Growing & Tasting Some Of My Favourite Unusual Fruits

[@TheKiwiGrower]

What's your favourite unusual fruit or edible plant to grow? Or do you have one that you want to try out? To learn How To Plant Feijoa Trees, see this video here - kzbin.info/www/bejne/gJnZiKCirtOpbNE I've added some other videos to the description too that you might find helpful. Thanks a lot for watching and for your continued support :) -Kalem

[@johnwilliams2711]

Chokoes. 🙂

[@MitchK_]

Those Finger Limes look fun! I'd like to try and grow them

[@yilengyang3325]

I want some seeds can you send me some seeds?

[@Ryanrulesok]

You should try pitaya(dragon fruit cactus) and goji berries as mine are growing well here in the UK (probably even better in New Zealand and a lot more space!)

[@leselle777]

Oh just saw your question. I enjoy my dragon fruit plant; my moringa tree for tea, sauteed leaves; my tulsi plant for tea, my barberdine vine for smoothies. Have a great day.

[@PS-wz9fc]

Dude.. Your farm and those grassy meadows are unbelievably beautiful.. You sure live on a piece of heaven.. Lucky chap..

[@TaylorRaine]

Love the turkeys at the end!!

[@simonroper4713]

This is so inspirational. Watching is so satisfying and lifts my spirits. I think I’m going to end up in a four acre plot with goats and wifi

[@destinymcintire2188]

Don’t forget a few chickens for eggs!

[@TheKiwiGrower]

Thanks Simon, really appreciate that. Haha something cool to work towards!

[@simonroper4713]

@@destinymcintire2188 Yes golden yolkers

[@destinymcintire2188]

@@simonroper4713 And a Silkie to cuddle and help hatch new eggs! They're very good parents!

[@mekomamizuko]

That’s all you need, animal companions and WiFi and you’re set for life.

[@lordtachanka80]

Finger lime pearls seem like they'd be a good garnish for a desert in a fancy restaurant

[@jenniferk6697]

Glad to see I’m not the only one that likes to grow the unusual stuff!

[@denisegibson819]

When We lived in South Africa we grew a fruit called a guavadilla. It was bigger than the usual passionfruit (granadilla) and the skin was yellow but the inside tastes just like the normal passionfruit. They were vigorous growers and I just loved them.

[@Kim_Jong_Un69420]

It's like a tangier granadilla with more flavor than your average granadilla.Great plant. 🇿🇦

[@sanjunamagar_sanju]

Passion fruit is my favorite

[@bartbartmaw]

Wow thats cool, i love passion fruit

[@Hhhh22222-w]

Good thing you dont live there anymore

[@av0x536]

I grow these in florida, they're great!

[@nukungsinjan1619]

I love the feijoa plant, its fruit is delicious and I have planted it in my house.

[@JessieNihilist]

The limes are so cool! I also like growing different "exotic" fruits and veg. I'll definitely see if I can grow those finger limes where I'm located. Thanks 😊

[@youtubeanz]

finger limes with ceviche or crudo 👌

[@ralphmueller3725]

thanks! just ordered me some of those styrian pumpkins and the banana passion fruits. I was already a huge fan of passion vines in general so it wasn't a very hard sell lol.

[@Jacksirrom]

I want to try one of those finger limes so much. Looks GOURMET.

[@tonton7526]

When the pandemic happens, I started planting fruit trees and berries. Now I had almost hundred varieties of figs, 15 varieties of dragon fruit, some grapes, tropical fruits such as coconut, tamarind, chico, duhat, rambutan, guyabano, mango and other fruit trees in the Philippines. I also grow apples, pears, lychee, jujube, oranges, blackberries, mulberries, jaboticaba, finger lime, magic fruit and other fruit that are not common in my country. Two months ago I moved to Australia, fortunately I have my mon taking care of my plants and I miss them. Btw Kalem, if you can accessed to magic fruit that would be awesome with the finger lime, as the magic fruit will make those lime sweet. It's like popping sweet citrus on your mouth.

[@KerriEverlasting]

Oooooh! Magic fruit sounds amazing!

[@tonton7526]

@@KerriEverlasting it is, that berry contains proteins that blocks the tongue's ability to taste sour flavour for an hour. It's a weird and interesting experience, you got to try it.

[@TheKiwiGrower]

Wow sounds like an amazing collection! I have tried miracle berries , which I think is the same as what you're referring too. Really interesting experience :)

[@monicas2461]

Jaboticaba!!! My childhood memories of climbing on the trees and eating out of it while chatting with my cousins! My mom used to make jaboticaba liqueur and it had a beautiful color! I never tasted it because I was too young! When I got old enough, we had already moved to another country.

