Sleepy Lizard you could convince anyone gardening is their newest passion. I'm so grateful I stumbled onto your videos. May you always be blessed with abundant and amazing crops. Thank you for sharing your knowledge. 🎶🙏😊 🤗💕💕💕
I'm literally eating a mango while watching your videos about mangos. MMMMMmmmmmmM... it tastes delicious, ssooooo sweet. With sweet aftertaste, but slightly sour, probably cuz I'm thirsty. 90% very soft and sweet, 5% sour and a little harder to bite, 5% mushy with weird sweetness. If I had to, I'd rate it 9,5/10. For 2.99 BGN or $1.45... $1.49, the mango was amazing and super duper enjoyable. I think I've been touching the mango way too much impatiently and made it slightly mushy in a few places, and it wasn't fully ripe, but oh well. I'm so much happier now, especially after watching your video. I haven't eaten it the whole mango, so I'll start watchin' the next vid. ...
Thank you Steve. Early in my career I took one of them competency tests and the results were that I should be a teacher or salesman. I chose salesman but teacher would have been good too.
Thank you for sharing your knowledge, I have recently become obsessed with mangos , probably my favorite fruit ever next to watermelon and I can’t wait to get started growing some mango trees! 🥭 🌴 🥭
There are so many delicious varieties to try also. And it's funny you compared to watermelon because that's right up there with Mango for me. A good watermelon is heaven.
Spiffy, we got more vids on that topic on the channel. Some came out great others not so much. the vid I'm publishing next Wednesday (10 days from now) tells the backstory of some of some popular varieties
@@SleepyLizard I will be heading to Key West with my family on July 2nd. I can't seem to find your farm address on the Internet. Is it on the way down from S.FL?
Aw shucks 😊. We'll get to know each other better when I get off my butt and figure out how to put on an entertaining live stream...working on getting the lighting and audio all worked out.
@@SleepyLizard great stuff. I love your fruit trees, l could eat half a doz of those mangoes right now. When can l come visit? Are there miniature trees that can grow in pots?
I love your videos!! Thank you for giving us new planters a Hope of being able to learn how to grow our own produce. I have planted my first Avocado plant. Now planting a Mango seed. May you be blessed with much abundance.
Katie M, Thank you so much for your compliment. For some reason I really enjoy making videos and it feels good to know other people enjoy them. Have a great weekend!
By following your instructions, do we need to graft the mango tree or not. I have about 6 polyembryonic seeds I'm starting, thank you for your answer!!!
@@SleepyLizard yes I have a pawa avocado tree they come from northern Mexico it’s funny cause I planted it from seed it’s 19 years old it’s been giving fruit for the past two years but the avocados are smaller and it doesn’t taste the same it’s about 20ft tall the funny part is it was a haas avocado seed and I got different different tree so now I’m searching for grafted hall avocado tree and a Monroe
Another great video...thank you sleepy 🦎. I'm looking for the grafted avocado and mango trees to go up for sale on your website 😉. I'm not giving up on the seeds I planted. But I would definitely buy a graft from your field. They look so sweet.
I got 6 different Mangos the other day from our Asian grocery store. I wish I had written the names down, This store is the only one that sells them with names. One was so good, so so good, omg I never tasted a Mango this good. It was red and green skin with lots of black spots on it. I almost didn't want to buy it, because of all the black spots, but boy was I glad I got it. No fiber that sticks to the teeth and a taste between pinapple and banana with a little citrus. One was not good at all and the other 4 were good, but not blowing my taste buds like this one. I will go back tomorrow and see if they still have those and get a whole box and also wirte the name down. I had no clue, Mangos could taste this good. I usually get my Mangos from Aldi, which are ok, but not overly exciting.
Every backyard mango I tasted in Miami was delicious. I wonder if they are mostly grafted, or if the success rate of mango is better than with avocados.
Thank you for sharing your knowledge! I have a question: I have some mangoes that I love called banginapalli mangos and also Rasalu mangoes, which are native to central India. I know these are monoembryonic. However, I want to plant them. I don't have a tree to graft from, I just have seeds. If I plant them, I may not get the variety that I want BUT will it still bear some kind of mango? I don't want to end up with no mangoes after 3/5/10 years. Thanks again!
most likely you will get mangos eventually but it's not guaranteed and they won't be identical to the two you mentioned. maybe similar, maybe very different.
Can u please tell me what I do after I eat it how to store the seed for laterals do I take it out the seed pod or leave it in and put in bag and in the refrigerator?
Hi Hawaiian, I put the whole pod in plastic shopping bags along with the skin from the avocados and keep them in a cool damp location but not the fridge. then when I'm feeling brave (because they stink). I will open the bag and plant the ones that germinated.
Your videos are great. Do you happen to know if pram kai mea is polyembryonic? My brother has one and I would like one. Also, I have an orange sherbet and don’t mind giving him one but google didn’t give me a definite answer. Thank you in advance.
LSanti, I'm not sure on that variety but you can tell by looking at the seed. I have a vid coming out in 3 weeks on how to tell if poly or mono embryonic
When looking for mangoes to Plant in a pot, is it necessary to only look for dwarf or semi dwarf trees or can i prune a nornal tree and keep it at a manageable height?
I love mangoes and I found your channel maybe a couple months ago I want to let you know that I planted nine mangoes a couple of them have two plants by one seed is this unusual I would love to send you pictures so you could see what I'm saying also I save my banana peels and peach pills and mango pills and I ground them all up and put it in with some dirt and then I kind of mixed the soil I wonder if that has any effect on the growth of them I'm quite new at this but you have inspired me I am 50 years old and now I'm in a wheelchair but I have great hands God bless and stay safe your videos are inspiring
Shelly, thanks for the comment. Many of my subscribers use gardening as a from of therapy to keep the body moving. Please stay close to the channel and update us on your progress.
Will the mango grow in the augusta ga area. I want to grow them here but I am told not here. Also, what kind are the small (1 1/2 - 2) inch yellow ones? Very good and I like them.
I live in Jacksonville and want to grow a Valencia pride and have a tree facing south and east wind against a cement wall do you think that’s a good microcliamte
mangos grow in usda hardiness zone 9b and above. Jacksonville is 9a so you're going to have a tough time growing mango up there. you guys get frosts and freezes and mango doesn't like that.
