Mango seed

Three weeks ago, one of my work colleagues planted a mango seed in a plastic cup and by five days later, he was giving out unsolicited tutorials on how to germinate a seed. He even gave the cup a name.

Three weeks later, nothing had sprouted and was never going to sprout.

The flat hard part you get from the mango is not the seed as I have always thought, instead it is simply a casing for the seed. It is a relatively thick, fibrous and tough to the touch outer layer that the actual seed is contained within and don't expect to find the seed until the outer layer has completely decayed and the seed has had enough time to germinate. It will be completely undisturbed and unaffected by your time schedule. Compliance with your schedule to get through the outer layer of the seed will take a longer period of time. After breaking through the outer layer of the mango seed, you should plan for an additional extended period of time before you can expect to see a sprout from the soil.

Experiencing how wrong I had been my whole life about how long it takes for a mango seed to germinate, after eating so many mangos, well it was funny but disappointing.

One week is not nearly long enough and two weeks may not be long enough to create anything at all. You can expect the seed to germinate very quickly, but you should not anticipate that you will speed it up by expecting a quicker process. Doing so will only add unnecessary disappointment to a process that naturally takes its own time and will move through its process at its own natural speed.

Mangos are never rushed. It has nothing to do with being stubborn, it is just the nature of how they are.

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