Mangois a fruit that many people enjoy eating, but the leftover mango pits also have a lot of uses, they can be used as traditional Chinese medicine or grown as potted plants.Below, I will give a detailed explanation on how to grow a mango pit into a potted plant, teaching you how to turn a mango pit into an affordable and beautiful potted plant.

1 Choose fully ripe mango pits and save them. Clean the leftover fruit flesh from the surface thoroughly and let them air dry in a well-ventilated area at home.

2 Use scissors to cut open the hard outer shell of the pit, revealingA piece of breadwrapped aroundCoffee-coloreda film-covered seed. Some people say you need to remove this layer of film, but it turns out that this is unnecessary and an overstep.

This is a mango seed after germination; the white part exposed is the young root.

3 Soak the film-covered seed in clean water daily to prevent it from smelling bad. The amount of water should be enough to cover half the height of the seed.After about four days, the seed will start sprouting. When the white tender roots grow to the size shown in the picture, you can prepare to plant them in a pot.

4 Prepare a tall pot (because the potted mango tree will grow quite tall), fill it with moist and loose soil, then bury the root end of the young sprout into the soil. Leave just a small part of the sprout above the surface (remember to leave a portion exposed for growth).

5 Next, cover the soil with a thin layer of gravel or other small stones, water it thoroughly so that the soil is fully moistened, and place it in an indoor location with moderate light. Water the plant every one to two days.

6 The young sprout grows relatively quickly; after about eight days, it can grow up to ten to eighteen centimeters. At this point, you can move the pot to a sunny spot. After twenty days, it will have grown into a very beautiful potted plant.