Hey you all there. How great it is to have a place like this to share our growing experiences, and all knowledge that is around this plant.
It took me a great length of time… the opportunity to experience the whole cycle of the plant seemed remote (if not unattainable). I was almost craving for that, (and even I hadn’t grown it yet, I kind understand what once I read about growing being addictive) … but fortunately at some years ago the opportunity showed up. I moved to the countryside area to work growing tomatoes (not the “tomatoes” hahah ofc). At spare time I used to stroll around, always hitting the areas where the native forest had resisted against the never ending pastures and monocultures. In these walks I reached some places out of sight, clearing, with enough hours of direct sun, inviting to grow.
The seed were those that I had in hands, some from a green brick (about 12) and one took out form a supposed manga rosa flower. There was no certainty about the heritage, but it was clearly from tropical zone, strong photoperiod dependence and everlasting flowering. Out of those 12, 4 were stable females, and the supposed one mango, turn up to be female too.
In soil preparing, I did what was called there by inverting soil layers (they are identified by color changing. The first being more dark, rich in organic matter. The second layer were almost pure sand, more inert though. Nutrients were added at the first portion. Some dry straw is laid at the bottom, and the soil portions return to the hole with their position inverted. This is meant to force the roots to go all way down searching for water (retained in straw) and nutrients.
But my mistake was to prepare the soil at the day of the transplant, I should have done it ideally one month before to give time to nutrients began to act and ph balanced . so the plants got stunt for more then a month. All plants (total of five) reached between 1 to 1,5m.
The supposed manga rosa had its stem turn into a reddish color. During the morning they exhaled an earthy smell (smt that remember coffee), (but after cut and cured it didn’t remain)
(from this first grow I only keep some photos)
Then I run one more grow out of season, with seeds from a brick, but the grow profile were so diverse, some even looked like commercial hybrids,
Unfortunately I had to move back to the city…
Thanks all the community.
greetings from south tropics.
(I hope I chose the correct place to upload this post, I wasn’t sure if I post it as a topic or as part of another topic that is already open. if there is a best place to it, let me know)
and then we will be the ones to sit back and enjoy my brother already knows and is friends with a commercial outfit and ha stalked to them about leasing the property