mango leaves have tip burn, curling

15 years ago

Hello all,

I have two potted mango trees that are indoors and had been looking pretty healthy up until about a week ago, but now are developing brown leaf tips and some of the leaves are turning brown and curling up. Is this a disease or environmental? Thanks!

Scott

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citrusnut

15 years ago

Scott, my Ice Cream mango did the same thing this Fall. Without checking it I gave it more water and it got much worse. My attempts to dry it out didn't work. Once it started to turn black there was no stopping it. It did the slow death. It was my favorite mango and I am heartbroken. It bloomed all summer long.

My Cogshall mango is doing well and blooming now (it was dormant all summer). I am very careful not to give it too much water. Basically, I just water the outer edges of the pot and use a minimal amount of water and then on occasion it gets it a little more.

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dghays
15 years ago
Did you fertilize or change its watering recently?

Gary
buretachi
Original Author
15 years ago
I had been letting it get fairly dry--someone had said they prefer a wet-dry cycle. Maybe too dry--is that a symptom?

I haven't fertilized at all in the winter--it is gallon sized and I wasn't planning to fertilize until spring.

Scott
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The most-troubled one is a double seedling of Champaigne (Ataulfo). The other is a flowering Mallika that I just got from Edible Landscaping.com.

Can I upload a picture straight from the computer? I don't have any online photos.

Citrusnut, sorry to hear about the Ice Cream slow death. Very disappointing. That happened to my first grafted mango, a Cogshall. That was four years ago, now I'm trying again with Mallika this time.

It sounds like drier is generally better during the winter?

Thanks,

Scott
jsvand5
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You have to upload the pics to photobucket or some other photo site and then you can just copy and paste the HTML of the photo in your post.

How large is your Ataulfo seedling? I have found that many of the cloned seedlings fail to thrive and just end up dieing. I planted about ten seeds last year from ataulfo's and of those I was only able to get the cloned seedlings from 2 seeds to survive.
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