Our version of this mango is what's known as a "Condo Mango." This means that it only is supposed to grow to about 8' tall. Ours has re...Read Moreached about 10' so far, but has NEVER produced any fruit that we could eat. It flowers every year during late January, and then we seem to get a freeze or close to it. This either knocks off all the tiny fruits (so small that they resemble bee-bees) or turns the foliage black and has to be cut back severely. We have tried protecting it with sheets in years past, but this doesn't seem to help, so we have stopped even doing that much. When it flowers, the bees and lots of other pollinators visit in a frenzy. We keep hoping. This year's (2010) January freeze was so bad that our poor mango now looks like a stub of its former self. It has started to put on new growth, however, (it is now early April), so we are perennially hopeful that we will someday get some real fruit.
Our version of this mango is what's known as a "Condo Mango." This means that it only is supposed to grow to about 8' tall. Ours has re...Read More