I live in a very small house, with an even smaller yard. I don't intentionally plant anything. Meaning I don't buy trees, transplants, seeds, etc. What I do is compost kitchen scraps in the yard. Some 5 gallon buckets for "worm bins". When the buckets are full, I dig holes, toss in kitchen scraps, and everything will compost underground. As a result, whatever grows; grows unintentionally. Every year, I get lots of great "accidental" produce. This year, for the first time ever, a mango seed sprouted and it's growing. Keep in mind that the average temperature in San Francisco is 55 degrees, it's overcast and foggy - not exactly the tropical conditions that mango needs. So I'm wishing, and hoping - that it actually grows.
yeah, mangos are real survivors in them compost pits. but yeah a bit to cold where you are to cultivate them. Although I know there are some nurseries working to create California varieties.
@@SleepyLizard I think that the University of California's ag program does a lot of work in that area. Rumor is that they have developed new figs which do not need a pollinator, and they are always working on avocado.
@@SleepyLizard As San Francisco real estate is much too expensive for me to ever dream of getting 10 acres, evicting everyone, bulldozing all of the little houses, then starting my own avocado and mango orchard.....I can only daydream. The more I learn, the more I believe that even if I get a plant, I won't get fruit. Watched an interesting presentation from Southern California on growing mango. th-cam.com/video/zxDp0QvbjzQ/w-d-xo.html There are no Northern California associations of crazy people growing tropical fruit in cold climate. Well, there is that guy in Canada with a TH-cam channel, who is claiming that he can grow mango in Canada.
I know you said that I live a little bit north in the augusta ga area but are there any dwarf varieties that I can get to grow in a greenhouse? The Mexican vegetable sellers at the flea market sell a kind of mango that is yellow and about 2 inches I do not know the variety they seem to come from Peru or Guatemala. Anyway, I'm trying to find out if I can get a dwarf varieties or keep a variety trimmed in a 8ft greenhouse?
D., you're in lucky. There's a guy up by you in GA growing mango and other tropical fruits indoors. Here's a vid showing his collection and his process. I suggest you reach out to him: th-cam.com/video/vbZDkQ4iAKI/w-d-xo.html
@@SleepyLizard Much thanks. Don't know if I'll ever be successful geting 'cados or mangos going in Ennis, TX but I'm at least learning some baby steps. Love your work man, your orchard, your trees, the fruit you produce is aMAZing! Wish I could get a coconut orchard growing in this part of TX. Could you imagine having a source of coconut, oil, water, milk & related resource in SHTF?
Hi Softsuga, the most common polyembryonic variety sold here in stores is Atulfo. You might find that in your local supermarket. to get a list of the rest I got this from google: 'Cambodiana', 'Carabao', 'Corazont, 'Paho', 'Pahutan', 'Pico', 'Senora' and 'Strawberry'
Great information, thanks for sharing. I have a question: how do you identify the fertilized seedling out of the many seedlings that sprout out of a poly embryonic seed? Can you explain that more in your great way of simplifying complex info please? Thanks in advance 🙏
Excellent video on Mangoes! I remember my friends in Maui, Hawai'i had a MASSIVE mango tree in their backyard and when I visited them & I was in HEAVEN! I ate mangoes all day, every day right off their tree. It was one of those old trees that was 30-40 ft tall & wide and an ENDLESS supply of mangoes. I also ate fresh pineapple, bananas and many other tropical fruits right from their yard! Can they be grown in a high tunnel/greenhouse in zone 8B??? Let me know when you have some grafted trees for sale and I will definitely purchase one to add to my collection of tropical fruits. LOVE MANGOES as much as I LOVE avocados!!! Keep your eyes on TS Else. Some of the models show it going up into your area. Some have it getting into the Gulf so WHO KNOWS where the storm will blow! Take care & hope you & your wife had a good fishing trip last week. Did you catch a boatload??? Hope you get things figured out to have another LIVE STREAM CHAT SESSION!! Just be sure you post a notification to let us know you are going to have it so we can "ALL" be there instead of having to watch the REPLAY. Keep up the great vids helping us gain knowledge on planting/growing tropical fruits! You are the BEST at explaining things in simple layman terms!
Deep South, Even though I just ate a lunch of homegrown mango and pineapple your description of you time in Hawaii makes me hungry for more! Mango is very sensitive to cold so zone 8b probably not gonna work for you. And yeah we been watching the storm and hoping it passes. We only fished for 15 minutes and engine trouble forced us back to the ramp. then we went home and got our little 10' Jon boat and went to a different pond and slayed 'em...got a bunch of bass! And yeah I will definitely publish my next livestream ahead of time...that was just to test the technology out. I'm already working on better lighting and audio and a few surprises. Great to hear from you.
