Mango Kit

The mango is one of the tastiest and most versatile fruits in the world. You can eat it fresh or blend it into a smoothie for a healthy snack. Add it to salads or salsas to shake up lunch or dinner. Dip it in yogurt or combine it into ice cream for dessert. There are endless possibilities!

If you’re a mango fanatic, you may not realize you can grow them at home, especially if you live in a colder area. But the two trees in our Mango Kit are well-suited for planting in containers that can be transferred indoors during chillier months. You can also plant them outdoors if you live in a year-round warm climate! Our Mango Kit includes:

• One 2-3 foot Alphonso Mango Tree
• One 3-4 foot Glenn Mango Tree

The Alphonso Mango Tree is a flavorful, bright orange variety, and the Glenn Mango Tree is its pinkish-orange companion. Both trees thrive next to sunny windows in the winter if your winter temperatures drop below 30 degrees.

The Alphonso Mango is one of the tastiest varieties out there. It’s a particularly velvety-fleshed, juicy mango with hints of apricot and peach. You’ll love its long green leaves and the scent of mango in your home or yard – perfect for turning any spot into a tropical paradise!

The Glenn Mango Tree is similarly tasty, but its fruit has a reddish hue that contrasts attractively with the Alphonso Mango’s pure orange. The Glenn Mango Tree produces an unusually creamy mango. This tree also stays much more compact if grown in a container rather than outdoors, limiting its maximum height to 8 feet rather than 20.

Mangoes are one of the most versatile and fun fruits, and now you can enjoy the benefits of growing your own with our Mango Kit. Get yours today!

Planting & Care

1. Planting: Both the Alphonso Mango and Glenn Mango can be planted outdoors or in containers. They thrive in full sun and warm, humid climates, but can withstand occasional cold snaps. If grown in containers, you will need to re-pot your trees as they grow.

2. Watering: When your mango trees arrive, they will be very thirsty. Make sure they are watered 2-3 times a week in the summer and 1-2 times in the colder months. Be sure to take rainfall into account in your watering schedule if you plant your trees outside. Check topsoil to make sure it stays moist, but not wet.

3. Fertilizing: The Glenn Mango thrives best with natural, organic fertilizer with mycorrhizal fungi and beneficial bacteria. Potted mangoes will benefit from a balanced fertilizer formula such as a 10-10-10 while actively growing. Mango trees planted in the ground are excellent at taking up nutrients, so they need very little, if any, fertilizer.

4. Pruning: Pruning the branches of your mango trees right after the harvest will give you more mangoes by encouraging the growth of more lateral branches. Prune new shoots when they reach about 20 inches. Do this several times the first growing season, and 2 to 3 times during the next couple of growing seasons.

5. Pollination: Both the Alphonso Mango and Glenn Mango Trees are self-fertile and self-pollinating, so they will produce fruit on their own.