Digging up in ground mangos. Bad choice?

mullenium · Joined: 01 Apr 2010 Posts: 192

I think we are going to move at the end of the year, either to Portland or back home to San diego.. I we go San diego I can keep all my Tropicals, and would want to pot up my 3 year old in ground mangos to take with me, but will it harm the trees? How hard is it to dig the up without causing too much stress or eve death?

Ie already dug up my dwarf girardi mulberry, raja puri banana pup, and suebell sapote and put them in 4 gal pots on the east side of the house where my other potted trees are

Typos = ipad

Dauntless · Joined: 20 Nov 2010 Posts: 174 Location: Mesa, AZ

Just curious as to why you are digging your plants up now. It seems kind of early if you aren't planning on moving until the end of the year.

mullenium · Joined: 01 Apr 2010 Posts: 192

well we are going to do a short sale to get out of our house.. and anything planted in the ground when potential buyers check out the house must stay.. so i need to get them in pots soon.. and i want them acclimated in pots quick and the less time spent having their roots growing in ground i think is ideal since less chance to rip critical roots

Dauntless · Joined: 20 Nov 2010 Posts: 174 Location: Mesa, AZ

That explains it. Good luck!

phoenixtropicals · Posted: Fri Jul 01, 2011 11:06 pm Post subject:

I think you'll want to keep them in the shade after potting them. Just try to keep the root ball in tact as much as possible. You might have some trouble getting into California with them. Which is interesting because California is much more a source of plant diseases than AZ is, and AZ doesn't check when your coming the other way. We'll miss you man.. sniffle. Growing plants in San Diego will of course be a 100 times easier than here, that is if you can afford a house with a yard.

mullenium · Joined: 01 Apr 2010 Posts: 192

yeah its so expensive there..

looks like the nam doc mai took the transplant great.. the Glenn which is 1 year older started to lose some leaves and they all look brownish and drying up.. hopefully it makes it.. but 1 out of 2 wont be too bad lol

should I feed it B1? or just plain ol water?

phoenixtropicals · Posted: Wed Jul 06, 2011 10:03 pm Post subject:

I would not give it any kind of fertilizer. I generally think of fertilizer being for plants that are already nice and healthy and you want them to be a bit more vigorous. For plants that are in shock, the last thing you want to do is fertilize them.

Okay, okay, I'll admit that fertilizer is also useful to treat deficiencies and help a plant be healthy when its not doing well sometimes. However, a newly transplanted plant has one main problem and that is that it has just been transplanted. You want to keep things as gentle for it as possible and fertilizers generally cause plants stress because they change the chemistry of the soil and the plant has to adjust.

I don't know where this vitamin B1 thing comes from. Seems like the nurseries are always pushing that. I don't know if its just a way for them to make money or if there is actually some science behind it.

phoenixtropicals · Posted: Wed Jul 06, 2011 10:14 pm Post subject:

I found an interesting article on garden myths. Seems like B1 has not been scientifically proven to be beneficial.

http://www.coopext.colostate.edu/4dmg/Garden/beware.htm