Our mango trees were initiated entirely by ourselves. We bought several types of mango fruits that we liked and enjoyed eating in the local market. After eating them, we planted the seeds in containers and kept the containers under a baobab tree in the homestead where there was plenty of cool air circulating and occasional or streaks of sunshine.
After about one month the seeds sprouted under our eyes and started developing very well. When they were about one foot tall and we reckoned that the roots needed room to explore; we dug holes, put humus and transplanted them. We shaded them and watered them till we could see signs of new leaves coming up.
From then, we started treated them like other fruit trees on the farm. They developed very fast and during the beginning of the fourth year, we saw the first flowers which all fell off. Soon after the second lot of flowers came and stayed. At the end of the fourth year, we ate out first mangoes. They were big with varied colors and sizes and very sweet.
We had six types of mangoes compost of apple ones in red color, big green flat sided ones called Malindi, big green aromatic ones called Dodo, round yellow ones called Boribo, medium size ones called Ngowe and big yellow oval shaped ones. We had a total of six trees that is one of each type. The trees were about five feet tall. Cows too loved the fruit.
Birds built their nests on the trees. They were totally disease free. The region was dominated by mangoes.
We ate all that we harvested.