Watching from Kenya, been watching every video since 2022 and retro-watched the ones before. Nice and educational. Our climate is guac climate year round. We have a lot of seedling varieties some good some not so good but we are starting to get used to grafting mostly hass and fuerte. I think there is good opportunity to discover new varieties especially since we already have millions of seedling varieties growing in people's farms.
Hello from Florida and thank you for the support. Yeah it sounds like a treasure trove of new varieties over there! Please keep us posted what you find
Wow!!! I learned something today.... I didn't know you could clean the external tissue of scion/budwood so effectively with a little soap/water/toothbrush. I think I will start incorporating this technique in my grafting practices. I have between a 25% to 50% success rate depending on species/variety. Maybe this will increase my success rate. Today is a good day. Thank you Tom.
Thanks for sharing your knowledge. Videos like these are priceless. Can I mention. Anyone that cannot get the parafilm. I used plumbing Teflon tape and I just left the nodes exposed. I then put a transparent packet over it and tied it down at the bottom. My grafts were successful. It worked. But one thing I do suggest to get is the hydrogen peroxide. I sprayed some hydrogen peroxide over the graft and the graft healed faster.
Very educational and overall top notch quality video! I can't buy these cuttings because: 1. They're too expensive, for me at least.; 2. I live in Bulgaria, which means I don't live in America.; 3. I'm under 18 (doesn't necessarily mean I can't buy things online).; 4. I don't have the resources like: grafting tape, good pruning shears for thicker stems and etc.. But maybe one day I'll be able to buy a pack of 5 grafts or budwood.
Doing well! Thanks for asking.. Plenty of rain here (on the dry side) this spring. Therefore plants are happy and I’ve got plenty of weed whacking to do this afternoon! Haha We should be grafting soon. If you do any ‘top working’ older tree stumps in the field, please film it and share your techniques! Protecting the graft from wind and rain, would you wrap it with clear plastic bag? Or grafting tape alone… Thanks again!!
I've been looking to graft a mango. Just recently a seed I grew from a mango 5 years ago in 2019 started producing flowers this spring in it's large container. Didn't expect it to do that but maybe might get some interesting mangos out of it
Here ya go Tom.... In his orchard, sweet and grand, Tom tends to mangoes, hand in hand. With gentle touch and watchful eye, Underneath the sunlit sky. Amidst the trees, he finds his peace, Where golden fruit and whispers tease. In Tom's mango haven, so fair, Life's sweetness fills the air. With every harvest, joy takes flight, In Tom's orchard, bathed in light. So here's to Tom, in mango's sway, Where dreams and fruits both ripen each day.
you don't have to but there's no reason to graft from a tree that hasn't born fruit yet...all you are doing is grafting a seedling to seedling and in that case you still wind up with a seedling. the reason we graft is to replicate the fruit from the tree we took the cutting from...if it hasn't born fruit we don't know if it will be good or bad.
Tom, on your previous grafting videos you put a plastic bag over the plant, is it OK to just place the grafted plant under shade and not use the bag? You should make a video of how to take care of the plants after grafting, Ex. Shade, water, fertilizer, etc.., there are not such videos on RUclips.
good point. this is a different technique. the plastic bag we keep in shade, when we cover them like this we leave them in sun. you are right I need to do one over the course of a few months to show the steps along the way. Like a once per week check in.
I need help, my grafted avocado seedings are wilting because of the sudden heat change, from 27°C to 36°C the leaves are wilting, I already watered them and brought them in the coldest part of the house, (probably somewhere around 29°C or lower) do I just let them be and leave it to their resilience to survive? I think these are hass varieties which I heard has one of the lowest heat tolerance among avocado varieties.
@@SleepyLizard very good video and the manzate is new to me as well but understand why you would use it (bought a bottle and started some grafts with it after your vid). is it commonly used in the grafting industry? (high number propagation, places like zills ex...)
Question My Friend, some of my mango leaves look like something chewed on it, does that mean my mango tree has a disease and if so what can i do?? My mango tree right now has about 7 mangos right now,, Thank you sir!!! Houston Texas
@@EffectivePickyEatersSolutions mine all grow pretty much the same but I haven't been doing this long enough to compare long term trees grafted onto one rootstock vs another. but the folks who been doing this for decades prefer turpentine
@@SleepyLizard they prefer bc it's more aggressive (grows faster and ready for grafting) than any other rootstock and people complaining that their mango trees after 2-3y of struggles just die. Same thing I can see with avocado seedlings, from big seed it's ready for grafting in 3 months from sprouting. and smaller seed will be ready almost in a year.
grafting tape is thick and solid, new growth won't push through it. Parafilm and buddy tape allow the growth to push through. I never used buddy tape and have only recently learned about it
Hello sleepy lizard Hope your doing well, love your videos, would you be willing to share a few scion from your Keith mango to a disable veteran who would love to graft a seedling his growing, I love doing this for a hobby and to keep my self busy due to my disability with Parkinson. Let me know your comments. Keep up the good teaching and the videos coming.
