I washed the pit and put it in a damp paper cloth in a ziplock bag. I kept it warm. Though leaving it on your South faced rooftop terrace is a bad idea: my first pit burnt…
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Mango plant
Dec 11, 2019
Mango plant
Yes, it should be ‘mango tree’, but let’s face it: I’m living in The Netherlands, the best I can do is a plant! Here’s what I did:
Summer 2018: eat a mango
Or in my case: let someone else eat a mango (not my favourite fruit). If all goes well you’re left with a large, flat thing. If you carefully squeeze it, you’ll notice there’s something inside the wooden outer layer. That’s what you need!
Get to the good stuff
Some people are able to crack the outer layer very slowly and delicately with a knife. I, however, am not, so I decided to grab a saw and another thing to keep it steady. Be carefull though, you don’t want to hurt the pit! Feel the edges so you know where there’s no pit.
This pit of mine was still attached to its wooden outer layer, it looked like an umbilical cord. I just cut it…
Hot & wet
I aired it almost every day. After 1,5 weeks a very tiny root was already visible!
3,5 weeks: ready or not?
I decided to keep it in the moist towel in the ziplock bag, even though the start of a stem was visible.
4,5 weeks: potting it up
I kinda forgot about it the following week, until I glanced at it and something caught my attention… Yup, leaves! It was clearly ready for soil.
But how do you put it in soil? I decided to burry the whole pit, somewhat slanted, in the soil. So just the stem and leaves were popping out.
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