@@SleepyLizard What is mangoes temp sensitivity level? I have a heated greenhouse/high tunnel with a fan to circulate the air that I keep all my tropical & other cold-sensitive plants in. I also have Sansi Full Spectrum Grow lights. When night-time temps near 40(F) I move my ginger, turmeric, horseradish, dragon fruit, papaya's, avocado into the heated section. I also raise my veggies all winter in this greenhouse/high tunnel (tomato, peppers, eggplant, etc.) after I prune them back from their summertime growth. I have tomatoes & bell peppers in their 3rd year of growing & still producing well. Lots of work to move them but you do what you have to do to have fresh veggies & someday, fruit, year-round. Glad you had a good day fishing, even with the engine trouble you had to start with. Our fishing has been horrible here with all the rain we have had since TS Claudette! We had over 20 inches of rain for the month of June and just had another 3.5 inches in less than 30 min to start off July! Rain every single day (even some thunderstorms) for the next 10 days according to my weather forecast. I have a 14 ft Jon boat with an 18 hp Tohatsu 4 stroke motor that gets me where I want to go WHEN THE RIVER ISN'T OUT OF THE BANKS like it is now. All the rain north of us comes down thru our river system and flows into the Gulf so it is treacherous to even think of going out there now. All of the fish are in the woods now, anyway...right in the peak of our bass/bream/shellcracker season! I may have to try some frogging a little later this month once the water recedes and I can get up into the backwater areas where they love to hang out on the banks. Nothing for me to get at least a cooler full every time I go out and I'm talking BIG BULLFROGS with legs the size of chicken legs! I don't fool with the small chumps, too much work for too little meat!! LOL!! I used to do a lot of flounder, reds, Spanish/King mackerel & Ling fishing but haven't been in several years. Would go 2-3 times a month when I had my cuddy cabin and could stay the night to fish the oil rigs. Love fishing almost as much as I love whitetail deer hunting and THAT is another LONG story!! LOL!! I'm very good at hunting and usually bag 3-4 per season, just what I need to fill the freezers for a year. A quick cutie...my late hubby got tired of cleaning all the deer I would harvest. I was gathering my gear for an afternoon hunt and he took the clip from my .44 magnum and left me ONE BULLET! He said that would assure him I would only have one shot (not uncommon for me to get two in my 40 acres of thick woods). He heard my shot and radioed me to see if I got anything so he could bring the 4 wheeler to load up. I told him no, I got them both! He said, Yeah, right...with one bullet?!?! Long story short, there were two deer standing side by side and my shot was into the front shoulders of the 1st deer into the front shoulder of the 2nd deer and put them both down. That is my go to sweet spot as it takes out their front legs, goes thru the heart/lungs and puts them down. (Sorry for the gruesome details but had to explain how I got two with one shot). He told that story so many times to all his hunting buddies and swore he tried everything he could, even giving me just ONE BULLET to curtail my harvesting but NOTHING worked with a sharpshooter like me! I have remarried now and my current hubby doesn't like to fish or hunt so I do it all by myself, launching/loading my boat & even cleaning/processing the fish/deer! I'm a backwoods REDNECK country gal that can do most anything any man around here can do. Still love my gardening & propagating which has taken priority in my life since I've gotten older. BUT "THIS COUNTRY GAL WILL SURVIVE...EVEN WHEN TIMES GET TOUGH!! Looking forward to your next Live Stream and HOPE IT IS SOON! LOL!
@@DeepSouthBamaGRITS , can you start breaking your comments into paragraphs? just hit the enter key twice between thoughts. My eyes are too old to follow a long column of text but I always love what you have to say and I want to be able to read it. Se here how I started a new paragraph? I hit "return" twice" Here's another one. thanks, Tom
@@SleepyLizard Sorry. When I am on my PC I just type away on my keyboard & never realized it was difficult to read. I used to take dictation (years ago) using a keyboard and could type as fast as someone could talk so that old habit stayed with me. I promise to do better when my comments are lengthy. What were the cold sensitivity temps for mangoes? Having the heated greenhouse/high tunnel I may be able to grow a mango tree in there as I start heating it when nighttime temps drop to 40(F). This is how I have 35-gallon + pots of ginger growing year-round & also keep my avocado trees alive. Were you able to muddle thru the email I sent asking about the avocado scions? I have 3 ungrafted trees that are 5 ft tall and one that is 3 ft tall, all with branches. Do I graft to a branch or do I have to cut them back & graft to the main trunk? They are in 35-gallon pots and are grown in the greenhouse/high tunnel year-round. PS: I edited the very long comment to make it easier to read. I have old eyes, too, so understand the need to break things down into paragraphs. Again, very sorry and I shouldn't go into things not related to the subject. I'm a loner here in the backwoods so I tend to get carried away and TALK TOO MUCH. I will refrain from doing so in my future comments & stay with the subject of your vids. Thanks, Bonnie
@@DeepSouthBamaGRITS oh so much easier, thank you. I haven't had a chance to parse your email yet, Mangos get fussy around 40f so you're right on the edge. As for your trees I would prune them and wait for new growth and graft onto that. Go ahead and tell me whatever you want. I always enjoy what you have to say...and now that you're breaking it into chunks my eyes can process it, thank you!
I hope you get a good one. Sometimes the store bought ones are crappy...like any other fruit you gotta get one from a. good batch. Report back and tell us if you liked it!
Have you tried getting some Thai mangoes seedling? We have one that can be eaten green and they are sweet! We also have one that we call it elephant mango because it’s long like elephant trunk.
As always another great video, especially for those of us just starting to get into planting Avocado and mango trees! I want to plant a mango tree, I live in Southern California and have a decent size back yard, my local nursery has Valencia Pride and Mallika trees available, I like the Valencia however I read that it grows to big, is it possible to keep it small without effecting it’s production? Sorry about the long paragraph I know your super busy and I admire you replying to your Fans!
Jim, both varieties are delicious. Valencia pride is one of my favorites. I wouldn’t worry about how big the tree grows on its own because you’ll be pruning it and shaping it anyhow. My neighbor has a Valencia pride Grove and he keeps the trees about 18 feet high by 16 feet wide and he has excellent production every year. In full disclosure this year his production wasn’t that good but that’s because we had a frost in our neighborhood. But usually he’s loaded with Valencias
As usual you always say the right things to calm a newbie’s fears, Thank you and looking forward to following you for years to come, because Avocados and Mangoes put a smile on peoples faces!
Is it ok to make grafting with a branch of a grown tree that is currently having fruit? I have both mango and avocado trees in my backayard, both have small fruit right now. Thanks for your videos!
@@SleepyLizard Don't know lol. Mangos I know are the ones that grow true to fruit, wich are very common here in this area of my country(aparently they are called "indica variety"). Avocados I don't know yet because the house were I'm living had a huge tree of it, but fruit seems to be of smooth skin, chubby pear shaped and light green coloured
Do you use the same starting seed fertilizer 6-6-6 that you use in the avocado video you did or will be different numbers? By the way, the avocados are out of stock and mogotes not on stock 🤣😂
No, I use a different blend for mango but the bags are out in my shed and I don't recall it offhand. I;'ll get back to you later. And yeah, unfortunately my business is seasonal. They type of avocados I grow are harvested between September and January.
