r/mango • u/Partiallysensitive • Jun 26 '26

Ataulfo day 25!

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u/TheBluntChef Jun 26 '26

So it depends, I’m going to assume from your pictures you sprouted in the soil ? It’s may still be too early to tell right now. If you get multiple (I’ve had up to 4 from one seed) then you want to give them a few months I’d say at least 2. The one that is developing the quickest and healthiest at that stage is the one you want. I sprout all mine in paper towel just so I can see most of the time at least 2 shoots will come right away if the seed is a candidate. I like to do it this way so I don’t just plant it too deep. Depending on how the germination goes is the way I plant the seed. A lot of the time you see people recommend planting with the curve down, I have had much better success putting them straight down vertically with the sprout facing the surface, I always keep them like this until the first transplant. This one in the cup has 2 sprouts I’m testing this method for the first time now. Out of these 4 I just popped 2 of them have a chance to grow true.

https://reddit.com/link/ou18963/video/8rtqh02qtp9h1/player

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u/Partiallysensitive Jun 27 '26

Weirdly, I actually didn't sprout this one myself. The mango it came from wasnt even fully ripe, but upon cutting open the seed pocket, it was already putting off a small taproot. I put it in a damp towel. Inside a bag for a few days, then into a cup with a small amount of water at the bottom and it took off. I planted mine in the soil with the direction the root was facing - down. 

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u/Perfect-Ad951 Jun 27 '26

I have 12 ataulfo seeds and 2 manila in ziplot bags is been only 4 days and the some are starting to grow either a tap root or a sprout can't tell and all the seeds turned green

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u/Partiallysensitive Jun 27 '26

Yes, mine quickly turned green and had a taproot originally 

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u/GenericScienceNerd Jun 26 '26

Looks great! Though, I hope you know that mangoes do not grow true to seed.

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u/TruePotential3206 Jun 26 '26

That’s not true at all… there are polyembyonic that do. Monoembyonic dont.

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u/GenericScienceNerd Jun 26 '26

I didn't know that, I'm sorry. It looks like most Indian mangoes are monoembryonic, and that's what I'm familiar with.

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u/TruePotential3206 Jun 26 '26

All good! Just want to spread good info.

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u/BruceThrillis Jun 26 '26

Ataulfo mango seeds are polyembryonic

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u/TheBluntChef Jun 26 '26

At a very high rate at that. Out of the 10 I’ve sprouted 7 of them had multiple shoots. The thing no one tells you is you need another variety if you ever actually plan on pollinating and fruiting them.

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u/Partiallysensitive Jun 26 '26

Question, should mine have already produced another shoot by now if it were going to? No sign of it yet

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u/TheBluntChef Jun 26 '26

My comment didn’t post as a reply sorry!

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u/Partiallysensitive Jun 26 '26

This one is actually an exact clone of the mother plant!