Growing & Tasting Some Of My Favourite Unusual Fruits

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Today I wanted to share some of my favourite unusual fruits to grow at home. We'll be growing and tasting them out in the garden as I share a bit about each fruit tree or fruiting plant, how to eat and use the fruit, plus some growing tips throughout. All these fruits are really delicious and so cool to have growing in the garden.
We'll be taking a look at Australian Finger Limes (also known as caviar limes), Styrian Hulless Pumpkin (Austrain Hulless), Feijoa (pineapple guava), plus the Feijoa flowers, and Red Banana Passionfruit (Vanilla Passionfruit) which are so incredibly good.
The chosen fruits are all quite different, and hopefully you'll find one that will suit your garden, or otherwise I hope this inspires you to grow anything unusual in your garden. It's great to experience some of the amazing textures and flavours that the world has to offer and even better to harvest amazing fruits and vegetables right at home, fresh from the garden :)
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Hi, I'm Kalem, and this channel features all sorts of unusual and exotic fruiting plants with tips of how to successfully grow them. I'm interested in all things gardening and love growing my own food and all types of edible plants.
I live on a 2 acre piece of land in New Zealand where we are turning a grass paddock into and abundant, edible paradise and food forest! So come along on this journey with me as I experiment with growing, and try to push the limits of what I can grow. I'll share with you my successes and failures so hopefully you'll learn from them and have a go yourself! Come learn with me and Subscribe to join this awesome community :)
0:00 Intro
0:13 Australian Finger Limes
2:38 Styrian Hulless Pumpkin - Seeds & Fruit
5:46 Feijoa (Pineapple Guava)
8:07 Feijoa Flowers
9:27 Red Banana Passionfruit
11:50 Gobble gobble
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@TheKiwiGrower Год назад

What's your favourite unusual fruit or edible plant to grow? Or do you have one that you want to try out? To learn How To Plant Feijoa Trees, see this video here - ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-JhvWmlynv6o.html I've added some other videos to the description too that you might find helpful. Thanks a lot for watching and for your continued support :) -Kalem

@johnwilliams2711 Год назад

Chokoes. 🙂

@MitchK_ Год назад

Those Finger Limes look fun! I'd like to try and grow them

@yilengyang3325 Год назад

I want some seeds can you send me some seeds?

@Ryanrulesok Год назад

You should try pitaya(dragon fruit cactus) and goji berries as mine are growing well here in the UK (probably even better in New Zealand and a lot more space!)

@leselle777 Год назад

Oh just saw your question. I enjoy my dragon fruit plant; my moringa tree for tea, sauteed leaves; my tulsi plant for tea, my barberdine vine for smoothies. Have a great day.

@PS-wz9fc Год назад

Dude.. Your farm and those grassy meadows are unbelievably beautiful.. You sure live on a piece of heaven.. Lucky chap..

@simonroper4713 Год назад

This is so inspirational. Watching is so satisfying and lifts my spirits. I think I’m going to end up in a four acre plot with goats and wifi

@destinymcintire2188 Год назад

Don’t forget a few chickens for eggs!

@TheKiwiGrower Год назад

Thanks Simon, really appreciate that. Haha something cool to work towards!

@simonroper4713 Год назад

@@destinymcintire2188 Yes golden yolkers

@destinymcintire2188 Год назад

@@simonroper4713 And a Silkie to cuddle and help hatch new eggs! They're very good parents!

@mekomamizuko Год назад

That’s all you need, animal companions and WiFi and you’re set for life.

@denisegibson819 Год назад

When We lived in South Africa we grew a fruit called a guavadilla. It was bigger than the usual passionfruit (granadilla) and the skin was yellow but the inside tastes just like the normal passionfruit. They were vigorous growers and I just loved them.

@Kim_Jong_Un69420 Год назад

It's like a tangier granadilla with more flavor than your average granadilla.Great plant. 🇿🇦

@sanjunamagar_sanju Год назад

Passion fruit is my favorite

@bartbartmaw Год назад

Wow thats cool, i love passion fruit

@haruyanto8085 Год назад

Good thing you dont live there anymore

@av0x536 Год назад

I grow these in florida, they're great!

@tonton7526 Год назад

When the pandemic happens, I started planting fruit trees and berries. Now I had almost hundred varieties of figs, 15 varieties of dragon fruit, some grapes, tropical fruits such as coconut, tamarind, chico, duhat, rambutan, guyabano, mango and other fruit trees in the Philippines. I also grow apples, pears, lychee, jujube, oranges, blackberries, mulberries, jaboticaba, finger lime, magic fruit and other fruit that are not common in my country. Two months ago I moved to Australia, fortunately I have my mon taking care of my plants and I miss them. Btw Kalem, if you can accessed to magic fruit that would be awesome with the finger lime, as the magic fruit will make those lime sweet. It's like popping sweet citrus on your mouth.

