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Thank you, I have a bunch to pickle and didn’t know how. This video was very informative. I also didn’t know they got hard seeds. I definitely left mine on the plant too long but I’m going to try anyways!
They are not edible without processing using similar methods to what I have shown in the video. Kind of like olives. When they are fully ripe and the seed pod open, the seeds inside will be too hard to consume.
😊😊 thanks for the details and recipe. Did you know that Capers have Quercitin so heart, immune, cancer... the list goes on of health benefits. Thanks for taking your time to explain. I see you have one arsehole comment, I have said what you may think!😂😂👍😳❤😂 Aussies are little shits!👍🦘🦘✌
Love this video! I grew a chiltepin plant from a seed indoors. It has been a little over two years now, and it's tall and not very branchy. I did finally get some fruit, but it definitely could've yielded a lot more had I have known to prune it. It's still yielding fruit right now, but when it's done, I want to prune it. All the leaves, and fruit seem to be mostly at the tips of the branches and weigh it down. How do I best go about pruning it without killing it? It just seems like if I cut it back down, there won't be any leaves for it to photosynthesize, or will the leaves and branches come back from the main stem?
Thank you for watching! You can prune less crazy like me by only remove 50% of the plant. The trick is pruning to just above the branch nodes so the new leaves and flowers can come for the next flush. The branches are green, so they can do some of the photosynthesize while the plant recovers. Hope this helps.
In My country Iran They Grow Everywhere In the Wall in The Roof or In the Middle of The Road Because Of This We Call This Plant "Stupid Watermelon" Their Fresh Fruits Have Red Meat with Black Seeds like Watermelon, When i was Child We Used Their Flowers As a Pen you can Write Something With Their Flower's!!! 😅 This Plant Exist In Whole of Middle East And Mediterranean Area's of the Europe
I think if you use plain drinking water, it is ok, but I would recommend leaving the drinking water overnight to air out the chlorine so it does not affect the taste of the solution.
Sorry for the delay on responding. The grower I purchased the original plant from did grow these plants from seeds. It has to be very fresh seeds to have good success.
We used to at the old house when we first started gardening. We did not see a huge difference, but encounter more issues of the irrigation system's water pressure gets effected when the filter gets old.
My chicken ate all the leaves off thy died back bush. Its now just brown stems no green at all. Of Couse its end of January and has been freezing every night for the last 4 nights. I live in Vail A outside of Tucson. My bush is planted under a mesquite tree. Last summer was my first fruiting but now it looks dead thanks to my chickens and the weather. Do I still have a chance? Thanks ;}
Hello, unfortunately, we had to leave town for extended period of time shortly after this video and was not able to tend to it and provide extra moisture to keep the beds moist enough for the mushrooms to fruit. We will try again in the future with the same setup when we know we won't be traveling for extended period of time.
Great video, I have 2 plants that are flowering now and producing berries so I will use your recipe to start pickling them as they come through. Both plants are growing in homemade wicking pots, I use a hydroponic nutrient to feed them (as I also grow hydroponically)and the love the constant supply of wick moisture and good nutrient. I'm wondering if they could be cloned, Im interested in doing some experiments using cloning balls to build up my crop. Thanks again,😀
Thank you for sharing your growing method! Yes, they can be vegetatively cloned! I believe you can also clone from the root. Hopefully you give it a try!
I live in Sun City and have four Caper plants. Two are three year olds and two are one year olds. This is the first year I have had enough capers and berries to brine. I am trying some with white wine vinegar and some with apple cider vinegar. I am also trying some with just salt and some in just salted water. I am experimenting with both berries and buds.
It is great to experiment! I am sure they will all turn out excellent. I find the vinegar/water/salt solution to be the least amount of effort and no fail. But I think I will try the salt or salt water method when I know I won't be traveling as much. You can also pickle the young leaves!
Unfortunately, we had to travel extensively after the video was done. So the experiment was a fail. We will try again when we can plan to not travel and able to monitor the moisture level better and more consistently.
It was a fail actually, because of my own doing. We failed keeping the bed moist because of the extended travels we did out of town. 😭 I plan to try again when we are sure that we won't travel too much.
Jacq, I just found your channel through North Spore and am so thrilled with the info you're provided. I also live in Tempe and can't wait to share my progress on growing mushrooms in our large backyard that has an entire pool full of compost.
Hi Taylor! Thanks for writing! Looking forward to see your progress! I have slacked on watering the beds over the winter, so the spawn did not take off, but I am hoping to try again this spring. Happy Gardening!
I don't cover my chiltepin plants, but they do benefit from overhead protection from other nearby trees or bushes taller than them to prevent frost setting on the top branches of the chiltepin. So it really depending on your garden setup and where you have planted the chiltepin. Hope this helps~
Very informative video. I'm not far from your place and wonder where to get that sort of beautiful straw you use in the piece. I assume it's completely free of herbicides and other toxins. Thanks for posting so many interesting, inspiring videos.
Thank you Mike! I forgot to respond to this in the email that I wrote back to you. I purchased the straw from "Premier Feed & Pet" in Mesa. Unfortunately, I did not check to see if it had herbicides or other toxins, but shortly after we spread and wetted the mushroom beds, some wheat are sprouting among the straw.
@@EpicYardFarm Keep up the good work! Oyster mushrooms prey on nematodes, which is good, but fishworms are the same basic species. Once the mushrooms are gone, it's supposed to be fine for 'worms.
I will likely do more irrigation related videos down the road if you think it will be helpful. We have converted a few of the existing grass sprinklers here into the drip irrigation, so that make things easier than starting from scratch like we did at the old place where we had to setup timer and irrigation distributor through the garden hose.
Thank you so much for watching! We hope to start making lots more videos and virtual garden tours to show how we grow edible food forest with a more relaxed style. 😃
Sorry, we have moved to a new place and starting over. Is there anything particular about chiltepin you would like to know? We have planted LOTS of baby chiltepin plants at our new home, but I do hope to make a more detailed video about them later this year.
