We love to plant mango seeds from our favorite varieties to see if we can get another delicious variety! Chris shows two ways to plant mango seeds- one for inside and one for outside!
seed wrapped in a wet paper towel stored in a plastic bag pops in 4-6 weeks. Butter knife and a little bit of patience is usually sufficient to extract any mango seed.
I usually open them 'oyster style', but hope not to damage the embryonic seed. Is it possible to freeze the husk containing the seed until I need to plant it? Sometimes I get lovely Osteen mangoes in October and the seeds don't do as well that time of year due to poor light conditions where I live. I would like to plant them in February, but by then I have different varieties. I freeze peach seed, then refrigerate. Has anyone tried to freeze/ refrigerate mango seeds in their husks? Any help appreciated.
For the poly-embryonic, I'm thinking you might be able to separate the various embryos and sprout them individually? Or is one too likely to damage the entire embryo? For instance, the epilogue showed 3 sprouts from one embryo / multi-embryo.
What you thought was a root which you had damaged was, I think, a kind of umbilical cord which attaches the seed to the husk and hence the rest of the plant through which it is "fed " and develops like any kind of baby.... 🙃
I ordered a hundred turpeentine mango seed, shucked them myself, and tried to sprout them in water. They all rotted. I had a devil of a time getting the husks off. TOTALL LEARNING EXPERIENCE (= fail.) Should have watched this video first....!
I don't think you'll ever know for sure but there's a video on this channel with Walter Zill where he suggests that either the tallest seedling or shortest is most likely to be the hybrid. All the others will likely be clones.
Yes, you want the point or where the root will come out facing down. Right above where the root comes out is where the stem will come out of. If you are completely unsure Wich way is up or down for the seed you have, then placing it on it's side is okay. You just don't want to place it upside down.
i'm growing my embryos in plastic bottles... everytime I put one in potting soil they rot. I have to make sure I peel all the skin away from the seed too or else mold forms. I've got 2 seedlings that have tendrils now forming into leaves and half a dozen more growing in bottles. The 2 in pots I tossed out, they basically decomposed in the soil.
@@Balmy_Jones i think temps definitely played a role. Now that the weather is getting warmer I've got two seedlings that have leaves and haven't caught any diseases or show signs of sickening. I also finally got an avocado seed to stay alive, it's growing like crazy.
ZenGrow , Hello, I have tried forever to grow avocado seeds into a plant. How do you grow your avocado seeds? Also, what is your method to growing a mango seed?
Nice work , Great video - Thank you As I know a mango tree in order to produce high quality fruit need to do grafting from another mango tree . I wanted to know if you have any experience with the fruit that comes from a Mango tree created by seed ? Thank you
We did buy grafted trees, but we sometimes plant seeds hoping for a slightly different fruit. If we're really lucky, we might even get a great new variety!
@@TrulyTropical Yes, like the Choc Anon seedling below the tree. That seed presumably had the pulp intact when it dropped from the tree. Subsequently sprouted. I find a number of seedlings from dropped fruit below my trees.
I have a number of seedling mangoes grown from store bought mangoes either imported from SE Asia, Mexico or Australian grown. I have read that the Kent mango is mono embryonic, the Valencia pride polyembryonic, Heidi and Honey Gold not sure, but all these varieties and the mahachanok, I am growing from their seeds. (The mahachanok seed hasn't sprouted so I will check to see if it is still good, tomorrow.) My hope is that flowering and fruiting will happen within 6 years. There aren't a whole lot of Australian variety mangoes worse than my Kensington Pride, KP, except Calypso and R2E2. Perhaps there are other varieties, but the KP is still one of the better Australian varieties. I consider the Piñata farms, Honey Gold the best Aussie mango variety and the Mahachanok the best of the Thai varieties grafted onto Aussie KP mangoes.
