Growing & Tasting Some Of My Favourite Unusual Fruits

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Today I wanted to share some of my favourite unusual fruits to grow at home. We'll be growing and tasting them out in the garden as I share a bit about each fruit tree or fruiting plant, how to eat and use the fruit, plus some growing tips throughout. All these fruits are really delicious and so cool to have growing in the garden.
We'll be taking a look at Australian Finger Limes (also known as caviar limes), Styrian Hulless Pumpkin (Austrain Hulless), Feijoa (pineapple guava), plus the Feijoa flowers, and Red Banana Passionfruit (Vanilla Passionfruit) which are so incredibly good.
The chosen fruits are all quite different, and hopefully you'll find one that will suit your garden, or otherwise I hope this inspires you to grow anything unusual in your garden. It's great to experience some of the amazing textures and flavours that the world has to offer and even better to harvest amazing fruits and vegetables right at home, fresh from the garden :)
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Hi, I'm Kalem, and this channel features all sorts of unusual and exotic fruiting plants with tips of how to successfully grow them. I'm interested in all things gardening and love growing my own food and all types of edible plants.
I live on a 2 acre piece of land in New Zealand where we are turning a grass paddock into and abundant, edible paradise and food forest! So come along on this journey with me as I experiment with growing, and try to push the limits of what I can grow. I'll share with you my successes and failures so hopefully you'll learn from them and have a go yourself! Come learn with me and Subscribe to join this awesome community :)
0:00 Intro
0:13 Australian Finger Limes
2:38 Styrian Hulless Pumpkin - Seeds & Fruit
5:46 Feijoa (Pineapple Guava)
8:07 Feijoa Flowers
9:27 Red Banana Passionfruit
11:50 Gobble gobble
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@TheKiwiGrower Жыл бұрын

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 - kzfaq.info/get/bejne/gM6mitCd3tTaZqM.html 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 Жыл бұрын

Chokoes. 🙂

@MitchK_ Жыл бұрын

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

@yilengyang3325 Жыл бұрын

I want some seeds can you send me some seeds?

@Ryanrulesok Жыл бұрын

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 Жыл бұрын

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 Жыл бұрын

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

@simonroper4713 Жыл бұрын

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 Жыл бұрын

Don’t forget a few chickens for eggs!

@TheKiwiGrower Жыл бұрын

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

@simonroper4713 Жыл бұрын

@@destinymcintire2188 Yes golden yolkers

@destinymcintire2188 Жыл бұрын

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

@mekomamizuko Жыл бұрын

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

@denisegibson819 Жыл бұрын

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 Жыл бұрын

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

@sanjunamagar_sanju Жыл бұрын

Passion fruit is my favorite

@bartbartmaw Жыл бұрын

Wow thats cool, i love passion fruit

@haruyanto8085 Жыл бұрын

Good thing you dont live there anymore

@av0x536 Жыл бұрын

I grow these in florida, they're great!

@haley5154 Жыл бұрын

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

@tonton7526 Жыл бұрын

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 Жыл бұрын

Oooooh! Magic fruit sounds amazing!

@tonton7526 Жыл бұрын

@@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 Жыл бұрын

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 Жыл бұрын

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 Жыл бұрын

Settle down!

@derbmann123 Жыл бұрын

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 Жыл бұрын

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

@VaryaEQ Жыл бұрын

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

@onearth... Жыл бұрын

@@TheKiwiGrower Cucurbita pepo styriaca

@kortanioslastofhisname Жыл бұрын

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

@TheSenselessName Жыл бұрын

@@TheKiwiGrower Really good with tomatoes...

@escapist101 Жыл бұрын

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

@nukungsinjan1619 Жыл бұрын

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

@jenniferk6697 Жыл бұрын

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

@lordtachanka80 Жыл бұрын

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

@urbanfrog8466 Жыл бұрын

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.

@tuskact4191 Жыл бұрын

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 :)

@bennet2315 Жыл бұрын

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 Жыл бұрын

@@bennet2315 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

@melonbloxRBLX Жыл бұрын

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

@TheKiwiGrower Жыл бұрын

That’s so awesome! 👏 🥬

@mandysmith2541 Жыл бұрын

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

@KerriEverlasting Жыл бұрын

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

@mandysmith2541 Жыл бұрын

@@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

@fabe61 Жыл бұрын

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 :)

@Tomeccho 10 ай бұрын

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

@joesarva7852 Жыл бұрын

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.

@genkestrel7254 Жыл бұрын

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

@liamnewman311 Жыл бұрын

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 Жыл бұрын

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 :)

@Jacksirrom Жыл бұрын

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

@davidhalliday5247 Жыл бұрын

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 Жыл бұрын

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

@asmaa_vlog_85 Жыл бұрын

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 Жыл бұрын

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

@MitchK_ Жыл бұрын

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!" 🤠

@homerocastillo3166 Жыл бұрын

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

@MichaelMartinussen Жыл бұрын

A VERY PROFESSIONAL presentation. THANK YOU !!!!

