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["Harrick, Barbara (N-International Launch Svcs)" <barbara.harrick@lmco.com>]

Hi all. Does anyone have any experience with bringing container growing mango trees indoors for the winter? I live in Northern Virginia, zone 6b.

 

I have a 2-3 year old mango that has come inside for the winter and it has lost quite a few leaves—maybe even half.  I have it about 4 feet away from a humidifier in front of a sunny window with it’s mandarin orange tree companion.

 

The leaves have gotten dry from the outside in and then fall off.  It was originally right in front of a SW facing window, and I moved it back behind the larger mandarin as it looked sunburnt.  When it was outside, it was on the same side of the house, but the other end, so it is getting stronger sunlight, but a little less of it than when it was outside.

 

Does anyone know if the leaves will grow back indoors, or will it wait until it’s regular leafing in the summer?

 

Thanks, Barbara

 

Barbara Harrick

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