Thank you for this very informative video. Sea Buckthorn are very common up here in the Tibetan Borderlands of the Himalayan foothills. Not only can you see the bright orange berries as you hike along the Ancient Tea Horse Trails, but the juice it is even for sale in supermarkets. You can buy deliciously refreshing bottles of sea buckthorn juice very cheaply in places like Dali, Lijiang and Shangri La. The plant is a very common sight for hikers in the National Parks like Shibaashan, Lajunshan and Pudacuo. It has long been used as a reafforestion species, especially in this area, where historically speaking, the Three Great Cuttings had a devastating effect. Just as Elizabethan England was almost completely deforested to build a navy big enough to dominate the globe, The PLA clear cut just about all of the old growth to facilitate the invasion of Tibet.
Wow, interesting history here, thank you for sharing. The idea of these plants being so common in areas that the juice is readily available in stores sounds dreamy
great info. I lived in Dali for about a year, and visited laojunshan as well. Too bad it was before my permaculture days, so I don't think I noticed the seaberries all around and the juice!
My seabuckthorn trees don't get full sun. That's why they aren't very productive. I find the more sun they get, the happier and fruitful they are. Thanks for the video.
Spectacular plants and crop. Really great to see. For those looking for a high quality berry on a somewhat similarly sized bush that can come into good production years earlier, its tough to beat elderberry. Doesn't have nearly the amount of vitamin C or oil that seaberry has but has many benefits as well and for the impatient it's a relief that it can produce a lot quicker and span the gap until seaberry comes on.
These Seaberry plants look like first cousins to our beloved Buffalo Berry here in Montana. The books say no relation, but they could be siblings they are so alike. Thanks for the video and happy day to all.
i finally succeeded in propagating from seed using your air-root box method. Later in the Fall, I will plug some into new food forest plots, as well as in pots for insurance. Thanks for all the great content. Zone 4 Vermont.
Have you thought of making seaberry oil? My grandmother would make it along with seaberry syrup. You will not believe how fast it would heal wounds. That's one of primary reason I am looking into purchasing and planting it.
Wow, that sounds amazing! We have SOOO much to learn about working with this plant. Saving and drying leaves for tea, understanding working with the fruit in many ways, thanks for the reminder!
@@edibleacres thank you, Sean. Just a random note. My grandmother grew it in Kazakhstan, I used store bought in Russia. Here, in America, I think I bought from Amazon, it was much lighter and much less potent. Maybe you have a suggestion on a cultivar. Thank you. Galina
This came at the very time I was considering seaberry for my zone 4 garden. Thank you for sharing ways too use the fruit, always helpful to know prior to purchasing any fruiting variety!
I'm working hard to prepare some soil for a future seaberry row someday. Sasha's seaberry ice cream is one of the greatest summer treats I have ever tasted!
So many seaberries! Looking awesome! I planted 2 in our garden and I don't know if they're male or female. No berries this first year. I might have to plant a few more.
We planted some back in the mid 2000s for the first time, and were surprised to find that they have a largish seed inside. So, they're not really suitable for eating fresh. But, as you say, good for juice. We moved shortly afterward, so have not had them since. I did think they were a bit hard to pick, but worth it. :)
The seed is incredibly valuable nutritionally and you can easily chew it up... Hope that helps, we eat them fresh ALL the time. I would guess I've eaten well over a few thousand this summer alone
I am in zone 5 (42 N latitude, southwest Michigan) and most of my Seaberries have died over the years, I have a few just barely hanging onto life and no fruit on any of them yet after 10 years. They definitely don't like my dry/sandy soil and cannot seem to compete with mild pressure from grass or weeds. I am trying to baby the survivors along because they're such cool and beautiful plants, but not a successful pioneer species like their cousin Autumn Olive, which can grow 3' per year in every direction in the exact same conditions with no care whatsoever. Their cousins the Buffaloberries (Shepherdia sp.) have also all died off at my site over the years, even though I've seen those growing in very poor conditions in the Dakotas. Maybe differences in the soil, humidity, etc.
I’m in Zone 9B and I have four growing in partial shade. They get about 5 hours of afternoon sun, and they’re doing great. My largest is almost 4 feet tall.
@@pjchmiel - at similar latitude, slightly to the southeast of you, but with heavy clay soil. You're in what's typically known as a wonderful fruit-growing area. So it's surprising they're not thriving for you. Hoping to establish a few plants this year. They sure do seem to thrive in up state NY where Sean & Sasha are located. Perhaps with a generous helping of aged compost & ample mulch they can be coaxed into taking up residence over here.
@@caseymarion2494 I suspect they're a lot happier in heavier/richer soils. My sand is very poor and quite dry, it's a struggle to get a lot of things to grow on my site, but after 13 years it's finally starting to "leap" in spots after many years of "sleeping and creeping". Mostly thanks to dozens and dozens of truckloads of woodchips, shredded leaves, nurse logs, and other organic matter. Hope yours grow well for you!
