Hey guys, plantains and bananas bear only one fruit during the life of the plant. After harvesting the bunch you need to cut down the plant leaving about 2 to three feet of the plant left in the ground. This will spur the growth of a new plant. If you leave the plant standing after reaping it will just stay there in limbo for a long time. Subscribed from Jamaica.
You cut the one that produced (main), and from the cluster of offshoots (hijos), you leave the talest one and you can remove the other for seed to replant.
yes, so when you want to harvest the tall trees, just cut the main trunk and let it fall over. No need to to the balancing act with Kristen, even though that was funny to watch.
A magical rainforest episode. God loves green and plenty of it. Glad you found some drinkable water. I guess bites and stings are apart of it all. Dang little kitty bites. Good Ole bear, this is all beneath him😂 well, keep hacking away and you will have a nice little Plantation there. Thanks a lot and look forward to your next one with bated breath❤❤❤
Hey guys! A little off topic: I started watching you guys way back as I just purchased my first sailboat. However, I find myself looking forward to this new adventure as much if not more than the sailing. So it just must be you guys!
I live in the country, not an awesome rainforest, but far enough out of town that animals get dumped near us often. This just infuriates me because if we didn't help the poor cats/dogs they would die because they have always depended on people for survival. Humans that dump their pets are not worthy to suck the same air that their pets do. You guys are good humans and those babies and momma are fortunate that you were there to help when they needed it. Keep doing what you do, you are appreciated by all of us for it!
Wow only u two can keep sailors watching a farmer clear land, great buy on the land Matt and you 2 are gonna have your own hand built paradise! I’m proud of you both like a parent would be. Keep going, stay safe stay healthy stay loving stay cool!
Gotta say..Kristen does smooth and beautiful filmography and mixing , so i feel that there is a potential business for her on the island . Doesn'thurt to have a side hustle
You guys are Vikings. You are engaged in what in my younger days I referred as "naive enthusiasm" which more often than not yielded great results. And even the "L's" produced great experiences. No fear! I'm editing this to add a bit. I'm 80 years old and nearing the end of my time. You two are so full of good cheer, energy and, most importantly, love. You cheer up my day. My wife and I have been married for 56 years and we have had a full life, we don't feel like we have left anything on the field. You're off to the same start. The main thing that I have learned in this maybe too long life is that there is only one important thing - love. You two exude it. I think most folks who tune into your channel couldn't care less about the subject matter - they just want to spend some time with you. God Bless.
I’m 80, just yesterday in fact. I agree absolutely in what you say about love being the most important part of life. Best wishes for many more years to come.
I've got to give you guys credit for working so hard to get your property to where you want it and for doing everything possible to help and protect the animals 🙏
Me and my wife love your videos. The name of the fruit is a guava in spanish guayaba. You also have some breadfruit trees. You are doing and amazing job with your land. Our best wishes to you!
It doesn’t seem to matter what subject your content is…it’s consistently entertaining. I’ll bet you guys could make paint drying content and I’d watch! Lol
Hey Matt I have been watching you guys for a while now, I think I have watched all of your videos. I think this trick with the string trimmer will help you. Go buy a larg carbide saw blade and use it instead of the blade you are using. The carbide blade needs to have as many carbide tips as you can find 10" or 12" it will cut trees up to 5" or more in a single pass. Happy cutting. I bought a 35' coronado center cockpit sale boat that I now live on. Your video's inspired me to go after my long time dream. Thank you for that.
That majestic palm tree on your property is called Palma Real ( Royal Palm) it’s the puertorrican palm tree, original from the island its nomenclature or scientific name is Rohystonea Borinquensis, remember the island was called by the tainos Boriken then the Spanish change it to Borinquen, thence the name Rohystonea Borinquensis, beautiful land with lots of taro and ginger plants, harvest their roots when ready and also remember when harvesting bananas or plantains, cut the plant around 30 inches from the ground, they only produce once
Looking good guys. At 21:10, the tree behind you looks like it could be a breadfruit tree. As for the banana trees, some varieties do get quite tall. A banana tree will only fruit once in its life, so the easiest way to harvest is just to cut the whole tree down, it will die and fall anyway, but don’t worry, there’s always new shoots coming up around it. A complete banana bunch is called a rack of bananas. Aloha from Hawaii!
If ya'll are reading OPs comment, there's a variety of ways to eat breadfruit and two of the main ways they cook it in PR is to boil it in chunks or flatten out small pieces and deep fry them. Enjoy!
Kristen, I don't know if you choose the music for the scenes but it is top notch. I consume a ton of RU-vid content and I always look forward to your edits because of the music. I can't find anyone that does it better. Videos are top notch as well. This week the lush green forest was popping on the 75 in Sony...