In trinidad where I live when we plant down starch mango a type of mango one sprout does come out and in 3 years it does bear starch same with all of our varieties in trinidad and also two seedlings does come out sometimes and when we plant them down there are only slight differences but all the mangos we grow from seed in trinidad is from one seedling coming out of the seed and it the bear the same type of mango and when two grow from and same seed and it bear their are only slight differences because properly their are fully heirloom varieties
@@SleepyLizard in trinidad my parents and grandparents that's the only way their know how to get fruit tree so they set Julie, bread and cutlass mango all of these are types of mangoes in trinidad but they are more and they plant the seeds and it does bear those kind of mango example one of my grandparents ate a Julie mango and he plant the seed and he planted it down in the ground and it bear Julie even though there were bread mango trees so that means our mangoes in trinidad has not been cross with any other type but Mt aunts bought a grafted mango unknown variety and the neighbor ate some which she gave them and the mango turn out sour so that mean that is a hybrid so the older classic mangoes we know are not hybrid but the newer variety that now coming out in the market are hybrids. But I appreciate your work
Me as well I'm gonna be this guy's buddy I live in Hudson Florida I have a mango tree I started from seed and in about 10 years maybe less it gave me beautiful round smisland small mangoes that I want it
We are trying to figure out what kind of mango tree we have in our backyard. This video will help me narrow it down. Also we trimmed our mango last year and it produce so much fruit this year that we have lost 4 limbs due to the weight. Is this normal? We plan on trimming the limbs closer after the fruiting season is done closer to winter. Do you think that will help reduce the limb breakage for next year?
Amanda, Wow, sounds like you got a lot of fruit this year. If you can't tell by comparing the way your fruit looks to pics on google images try planting a few seeds so you can at least narrow it down by determining if it's polyembryonic or mono embryonic. As for fruit production after trimming, yes that's exactly what's supposed to happen. You get all new growth and let in sunlight...totally normal to get a lot of fruit. I personally don't worry about limbs breaking when they're heavy with fruit because I'm gonna prune the tree anyhow. But in any case it's best to trim you tree as soon as you're done harvesting. Right after you pick your last piece of fruit this year go ahead and prune it a few days or a week later. That'll give your tree time to recover and create new growth. You'll get plenty of leaves before dormancy which will allow your tree to create energy reserves and the limbs will have had a long time to grow and support the weight of new years crop. Check back in when you learn the variety of your mango!
Here we go again, this guy is just a genius. I think he's another experience in nature's balance, i just love this gentleman in all that he's doing.
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Sleepy Lizard you could convince anyone gardening is their newest passion. I'm so grateful I stumbled onto your videos. May you always be blessed with abundant and amazing crops. Thank you for sharing your knowledge. 🎶🙏😊
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Wow, thank you for your encouraging words Caroline!
I'm literally eating a mango while watching your videos about mangos. MMMMMmmmmmmM... it tastes delicious, ssooooo sweet. With sweet aftertaste, but slightly sour, probably cuz I'm thirsty. 90% very soft and sweet, 5% sour and a little harder to bite, 5% mushy with weird sweetness.
If I had to, I'd rate it 9,5/10.
For 2.99 BGN or $1.45... $1.49, the mango was amazing and super duper enjoyable. I think I've been touching the mango way too much impatiently and made it slightly mushy in a few places, and it wasn't fully ripe, but oh well.
I'm so much happier now, especially after watching your video. I haven't eaten it the whole mango, so I'll start watchin' the next vid. ...
Thank you I have 3 mango trees and I’m going to plant some fr from seed now 😅👍🏽 poly embryonic of course😂
best of luck
You should teach a gardening class at a local college or other community learning center. You're a treasure.
Thank you Steve. Early in my career I took one of them competency tests and the results were that I should be a teacher or salesman. I chose salesman but teacher would have been good too.
@@SleepyLizard I’d say you chose both just the latter was time delayed🙂 TY!
@@whosedoingwhat true
Thank you for sharing your knowledge, I have recently become obsessed with mangos , probably my favorite fruit ever next to watermelon and I can’t wait to get started growing some mango trees! 🥭 🌴 🥭
There are so many delicious varieties to try also. And it's funny you compared to watermelon because that's right up there with Mango for me. A good watermelon is heaven.
@@SleepyLizard Yessir! Love a good juicy watermelon there’s nothing like it and they’re so good for us 🍉 😋
I think it’s exciting to see what type of mango a mono-embryonic seed will grow, even if it takes a decade. i’m here for the ride!
Spiffy, we got more vids on that topic on the channel. Some came out great others not so much. the vid I'm publishing next Wednesday (10 days from now) tells the backstory of some of some popular varieties
Simple knowledge shared to the general public he dosent have to do this,, but he is a true honest sharing man thanks for sharing
thank you Raymond. I appreciate your comment.
Wow! I want to meet you and visit your farm. I love mangoes and have learned so much from your videos.
Vince, lemme know when you wanna come by.
@@SleepyLizard I will be heading to Key West with my family on July 2nd. I can't seem to find your farm address on the Internet. Is it on the way down from S.FL?
I Stole mango seed from Puerto Rico tree Im glad to know it’s polyembryonic now to wait 30 years
polyembryonic takes 3 years.
Thanks bud .... I get the last few seconds monologue.. it was funny...
Thanks Orlando, I'm glad you hung in there till the end, thank you!
This guy is so cool, I wanna be friends with him
Aw shucks 😊. We'll get to know each other better when I get off my butt and figure out how to put on an entertaining live stream...working on getting the lighting and audio all worked out.
@@SleepyLizard great stuff. I love your fruit trees, l could eat half a doz of those mangoes right now.
When can l come visit?
Are there miniature trees that can grow in pots?
@@job6801 Jo, if you like mangos come in July. and yes you can prune mango trees and keep them small and get fruit in pots.
@@SleepyLizard ok cool, July it is😁.
Good to know that the pot can work, thanks.
I will explore that idea and maybe try it.
Me too 👍
You got a gift of explaining things boss. 😊👍👏 Thank you again for all your vids!
Thanks Unconventional Me. I have a background in high tech so had to explain things for much of my career.
You make me want to move to Florida with all those trees you have! So awesome
it's a tropical fruit paradise
Very good job explaining the different ways to obtain a mango tree! Most informative.
thank you
I love your videos!! Thank you for giving us new planters a Hope of being able to learn how to grow our own produce. I have planted my first Avocado plant. Now planting a Mango seed. May you be blessed with much abundance.
Hi Edna, thank you for the compliment and best of luck with your trees and the new hobby.
I like your explanation if I see you smile I will smile too more power to your elbow 💪👍
thank you. more power to your elbow too
What an amazingly educational video, thank you for doing this!
Katie M, Thank you so much for your compliment. For some reason I really enjoy making videos and it feels good to know other people enjoy them. Have a great weekend!
Steve was correct you should be teaching a gardening class at a local school or college, great video..
thanks dad
Just the video I was looking for! I have 3 mango seeds and didn't know which method to use to plant them since I've messed so many up. Great Video!
m Frankish, I'm glad you found it helpful. Please keep us posted on your progress.
