Rare Cold Hardy Fruits You Must Have!! 

Living in a colder area I am glad to have found this channel.

For all living on the east coast and Appalachia, if we plant maypop persimmon and paw paw we could easily bring it back, and also try to get ppl to litter less, they will all come back

I appreciate the way you mention where these fruit are native to and it’s important not to plant invasive plants

Another benefit of the Maypop vine (passion flower) is that they are the host plant of the Gulf Fritillary butterfly .

You should also include the paw paw, a cold hardy tropical tasting annona that grows well in the North.

I used to have chocolate vines. Yes, as you said, they are so invasive. Also, It is labor-intensive to get to eat the fruits. You need a strainer to get the edible pulp. If you have a busy job, it may not be worth the effort.

I have passionflower, but I find the fruit to be too much work to eat. The leaves however make a very mild sedative/anxiolytic tea-- it's good with a little lemon or juice from the passionflower fruits. You can see evidence of this sedative in the bumblebees that come to pollinate it and just fall asleep in the flowers. It's more popular as a sleep aid in Europe than in the US. It will spread and pop up dozens of yards away, but it is easily controlled when it does. Not nearly as pernicious as clematis.

Wow, so glad I discovered this channel. I feel even better now about returning to Upstate NY (after years in California). Many plants in this video and the other one match the cold-hardiness zone of my New York home. Thanks.

As he said: be careful with Akebia. We planted some 20 years ago along a double fence line and are still trying to remove it.

Careful of passion flower vines. I have had one growing up the front of my house for many years, and for the first few years all was well. Then, one sunny day I pruned it back and developed huge burn blisters on my arms that took several months to clear. Since then, if even a tendril brushes against my skin, my skin turns bright red. I love the plant, so it remains on the front of my house, but I only approach it on cold, cloudy days with every part of my skin thickly covered with padded clothing.

Wow amazing. So many eadible plants I have never heard of!

I am so excited about these! Especially a cold hardy passiflora! I grew several versions in N.California. I loved growing them at the base of old citrus that was petering out because the GORGEOUS blooms and fruit would climb then hang from the trees. Now I am in Oregon and growing all new beauties like lilacs and peonies that I could never manage. I always thought Cali was like Eden with the citrus on street corners and figs along the river for foraging. But Oregon is pretty spectacular with morels, apples and alien-like rhubarb, and of course, peonies. Thanks for the suggestions!

passionflower are amazing. I keep one in a pot in zone4 just to get a few flowers some years. it doesn't do well here, I've never got a fruit off it and it's gotta be like 10+ years old now.

My 2 different maypops are the best tasting things I have ever eaten. By far my favorite fruit that I grow. But you have to wait util they fall off the vine. You can’t pluck them. So good.

I'd add honeyberries to the list.

Vitis rotundifolia is actually the Muscadine/scuppernong grape native to the U.S. Southeast. That one is only hardy to about USDA Zone 7, but is the only domesticated species sufficiently disease resistant (particularly to Pierce's Disease if memory serves) to survive (& thrive--the dang things grow about 20'/yr even on nutrient poor FL Panhandle sand) the Deep South, though U.F. has come up with a few bunch grapes (e.g. Orlando Seedless) that supposedly do better. Muscadines ripen individually, in clusters of 4 to 10 very large berries rather than in big bunches of wimpy vinifera sized grapes, originally had separate male and female vines (but many self-fertile, bisexual cultivars exist today), have small leaves that would be ~worthless for dolmas, and a flavor more like jaboticaba than grape (or if really ripe, a weird combo of sugar+ale+bubblegum in the ones I had; the flavor does grow on you though) though its jelly is disappointing--almost identical to generic apple jelly. They are slipskin, usually have large seeds, and a different # of chromosomes than regular grapes so won't hybridize with them. Fox grapes, like the "Concord" that Welch's made famous, are Vitis labrusca (or hybrids between it and vinifera). Those *are* cold hardy (but usually impossible in the Deep South). The far north varieties are usually hybrids between V. labrusca and (small berried, tart, extremely hardy) species like Vitis riparia.