[@kartoffelwaffel]

Settle down!

[@derbmann123]

We (Austria - Styria) also call them Oil Pumpkin because the Seeds get dryed like you did and pressed afterwards to get Pumpkin Oil. But you need around 3Kg Seeds to get 1L Oil. And we use the Oil mainly on Salads but you also can use it in like ice cream etc. You can basically do everything with it, except heating it because it will burn.

[@TheKiwiGrower]

Awesome, thats interesting to use it on icecream! Sounds like a cool thing to try :)

[@VaryaEQ]

Woah, pumpkin ice cream! 😅 I love that idea!

[@onearth...]

@@TheKiwiGrower Cucurbita pepo styriaca

[@kortanioslastofhisname]

@@TheKiwiGrower I can confirm, Styrian pumpkin seed oil on vanilla ice cream is divine.

[@TheSenselessName]

@@TheKiwiGrower Really good with tomatoes...

[@haley5154]

Age of empires got the turkey sound right haha. That's very wholesome that they hang around you like that :)

[@allrightallrightallright1919]

Agree, I had to watch that again! Cool little buddies

[@haley5154]

@@allrightallrightallright1919 thanks for making me rewatch this... gobloblobl :D

[@HashishFTW]

That passionfruit looked out if this world haha :D

[@fabe61]

Your combined grafted tomato-potato plant has got me interested enough to seriously consider planting some of my own veggies once I’ve left my job and have a spare few months to get started. Really enjoy your concise but informative style :)

[@escapist101]

This is how I wanna live my life. Surrounded by nature with lots of plants, lots of pets and lots of happiness.

[@Realatmx]

Appreciate your thoughts but things don't happen randomly you should set a goal and work towards it persistent if you live in USA it's it just too easy to live on homestead😊

[@staywild4635]

I would love to grow a spices of Fig I used to eat some green variety and it is the most sweetest fruit I've ever had

[@urbanfrog8466]

Greetings from Hawke's Bay. One of the really big advantages of the banana passionfruit is their lifespan. Typically standard passionfruit only live 5 to 7 years. Banana passionfruit, on the otherhand, will live live between 20 and 25 years.

[@mandysmith2541]

Just planted my first Strawberry Guava. Can’t wait for it to fruit 🥰

[@KerriEverlasting]

I planted 3 x strawberry guava a year ago... they haven't fruited yet... 💖

[@mandysmith2541]

@@KerriEverlasting have you pruned them back? I was told by the nursery when I brought it to cut the limbs off by half. Wasn’t an easy thing to do!! lol

[@genkestrel7254]

Fresh blackcurrants are one of my favourite slightly less common fruits. I would like to try an ice-cream banana.

[@phyllyweezy1]

I’m Vietnamese and We make soup out of these pumpkin. And omg they are sooo good

[@jeanjedburgh3976]

You are smart & I only heard about the curvour limes am amazed

[@rickytorres9089]

SO much interesting video, not only for the plants that you grew that were very interesting but also for how that you process your seeds to minimize the folic acids within them. Very interesting that you are incorporating a pre-fermentation of them like that.

[@mrcrepslay6464]

i know nothing about growing plants and i stumbled across ur potatoes and tomato plant video and now im strangly invested in all of the videos of urs ive watched

[@davidhalliday5247]

Oii, cheers from Colombia! I had never seen that type of maracuyá. I have to agree feijoas are one of the best fruits ever, there are also plenty of feijoa trees where I grew up, one thing that is pretty common here is to serve every fruit as juice, so you might be surprised on how delicious some of those fruits are when you turn them into juice, my favourite way to make a feijoa juice is to blend it without the peel, and also accompanied with milk, I bet you are gonna love it!!. I have also heard and tried a couple of desserts prepared with these fruits such as Feijoa mousse and like a Feijoa flower cake, I'd love to know if you tried any of that stuff!!

[@slandgkearth]

There are like 3600 species of passion fruits in the Americas. Some of them look even more bizarre than this one.

[@melonbloxRBLX]

this dude inspired me to make my own garden, now i get to have salad with my own vegetables in my lunchbox

[@TheKiwiGrower]

That’s so awesome! 👏 🥬

[@lolitabonita08]

to think that i watched your videos when u were really young kid...it is so good to see that the love for gardening still going strong..

