What to Do When Your Mango Seed Makes Multiple Sprouts Polyembryonic Mangos

Some mango seeds produce multiple shoots. Those are known as polyembryonic. They've got some very interesting properties. If you've got a seed going and it made multiple shoots check out this vid to learn what to do.
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[@DoctorJohn_MD]

This video has no right being so informative and easy to digest, wow

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thanks John

[@GodKingx87]

The pause moments are gold

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[@DoctorJohn_MD]

7:16 had me cracking up 😂

[@PokemonLoverfellow]

The long stare bro 👌🏾! We can all agree that mangoes are tasty. Mangoes are also round like earth, but some might say mangoes are spherical like earth. Again, it depends on where you get your news. I'm a God believer! So... God bless you

[@SleepyLizard]

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[@GodIsLove447]

It's so important to taste the mango you decide to plant.

[@SleepyLizard]

yes

[@greenlizard99]

Good video on an interesting topic. I've read that the zygotic seedling is the strongest sprout, the weakest sprout, the one in the posterior position, the one in the anterior position, that it depends on the variety, and that you never can tell until it bears fruit or the plant shows characteristics of the variety. Somebody needs to figure this out. LOL

[@SleepyLizard]

I don't know all that terminology but I've only heard that the runt is the fertilized one and the others are the more vigorous ones.

[@bhuvansoc9432]

Got a doubt as you said at the end of the video and got my answer too! Thank you !

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[@HaydenMaionese54]

Ooh, good video! I loves mangoes!! They are dilicious! Jook an adventure! I know you particularly sel avocado.

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[@justgivemethetruth]

That freeze-frame stare into the camera thing is a little unnerving. Fascinating thing I've never heard before. So informative. Not sure, but it seems like the word embryo is an odd word to use for plants? Could that be called a cotyledon - a significant part of the embryo within the seed of a plant, and is defined as "the embryonic leaf in seed-bearing plants, one or more of which are the first to appear from a germinating seed." Does having so many "embryos" give those varieties a survival advantage over the single embryo seeds?

[@SleepyLizard]

I don't know who chose to use what words but yes it's a survival advantage. One of the seedlings is fertilized which means it has a combination of DNA from two trees so you get random mutations which we know is how species adapt to changing conditions. but if conditions don't change then the clones will survive.

[@debhume4474]

This is amazing! Very informative and funny at the same time. This guy cracks me up 😂

[@SleepyLizard]

thank you Deb!

[@segapena5033]

I got multiple ataulfo mango seedlings going from store bought mangos. I read ataulfo mangos are polyembryonic and they look like it too. I will plant one this spring seeing that my dwarf palmer mango is handling our zone 9B northern California winter with no frost burn or dieback so far. My jacaranda and royal poinciana look way worse than my mango and star fruit tree.

[@SleepyLizard]

good luck with the atulfo seeds!

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[@SleepyLizard]

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[@chatty28]

Thank you for this! My mango seed just sprouted 4😅 i was so amazed.

[@SleepyLizard]

wow! so you had a polyembryonic variety

[@sedition517]

Found this video after I grafted onto a polyembryonic seedling I had in a bucket. Oh well, lets see what we get. Any videos on care for grafted seedling?

[@SleepyLizard]

we graft onto polyembryonic all the time. It'll be fine. I need to make a video on caring for the trees post-graft.

[@steveandjenny149]

I always learn something 👍 , and yes mangos are delicious

[@SleepyLizard]

I just ate a store bought one...it's not mango season but I couldn't resist. was not very good at all.

[@RimmPurple]

Thx u for this explication .. now i know that happen to my avocados .. great end of 2023 to ya and yours family .. yes i yes i stay blessed and loved my friend Tommy boy

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Rimm, haven't seen you in a while, have a great New Year

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@@SleepyLizard so sorry my homie so busy at work my job turn me crazy lol great New Year to ya my FAM

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[@jesco7132]

Awesome explanation. Thank you.

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Thanks!!

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i love mangoes

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Yeah, I ate one yesterday!

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me too Frosty

[@hopefulgreenthumb]

Another great video, Tom. I’m not growing mangoes, but I like all of your ‘stuff’…the way you present your topics. I’m recently into the avocado game, though…we’ll see if the trees can make it through the winter. I’ll continue tuning into your channel to increase my knowledge in avocado, business, finance, and other life skills/ stuff. You are a big part of where I get my news…lol! Keep it up! Have a great day!

[@SleepyLizard]

I'm glad you get your news from me...tropical fruit news is better than the alternatives 😉

[@dmatcardoug2986]

Great informative video Tom! Mango is indeed the King of Fruits! I sometimes separate the seedlings and plant them as separate plants. When it grows up a bit I then graft these seedlings to get more grafted mango trees.