@mahmoudbakri5444 Жыл бұрын

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 :)

@edstraker8451 Жыл бұрын

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.

@applegal3058 Жыл бұрын

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.

@HashishFTW Жыл бұрын

That passionfruit looked out if this world haha :D

@alexandremargolis3610 Жыл бұрын

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

@nildaotero2933 Жыл бұрын

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

@mrcrepslay6464 Жыл бұрын

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

@glasgowbeck Жыл бұрын

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

@Fruush Жыл бұрын

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

@kevinwilliams9380 Жыл бұрын

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

@jacksonthomaslansink7771 Жыл бұрын

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

@Syph1l1S Жыл бұрын

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

@TaylorRaine Жыл бұрын

Love the turkeys at the end!!

@Chompchompyerded Ай бұрын

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

@cici6495 Жыл бұрын

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

@EBAVlog777 Жыл бұрын

Wonderful gardening

@SandstormCloudwave Жыл бұрын

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.

@marisasanchez1699 Жыл бұрын

Growing rare fruit is super addictive 😁

@williammaxwell1919 Жыл бұрын

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

@deborahkizer4664 Жыл бұрын

Pretty pumpkin. 👍

@monicas2461 Жыл бұрын

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

@yut-his-d-king5685 Жыл бұрын

truly awesome bro

@AAHomeGardening Жыл бұрын

great video as usual, thanks

@jayden_the_bullnguyen1002 Жыл бұрын

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

@postbote331 Жыл бұрын

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✌🏼

@considerspiders Жыл бұрын

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

@susannevieira Жыл бұрын

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

@ViloAfi Жыл бұрын

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

@RootsReady Жыл бұрын

I really do enjoy your videos! Thank you for sharing

@badkss Жыл бұрын

This was an instant subscribe for me. Awesome!!!

@VictoriaOnlyEngland Жыл бұрын

Amazing fruit I never seen before ❤️

@walmars3curity Жыл бұрын

Great video!

@skipper9107 Жыл бұрын

Really interesting video looks delicious

@youarestupid1563 Жыл бұрын

love to see the videos those pumpkins look incredible!

@Karin5461 Жыл бұрын

The Pineapple Guava looks delicious 😋🤤😊

@carrotsandrunning Жыл бұрын

ah yes, the flavour green 😀nice vid :)

@armaanrampadarath4436 Жыл бұрын

I love your garden. Would love to see it.

@jayrickvilla6786 Жыл бұрын

Wow i love your videos.. really inspiring..

@vishnuprasad2312 Жыл бұрын

absolutely amazing and well made. great job!

@natek3954 Жыл бұрын

Thank you for sharing! You make great content!

@livingron9983 Жыл бұрын

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

@judithmeleti2487 Жыл бұрын

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

@richardparham1784 Жыл бұрын

Great content 👍🏾

@redcobra9749 Жыл бұрын

that lime is awsome.

@vrf Жыл бұрын

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

@EBAVlog777 Жыл бұрын

Yummy kalabasa

@vaheakli4551 Жыл бұрын

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

@mcn295 Жыл бұрын

Very amaze enjoy watching u vlog I love planting too

@youtubeanz Жыл бұрын

finger limes with ceviche or crudo 👌

@mvadu Жыл бұрын

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 Жыл бұрын

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

@jacksonpage2912 Жыл бұрын

Long time viewer mate Would love to see more frequent videos even of your daily routine watering and just any knowledge about all the plants you have and issues you might have with them👍🏼 love the vids man keep it up

@davidthebanana8522 Жыл бұрын

luv the turkeys at the end

@Catharsis1983 Жыл бұрын

Great video

@Csaba.TCsabi 4 ай бұрын

👍😍 Happy new year!🎆

@Tonyflags3323 Жыл бұрын

Those fingerlimes look delicious!

@jeanjedburgh3976 Жыл бұрын

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

@rebiecamara8670 9 ай бұрын

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

@KC-kz6si Жыл бұрын

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

@thavylor Жыл бұрын

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

@phyllyweezy1 Жыл бұрын

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

@chrrmin1979 Жыл бұрын

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

@GarrettElliott7 Жыл бұрын

Great vid man

@thestreetswannaknow Жыл бұрын

I know u healthy all these good fresh fruits n veggies

@piedude229 Жыл бұрын

Your videos always make my day. Thank you for putting out such great content!

@TheKiwiGrower Жыл бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it! Thanks

@jess_aaron Жыл бұрын

There’s are the best transitions yet!! I’m very impressed with the video!! I love your channel and it helps so much with my own garden 💚🌱

@TheKiwiGrower Жыл бұрын

Thanks a lot! :)

@miseleuterio88 Жыл бұрын

I want to try them all!! Lol *gobble gobble*

@braddunne1151 Жыл бұрын

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

@TheKiwiGrower Жыл бұрын

Cheers mate!

@ralphmueller3725 18 күн бұрын

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.

@rickytorres9089 Жыл бұрын

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.