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✅ General Description:
Thailand All Season Mango, also known as Nam Dok Mai or Four Season Mango, is a premium Thai variety famous for its ability to fruit multiple times a year. It is known for its sweet taste, fiberless pulp, and beautiful yellow skin when ripe.
🌱 How to Plant:
- Location: Choose a spot with full sunlight (at least 6–8 hours daily).
- Soil: Well-drained loamy or sandy soil; avoid waterlogging.
- Planting Method:
- Dig a hole: 1.5 ft x 1.5 ft x 1.5 ft.
- Mix soil with compost or cow dung before planting.
- Place the grafted sapling carefully; don’t cover the grafting point.
- Water immediately after planting.
- Spacing: Maintain a distance of 12–15 ft between plants if planting multiple.
📏 Plant Size:
- At planting (grafted): 1 to 2.5 feet tall.
- Mature size: 8 to 12 feet in home gardens (pruned); can grow taller if left unpruned.
- Growth Rate: Medium to fast under proper care.
🥭 Fruiting Time:
- First Fruiting: Usually in 2–3 years after planting (as it’s grafted).
- Main Season: Typically April to June.
- Special Feature: Can bear fruits 2–3 times a year under optimal tropical conditions.
- Yield: Increases with age; mature trees can yield 50–200+ mangoes per year.
🌴 Plant Type:
- Type: Semi-dwarf to medium-sized grafted mango tree.
- Fruit Characteristics:
- Shape: Elongated and curved.
- Skin: Smooth and golden-yellow.
- Taste: Sweet, fiberless, and aromatic.
- Use: Best eaten fresh, also good for juicing and desserts.
🌿 Caring Tips:
- Watering:
- Regular watering in the first year.
- Reduce watering in winter; increase during flowering and fruiting.
- Fertilizer:
- Apply organic compost twice a year.
- Use mango-specific NPK fertilizer (15:15:15) every 3 months.
- During flowering, switch to low nitrogen, high potassium fertilizer.
- Pruning:
- Remove suckers and dead/diseased branches yearly.
- Shape the tree to allow air and light inside the canopy.
- Pest & Disease Control:
- Use neem oil or organic pesticide to prevent common mango pests like mealybugs or hoppers.
- Ensure proper air circulation and avoid overwatering.
- Mulching:
- Use dry leaves or coconut husk around the base to retain moisture and suppress weeds.
💡 Special Note:
- This variety is ideal for home gardens and terrace planting in containers (use 25–30 inch pots).
- Can be grown in hot and humid climates like India, Thailand, and Sri Lanka.
- It is one of the few varieties that can fruit multiple times, making it popular among mango lovers.