Sorry Cant help you with that one, I use ?? 88 sorry forget the name its in a 35kg bag here.

I have added a link from the Qld DPI about Mango's in the home Garden it may help should be the same over where you are I should think.
MM.

Here is a link that might be useful: Mango's in the Home garden

generally if you can replicate the growing conditions they need you should be ok, they are generally a tropical/sub-tropical warm temerate type plant, they'll cope with frost once they establish. i would suggest heavily mulch around the tree to beyong the drip line to keep a stable soil temp' and also help with moisture retention. can't realy see the problem with chicken manure so long as you don't add it as amendment when planting.

if you layed it on the soil surface about 6 or so "s clear of the trunk and covered it with mulch by the time it starts to work down it will be comopsted to some degree. maybe even mix the chook poo with some mushroom compost 1st. this way the feeder roots find the nutrient when they need it.

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Thanks guys. I hope we don't kill this one !!

There is a good article in this season's issue of "Organic Gardener". I live in Sydney, and would love to have a go at growing mangoes- does anyone know if it's worthwhile, and what varieties would be best? (Unfortunately, the article doesn't answer these questions.)

Chris, if you are in a place as warm or warmer than Sydney you can grow mangos without too much trouble and a plan old Kensington pride seedling would be good. It's good advice not to add fertilizer in the soil but just ontop/in/under the mulch is the way to go (just throw it on the mulch), only the feeder roots need feeding and in most sub tropical trees they are practially running in the layer between the soil and and the deepest layer of your mulch. You can often find Avocado feeder roots comming out of the soil and "eating" lumps of wood in the mulch, it's something worth seeing

Have a look at the link below they have a Mango tree at the Sydney Garden Show 28th April - 1st May
Would be worth going there if you were really interested, sounds like a great day out to me.
MM.

Here is a link that might be useful: Sydney Garden and Flower Show

I just bought a house in Sydney, It has 3 medium sized mango trees that bore tens of kilos of fruit this year w/o any fertilizer or care by previous owners who were not the planters of the trees. There is also a tangerine tree that Im eating from atm, and a worse for wear persimmon tree. I live just about directly on the water of homebush bay and this has had no effect on the mango trees which are super lush.

I think what the nursery leaflet means is: no chicken poo after planting the tree, while it is settling in and starting to spread its roots. Once established (after its first year in the ground), I think poo is quite ok.
Rose-Marie