Zill O-15
IMPORTANT READ BEFORE Make your Grafting Request Order
We are only able to graft twice a year, Late Spring & Late Summer.
- If we receive the order between after September 24th and before May 1st, The trees will be grafted in Spring & should be ready by the end of the year.
- For orders made after May 01st and before of September 24th will be grafted in late Summer and should be ready in the Spring following year, May most likely.
Only Once the small tree has completed two flushes of growth since it was grafted do we consider it ready to leave our nursery.
(Estimated time is 6 to 8 months. Some varieties take longer time to growth)
Zill O-15 was a seedling of Jakarta from the breeding program of Gary Zill in Boynton Beach, FL.
It is a medium-sized mango, ovately shaped and turning yellow at maturity. The flesh is fiberless, yellow, and firm. The flavor excellent,though can be highly resinous, reminiscent of Jakarta but probably sweeter, belonging in the Indian/West Indian flavor class.
The original tree is productive, but the fruit tend to ripen in a very short span, only a couple weeks.
We topworked a tree into O-15 in 2017 for evaluation. In 2019 this tree flowered and set fruit well, but did not retain any of its fruit to maturity. It finally fruited well in 2020 and had multiple crops. The tree has fruited each year since. Fruit quality has been inconsistent, with some specimens being outstanding and some being washed out. O-15 tends to have physiological issues with stem end rots and large anthracnose spots on the top of the fruit being a problem. We are hoping this will be less of an issue as the tree gets older.
Flavor: Indian/West Indian
Country: Florida - USA