benefits, making it a must-have for any fruit enthusiast or garden lover:

• Compact Growth for Small Spaces: As a dwarf mango tree, it naturally maintains a manageable size, making it perfect for container planting on patios, balconies, or in smaller garden plots. This allows you to enjoy fresh mangoes even if you don’t have a large yard.
• Abundant Harvest of Delicious Fruit: Despite its compact size, the Pickering variety is known for producing a generous yield of highly flavorful, juicy, and aromatic mangoes. Imagine plucking ripe, sweet fruit directly from your own tree.
• Grafted for Early Fruiting: Each grafted mango plant ensures that you won’t have to wait years for your first harvest. Grafting promotes faster maturity and more reliable fruit production, getting you to the delicious reward sooner.
• Ornamental Beauty: With its vibrant green foliage and attractive seasonal blooms, the Pickering Mango Tree live plant serves as a beautiful addition to any landscape, enhancing the aesthetic appeal of your garden or outdoor living area year-round.
• Adaptable to Containers: This variety thrives in large pots, offering flexibility for placement and allowing you to move it indoors during colder months, protecting your investment and ensuring continued growth.
• Tropical Flavor at Your Doorstep: Enjoy the unparalleled taste of homegrown mangoes, superior to store-bought varieties, providing a true tropical delight whenever you desire. This makes it an ideal tropical fruit plant for home cultivation.
• Improved Air Quality: Like many plants, the lush foliage of the Pickering Mango Tree live plant contributes to a healthier environment by producing oxygen and potentially filtering certain airborne pollutants.

Plant Care & Growing Tips

Caring for your Pickering Mango Tree live plant involves understanding its needs for sunlight, water, and soil to ensure a bountiful harvest. Mango trees thrive in warm conditions and require plenty of light. They tolerate partial sun, needing at least 4 hours per day, but will fruit much more reliably and abundantly in full sun, which means at least 6 hours of direct sunlight daily. If growing in a container, ensure it’s placed in the sunniest spot available, and consider rotating it periodically for even sun exposure. For outdoor planting, choose a location that receives ample morning sun and some afternoon shade in extremely hot climates to prevent leaf scorch.

Watering is crucial, especially for young trees and those in containers. During warmer months, water a few times a week, ensuring the soil remains consistently moist but not waterlogged. In winter or cooler periods, reduce watering to once every two weeks, allowing the soil to dry out slightly between waterings. The Pickering Mango Tree live plant prefers well-draining soil. If planting in the ground, ensure the site has good drainage. For container-grown trees, a lightweight and nutritive potting mix is essential. A recommended mix includes 40% compost, 40% mulch/peat moss, and 20% a combination of sand and perlite to ensure excellent drainage and aeration. Start with a layer of broken pottery or similar material at the bottom of the pot, followed by crushed gravel, before adding the soil mix.

Fertilization is key for healthy growth and fruit production. Fertilize your grafted mango plant in spring, summer, and fall. Young trees require higher doses of nitrogen, while fruit-bearing trees need increased phosphorus and potassium to promote flowering and fruiting. Look for a commercial organic fertilizer with a higher percentage of potassium, such as a 5-8-10 NPK ratio, for fruit-bearing trees. Alternatively, apply nutrients with organic materials like compost (a good source of phosphorus and potassium), rock phosphate, guano, blood meal, bone meal for phosphorus, and seaweed or potassium sulfate for potassium. Mangos enjoy average temperatures between the low 60s and high 90s Fahrenheit. Good air circulation and light penetration are necessary for keeping the tree happy and healthy, preventing fungal issues and promoting strong growth. This makes it a rewarding tropical fruit plant to cultivate with proper care.

Size & Details

This offering is for a Pickering Mango Tree live plant, expertly grafted and supplied in a 1/2 gallon nursery pot, ready for transplanting. Grafting ensures that the tree will exhibit the desirable characteristics of the Pickering variety and typically begins fruiting sooner than trees grown from seed. As a dwarf mango tree, it is known for its compact growth habit, typically reaching a mature height of 6-10 feet when grown in the ground, or even smaller when maintained in a container. The exact size upon arrival will vary based on growth stage, but it will be a healthy, established young plant similar to the product images provided. This container mango tree is ideal for growing on patios, in greenhouses, or as a focal point in smaller garden designs. With proper care, you can expect this tropical fruit plant to begin producing its delicious fruit within a few years, offering a continuous supply of fresh, aromatic mangoes.

Frequently Asked Questions

• Q: How big does this plant get? A: The Pickering Mango Tree live plant is a dwarf variety, typically reaching 6-10 feet tall when mature in the ground. If grown as a container mango tree, its size can be managed with pruning, often staying smaller, around 4-7 feet.
• Q: What size pot does it come in? A: The grafted mango plant is shipped in a 1/2 gallon nursery pot, providing a healthy root system for successful transplanting into a larger container or directly into the garden.
• Q: Is this an indoor or outdoor plant? A: The Pickering Mango Tree live plant can be grown both indoors and outdoors. It thrives outdoors in USDA zones 9-11. In colder climates, it is best grown as a container mango tree and moved indoors during winter.
• Q: How much sunlight does it need? A: This tropical fruit plant requires at least 6 hours of direct sunlight per day for optimal growth and fruit production. It can tolerate partial sun (4 hours), but fruiting will be less reliable.
• Q: Is this plant easy to care for? A: While mango trees require specific care regarding sunlight, water, and feeding, the Pickering variety is considered relatively easy to manage for those familiar with tropical fruit cultivation. Its dwarf nature simplifies care compared to larger mango varieties.
• Q: What condition will it arrive in? A: Your Pickering Mango Tree live plant will arrive as a healthy, established young plant, carefully packaged to ensure its safety during transit. It will be similar in size and appearance to the product images.
• Q: How long until it blooms? A: As a grafted mango plant, it typically begins flowering and fruiting sooner than seed-grown trees, often within 2-4 years after planting, depending on growing conditions and care.
• Q: Can I grow this in a container permanently? A: Yes, the Pickering Mango Tree live plant is an excellent choice for permanent container growing due to its dwarf habit. Ensure you use a large pot (15-25 gallons or more) and well-draining soil for best results.
• Q: What’s the minimum temperature this tropical fruit plant can tolerate? A: Mango trees are sensitive to cold. They prefer temperatures above 60°F and can be damaged by temperatures below 30°F. If temperatures drop, container-grown trees should be brought indoors.
• Q: How often should I fertilize my dwarf mango tree? A: Fertilize your Pickering Mango Tree live plant three times a year: in spring, summer, and fall. Adjust the fertilizer type based on whether the tree is young (higher nitrogen) or fruit-bearing (higher phosphorus and potassium).