What Mango Seed Grows the Best Tree?

in order to grow mangoes in order to grow any fruit tree for that matter you have to start with a seed but with mangoes it's very important that you choose the correct seed you can plant the seed of certain varieties of mango and get delicious tasting fruit off of that tree there are other varieties where we don't know what you're going to get if you plant the seed you might not get any fruit at all and the reason is because some varieties grow true to seed and other varieties do not if I take the seed from a piece of fruit and grow a tree and that tree gives me fruit identical to the piece of fruit I got the seed from that fruit is said to grow true to seed if on the other hand the tree grows to maturity and I get a very different fruit I know that that particular fruit does not grow true to seed and if you're looking to plant a mango out in your backyard it is much easier if you choose a variety that grows true to seed here you see three different varieties of mango and I guess this would even be a fourth variety this right here is a California variety called an atulfo this right here the Workhorse of the Florida Commercial crop is called a Tommy and these little babies right here these are Haitian mangoes I've heard them called Francois I've heard them refer to as Madame Francois but around here most people just call them Haitian mangoes and I happen to know that the atulfo grows true to seed I happen to know that the Tommy does not and I have no idea if this Haitian variety right here grows true to seed or not but I can find out now you know selecting the seed from the right variety of mango is important and you know that you need to select a seed from a variety of mango that grows true to seed but in order to do that you need to understand the difference between polyembryonic varieties and mono embryonic varieties polyembryonic varieties are the ones that grow true to seed the monoembryonic varieties do not the atulfo happens to be a polyembryonic variety when we open up the seed pod of an atulfo or any polyembryonic variety for that matter we're going to find multiple seeds inside there we're going to find multiple embryos and when we plant the seed pod of a polyembryonic variety we wind up with multiple trees growing in our pot one of those shoots one of those trees is going to be a fertilized tree it's going to have a combination of the DNA from the father tree as well as the DNA from the mother tree but the rest of them will be genetic replicas of the mother tree it's got all the mother's DNA it's an identical genetic match and it's also very easy to identify because the fertilized tree will be the runt of the litter let's say you plant one of these and you get three individual trees there'll be two that are growing stronger than than the third that third one is the fertilized tree that third one will not grow true to seed a monoembryonic variety on the other hand has only one embryo inside the seed pod and will give us only one tree that particular tree's DNA will be a combination of the mother tree we pick the fruit from as well as the father tree that pollinated the mother tree let me show you what I'm talking about here now I happen to have the seed from a from a Tommy that I ate last night so I got the seed from one of these guys here they're kind of slimy so I'm going to grab it with a towel seed from a Tommy right there and I've got the seed from and a TOEFL now you notice I I keep them in either damp Moss or damp paper in a plastic bag that's how I allow them to germinate and here's the a tulfo seed I'm going to cut these guys open and show you what's on the inside when you cut into your mango what you have here when you get to the middle isn't really a seed it's a seed pod you have to open it up to get to the seed that's inside and I usually try to use a very thick Stout knife and I definitely always grab it with a rag because it could be very slippery and kind of unsafe you can you can cut yourself if you're not careful I just kind of work it open you can hear it breaking open then once I have it peeled open once I have it open like that I can just kind of peel it open until we get to the seed so now this guy I opened up very carefully and here's the seed from the poly embryonic variety but it's it's covered in this skin so let me take this skin off and you'll be able to see that there's multiple little seeds in here whereas this is just one Big C let's look at the difference between our monoembryonic seed and our polyembryonic seed and I happen to crack this guy in half so I'm only going to work with the top half of the monoembryonic seed but that doesn't hurt anything for the purposes of this discussion so here we have the Tommy mango and it's monoembryonic seed and look it's just one big smooth seed there's no ridges there's no lines there's no ability for me to break this apart and separate it on the other hand we have the atulfo with its polyembryonic seed and look you could see one embryo here one here one here one here there's four that I count and look I could kind of play with them and look I can I can Flex them if I wanted I could carefully separate those right each of these is going to give me a different tree these guys here these are a variety of mango called turpentine mango turpentine happens to be polyembryonic and these all came from one seed my brother well my niece when she was a little baby she planted one of these turpentine seeds in a pot and I ended up getting a cluster of little seedlings and I went into the pot and I just kind of took them and untangled them and sorted out the roots and you know separated each one put them each in their own pot now I have three individual turpentine Mango's growing and these are all clones these were all the vigorous ones I discarded the runt of the litter these are all clones of the mother if I went out in the Grove and planted these in the ground in about four years or maybe even