@KerriEverlasting Год назад

Oooooh! Magic fruit sounds amazing!

@tonton7526 Год назад

@@KerriEverlasting it is, that berry contains proteins that blocks the tongue's ability to taste sour flavour for an hour. It's a weird and interesting experience, you got to try it.

@TheKiwiGrower Год назад

Wow sounds like an amazing collection! I have tried miracle berries , which I think is the same as what you're referring too. Really interesting experience :)

@monicas2461 Год назад

Jaboticaba!!! My childhood memories of climbing on the trees and eating out of it while chatting with my cousins! My mom used to make jaboticaba liqueur and it had a beautiful color! I never tasted it because I was too young! When I got old enough, we had already moved to another country.

@kartoffelwaffel Год назад

Settle down!

@derbmann123 Год назад

We (Austria - Styria) also call them Oil Pumpkin because the Seeds get dryed like you did and pressed afterwards to get Pumpkin Oil. But you need around 3Kg Seeds to get 1L Oil. And we use the Oil mainly on Salads but you also can use it in like ice cream etc. You can basically do everything with it, except heating it because it will burn.

@TheKiwiGrower Год назад

Awesome, thats interesting to use it on icecream! Sounds like a cool thing to try :)

@VaryaEQ Год назад

Woah, pumpkin ice cream! 😅 I love that idea!

@onearth... Год назад

@@TheKiwiGrower Cucurbita pepo styriaca

@kortanioslastofhisname Год назад

@@TheKiwiGrower I can confirm, Styrian pumpkin seed oil on vanilla ice cream is divine.

@TheSenselessName Год назад

@@TheKiwiGrower Really good with tomatoes...

@escapist101 Год назад

This is how I wanna live my life. Surrounded by nature with lots of plants, lots of pets and lots of happiness.

@jenniferk6697 Год назад

Glad to see I’m not the only one that likes to grow the unusual stuff!

@nukungsinjan1619 Год назад

I love the feijoa plant, its fruit is delicious and I have planted it in my house.

@fabe61 Год назад

Your combined grafted tomato-potato plant has got me interested enough to seriously consider planting some of my own veggies once I’ve left my job and have a spare few months to get started. Really enjoy your concise but informative style :)

@haley5154 Год назад

Age of empires got the turkey sound right haha. That's very wholesome that they hang around you like that :)

@urbanfrog8466 Год назад

Greetings from Hawke's Bay. One of the really big advantages of the banana passionfruit is their lifespan. Typically standard passionfruit only live 5 to 7 years. Banana passionfruit, on the otherhand, will live live between 20 and 25 years.

@SandstormCloudwave Год назад

Thanks for the videos Kalem. You're inspiring me to one day when I have a large garden to also grow my own fruits and veg.

@melonbloxRBLX Год назад

this dude inspired me to make my own garden, now i get to have salad with my own vegetables in my lunchbox

@TheKiwiGrower Год назад

That’s so awesome! 👏 🥬

@StuffandThings_ Год назад

Another great thing about Feijoas is their cold hardiness. I've managed with them in USDA zone 8a in the Pacific Northwest for quite a few years, they handled 9 degrees F (~-12 C) no problem. Unfortunately we had an unprecedented freeze of 5 degrees F (-15C) last winter which killed them to the ground. Funnily enough they seem to struggle with the lighting issues with the very long summer days and short winter nights more than the temperatures, unless of course its a really extreme freeze. The flowers on the variety "Nikita" were much sweeter and tastier than on the Coolidge, and supposedly its fruit are very well liked too, so I'd give that one a try if you can find it. It also struggles less with lighting and has smaller leaves which look nice.

@lolitabonita08 Год назад

to think that i watched your videos when u were really young kid...it is so good to see that the love for gardening still going strong..

@postbote331 Год назад

i just wanted to say thank you for all the insight and tipps you provide! really helps planning the next projects in the garden. greetings from germany✌🏼

@joesarva7852 Год назад

The banana passion fruit (aka Curuba) is amazing when made into a smoothie in a blender with milk and a little sugar. It’s creamy like a drinkable yogurt. Same goes for the feijoa fruit blended with milk, but unlike the banana passion fruit which is almost like a peach yogurt, the feijoa tastes more like a citrus yogurt.

