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Is my mango flowering?

 
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I just got this baby mango tree (Nam Doc Mai cultivar) this early summer.  Potted it up and a couple weeks ago it started pushing a big bud of growth.  Now there are little leaves and a stem (Yay).  Near where the leaves come off the stem are some little doohickeys that look like flower buds.  Sorry that the picture is a bit blurry.

Are they flowers?  Should I trim them off to avoid a teenage pregnancy or to avoid the plant wasting energy on flowers?  Or are they branches of leaves that will eventually push growth as well?
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Well, it's been two weeks and I was on vacation for the last week.  It's clearly a flower.  Now what to do about it?  Most of the leaves that came along with the flower have dropped.  Should I do anything or just let it do its thing?
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Never grown a mango only seen the trees on holiday, but I would cut that off, that poor little tree can't manage to produce fruit at that size.
 
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Thanks Skandi!  I'm just not sure if the central stem of the new growth is part of the tree.  Or in other words, if I cut that off, will it have to form new branches?  

I don't plan to let it fruit any time soon.  I'm just trying to help it avoid expending energy unnecessarily.  
 
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