three I'd be getting turpentine mangoes off of these trees I have a visitor Tommy Tommy I was just showing these guys the difference between a polyembryonic mango and a mono embryonic mango so the Tommy variety mango the money is it's your name yeah it's about to do with him but his name is Tommy it's monoembryonic which means that uh Tommy mango when it grows a plant a tree only gives you one tree but the atulfo variety from California is polyembryonic so look at the difference here this seed just has one you know one seed inside of the seed pod this has multiple look you could separate them see so there's one embryo two three four on this one seed so when you plant it you get multiple trees and I said well going into the video I knew that Tommy was mono embryonic because I know this stuff right and I knew the altofo is polyembryonic what I don't know is this guy here do you know what kind of mango this is from the Dominican Republic right no close same island same island Hispaniola what other country is on the island of Hispaniola Haiti Haiti these are those Haitian mangoes that are delicious and I said we're going to discover whether this Haitian mango this Francois mango put this out of my way is polyembryonic or multi uh or monoembryonic by the end of the video so here's how we open a mango here there's a flat seed inside so we let the mango fall so I know the seeds going that way so then I stand it up we cut the flesh off of one side then we cut the flesh off the other side and we're left with the seed in the middle so now I have two halves of the mango and I have the center that has the seed so what we usually do is peel away the skin and eat our way down to the seed hmm holy crap Tommy was this good come here these Haitian mangoes are the only mango that have fibers that have strings that I'll eat because I love them so much and uh we're trying to decide if my boy here is allergic to Mango he recently had a mango smoothie and it made his face swell up so he's gonna just take a little piece of mango here and see if he can eat it so let's use the the fruit knife that Grandpa gave us here we'll just take a little hunka mango flesh here not a lot we're just going to give them that much take that on your finger come here getting a shot so take a little bite and then we'll we'll know in a few hours that's really sweet yeah these mangoes are so good oh that's good yeah I'd let you eat the whole thing but we'll know in a few hours now whether you have an allergy I'll come back and update you guys all right it'll be sad if you have an uh allergy to mangoes yeah you're really sad yeah now to determine if the Haitian mango is polyambryonic or monoembryonic I'm going to open up the seed pod and since I have my my Cutters this time instead of cutting it with the knife I'm just going to kind of go around the edge open this guy up just like cutting it like I'm cutting into a birthday card or a Christmas card here with these cutters Tommy how'd you like that mango it tastes it tastes like honey it tastes like honey doesn't it if you ever get a chance get yourself the uh The Madame francaise or Francois Haitian mango uh they are really really good all right let's rip this sucker open let's see let's go so let's see what's in there all right here's the seed okay now in order to tell Tom can I touch it you can touch it [Music] we'll touch it in the camera yeah peel that little skin off yeah are you on camera peel that skin off now lay that down no lay the lay the seed down yeah so what do you think polyambryonic or mono embryonic I think it's Polly I can't really tell what makes you think it's Polly it has a little these little Nubs right right like right here are they multiple oh yeah look I get it so and it has a little bit I think it might be the only way to know for sure is to open up and eat another one of these and if we knew Tommy didn't have an allergy we'd we'd probably eat the whole box this type of mango when it nobody down here grows them they we import them from Haiti when these things arrive on the shelves at the farmer's market they go crazy like they're gone within two hours like the news hits like such and such has Haitian mangoes and everybody wants them they're so good so remember I just get it down to the middle here normally Tommy would eat this but we can't take any chances nope right now again with my shears or you could use like a nice heavy duty scissors we're just going to cut into the Pod here like I did a minute ago people always like to go whenever I do stuff like this people like to go in the comments and say uh hey man your hands are shaking and they're right my hands do Shake what about three years ago we had a house fire right in 2020 we had a house fire and he was in school but I went running into the house to rescue Mommy to rescue my wife she was in the shower I had to get her out of the house and then I grabbed a fire extinguisher multiple fire extinguishers and fought the fire until the firemen came and my hands started shaking I think it's like anxiety related I haven't been able to stop him since so all right here we go tell them I'm opening up this one let's see what we got inside of here there's the seed now I'm going to let him peel the skin off of it go ahead Tom carefully peel the skin oh yeah that's Polly I'm going Polly I'm going polyembryonic yeah I'm what do you think Tom Polly right now show the camera walk around and show them real close yeah that's a polyembryonic seed there so very interesting so very interestingly the atolfo it has this kind of s shape it's polyembryonic the Haitian mango has this kind of s shape and it's polyembryonic and I have a mango out in the Grove that we're going to go show you right now called Nam duck my which I know is polyembryonic it also happens to have that little s shape let's go take a look at it so you see here this little nam duck my also has the the S shape just like these guys so all three have that little curly cue that