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Barry1 wrote:Thank you to everyone for your input into this subject ...I am still not convinced that leaf reduction can be achieved though

You should be convinced - they do and quite well. I had a few Mango "in training' when I was in Darwin. Hardy as, easy to grow and yes the leaves did reduce nicely. Never got any fruit on mine though, unfortunately, as they didn't last in my care long enough. Sometimes it was hard to own a Nursery

Graeme thanks for that insight ; I see you live on the Fraser Coast another local ...good to see

Do they transplant well???

Rintar wrote:Do they transplant well???

In answer to your question I don't know ! Graeme would know more than I do about these

Barry

Never had any problems that I recall. Always repotted them just before the new foliage broke, which in the tropics gave me two or three goes at repotting them, if I missed one. I was never really hard on the root system, but still didn't loose any if I accidently got a little heavy handed with the root shears. As with all my Bonsai, the Mangoes got a good drench in Seasol at repotting time.

thanks theirs one at work that has been trunk chopped before in groundand grown back it looks by trunk to be decent age and in the very wrong position could make great larger bonsai (total current hieght about 1m) or could just be transplanted to better spot

cheers jason

found what i'm pretty sure is a mango - rescued with a couple of figs from a church roof guttering just stuck it in an old worm farm tray and will see how it goes
my concern is it is got a lot of new growth on it
if it lives there maybe something like a bonsai in there?

this is where i'm at with this one at the moment
pruned it back to get a look at it as it was covered in growth

not sure what to do next... let it grow a bit more?

arh photos!!

this is another three i got out of the same gutter

that is very cool Morrie, Keep them going and update when you learn anything.
I assume they shoot back form pare wood and can be repotted easily.

Ken

updates on my mango experiment, what i've learned sofar is
the wood is very soft
they grow fast
they back bud off old wood
they sucker easily
they are susceptible to scale etc
yet to get to the point where i can add anything to the question of leaf size ,flowering etc

Morrie,

I don't know your climate, but it can take 10 years from seed for a mango to fruit.

If you use a grafted mango it is about 1 year. On this side Julie is the most popular for eating.

However there are mango types that fruit like grapes, and have very small mangoes, more
in line with the Bonsai idea.
The Gvt. Agriculture grew mangoes in 5 gal biscuit tins and ended up with 3' [ 1 m ] tall
trees with nice mounds and fat trunks. More of an accident really.
Soil was the typical Gvt. Agriculture loam.

They should perform much better in Bonsai soil.
Laters.
Tambrand