[@deborahkizer4664]

Pretty pumpkin. 👍

[@joesarva7852]

The banana passion fruit (aka Curuba) is amazing when made into a smoothie in a blender with milk and a little sugar. It’s creamy like a drinkable yogurt. Same goes for the feijoa fruit blended with milk, but unlike the banana passion fruit which is almost like a peach yogurt, the feijoa tastes more like a citrus yogurt.

[@applegal3058]

Haha, loved the turkey's at the end! Jealous of everything you can grow there. In Newfoundland, it's mostly the basic root crops, and some hardier apple/plum/cherry/pear trees that can grow here. To grow tomatoes or gourds it takes more work. Especially tomatoes and peppers which require protection from frosts.

[@SandstormCloudwave]

Thanks for the videos Kalem. You're inspiring me to one day when I have a large garden to also grow my own fruits and veg.

[@thesilentone2001]

Thanks for showing something from my home. I live in styria and pumpkins are a real big deal here. We use them mostly to make pumpkinseed oil out of them. You can eat that oil raw with bread or with scrambled eggs or even with ice or beer. We love our pumpkinseed oil. You should try it! Love your channel. Thank you so much!

[@jenniferbogle6809]

Hi I live in the west indies, Jamaica land of Bob Marley or Usain Bolt. Any way could you post aseed of passion fruit and the finger lemon for me to plant .Jennifer bogle Rosewell p.a. Clarendon. Jamaica W.I.

[@TheKiwiGrower]

No worries, glad you liked it, and thanks for sharing that extra info! :)

[@jacksonthomaslansink7771]

Definitely the coolest KZbin channel I’ve found in a while!!!

[@tuskact4191]

I grew up in New Zealand, and this video has reminded me of the many different types of fruits from my childhood, thank you for bringing back this nostalgia, especially the feijoas :)

[@universedestroyer86]

whats it like living in new zealand? im moving there in a few years so it wouldnt hurt to know what its like there

[@tuskact4191]

@@universedestroyer86 I was quite young at the time, but it was very nice, the weather (as I remember) was always clear, and the people are also very nice. Sorry I don’t remember too much lol hope this helped a bit

[@mahmoudbakri5444]

A stinking passion flower has sprouted in a pot out of nowhere and its considered exotic here idk where it came from. im so excited to see it grow and witness its beautiful flowers- thanks for the amazing vedios :)

[@MichaelMartinussen]

A VERY PROFESSIONAL presentation. THANK YOU !!!!

[@homerocastillo3166]

I love how his fingers are always so clean 😂 I could spend days watching those fruit close-ups

[@Tomeccho]

Apple & Feijoa... the only Fresh Up I like. The addition of feijoa takes it to the next level 👌

[@monicas2461]

The finger limes must be amazing in salads! In a quinoa salad it would add such nice crunch and freshness!

[@Fruush]

just came across this channel wow this guy is beautiful looks like a statue! and the channel is wholesome and down to earth.

[@edstraker8451]

Crickey. Reminds of feijoa season as kids, we used to chuck thousands of them at each other. Up at Whangaparaoa in the 70s. Love your work, mate.

[@davidthebanana8522]

luv the turkeys at the end

[@mvadu]

Man, you introduced me to so many new and unique fruits over time through your videos.. It's mind blowing that you manage to grow so many of them..

[@hyperaidan]

If you like weird and unique fruit, I recommend Weird Explorer

[@Syph1l1S]

one of my fav gardening channels, nice to see you blossom.

[@vrf]

The best pumpkin to use in soup is roasted pumpkin. The roasting really brings out the flavour!

[@EBAVlog777]

Yummy kalabasa

[@cici6495]

The limes taste like sour grapefruit it’s really cool 😊

[@thavylor]

It's encouraging. Thank you for sharing. Now, I'll look for banana passion fruits so I can have seeds to plant from.

[@thestreetswannaknow]

I know u healthy all these good fresh fruits n veggies

[@glasgowbeck]

That is a LOT of feijoa. I grew up in NZ but moved away 25 years ago and really miss them. I love them over ripe and under ripe ❤ best stolen from the neighbour's front garden

[@carrotsandrunning]

ah yes, the flavour green 😀nice vid :)

[@postbote331]

i just wanted to say thank you for all the insight and tipps you provide! really helps planning the next projects in the garden. greetings from germany✌🏼

[@kevinwilliams9380]

Grew up in Blenheim, I remember pick wild banana passionfruit in the sounds when I was a kid, so delish

[@marisasanchez1699]

Growing rare fruit is super addictive 😁

[@rexmonarch2]

Thanks for the heads up about banana passion fruit. I live in coastal zone 10 Florida and I am going to get some seeds and get a vine going.

