Gary Zill Talking About Mangos (Full Interview)

[@pat1839]

He is a great man who has dedicated his life for mangoes so we enjoy them. I hope to meet him someday. Thanks 🙏

[@reyn66]

Regarding manganese deficiency (@43:48) I want to hear about this. My SoCal soil sits around 7.6pH and my water around 8. This manganese deficiency totally make sense now. Thank you Maestro Gary!

[@subpilot1000]

And I can listen to Gary Zill anytime about anything mangoes. Keep it coming gentlemen!❤

[@jonathancrouse8640]

Thank you

[@kendylteixeira6745]

The part where he says not everyone wants to listen, was the best part ! Fantastic interview Paul. Would be great to hear a separate interview with Gary speaking about how to care for a potted mangoes, up to and from the time it leaves his nursery on potting soil to proper watering and certain conditions that cause mango plants to decline and what to do to correct them. Would be one of your best guaranteed. Excellent video as always. Keep up the great work you do, we appreciate your dedication and hard work.

[@crackyflipside]

Love that you added chapters to the video! Keep up the great work brother.

[@cookingfooddailylife]

Thank you for all these please have a nice Day

[@thehuntfortruth]

Two amazing plant guys right there! Garry is a legend!

[@Super1genius40]

Thank you for this classic interview. I learned so much.

[@nymack66]

My Ugly Betty tree and mangoes are like no other, Thank you, Sir, I love it.

[@vesleeful]

Great information thanks Paul

[@SeraphimCherubim]

Paul, you hit a home run on this video. Gary could write a mango encyclopedia.

[@georgegreek834]

LEGEND ❤

[@sharnie528]

❤❤❤❤❤❤❤

[@weiss613]

Tell you what I got out of this masterpiece interview by the prince of mangoes Gary Zill. And the guy who asks the most important questions we all would ask ourselves Paul. About four years ago right before the Fourth of July I went up to the Zill High Performance Plants and bought a whole bunch of Sugar loaf mangoes and on July 4 We had a mango tasting with a whole bunch of families. Everyone picked Sugarloaf is the best except my daughter who picked coconut cream. A few weeks later I wrote on the Tropical Fruit forum forum that Sugarloaf is really special because it has a huge window when you can eat it. And today Gary Zill said that all mangoes that stay green the longer you let them sit the sweeter they get. Right now I’ve been testing my Keitt mangoes by picking one every few days and letting it sit on the counter and soften up a bit and then testing it to see how it taste. And they have been tart and not as sweet as I remember them and now I know the reason why. I’ve been opening them when they’re just a little soft and I should be waiting till they get a lot softer so today I learned an amazing lesson from Gary Zill. As far as the Sugarloaf I remember so many people on the tropical fruit forum saying let them get wrinkly and they will get super sweet.

[@floridaexperience4088]

The master of mango! The king of coconut cream! The sultan of sweet!

[@slugbyte]

There's a mango tree two houses over that had ripe mango fruit, in February, I'm in the USVI, have you heard of trees fruiting in the winter?

[@kvanly]

Great info on mango trees! I would like to know - Can durian trees grow in southern Florida?

[@SeraphimCherubim]

They can sorta grow but will never fruit. Xains Nursery sells small trees.

[@giovannifiorentino8947]

Gary, have you try a biodigestor fertilizer on mangoes?

[@twistymcslide2]

my philosophy with plant spacing for mango , is you want 2x the planned maintained height . so if you want a 8ft tree , you plant at 16 . that way they can fill 8 feet from center each before they touch canopy . and i really like what Gary said , to basically keep them as tall as you can pick the fruit from . my 40 foot tree was wonderful , but mismanaged honestly, and it would cost us 1/2-1/3 of the fruit, and truthfully, usually the best fruit on the tree because they were so high and we less prone to disease / insects. ( kinda a benefit, but not if you can't get to the fruit to harvest ) .

[@johnbanach3875]

Gary commented about how many trees they are currently growing (quite a lot), but since ZHPP is strictly wholesale, maybe you could tell us, Paul, what are the best local (South Florida) nurseries to actually purchase Zill trees. I mean, where are all those Zill trees actually going??? If you could come up with a list, that would be pretty awesome. Alex Salazar (TAF) grafts and sells his own trees, as does Chris Wenzel (Truly Tropical). My CeciLove came from Alex, and my LIttle Gem, Sugarloaf, Karla, Pickering, and Cac came from Chris. I got a Honey Kiss from TreesNMore (Palm City), which I believe was a Zill tree.

[@reyn66]

Dr. Cambel named one of his selections lion king, Why not cougar/puma for p-22? Name it after the Hollywood mountain lion in California. LOL

[@jonathancrouse8640]

Thank you