I was sure you were Jewish too! Anyway, the chabad Jewish community get theirs from a place called Calabria in Italy. In the ritual, we use Etrog, date branch, Myrtle and weeping willow. Each symbolizes a different architype in Jewish society. Combining them together symbolizes the unity of the Jewish nation. Love the channel btw.
I think they might also symbolize parts of the body the etrog symbolizes the heart, the thing on top is called a pitom. There’s also a joke about etrog trees: the trees of Eastern European Jews have less fruit because they have less kids
@@WeirdExplorer Today I have had a delicious Carpaccio from a Citrus medica / Citron / Etrog, which I found yesterday on a market. It still had a green branch on it, which I try to get rooted, and inside there were about 60 seeds, which I put into sandy soil this evening. I only used half of the fruit (huge fruit of abt. 20cm length and 15cm wide. labeled "Fratelli Amatruda - Amalfi Coast"), seems like tomorrow will be another great Carpaccio Day!
Citron is my favourite fruit, right now in Sicily it's season and i'm eating it daily, twice a day. The tree where i go to pick it up makes delicious citrons with a lot of "white" part, which is the part you should eat mostly, it's seedless, welcome to try
Are you planning on placing a bulk order for figs, matzo meal, and coconut oil or the like, while meditating in particular ways and preparing for a metaphorical, WW2?... If not, why not this year? 😐 I mean... Bruh... Just ditch the like/lemon and get an etrog. "Worth"?... Bruh...😂It's a meditative/physiological tool and/or a tradition. Just do it. "Is it 'worth' buying a quality frying pan?..."
Yemenite version is of the highest reputation for being a pure etrog with the same unchanged genetics due to how highly it's been guarded. It's usually expensive too lol but it would be awesome if you could get one
@@WeirdExplorer ik im a year late to this but in russian/polish jewish communities that speak yiddish (like the one I grew up in) often pronounce certain t sounds as s sounds... so sometimes sukkot is sukkos and etrog is esrōg or esrog. Its best as like a sauce for like an orange chicken almost.
Sukkot as you pronounced it is fine to me! Some Ashkenazim (Jews would Eastern European background) pronounce it Sukkos, so really there’s no right way
Perhaps you were thinking of the "Ponderosa Lemon"? I used to grow them in containers... a 3 foot tall tree could produce 6-8 Lemons weighing around 4 lbs EACH.
Yeah, it doesn't look like a citron, probably a citron crossed with another citrus fruit and probably an orange if it looks so orange like. But yeah, to eat the rind you do have to remove its bitterness by immersing the pieces in a bath, changing the water every two or three hours. You can cook the rind with sugar and a bit of water and a tiny amount of lemon juice, and that's done in stages. Its a very aromatic sweet though.
It would be greatly appreciated if you covered the acidity of the fruit in your videos, as it is at least in my opinion, a rather important part of a fruits qualities and profile.
Like you said, definitely not a proper Etrog. The picture of the 3 are what an Etrog looks like. After the Holiday of Sukkah (Sukkot) some Jewish people insert cloves into the rind covering the entire fruit. The Etrog dries and becomes hard and brown securing the cloves in the rind. It is then used for another Jewish ritual (Mitzvah) which requires a strong spice like cloves.
Hey Adam. I don't really do traditional seed selling, it just takes way too much time and I am no expert with it. The best I do is I will send seeds as-is to patreon supporters who sign up for receiving stuff in the mail.
Ok thanks! The easiest way is to let the seeds dry for a couple of days once you've taken them from the fruit then you can store them in a brown envelope or something similar.
Scrolled down to post just this. Then again I worked with a Mormon fella that wouldn't drink tea or coffee on religious grounds but pounded a ZippFizz everyday(100mg caffeine)
@@mytech6779 my Mormon friend tells me the rule is it can't be a hot drink unless it's a soup, so technically your friend gets a pass :P Reminds me of reading Leviticus or something and it said you can't eat the fat of an animal. The fat of a bird however...
How come you haven't tried the Trifoliate Bitter Orange (Poncirus trifoliata)? It's a close relative of true citrus and commonly used as rootstock when grafting. It's a very though plant with a lot of thorns and the closest thing to citrus you can plant in colder areas. It's hardy to zone 5b (-15°F).
this is the modern world,i cant afford thw cost!but would gladly make some kind of preserve from them,any thoughts out thethre,why would any one want to waste a gift from the almighty
Hello, question for you, a friend has a tree that I'm thinking is a citron tree how can I be absolutely sure it is, and what all could they do with the fruit, does it store well? They are big lemon like fruits, very lumpy, dirty looking on the outside after they fall off the tree , the inside smells like orange/ lemon combined. Thank you for any help with this. Shalom.