[@asmaa_vlog_85]

I feel happy when I get a notification that you have uploaded a new video 🥰😘😍. Thank you very much for uploading the video. Your videos fill me with so much positive energy 🍓♥️🥰😍😍🍓♥️🥰

[@TheKiwiGrower]

Thanks so much, that's really nice to hear! :)

[@MitchK_]

Same here! When I see the pop up on my phone I'm like: " YES! What cool plants or facts am I going to learn about today!" 🤠

[@allrightallrightallright1919]

These all look amazing, I love rare varieties and your videos are the best for learning. I appreciate the detailed teaching on using leaves, flowers, drying seeds, etc. I’ve been eying that finger lime, and was on the fence about planting passion fruit that is too tangy so I will try this variety instead. Thank you!

[@nildaotero2933]

Greetings, great video. Got to see fruits I've never seen before.

[@chrrmin1979]

I will never understand why i find it so entertaining to watch somebody else eat fruit. Also hows the dragon fruit doing?

[@VijayKumar01234]

Dude, you deserve 3 crore subscribes...you and all asset to this planet. I a big fan follower of you. As a farmer I know how much effort you put towards this. Awesome.... awesome... awesome... Hats off.... keep going. 👏👌👍

[@StuffandThings_]

Another great thing about Feijoas is their cold hardiness. I've managed with them in USDA zone 8a in the Pacific Northwest for quite a few years, they handled 9 degrees F (~-12 C) no problem. Unfortunately we had an unprecedented freeze of 5 degrees F (-15C) last winter which killed them to the ground. Funnily enough they seem to struggle with the lighting issues with the very long summer days and short winter nights more than the temperatures, unless of course its a really extreme freeze. The flowers on the variety "Nikita" were much sweeter and tastier than on the Coolidge, and supposedly its fruit are very well liked too, so I'd give that one a try if you can find it. It also struggles less with lighting and has smaller leaves which look nice.

[@Nyartatouille]

I pray that your blessed land grow good and ripe fruits.

[@livingron9983]

Thank you for the useful videos and especially for them being end to end and including your results. Great format. Thanks.

[@EBAVlog777]

Wonderful gardening

[@liamnewman311]

We live in the south island, and have a batch in the Marlborough sounds, and the banana passion fruit is so invasive there, it covers whole hillsides, killing all the native bush, which rots the rots in the hills, and when the big rains come, it causes massive slips everywhere, because there are no roots to hold everything together, and the lasy council won't do anything about it, they've pretty much put it in the 'to hard basket.' It's spread mainly by the wild pigs, who eat the fallen fruit, and then poop out the seeds on another nice patch of bush which does not help at all, anyway, the fruits are massive with yellow skin, and dark orange flesh, absolutely delicious. I personally like the ones that have been floating around in the sea for a few days, and then wash up on the beach, the salty water which they absorb makes them taste nicer for some reason.

[@TheKiwiGrower]

Yea the invasive type can really spread quite easily, but yes so tasty. The red banana type that I showed isn't vigorous like the one you described, so luckily is able to be grown without that risk :)

[@vaheakli4551]

By some reason on post-ussr feijoas are quite well known. I remember from childhood how we screwed on jars many kilos of them produced through meat grinder with sugar. That's obviously impossible to grow them with any winter present, but they are common at almost any open grocery market in autumn. I absolutely love it's skin, for me its taste is perfectly balanced

[@braddunne1151]

Mate! Love the way you presented this. Thanks for sharing 😊

[@TheKiwiGrower]

Cheers mate!

[@armaanrampadarath4436]

I love your garden. Would love to see it.

[@judithmeleti2487]

I love the ways you do your garden...and yeah.. I love you for sharing your ideas

[@matthewmcalley392]

Used to love banana passionfruit , I had thought they had all been declared invasive plants, so its good to know there is a variety that can be grown. And your right they do look good grown overhead a lot of people used to do that on covered in decks and trellises before they were deemed verboten 👍

[@rebiecamara8670]

Wiw! You gave me so much ideas aboit the squash. Your plants are all unique! I wish i can have some seeds.

[@elizabethbooth5446]

Thank you 👍😀

[@mcn295]

Very amaze enjoy watching u vlog I love planting too

[@zuditaka]

I was just reading about Oca (Oxalis tuberosa). Apparently they grow in NZ and are called "yams" there. I wish they would grow out here in the dry Australian outback! lol

[@VaryaEQ]

Ah, but you can grow cactus figs, and I'm pretty sure he can't! 😉

[@TheKiwiGrower]

Oh yes I have grown them, they're quite good :)

[@considerspiders]

Kiaora Kalem, any plans for an update on the development of your food forest? It would be super cool to see a spring tour.

