Hi there. First time on this forum. Need a little help. We bought our mango tree a year ago and immediately put it in the ground. It seems to be doing well until the start of this year. Leaves seems to be brown spots and top branch starts to dry out. I havent water it a lot because i read that they dont need a lot of watering. I water it maybe once a week. Is that enough? I jusr bought some fertilizer for fruit tree but iam not sure if theres more i need to do. We live is orange county ca. Socal Thanks

The most common problem with Mangoes is Anthracnose. You need Copper-Oxychloride sprays then Mancozeb sprays alternate beteewn the two every 14 days during the wet season.

Greetings, and sorry to hear about the mango change-ups. To answer your question: I still can't entirely figure out what the deal with mine is. The above suggestions to ensure full drainage helped a lot, but didn't entirely resolve my plant weirdness -- which has become something I sort of live with anymore. I'm starting to wonder if it isn't perhaps the mango response to heat and variations of that. I notice in colder months the new growth die-back is fairly regular, and less frequent (yet still visible) as things heat up. The browning of the new leaf tips and eventual drop-off is frustrating, but clearly not (necessarily) fatal: The plant continues to hang in there throughout winter, and manages to grow in spring and summer despite some of the new stuff checking out. As I say, weird, but nothing too bad. Tried soap-based insecticides in case that might be it; Neem oil solutions as well (the latter of which helps a bit, but doesn't eradicate the problem). Apart from that, I just keep an eye on it and let it do as it will. So far so good, and in any case less fragile than my papaya plants. Man, I'm scared to even look at them in fear they'll decide to get sick on me again!

This is how they look now. before leave drying and falling, cant identify if its pest or so.e disease Leaves falling