HUGE Citrus Harvest & Tasting! 🍋

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Join @jacquesinthegarden and I as we harvest as many citrus as we can from the 18 month old citrus hedge and rank our favorites!
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Citrus Harvesting - 00:30
Taste Test - 09:10
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@amendria Жыл бұрын

Definitely Jacques is sweeter, Kevin’s sassy

@epichomesteading Жыл бұрын

I'll take it

@dhesyca4471 Жыл бұрын

I love both these guys, I always get excited to hear Kevin intro a video, but I agree that Jaque is sweeter and Kevin is sassy 😉 both are delightful gentlemen!

@MsFresh619 Жыл бұрын

Everytime the two of you do a harvest/tasting video I laugh you guys are a great duo

@cainheath7610 Жыл бұрын

As a citrus farmer I gotta say nothing beats the squeeze test! Another good way to tell the rootstock from the graft is the leaves. This only works with trifoliate rootstock but each leaf will have three leaflets! One more thing, gold nuggets are very prone to alternate bearing. Ours will produce a ridiculous amount one year then nothing the next.

@ellenkuang8853 Жыл бұрын

I make kumquat honey with kumquats from my labmate's tree, aka "kum honey" per my labmates. 🤣 It's great to have stored away for scratchy/dry throat times, like santa ana season or for a cold/flu/rona.

@GM-rg8sk Жыл бұрын

Jacques doing the lil fly hand rub kills me every time. I definitely appreciate their dynamic when they work together!

@AlisonV362 Жыл бұрын

So cool that your fruit squeaks when you squeeze it! 😂😂😂

@Ryanhaggins07 Жыл бұрын

My dog was going nuts the entire time 😂

@AlisonV362 Жыл бұрын

@@Ryanhaggins07 🤣🤣🤣

@meikusje Жыл бұрын

Really cool to see all these different citrus fruits! A request for a next video: could you perhaps put the names on screen as well? I'm not a native English speaker, and I live in a different climate where we don't have many citrus fruits, so I don't know most of these and it can be a bit difficult to hear the names 😊

@anainjamul2056 Жыл бұрын

I laughed out loud so many times! "Clinical but in a good way." That was hysterical!

@maryram3412 Жыл бұрын

Cara Cara oranges are my favorite. Thanks for pin pointing what I should plant next.

@colbr06 Жыл бұрын

Sour patch boys looking ready to harvest.

@sophie1301 Жыл бұрын

I’m watching you pull the citrus off the trees and I can hear my grandfather’s voice in my head. My grandfather owned an orange grove in Southern California in the 60s-80s and he taught me to pick fruit by pulling my thumb where the stem meets the fruit and push my thumb into the junction. If the fruit is ripe, the stem with quickly and easily separate from the fruit. Never, ever pull the fruit from the tree. He also told me not to twist because it could damage the flesh of the fruit and therefore introduce bacteria into the flesh causing it to rot quicker.

@carolyncarlon9870 Жыл бұрын

As a Montessori teacher in San Diego (now retired), I had a small kumquat tree on wheels that would be put outside everyday. So fun when we harvested fruit…tiny slices that we all enjoyed! And another time we made an indoor picnic/beach party for local police officer…had lots of handmade insects (including ants) crawling around our beach blanket! Police officer was case investigator after our classroom being broken into the week prior. He was delighted! Talk about turning lemons into lemonade!

@matthysloedolff Жыл бұрын

You guys might be getting tired of hearing this, but I just love this style of video. The on-screen chemistry between Kevin and Jacques is amazing. We have a lemon and a lime in our front yard from when we moved into our house a couple of years ago. They didn't do well at all for the first couple of years. I started applying information I got mostly from Epic Gardening and now both the lemon and the lime are exploding. Each year they seem to double in size and the amount of fruit each produce also drastically increase. As a comparison, our nextdoor neighbours also planted a lemon tree around the same time as ours was planted and is in the same sort of area as ours. Their tree is a quarter the size of ours and not carrying too much. I told them about what I learnt from Epic Gardening and they said they will look into it a bit more. In short, thank you Kevin for enabling me to have so many lemons and limes that I don't know what to do with.