[@Chompchompyerded]

Feijoa juice is incredibly good too. I'd drink that all day if it was available where I live.

[@alfredstevens5276]

I’ve come across wild North American persimmon in woodland visiting relatives in Ohio. Like the pawpaw they are non commercial native fruit worth a look. Much smaller than cultivated varieties with a short window of edibility after extreme astringency when green. Fully fruited branches make amazing additions to cut flower arrangements

[@alfredstevens5276]

Natives dried them and used them mixed with dried meat in pemmican recipes

[@williammaxwell1919]

Feijoas, as an expat Kiwi living in Brisbane they are one of many fruits I grew up with that I seldom find here. I tried growing Feijoas here, but probably too warm to properly set fruit

[@youknowwhoiamyt]

As always a great and informative video :) Can you please answer me the following question, if you know the answer? In case I buy a hybrid fruit like a blood lime, will the seeds of this fruit grow another blood lime tree?

[@dvdpastor]

Hi! I'd love to try those aussi limes, I can think of those beads mixed with icecream... about the Styriam pumpkins, a very rich and deep green oil is produced from the seeds and used profusely in Austria, very nutty. And the passion fruit looks so yummy... Keep going with the peculiar plants, it's great to see. And thanks for the video.

[@franzip7500]

I had those limes from METRO some years ago.

[@leselle777]

Fascinating and Informative. I am sure they can also grow in the caribbean....to get the seeds will be accomplished when I travel again. Thank you for the idea. Have a great new month.

[@KC-kz6si]

Just love your videos. My favourite was the passion fruit 👍🏻👍🏻

[@VictoriaOnlyEngland]

Amazing fruit I never seen before ❤️

[@fionab2333]

That’s good to know that your finger limes dropped off the first couple of times because mine did too! I might need to repot mine into a bigger pot but I’m dreading it with all the thorns!

[@Ryanrulesok]

Don't let it get to bushy otherwise it is a pain to move it. If you can pull it by the stem coming from the roots it helps. Any thorny plant, I wear gloves or cover it in an old towel or shirt to stop getting spiked

[@fionab2333]

@@Ryanrulesok thanks for the tips!

[@skipper9107]

Really interesting video looks delicious

[@susannevieira]

🌿🌱🌿❤️ never tried those fruits 🥹 that passion fruit looks really yummy 🤤

[@jayrickvilla6786]

Wow i love your videos.. really inspiring..

[@jayden_the_bullnguyen1002]

I’m so intrigued. Wanting to start gardening myself! ❤

[@natek3954]

Thank you for sharing! You make great content!

[@markmooney5662]

I wonder if I can get this little tree in the UK ...or maybe the seeds....our climate is not too different from yours ...hopefully. Those little finger limes look great. great info on how to harvest the pumpkin seeds as well . Thanks for sharing this vid and God bless. Gilly wife of Mark in Norfolk UK

[@Ryanrulesok]

I'm based in Norfolk too! You can surely grow finger limes in the uk as long you keep them out the direct sun and sheltered from the sun. Passion Fruit you can but it will take many years to bear fruit

[@markmooney5662]

@@Ryanrulesok Thanks Ryan...I'll hunt for plants or seeds online. Which part of Norfolk are you .....I am west Norfolk on the fens.... very windy. Gilly wife of Mark

[@skillfulplotter2141]

Have you done an update on the dragonfruit you planted a year or so back? If you haven’t, how is it going out of curiosity? I’m thinking about doing something similar if yours has held up well enough

[@maltedeck5680]

pumpkin soup can be really good, tho it depends on the strain ofc. you can also put some carrots in there btw

[@Catharsis1983]

Great video

[@ThatBritishHomestead]

Apparently that caviar lime is very good in the UK! Which is amazing! we are not very worm her at all! very exciting here! LOL

[@scy1038]

Thekiwigrower has inspired me to give my green thumb a go. We live in very different climates, so the growing advice usually doesn't apply to me, but it gives me plants to research grow methods for my region. Nice tomatoes and beans this year, and a few good cucumbers. I also have a couple pineapple plants that are about a year old, maybe another year or so before they fruit hopefully. Thanks for the entertainment and education!

[@dakarr4132]

Cool video. Would love to see a garden tour. How and where you’ve planted what? What’s worked what hasn’t?

[@richardparham1784]

Great content 👍🏾

[@ViloAfi]

Thanks for all the work you put in to your videos keep up the great work