Hi Mia, What type is the mango you enjoyed so much ? Just curious,..my favorite is the Kents !

It just so happens that I tried exactly what you are considering. A little over 2 years ago I started noticing the occasional small green baby mango plants that would pop up at the base of a banana plant that I used my organic compost to fertilize, ( the compost was full of old mango seeds ). Then a big 25 gallon clay pot became available so I decided to try growing one of the green sprouts, carefully digging up the root which of course, was a big, oval, thin mango seed ! I gave it all the TLC I could, a mixture of regular soil, topsoil & organic compost, put pot in a full sun spot on side lawn with a few bricks underneath so moisture could drain easily, and added half a hand full of 6 - 6 - 6 fertilizer every two months. Was just curious what would develop. Day before yesterday I ripped it out of the pot as I just got tired of looking at a wimpy, 1/2 " diameter, 3 ft tall twig with a few green leaves that was drooping one way, then the other despite my attempts to support it upright !
Had been told that any fruits the plant might generate in future would most likely not be the same as the mother tree. However, I was willing to try anyway, just a casual attempt on my part, no tears shed last Wednesday when I pulled the twig out ! ( smile )
Just my brief experience, - I wish you better luck !

Mangos grown from seed will not come true to the fruit you planted, and may never bear. At the best, they will bear tiny mangos in 7 to 10 years. They are pretty as ornamentals, though. My mom grew a mango and avocado as house plants for years in SC.

If you do a google search on the two types of mango seeds ( Monoembryonic and Polyembryonic) you will see that mostly its only the Polyembryonic seeds that grow mostly like the parent...below is a link that might help.

"Seedlings of monoembryonic mangoes usually differ from the parent tree."

https://www.flickr.com/photos/3point141/9856362053?ytcheck=1

Chances are you will not get the same tipe of fruit but it's still fun to grow from seed and some times you get something good if you want something that will produce fast and you know what you r going to get buy s grafted.I like Kent.if you want to grow it from seed the way I do it is to put it in a cup of water in a window change water every day or 2.it takes a long time to sprout up two 3 months.water should be 3/4 up seed standing on end.when it gets going put in a pot in a shady but bright area till it's about two feet then give it more Sun . Good luck

Turpentine mangos will grow true from seed. They are a species mango that was the only mango you could get back when I was a little girl. You had to let them get perfectly almost mushy ripe before eating them, or they tasted like turpentine. Raw ones would turn your mouth inside out. Once they are ripe, they are delicious. Lately, a lot of people want to go back to those, for some unknown reason. They are often used a rootstock. Here's an old thread on them.

http://forums.gardenweb.com/discussions/2175100/turpentine-mango-seeds

thanks guys. I have no idea what type of mango I liked so much. They were left for us at work by a client. They are smooth and pretty and kind of oval shaped. Zero blemishes. Very sweet, not stringy on the inside. My friend described the inside as " almost like an orange gel " If the client ever leaves more I'll ask her. The two mango trees in the front of the property I live on were grown from seed. They are about 7 yrs old and taste good. I rarely have any from those since I usually have a ton from the tree in my part of the rental property. different variety than my tree. The tree by my back door is about 15 yrs old. Its 2 feet out my back door so I always hear them thump as they hit my roof. lol.

Hmmm, better be careful Mia,...maybe the squirrels and rabbits hear those bumps as well ! lol

Once they are ripe, they are delicious.

Totally disagree with that. They are less awful, but still like eating a resinous scrubby with a few drops of mango juice dripped on. Different strokes. They were grown extensively in the Ft. Myers area in the old days to provide leaves for feeding rhesus monkeys in labs, never for the fruit. They might make good root stock for grafting--I don't know about that, but I do know that eating one is enough to put most folks off mangos forever. If the only mango I could grow were a turpentine variety, I'd just give up mangos entirely.

true jofus.