Sounds similar to a sweet lime grown in Mexico. Lima Dulce. They are about the size of an orange but lemon color. Not bitter but a mild sweetness instead. Very popular in Mexico and California neighborhoods
That's not even a citron... More like a lemon. And it doesn't have a style, you're pointing to the piece of stem cut from the tree... The style should be on the opposite end like in the pictures of actual citrons.
I was sure you were Jewish too! Anyway, the chabad Jewish community get theirs from a place called Calabria in Italy. In the ritual, we use Etrog, date branch, Myrtle and weeping willow. Each symbolizes a different architype in Jewish society. Combining them together symbolizes the unity of the Jewish nation.
Love the channel btw.
Nope, but my grandfather was from Calabria :) Thanks for the extra insight on this ritual
I think they might also symbolize parts of the body the etrog symbolizes the heart, the thing on top is called a pitom. There’s also a joke about etrog trees: the trees of Eastern European Jews have less fruit because they have less kids
@@WeirdExplorer Today I have had a delicious Carpaccio from a Citrus medica / Citron / Etrog, which I found yesterday on a market. It still had a green branch on it, which I try to get rooted, and inside there were about 60 seeds, which I put into sandy soil this evening. I only used half of the fruit (huge fruit of abt. 20cm length and 15cm wide. labeled "Fratelli Amatruda - Amalfi Coast"), seems like tomorrow will be another great Carpaccio Day!
you are suppose to eat the white part that is usually bigger in Etrog. It taste like a sweet and lemony Radish
Citron is my favourite fruit, right now in Sicily it's season and i'm eating it daily, twice a day. The tree where i go to pick it up makes delicious citrons with a lot of "white" part, which is the part you should eat mostly, it's seedless, welcome to try
Presumably after Sukkot, one should be able to buy any leftover etrogim on the cheap... might be worth trying next year?
Are you planning on placing a bulk order for figs, matzo meal, and coconut oil or the like, while meditating in particular ways and preparing for a metaphorical, WW2?... If not, why not this year? 😐 I mean... Bruh... Just ditch the like/lemon and get an etrog. "Worth"?... Bruh...😂It's a meditative/physiological tool and/or a tradition. Just do it. "Is it 'worth' buying a quality frying pan?..."
Yemenite version is of the highest reputation for being a pure etrog with the same unchanged genetics due to how highly it's been guarded. It's usually expensive too lol but it would be awesome if you could get one
Yes, I'd say this is a hybrid of some kind. Definitely not an etrog you'd find in Jewish neighborhoods during the holiday of Sukkot.
love the video. Just a little correction on the pronunciation of Sukkot. It sounds like sue-coat for most Jews.
Good to know! I've been saying it wrong this whole time. And in nyc its something that does come up in conversation here and there.
@@WeirdExplorer ik im a year late to this but in russian/polish jewish communities that speak yiddish (like the one I grew up in) often pronounce certain t sounds as s sounds... so sometimes sukkot is sukkos and etrog is esrōg or esrog. Its best as like a sauce for like an orange chicken almost.
Sukkot as you pronounced it is fine to me! Some Ashkenazim (Jews would Eastern European background) pronounce it Sukkos, so really there’s no right way
Thansk for the very informative video. I was just searching for Citrons and learned more than I expected to. Subscribed.
Perhaps you were thinking of the "Ponderosa Lemon"? I used to grow them in containers... a 3 foot tall tree could produce 6-8 Lemons weighing around 4 lbs EACH.
Yeah, it doesn't look like a citron, probably a citron crossed with another citrus fruit and probably an orange if it looks so orange like.
But yeah, to eat the rind you do have to remove its bitterness by immersing the pieces in a bath, changing the water every two or three hours. You can cook the rind with sugar and a bit of water and a tiny amount of lemon juice, and that's done in stages. Its a very aromatic sweet though.
Mmmm, sacrilicious.
Probably proper Etrog are a little more gnarly and fierce than this interesting fruit! But it sounds useful and tasty. I just love these videos.
It would be greatly appreciated if you covered the acidity of the fruit in your videos, as it is at least in my opinion, a rather important part of a fruits qualities and profile.
In my Jewish Moroccan family some would make a kind of jam/candy from it.
Works well steeped in alcohol. There is etrog gin too
I believe it’s mostly the rind of the etrog that is used, more than the pulp or juice.
You can use the whole fruit in thin slices in olive oil and as a Carpaccio with Parmesano and Parma ham, today I had one!