I've actually seen 2 of those spiders on my avacado tree. I don't know what spider It is but what those spiders do is, they find a leaf and they sit under the leaf. The pull the end of the leaf down and then they use there webs to keep it down like a canopy. The spiders web was so strong that I could not pull the leaf open. So i don't know if these spiders are good to have around. With that bright color and those strong webs. I wonder if they are poisonous.
@@SleepyLizard I'm not sure about the bright color making it certain that it's poisonous. I just know that in nature, a lot of venomous and poisonous creatures and animals are alot of the time poisonous. The bright colors are also a defense mechanism against predators. Meaning look I'm brightly colored so don't eat me because I'm poisonous.
So, I get the whole bit of the graft and getting cuttings. The one thing I don't get is producing the root stock. I know that you can plant seeds from avocados you eat. I don't know about the quality of that root stock. I don't know if you've talked about this in another video, about getting quality root stock, if there are certain avocados that are better for using the seed, etc........... My first guess would be a nursery or farm that's been doing this for a long time probably has trees they like to use to get seeds from, but just as seeds aren't true to the tree for fruit quality, isn't the same true for root stock? Or, I'm sorry in this case mango, I get hung up on avocado because I haven't had good luck with this one yet, whereas I have with mango, not for me doing the grafting but buying small trees from a person that does. Information about both would be helpful, and would be GREAT if it's already in a video or you make a video about this topic.
yes you a re right about avocado rootstock. each seed is unique so you are gonna have some underperforms which is why we do tens of thousands of trees here in the ag region every year. We like certain varieties like Waldin and Lula seeds because they tend to grow fast developing root systems. Mango we use turpentine which is polyembryonic so they are clones of the mother and therefore predictable.
@@SleepyLizard Hey thanks for the info. This is in the Philippines where we have land, though we live in the US for now. The varieties of course will be different and there's probably a wider variety of mango there. I guess for the avocado I'll have to test out seed from different trees and just plan on doing a lot of planting and expect losses. And for the mango it should be more predictable and I can ask people there what their experience is using trees from different people, or if they have good experience with seed from certain trees. But thank you for the information on mango that's helpful to know, " polyembryonic so they are clones of the mother " I'll do some reading on mango so I get a fuller picture.
@@SleepyLizard i used DAWN today to wash scions, hopefully it will be fine. I had to graft again, bc my first 2 attempts failed. avocado is more successful for me.
hey i was just wondering do you need to graft the trees for them to grow from the tree you cut from or is there a way to just have the cuttings grow without having a second tree to graft too? thanks!
u didn't show how to pick avocado budwoods and when is the right time to graft avocado and how. i thought you're specialize on avocados. there are like dozen of other mango experts already. I find mangos grafting is more forgiving but citrus plants is hard to tell. idk about avocado.
@@SleepyLizard I thought this is about a avocado grafting since you’re only selling avocados, but do u have a video of avocado grafting, and can u eat a whole Avocado in one sitting because I can only eat one spoon because they’re so buttery
You are so thorough and you keep it simple. Excellent tutorial! I really enjoy your vids especially this one!
thank you Mike, I appreciate it.
I tried grafting mango today, thank you for the free tutorials, sending love from Nigeria
Hello from Florida. Good luck with your grafts
Watching from Kenya, been watching every video since 2022 and retro-watched the ones before. Nice and educational. Our climate is guac climate year round. We have a lot of seedling varieties some good some not so good but we are starting to get used to grafting mostly hass and fuerte. I think there is good opportunity to discover new varieties especially since we already have millions of seedling varieties growing in people's farms.
Hello from Florida and thank you for the support. Yeah it sounds like a treasure trove of new varieties over there! Please keep us posted what you find
Wow!!! I learned something today.... I didn't know you could clean the external tissue of scion/budwood so effectively with a little soap/water/toothbrush. I think I will start incorporating this technique in my grafting practices. I have between a 25% to 50% success rate depending on species/variety. Maybe this will increase my success rate. Today is a good day. Thank you Tom.
thanks for taking the time and leaving such encouraging feedback.