@epichomesteading Жыл бұрын

We never tire of compliments! :P

@matthysloedolff Жыл бұрын

@@epichomesteading I'll keep them coming then ;)

@sarah_farm 6 ай бұрын

A standing ovation for your tireless efforts, my friend! Your videos are a result of hard work, perseverance, and a commitment to your craft. And it's an honor to have you visit our channel, we can discuss more about our experiences in harvesting and building farms.

@princessdi6021 Жыл бұрын

Just came across your channel last week and have been binge watching since. I have so many plans for my mother's dragon fruit that has not bloomed in the year she has had it. Thank you so much for sharing your knowledge!

@epichomesteading Жыл бұрын

That is awesome!

@cactuscannon Жыл бұрын

Your unknown variety looks precisely like my Cara Cara. It has a beautiful color, seedless, and tastes fantastic!

@vickiblizzard1001 Жыл бұрын

I'm a huge, huge fan of Cara Cara oranges! I used to get them in my produce box when I was a member of MIsfits. They're absolutely the best! As are the two of you. I hope you both have a wonderful holiday season!

@joesqudy Жыл бұрын

This was a lot of fun watching you boys. I’m glad you had fun too.

@DasGoodSoup Жыл бұрын

I grow meyer lemons and key limes in texas them lemons were HUGE

@perplexyasmr5493 Жыл бұрын

One of my neighbors grows Meyer lemons and key limes and I’m in Texas, this you?😂 I admire the trees everytime I walk by.

@kingtin4925 Жыл бұрын

You know it's gonna be a good vid when you hear that laugh😂😂👌🏾👏🏾

@julianspetsplants0309 8 ай бұрын

love all your videos, the homestead, main channel, and Jacque's as well. I have been watching for a few years, and you were my inspiration to start my own gardening channel.

@pennydox Жыл бұрын

If you want to go for full-throttle fragrant citrus and just looking for epic peel, you got to try the Buddha's Hand Fruit! It's a literal air freshner for the house, and you can't get more citrus peel than the Buddha's Hand Fruit ;D

@epichomesteading Жыл бұрын

I killed one :(

@pennydox Жыл бұрын

@@epichomesteading T_T

@Simply.Owanda 10 ай бұрын

@@epichomesteadinggive us a video of all the things You’ve killed on the homestead? Halloween special or something lol

@blossomvalleylife5503 Жыл бұрын

Navel oranges are a winter crop here, and Valencia oranges are not ready until June. We have 15 citrus trees and can't begin to eat all the fruit. Our friends love getting fruit all year long. Our finger lime is the most fun, and we love the Bears lime and Meyer lemon too. Besides eating fresh we make juice, marmalade, jelly, and dehydrated fruit for snacks.

@reneemorgan9320 Жыл бұрын

Just harvested my first Meyer lemons today! I was so excited! I live in the midwest and have them in my greenhouse in the colder months. Have a dwarf Mandarin as well.

@wert1814 Жыл бұрын

Two birds flew behind kevin at the start, gave you the epic entrance

@butterflyj685 Жыл бұрын

Kevin, I was watching an interview with this couple from New Jersey that grows yuzu for local restaurants, and they said, it's sweeter and tastes better after a cold snap. The colder the better.

@lexkek5625 Жыл бұрын

You guys always make my days better. Love the humor and friendship you guys have. :)

@Katherine.2024. Жыл бұрын

Have you considered a finger lime? They're native to Australia. It's early summer down under, and our finger lime tree has a bunch of fruit on it, I'm seriously looking forward to trying them!

@epichomesteading Жыл бұрын

I have!

@nbarbettini Жыл бұрын

I'm excited to grow this! I have a tree that's about 2 years old. Not quite ready to bear fruit yet.

@pakbowl420 Жыл бұрын

We have a Bearss lime tree for over 30 years. It gives fruit all year long. And so much of it. These past few years have been less because I think the tree is on it's way out.

@terrivance8750 Жыл бұрын

Kevin, May your Christmas be filled w/ great joy & the love of family & friends!

@epichomesteading Жыл бұрын

Same to you!