All these years I've been watching your channel I thought you were a Jew yourself. That Revelation was more interesting than the fruit 😁
Yours looks like it is missing the pitom or pee-tome. The pointy end at the end of the fruit when it first starts to develop
Like you said, definitely not a proper Etrog. The picture of the 3 are what an Etrog looks like. After the Holiday of Sukkah (Sukkot) some Jewish people insert cloves into the rind covering the entire fruit. The Etrog dries and becomes hard and brown securing the cloves in the rind.
It is then used for another Jewish ritual (Mitzvah) which requires a strong spice like cloves.
Hey I would love those seeds and any other ones you may have. I love to grow exotic fruit. Thanks for the new video!
Hey Adam. I don't really do traditional seed selling, it just takes way too much time and I am no expert with it. The best I do is I will send seeds as-is to patreon supporters who sign up for receiving stuff in the mail.
Ok thanks! The easiest way is to let the seeds dry for a couple of days once you've taken them from the fruit then you can store them in a brown envelope or something similar.
So no lemonade making with these Jared?...
The fruit itself seemed self explanatory enough, so I didn't bother with it
It's been used as pickles and many medicine properties in india for years a state called Gujarat we eat this as pickle for years
So, grafting is out but picloram is fine? 🤔
Scrolled down to post just this. Then again I worked with a Mormon fella that wouldn't drink tea or coffee on religious grounds but pounded a ZippFizz everyday(100mg caffeine)
lol im a jew who agrees with you.
@@mytech6779 my Mormon friend tells me the rule is it can't be a hot drink unless it's a soup, so technically your friend gets a pass :P
Reminds me of reading Leviticus or something and it said you can't eat the fat of an animal. The fat of a bird however...
How come you haven't tried the Trifoliate Bitter Orange (Poncirus trifoliata)? It's a close relative of true citrus and commonly used as rootstock when grafting. It's a very though plant with a lot of thorns and the closest thing to citrus you can plant in colder areas. It's hardy to zone 5b (-15°F).
so hybrids and grafted are not kosher but pesticide use is? lol
legit was going to post this question.
this is the modern world,i cant afford thw cost!but would gladly make some kind of preserve from them,any thoughts out thethre,why would any one want to waste a gift from the almighty
Hello, question for you, a friend has a tree that I'm thinking is a citron tree how can I be absolutely sure it is, and what all could they do with the fruit, does it store well? They are big lemon like fruits, very lumpy, dirty looking on the outside after they fall off the tree , the inside smells like orange/ lemon combined. Thank you for any help with this. Shalom.
Sounds similar to a sweet lime grown in Mexico. Lima Dulce. They are about the size of an orange but lemon color. Not bitter but a mild sweetness instead. Very popular in Mexico and California neighborhoods
Citron is one of the oldest fruit.
A yemenite etrog is basically a giant lemon shaped buddhas hand
There is a different one from Yemin that is much tastier and larger. Should try that kind!
TRAYF!!!
Dude another xcellent vid brotha!!! I wanna ask u have u ever tried da baobab fruit? It's one on my bucket list.....
Yep! It was old though, planning to give it a proper review when I go to Madagascar later this year
Weird Explorer i cant wait to see that review!
yo jared try feijoa or pineapple guava if you can
Its in the archives: ruclips.net/video/dH59FuHUDvw/видео.html
you beat me to it in that case try double coconut smart guy!
or AJI sweet peppers. NO capsaicin AT ALL
I'm confused. Citron in French literally means "lemon". So I'm surprised that there is a fruit called citron that isn't a lemon.
Funny, the French manufacturer(ed) an automobile called the Citron. I had one, it was not a lemon 🍋
@@mikecole1664 Yes, that's true! I think the name of that car in French was "Citroën".
these are babies or something ?! the citrons that we have are like football size.
oh, you don't eat the rind only the pith
Seeds are supposed to be facing the stem not sideways like lemons. 🤷🏽♂️
My citron is seedless.
That is not a etrog used for sukkot....looks to orange
Sound like it coule be crossed with Bergamote
Not an Etrog
That's not even a citron... More like a lemon.
And it doesn't have a style, you're pointing to the piece of stem cut from the tree... The style should be on the opposite end like in the pictures of actual citrons.
Definitely a cross
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Huh. I'm kinda surprised your not Jewish.
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Jared is not kosher I’m disappointed
The Blue Noble Why? He's a fantastic human being!
hybrid=not kosher= no exceptions.
OI!
The Blue Noble Who Cares?
While I in no way suggest that jared is an amazing person......He has yet to reach his zenith. But he will which is why you must become a patron