[MikeHardman]

What are the chances of my growing and fruiting mango in Cyprus?
I saw some nice young plants in a garden centre in Paphos yesterday -

[David Bracey]

Mike, avocadoes grow on the Cote d`Azur , near Menton and I think they are grown commercially in Granada  but I`m not sure about mangoes. They may be grown in Granada as well and Israel so have a go. David.

[MikeHardman]

Thanks David.

This page provides some useful info - http://www.canarius.com/blog/tag/mango.
It suggests mango will grow in Cyprus, there are many culitvars to choose from, may be best to look for a grafted named cultivar, Gomera-1 is a useful rootstock because of enhanced cold adaptation (all things relative), etc.
Notwithstanding that useful info, I would be very pleased to hear from anybody who grows mangoes or has grown them in the past, successfully or not.

[John J]

Mike, you can certainly grow Mango in Cyprus, in fact they can often be obtained from the Forestry Dept fruit tree nursery up near Athalassa Park in Nicosia. Actually I tend to get most of my plants, and certainly any that may take a bit of sourcing from Yiannos Orphanos. I currently have a couple of very small Mango trees establishing. I do have one that produces that I grew from a stone that a Jamaican friend gave me. The books all say that trees grown this way take 7 years to produce and the fruit tastes like turpentine. My stone germinated, grew steadily to about 2 metres and then went into suspended animation for 2 years. When it woke up again it produced 2 fruit about 7/8 years after sowing. The following year we had 27. As for the taste, I've never been tempted to sample turpentine but I'm sure it doesn't taste as good as they did. I did write an article for the Journal about this but I can't remember which edition it was printed in!

[JTh]

I found some references to an article in the MGS journal by using the search function at the MGS website, which resulted in this info: mango: 9 9; 26 51; 42 51, 52, 61; 55 50,

By looking at the content of the four isues (9, 26, 42 and 55), I found in number 42 (from October 2005) an article called A Matter of Taste by John Joynes, could it be this one?

[John J]

Spot on, Jorun, well done. That's the one.

[HansA]

Here two larger trees which were planted last year - the colour of new leaves vary in both plants - so I suppose they belong to two different kultivars.

[MikeHardman]

Thank you guys!

[Joannis]

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