little s and all three are poly embryonic so as I said earlier there's really two ways to know if the variety that you are planting is polyembryonic Tommy I showed them one way is to know the variety so I knew this was an outoolfolk and all you have to do is Google it and it'll tell you if it's polyembryonic likewise the Nam duck might just Google it and it'll tell you if it's polyembryonic now I could have Googled the Haitian The Madame Francois or francaise or whatever the heck it is the Francois I could have gotten in the house and Googled it but instead I cut it open and we looked at it We examined the seed by eye and saw that it too is polyembryonic and the reason you would want to do that is maybe you've got a a store-bought mango in your kitchen that you don't know the variety right Tommy they may not know the variety but you want to know if it's polyembryonic so you can cut into it and examine the seed and I've shown you how to tell whether it's polyembryonic or not so let me tell you what I thought these guys today time I taught them if you're thinking of growing a mango in your backyard you have to know whether you got to pick the right seed right you got to know whether you're getting a seed from a polyembryonic variety or a monoembryonic variety if you if you're using a monoembryonic variety like a Tommy when it grows to maturity and gives you fruit you don't know what you're going to get and I showed them that this Valencia Pride actually grew from seed it was a random seedling and do you know what seed that came from what what seed grew a Valencia Pride do you happen to know Valencia Pride mango no the Hayden the Hayden mango which is the tree right there grew a Seedling that gave us the Valencia Pride because uh Haynes don't grow true to seed so it just gave us a bunch of random different trees but one of them was a Valencia Pride wait so how do you get a Hayden you graft them you have to take a cutting from a Hayden and put it into a Seedling so I would take a cutting from that Hayden and I would clip this seedling which comes from a turpentine and I would insert The Cutting from the Hayden into my seedling wait so basically just like we do the avocados all Hayden's evolved from the first ever Hayden yes and all Valencia Prides from the first ever Valencia pride and all Tommy's from the first ever Tommy but wait but how did the Valencia like yeah go ahead how did the Valencia Pride evolve from the first ever bullet Valencia Pride if it evolved from the Hayden because when you plant a seed from a Hayden you're going to get random trees and the nursery men who did that got a maybe hundreds of random trees that gave them crap mangoes but one of them gave them good mangles gave them this Valencia pride and this new variety was born from them and then somewhere along the line a random seed gave the Tommy and somewhere along the line a random seed gave the this is the atulfo and gave the modern Francois but it so happens that these which are polyembryonic will grow from seed so if you plant any of these three in the any of these two in the ground or the Nam duck Mai you're gonna if you plant the toolfo seed you're going to get a tulfo mangoes you plant a Francois you're going to get Francois mangoes you plant an amduck my you're going to get Nam duck my mangoes for that reason for those people out there that are thinking of planting their own mangoes in their backyard they need to know whether they've got a polyembryonic variety or a mono and Beyond you want to grow a mono embryonic it's going to take you about 10 to 12 years till you get fruit the fruit may or may not taste good and it probably won't taste like the fruit you you planted on the other hand you plant one of these polyembryonics you're going to get identical fruit in year three or four okay if you plant the monoembryonic and you're a tinkerer you can find a tree that you like and take a cutting from it and graft it into the seedling and you'll grow exactly that so if you want a Tommy mango you can plant a Seedling of any type of mango but you got to go to a Tommy tree and take a little cutting and stick it in the seedling are you able to go like two different types of variety from one you can you Tommy just asked me can you grow multiple varieties on One Tree you absolutely can I can cut sections of this tree behind me and Graft in I could graft a Francois into it and a nam duck my and a Tommy and it already grows Valencia pride and I could grow four or more varieties of mango all on the same tree those were actually excellent questions and they were probably questions that would have got asked down in the comments and if you have any other questions by all means put them down in the comments and and I'll get back to you but now you know you know a little bit about Mono embryonic seeds and what you have to do to grow that variety you know about polyembryonic and and how much easier it would be for you to plant a polyembryonic variety because they grow true to seed but if you're the type of person who really doesn't want to mess around growing and figuring out if it's polyembryonic or mono embryonic and getting cuttings and grafting and waiting and all that kind of stuff if you're the type of person that just wants to jump right into the Eaton right into this part hmm then go to guacfarm.com b-u-a-c-f-a-r-m.com that's where we sell our fruit that's where we sell our t-shirts we're now selling these hats out there at guacfarm.com and our biggest seller by far is avocados if you look behind us here that's all avocado trees we also have monstera deliciosa we have mangoes we have all kinds of other tropical fruit and it all depends on the season Tommy Boy I'm glad you're home from school because I need help cleaning all this stuff up yeah while we do that you go to guacfarm.com and we will see you on the next video

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Length: 19min 52sec (1192 seconds)

Published: Wed May 17 2023