@mrcrepslay6464 Год назад

i know nothing about growing plants and i stumbled across ur potatoes and tomato plant video and now im strangly invested in all of the videos of urs ive watched

@lordtachanka80 Год назад

Finger lime pearls seem like they'd be a good garnish for a desert in a fancy restaurant

@Tomeccho 10 месяцев назад

Apple & Feijoa... the only Fresh Up I like. The addition of feijoa takes it to the next level 👌

@Jacksirrom Год назад

I want to try one of those finger limes so much. Looks GOURMET.

@rickytorres9089 Год назад

SO much interesting video, not only for the plants that you grew that were very interesting but also for how that you process your seeds to minimize the folic acids within them. Very interesting that you are incorporating a pre-fermentation of them like that.

@thavylor Год назад

It's encouraging. Thank you for sharing. Now, I'll look for banana passion fruits so I can have seeds to plant from.

@TaylorRaine Год назад

Love the turkeys at the end!!

@judithmeleti2487 Год назад

I love the ways you do your garden...and yeah.. I love you for sharing your ideas

@kevinwilliams9380 Год назад

Grew up in Blenheim, I remember pick wild banana passionfruit in the sounds when I was a kid, so delish

@livingron9983 Год назад

Thank you for the useful videos and especially for them being end to end and including your results. Great format. Thanks.

@homerocastillo3166 Год назад

I love how his fingers are always so clean 😂 I could spend days watching those fruit close-ups

@tuskact4191 Год назад

I grew up in New Zealand, and this video has reminded me of the many different types of fruits from my childhood, thank you for bringing back this nostalgia, especially the feijoas :)

@bennet2315 Год назад

whats it like living in new zealand? im moving there in a few years so it wouldnt hurt to know what its like there

@tuskact4191 Год назад

@@bennet2315 I was quite young at the time, but it was very nice, the weather (as I remember) was always clear, and the people are also very nice. Sorry I don’t remember too much lol hope this helped a bit

@monicas2461 Год назад

The finger limes must be amazing in salads! In a quinoa salad it would add such nice crunch and freshness!

@jayden_the_bullnguyen1002 Год назад

I’m so intrigued. Wanting to start gardening myself! ❤

@susannevieira Год назад

🌿🌱🌿❤️ never tried those fruits 🥹 that passion fruit looks really yummy 🤤

@mvadu Год назад

Man, you introduced me to so many new and unique fruits over time through your videos.. It's mind blowing that you manage to grow so many of them..

@hyperaidan Год назад

If you like weird and unique fruit, I recommend Weird Explorer

@rexmonarch2 Год назад

Thanks for the heads up about banana passion fruit. I live in coastal zone 10 Florida and I am going to get some seeds and get a vine going.

@mahmoudbakri5444 Год назад

A stinking passion flower has sprouted in a pot out of nowhere and its considered exotic here idk where it came from. im so excited to see it grow and witness its beautiful flowers- thanks for the amazing vedios :)

@mandysmith2541 Год назад

Just planted my first Strawberry Guava. Can’t wait for it to fruit 🥰

@KerriEverlasting Год назад

I planted 3 x strawberry guava a year ago... they haven't fruited yet... 💖

@mandysmith2541 Год назад

@@KerriEverlasting have you pruned them back? I was told by the nursery when I brought it to cut the limbs off by half. Wasn’t an easy thing to do!! lol

@VictoriaOnlyEngland Год назад

Amazing fruit I never seen before ❤️

@edstraker8451 Год назад

Crickey. Reminds of feijoa season as kids, we used to chuck thousands of them at each other. Up at Whangaparaoa in the 70s. Love your work, mate.

@davidhalliday5247 Год назад

Oii, cheers from Colombia! I had never seen that type of maracuyá. I have to agree feijoas are one of the best fruits ever, there are also plenty of feijoa trees where I grew up, one thing that is pretty common here is to serve every fruit as juice, so you might be surprised on how delicious some of those fruits are when you turn them into juice, my favourite way to make a feijoa juice is to blend it without the peel, and also accompanied with milk, I bet you are gonna love it!!. I have also heard and tried a couple of desserts prepared with these fruits such as Feijoa mousse and like a Feijoa flower cake, I'd love to know if you tried any of that stuff!!

@slandgkearth Год назад

There are like 3600 species of passion fruits in the Americas. Some of them look even more bizarre than this one.

@Syph1l1S Год назад

one of my fav gardening channels, nice to see you blossom.

@youarestupid1563 Год назад

love to see the videos those pumpkins look incredible!

