Red leaves on last flush of the year.

Its looking healthy Stan those redish leaves look great against the green leaves. Fingers crossed for next year for you.

Thanks Penny. I watered and fertilized it hoping to get the most height out of this flush. Wont do it again until May. Well,it might start in April..but the cooler weather means the flush doesn't look like this until about May.

Thats great Stan lets hope it continues keep the good work up fertilzing and watering.

It looks great! Is it 10 ft tall yet?

I thought you posted fruit last year...or was it the year before?

2 years ago it had fruit. 3 years ago it had fruit too. last year no flowering and it grew 3'+ in one year.
So in 5 years in ground its grown from like 2' stick after a 2012 hard frost killed it back in its pot..to planted out and about 9+..maybe 10' by the time this flush greens.
I never thought the day would come and I would have a mango 10' in ground and adult sized fruit. Even if it is Manila now and not Baileys.
Really,if some slugs or rodents ( I bet rodent) hadn't eaten the top crown of my Papaya's- they would have survived last winters rain. But once they defoliated...they were too easy to be eaten. I wish I had known that.

Ok, two year ago. Wow! Time sure flies by!

That a really good growth rate. May one day you can graft several varieties on to that true. I saw a lady prune a mango tree that had 6 or 8 varieties of fruit on it, on YouTube. It was in Florida.

Papayas need to be tried more in the SF Bay Area. I think they have more of a chance to survive now that the temps there are milder than ever.

Papayas can be eaten lot of bugs. Sow bugs are the worst problems from me. I did see on a Jake Mace video that if you give the bugs something to eat in the soil, they won't eat the plants.

Since seeing the Fremont Mango..they do need sunup to sundown full sun. Mine gets morning to 4pm full sun..then the Sapote shades it. I prune the Sapote since I dont need hundreds of fruits,and that helps 2 problems. Excess Sapote fruit,and more warm for the Mango.
The Fremont Mango see's the sunset...that lots of extra summer warm.
Also- 5 years ago I would have planted that Mango closer to the viewer,and more sun. But! 5 years ago,I had a different set up. Pre Studio. Funny- that mango has one large branch growing forward to that very spot.

Yes, mango is a full-day sun-lover. It must have it to thrive.

Sapote tree always produce tons of fruit. They produce enough fruit to supply the whole neighborhood.

The location of the Mission San Jose Fremont mango is definitely in an optimal location. It gets a lot of reflected heat beside the natural heat there. I'm guessing one day that tree will be very large. If it's taken care of, and allowed to grow large.

Well, we live and learn about plants, trees with experience. I know I learned my lesson with the Keitt mango I killed by having it shaded out.