The problem with Kiwi is the fact that you need male and female plants. Unfortunately my experience is that companies tell you they are sending one of each but then they all turn out to be one or the other and you get zero kiwi. Has happened to me multiple times. I'm talking multiple companies. According to Penn State Extension Issai are less hardy than the other hardy kiwis, unfortunately you don't mention what your zone is. I'm in zone 4a.

I have dozens of types of fruit vines or bushes. The best Thornless hardy blackberry money can buy is Prime Ark freedom.. it has out produced everything I've tried.

You can find Sweet passion fruits that are wild in America but if it don't rain they will not be sweet and Native Americans also use the seeds mixed it in with another weed nickname Barnyard acid or pigweed and would use it for a intoxicants

OMG Amazing! Thanks so much. You've got me totally psyched.

Wauw! Thank you for this video. Also the history you talk about is really nice.

Chambourcin is probably the easiest-to-grow hybrid, sometimes requiring no spraying. Second hybrid to that would be Chardonnel, though it will require some fungicidal spraying (Captan should do) to prevent fruit rots. Third in cold hardiness, though it is not a French hybrid and the fruit is smallish, might be Norton, which will sometimes require some fungicidal spraying in some locations for fruit rots. Fourth, and certainly not a hybrid, might be Ontario, which has the benefit of sometimes ripening early;.it too will sometimes require some fungicidal spraying in some locations for fruit rots Perhaps the cold-hardiest seedless grapes are Somerset and Mars, though they will need some fungicidal spraying. If you live in zone 7b or warmer, definitely try Muscadines, Supreme and perhaps one of the bronze varieties. Muscadines never need any spraying at all where I am (Eastern Maryland). I believe they are much more nutritious than grapes, especially if you eat the skins. They mostly ripen individually and late in the fall, which can be a real advantage. I freeze Muscadines immediately after picking, and later eat them frozen. You will need a deer fence for all of the above, unless you have dogs that can and will roam free at night (like Great Pyrenees)! (P.S., all of the above is written from my own or my daughter's experience.)

I have a wild "may pop" that I adopted several years ago. It's fruits are a little smaller than some I've seen, but have a fantastic flavor. I keep a couple of tomato cages there for them to trellis on. Finding them in the wild is no problem, beating the opossums to the ripe ones is the issue!

I have the tropical variety of Passion Fruit, so easy to propagate by cutting.

New sub. Great vid. Thank you!!!

California has a gorgeous version of the pasion flower. It really is beautiful. The huge bumble bee's they attract are fun too. Great video I appreciate the check local laws. A good intention could become invasive. I would feel terrible if I invited the invasion.

All these fruits are awesome! When I finally own a property I'll be sure to plant the fast growing ones! One common type of fruit that is more common but a good amount of people don't know about them are mulberry trees. They resist cold winters(I live in central Ohio) very well but will take years to grow into a mature tree. They look pretty and have very large branches that grow low to the ground. Can really only eat them in June & July typically though and when they all fall on the ground and rot they smell terrible however.

I guess I got lucky bc these grow wild in my fields. And to those who grow tomatoes and peppers... Passion Flowers act as great to keep japanese beetles off your plants. I let a passion flower vine pop up and grow in between/along with my tomatoes/peppers (I use a wire fence to act as a trellis to tie my tomatoes/peppers.

Heaven bless you! 😅 I’m so happy now

I looove grapes, i have Muscadine and some kind of green one i got from a neighbor.

Amazing Information, Thanks for sharing.

Thank you for identifying the maypop for me.. I with two of my Drew's were hallucinating on psilocybin, when we came across a maypop flower in the forest.. it was spectacular...