@@SleepyLizard Love you and your wife, and your channel.
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Thanks for sharing your knowledge. Videos like these are priceless. Can I mention. Anyone that cannot get the parafilm. I used plumbing Teflon tape and I just left the nodes exposed. I then put a transparent packet over it and tied it down at the bottom. My grafts were successful. It worked. But one thing I do suggest to get is the hydrogen peroxide. I sprayed some hydrogen peroxide over the graft and the graft healed faster.
thank you for the tip
@@SleepyLizard you're awesome Sir. Love you positive vibrant aura that you give off.
You are quite an inspiration to myself and my family. We have learned a great deal from you and thank you for all that you do.
thank you, I appreciate it
You are the Champ!!
thank you
Very nice tutorial. Thank you for explaining all the steps so clearly.
you are welcome Hubert
You have the best job in the world!
I think you're right.
Hello I follow you from Syria I really enjoy the information you provide Thank you very much I wish you good luck, health and happiness in your life.
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Thank you sir! 勉強になりました。参考にさせて頂きます。
you are welcome
Awesome info. Thanks for sharing!
You're welcome
Great video! Always learn a lot with you. Also believe the spider was a green lynx
You are the second person to ID green lynx It was practically glowing
Very educational and overall top notch quality video! I can't buy these cuttings because:
1. They're too expensive, for me at least.;
2. I live in Bulgaria, which means I don't live in America.;
3. I'm under 18 (doesn't necessarily mean I can't buy things online).;
4. I don't have the resources like: grafting tape, good pruning shears for thicker stems and etc..
But maybe one day I'll be able to buy a pack of 5 grafts or budwood.
you have enough projects going on right now anyhow 🤣
Where's Jorge?
I don't know. I'll have to give him a call.
Thanks Teacher ❤
You are welcome
Thank you from Kohala!
Yo! How you been?
Doing well! Thanks for asking..
Plenty of rain here (on the dry side) this spring. Therefore plants are happy and I’ve got plenty of weed whacking to do this afternoon! Haha
We should be grafting soon. If you do any ‘top working’ older tree stumps in the field, please film it and share your techniques!
Protecting the graft from wind and rain, would you wrap it with clear plastic bag? Or grafting tape alone…
Thanks again!!
Hello! I’m new to your videos.
That’s a Green Lynx Spider. A non-venomous good guy. 🥭🕸️🥰
Welcome to the channel and thank you for the ID
@@SleepyLizard you’re most welcome. And thx!😊
Thanks for sharing!
You are welcome
Thanks sweetie I appreciate it 🥰
you are welcome Sharon
I've been looking to graft a mango. Just recently a seed I grew from a mango 5 years ago in 2019 started producing flowers this spring in it's large container. Didn't expect it to do that but maybe might get some interesting mangos out of it
great news!
Here ya go Tom.... In his orchard, sweet and grand,
Tom tends to mangoes, hand in hand.
With gentle touch and watchful eye,
Underneath the sunlit sky.
Amidst the trees, he finds his peace,
Where golden fruit and whispers tease.
In Tom's mango haven, so fair,
Life's sweetness fills the air.
With every harvest, joy takes flight,
In Tom's orchard, bathed in light.
So here's to Tom, in mango's sway,
Where dreams and fruits both ripen each day.
😁
😂😂 Most of my ER visits started with having fun [ lmao ]!
Great easy simple teaching!
Tku Avocado king!
thank you Lisette 🤣
When grafting from a cutting to a seedling plant,do I have to use cutting from a matured tree which has bear fruits or no need to.
you don't have to but there's no reason to graft from a tree that hasn't born fruit yet...all you are doing is grafting a seedling to seedling and in that case you still wind up with a seedling. the reason we graft is to replicate the fruit from the tree we took the cutting from...if it hasn't born fruit we don't know if it will be good or bad.
Tom, on your previous grafting videos you put a plastic bag over the plant, is it OK to just place the grafted plant under shade and not use the bag? You should make a video of how to take care of the plants after grafting, Ex. Shade, water, fertilizer, etc.., there are not such videos on RUclips.
good point. this is a different technique. the plastic bag we keep in shade, when we cover them like this we leave them in sun. you are right I need to do one over the course of a few months to show the steps along the way. Like a once per week check in.
Very good teaching video Tom. Excellent and informative. What is the solution that you are using?
thank you. I cleaned them with antibacterial soap in water then I dunked them in Manzate
@@SleepyLizardOkay. Not familiar with Manzate. Will research it. Thanks.