@@SleepyLizard Will do!
Awesome information!, thank you so much for taking the time to share with us✌️🙏👍
you're welcome David
Amen
didn't know that concept of Monoembyonic and Polyembrionic. Nature is fascinating!
amazing isn't it?
Really enjoy your videos and a plus is you love what you do
thank you Phoenix
Man, you are the coolest. I love your videos.
Thank you Ravash! I appreciate you taking the time to leave a positive comment,
Im smiling brother. You are the reason for that. Keep makimg thw great videos.
I'm smiling right back at ya! Have a great day.
That VP looks beautiful!
so pretty aren't they?
This is what I'm talking about! I love these topics and the way they are delivered! Subscribed!
Grey, Welcome to the channel!
What an educational and entertaining video. Thank you!
You are welcome Rikki Tikki Tavi
I hope so, I've hit the jackpot. If what your saying is true. I should have mangoes 🥭 in 4 years.. Kensington variety is what I have.
good luck Sonia!
This video made me so happy! And, I learned something! :)
those were my two goals. 🤣
I'm not good at English, but oh man, I do always understand what you are saying.
you really have a nice voice bro...
wow, thanks for the compliment. I appreciate it.
I like your video, good teaching
Thank you Kirk!
Thankyou for letting me know
you're welcome
By following your instructions, do we need to graft the mango tree or not. I have about 6 polyembryonic seeds I'm starting, thank you for your answer!!!
Polyembryonic no. The other varieties yes
Wonderful !! Thank you for your information and your expertise and sharing cheerfully
you're welcome
Man I’d love to visit your garden I bet is avocado heaven
I was just about to head out and work the garden but it's raining. Do you keep a garden?
@@SleepyLizard yes I have a pawa avocado tree they come from northern Mexico it’s funny cause I planted it from seed it’s 19 years old it’s been giving fruit for the past two years but the avocados are smaller and it doesn’t taste the same it’s about 20ft tall the funny part is it was a haas avocado seed and I got different different tree so now I’m searching for grafted hall avocado tree and a Monroe
@@juangonzalez3499 yep, that's how Mother Nature does things, 😁. You're gonna love Hall and Monroe. Monroe is one of my favorites!
@@SleepyLizard whenever you start selling grafted trees let me know I’m interested in buying a couple so I can make my garden bigger
Lizard man your enegy in this video is out of this world. I love mango too. i will plant a mango tree soon. Rosie
Thanks Rosie, I'm finally feeling like myself now that that nasty fire is behind us...got my energy back.
Love your videos 😊❤thank you for sharing 😊
I appreciate your comment, thank you
mangos and avacados graft really easily man! no excuses not to try and produce your own. great video brotha
Thanks Growing Jordon. How you been?
@@SleepyLizard been good man, trying to get my land planted.. maybe i should make a video!
@@Eugenia_Farms yeah make one
I came from a reply you made in another account. Thanks for the info.
Oh great. Glad we were able to make the connection.
I just open the hard shell and put it in the ground. Grows very well.
Yep. They want to grow.
Very nice video, you do a great job of explaining things. I wish I could grow mangos and avocados in Michigan.
thank you Sharon. We are lucky down here in South Florida with all the tropical stuff we can grow.
I'm smiling watching this😀
that makes me so happy, thanks for telling me.
Another great video...thank you sleepy 🦎. I'm looking for the grafted avocado and mango trees to go up for sale on your website 😉. I'm not giving up on the seeds I planted. But I would definitely buy a graft from your field. They look so sweet.
Thanks Gardening, I always appreciate your supportive comments.
Great explanation! Thanks!!
you're welcome
Amazing, educational and clear as usual.
thank you Rainy Day Wolf!
I got 6 different Mangos the other day from our Asian grocery store. I wish I had written the names down, This store is the only one that sells them with names. One was so good, so so good, omg I never tasted a Mango this good. It was red and green skin with lots of black spots on it. I almost didn't want to buy it, because of all the black spots, but boy was I glad I got it. No fiber that sticks to the teeth and a taste between pinapple and banana with a little citrus. One was not good at all and the other 4 were good, but not blowing my taste buds like this one. I will go back tomorrow and see if they still have those and get a whole box and also wirte the name down. I had no clue, Mangos could taste this good. I usually get my Mangos from Aldi, which are ok, but not overly exciting.
with the black spots that could have been a Haden
@@SleepyLizard It's a Kent, I went back and got a whole box.
@@turtlegaby they are one of the best varieties
I'm pretty sure that was a mango tree and not an apple one, what Adam and Eve had in Paradise 🤣🤣. Another great video Tom. 👍
Tony, has to be. I've never had near the pleasure from an apple that a mango brings.
@@SleepyLizard that's exactly what I think 🤣🙏🙏
i smile so smile too bro much love and prayers
Love your videos man.
thank you Thaer. You just made my day
Very good info nice and specific thanks!
Thank you Che!
Every backyard mango I tasted in Miami was delicious. I wonder if they are mostly grafted, or if the success rate of mango is better than with avocados.
most of them are grafted. most were bought at a nursery and planted
@@SleepyLizard Thanks. I guess I need to go ask a friend to give me budwood
Well done sir. Thanks a lot.
you are welcome Yousif
Thank you for sharing your knowledge!
I have a question: I have some mangoes that I love called banginapalli mangos and also Rasalu mangoes, which are native to central India. I know these are monoembryonic. However, I want to plant them. I don't have a tree to graft from, I just have seeds. If I plant them, I may not get the variety that I want BUT will it still bear some kind of mango? I don't want to end up with no mangoes after 3/5/10 years. Thanks again!
most likely you will get mangos eventually but it's not guaranteed and they won't be identical to the two you mentioned. maybe similar, maybe very different.
Could I use not a fruit tree (maybe flowers).. and mix it with a fruit tree sir? Ty for all the knowledge
that won't work. grafting has to be done within species
Hi my friend thanks
Hi Monica
Hi my friend
Great content. Thank you
You’re welcome lovely. Thanks for your comment
Can u please tell me what I do after I eat it how to store the seed for laterals do I take it out the seed pod or leave it in and put in bag and in the refrigerator?
