Overview

Cultivate your very own tropical delight with the Nam Doc Mai Thai Mango live plant. Renowned as Thailand’s most popular mango variety, this grafted fruit tree offers an exceptional culinary experience right from your garden or patio. The ‘Nam Dok Mai’ mango is celebrated for its incredibly sweet taste, potent aroma, and remarkably low fiber content, making each bite a smooth, succulent pleasure. This live plant is ready to grow and produce its distinct oval-shaped fruits, which ripen to a beautiful dark yellow flesh. Whether you’re an experienced gardener or a budding enthusiast, growing a grafted mango tree care is a rewarding endeavor that brings exotic flavors to your table.

Our Nam Doc Mai Thai Mango live plant is carefully grafted, ensuring it retains the desirable characteristics of the parent plant and often leads to earlier fruit production. This particular variety is well-suited for container growing, making it a versatile choice for various climates and spaces. Imagine harvesting your own sweet, aromatic mangoes, perfect for fresh eating, smoothies, or desserts. This tropical fruit tree is not just a source of delicious fruit, but also an attractive addition to any landscape or sunroom, providing lush green foliage and a touch of the tropics.

Key Benefits

The Nam Doc Mai Thai Mango live plant offers a multitude of benefits for the home gardener and fruit lover alike. From its delectable fruit to its ornamental appeal, this tree is a fantastic investment in your edible landscape.

• Exceptional Fruit Quality: Enjoy the superior taste of ‘Nam Dok Mai’ mangoes, known for their intensely sweet flavor, strong pleasant aroma, and exceptionally low fiber content. The soft, dark yellow flesh is a true gourmet experience.
• Grafted for Early Production: Our grafted plants are bred to mature faster and produce fruit sooner than seed-grown trees, allowing you to enjoy your first harvest much quicker. This also ensures true-to-type fruit characteristics.
• Versatile Growing Options: This mango tree thrives in containers, making it suitable for patios, balconies, or even indoors in colder climates. This allows for easy relocation to protect it from frost or to optimize sunlight exposure.
• Ornamental Appeal: Beyond its fruit, the Nam Doc Mai Thai Mango live plant is a beautiful tree with lush green foliage, adding a tropical aesthetic to your home or garden. Its vibrant presence enhances any outdoor or indoor space.
• Unique Culinary Ingredient: Homegrown mangoes provide a fresh, healthy ingredient for a variety of dishes, from exotic salads and salsas to refreshing drinks and desserts. The distinct flavor of this sweet mango plant elevates any recipe.
• Rewarding Gardening Experience: Growing your own tropical fruit tree from a live plant is an incredibly satisfying hobby, connecting you with nature and providing fresh, organic produce.

Plant Care & Growing Tips

Proper grafted mango tree care is essential for a healthy and productive plant. The ‘Nam Dok Mai’ mango thrives in warm environments and requires specific attention to watering, soil, and fertilization. Mangos enjoy average temperatures between low 60s to high 90s Fahrenheit. Provide good air circulation and some light penetration for optimal health.

When it comes to watering, a few times a week during warmer months is ideal, reducing to once every two weeks in winter. The key is consistent moisture without waterlogging. For soil, mangos prefer a wide variety of mixtures with excellent drainage. If growing in a container, use a lightweight and nutritive potting soil. A recommended mixture is 40% compost, 40% mulch/peat moss, and 20% sand and perlite. Ensure the pot has good drainage, possibly by adding larger pieces of broken pottery or crushed gravel at the bottom. This specialized soil helps in growing a healthy container mango growing specimen.

Fertilize your mango tree in spring, summer, and fall. Young mango trees need higher doses of nitrogen, while fruit-bearing trees require higher doses of phosphorus and potassium (like a 5-8-10 NPK ratio) to promote flowering and fruiting. Organic options like compost, rock phosphate, guano, blood meal, bone meal, seaweed, or potassium sulfate can provide these crucial nutrients. This balanced feeding regimen is critical for the success of your sweet mango plant.

Size & Details

This offering is for a Nam Doc Mai Thai Mango live plant, which is a grafted specimen. It is provided in either a 6-inch pot or a 3-gallon pot, with the 3-gallon size being similar to the product pictures. Grafted trees generally offer robust growth and earlier fruiting compared to seed-grown plants. The mature size of a ‘Nam Dok Mai’ mango tree can vary depending on growing conditions and whether it is planted in the ground or kept in a container. When container-grown, it can be maintained at a manageable size, typically reaching 6-10 feet tall, allowing for easier harvesting and protection from adverse weather. In optimal conditions in the ground, it can grow larger.

The tree will arrive ready to be transitioned to its permanent growing location, whether that’s a larger pot or directly into your garden if your climate permits. Expect the tree to establish itself and begin producing fruit within a few years, given proper care and fertilization. The Nam Doc Mai Thai Mango live plant is a long-term investment that provides continuous yields of delicious, high-quality fruit.

Frequently Asked Questions

• Q: How big does this plant get? A: When grown in a container, a Nam Doc Mai Thai Mango live plant can typically be maintained at 6-10 feet tall. If planted in the ground in a suitable climate, it can grow larger, but container growing allows for size management.
• Q: What size pot does it come in? A: This plant is available in either a 6-inch pot or a 3-gallon pot, with the 3-gallon size being similar to the pictures. You will receive a healthy, established plant ready for its new home.
• Q: Is this an indoor or outdoor plant? A: The Nam Doc Mai Thai Mango live plant is a tropical fruit tree. It can be grown outdoors in USDA Zones 9-11 or in warm, frost-free climates. In colder regions, it thrives as a container plant that can be moved indoors during winter.
• Q: How much sunlight does it need? A: This tropical fruit tree requires full sun, meaning at least 6-8 hours of direct sunlight per day, especially for optimal fruit production. Good air circulation and light penetration are also important.
• Q: Is this plant easy to care for? A: While not extremely difficult, proper grafted mango tree care involves attention to watering, soil drainage, and fertilization. With the right conditions, it can be a relatively easy and rewarding plant to grow for fruit enthusiasts.
• Q: What condition will it arrive in? A: Your Nam Doc Mai Thai Mango live plant will arrive well-packaged and healthy, similar to the pictures provided. It will be rooted in its nursery pot, ready for transplanting.
• Q: How long until it blooms and produces fruit? A: As a grafted plant, it typically begins to bloom and produce fruit within 2-4 years of planting, much faster than a tree grown from seed. Consistent care and proper fertilization contribute to earlier fruiting.
• Q: What’s the minimum temperature this plant can tolerate? A: Mango trees are sensitive to frost. They prefer temperatures above 60°F and can tolerate brief dips into the low 30s°F, but prolonged cold will damage or kill the plant. It’s best to protect it from temperatures below 40°F.
• Q: Can I grow this sweet mango plant in a small space? A: Yes, this container mango growing variety is well-suited for smaller spaces like patios, balconies, or even large sunny rooms, as its size can be managed through pruning when grown in a pot.
• Q: What kind of soil is best for a Nam Doc Mai Thai Mango live plant? A: A well-draining, lightweight, and nutritive potting mix is best, especially for container growing. A blend of compost, mulch/peat moss, sand, and perlite provides excellent drainage and nutrients.