Tu Meke Really impressed with yor ability to make the most with less. A real inspiration…I’ve always grabbed the biggest machine or bought the flashest tool or resource to get the job done and invariabley I create more damage when I was aiming to create and have a lot of expensive stuff sitting around that a lot of more economically fiscal gear could easily achieve. I love your channel
I love the transition from sailing to homesteading. I noticed that you guys have tons of wild ginger and taro on your property. Start pulling some of the plants by the roots. Tons of videos on RU-vid about harvesting what you guys already have to eat.
You have a nice breadfruit tree (the tree with the big leaves behind you just before going into the woods off of the road). The fruits are great to roast; they have a slight texture of baked potato but a little dry.
Doesn't so much matter how high the bananas get to harvest as you can cut the plant down to get to the bunch: The plant lasts a season will grow to maturity in approx 9 most and die once it has fruited / the banana is harvested. You will normally see at least a few pups- babies of that plant growing at its base so take care not to crush as that is next years crop. Leave one or two pups at the base of dead/ decomposing mama- transplant the rest of the pups to grow/increase your orchard. Another way to expand is planting banana fruit in pots for more trees when they mature. There are varieties of dwarf banana trees which make some of this easier to manage. Congrats- enjoy your beautiful land!!
In some species of banana, the pups/ suckers won't grow well in the same hole that the mama plant was so they are usually dug out and replanted in other holes to grow into powerful banana plants.
And make sure to get a decent little chunk of the root corm when transplanting suckers. That way they have some reserve energy, and don't have to work so hard to survive the first month.
That place is gorgeous. I just imagine a huge wrap around porch on your future house to sit on while it's raining. Having adventures on your own land has got to be the best.
Yes and make the porch big enough for visitors. My husband and I want to come. He’s pretty handy. He and Matt can go off and get projects done while we visit LoL
You guys should do a living fence by weaving bamboo shoots together… there is a few really cool videos on bamboo living fences on you tube! Really easy to do and looks amazing as well as grows fast! Good luck!
Glad you have walked your property's perimeter. Unless you have found markers, I'd get a 100' tape and compass, start from a known location on property's recorded map and do some measurements. PR's property laws are different than most mainland US and more like "possession is 9/10ths of the law" on something called adverse possession, where someone could use part of your land, improve upon it, and after a certain amount of time could claim as their own. Laws were modified in 2020. When you start looking for a building site, some of the major considerations- water, power, soil conditions for building and for septic, steepness of terrain, distance from road, ease of getting material to site (driveway length, steepness, crossing streams, underlying soil, need for gravel, can big truck/construction machines navigate etc). If you are going to power by solar, then orientation of building for PV roof mounting, shading and place for ground mounts come into consideration.
I love your videos, and as being a agricultural professor from UPR Mayaguez PR I can see from your videos the perspectiva of a person with little knowledge of harvesting and traing to life in a tropical land. I can tell It is such an adventure for you🎉🎉
Your land is so lush and beautiful. So many plant treasures around. Looking forward to all your future projects. Excellent work clearing the road fence, but you definitely need a new type of fence. So glad the cats got saved. Keep up the good work guys. Love and be safe!🤗😘🌼🇻🇪
My takes on this video (hope it helps): Guaba are “guayaba”. The coffee plants are fighting for sunlight so they will grow very tall (suggest planting some from the ripened seeds). The stream (manantial) water only needs to be filter thorough a regular multimedia filter (no chemicals). You can report the dumping of cats to the police with the video you have. I suggest a solar security camera with an SD card that people see from the road. This will help provide security and deter potential animal dumping. Some elephant ear plants (taro roots) are edible. To get the bananas down, cut the plant in a way that it falls slowly. Keep up 💪
You guys rock! When you announced you had purchased the property I decided to check out your first few videos and decide if I was going to hang in with your adventures. You both make me simile! You’re so entertaining and your videos are amazing.
Never thought I'd see someone wearing shorts and cowboy boots in the jungle! It's cool having the different trees around though. And the water source too.
If i can say one thing, I'm sure you guy's are inspiring others who may be on the fence about adventure. So by sea or by land you are poster for get out there and get er done. Been watching you for long long time love you both.
You two just are so much fun to watch and listen to. Matt, you always come up with some kind of one liner elephant ears and trunk lol. Cats chasing tail all over the place. Kristin, you and your dream of owning a horse. I grew up on one, costly to maintain lol. I love the look of your property. I can see Matt on a bobcat(skid loader) even a excavator, he will be the master of destruction, Kristin please stay out of the way when he gets on it LMAO. Love to you both have a super blessed week. God please bless Matt and Kristin in all things. 😘
By the way, Puerto Rico now has (since 2020) a Master Gardener Extension program through University of Puerto Rico. They can help with plant cultivars, pruning, propogation, etc. I would also advise learning how to dry your fruits, like the bananas/plantains you just harvested! Good stuff.
