Rollinia | Answering All of Your Most Pressing Questions

[@jbislandlife]

Aloha! Nits nice to see you guys back on KZbin😃. I wondered if you both were still on big island. Me and my wife watched your videos, always enjoyed them. I lived in Maui for 7 years loved it! 😊 still love it. Wish we could move back. visited big island once it’s a Beautiful divers island almost bought some land there but ended up in Florida happy see you guys are doing well. Mahalo’s for the videos. Going to see if I can find a Rollinia😊

[@BigIslandLavaPioneers]

Yay! I feel like you made this video just for me. 😄It's my favorite fruit (especially the lemony ones) and I'm super jealous of all that deliciousness. My two trees flower like crazy each year, but I still have yet to get any to take. I tried manual pollination but haven't quite got the technique figured out and I always seem to get them during the rainy season. Maybe I need black ants! I only have the nasty LFAs. I have a gazillion more lil baby trees in backets still from one I bought last year. At least they're easy to propagate. Great video and very inspiring.

[@OffGridHawaii]

What’s your elevation?

[@BigIslandLavaPioneers]

@@OffGridHawaii I think we're at about 1600 feet, which is definitely a bit on the high side.

[@OffGridHawaii]

That’s a bit high but you should still get some in the autumn months.

[@YouCanToday]

Awesome Channel. Great content. Thanks. Hawaii is one of my favorite places of all to go to. So much plant diversity there.

[@space29lc]

Yay, its so good to start New Year with old friends ..Me and my daughter met you guys in 2017 Woodstock Fruit Festival... We were both new and didn't know anybody, spent only 3 days over there. You were one of very few people that makes us feel like we belong there. You were teaching my daughter how to hula hoop :) Its so good to see you guys happy and staying the same as we remember you. I follow you on your KZbin chanel since 2017, I'm so glad that you guys decided to post again after a long break. If I may ask about another old friends Gytis, we were staying in touch a few years , but than suddenly he decided to stop posting videos and his instagram and Skype disappeared. just want to ask if he is ok and still live on the Island.. I love you Guys from my Soul ,may the Year 2024 be the best year ever for all of You. Les

[@homesteadfarms5315]

I wonder what happened to gytis also. Been a long time since I've seen him

[@OffGridHawaii]

Thank you! I remember that too :) happy new year 🥳 We don’t stay in touch with G anymore, but as far as I know he’s still on the island doing his thing 🏄

[@Imagomana]

Fascinating! I love rollinia but hadn’t had one since being diagnosed as a Type 2 Diabetic. There are so many fruits that I must avoid or limit because they spike my blood sugar. I was surprised to see rollinia at Island Naturals and couldn’t resist. I am so glad that I tried it. It doesn’t spike my blood sugar! 😊

[@OffGridHawaii]

That’s excellent! I’m glad it doesn’t spike your sugars

[@restawhileyall1781]

Productive garden packed with lots of yummy fruit whenever you want .... now that's paradise. Your hard work is paying off - God bless you guys.

[@ainabearfarm8075]

Mahalo for the great info guys! Two of our trees are in year 4 now so we are hoping for first fruits. Happy new year! 🤙

[@RF-eb4oy]

I’m so glad you put this video out, I was getting ready to take out my Rollinia and replace it, now I know I was picking them too ripe!

[@NeoValient2020]

Thanks for the video. Great to see you back doing videos. We are growing Rollinia as well but just getting started. It sounds like soil and mulch are very important

[@Wisdomseeker_777]

You guys are so fun. That fruit looks really interesting & sounds delicious. I just got a bunch of papaya seeds to germinate, not a big deal for most, but I could kill a plastic plant. Great info on that btw, thanks so much. I'm glad I found your channel. It's like a mini vacation for me. Congratulations 🎉 your baby is adorable, you have a beautiful family. Gorgeous property and those fruit trees, I am SO jealous of those 😂 Thanks for the great content. Be well🌺🌼🪷

[@OffGridHawaii]

Aw thanks for the nice words! Good luck with the papaya seeds. If you haven’t yet watched, we made a video about papaya which has some good info on how to grow them. Aloha!

[@thomasreto2997]

Maggots don’t scare me either, I have mistakenly eaten a couple from time to time myself…at least they are clean maggots.🤙

[@teamcautiouslyextreme8072]

We met you all at Nanala market and bought one of your Rollinias. I already have a tree growing, but now I have about 15 seed starts too. Thanks, so Annona Deliciosa 😎🤙

[@OffGridHawaii]

Yay! It was nice meeting you guys. Glad you’re growing more!

[@KathleenHawk]

I clicked so fast! So nice to see you, I miss you and rollinia 💛 It tastes like yummy yogurt! 😊

[@asztapaszta9]

Thank you for this amazing video! I have 6 year young tree and had some difficulty to grow more than a couple per season. I had one year when i had more than a dozen small fruit on the tree but when they were the size of a ping pong ball most of them turned black and dropped. After your video I think i have to water it more and maybe mulch it too. I also have ants on the tree all the time and until now i was wondering if they are friend or foe thanks for answering that too. Do you ever prune these trees? Thank you again for sharing!

[@shadwells460]

The ones that I purchased from you were the best I have had. Great video.