@monicacruz4407 Жыл бұрын

Great video, blood oranges are very special. I live in Valencia region, Spain, a lot of the citrus groves are being abandoned, farmers only getting €0.85 pet crate or something crazy, costs more to irrigate the trees, so farmers turning to other crops, avocado, pomegranate etc. Very little blood orange left, I will plant some and yuzu, kaffir lime (Citrus hystrix) as well as Bears. You’ve got me excited about testing the fruit when I eventually get some. And yes, yuzu not to be eaten raw, one of the most delicious ways is as a marmalade, a spoonful in hot water as a tea, tasted in Japan and never forgotten, or the rind fermented with chili, a spicy, fragrant relish not like anything else. Thank you for sharing 👏🙏👌

@Sakai_Yuta13 Жыл бұрын

make yuzu kosho with yuzu rind. aka yuzu and pepper. their the best condment

@debbybrady1246 Жыл бұрын

Happy New Year!

@Aroyaldmd Жыл бұрын

If you want to get a true taste after eating 3-4 sniff coffee beans or sip plain black coffee. It will restore your smell and taste buds. I used to work in a high end cosmetic department and the manager always kept a canister of coffee beans behind the fragrance counter. She knew that after 3 fragrances people could no longer distinguish between scents.

@frostdrake8942 Жыл бұрын

yuzu does have the most amazing smell. we made some marmalade from the rind. I don't particularly care for sweet things but it just works so well.

@rachellemazar7374 Жыл бұрын

Great tip about the Bearss lime, we have struggled to get limes to live in our Pleasant Hill garden, of course the lime we gave our son in Oakland is going great.

@daisyblooms4813 Жыл бұрын

the "enter laughing" always makes me giggle :-)

@russellharrison619 Жыл бұрын

I'm very surprised you did not skip a season if these were just put in. We have our Myers lemon and its typical to take any fruit off the first season so that the plant can focus on establishing its roots.

@JulianJP21 Жыл бұрын

Awesome as always guys 👊💪 Merry Christmas and happy holidays Kevin and Jacques!!!

@anneainsworth6067 Жыл бұрын

The ruby colored orange looks exactly like my cara cara and it is delicious. I don't have a yuzu but I've bought and used yuzu kosho which is a spicy citrus chili paste

@camfarrell900 Жыл бұрын

couldn't be more jealous then I am rn, I'm in zone 6B and have a Satsuma and Kumquat inside but can't wait till I can take them back out in spring!!!

@caitopotato5519 Жыл бұрын

You should grow a Buddha hand! The rind is really good!

@shamancarmichael5305 Жыл бұрын

Both of you have enough sweet and sass to make a good balance! Now I need to get some oranges, they look delicious! 🍊🍊

@helenbauer5192 Жыл бұрын

Harvested 6 satsumas last Dec from a potted tree , absolutely delicious 😋, hoping a larger crop this year , i'm in central Mississippi ,

@domesti-city Жыл бұрын

Love to see a repeat of this at the end of January when the fruit is ripe. Jealous of your Cara Cara orange! My mom's Meyer Lemon tree is around 15 feet tall, and puts out the best and most prolific lemons in the world. My friend's Mexican Lime has the sweetest limes I've ever had, and they are amazing when salt preserved. My mom's gardeners are saying her naval oranges are ripe now (they're taste testing) but we will wait another month to pick them.

@epichomesteading Жыл бұрын

Yeah I will have to wait as well!

@TheMkoester21 Жыл бұрын

you are are awesome!! love watching all videos from jacques and epic!!

@NotPalliot Жыл бұрын

How do you care for citrus? All these fruit bushes are inspiring! Do you have a guide on planting and caring for citrus?

@jeanetteschulthe1andOnly Жыл бұрын

If you plant and sprout the Usu seeds, you may get a very good perfume potpourri. I sprouted orange seeds and you can pick them slip them into your clothes for scent. Is that the blood orange...that might be the cara cara, I think they are dark too.

@donnaikin7397 Жыл бұрын

From my family to all of yours have a very Merry Christmas 🎅 🎄 and a wonderful New Year, all the best for the year ahead, may 2023 be better than 2022. 🎉👏👍👌🥰🎅🎄❤️

@epichomesteading Жыл бұрын

Merry Christmas!

@LittleKi1 Жыл бұрын

Bust out your dehydrator and save those rinds! They make incredible teas, bitters, cooking ingredients.