Have you seen Ben Falk's freeze and beat method for seaberry picking? It seems miraculously fast, but is it counterproductive to your goals of producing suckering photocopies? He has a super quick video on it an I thought it was nifty. Got 5 orange energy seaberries from you last fall (plus the bartered "tall male"), looking forward to some production and some suckers soon!
Yes, we've seen it and we use that method... On a smaller scale but it works great. It works with the goal of getting softwood cuttings for summer propagation since we're cutting branch material anyway and I'm not sure if it stops them from suckering or running to be honest...
I've got a total of 5 plants that I planted last year. 2 known female varieties and 3 that I started from seed and survived my terrible care. I assume at least 1 of the 3 is a male and I'm hopeful that they'll grow fine in my very overcrowded garden since I need their nitrogen fixating and really want their fruits.
So we live in the foothills of the Rocky Mnts. in northern Colorado. Zone 5B. Can be very dry in the summer, although this year has been pretty wet which is great, but unusual. Hot sun at elevation in the summer. Have a little shade under large pine trees, but otherwise, very open. Any thoughts on how seaberry would do here? There is a native variety, but not with the kind of fruit I am looking for. Planting a lot of natives, but also growing for food - berries, annual veggies, asparagus, etc. Keep thinking about growing seaberry, but don't see many around here or in the nurseries. Thoughts???
Perhaps you will answer this in an up coming video when you prune. Does that method of harvest where you freeze them on the stem have an effect on next year's production?
If there are enough plants growing it wouldn't matter much but yeah, it reduces the yield on that plant for the next year... We're just learning about it now and hope to share some notes!
what model of omega juicer do you have? we are at the point of investing in something better than cheesecloth and would love some direction on what to invest in! also we are expecting our first bebe in 7 weeks, so happy for you and sasha :)
8004 - it's an older one but works insanely well at pressing juice from them. Highly recommended if you have the budget. I suspect you can find a reconditioned or used one or something like it on ebay...
Each one has a single seed that you can definitely pop with your teeth and enjoy, it has a lot of nutrients in it, or we send them through a juicer to macerate the seat and pulp and liberate a ton of flavor in medicine
I tried starting seaberry seeds last spring but none of them germinated. I live in south central Pennsylvania, is there a place online you would recommend to get cuttings or bare roots I could get in the ground now? Thank you!!!!
You can, but they sucker so readily giving you clones of the same cultivar variety. Good cultivars are important because they are more productive and less thorny.
i grew some from jiovi seed. took a while and lost a lot of seedlings through the past few years, but i just like the challenge. finally, I've one plant with berries this year. buy cuttings if you want quicker results.
Thank you for this very informative video.
Sea Buckthorn are very common up here in the Tibetan Borderlands of the Himalayan foothills. Not only can you see the bright orange berries as you hike along the Ancient Tea Horse Trails, but the juice it is even for sale in supermarkets. You can buy deliciously refreshing bottles of sea buckthorn juice very cheaply in places like Dali, Lijiang and Shangri La.
The plant is a very common sight for hikers in the National Parks like Shibaashan, Lajunshan and Pudacuo. It has long been used as a reafforestion species, especially in this area, where historically speaking, the Three Great Cuttings had a devastating effect. Just as Elizabethan England was almost completely deforested to build a navy big enough to dominate the globe, The PLA clear cut just about all of the old growth to facilitate the invasion of Tibet.
Wow, interesting history here, thank you for sharing. The idea of these plants being so common in areas that the juice is readily available in stores sounds dreamy
great info. I lived in Dali for about a year, and visited laojunshan as well. Too bad it was before my permaculture days, so I don't think I noticed the seaberries all around and the juice!
What a wonderful garden!
Thanks kindly
My seabuckthorn trees don't get full sun. That's why they aren't very productive. I find the more sun they get, the happier and fruitful they are. Thanks for the video.
Wonderful information, very useful.
I’m hoping my plants fruit this year
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Beautiful
Spectacular plants and crop. Really great to see. For those looking for a high quality berry on a somewhat similarly sized bush that can come into good production years earlier, its tough to beat elderberry. Doesn't have nearly the amount of vitamin C or oil that seaberry has but has many benefits as well and for the impatient it's a relief that it can produce a lot quicker and span the gap until seaberry comes on.
These Seaberry plants look like first cousins to our beloved Buffalo Berry here in Montana. The books say no relation, but they could be siblings they are so alike. Thanks for the video and happy day to all.
Same with Autumn Olive, not supposed to be related but what an overlap!
Have you considered fermenting it, seaberry wine? I think I'm gonna try to ferment some this year.
Interesting idea, I haven't heard of it, I wonder with all the oil how that may work out...
