Congrats to your new Mangosteen. The plant looks good--with a straight stem and healthy leaves. I'm sure it will do very well with your tropical climate. Heard the fruit has a lot of health benefits and they sell the juice of it in the health stores here. So, how old does the plant start to produce fruit?

Funny you should mention the health aspects of mangosteen. Here on GW nearly every page I visit there's an advertisement for Australian Mangosteen juice as being the answer to a super healthy life. Personally, I think adding a lot of any fruit to your diet is very beneficial, except making for you resistant to being run over by a bus.

My soil is very poor (like a lateritic gravel). So what I'll be doing with the mangosteen is drilling a large hole and filling it with a sandy loam mixed with charcoal and large animal bones.

Where I bought they tree I was told it is only a couple of years off flowering. I'm hoping, but will also be sprinkling a bit of Epsoms Salts to help.

That's awesome. Good luck.

Thanks Tylorgv. I'm still unsure of the exact spot for it, but have until the rainy season to decide. That's when it's best to plant.