@tristinlovett3815 Жыл бұрын

So jealous! I love citrus, it's one my favourite fruit group. Sumo citrus is my all time fav. So satisfying to peel and so sweet

@tammybyrd1054 Жыл бұрын

LOVE the video! Have to agree with amendria, Jacques is a sweetie and Kevin, you're the sassy pants! lol ;) Anyways....I have wanted citrus foreverrrrrr. I'm in 7b SW VA and finally bought a meyer lemon earlier this year on clearance to just try it and figured I'd kill it. It was 10.00 and I left it in the original container and sat it outside and it grew like crazy. It got a little nippy n got a few leaves but brought it in and transplanted into a much bigger pot with organic soil and sat on sun porch and ignored it like I did during summer and it grew more. Had to bring inside to my kitchen for light and warmth and it has new growth everywhere and is BLOOMING!!!!! I am soooooo excited! I want more citrus now! lol I'm hooked! :) Wish me luck and LOVE your citrus wall!! (P.S. What are the tall spikey plants you are growing next to the outdoor shower?) Merry Christmas!!!!

@papajohn5081 Жыл бұрын

You're the only one keeping my sanity Kevin. Thanks Bro.

@epichomesteading Жыл бұрын

My pleasure

@commonomics Жыл бұрын

Uhh I really wanted to see the satsuma! I’m growing some from seed right now. I got them from Trader Joe’s (southern sassies) and they’re the best oranges/mandarins I’ve ever had. Amazing flavor and so easy to peel. Hopefully one or two is true to seed.

@c0ldlight1 Жыл бұрын

You should sharpie label them as you pick lol. Love the citrus taste test. More cooking soon?

@jedimasterben Жыл бұрын

I am super jealous of your citrus! I live in South Florida and it only takes hours for the citrus psyllids to find and infect any new trees with HLB 😭

@danielyeroshalmi7492 Жыл бұрын

do you want a citron sapling to add to your orchard?

@VaultDwellerGal Жыл бұрын

Not gonna lie, I thought y’all were gonna ask the trees to turn their head and cough 🍊🍊

@storey662 Жыл бұрын

Gosh, I wish I could grow citrus in my zone! I’m in zone 7 in NE MS, apparently we can get away with *some* citrus, but not the ones I want to grow so desperately. Lol. Maybe one day I can move to Florida! 🤞🏻🤞🏻

@jeanjoo1920 Жыл бұрын

Which types would be good in containers? I rent so would love to have a mini potted orchard.

@pascalxus Жыл бұрын

I planted my citrus roughly the same time you did, so now I can compare every year. I must say your harvest is looking really really awesome! I'm still waiting to get a decent harvest. Keep sharing lots of tips on how to make these things grow and produce! Oh and what if hypothetically, someone forgot to label their citrus trees, is there any way to tel the difference between a nagami kumquat and a fukushuwa kumquat?

@epichomesteading Жыл бұрын

Will do, Pascal!

@lindasoaft9303 Жыл бұрын

Taste test comedy! Enjoyed 😂

@GrowWhereYouArePlanted Жыл бұрын

Very entertaining video. You guys are so silly, and the editing is great.

@MegaLcool Жыл бұрын

Y’all are such a trip 😂 watching your videos brightens my day 😊 Where can we find the seeds for all those citrus plants?

@akmetalhead95 Жыл бұрын

Maaan I really love citrus! Wish I could grow these, but I live up in Alaska (zone 4b). It gets too cold here for citrus. 😭

@Petanipalakreatif Жыл бұрын

hello i'm from indonesia. I like grafting nutmeg plants, I often have doubts about how long the grafts have been produced. can the production age be normal like generative seeds?

@bravowhiskey4684 Жыл бұрын

“It’s just too hard…” “Yeah, I believe that.” 😂

@Robbo0090 Жыл бұрын

Valencias are always sour, theyre used to make jam/marmalade

@debihediger4760 Жыл бұрын

Caracara are pinker inside, red orange fruit.

@sararussell4992 Жыл бұрын

Just love your channel!!!!

