This is STILL the best channel on KZfaq. Another great video, Deane.

Glad to have you back!

Great Green Deane!

Dragon fruit is yum!

After watching your videos I am faithfully eating the weeds around my house. I changed my icon, but I'm still a huge fan of your work and your videos.

Paddle cactus gives the tunias also eatable as well as the paddles.

Great vid. That flooring job is awesome

I know first hand that cactus are found in all kinds of environments. I grow up in New Jersey. We had a large ground covering cactus with large paddles. The inner central pulp was edible, though a bit slimy if not cooked. I thought myself and one other person I know where the only ones to have a pile of discarded granite sitting around ha. Nice floor by the way; One of a kind to say the least.

That passiflora spp. makes one potent dye, even though it is edible and small I find more utility from its deep indigo color. Diluted in water the berry juice of the passiflora spp. makes a weaker blue dye. So strong a dye it is that you can easily stain your hands for several hours if left unwashed.

Do you teach classes in this field? Botany has always been a fascinating subject to me and I learn very well from you. Normally this isn't true with previous teachers/professor's. I've just recently discovered Pyracantha growing wildly nearby that if not for your videos I would have ignored it assuming it was a poisonous look a-like. So, thank you for these videos Greene! I hope you keep at them as they are both educational and fun to view.

they hybridize readily, so it can be near impossible to tell the species apart. they also spread naturally, not just from people, are cold tolerant of course, and they do come in spineless forms. the fruit taste vary greatly and in production but are always pretty to look at. cultivars are "Peach" And "Kiwi", very hard to find.

It's been so long that I had actually forgotten about being subbed to you. I'm looking forward to watching this as soon as KZfaq cooperates.

i too thought this was called peruvian apple. but i did not have much chance to dissect it or compare its finer details

It would be neat if you made new videos with 1080p or better quality, where you compare a ton of similar looking plants and how to spot the differences. I will check out your UFO section, maybe I will take a bunch of pictures and upload for ID. (update: I applied to register, now just waiting for acceptance).

oh i was gonna joke about being serious but never mind. i shared your videos with my brother who's real big into cooking stuff, he seems interested.

I love that you dumpster dive too Dean! Forage in the woods, fields, and behind stores. Hahahaha :) Happy Hunting

yup

love your videos, please never stop.

I've been missing you Green Dean.

Green Dean!!! So glad to see you again.!!) some of your vids i just cant acsess for reason... But this one loaded right up...!) question.. If finding trimming of this plant. Will it root easily or will it require sime special planting tecnique.?? Thanks.!) & good show...

I've never seen a dragon fruit cactus grow that fat and upright. There are also Yellow fruits that are covered in thorns and I heard it is sweeter and also a Red dragon fruit that is Red inside. If you want a red Dragon Fruit with white inside plant, you can collect the seeds from a single fruit (cost about $4, seasonal), and grow probably 1,000 or more cacti from it. Separating the seeds, while leaving food behind seems impractical, so just plan on the part you collect seeds from, as being sacrificed. I've mixed in water and drank the water, but being watered down doesn't taste good. I did this and gave some away and was given a large dragon fruit cactus plant 2 years after starting from seeds. I've also seen the plants for sale within the last month. I think it is neat to see the plant for sale, but i have PLENTY of them already that I got for free. I love premade dragon fruit juice from the store, but fresh dragon fruit runs through my body TOO FAST (in a bad way). I talked to someone who said they had the same issue. They look awesome, don't taste that great, so buying the juice seems like the best option, or growing as an ornamental or sharing.

i think collectively they are known as "cacti". well at least I think they are.

That's is NOT Dragonfruit! That's Cereus repandus, a cactus fruit, or the Peruvian Apple Cactus.

It looks so delicious. I know what your talking about with cactus seeds being hard and breaking teeth, like the prickly pear cactus seeds.

San Pedro cactus. Cereus has flat “leaves” and climbs. A lot is misinformation.

I grow Opuntia humifusa. They make fruit in Ontario, and the pads are edible when despined. They grow slow, and are very ornamental.

Hard cutting boards are murder on knives!

Deane, can you tell me if you grow this cactus, and where did you video graphed it?(country, maybe state, and is it your neighbors?) I would REALLY like to know the growing conditions of this cactus. Thank you for replying!

Hey there Green Dean, how far north do you know of cacti growing? Would they be native in, say, New York?

Why so Cereus?

Dragonfruit have a completely different genus compared to Cereus, so Dragonfruit is not a commercially breed variety, just a different genus.

I can't understand why anyone would call this dragon fruit. It doesn't even have the characteristic green scales of pitaya fruit (dragonfruit). I know the fruit of this cactus instead as cactus apple which seems more appropriate. I have a 15' tall specimen of the plant in a corner of my yard. It only fruits way up high so I never have gotten a chance to taste it. It's the tallest specimen I've seen around.

Not a dragon fruit as I know =pitaya

Oh, you gotta eat it together with SKIN!!! What a waaaste pal 😐 There are many of them in Cuba and they are delicious! Muuuch better than dragonfruits as to my liking... Cubans say they are being used for medicinal purposes (not sure for what in particular though).

Great video.someone stole my beautiful cereus plants and my turkey tail mushroom logs from my patio.boo hoo.

144 videos? That's gross...... Sorry. Sometime I just can't help myself.

That passiflora spp. makes one potent dye, even though it is edible and small I find more utility from its deep indigo color. Diluted in water the berry juice of the passiflora spp. makes a weaker blue dye. So strong a dye it is that you can easily stain your hands for several hours if left unwashed.