@MichaelMartinussen Год назад

A VERY PROFESSIONAL presentation. THANK YOU !!!!

@ViloAfi Год назад

Thanks for all the work you put in to your videos keep up the great work

@jeanjedburgh3976 Год назад

You are smart & I only heard about the curvour limes am amazed

@mcn295 Год назад

Very amaze enjoy watching u vlog I love planting too

@applegal3058 Год назад

Haha, loved the turkey's at the end! Jealous of everything you can grow there. In Newfoundland, it's mostly the basic root crops, and some hardier apple/plum/cherry/pear trees that can grow here. To grow tomatoes or gourds it takes more work. Especially tomatoes and peppers which require protection from frosts.

@jacksonpage2912 Год назад

Long time viewer mate Would love to see more frequent videos even of your daily routine watering and just any knowledge about all the plants you have and issues you might have with them👍🏼 love the vids man keep it up

@nildaotero2933 Год назад

Greetings, great video. Got to see fruits I've never seen before.

@rebiecamara8670 9 месяцев назад

Wiw! You gave me so much ideas aboit the squash. Your plants are all unique! I wish i can have some seeds.

@deborahkizer4664 Год назад

Pretty pumpkin. 👍

@genkestrel7254 Год назад

Fresh blackcurrants are one of my favourite slightly less common fruits. I would like to try an ice-cream banana.

@redcobra9749 Год назад

that lime is awsome.

@liamnewman311 Год назад

We live in the south island, and have a batch in the Marlborough sounds, and the banana passion fruit is so invasive there, it covers whole hillsides, killing all the native bush, which rots the rots in the hills, and when the big rains come, it causes massive slips everywhere, because there are no roots to hold everything together, and the lasy council won't do anything about it, they've pretty much put it in the 'to hard basket.' It's spread mainly by the wild pigs, who eat the fallen fruit, and then poop out the seeds on another nice patch of bush which does not help at all, anyway, the fruits are massive with yellow skin, and dark orange flesh, absolutely delicious. I personally like the ones that have been floating around in the sea for a few days, and then wash up on the beach, the salty water which they absorb makes them taste nicer for some reason.

@TheKiwiGrower Год назад

Yea the invasive type can really spread quite easily, but yes so tasty. The red banana type that I showed isn't vigorous like the one you described, so luckily is able to be grown without that risk :)

@EBAVlog777 Год назад

Wonderful gardening

@KC-kz6si Год назад

Just love your videos. My favourite was the passion fruit 👍🏻👍🏻

@RootsReady Год назад

I really do enjoy your videos! Thank you for sharing

@miseleuterio88 Год назад

I want to try them all!! Lol *gobble gobble*

@ralphmueller3725 29 дней назад

thanks! just ordered me some of those styrian pumpkins and the banana passion fruits. I was already a huge fan of passion vines in general so it wasn't a very hard sell lol.

@vaheakli4551 Год назад

By some reason on post-ussr feijoas are quite well known. I remember from childhood how we screwed on jars many kilos of them produced through meat grinder with sugar. That's obviously impossible to grow them with any winter present, but they are common at almost any open grocery market in autumn. I absolutely love it's skin, for me its taste is perfectly balanced

@natek3954 Год назад

Thank you for sharing! You make great content!

@davidthebanana8522 Год назад

luv the turkeys at the end

@armaanrampadarath4436 Год назад

I love your garden. Would love to see it.

@Tonyflags3323 Год назад

Those fingerlimes look delicious!

@carrotsandrunning Год назад

ah yes, the flavour green 😀nice vid :)

@VijayKumar01234 Год назад

Dude, you deserve 3 crore subscribes...you and all asset to this planet. I a big fan follower of you. As a farmer I know how much effort you put towards this. Awesome.... awesome... awesome... Hats off.... keep going. 👏👌👍

@leselle777 Год назад

Fascinating and Informative. I am sure they can also grow in the caribbean....to get the seeds will be accomplished when I travel again. Thank you for the idea. Have a great new month.

@vrf Год назад

The best pumpkin to use in soup is roasted pumpkin. The roasting really brings out the flavour!

@HashishFTW Год назад

That passionfruit looked out if this world haha :D

@marisasanchez1699 Год назад

Growing rare fruit is super addictive 😁

@mitchelltomlinson6765 Год назад

I've wanted to grow finger limes for ages but don't know where to get any, loved the video

@badkss Год назад

This was an instant subscribe for me. Awesome!!!

