Mango grafts are prepared in Mango nursery from mother plants

and maintained for one year or till the graft goes in to the field.

Mango grafts are maintained and managed so that they reach

healthy, vigorous, attractive and salable size and stage at the end

of one year.

Training is the removal and management of plant parts like

branches to develop its robust tree structure while Pruning is the

removal of plant parts with specific objectives like altering

metabolism, controlling growth, preventing diseases etc. 

Introduction

• Training develops robust plant structure, optimizes light utilization

promotes efficient, sustainable and economic management

including easy management of intercultural operations.

• Young plants are staked to for straight growth and strong frame

work. Training of tip of main stem at a predefined height also

improves the framework. Root-stock sprouted water suckers and

dead wood are removed to control undesired growth.

• During the training operations, Cuts are pasted with Bordeaux

paste to avoid disease causing fungal growth.

Training

• Pruning is removal of diseased, dry and crisscross twigs and

branches. It makes spraying and other maintenance easier to

obtain healthy plant growth. The best time to take up pruning

operations is at the onset of monsoon. i.e. August.

• Pruning is practiced to maintain the canopy size so that other

nursery plants are not affected. It stimulates initiation of new

branches thus making the plant balanced and attractive.

• Mango grafts sometimes produce inflorescence which should be

removed to attain proper plant growth.

Pruning:

• Roots grow with age of plant and therefore plants need repotting

into new bags/pots of larger size. Root pruning is done before plant

being repotted into bigger bags/ pots.

• Plants have hair like roots and matured roots. Hair roots absorb

water and minerals while matured roots support the plants.

Excessive removal of hair roots causes starvation for nutrients while

removal of main roots can cause loss of support.

• Removal up to 30 % mass of hair roots is recommended in root

pruning. Root Pruning and or stem pruning should be done in a

favorable climate.

Root Pruning: