Hey Kalem I am Italian, yes chinotto is one of my favourite drinks. San Pellegrino does a good version in small can. To fully appreciate it you need a real hot sunny day, plenty of ice in a glass with a super cold can of chinotto slowly poured on it. It is one of the best thing you can ever drink in summer in Italy. Sadly is full of sugar so I keep it as a rare treat. :)
I think what you mean to say is you enjoyed the content(even though it's about something you're not usually interested in)because of his awesome likeable personality.
I can't believe I only just discovered your channel! I also live in New Zealand and although I don't have any of my own land yet to start my garden, I have a massive dream of trying to grow anything and everything, so I am so happy that you have all these videos about growing in our NZ climate which I find is very unique to other places around the world. Keep doing what you're doing, and I'm loving your videos a lot so far! Also one of the easiest subscribes ever 😆
Satsumas are the best. I have 3 grown trees outside and I have 11 seedlings growing in containers! (I got bored during quarantine the last year and a half and have been growing tons of them. 🤣) Would definitely recommend satsumas for everyone!
I've been to Italy a few times, and had chinotto. It's an acquired taste, it's bitter as hell but once you get past that it's really delicious. The bitterness makes the drink really refreshing in my opinion. It's my favourite soda in the world.
Great presentation. We have a lifelong appreciation of Citrus. We have been growing lemons and limes in containers for about 12-15 years. Also, a finger lime for about 5-6 years. Gig Harbor, Washington, USA.
Nice one Kalem. 👍 Have heard of a few of these. We used to get the tangelos here & they are my fave but can't find them in the shops now. Would like to find a tree at some point. Cheers & have a top one. 😁
I can't quite believe I'm learning so much about gardening from a dude in NZ! But I like the way you present, as whenever I think of a question, it's often the very next issue you address! VERY thorough. Thank you for sharing!!
My favourite way to eat grapefruit is once halved, put in bowl, drizzle passionfruit pulp on top, then scoop out the grapefruit segments. Makes the end part of drinking the leftover juices extra special :)
By the way i love all those citrus fruits they made my mouth water and the color on the fruit so beautiful like i said God is good and blesses us with goodness
Excellent video mate. I've got a Tangelo, Mandarin, Lemon and Lime at my place, but am keen for some more exotic citrus. Really enjoy your content, please keep it up.
Great video - always interesting learning about Citrus varieties. We noticed just how beautiful, lush and green it is there in NZ at the moment. Have you had a wet winter or just recent rain has made it so green? Its pretty bone dry here in Sydney. Also I wasn't aware that sheep ate citrus fruit and or skins. Do they like the skins, or the flesh or they just enjoy eating the whole thing?
We've had enough rain at the moment to keep everything pretty green. Still hoping for more to top my water tanks up but hasn't been too bad. That's a shame how dry it is over there even in Winter! The sheep aren't huge fans but some of them will eat them :)
I love your videos. You're so knowledgeable and you present the information so well. Thank you! Makes me want to send these to all my Kiwi friends who have just bought land, as I am an ex-Kiwi now in London and do not yet have a garden of my own but will live through yours.
great videos bro! Im an Italian kiwi, my mother grew up in a small northern town called Rapallo where Chinotto grown on nearly all the streets as ornamental plants. they're bitter as, the drink is bitter too but more bitter-sweet, I couldn't stand it as a kid. I think they grow all over Monaco too and they make a liquor out of them.
Hey buddy!!! Surprisingly this video might be as a friend for me cause i LOVE all type of citrus fruits these are juicy and tangy bit of sweeter.😋 Thanks a lot Mr. Kiwi grower🤗😋🤗 I got a huge varieties of my tangy love🤗😋
What a coincidence (maybe not with google spying us) I m almost ready to plant the 40 citrus tree I have gathered this year from Whanganui to Welli ( almost all different varieties) I tasted my first cutler red yesterday and it was fantastic! I m still looking for citrus rarities but they are hard to come. I m still looking for an hawain grapefruit but i m not sure it would grow nicely here in Marton. You have a great channel. I immediatly subscribed! I have started my forest garden 2 years ago and I have already planted 260 trees. It is a bit silly as I live alone but what a fantastic feeling to walk in your own garden. Every hour spent in the garden is a blessing!
Yes I've got a Chinotto here in the UK with fruit on it that are starting to turn colour. I havent tried it yet so might get to make that drink in a couple of months time 😂
Regarding chinotto, like most Italian thing I wouldn’t say it’s just “Italian” but probably is form few specific regions where the drink is traditional (I think Sicily and Tuscany probably), outside of those there aren’t many chinotto plants but you can find the San Pellegrino drink in most stores. South of Rome most people who have even a tiny space to plant a tree have a citrus tree but 90% of the time it’s some kind of lemon, people who have more than a few trees tend to have other varieties like oranges. In general some varieties are strongly associated to specific places, in the region where I live, Campania, there are few famous lemon varieties the most famous being sfumato amalfitano, or just Amalfi lemon, to be sold as Amalfi lemon they have to be of that specific variety and have to be grown in the Amalfi coast. This kind of protection is very common in Italy (probably in the whole eu) and strongly attaches variety to places, another example being Sicilian blood oranges. Anyway we have lots of cool varieties, keep discovering them!
Hey how are ya? An Aussie here laughing my arse off at the sheep thing, I'm sure you know the silly joke between our countries 😂 I hope you guys are doing OK, thanks for the vids, nice to think about the garden instead of all the other crap going on🧡🧡
So Kalem the Chinotto can be bought here in Oz in the more upmarket supermarkets, San Peligrino brand. It is a bit like cola but it’s tart and bitter as well. It’s good- definitely try it.
Nice love the citrus vid I’m sure you can find the drink chinotto over there It’s everywhere in Australia, can even get at some bars with bourbon Usually common at fruit markets in the international foods and nibblies area
Thank you for the useful info. I have seen in some local markets in different states of Mexico some citrus fruit that are rather rare. I have started my small garden/orchard recently and I have asked some vendors to sell me a tree of those rare types and they frequently would say they they have just one of those trees. The propagation of those citrus trees is done mostly in the wild by chance (the fruit just drops) or by animals eating the fruit. What I do, I buy some of those rare fruit and have germinated the seed, I know i might not come true but it will be interesting to se what ever comes out. I have seedlings of a "Lima" sweet lime 'Citrus limettoides' (believed to be a cross between Mexican lime and citron, not sure about it). Any way, that sweet lime has a mid flavor but the aroma is so nice, soft skin and very little white part under the skin. It can be eaten almost whole pealed fruit (except for the seeds). I also have a sour orange tree that is very common in many places and it is used in the "Huastecas" for making Cecina (beef thin long stripes with the juice of that sour orange and salt), a delicacy. I do substitute lime with this sour orange and gives a more deep and balanced flavor. For germinating citrus seeds it is better that as soon as the seeds are taken out of the fruit, be planted in a moist substrate and they germinate easily. Next mission: to get finger limes and bergamot trees or seeds :) Greetings!
I've always though of Chinotto as being a bitter cola it's one of those drinks you either love it or you hate it, thankfully I rather like it ... a lot.
What region in NZ are you? I'm interested to hear how your climate compares to our southern UK climate. I think many citrus here struggle with the long, dark and WET winters. Also worth mentioning that many citrus are used more for the aroma profile of their peel oils rather than their juice. Try using the zest of something like chinotto (in a dressing or dessert maybe?) to see if that's more interesting for you. A yuzu or bergamot twist in a martini is very special! (Please do keep making videos btw, you're really good at it!)
He is based in the waikato so a bit warmer and more winter light than anywhere in southern england, maybe more comparable to guernsey or one of the channel islands or northern france. We can grow most citrus types he talked about down here in canterbury which is a climate more comparable to southeast UK.
I think he's in North Island of NZ. We can grow most citrus outdoors here in NZ. I live in Christchurch in the cooler south Island and mandarins, oranges, lemons and limes are fine as long as you protect younger plants from frost. We tend to get even rainfall throughout the year and can get nice sunny days in winter. Winter is 3 months long here where I think winter is 4 months long in UK. We also get over 2000 sunshine hours per year in Christchurch and even 2500hours in Nelson region. I think London gets 1500 hours. Hope that helps.
Hi Sebastian, looks like others have covered it, but thanks for the question. I'll look at using the chinotto zest in some things - thanks for that :). Might have to grow a yuzu too!
Hi, I've been growing a Washinton Naval for the last few years and have no idea what I should be doing to help it along. Could you do a video about this. Thanks for the 2 citrus videos you put out
Rangpur lime it is Seville orange. it has rough skin, nice small. we use in the salad also we mix its juice with orange juice itmakes refreshing tast. addin on thing you may try it, which is pomelo fruit whith special tast. and ctiron orange incredibles sour and very thick skin used to make marmalade. I enjoyed your video . thanks much. added to my info a lot. but I didn't know you can grow citruses in your country because it is so cold please correct me if I am wrong. thanks again
When i bought my house it came with many fruit trees 2 grapefruit one orange one tangerine one lg lime 2 guava 2 lg pecan one that looked like cherries but attracted many flies so we gave it the ax 3lg Chinese peaches 5 small peach trees and a sour orange God is good 😁
I like to use a broad variety of citrus, to make preserves. I press some, and peel and chop some of the fruit flesh, to give it some texture, I also use the skin, finely chopped - and don’t use honey, as it needs to boil. And yes, it needs a bit of sugar and thickening. If you use thickening powder, you’ll need to more than what is recommended on the package. If you try this, and you, like I, love citrus’s, you’ll fall in love with the taste. 🍊🍋
Wow, what a display. And lucky you can access to such an array of varieties, lucky, lucky you... Besides, and you go and get the damn chinotto!! Man, I'm back from Italy, ten visited cities and not a single chinotto fruit available (very little citrus varieties, anyway, I think they're just kept in the rural). However, I've tried five different chinotto drinks, and yeah, they remind you of oke somehow, it was the Italian answer to coke invasion, in fact (probably the brand I liked best was the one you've placed on screen). I love that drink, what can I say, also tried an infused tonic water and bitter orange with chinotto... everything I could. So... take care of that tree of yours, love to see so many citrus in one go and, again, rather envy I'm not tasting myself, mainly the sour plus! Thanks a lot for the video and the effort everytime! (and edit just to say that... zest is best in some, or most, of citrus fruits, for infusing drinks, essences, jams, baking, cooking in general... just crush a piece of each rind and check the difference... I like to do that with the first mandarines of the season, soooo good)
Ahh sorry you couldn’t find a chinotto but at least you got to try all the different drink versions. I’ll have to see if we can get them in NZ and give it a try. Otherwise I might have to visit Italy 😁
@@TheKiwiGrower That was maybe my excuse as well... there is some online you can buy, shipping to NZ... hard stuff. Anyway, funny to see what a huge amount of fruits is growing down there, tickles my senses! Have a great evening!
@@TheKiwiGrower Hey! I've found Buddha's hands at the grocery and bought them all... now, calmed down back at home and already in reflective mode, I have to figure out what the H I'm going to do with all of them... candying time, I guess...
Have grown Flying Dragon trifolate orange? Easy to grow and hardy. Strangely beautiful twisting branches and thorns. Fruit used for juice or marmalade.
Hi Nathan, I've got both trees but they're just young, so haven't tried the golden special. I have tried other yellow skinned grapefruit that may have been golden special and they are more sour. So I'm pretty sure cutlers red is sweeter and it is known for being a sweet variety with just a little zing. It's definitely one you can eat without any sugar or anything added and I reckon you wouldn't be disappointed with it. :)
You should try a naartjie, they are from my country of South Africa. They are similar to eating a Mandarin and an orange at the same time. They will grow basically anywhere.
I am really interested in growing fruit plants but the yummy ones don't grow here.its quite hot here. My dad has a huge collection of tropical fruit plants: longan,rambutan,guava,a lot of types of mangos,Rose apples ,mangosteens,pulasan,jaboticaba, durian, jackfruit, tamarinds,baraba and the list goes on.i really like your content and wish you all the best for ur channel.
Ciao , you right ....we don't eat chinotto in Italy but we drink Chinotto Soda , sooo good ...it is the most traditional ...like Coca Cola but 100 time better ...the brand is Chin 8 becouse 8 we pronunced Otto ...so Chin Otto . Try it !
I bought a few different varieties to grow but none of them had seeds. I was pretty bummed cause they were really expensive. Also a little off topic but I recently planted an apple seed and it grew but just today it turned red and started melting. Any idea of what caused it and how to avoid it?
Deciduous trees like apple turn their leaves reddish when the temperatures start to drop, for a small seedling that usually does not happen because they are supposed to be in a protected place and they continue growing even at a very slow pace. I have germinated apple seeds and I have lost some of them because of too much water and/or some bugs in the soil that cut the root. If the seedling drops the leaves stop the watering to a minimum and I would keep trying, there are lots of apple seeds and other fruits that go wasted. Greetings!
@@teresamexico309 Thanks. I did suspect too much water because it was raining and I forgot it on the balcony. I'm still learning but now I know what not to do next time 👍🏼
theres a citrus tree on Saipan that looks like a lime, called Calamansi. It has a light orange colored fruit with very tangy sweet tastes when ripe. Perhaps you can showcase this one in the future.
Hey, I'd go for something like satsuma, mandarins, kumquats, meyer lemons. These are generally some of the most cold hardy ones from what I know. Protection from frost and cold while young is still a good idea though. Otherwise you could grow slightly less cold hardy varieties in large pots that you bring under cover in Winter.
My rangpur fruits are smaller and have more of a "nipple" like a lemon than yours - I've heard that one of the parents is the citron though I may be mistaken. Mine are quite pleasant to eat, not especially bitter or sharp and with a flavour rather like a cross between mandarin and lemon. As for my chinotto - I expected it to be more bitter and while it does have a distinct bitterness, the juice is actually quite pleasant when mixed with standard sweet orange juice.
Would you still recommend the Cutler's red grapfruit to someone who hates grapefruits? I've had nothing but extremely bitter and disgusting grapefruits but would still like to grow at least one tree in the future, and the flavor you described sounds much better than any of the ones I've experienced.
