Pickering Mango Tree Live Plant – Grafted, 1 Ft Tall, Pot Grown – Tropical Fruit

Overview

Bring the exotic flavors of the tropics right to your home with our premium Pickering mango tree. This exceptional variety is a grafted mango plant, ensuring strong growth and true-to-type fruit production. Known affectionately as a “condo mango,” the Pickering is celebrated for its compact growth habit, making it an ideal choice for urban gardeners or anyone with limited space. It thrives beautifully in containers, allowing you to enjoy fresh, homegrown mangoes even on a patio or small balcony. The fruit of the Pickering mango is renowned for its delightful piña colada-like flavor, a sweet and tangy profile that makes it a true culinary treat. This live plant arrives healthy, approximately 1 foot tall, and ready to establish itself in your garden or a larger pot, promising years of delicious harvests.

The Pickering variety is a mid-season producer, offering a generous yield of delectable fruit. Its adaptability to pot culture means you can easily move it indoors during colder months, protecting your investment and ensuring continuous growth. Whether you’re an experienced gardener or a budding enthusiast, growing a Pickering mango tree offers the rewarding experience of nurturing a beautiful, productive tropical plant.

Key Benefits

The Pickering mango tree offers a multitude of advantages for the home gardener, blending aesthetic appeal with practical fruit production. This condo mango tree is a smart choice for many environments.

• Delicious Piña Colada Flavor: Enjoy uniquely flavored mangoes with a distinct sweet and tangy taste, reminiscent of a piña colada, perfect for fresh eating or culinary creations.
• Ideal for Container Growing: Its compact size and manageable growth make it perfectly suited for cultivation in pots, allowing you to grow a tropical fruit tree even in small spaces like patios or balconies.
• Grafted for Early Fruiting: Being a grafted mango plant, it is genetically identical to the parent tree, ensuring high-quality fruit and often beginning to produce fruit sooner than seed-grown trees.
• Compact & Manageable Size: This variety can be maintained at a height of just six feet in a container, making it easy to harvest and care for.
• Mid-Season Harvest: Provides a reliable harvest during the mid-mango season, allowing you to enjoy fresh fruit when many other varieties are either too early or too late.
• Attractive Foliage: Beyond its fruit, the Pickering mango tree boasts attractive green foliage, adding a lush, tropical aesthetic to any setting.
• Rewarding Gardening Experience: Growing your own mangoes from a container mango provides immense satisfaction and a connection to fresh, organic produce.

Plant Care & Growing Tips

Caring for your Pickering mango tree is a rewarding experience that ensures a bountiful harvest. Mango trees thrive in warm, sunny conditions. They require at least 6-8 hours of direct sunlight per day, so choose a location that receives ample sun. If growing indoors, place it near a south-facing window or supplement with a grow light. Well-draining soil is crucial to prevent root rot; a good quality potting mix amended with perlite or sand is ideal for container-grown plants. Aim for a slightly acidic to neutral pH (6.0-7.0).

Water your grafted mango plant deeply when the top 2-3 inches of soil feel dry to the touch, but allow the soil to dry out slightly between waterings. Overwatering is a common mistake. Fertilize every 2-3 months during the growing season (spring and summer) with a balanced, slow-release fertilizer formulated for fruit trees. Reduce fertilization in fall and winter. Mango trees are tropical and prefer temperatures above 60°F (15°C). Protect your tropical fruit tree from frost; if growing in a container, bring it indoors when temperatures drop below 40°F (4°C). Pruning can be done to maintain size and shape, especially for a condo mango tree, and to encourage better air circulation and fruit production.

Common issues include anthracnose and powdery mildew, which can be managed with proper air circulation and appropriate fungicides if necessary. Watch out for pests like scale and mealybugs, treating them with horticultural oil or insecticidal soap. Providing consistent care will ensure your Pickering mango tree remains healthy and productive.

Size & Details

This offering is for one Pickering mango tree, approximately 1 foot tall at the time of shipping. The plant is grafted mango plant, a method that ensures genetic consistency and often leads to earlier fruit production. It ships in a 6-inch nursery pot, complete with an established root system, ready for transplanting into a larger container or directly into the ground in appropriate climates. As a condo mango tree, it is naturally more compact, but can still reach up to 6-8 feet in a container with proper pruning, or larger if planted in the ground. The growth rate is moderate, and with good care, you can expect fruit production within a few years.

The mature fruit typically ripens mid-season, usually from July to August in tropical and subtropical regions. Each fruit is medium-sized, weighing about 8-12 ounces, with a pale yellow skin and fiberless, sweet flesh. This tropical fruit tree is a fantastic addition for anyone looking to enjoy fresh, home-grown mangoes with a unique flavor profile.

Frequently Asked Questions

• Q: How big does this plant get? A: This Pickering mango tree is a compact variety. While it ships at about 1 foot tall, it can be maintained at approximately 6 feet in a container with regular pruning, making it an excellent container mango.
• Q: Is this an indoor or outdoor plant? A: The grafted mango plant is a tropical plant. It can be grown outdoors in USDA Zones 9-11 year-round. In colder climates, it should be grown in a container and brought indoors during winter months.
• Q: How much sunlight does it need? A: This tropical fruit tree requires at least 6-8 hours of direct sunlight daily for optimal growth and fruit production. Provide the brightest possible location.
• Q: What condition will it arrive in? A: Your Pickering mango tree will arrive as a live, healthy plant with a well-established root system, shipped in its nursery pot to minimize stress during transit.
• Q: When is the best time to plant? A: The best time to plant your condo mango tree is in spring or early summer, once the danger of frost has passed and temperatures are consistently warm.
• Q: How long until it produces fruit? A: As a grafted mango plant, it typically begins producing fruit within 2-4 years after planting, depending on care and growing conditions.
• Q: What kind of soil is best for a Pickering mango tree? A: A well-draining, slightly acidic potting mix is ideal for your Pickering mango tree. Avoid heavy, water-retentive soils to prevent root issues.