Growing a Honey Mango Seed, Days 0-12

The honey mango goes by many names, such as the young, baby, yellow, honey, Ataúlfo, Adaulfo, Adolfo, or champagne mango. It is a cultivar from Mexico first grown by Ataulfo Morales Gordillo. The shape is atypical and much smaller than the typical cultivars people eat. In my first ever eating of a honey mango I managed to cut a good seed out of its coat and try a new methodology I developed for germination.

I cut a large plastic 2 Liter bottle at the top with heavy duty scissors, then inverted the bottle top and taped it in place with packaging tape. I filled the inverted top with several wads of plastic wrap, leaving a large hole in the center, and positioned my seed so that the root tip would grow over the hole below. I sprayed distilled water onto the seed and sealed the top of the setup with plastic wrap, and sprayed some more water inside every 2 days or so.

On the twelfth day I decided it was the appropriate time to do a transplant into potting mix. My chosen mix, prepared 2 days prior and allowed time to dry out in the sun, contained used potting mix, clay soil, fresh organic material from the previous plant growing series, as well as blended mango seeds. I have seen considerable success with established plants by pouring mango seed smoothies on top and letting the nutrients trickle down into the soil with successive waterings, so I decided to take the additional step of pre-mixing it into the dirt beforehand. I decided not to water on the day of the transplant to prevent the clay and other materials from cementing onto the root system, opting instead to let the roots continue their development in all directions in this loose, fluffy, granular mix that I made.

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