@alyncook7315 Жыл бұрын

What does "satsuma" mean? My parents have a satsuma plum that has beautiful dark fruit and near black skin that is a perfect replacement for the tree they had before...but it is applied to citrus and other stone fruit

@preparingforretirement Жыл бұрын

When we lived in Phoenix we had a native orange tree - an Arizona Sweet variety. You can buy them at the farmer's markets there but the CA and FL growers are very powerful and you won't find these oranges outside of AZ. In my opinion there is NO better orange - incredible orange flavor and SO sweet. I wish I could grow these in FL at our new home. Like I said, you can't legally grow them outside of AZ.

@amrass08 Жыл бұрын

your editor needs a raise!

@johnoshiro8885 Жыл бұрын

Yuzu zest is the desired part. Yuzu kosho, yuzu marmalade, and yuzucello are the bomb!

@SpaniardCat Жыл бұрын

Looking for Yuzu lemons, where can I get one?

@sohel4015 Жыл бұрын

Thanks for the epic citrus harvest Kevin and Jacque. Always wanted to know where did u get the citrus plants from, do u have any recommended websites for fruit trees❓❓❓ Thank u very much for the video.

@epichomesteading Жыл бұрын

Four Winds Growers + local nurseries!

@ravenpineshomestead Жыл бұрын

Yuzu is excellent flavoring for sake

@waterisgold Жыл бұрын

Sour patch boys I'm totally here for it

@hiddencreekgardensbethmcmi3720 Жыл бұрын

I love that arch. Where did you get it?

@monicagallagher6355 Жыл бұрын

I was thinking while you were harvesting, “they should be labeling these…” 😂😂😂

@epichomesteading Жыл бұрын

We thought we were too cool hahaha

@yonowaaru Жыл бұрын

When you said the sad mandarin part, I felt that in my soul

@kellytong5441 Жыл бұрын

Could you please share where did you get the Melogold tree? My entire family has been on the hunt and we can’t find any! PLEASE and THANK YOU!! 🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏

@SaveTheAyeAye Жыл бұрын

More nitrogen bro. Throw some Alaska fish 5-1-1 on those yellow trees in spring. Citrus is opposite other fruit trees, less potassium/phosphorus.

@SaveTheAyeAye Жыл бұрын

Always spam on this channel when I leave a comment, what gives?

@PRDreams Жыл бұрын

Girlfriends all around! Happy New Year, guys!!

@TheThewelshes Жыл бұрын

You definitely need some iron on those plants!!! Use Arizona’s best and you will have a bumper crop. Test for zinc deficiency too.

@TheMusicbabe101 Жыл бұрын

You have a lot of the trees I want 😂😂😂

@christinebowen6545 Жыл бұрын

I try blood orange one time and my mouth and lips started getting itchy.

@Gardeningchristine Жыл бұрын

Heh sourpatch kids more like good n plenty… 😂 you’re both sweet I’m sure!🍬🍫🍭

@littleblackdogsb706 Жыл бұрын

You needed tequila! Cara Cara's are spectacular.

@lunariis Жыл бұрын

I recently picked up some cara cara oranges from the grocery store and they are the BEST orange I’ve ever tasted. Hands down, just absolutely delicious. 5/5 edit: interesting that you thought the cara cara was the Washington navel because they actually were a genetic mutation where a bud grew from a navel tree! They were originally found in 1976 but have only recently found their way into grocery stores.

@gabrielavargas6646 Жыл бұрын

Definitely Jacque is sweet

@TheAcadianGuy Жыл бұрын

I like how he says ''jacque'' in a quebecer way.

@carlydillon6926 Жыл бұрын

def Jacque :)

@jimhaberer5048 Жыл бұрын

Hey guys, any tips for processing/composting massive amounts of citrus fruit drop? We have a citrus orchard of about 7 or 8 trees (~20ft fall) and can't keep up with the production, so we have literal wheel barrows full each week of citrus that has fallen and started to go bad. =\ I don't want to take it off the property and would rather work it into a pile, but knowing that citrus is typically not recommended for compost piles, what do you guys recommend if you have entire piles of citrus??! Thanks! I'm digging the rose arch at the entryway btw. It's coming in nicely!

@epichomesteading Жыл бұрын

I would crush it up and mix it in w/ a decent amount of browns!

@ligynnekenespana Жыл бұрын

Search for that article about the juice plant... Think in Costa Rica that dumped tons of peels and pulp. Apparently a stark contrast in the fertility there.