Passionflower also comes with no fruiting varieties, so check before you buy! I got a lovely one called Snow Queen, it just drops flowers without fruiting. It was cold hearty in zone 8b, overwintering easily, and spreading the tendrils up over 12 feet high and wide. It really is a lovely sight.

Grapes aren't exactly rare But Ribes like Gooseberries and Currants are rare in the US You should do a video on them! They deserve much more attention!

6:00 just a slight correction or expansion: Catholics, I believe were monks and nuns, found this flower and saw the 3 points in the stamen as a great symbol for the Trinity of God, the Father, Son and Holy Spirit, as it too is 3 in one. The loveliness of the flower as well (unsure which variety they first ran across, some red, some are tiny, so it could be another variety not this one) made them very joyful and excited to embrace it under the name of Passionflower. Passion meaning “Passion of Christ” which in summary is his love for sinful humanity led him to peacefully accept being killed for doing no wrong to pay for all people to avoid hell by just asking for forgiveness.

As for putting on a fence, I'm saying your fence not a fence bordering with a nice neighbor ( let's keep them nice) Thanks

OMG I am going to try maypop just for the flowers!

(wild) grapes have already been used 8000 years ago in Caucasus, Georgia - in the hunter-gatherer period .. the underground clay pots Kvevri, are still used in Georgia to make traditional wine.. i have 4 full of wine :)

I love hardy kiwi, actually like the taste better then the other kiwi. I planted 3 this spring. My male and female varieties made it but my Issias did not. The issias was bare root and a cold spell in spring I think got it as it was budding and looking good until then. Will try again next spring.

The fruits of the Maypop reminded me of some fruits of a tree of the Rosacea family. I don't know its name, but they are like cherry-sized pears and you can't eat them until they start to rot! They then taste a bit like marzipan, but with alcohol. It's definitely not for everyone and I honestly don't feel safe eating them, at least in larger amounts, but they have a curiosity value...

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It is worth mentioning that the Passiflora Incarnata (Maypop) can, AND WILL, grow up to 30 feet under ground each winter, coming up on the complete opposite side of the yard and being impossible to get rid of. I planted on plant in the ground three years ago not realizing how invasive it was, and I am CONSTANTLY trying to kill it because I want it gone lol. It's never ending.

Nice. I wonder if some of these will grow in the Scottish Highlands

That thumb nail looked like the jungle flowers from the first jumanji that shot the poison darts lol

All of them take bright sunshine

Can you please advise what fruit trees should I plant to my front and back yard in St. Catharines Ontario (Niagara region)? I wish to make a food garden for my family. Also please, provide a list of the best/tasty types of grapes for food consumption (no wine). It will be grate to let me know if I can discuss and show you the space so I can have your recommendations. Thank you in advance and congratulations for your help!

I have sooooo tried to grow maypops (passiflora incarnarta) in my USDA equivalent zone 6b-7 Sweden home gardenand they all died. I have one left. And it is potted so I can take indoors when the frosts begin. Would absolutely love to have it growing it in ground!

The Chocolate vine can be termed as invasive in some places. Buy with caution.

Passion fruit is best to put up a big tree, they are tuff enough to survive very high falls.

Unfortunately, Hardy Kiwi is invasive and can cause damage in forests by overwhelming local vegetation.

Japanese beetles destroyed my grapes.( Minnesota ) Yes I tried picking,beetles off…but I worked 12 +2 hrs drive time. Bugs ate every thin off the vines.

Chocolate vine in China can grow in Zones 4-10

All these cold hardy plants are vines and will spread like crazy. A 8ft grow spot is small area for these vines. More like 15ft+ because I planted all these 5years before this video and ground cherry is yummy vine too.

That sad face you make when you live on the border of Plant Hardiness Zones 2b/3a, and you realize it's too cold for the cold hardy fruits in this video.

If you can redo this vid and add SOIL TYPE (PH and Clay- Sandiness Level for each it would be perfect!

Im in zone 3, my grapes grow well.