[@SleepyLizard]

yes...more Julies

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[@toconnor3606]

I love these videos…every time someone tells me, oh I have a bunch mangos growing and they are going to be amazing. Then I say, hold on, not so fast. Then I send them links to your videos 😂

[@SleepyLizard]

hahahaha. the facts are always friendly

[@The_Mothzz]

Wish i could grow them here in zone 8a. If i could my entire yard would be full😂 its hard getting these babys threw the winter. Nice video btw.

[@SleepyLizard]

8a is the lower limit yeah.

[@The_Mothzz]

@@SleepyLizard could one survive if kept at 45fahrenheit (7c) over the winter? or is this too cold?

[@rogerbeaird3320]

Me and my son are planting several seeds from different stores to see what they do we will label them too thanks again for your knowledge

[@SleepyLizard]

this sounds like the type of project that will pass to your grandson even. I love it!

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[@navneetdatta8737]

Wow. In just 2-3 minutes I got all the answers for the questions I have been asking around for months on various pages, websites etc about Polyembryonic clones. I am growing 2 Mingolo clones, and i understand that they grow huge. Can I keep them in big pots and still get fruit in 4-5 years.

[@SleepyLizard]

best of luck with you mangos

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[@daviddane6385]

Awesome video. Thanks . Love your work.

[@SleepyLizard]

thank you David

[@d30spanky]

Very interesting! This just happened to me with a lemon seed. I wonder if the two larger will be clones and the runt will be a new variety. Does this happen with lemons too?

[@SleepyLizard]

I'm not sure about citrus

[@comfortablynumb9342]

Man this is interesting stuff. I ate lots of mangos in Costa Rica. Some were awesome, some had fibers or hairs in them, some weren't good to eat at all. I never understood why those didn't get cut down so they didn't pollinate others. One place I lived had 2 trees with the trunks touching, one had great fruit and the other had fibers and didn't taste good. I assume they came from 2 seeds? Or could they have been different shoots from one seed? That doesn't seem likely. One thing you can get from crossing 2 varieties of fruit is called hybrid vigor and it causes rapid growth and hardy trees or plants. But from what I've seen you don't know what the fruit will taste like until it fruits. In FL the good mangos I've had were all grafted. Avocado too. Do you grow rambutan/mamōn chino? I read that they'll grow in southern Florida. I miss them, once a year in Costa Rica they're everywhere in the southern zone. They're red or yellow and look like a big sand spur but they won't poke you. Like a castor bean seed pod but softer. Inside is a soft flesh that's a lot like a green grape and has a single seed you avoid. There might be other names for it. If you don't have them i recommend you try to get some. They're delicious if you get sweet ones, some are tart. The good ones are usually on grafted trees in Costa Rica and Panama. The ones from seed are like mango and avocado, you never know until they fruit.

[@SleepyLizard]

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[@user-vb7ch9rx1p]

Great clean and easy to understand video. Any thoughts on a reliable and reasonably complete source listing for Poly and Mono mango varieties?

[@SleepyLizard]

I just google the variety when I wanna know if it's poly or mono

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I like your jibes. Am polyembryonic when it comes to news

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[@ceciliabrown1677]

The same for avocados. I have a poly avocado tree. So far I don't have any poly mangoes.

[@SleepyLizard]

Look up the list of polyembryonic mangos and eat a few and plant the seeds. you'll have a forrest before you know it!

[@ianyounger4052]

Brilliant 🙏

[@SleepyLizard]

Thank you Ian, I appreciate the comment.

[@johnnygonzales3211]

I also have a mango tree from a seed that I brought from Florida.

[@SleepyLizard]

oh yeah? has it produced fruit yet?

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@@SleepyLizard No it's 2ft.tall.

[@homegrowngnome]

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[@SleepyLizard]

Thanks

[@tombennett8856]

Hi , just wanted to check. You say the tree in your video is a Maha Chanok right? Which you say is polyembryonic? Just wanted to double check as reading online it seems to say it is Monoembryonic. Loving your videos from the UK. Very informative 😃 Cheers

[@SleepyLizard]

hmmm. Only one way to find out which is eat one and look at the seed!

[@tombennett8856]

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[@bobnewhart4318]

Great video very informative

[@SleepyLizard]

I hope it answered your questions from earlier.

[@bobnewhart4318]

@@SleepyLizard yes it definitely did answer my question. But then it leads me to want to ask you does the same concept apply to jackfruits as well? Is it better to go from seeds or graft?

[@steveandjenny149]

😂😅 ...the long stare

[@SleepyLizard]

I got that off Mr. Roper from Three is Company 🤣

[@SUTRASATURN]

So I recently planted a champagne mango seed. It produced 3 separate plants. Since it's polyembryonic, this was to be expected. However, one of the plants has a stem that I can only describe as siamese. The bottom of the stem is forked and coming from two separate embryos. The plant also has a defined line that runs from the the top of the plant and all the way down to where the "fork" meets the soil. Neither of the other two plants have this lined feature. I have tried Googling, trying to figure out if this is normal but nothing. Maybe your expertise can help me out? Thanks!

[@SleepyLizard]

sounds like they might have grafted together as they were growing? I'm not sure.

