blessings of Rome this is Christina from the rod vantage comm registered Holistic Nutritionist raw food lifestyle coach and raw chef today I'm gonna teach you how to grow your very own mango tree alright so this is a really fun project you can do anywhere in the world of course if you're in a cold climate like I am it's gonna be an indoor plant he'll probably never fruit unless you have really specific soil and temperatures and you know your stuff but it's a beautiful house plant if you are in a subtropical or tropical environment you can grow it indoors and as it gets a little bit bigger planted outside all's fair game now where to start is selecting your mango so I have 4 different varieties here to choose from some of my absolute favorites I have some atoll foes from Mexico I have some kaze ours from India I have some Kent's from Mexico and then I have some Pakistani honey mangoes those were my favorite ever and that's what I'm actually gonna grow this fruit tree from so it all starts in the best places eating the mango get messy have fun enjoy the mango just save the pit once you're done you'll clean up the pit maybe using a brush in some water and there's two ways you can do this either you can put the mango seed out in the Sun or in the dehydrator for about a week and dry it I'm not as familiar with that technique so I'll give instructions on the written post for that but what we're gonna be doing here instead is you can stir it the shell either by cutting thin lines in it so that some water can get inside or you can very carefully break the pit open and expose the actual seedling take the seedling put it in a glass or jar of water for 24 hours you want pure water no chlorine so either distilled or spring water after 24 hours take it out slightly damp in a paper towel will wrap up the seed and place it into a ziplock bag you can leave the corner of the ziplock bag open just a little bit or cut one of the bottom corners off I just like to leave the top open so I can actually save the bag place the bag in a nice warm dark place which is on top of your fridge and just forget about it for a week now one of the reasons why the other method is sometimes preferred is this way the soaking way from a fresh mango sometimes will mold and the mold you'll probably have to start it again but if you're lucky and I have been most the time at the end of that week you'll have a beautiful sprouting mango seed now you want to get a nice sized pot put some soil in there and if it's cold make sure it comes to room temperature maybe a potting mix or a mix of soil from your backyard with some nice fresh compost place the pit into the pot about six to eight inches down so there's an inch of soil on top of the seed stem and up so that's the stem end or the biggest end of the mango pit make sure you keep the soil moist but not waterlogged if you want to use the soak water from other sprouts that can help and bring a lot of nutrition for the plant and sit back and watch it grow and grow it's a beautiful thing to sprout and grow trees from the fruit that you've been eating make that connection and if you can plant them outside you know start some more fruit trees out there if all of us planted even one or two fruit trees every single year imagine the abundance is going to come for our children and our children's children it all starts with us I hope you enjoy this video let me know if you'd like to see me planting and growing more fruits from seed check out this avocado tree I have I've done some mango trees I've done some dates have done some noni trees it's all a lot of fun so I hope you guys really enjoy wishing you much peace loving seasonal fruit I think mango tree go on plant some fruit trees whoo-hoo don't forget to check out my newest video in the top left the video just for you in the top right subscribe on the bottom right at your two free e-books in the bottom left grab my free iphone app comes with 50 free recipes common fruit vegetable carrier breakdown a food combining chart shopping cart function and much much more