The Island of Doctor Moreau. What next? Grafting mammals?
I wonder what's next too
"Mancozeb" from bonide has a smaller, less expensive container of funguside.
I have a jug so big it will be passed down the next two generations before it's used up
I need help, my grafted avocado seedings are wilting because of the sudden heat change, from 27°C to 36°C the leaves are wilting, I already watered them and brought them in the coldest part of the house, (probably somewhere around 29°C or lower) do I just let them be and leave it to their resilience to survive? I think these are hass varieties which I heard has one of the lowest heat tolerance among avocado varieties.
Great video. That manzate step is new to me. Would you elaborate more about it's use?
its an anti fungal so it will help keep the graft from getting infected
Super .
@@SleepyLizard very good video and the manzate is new to me as well but understand why you would use it (bought a bottle and started some grafts with it after your vid). is it commonly used in the grafting industry? (high number propagation, places like zills ex...)
Southern comfort? We can't get drunk and graft at the same time? 😂
Oh yes. That's for the grafter not the grafting 🤣
Would you recommend having Manzate on hand for avocado grafting too or no?
yes
That’s a green Magnolia jumper spider my friend… you gonna offer balient scions?
Looks more like a green lynx spider (maybe)
thank for the ID and thanks for reminding me. I forgot to list Balliet. They are on the site now available. But as you know I only have the one tree.
thank you.
@@mikec6342green magnolia jumper… get them on my tree all the time… the red dot 🔴 … don’t know what I was thinking 😂 😊
Question My Friend, some of my mango leaves look like something chewed on it, does that mean my mango tree has a disease and if so what can i do?? My mango tree right now has about 7 mangos right now,, Thank you sir!!! Houston Texas
look under the leaves and see if there's worms or bugs. hit them with diluted dish soap. 1 tablespoon to a gallon of water.
I live in California will the cutting survive if older all the way from Florida?
yes. we ship them in damp moss. they are good for 30 days
Do you use any specific variety to grow seedlings or you plant whatever you have?
I plant whatever i have but a lot of people use turpentine variety down here
@@SleepyLizard i don't have access to turpentine. do you ever notice difference on seedlings? looks like bigger seeds perform better
@@EffectivePickyEatersSolutions mine all grow pretty much the same but I haven't been doing this long enough to compare long term trees grafted onto one rootstock vs another. but the folks who been doing this for decades prefer turpentine
@@SleepyLizard they prefer bc it's more aggressive (grows faster and ready for grafting) than any other rootstock and people complaining that their mango trees after 2-3y of struggles just die. Same thing I can see with avocado seedlings, from big seed it's ready for grafting in 3 months from sprouting. and smaller seed will be ready almost in a year.
What's the difference between grafting tape, prarafilm, buddy tape, etc?
grafting tape is thick and solid, new growth won't push through it. Parafilm and buddy tape allow the growth to push through. I never used buddy tape and have only recently learned about it
Is there a way to produce new varieties of mango?
Yes. I created a variety and named it after my grandparents. This vid explains it: ruclips.net/video/ruOo95OTuVw/видео.htmlsi=Uvw_iCkkubafLjOt
Grafting a mango three to avocado to see if it would work what do you think
it doesn't work. people have tried it. grafting has to be done within species
@@SleepyLizard thanks
Do you sell the grapfted plant? Id love to try and grow one inside
I do not
Hello! How can I purchase some avocado scions? I couldn’t find them on the website.
They are not ready yet. They come into season in the fall
Hello sleepy lizard
Hope your doing well, love your videos, would you be willing to share a few scion from your Keith mango to a disable veteran who would love to graft a seedling his growing, I love doing this for a hobby and to keep my self busy due to my disability with Parkinson.
Let me know your comments. Keep up the good teaching and the videos coming.
Hi Bob, if you are interested in getting some scions I sell them during season at www.guacfarm.com
Sleepy do you send cuttings to Europe ?
Sorry. We only ship in the US
Can I use any anti bacterial we have??
Yes
10:25 can you use the parafilm for this too?
yes, in fact I said that when I recorded but I edited that part out when I finished the vid 🤣
I've actually seen 2 of those spiders on my avacado tree. I don't know what spider It is but what those spiders do is, they find a leaf and they sit under the leaf. The pull the end of the leaf down and then they use there webs to keep it down like a canopy. The spiders web was so strong that I could not pull the leaf open. So i don't know if these spiders are good to have around. With that bright color and those strong webs. I wonder if they are poisonous.
good point, I didn't think the bright color was a signal that it was venomous
@@SleepyLizard I'm not sure about the bright color making it certain that it's poisonous. I just know that in nature, a lot of venomous and poisonous creatures and animals are alot of the time poisonous. The bright colors are also a defense mechanism against predators. Meaning look I'm brightly colored so don't eat me because I'm poisonous.