[@MichaelVanecekAuthor]

I have watched at least one video that mentioned that the middle plants were often the clones, while the most and least vigorous plants were potentially the pollinated versions. So if you had four sprout from the seed, the ones to keep would be the two middle ones that would usually be identical in size and vigor. Have you seen anything like this in yours?

[@SleepyLizard]

I've only heard the least vigorous is the fertilized one...never heard the most vigorous. I'm not saying it's not accurate, just I've never been told that.

[@MichaelVanecekAuthor]

@@SleepyLizard Awesome. I assume you let them grow a bit before deciding whether a smaller one is a runt rather than a late-sprouter? I have some Honey mango seeds I'm about to plant. I'm half tempted to break them apart to see if that helps them sprout more simultaneously to make runt identification easier.

[@SleepyLizard]

@@MichaelVanecekAuthor no, we make the decision quickly because they need to be separated right away

[@Luffydmonk-qi3ip]

Hi! Could you send the video of what you saw? We recently planted a mango seedling. Our dog bit of the one growing and a week later it started sprouting 4 sprouts with two in the middle standing straight and two smaller ones on the side. So im wondering if those two can be our forever mango trees ❤

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Unless your father is your mother depending on where you get your news. Right MSNBC?

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[@sirocco7151]

Complete guide for idiots like me- thank you- learnt a lot.

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[@VeronicaGonzalez-hu4yi]

So is that the same with the Avocado seeds,when they grow 2 or 3 at a time?

[@SleepyLizard]

no, with avocado it's one tree and it's best to prune away the runts and allow the dominant one to thrive.

[@orlandomartinez2023]

Hi Tom ,how and when can order some avocados scions?

[@SleepyLizard]

I don't sell scions or trees. I know people find them on eBay and other online places.

[@beckysheer5437]

Better separate plants in separate pots and give as present to someone. 😊

[@SleepyLizard]

you are a generous person

[@BAghz00]

Hi, I have an interesting scenario for my mango plant. I have a polyembryonic mango plant and I did try to separate it a while back. But the the thing is, when I took it out of the pot, it seemed that the two shoots I had were actually connected through the stem under the soil. So essentially, I wasn’t able to separate them because they weren’t connected by the roots if that makes sense. So I’m wondering if this is a bad thing to leave it how it is? Or should I just cut one of the shoots like you did in this video? Bear in mind that the two shoots are relatively equal& not obvious to the eye which one is the weaker one.

[@SleepyLizard]

yeah you can let it grow like it is and if you ever decide to prune one of the shoots away you can or you can let both shoots grow.

[@Jesusisproo]

How long does it take for me to notice which one is which on an polyembriok

[@SleepyLizard]

once they outpace the fertilized one...one will be a runt.

[@NK_..]

Cool

[@SleepyLizard]

nature is cool yes.

[@slugbyte]

Is the same true for avocado seeds? I have an avocado seed with 3 sections from my neighbor's tree, that tree is seed grown, small fruit but are they great tasting

[@SleepyLizard]

nah, with avocado it's just one tree branching out. best to prune the runts

[@slugbyte]

@@SleepyLizard dang, was hoping I lucked out. Thanks!

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Where do you live? I'm in SC. Can I grow them here?

[@SleepyLizard]

Hi Stephanie, you can google the usda hardiness zone for your zip code. If its 8a or above you can grow avocado.

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[@SleepyLizard]

depends where you get your news

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[@ricksmith1574]

Maha Chanook are polyembryonic? Sure? Google says mono?

[@SleepyLizard]

I think I said I backwards in the vid. I said Mahachanook is poly and coconut cream is mono but it's the reverse.

[@ricksmith1574]

@@SleepyLizard I was hoping you were right and it was Polly embryonic. I ate A maha 2 years ago I loved it so I planted the seed. The plant is over 5 ft tall and looking very strong. Any idea if it'll be close to the mother tree thanks for passing on all your knowledge.

[@shaunclemtiger]

I plated a Tommy mango and got 2 sprouts. What is happening there

[@SleepyLizard]

You just need to prune the runt

[@shaunclemtiger]

@@SleepyLizard I was thinking that I'll have to see which 1 I will. They are like the same size. Thanks for the advice

[@SleepyLizard]

@@shaunclemtiger flip a coin 😁

[@shaunclemtiger]

​@SleepyLizard just did it. Then I crushed and smelled the leaves and they smelled great I hear that's the best way to tell if it's gonna produce decent fruit before you they grow fruit since I'm not gonna graft it

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Very informative Thanks! P.S. I get my information from the Bible, I'm creationist...lol

[@SleepyLizard]

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[@SleepyLizard]

The only reason avocados persist to this day is because we like to eat them so we cultivate them. If human beings were not cultivating avocados they'd have gone extinct 9,000 ago when the giant ground sloth went extinct. Everything evolves because it has characteristics favorable to survival in current the current environment. For the avocado that characteristic is "utility to humans". pretty much the same a French poodles.

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like I said, depends on where you get your news.

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