GHOLSTON MANDARIN - Tasting a Citrus Variety with only around 10 trees in existence 

Kumquats! That tart inner fruit with the contrasting sweet pith is hard to beat!

the tangerines in my front yard are fire but overall I love Kumquats the most. My grandparents used to have a tree and mine is growing now.

Have to say its a mandarin thats been ripping in my car for a few weeks

Shiranui!

Willow leaf mandarin

So nice to hear this, thanks Gary

this is incredible, thank you for sharing. :^) very sweet, its also interesting to know the fond history behind this fruit.

truth

@John Bainbridge: So, what I hear you saying is: don't give either citrus or peppers cloning machines, because the clonefucking orgy would be way too intense and expansive. Gotcha.

In theory any plant that crosses with another plant can produce something new. Most people just stick with the names varieties though because they know the named varieties are good. Sometimes you get a crazy good cross that people won't ever be able to try though which is a shame. I heard someone claim they had a mulberry that tasted similar to bananas on youtube one time for example.

@@ericlivingston8027 I find hybrids very interesting. They can happen naturally, if conditions are right, but people can make them happen easily enough. Some species are only separated by geography, others by the times they normally flower, etc. Humans can change this to form a hybrid. Some species cannot form a viable hybrid offspring bc of genetic incompatibilities, but even here, there is some gray area. You may only be able to get a hybrid which is sterile, but if it's good enough, that doesn't matter, even desirable, for getting interesting new fruit.

Regarding (2), whatever you do, don't go into citrus taxonomy. It is a rabbit hole that leaves you with with way more questions than answers.

That is Brave indeed! So glad to hear she's being adventurous with food. :) I discontinued youth shirts, but do have a couple left (small only) in the clearance section here: weirdexplorer.com/shop/durian-anatomy-childrens-shirt

Awesome

Talk about a great role model!

She has good taste in RU-vidrs! She sounds damn clever for a five year old to man. Keep up the good work!!

Check out those bananas every one's been talking about.

Apples worst fruit

everyone knows about apples so

You'll never be the same after you try one.

@@Denissheferf ? what’s that

U forgot the k in that 100

@@qwertydoddles2222 thats what he has now. Hes been doing this for years. There was a time where he would get like 20 views a vid tops, but its always been the same interesting stuff.

destin from SmarterEveryDay has apparently been a large-portion sponsor of his for years too because I've seen the name listed on his videos since forever

That explains why some of the citrus had tattoos...

Might be a Rangpur lime (which is a sour mandarin). Green skin isn't that unusual for citrus grown in the tropics, because cool weather is needed (for oranges at least) to get the rinds to color up.

It was probably a normal ripe orange because close to the equator where temperatures are consistently high the green chlorophyll in the skin remains for much longer. If they are exposed to colder weather the chlorophyll will fade exposing the orange pigment.

Could of even been a Kumquat or hybrid like Calamansi, I grow Calamansi and when you peel green ones they are orange inside.

Its Called pink lemon ou horse lemon

@@TR.Pixels but calamansi is very sour even when ripe

It really has been an incredible journey!

The seeds won't produce the same fruit.

Oranges and other trees/named shrub varieties are clones of a named variety. They will not produce true. Even if they did produce it would be years until they produce. Mandarins are known for taking 5 years from a cutting to produce.

There are some ancestral citrus plants that grow true to type from seed Kumquat: ngami only not a variety Mandarin: the original ancestral mandarin not a variety Kaffir lime: Citron: Pomelo: Everything else is produced over time from crossing these above mentioned plants

Citrus seeds generally don’t “come true”- you can even, say, plant a seed from an orange and get a lime tree- but I agree that it would be interesting to know what grows from the seeds of the Gholston Mandarin.

@@censusgary what. Really? Damn drama fruits

@@censusgary I wouldn't say generally, it really depends. Many oranges & mandarins do come true - they have polyembronic seeds where one is a clone. Lemons, kumquats & pommelos often dont. I think if the seed is fat it will probably have two babies in there - one if which is a clone and the other zygotic

He is definitely the best of all fruit explorers, and a friend to all.

You are not only first, you are the "Big Bang"!

Appreciate it!!