Hi Hawaiian, I put the whole pod in plastic shopping bags along with the skin from the avocados and keep them in a cool damp location but not the fridge. then when I'm feeling brave (because they stink). I will open the bag and plant the ones that germinated.
Your videos are great. Do you happen to know if pram kai mea is polyembryonic? My brother has one and I would like one.
Also, I have an orange sherbet and don’t mind giving him one but google didn’t give me a definite answer. Thank you in advance.
LSanti, I'm not sure on that variety but you can tell by looking at the seed. I have a vid coming out in 3 weeks on how to tell if poly or mono embryonic
When looking for mangoes to
Plant in a pot, is it necessary to only look for dwarf or semi dwarf trees or can i prune a nornal tree and keep it at a manageable height?
you can pick any mango and prune it.
Very helpful.. but how do you know which one is you want to throw away.. from polyembryonic mangoes?
the runt of the litter
big smile from me cheers and love blessed man
I love mangoes and I found your channel maybe a couple months ago I want to let you know that I planted nine mangoes a couple of them have two plants by one seed is this unusual I would love to send you pictures so you could see what I'm saying also I save my banana peels and peach pills and mango pills and I ground them all up and put it in with some dirt and then I kind of mixed the soil I wonder if that has any effect on the growth of them I'm quite new at this but you have inspired me I am 50 years old and now I'm in a wheelchair but I have great hands God bless and stay safe your videos are inspiring
Shelly, thanks for the comment. Many of my subscribers use gardening as a from of therapy to keep the body moving. Please stay close to the channel and update us on your progress.
Thank you, thank you, thank you 🥰
Norma, you're welcome! If you're planning to plant a mango let us know and keep us abreast of your progress!
Will the mango grow in the augusta ga area. I want to grow them here but I am told not here. Also, what kind are the small (1 1/2 - 2) inch yellow ones? Very good and I like them.
D. It's a tad too cold in Augusta but you can keep one as in indoor/outdoor house plant. but it won't fruit.
@@SleepyLizard ok oh well
Amazing video! Thanks!
You’re welcome Will
I live in Jacksonville and want to grow a Valencia pride and have a tree facing south and east wind against a cement wall do you think that’s a good microcliamte
mangos grow in usda hardiness zone 9b and above. Jacksonville is 9a so you're going to have a tough time growing mango up there. you guys get frosts and freezes and mango doesn't like that.
BRAVO SIR ❤ the thing i would like to know is in what climate do we have to be?
Mango grows in USDA hardiness zone 9b and above.
Awesome., thank you🥭🥭🥭
you are welcome
You are really great.Can you make a vedio on how to take care of your avacado sapling
thank you and yes I already have a vid on caring for your saplings somewhere on my channel.
Thank you
you're welcome
I live in a very small house, with an even smaller yard. I don't intentionally plant anything. Meaning I don't buy trees, transplants, seeds, etc. What I do is compost kitchen scraps in the yard. Some 5 gallon buckets for "worm bins". When the buckets are full, I dig holes, toss in kitchen scraps, and everything will compost underground. As a result, whatever grows; grows unintentionally. Every year, I get lots of great "accidental" produce. This year, for the first time ever, a mango seed sprouted and it's growing. Keep in mind that the average temperature in San Francisco is 55 degrees, it's overcast and foggy - not exactly the tropical conditions that mango needs. So I'm wishing, and hoping - that it actually grows.
yeah, mangos are real survivors in them compost pits. but yeah a bit to cold where you are to cultivate them. Although I know there are some nurseries working to create California varieties.
@@SleepyLizard I think that the University of California's ag program does a lot of work in that area. Rumor is that they have developed new figs which do not need a pollinator, and they are always working on avocado.
@@chinatownboy7482 wow, cool
@@SleepyLizard As San Francisco real estate is much too expensive for me to ever dream of getting 10 acres, evicting everyone, bulldozing all of the little houses, then starting my own avocado and mango orchard.....I can only daydream. The more I learn, the more I believe that even if I get a plant, I won't get fruit. Watched an interesting presentation from Southern California on growing mango.
th-cam.com/video/zxDp0QvbjzQ/w-d-xo.html
There are no Northern California associations of crazy people growing tropical fruit in cold climate. Well, there is that guy in Canada with a TH-cam channel, who is claiming that he can grow mango in Canada.
I know you said that I live a little bit north in the augusta ga area but are there any dwarf varieties that I can get to grow in a greenhouse? The Mexican vegetable sellers at the flea market sell a kind of mango that is yellow and about 2 inches I do not know the variety they seem to come from Peru or Guatemala. Anyway, I'm trying to find out if I can get a dwarf varieties or keep a variety trimmed in a 8ft greenhouse?
D., you're in lucky. There's a guy up by you in GA growing mango and other tropical fruits indoors. Here's a vid showing his collection and his process. I suggest you reach out to him: th-cam.com/video/vbZDkQ4iAKI/w-d-xo.html
How wdo I know which one is the runt of the others? Is there a way to distinguish them
Hi Nelson, yes the runt will be the small one. the least healthy of the bunch.
Good to know
thanks Jared
HELP QUESTION: Does refrigerating a mango KILL THE SEED? (36° F) Any info much appreciated!
no, you can plant seeds from mangos that have been refrigerated
@@SleepyLizard Much thanks. Don't know if I'll ever be successful geting 'cados or mangos going in Ennis, TX but I'm at least learning some baby steps. Love your work man, your orchard, your trees, the fruit you produce is aMAZing!
Wish I could get a coconut orchard growing in this part of TX. Could you imagine having a source of coconut, oil, water, milk & related resource in SHTF?
I have a Valencia pry graffiti 6 years old and only one time had very little flowers and one fruit what can do to get fruit
Hi Freddy, what part of the world do you live in?
What types of mangoes are polyembryonic and where can I find them if I am unable to find them here in Texas?
Hi Softsuga, the most common polyembryonic variety sold here in stores is Atulfo. You might find that in your local supermarket. to get a list of the rest I got this from google: 'Cambodiana', 'Carabao', 'Corazont, 'Paho', 'Pahutan', 'Pico', 'Senora' and 'Strawberry'
Tom - another excellent video. Hope you got one of those nifty grafted trees with my name on it. A Glenn or that other round one...the Hayden?
It's gonna be a Glen...I need another week or two....stay tuned.
Thanks.
You're welcome Piete
Another good video Lizard!