Surely passiflora incarnata can hybridize with the tropical cousins? Somebody please do some work on that project for us.

i live in the Netherlands, not sure how our climate compares to the US zones, but I never had ruits on my Akebia Quinata, I just enjoyed the flowers. I'm curious to how you know which grapes are hybrids or what they're called. also I don't like Kiwis, they alwas die down in winter and I had one for 10 years or so and it never got flowers let alone fruits

I tried Maypops. Not too tasty. Just a bag of juice and seeds. They also attract carpenter bees. (Their primary pollinator.) I chucked them- my decks and fence couldn't take all the carpenter bees.

The hardiness zones are all different now and they keep changing. These won’t Winter over well or even survive without some type of protection

Found a good spot for may pop

What growing zones/regions are we talking here? Water needs? Elevations...?

Please give us the variety of kiwi you are growing and where I might find it in Central Florida

I love how all the cold hardy versions of fruit are like slightly worse 😂

I’ve tried to start passion fruit from seeds bought from the store. Can not get them to sprout, what am I doing wrong?

Chocolate vine is difficult to grow. I have 3 of them and its not a cold hardy it resist 45F no more less. But its a picky vine

I grow a lot of grapes in Minnesota. Too bad Japanese Beatles love them

Would have been nice to post the names and possible places to procure seeds or plants.

When is your guys passion fruit gonna be in stock again?

I hope the picture in the thumbnail is a real photo. I want that plant just for the flower. Damn, it isn't. The american passion flower seems to grow well and even take over Except In My Yard. Caterpillars eat it down to the stems, it won't grow where I want it. Prefers the middle of the lawn. Love the flowers though.

I had my stupid cold hardy kiwi for years they grew a few flowers last year and nothing this year thus far.

Where you can find this plant

Can you put up the whole name of the kiwi in a comment so I can search it please

I’m in zone 3, it hurts me when people call zone 4-10 fruit “cold hardy”, really. I guess there was 1 zone 3 fruit, but I wonder how those in zone 2 feel.

Soo where can i order or get these? Thanks.

How cold hardy? Canada cold?

Zone 4 is USUALLY safe... Alberta

Do you have seeds of these plants available?

Grapes Native Kiwi Non Native Chocolate Vine Non Native Maypop (Passionflower) Non Native

Grapes can be grown in zone 2

Please show species names in the proper format

The problem with grapes is Japanese beetles! They’re a huge seductive draw for these little pests that decimate it. Sigh

Grapes? I thought these were supposed to be rare fruits?

Please keep in mind, invasive cost millions of dollars and ruin environments. Think of kudzu and multiflora rose.

Vitis rotundifolia is actually the Muscadine/scuppernong grape native to the U.S. Southeast. That one is only hardy to about USDA Zone 7, but is the only domesticated species sufficiently disease resistant (particularly to Pierce's Disease if memory serves) to survive (& thrive--the dang things grow about 20'/yr even on nutrient poor FL Panhandle sand) the Deep South, though U.F. has come up with a few bunch grapes (e.g. Orlando Seedless) that supposedly do better. Muscadines ripen individually, in clusters of 4 to 10 very large berries rather than in big bunches of wimpy vinifera sized grapes, originally had separate male and female vines (but many self-fertile, bisexual cultivars exist today), have small leaves that would be ~worthless for dolmas, and a flavor more like jaboticaba than grape (or if really ripe, a weird combo of sugar+ale+bubblegum in the ones I had; the flavor does grow on you though) though its jelly is disappointing--almost identical to generic apple jelly. They are slipskin, usually have large seeds, and a different # of chromosomes than regular grapes so won't hybridize with them. Fox grapes, like the "Concord" that Welch's made famous, are Vitis labrusca (or hybrids between it and vinifera). Those *are* cold hardy (but usually impossible in the Deep South). The far north varieties are usually hybrids between V. labrusca and (small berried, tart, extremely hardy) species like Vitis riparia.