After hearing what you said about Building a fence out of bambu, think about they Get bad easily because of the rain. I am a puertorriqueña that I think life close where you are. I soy this because I can identify your landscape. Anyways, for the fence you should go with what we call "espeques de madera" for a long term solution. They will do well against termites and whether
Perfect music for the moment. You guys have always edited the perfect music for the moment of the video. The crescendo of volume up and down to match scenery shots and dialog is amazing. Drone shots add a lot to the perspective of the adventure and it is not over used. Many channels fall in love with that expensive camera and drone you to death. It is obvious that a lot of work and creative effort goes into your story telling. I think your channel does that the best on YT. Looking Good GBU!
dear Matt an Christen. i am 74 year old and i love both of you so dearly. Cristen is such loving woman and i think that you hit the jackpot . on the other end dear Matt i saw the way you work for your future wife and you are a Godly men. both of you make me smile. remember one important thing, when you argue , face each other and old hands and you will find out that your love for each other is stronger that of your argument. your a awesome couple and i wish you the best. May God blesse you both. i apologize for being so sentimental but my wife died last year and i just misses her terribly but you remind me the way we were.
The elephant ears look like taro leaves to me. If they are, then they're edible. You can harvest the corms and cook them. They're very nutritious. If banana plants are too old they're not gonna give you fruit. Cut down those old stalks above the ground and let new shoots grow from the bases. Keep cutting down old stalks every other year to let new shoots grow for abundant supply of bananas.
My dad use to put up chain link fencing and then let grape vines cover them. He always referred to it as a seasonally edible fence. My mom also would make really good jams and juice from them.
You two are amazing! Though I've always enjoyed watching you, I am definitely loving this new chapter more than the boating. Keep up the good work and I can't wait to see what you transform your land into!
Your clearing tool is called a billhook. I'd recommend ordering a quality one. If you have a way accepting gifts through the mail I'd love to send you one. I'd be repayed by seeing you use a tool I sent. I'm an over the top tool nerd. From axes to pliers I search for the best. Where steel is sourced and how it's forged are details often overlooked. When top grade steel meets experienced engineering it makes working with the tool much more satisfying. USA, Germany, Japan just to name a few are good things to look for when buying a tool made of steel. China does make good steel but finding it is not easy. Good luck you two.
Lee Valley Tools ships internationally, and has very high quality products. Not sure about the billhook, but lots of woodsy and outdoor tools, along with tools for the craftsman, like hand planes and gouges. Plus i think you get a year of rainy-day-evening reading catalogs when you order a certain amount. Kinda the Sears-Roebuck of hand tools gardening, carpentry and furniture hardware.
The most fascinating property. Way bigger than I thought. This can go on forever. Matt funny as hell still. My cat died so good to hear Bear is OK. Love you Guys.
Hey you guys! Y’all are such hard workers, it’s maybe because I am over 70 now, but Matt, I think you might want to look into a walk behind brush cutter it’s like a lawnmower from hell. Geared low and slow. Will cut down small trees up to 5 inches in diameter. A friend came across an old 50’s model did the necessary repairs and it was pretty much astonishing at what that thing could do. As much as you have to clear and maintain (stuff grows at an alarming pace in the tropics) it may be worth a look. They are not too over the top priced. Any way love you two and looking forward to seeing your next video.
Ya'll know what? You two are just plain cool. Can not wait till ya'll have a little Matt man &/or a little princess Matty. LOL...Sending lots of love your way. Peace Out.
Really impressed with the courage and vision you guys have for this exciting new venture. You have amazing resolve and I look forward to following your journey!! God Bless!!
The discovery and anticipation of treasures nature holds for you is priceless! Thank you, Kristen and Matt, 🙂for sharing your dreams with us so we all can escape life's troubles and just take it all in each week. Love you guys, be safe out there and enjoy! ❤
They encouraged me to look into purchasing a five acre plot. Now I am really going at it. I hope that I can make the purchase and set up a cabin before year's end. Wish me luck
I've been attaching our bamboo inch by inch to our 4 foot high fence using rebar wire. Had to put support posts periodically since it catches the wind like a sail. Looking good and makes good privacy.
Those yellow fruits are guavas (guayava in spanish). 21:25 the tree directly behind Matt is a breadfruit tree, try to take care of that one as well. The elephant ears you found, those might be Malanga, the tuber portion is edible after you boil it with a little salt (for taste). Ya'll definitely have a bountiful property!
You two are having fun with life!!! Enjoy the journey. Ohhh by the way “ I know you know “ chop the plant to bring it down to a height you need for it t restart.