Thanks AlmostTropical, great to hear from you. How you doing?
I would love to grow a haden variety soon!
I just had a Haden and home grown pineapple for lunch!
Yay I love mangoes
must be hard to come by for an Artic Wolf.
@@SleepyLizard lol
Great information, thanks for sharing.
I have a question: how do you identify the fertilized seedling out of the many seedlings that sprout out of a poly embryonic seed? Can you explain that more in your great way of simplifying complex info please? Thanks in advance 🙏
yes, the fertilized seedling is the runt of the litter.
Excellent video on Mangoes! I remember my friends in Maui, Hawai'i had a MASSIVE mango tree in their backyard and when I visited them & I was in HEAVEN! I ate mangoes all day, every day right off their tree. It was one of those old trees that was 30-40 ft tall & wide and an ENDLESS supply of mangoes. I also ate fresh pineapple, bananas and many other tropical fruits right from their yard! Can they be grown in a high tunnel/greenhouse in zone 8B??? Let me know when you have some grafted trees for sale and I will definitely purchase one to add to my collection of tropical fruits. LOVE MANGOES as much as I LOVE avocados!!! Keep your eyes on TS Else. Some of the models show it going up into your area. Some have it getting into the Gulf so WHO KNOWS where the storm will blow! Take care & hope you & your wife had a good fishing trip last week. Did you catch a boatload??? Hope you get things figured out to have another LIVE STREAM CHAT SESSION!! Just be sure you post a notification to let us know you are going to have it so we can "ALL" be there instead of having to watch the REPLAY. Keep up the great vids helping us gain knowledge on planting/growing tropical fruits! You are the BEST at explaining things in simple layman terms!
Deep South, Even though I just ate a lunch of homegrown mango and pineapple your description of you time in Hawaii makes me hungry for more!
Mango is very sensitive to cold so zone 8b probably not gonna work for you. And yeah we been watching the storm and hoping it passes.
We only fished for 15 minutes and engine trouble forced us back to the ramp. then we went home and got our little 10' Jon boat and went to a different pond and slayed 'em...got a bunch of bass!
And yeah I will definitely publish my next livestream ahead of time...that was just to test the technology out. I'm already working on better lighting and audio and a few surprises.
Great to hear from you.
@@SleepyLizard What is mangoes temp sensitivity level? I have a heated greenhouse/high tunnel with a fan to circulate the air that I keep all my tropical & other cold-sensitive plants in. I also have Sansi Full Spectrum Grow lights. When night-time temps near 40(F) I move my ginger, turmeric, horseradish, dragon fruit, papaya's, avocado into the heated section. I also raise my veggies all winter in this greenhouse/high tunnel (tomato, peppers, eggplant, etc.) after I prune them back from their summertime growth. I have tomatoes & bell peppers in their 3rd year of growing & still producing well. Lots of work to move them but you do what you have to do to have fresh veggies & someday, fruit, year-round.
Glad you had a good day fishing, even with the engine trouble you had to start with. Our fishing has been horrible here with all the rain we have had since TS Claudette! We had over 20 inches of rain for the month of June and just had another 3.5 inches in less than 30 min to start off July! Rain every single day (even some thunderstorms) for the next 10 days according to my weather forecast.
I have a 14 ft Jon boat with an 18 hp Tohatsu 4 stroke motor that gets me where I want to go WHEN THE RIVER ISN'T OUT OF THE BANKS like it is now.
All the rain north of us comes down thru our river system and flows into the Gulf so it is treacherous to even think of going out there now. All of the fish are in the woods now, anyway...right in the peak of our bass/bream/shellcracker season!
I may have to try some frogging a little later this month once the water recedes and I can get up into the backwater areas where they love to hang out on the banks. Nothing for me to get at least a cooler full every time I go out and I'm talking BIG BULLFROGS with legs the size of chicken legs! I don't fool with the small chumps, too much work for too little meat!! LOL!!
I used to do a lot of flounder, reds, Spanish/King mackerel & Ling fishing but haven't been in several years. Would go 2-3 times a month when I had my cuddy cabin and could stay the night to fish the oil rigs. Love fishing almost as much as I love whitetail deer hunting and THAT is another LONG story!! LOL!!
I'm very good at hunting and usually bag 3-4 per season, just what I need to fill the freezers for a year.
A quick cutie...my late hubby got tired of cleaning all the deer I would harvest. I was gathering my gear for an afternoon hunt and he took the clip from my .44 magnum and left me ONE BULLET! He said that would assure him I would only have one shot (not uncommon for me to get two in my 40 acres of thick woods). He heard my shot and radioed me to see if I got anything so he could bring the 4 wheeler to load up. I told him no, I got them both! He said, Yeah, right...with one bullet?!?! Long story short, there were two deer standing side by side and my shot was into the front shoulders of the 1st deer into the front shoulder of the 2nd deer and put them both down. That is my go to sweet spot as it takes out their front legs, goes thru the heart/lungs and puts them down. (Sorry for the gruesome details but had to explain how I got two with one shot). He told that story so many times to all his hunting buddies and swore he tried everything he could, even giving me just ONE BULLET to curtail my harvesting but NOTHING worked with a sharpshooter like me!
I have remarried now and my current hubby doesn't like to fish or hunt so I do it all by myself, launching/loading my boat & even cleaning/processing the fish/deer!
I'm a backwoods REDNECK country gal that can do most anything any man around here can do. Still love my gardening & propagating which has taken priority in my life since I've gotten older. BUT "THIS COUNTRY GAL WILL SURVIVE...EVEN WHEN TIMES GET TOUGH!!
Looking forward to your next Live Stream and HOPE IT IS SOON! LOL!
@@DeepSouthBamaGRITS , can you start breaking your comments into paragraphs? just hit the enter key twice between thoughts. My eyes are too old to follow a long column of text but I always love what you have to say and I want to be able to read it.
Se here how I started a new paragraph? I hit "return" twice"
Here's another one.
thanks,
Tom
@@SleepyLizard Sorry. When I am on my PC I just type away on my keyboard & never realized it was difficult to read.
I used to take dictation (years ago) using a keyboard and could type as fast as someone could talk so that old habit stayed with me. I promise to do better when my comments are lengthy.