[@OffGridHawaii]

That’s so great to hear!

[@mstark410]

Haha. Good info in the video. Thanks for sharing. Mahalo! Mike

[@hightyd3]

Thank you for this great video. Im excited for my 1 tree to start producing this year.

[@mrparts]

Wow hadn’t seen you around here for years 😮 glad to see y’all are thriving ❤. So this looks like a guanábana/soursop

[@thedomestead3546]

I am growing these in Georgia. Congratulations on that Annona love. We love Cherimoya 🍈

[@sherw6456]

Good to see you both again! I have only tried rollinia once before, and afraid it was overripe and not to my liking. We have a free fruit stand I built in front of our house and someone left a few small ones; not sure where they came from, but they were definitely a bit "past their prime". I would love to try one at its peak of yumminess! Pretty sure where we are, at about 100' is not rollinia-growing environment, but we are trying to grow other things. Hau'oli Makahiki Hou, and look forward to more videos! (But no more maggots! Ugh!) :-P

[@Island-Hermit]

Definitely going to have to try and grow these

[@thedomestead3546]

Nice video, excluding the end.... This is yourube, not onlyfans, although we are fans of Rollinia and you guys.😅

[@OffGridHawaii]

Lol I didn’t know onlyfans was maggot content 🤢

[@ThePoehladian]

🔥💚🔥

[@222mmax]

Thank you so much.God bless you

[@OffGridHawaii]

You are so welcome!

[@fireant1272]

Thank you, I just harvested a 10 pound monster.

[@OffGridHawaii]

I hope u get some help eating it!

[@dougduhaime2829]

These videos are great. Did you do a video on where in Puna you're located, and how you selected your location?

[@OffGridHawaii]

Thanks! We haven’t disclosed our location on here or really talked about how we selected our lot. I think maybe in our old videos about starting a fruit forest on big island we might’ve mentioned some stuff 😅🤙🏾

[@dougduhaime2829]

@@OffGridHawaii I understand. It would be rad if you tried to talk through the process a bit, even if you couldn't give too many specifics. Like if it's Hawaiian Acres what you liked about that area when you were selecting a location, and what you think of it now. You wouldn't have to say the street or anything! (I say all this as someone up in Kapa'au who is thinking about planting some land down near Kurtistown, so I'm thinking a lot about site location)

[@kptbillburkett8735]

Aloha from Ocean View Hawaii. I just ran across your channel today (January 16 2024) . We moved here in 2017. And I would li e to know more about growing Star 🌟 fruit and Bananas 🍌. We have white Pineapples 🍍 growing. All of the avocados 🥑 I started from seed grow about 3 feet and died. I don't know if is that we have nothing but rock or I may need to make a bigger hole for them to get started or I may need to get the spliced ones. What do you think. Thank You so much for your video's. And can't wait for the next one. Aloha from Ocean View Hawaii!

[@OffGridHawaii]

Aloha :) there’s some great information on growing avocados in Hawaii on KZbin and on Facebook “tropical fruit growers” group. Avocados have a tap root that needs to anchor very deep into the soil in order to grow, so maybe it’s just crashing into solid pahoehoe rock. Also gotta be careful transplanting them from the pot into the soil to not disturb the root. Have you noticed if the leaves have lace wing bugs? Those will kill the leaves and especially young trees will struggle to survive. I hope that helps!

[@duriancacaoboy964]

I live in Florida and big island. Because of climate changes in FL I've kept Rollinia in deep pots. Has 2 inch trunk diameter. Made 1 fruit each year. However was exposed to insect infestation, had to top the tree. Now only 6 feet. Any particular guidance u can give? I maintain good moisture. Please help getting fruit in a pot. Pot depth is about 19 inches.

[@RaymaJeanHendersons]

So are you in Hawaiian Acres?? We have land on 3rd

[@macn.551]

I live on Oahu. How do I buy your Rollina.

[@sandymoore5927]

Do you sell the seeds? I live in Hawaiian Acres and would like to plant some seeds!

[@OffGridHawaii]

We haven’t sold any of the seeds but we can sell you a fruit with seeds included inside 😊 Email us at aloha.offgridhawaii @ Gmail. Com or send us a Dm on instagram @offgridhi

[@ThePlantCollector]

Seeing as to how many seeds you get from all of your fruit, I think you could make some pretty passive income selling rollinia seeds...I farm on Oahu and have lots of soursop seeds from my soursop trees..the seeds stay good for months and some, even years! I collect my seeds as my family and I enjoy eating the fruits...after rinsing and drying the seeds, I put them in mason jars and keep them in the kitchen cupboard 👍....if you sold them, someday maybe, I'd gladly buy them! Aloha 🤙

[@RM-yf2lu]

I have a 7 year old tree that makes hundreds of flowers each season but has never produced a single fruit. It is planted alongside 6 sugar apple trees that consistently produce copious amounts of fruits so im thinking about chopping it down because it has been flowering for 5 years but is a total disappointment

[@OffGridHawaii]

That’s really strange 🤔 where do you live?

[@RM-yf2lu]

@@OffGridHawaii trinidad. Southern Caribbean

[@luvgener8ion]

It should grow there like sour sop. Give it time ❤