Although it takes a little to spin up, your string trimmer can take a kit that will let you mount a 12inch circular saw blade on it. It will cut through some pretty gnarly vines and small saplings pretty easy. The grass sometimes builds up, but that happens with just the string. You might be able to even just mount the blade under the string cartridge. (it does have left hand threads to take it off)
Here’s an idea to help clear your land…goats! They will eat anything! And can clear large tracks of land at the same time too! So while your figuring out others needed areas the goats can be doing a great service for you! Might see if any farmer around or somewhat nearby would loan you or you could rent a herd or two to mow down that vegetation for you!
I gotta tell ya. I didn't think I was going to enjoy the videos about the new property. Turns out, I love them. I always look forward to a visit from you guys each Sunday morning.
My cousin is Tank Jackson in Charleston, SC. He raises heritage breed pork (hogs) and does well. Hogs will root up an entire area- something that would likely help you keep your jungle controlled.
I wish you guys could post everyday! I know what a video takes from editing and prep though. Keep up the fantastic work. I am a truck driver and I have been delivering lumber to the docks here in Jacksonville that is going on a barge to PR. I always wonder if you guys will get some of that lumber. Thanks for what you do and stay safe!
Since the old home structure is so close to the road it might be nice to one day restore it as a roadside farmer's market or as a tourism office or any use that can get people to visit and spend money.
Ive followed you for nearly 4 years, on and off. This is an exciting move you two have made for your lives. It's the perfect change for the story, also. I am retired, own properties in Florida, but now am interested wild and tropical like you have. How many acres do you have there, and just how far is it from the ocean?
A huge amount of work to clear some of the areas to get ready to build, but it is going to be a lot of work to keep it clear and harvest some of the rewards. Keep having fun on this adventure like we are watching it!
As a fairly new liveaboard and crusier, I loved watching your sailing videos. I didn't think I'd be interested in your land life (although my 70 year old parents are currently doing the same thing). But you're both so entertaining and down to earth, i just love watching your videos! Good luck to you both in your new adventures! Love watching you and look forward to all your future videos! ❤️
“After your banana harvest, cut your tree back to about 30 inches and let the stem dry out for two weeks before removing it. Banana stalks only produce fruit once, so it's important to cut them back for new fruit to grow.”
You've opened up a kitchen to lots of different wild animals. They have been there for many years so you're going to need close knit wire fencing like chicken wire. That's a beginning step. Congratulations on the reclaimation so far, however. You've come a long way already. Be safe always from the Philippines 💞
Have you two mentioned about getting a few goats? They eat just about everything and with light weight movable fencing they can clear a lot of growth specially when you’re dealing with fast growing plants. They are used for this reason all around the world plus they like rough terrain.
Love your videos, and your land, hope it works out for you to make a great place to live and thrive, just a FYI if you didn't know referring to your bee sting. If you get stung out in the wild and can't get any treatment on it right away, pack mud onto the sting area and let it dry, as it dries it will pull the stinger and venom out quickly, if you can't find mud make your own even if you have to pee on dirt to make some, also works for any other stings, bites, punctures etc, Grated potato works very well to and baking soda made into a paste with water. One more thing for both you and your animals, get brewers yeast tablets, feed them to your animals, cats and dogs love them like candy, also take them yourselves daily. brewers yeast puts out a scent in your skin oil that bugs and bees, ticks fleas cant stand and will not attack you or your animals, I got rid of mange on my dog using brewers yeast within a month, my cat and dog loved them like M&M's, just a couple a day.
Hi kids, I really like your video quality, creativity and the music that supports your journey...well done!! Exploring this property looks like a serious amount of fun and I love the way you folks are learning gently and with respect to the land. Thank you for letting me in come along, good luck....Peace
Also, it take about 15 years for a palm tree to grow to it's maximum height of about 40 feet. It is pretty hard to judge the height when you are at ground level, so i'm sure yours looks taller than it actually is. Cheers!!
What a hard working team. Excited for you all. Maybe check with the neighbors to see who has a bush hog to help clean the big areas you want cut. Enjoying the channel. Tks for sharing.
Hi guys, everything seems to going nicely, but hey Kirsten cover up when you go into the jungle otherwise something nasty is going to bite you. Take good care, love you both.
You guys are ruining all the natural vegetation! Don't level everything you see use paths leave areas as is.. The water from a spring is pure but once you store it then it will require proper filtration
You guys have a great piece of land. I recommend for your privacy fence a good line if hibiscus will grow into a beautiful green living fence. Especially when they start blooming.
Hi guys. Rick up here in Canada. Not used to seeing you two in jeans instead of shorts and bikinis on the water! But there's no way I am not going to follow this new adventure because I build stuff and after the boat I cannot wait to see what comes next!! I know you are going too surprise us all!! I also know that what starts out Gangsta ends up being awesome!!
YES!!! big machine, that's what I've been waiting to hear. LOL. Clear some of the underbrush, Identify and flag the plants you want to keep, then bring in the big guns to clear the area you want to use.