What were the cold sensitivity temps for mangoes? Having the heated greenhouse/high tunnel I may be able to grow a mango tree in there as I start heating it when nighttime temps drop to 40(F). This is how I have 35-gallon + pots of ginger growing year-round & also keep my avocado trees alive.
Were you able to muddle thru the email I sent asking about the avocado scions? I have 3 ungrafted trees that are 5 ft tall and one that is 3 ft tall, all with branches. Do I graft to a branch or do I have to cut them back & graft to the main trunk? They are in 35-gallon pots and are grown in the greenhouse/high tunnel year-round.
PS: I edited the very long comment to make it easier to read. I have old eyes, too, so understand the need to break things down into paragraphs.
Again, very sorry and I shouldn't go into things not related to the subject. I'm a loner here in the backwoods so I tend to get carried away and TALK TOO MUCH. I will refrain from doing so in my future comments & stay with the subject of your vids.
Thanks,
Bonnie
@@DeepSouthBamaGRITS oh so much easier, thank you. I haven't had a chance to parse your email yet,
Mangos get fussy around 40f so you're right on the edge.
As for your trees I would prune them and wait for new growth and graft onto that.
Go ahead and tell me whatever you want. I always enjoy what you have to say...and now that you're breaking it into chunks my eyes can process it, thank you!
How many times(days) should I stump the tree to induce flowering
we prune or tip 1 time per year immediately after we harvest the last mango
I like the seed 1
to eat?
i love your videos, im going to go buy a mango
I hope you get a good one. Sometimes the store bought ones are crappy...like any other fruit you gotta get one from a. good batch. Report back and tell us if you liked it!
Have you tried getting some Thai mangoes seedling? We have one that can be eaten green and they are sweet! We also have one that we call it elephant mango because it’s long like elephant trunk.
I've not had the pleasure of trying those varieties.
Thanks👍🏻
you are welcome
As always another great video, especially for those of us just starting to get into planting Avocado and mango trees! I want to plant a mango tree, I live in Southern California and have a decent size back yard, my local nursery has Valencia Pride and Mallika trees available, I like the Valencia however I read that it grows to big, is it possible to keep it small without effecting it’s production? Sorry about the long paragraph I know your super busy and I admire you replying to your Fans!
Jim, both varieties are delicious. Valencia pride is one of my favorites. I wouldn’t worry about how big the tree grows on its own because you’ll be pruning it and shaping it anyhow. My neighbor has a Valencia pride Grove and he keeps the trees about 18 feet high by 16 feet wide and he has excellent production every year. In full disclosure this year his production wasn’t that good but that’s because we had a frost in our neighborhood. But usually he’s loaded with Valencias
As usual you always say the right things to calm a newbie’s fears, Thank you and looking forward to following you for years to come, because Avocados and Mangoes put a smile on peoples faces!
Interesting information, thanks. What state or country are you in?
Homestead Florida. USA. where are you?
Is it ok to make grafting with a branch of a grown tree that is currently having fruit? I have both mango and avocado trees in my backayard, both have small fruit right now. Thanks for your videos!
Yeah that's fine. What type of mango and avocados do you grow?
@@SleepyLizard Don't know lol. Mangos I know are the ones that grow true to fruit, wich are very common here in this area of my country(aparently they are called "indica variety"). Avocados I don't know yet because the house were I'm living had a huge tree of it, but fruit seems to be of smooth skin, chubby pear shaped and light green coloured
Will you ever make a video about growing mangos in pots?
I will now 😁
What kind will grow in central Virginia USA?
unfortunately it gets too cold up there in the fall and winter.
Do you use the same starting seed fertilizer 6-6-6 that you use in the avocado video you did or will be different numbers? By the way, the avocados are out of stock and mogotes not on stock 🤣😂
No, I use a different blend for mango but the bags are out in my shed and I don't recall it offhand. I;'ll get back to you later.
And yeah, unfortunately my business is seasonal. They type of avocados I grow are harvested between September and January.
In trinidad where I live when we plant down starch mango a type of mango one sprout does come out and in 3 years it does bear starch same with all of our varieties in trinidad and also two seedlings does come out sometimes and when we plant them down there are only slight differences but all the mangos we grow from seed in trinidad is from one seedling coming out of the seed and it the bear the same type of mango and when two grow from and same seed and it bear their are only slight differences because properly their are fully heirloom varieties
according to the text books it should be reversed. interesting
@@SleepyLizard in trinidad my parents and grandparents that's the only way their know how to get fruit tree so they set Julie, bread and cutlass mango all of these are types of mangoes in trinidad but they are more and they plant the seeds and it does bear those kind of mango example one of my grandparents ate a Julie mango and he plant the seed and he planted it down in the ground and it bear Julie even though there were bread mango trees so that means our mangoes in trinidad has not been cross with any other type but Mt aunts bought a grafted mango unknown variety and the neighbor ate some which she gave them and the mango turn out sour so that mean that is a hybrid so the older classic mangoes we know are not hybrid but the newer variety that now coming out in the market are hybrids. But I appreciate your work
Most important is climate.
yep, mango are very fussy.
Me as well I'm gonna be this guy's buddy I live in Hudson Florida I have a mango tree I started from seed and in about 10 years maybe less it gave me beautiful round smisland small mangoes that I want it
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We are trying to figure out what kind of mango tree we have in our backyard. This video will help me narrow it down. Also we trimmed our mango last year and it produce so much fruit this year that we have lost 4 limbs due to the weight. Is this normal? We plan on trimming the limbs closer after the fruiting season is done closer to winter. Do you think that will help reduce the limb breakage for next year?
Amanda, Wow, sounds like you got a lot of fruit this year. If you can't tell by comparing the way your fruit looks to pics on google images try planting a few seeds so you can at least narrow it down by determining if it's polyembryonic or mono embryonic.
As for fruit production after trimming, yes that's exactly what's supposed to happen. You get all new growth and let in sunlight...totally normal to get a lot of fruit.
I personally don't worry about limbs breaking when they're heavy with fruit because I'm gonna prune the tree anyhow. But in any case it's best to trim you tree as soon as you're done harvesting. Right after you pick your last piece of fruit this year go ahead and prune it a few days or a week later. That'll give your tree time to recover and create new growth. You'll get plenty of leaves before dormancy which will allow your tree to create energy reserves and the limbs will have had a long time to grow and support the weight of new years crop.
Check back in when you learn the variety of your mango!