Have you done any videos where you show the processing methods of your various harvests, please?
i finally succeeded in propagating from seed using your air-root box method. Later in the Fall, I will plug some into new food forest plots, as well as in pots for insurance. Thanks for all the great content. Zone 4 Vermont.
Great video as always. Wish you were our Secretary of Agriculture
Very good
What amazing fruit! I need to plant some - maybe this fall, if I can get my hands-on some.
They are really quite worth whiel if you have a full sun spot
Have you thought of making seaberry oil? My grandmother would make it along with seaberry syrup. You will not believe how fast it would heal wounds. That's one of primary reason I am looking into purchasing and planting it.
Wow, that sounds amazing! We have SOOO much to learn about working with this plant. Saving and drying leaves for tea, understanding working with the fruit in many ways, thanks for the reminder!
@@edibleacres thank you, Sean. Just a random note. My grandmother grew it in Kazakhstan, I used store bought in Russia. Here, in America, I think I bought from Amazon, it was much lighter and much less potent. Maybe you have a suggestion on a cultivar. Thank you. Galina
I think Sasha is the variety ´Radiant´. 😄
Cant wait to add these to our land.
This came at the very time I was considering seaberry for my zone 4 garden. Thank you for sharing ways too use the fruit, always helpful to know prior to purchasing any fruiting variety!
Hoping to have some this year as well!
I'm working hard to prepare some soil for a future seaberry row someday. Sasha's seaberry ice cream is one of the greatest summer treats I have ever tasted!
Oooh!! I can’t wait for the ice cream video!! 😋 I think I might get some Seaberry next year, if not the following year for sure!!
I planted a pair of seaberries last year, but the rabbits almost destroyed them over the winter. No fruit this year but they are growing back.
So many seaberries! Looking awesome!
I planted 2 in our garden and I don't know if they're male or female. No berries this first year. I might have to plant a few more.
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Considered checking on seaberry. Great information.
Nice
Seaberry/Seabuckthorn also is a nitrogen fixer I think, not to mention its value as a windbreak for other plants.
Beautiful! Our sirola’s are also doing well in zone 7 Salt Lake City. We’re a little behind you, so they must really love the cold climate
It's a nice variety, just took a bunch more cuttings today actually
I need a Bull Seaberry plant for my Cow Seaberries.
Oh ok- perfect circle. Thank you
Thanks so much for this video! I am planting them in the spring!
Very interesting. I had never heard of this plant!
Very glad to introduce you!
thanks for your video. i was wondering when i should harvest mine.
We planted some back in the mid 2000s for the first time, and were surprised to find that they have a largish seed inside. So, they're not really suitable for eating fresh. But, as you say, good for juice. We moved shortly afterward, so have not had them since. I did think they were a bit hard to pick, but worth it. :)
The seed is incredibly valuable nutritionally and you can easily chew it up... Hope that helps, we eat them fresh ALL the time. I would guess I've eaten well over a few thousand this summer alone
@@edibleacres Oh!! Very good to know. Thank you!
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I tried to grow these unfortunately I think I’m just a bit too far south in zone 8… awesome harvest! Thanks for posting! Love your videos!
I am in zone 5 (42 N latitude, southwest Michigan) and most of my Seaberries have died over the years, I have a few just barely hanging onto life and no fruit on any of them yet after 10 years. They definitely don't like my dry/sandy soil and cannot seem to compete with mild pressure from grass or weeds. I am trying to baby the survivors along because they're such cool and beautiful plants, but not a successful pioneer species like their cousin Autumn Olive, which can grow 3' per year in every direction in the exact same conditions with no care whatsoever. Their cousins the Buffaloberries (Shepherdia sp.) have also all died off at my site over the years, even though I've seen those growing in very poor conditions in the Dakotas. Maybe differences in the soil, humidity, etc.
I’m in Zone 9B and I have four growing in partial shade. They get about 5 hours of afternoon sun, and they’re doing great. My largest is almost 4 feet tall.
I’m in a microclimate that gets 900-1,000 hours of chill hours. I don’t know if that makes a difference for Seaberry. 🤷🏻♀️
@@pjchmiel - at similar latitude, slightly to the southeast of you, but with heavy clay soil. You're in what's typically known as a wonderful fruit-growing area. So it's surprising they're not thriving for you.
Hoping to establish a few plants this year. They sure do seem to thrive in up state NY where Sean & Sasha are located. Perhaps with a generous helping of aged compost & ample mulch they can be coaxed into taking up residence over here.
@@caseymarion2494 I suspect they're a lot happier in heavier/richer soils. My sand is very poor and quite dry, it's a struggle to get a lot of things to grow on my site, but after 13 years it's finally starting to "leap" in spots after many years of "sleeping and creeping". Mostly thanks to dozens and dozens of truckloads of woodchips, shredded leaves, nurse logs, and other organic matter. