How to germinate your own Mango seeds.

As a follow up on my last post and its participation in this competition I wanted to show how easy it is to germinate your own Mango seeds. And also how much fun it is as well... very rewarding 3 minutes!

Here are six steps from the seed out of the fruit to a seed that will germinate within 20 Days in a warm place. Make shure you use a Mango seed that is fairly clean from from the slippery Mango pulp.

Animated process, detailed in images below.

Step one.

Find the hairy bumb on the side of the seed.

Step two.

Slide a knife inside of the seeds hard shell right next to that hairy pump, as you will find there is a kind of an entrance. Be very careful, not to hurt yourself, as the Mango seed is very slippery. Also don't slide it in to deep, as you may injure the seed itself.

Step three.

Once the knife is in, give it a gentle twist to open the hard shell. Use your fingers to open the rest.

This moment is magical. In this very woody and tough seed shell you find the huge bean shaped mango seed with a husk covering the seed. It always reminds me of a little baby being well protected in the mothers whoom.

Step four.

Wrap the seed into damp to moist paper towel or toilet paper.

Step five.

Place the wrapped seed into a transparent plastic bag to retain moisture and increase warmth through a micro greenhouse effect.

Step six.

In 20-30 days the seed should be germinated and can be transplanted when the first leaves show.

Thanks to my wonderful wife I can show you this process in beautiful photos she took while I was performing this little demonstration. Usually I pull out my smar phone camera... You can really feel the difference.