Zill High Performance Plants

Zill High Performance Plants At Zill High Performance Plants, we breed & grow the finest tropical fruit trees 🥭🌱.

Our passion for innovation & sustainability ensures top-quality plants that thrive & produce exceptional fruit 🥭🌱

06/06/2026

Most people don’t know guava has a dirty little secret 🪱
If you’re growing Ruby Supreme and skipping the bag — you’re feeding worms, not yourself.
Ruby Supreme is one of the most flavorful guavas on the planet. Deep ruby-red flesh, intensely sweet with a slight tartness, and a fragrance that hits before you even cut it open. Gary Zill grows it for a reason.
But guava is a worm magnet. The moment that fruit starts to develop, fruit flies and guava moths are already looking for a way in. By the time you see damage on the outside, it’s already too late on the inside.
The fix is simple: bag the fruit early — right after fruit set, when it’s still marble-sized. A paper bag or mesh sleeve tied off at the stem gives you clean, unblemished fruit every single time.
No sprays. No guessing. Just bagging.
This is how you get grocery-store-perfect Ruby Supreme out of your own backyard.

06/06/2026

the glenn tree is loaded right now 🥭 had to break out the picker for the ones hiding up top — these are coming in perfect

06/06/2026

The Queen of Mangoes is in the grove 👑🥭

Kesar is one of the most celebrated mango varieties in the world — sitting right alongside Alphonso as India’s most iconic fruit. Rich, honey-sweet, fiberless, and saffron-golden. A variety this legendary deserves a spot in every serious collection.

This tree is 6 years old on dwarfing rootstock — because yes, you CAN grow the Queen in a South Florida backyard.

Link in bio to inquire about availability.

06/04/2026

Some mangoes are good. Some mangoes are an event. 🥭

Cat Saigon is an event.

This is one of the largest mangoes we grow — a giant, substantial fruit that commands the table the moment you set it down. We’re talking serious size. The kind of mango that makes people stop and ask what it is before you even cut into it.

And then you cut into it.

The flesh is completely fiberless, smooth, and dense — a clean, almost buttery texture that holds together on the knife and melts in the mouth. The flavor is honey-sweet and mildly floral. Not sharp. Not one-dimensional. Just deep, well-rounded sweetness with a subtle floral finish that stays with you long after the last bite.

This is what the Indochinese family does at its best — and Cat Saigon delivers it at a scale that has to be seen to be believed.

Season runs July through August. If you’re building a serious tropical fruit collection and you want something that delivers on size AND flavor without compromise — this is it.

Not just a mango. A statement.

We will see you in the grove. 🌴

05/31/2026

When a mango is truly ready, you don’t pull it… it lets go.

This Nam Doc Mai developed a beautiful golden-orange color right on the tree, and with one gentle twist it snapped off perfectly.

The flavor? Rich honey sweetness with floral aromas, subtle spice, tropical complexity, and a unique funky character that makes Nam Doc Mai one of the most recognizable mangoes in the world. 🍯🥭

Nothing beats tree-ripened fruit.

05/29/2026

Most people have never heard of an Atemoya. Fewer have seen two bloom at once. Gefner and Presity — two of our top varieties — both showing flowers right now in the grove. This is how the next generation of fruit starts.”

05/24/2026

Caimito — the fruit you won’t find in stores 🌟

Two varieties, green and purple, both creamy, sweet, and unreal when chilled. Cut it open horizontally and you’ll see the star inside.

These trees thrive in South Florida and produce hundreds of fruit a season. Grafted green and purple caimito available now.

Comment below if you want one for your yard 👇

05/23/2026

Fruit Punch vs Fruit Cocktail — same Boynton Beach breeding program, two completely different mangoes.

Fruit Punch is the crowd-pleaser. 1–1.5 lb fruit, scarlet over orange, heavy producer, firm fiberless flesh. Bright citrus-pineapple snap with classic mango sweetness underneath. Easy keeper at 10–20 ft.

Fruit Cocktail is the trophy. ~1 lb fruit, yellow with a soft blush, naturally compact at 10–15 ft. Modest production, but the flavor is the payoff — resinous, layered citrus, pineapple guava, spice building underneath. Terpene depth that tastes like the fruit cup juice you drank as a kid. Long finish.

One mango that does it all? Fruit Punch. One that stops people mid-bite? Fruit Cocktail.

Which one’s going in your yard? 👇

Eight mangoes. Eight completely different flavors. 🥭P22 — A newer Zill release. Indochinese flavor with bright tartness,...
05/22/2026

Eight mangoes. Eight completely different flavors. 🥭

P22 — A newer Zill release. Indochinese flavor with bright tartness, citrus notes, and a lot of sweetness behind it. You have to taste it to get it.

Coconut Cream — Tropical, creamy, coconut on the finish. The crowd favorite for a reason.

Buttercream — Rich, smooth, dense flesh. Eats exactly like the name.

Fruit Punch — Big fruit with a red blush. Layered, complex, tastes like a tropical drink in fruit form.

Orange Sherbet — Lemony, citrus-forward, smooth. Eats like the dessert it’s named after.

Kathy K3 — Also called Kryptonite. Sweet, smooth, almost melting. Vanilla, peach, apricot, and a hint of orange in the aroma.

Glenn — Mild, sweet, peachy, no fiber. The gateway mango for a lot of people.

Vin Long — Vietnamese variety from the Mekong Delta. Large fruit, sweet with a mild tartness. Firm and juicy. Eats green or ripe.

Which one are you growing first? 👇

05/20/2026

Meet the Ox sapodilla 🌳

Named after Oxkutzcab, a Maya town in the Yucatan with a thousand years of fruit growing history.

Mid size fruit, deep chocolate brown flesh, classic brown sugar flavor. One of eleven sapodilla varieties hand selected by Gary in our lineup, with new seedlings coming up behind them.

If you are in the trade and looking to add proven sapodilla varieties to your nursery, get in touch.

Home growers — find a retailer near you on our website.

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7424 Hypoluxo Farms Road
Lake Worth, FL
33463

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Monday 8am - 4:30pm
Tuesday 8am - 4:30pm
Wednesday 8am - 4:30pm
Thursday 8am - 4:30pm
Friday 8am - 4:30pm

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(561) 434-5133

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