I've got three varieties of those coming up in a video next week. Quite a bit of variation between them but all of them super tasty :) Its really a winning combo

Good, I thought I was the only one to be somewhat irritated by that... Like: "Oh no, don't spill the juices!"

It's so he can show us the insides, I'm sure he'd eat it normally off camera.

@@_Piers_ That's what I kept telling myself...

Yup there is many foods that are going extinct due to no one growing it. This happens with a lot of peppers used by Indians. Some plants like the Paw Paw were once enjoyed heavily to the point it is known as Thomas Jefferson's favorite fruit but now very few people know the name or taste of the Paw Paw.

Sadly it doesn't work that way. Citrus varieties don't grow true from seed in general. You need to graft a rootstock with a piece of one of these trees to get another tree that produces this same fruit.

That’s probably true Siggy. I find citrus fruits fascinating, but I’m certainly no expert. I had heard many varieties will not grow from a seed and that there’re believed to be three main naturally occurring citrus and all others are bred by people. I’d also heard that most but not all plant hybrids are sterile so I wouldn’t be surprised if it’s impossible but i was largely commenting for fun and to feed the algorithm for this channel.

@@JTMusicbox Kudos.

The seeds will not grow true. Only a scion grafted onto existing rootstock will grow true. All trees are clones of the OG variety. Some get improved like Meyer Lemon has improved disease resistance hence why you can find things online like the improved Meyer Lemon online. Most go with existing clones because they know what they are getting but in some cases people who are willing to experiment and grow a plant out for 5 plus years find a even better variety.

I'm not sure if you can clone citrus from cuttings

@@kaiganardea9275 You can, but you have to find the right root-stock to graft it on. I don't think you can clone from the fruit though. Maybe if you had a bio lab that was set up for tissue culture.

Just cut a tip and put it in distilled water or clonex dip and into coco coir. It may be better to do it at one part of the year or another, I don't know citrus that well but a healthy clone should crossbreed in any species as long as its not crossing with its own clone. In the cannabis industry nitrogen stress or colloidal silver will force flowering. Should work with any woody or herbaceous plant. Mimosa plants seem to root well in distilled water. If they grow into healthy plants then they are healthy plants, and shouldn't be too far from a lemon. Its carbon based, yo... oh yeah but from fruit it probably wouldn't clone. The farm that bred the plant is in the video... I would just visit the farm or call them for a cutting thats rooted, there's money in that! Probably more than just selling lemons. They may not sell one online but if you network with people you'd be surprised what you can access. You might try putting the seeds in a wet paper towel in a warm area in between 2 plates, if they germinate, they wouldn't be clones or look like that fruit... which isn't necessarily bad.

@@ambulocetusnatans ha forgot about grafting. I got a bunch of invasive trifoliate that makes good root stock, hardy too. Might have to go clipping citrus trees I like

Grafting works for tropical plants I think, but if you ever get into temperate plants like an apple, the graft won't last the winter.

I thought of this too. Even seedless varieties can have seeds. I bought seedless mandarins and Cara Cara oranges from the stores that had seeds. Those are seedless varieties. Even four winds citrus claims Clementines have seeds which means they will have more seeds. As you can see the Clementine he got had no seeds but they do get seeds with pollinators.

Huh, so how do the flowers produce fruit unless they're pollinated?

Don Gholston must have seen something in the Hamlin that he realized could make a mandarin orange better.

Not always, but that does happen a lot, especially with more common fruit like berries

Thank you! Will do!

Not this time around. I think that is the melogold grapefruit :)

@@WeirdExplorer ok so so so close they came out of the exact same breeding program. I have to say to myself though: good eye. I would say most 14 year olds can't do THAT. I call that a win for me.

They should be!

I would try one!

hm.. well if you put bananas in a dry place place where the ethylene gas can intermingle that definitely helps. If its still taking a long while, you can throw in a very ripe banana from the supermarket.

Store them in paper bags so the ethene (=ethylene, but the IUPAC "proper" name for the chemical) gas can concentrate a bit. Ethene is the ripening/aging hormone. Bananas, apples, and tomatoes exhale a significant amount of it.

@@WeirdExplorer Im at the ripe banana stage...... I must be patient

@@WeirdExplorer I finally have a handful of ripe bananas. Apparently my kitchen is not warm enough. When i moved them upstairs to my room they started to ripen better