@@musaadfelton3909 yes...not a sure sign but definitely something to look out for
Where can I get this manzate, I checked Amazon and nothing showed up
I get it at a farm supply store.
What seedling do you recommended?
turpentine
Ty ty
So, I get the whole bit of the graft and getting cuttings.
The one thing I don't get is producing the root stock. I know that you can plant seeds from avocados you eat. I don't know about the quality of that root stock. I don't know if you've talked about this in another video, about getting quality root stock, if there are certain avocados that are better for using the seed, etc...........
My first guess would be a nursery or farm that's been doing this for a long time probably has trees they like to use to get seeds from, but just as seeds aren't true to the tree for fruit quality, isn't the same true for root stock?
Or, I'm sorry in this case mango, I get hung up on avocado because I haven't had good luck with this one yet, whereas I have with mango, not for me doing the grafting but buying small trees from a person that does. Information about both would be helpful, and would be GREAT if it's already in a video or you make a video about this topic.
yes you a re right about avocado rootstock. each seed is unique so you are gonna have some underperforms which is why we do tens of thousands of trees here in the ag region every year. We like certain varieties like Waldin and Lula seeds because they tend to grow fast developing root systems.
Mango we use turpentine which is polyembryonic so they are clones of the mother and therefore predictable.
@@SleepyLizard Hey thanks for the info.
This is in the Philippines where we have land, though we live in the US for now. The varieties of course will be different and there's probably a wider variety of mango there.
I guess for the avocado I'll have to test out seed from different trees and just plan on doing a lot of planting and expect losses.
And for the mango it should be more predictable and I can ask people there what their experience is using trees from different people, or if they have good experience with seed from certain trees. But thank you for the information on mango that's helpful to know, " polyembryonic so they are clones of the mother "
I'll do some reading on mango so I get a fuller picture.
What fid you dip the graft in
Manzate
What is manzate? Any substitutions?
I'm unaware of any substitute
@@SleepyLizard i used DAWN today to wash scions, hopefully it will be fine. I had to graft again, bc my first 2 attempts failed. avocado is more successful for me.
Do you sell cuttings for avocado
yes but they're not ready till the fall.
Do you sell polyembrionic mango seeds (international shipping) ?
I don't ship outside the USA but one variety of mango I sell called Nam Doc Mai is polyembryonic.
@@SleepyLizard Too bad, i would order :)
Is it possible to pre order bulk scions?
reach out to me via email. go to the about section of my channel
@@SleepyLizard sent you an email thank you
@@SleepyLizard that email isn’t valid or I’m not entering it correctly
@@TucsonTropicals oops, I just fixed it. try again
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hey i was just wondering do you need to graft the trees for them to grow from the tree you cut from or is there a way to just have the cuttings grow without having a second tree to graft too? thanks!
you can root cuttings but you don't get a taproot so the resulting tree won't be as robust.
Might be aGreen Lynx spider but more likely a Magnolia Green Jumper spider.
It was so pretty
Where’s jorge??
yeah kind of felt like I was out on a spacewalk without him
What is manzate?
fungicide
sir i want keitt mango plant,valencia pride,baliet mango plant for india
I apologize but I don't ship international
I think that was a baby scorpion
they are all over the place around here
talas bogor plant
what does that mean
u didn't show how to pick avocado budwoods and when is the right time to graft avocado and how. i thought you're specialize on avocados. there are like dozen of other mango experts already. I find mangos grafting is more forgiving but citrus plants is hard to tell. idk about avocado.
I'm not sure I understand why you are pointing out I didn't do anything about avocados, this is a mango grafting vid. can you clarify????
@@SleepyLizard I thought this is about a avocado grafting since you’re only selling avocados, but do u have a video of avocado grafting, and can u eat a whole Avocado in one sitting because I can only eat one spoon because they’re so buttery
no this vid is about mango grafting. Out of curiosity, did you watch the vid?
@@SleepyLizard and the lizard in your logo looks like it’s high not sleepy
@@Derpherppington you seem a little sleepy yourself 🤣
😂great
Thx
What is manzate?
It's a fungicide
@@SleepyLizard Thanks.