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After Hurricane Ian blew through Southwest Florida in 2022, a grower named Mike walked into his backyard to find his three-year-old Glenn mango flat on the ground. Roots ripped halfway out of the sandy soil. … Read more
A woman named Sandra posted in a gardening group I follow last spring with a problem. Her landlord was about to pour a new driveway. Right where her seven-year-old Glenn mango tree was growing. She … Read more
My friend Elena ate an Ataulfo mango on her lunch break one Tuesday, looked at the pit sitting on her desk, and thought, “I wonder if I can grow this.” She wrapped the seed in … Read more
A guy named Ravi in a gardening group I follow once grew a mango from a seed he pulled out of a grocery store Alphonso. He babied that tree for eight years. Watered it perfectly. … Read more
A grower I follow online named Patricia shared something a few years ago that stuck with me. She had two mango trees in her yard near Fort Myers, Florida — same variety, same age, planted … Read more
A friend of mine named Joel has a ten-year-old mango tree in his backyard near Homestead, Florida. For years, the area under and around that tree was just bare dirt and patchy grass. He fought … Read more
During the February 2025 freeze in Texas, a grower named Ray watched the temperature on his patio thermometer drop to 16°F. He had three mango trees in his backyard near Houston. Two were young trees, … Read more
A guy named Marcus in a South Florida gardening group I follow posted something that stuck with me. He’d had a mango tree for seven years. Beautiful, tall, full canopy of dark green leaves. But … Read more
Last spring, a woman named Diana posted in a local gardening group I follow. She’d planted a beautiful grafted mango tree in her backyard two years earlier. It grew well the first year. Then the … Read more
A few years ago, my neighbor Carlos knocked on my door holding a small, wrinkled yellow mango. It looked nothing like the big red ones I’d been buying from the grocery store. He said, “Try … Read more
I’ll never forget the first time I saw a durian in person. A grower named Heng in Homestead, Florida, had been nursing his durian tree for over a decade. He invited me over when his … Read more
A friend of mine — let’s call her Priya — grows a massive jackfruit tree in her backyard in South Florida. She started it from seed about eight years ago. For the first few years, … Read more