Ways to increase and maintain Mango Farming

There are ways in increasing Mango trees.

There are two types of propagating mango tree: 1) sexual propagation or seedling propagation; 2:) asexual propagation or branch from different trees or vegetative parts.

Planting of mango seeds is not recommended since proper care should be taken and it will take many years for the tree to produce fruits.

The Asexual or Vegetative Propagation

The asexual or vegetative propagation are ways in planting by using vegetative part or branch and others. With this method, it will be very applicable and very advantageous in Mango farming because you can choose from a good variety of mango or from a healthy variety of mango. It can easily well taken cared off because it will bear fruit early compared to the sexual propagation. There are different methods in doing the asexual propagation for different plants. The grafting

is one of the popular method in mango propagation.

The Grafting

In grafting, two separate branches are used from a two different variety of plant. There are many styles in grafting. These are splice grafting, side grafting , in arching and cleft grafting. The cleft grafting is the most popularly used among of the them. Two parts are used in the plant: One is the lower part or the rootstock and the upper part which is the scion. The rootstock part come from the root side and scion part came from upper part of the tree or the aerial portion. The scion brings the good classification or the variety of the mango plant.

Ways to prepare the Rootstock

1. Get a mango fruit from a healthy mango tree from the months of April or May. These are the mango season month. Remove the seed.
2. Slice the tail of the mango seed until the inner seed portion is removed. Avoid slicing the seed inside the cover.
3. Plant the seed inside a nursery bed or have it separated in a plastic bag with soil, sand and compost. Make sure the plums of the seed is set upward to make the root set straight and it will easily grow leaves.
4. If there are 4 leaves that grows from the seed, transfer the plant to a bigger pot, container or to a polyurethane bag.
5. Rootstock is ready if the thickness of the stem is around 10 cm or the size of a pencil. This can be notice from 6 to 1 year after planting.

Ways to prepare the Scion

1. Choose the variety scion from two weeks before it is needed. Gather it from a healthy branch. Get the scion from a plant or tree more that a year old.
2. From the healthy variety, Count 4 to 5 leaves from the top where the scion will be cut.
3. Remove the leaves from the branch to prepare the bud stick.
4. Wrap the bud stick with dump cloth, paper towel or sphagmum moss.
5. Place the wrap bud stick to a plastic bag and place it into a cold and shaded area.

• Grafting will be successful if both the rootstocks and scion have the same thickness for the joints. You can proceed to the cleft grafting if the rootstocs and the scions is already ready.

Ways to prepare the Cleft Grafting.

1. Cut the scion edge in the form of wedge.
2. Cut the rootstock at the center where in the middle is the active part. Cut it in an appropriate depth to hold the scion.
3. Insert the scion on the prepared rootstock.
4. Use a polyethelyn plastic strip to tie the connection of both the scion and the rootstock. Use also the same polyethelyn plastic strip to cover a part of the rootstock and the whole part of scion.
5. After the grafting. Watering should be done regularly.
6. After 2 to 3 weeks check if the scion is still fresh. Release the plastic strip if there is an evidence of new growth from the scion.
7. Remove all the sprouted leaves beneath the the union of rootstock and scion. Transfer the grafted seedling in a bigger container or bigger polyetherene bag.
8. It can be determined that the grafting is successful if there is an evidence of flushing or sprout after one week.

These grafting will be beneficial to any mango farm. Because you can procreate healthy variety of mango trees.

Determining the Land and proper climate

Choosing a land for planting, the PH must be around 6 to 8 to determine the proper place in planting mango. Samples of the soil can be taken to laboratories or there are kits sold in the agriculture supplies to check the PH balance of the soil. By determining the PH of the soil, it can help you prepare the soil for planting. Other preparation such as fertilization may take place if it does not meet the proper PH requirement of the soil.

Climate is also one of the important things to consider in planting mango. It can affect the mango plant. Not knowing this conditions such as the climate, humidity and temperature might help or hinder the growth of the plant.

Choose the proper place with the right soil, climate, humidity, temperature and wind strength to have a more productive and quality mango. It is also important to know the best months in producing the mango. Different place shows different weather conditions, depending on the months.

For places with less dry season, it will give your mango tree more leaves but less or no flowering. Or too much dry season will give your mango tree short dormancy that causes insufficient growth in the leaves.

One of the best place in planting mango is in the Philippines because of two seasons. It gives an ample time for the mango to rejuvenate as well as to properly change the leaves for the flowering. But proper care must be administered for it to have good outcome.

Aside from having a good land and climate, the soil flatness must be considered to have an even distribution of sunlight. Planting mango help prevent soil erosion. Some say that mangoes are sweetest when planted along in hillside.