@thestreetswannaknow Год назад

I know u healthy all these good fresh fruits n veggies

@vishnuprasad2312 Год назад

absolutely amazing and well made. great job!

@williammaxwell1919 Год назад

Feijoas, as an expat Kiwi living in Brisbane they are one of many fruits I grew up with that I seldom find here. I tried growing Feijoas here, but probably too warm to properly set fruit

@youtubeanz Год назад

finger limes with ceviche or crudo 👌

@considerspiders Год назад

Kiaora Kalem, any plans for an update on the development of your food forest? It would be super cool to see a spring tour.

@AAHomeGardening Год назад

great video as usual, thanks

@matthewmcalley392 7 месяцев назад

Used to love banana passionfruit , I had thought they had all been declared invasive plants, so its good to know there is a variety that can be grown. And your right they do look good grown overhead a lot of people used to do that on covered in decks and trellises before they were deemed verboten 👍

@jacksonthomaslansink7771 Год назад

Definitely the coolest RU-vid channel I’ve found in a while!!!

@yut-his-d-king5685 Год назад

truly awesome bro

@skipper9107 Год назад

Really interesting video looks delicious

@jess_aaron Год назад

There’s are the best transitions yet!! I’m very impressed with the video!! I love your channel and it helps so much with my own garden 💚🌱

@TheKiwiGrower Год назад

Thanks a lot! :)

@rafaelagammer8309 Год назад

Omg I want to try the finger lime 😋🤤

@alexandremargolis3610 Год назад

I pray that your blessed land grow good and ripe fruits.

@TobyJin Год назад

Interesting video, so many unique fruits that you've grown, my favourite out of these would be the Australian Finger Limes. Unfortunately, I only have a few small cuttings at the moment, and have only gotten 1 fruit so far, but I'm planning to grow some larger so I'll get more fruit. Native Australian fruits are quite interesting.

@piedude229 Год назад

Your videos always make my day. Thank you for putting out such great content!

@TheKiwiGrower Год назад

Glad you enjoyed it! Thanks

@EBAVlog777 Год назад

Yummy kalabasa

@Fruush Год назад

just came across this channel wow this guy is beautiful looks like a statue! and the channel is wholesome and down to earth.

@SirathPoemsri Год назад

Love it

@dakarr4132 Год назад

Cool video. Would love to see a garden tour. How and where you’ve planted what? What’s worked what hasn’t?

@phyllyweezy1 7 месяцев назад

I love them in pumpkin soup

@walmars3curity Год назад

Great video!

@aidancroft8881 Год назад

Another wonderful video! Thank you for making the *best* content out there

@TheKiwiGrower Год назад

Thanks Aidan! :)

@braddunne1151 Год назад

Mate! Love the way you presented this. Thanks for sharing 😊

@TheKiwiGrower Год назад

Cheers mate!

@anita3907 Год назад

Really enjoy your content especially as a lot of it will be relevant to me here north of Melbourne with similar climate conditions. I have a lot of my fruit trees in large pots as I am still renting and they are doing quite well as long as I don't let them get too root bound or low in nutrients. This year I have been getting some nagami kumquats which I adore because I'm a big fan of sour but they aren't even that sour since the skin is beautiful and thick and sweet. I also got a few lemon guavas for the first time which I really enjoyed the flavour of so I saved some seeds to germinate this spring for more plants. The plant is only a couple years old and still in a pot but it didn't seem to mind. Any fruits native to other parts of the southern hemisphere tend to do well here too (just be careful they aren't a weed in your area). I also got finger lime fruits for the first time from my plants which I enjoyed, I sprinkle the caviar on salads or in mineral water for refreshing bursts of tang or even when I have something like tuna on toast with pepper, the citrus flavour brings it all together nicely and it's such a simple lunch or snack to make. Keen to try some of your other suggestions here (and can't wait for my feijoa to fruit)!

@richardparham1784 Год назад

Great content 👍🏾

@thesilentone2001 Год назад

Thanks for showing something from my home. I live in styria and pumpkins are a real big deal here. We use them mostly to make pumpkinseed oil out of them. You can eat that oil raw with bread or with scrambled eggs or even with ice or beer. We love our pumpkinseed oil. You should try it! Love your channel. Thank you so much!

@jenniferbogle6809 Год назад

Hi I live in the west indies, Jamaica land of Bob Marley or Usain Bolt. Any way could you post aseed of passion fruit and the finger lemon for me to plant .Jennifer bogle Rosewell p.a. Clarendon. Jamaica W.I.

@TheKiwiGrower Год назад

No worries, glad you liked it, and thanks for sharing that extra info! :)