Mango Is Fruiting

It has been awhile since my last update due to a busy life. However, after reading what Bryan Dyson was speaking in one of the world shortest speach, I realise there are more things to do then just works. So, take five from work and here I am.

My mango tree is producing loads of fruits. I learned that baby fruits need to be protected from insects so I used lemon grass juice to spray the fruits when they are tiny. I can not confirm the result as I have not yet harvest the fruits but improvement is seen where fruits are growing bigger than last batch when they fell. Finger cross this time.

Besides mango, my ciku tree is growing well but fruits won't stay even I have tried spraying with lemon grass juice. Something has gone wrong somewhere and hope I will find it out soonest possible.

I Actually Bought A "Pair" of Papaya Plant

A few months passed and the two papaya plants that I bought from UPM, Serdang have grown up to a stage I thin kshould be equivalent to teenagers. The boy papaya has the male flowers and grown taller than the girl papaya. No flowers are seen yet.

I Snapped A Fruit Panikle!!!

I was looking at my mango tree yesterday and trying to pull the panikle down a bit because I saw some yellowish on the surface of the tiny fruits. Then it was snapped!!! OMG!!!
I wonder why the panikle was so fragile I don't remember pulling it hard? Perhaps it is like that. Who knows?

Mango tree Updates

The panikles I mentioned before were about 8 inches long yesterday. There are tiny mangoes on them. Hey, the baby mango fruits are sphere! And there are hundreds of them! How I wish all fruits stay...but any logical people will say this is not possible.

However, besides the two panikles I saw a few panikles are coming....WOW! How exciting!!I couldn't stop imagining my mango tree branches are bending down because of the weight of the fruits it has produced.

Anyway, I can only do what I am best at: wait and see.

Mango Tree is Flowering

At first I thought I should write Mango Tree is Fruiting but then I realised I have not seen the fruit yet so better not. After a few weeks since the flushing of leaves, it finally produces something not leafy. A closed monitoring suggests that this time it mustn't the leaf again by judging the shape of the sprouts. They were about 4 inches long yesterday (3 days after I first spotted them) and they certainly not the leaf. I learnt that it is called panicle. It is the 3rd stage in mango fruiting cycle. The first stage is the flushing where many new leaves suddenly pop up. The 2nd stage is when you see nothing is happening; the tree is in a rest mode. It is also called dormancy period. It is thought that the leaves are harvesting the sunlight to their maximum during this period and so the carbohydrate level is on its maximum after this period. This is the preparative step for the next stage: flowering and fruiting. The number and the size of the fruit my mango tree is producing depend largely on how well it stores the energy during the dormancy period. I should b e able to answer this question later.

Still No Flowers/Fruits

Ai, been hoping for blooming but my mango tree just doesn't produce any flower!!
Plenty of new leaves though! What can I do? ask uncle google? Well, when I have time. Let's wait and see at the moment.

Mango Tree Update

My mango tree was showing sign of growth as mentioned earlier. I can now confirm that it is doing well as new leaves are seen at the end of a couple of the branches. I was a bit surprise on the speed these new leaves are growing; it must be ~3-4 inches over night?