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Timestamps
00:00 Intro
00:41 Flying Dragon Hardy Orange
02:41 Jujube
04:58 African Horned Melon
06:21 Alternative for African Horned Melon
07:23 Autumn Olive
08:43 Aronia
10:09 Japanese Raisin Tree
11:18 Goji Berry
13:17 Rare Fruits that are worth growing!
15:39 Final Thoughts and Announcements
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Timestamps
00:00 Intro
00:41 Flying Dragon Hardy Orange
02:41 Jujube
04:58 African Horned Melon
06:21 Alternative for African Horned Melon
07:23 Autumn Olive
08:43 Aronia
10:09 Japanese Raisin Tree
11:18 Goji Berry
13:17 Rare Fruits that are worth growing!
15:39 Final Thoughts and Announcements
Thanks for the kind words and support 😁🐕❤
Thank you for this video. I too totally agree with you. Jujube in whatever form, is not a good fruit for me, many like it but I really don’t. Horn melon is a no way as well. Goji berries are such a huge sell and I was eager to try this. Once I did I almost threw up. It is an awful berry. I will get my antioxidants elsewhere.
Thank you so much James, it's refreshing to see that highly experienced gardeners like you also try things and then have the honesty to say "hmmm, not going to do THIS again!!". I've had a couple of "never again" crops but I'm still willing to try something new once in a while.
I haven’t heard of a few of the “don’t grow” ones. The one I did know, of course I planted this last summer. The Goji. So I will be digging that up before it gets too well established. We didn’t enjoy the flavor of the fruit too much either. We have all but one of the recommended ones. I have tried several times to grow the Paw Paw, but, just can’t seem to get it right. Kill them every time. I know they grow here in Iowa, I drive 20 miles to Waubonsie State Park and pick them every fall. 🤷♀️ I do really love my Cucamelons and Ground Cherries. 🤤
Cut them down! The trees are better only as rootstock.
When are you chopping the undesirable plants down?
A way to turn the problem into a solution is to use the persistent plants or trees as a biomass to make mulch for the more desirable trees: simply chop and drop or by using a shredder.
Thank you so much.
As a Chinese, the only breed of Jujube I love is called 'the horse's teeth'(马牙枣), named by its shape and it's quite sweet and flavorful.
And the Goji is believed that it could make your penis stronger in traditional Chinese medicine🤣
I've been growing orange trees and kumquats, and out of 11 orange trees, I've had only 1 fruit, yet out of the 2-3 kumquats, I've had at least 10 fruits in the same time, and I'm finding that kumquats grow quicker and produce quicker than oranges, so I'm no longer ever bothering with orange trees. I'd much rather grow kumquats, calamondin's, and mandarinquats instead.
Gooseberries are the best but theyre very prickly
Mr. Prigioni, I’m wondering, have you grown any Persimmons, namely the American Persimmon? They’re one of my favorite fruits ever!!?
What are a few of the crops that you would recommend all growers should grow, beginner friendly, there are some things I want to grow but not sure how easy they will be for a beginner like me, this next spring will only really be my 2nd year actually dedicated to growing, for example, I wanna grow stuff like Tomatoes, Potatoes, Lettuce, Watermelon, Pumpkins and Carrots and a few others, I want more options, but not sure what to even grow.
Saying Aronia isn’t edible is like saying hot peppers are not edible. Not every fruit is sweet and that’s a very good thing.
What do you think about kumquats?
Jujube is a great fruit tree. It is very resistandt to drought and heat. I like it more than I like an apple. It can be dried and it is very sweet. You can make an excellent tea from it and there are very good varieties for fresh eating. I like it more and more, because it does not really need watering and blooms late in the spring. Almost carefree tree, except when it suckers, but it does not sucker for me.
I thought jujubes are great and amazing for fresh eating, don’t have many disease or pest like stone fruit trees. You also can’t buy them from the supermarkets!
I grew cucamelon once, but never again. It didn't produce well and tasted terrible.
The African Horned Melon is also called a kiwano. A lot of bartenders like them for Mai Tais because their flavor compliments the rum well. The flavor is supposed to be like a mix between a banana and passion fruit, lime and cucumber. I’ve never had one, but this is what I’ve been told by some friends that have had them.
@jamesprigioni Do you have any experience with a compact apple tree (If there is one)? I have have very minimal space but would love an apple tree.
Do you think if you hybridized the hardy orange with a regular orange tree it might make some trees that are better? Obviously this would be a long process but it seems you have the space to experiment
A while back I planted a hops plant and it was completely out of control and would not stop growing. Every time I pulled it out it the thing would bounce back from pieces of root in the ground. One day I just decided to start pouring boiling water onto it. It stopped coming back after that.
Ty from California 🪬👽🪬
Aronia berries get better after the first frost. Get sweet. Still, I use them for juice mostly. Lovely stuff. Also, what do you mean by HOA can forbid you from growing edibles? If your garden is your property how can anyone tell you what you can or cannot grow?
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The African horned melon turns orange on the outside when ripe
Your citrus looks like a trifoliate orange. It is used to graft other citrus on.
If you don't try it you'll never know, also some things you'll hate that others like (coriander/cilantro for example).
Goji bush is probably the worst fruit I bought… grew like crazy and wasn’t producing fruit … cut it right back and this year it came back…going to have too really dig deep and try to find all the roots
I stopped.keeping perennial wives. I just have annual girlfriends now.
What??? Did I hear you say if your in an area where your not ALLOWED to grow edibles??? 1984 eat yr heart out. Why are Americans putting up with this garbage?
Hang on there are HOAs that don't allow edibles? Why does the US even have HOAs? I hear absolutely nothing good about them.
That flying dragon has its use, though. Because it is dwarfing. Any other citrus you graft to it will be dwarf. So I have a couple of citrus trees grafted onto the flying dragon, so I get to keep them small.
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Would you please sell me some seeds of Flying Dragon, please? I guess you planted them for the wrong reason. I plant them for the huge spikes! I have several plants of the straight spike variety and I wanted the ones with curved spikes you have. The thing with the spikes is that sometimes rattle snakes appear in my plot. I am trying to plant them all along the fences for snake deterrence. 🙏🙏
hey James, we didnt get a harvest or garden walk through video this year. they're my favorite of your videos
Aronia makes great hedges and is a nice ornamental plant. I wouldn't grow it for eating though, although they're supposed to be super healthy.
Gooseberries are harvested commercially before they are ripe, so they are quite sour & need to be cooked. When they are properly ripe, they are quite soft & prone to damage when handled – so they are less than ideal as a commercial crop.
However, they are absolutely superb as a back garden crop to eat fresh from the bush if left to ripen fully. They are wonderfully sweet. Birds absolutely adore them, so they really need to be grown in fruit cages.
So the Jujube or Donks (for Barbadians) are actually very common in the Caribbean. Have you considered maybe reaching out to the Caribbean diaspora and offering them the fruit? Or diaspora/asian variety stories in your neighbourhood? They arent so much a food but a local snack that we would pick freely (because they grow in the wild roadside, unused land) and eat with salt. I think this could be a nostalgic piece of home for many.
Jujuba gibt es Sorten ohne Stacheln und etwas kleiner . Aronia gibt es jetzt Sorten die süsser sind und auch kleiner (80cm).