Gday, I have a massive mango tree that’s probably 40 or so years old. It was about 8 or 9 metres tall and had become unmanageable. I had an arborist take the top off it so it’s about 5 metres tall as the power to the street was running through it.
It’s ugly and a terrible shape and I’d like to cut it right back so I can manage it into a symmetrical shape and collect all the fruit.
I’m in Brisbane.
I plan to cut it about 2m tall and take all branches back to 2 large trunks sometime during winter. It will be 2 metres tall until it branches off into 2 major trunks (1.5ft diameter) for another metre.
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If that’s wrong can I please get some advice how best to attack it.
Thanks
by chookshit
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My comment is completely from an uneducated point, but that’s an aggressive cutback, and I can’t see how it will come back.
My tree is about the same age and size, I use extendable secateurs to get the higher ones. Whatever I don’t get, the fruitbats and possums can have.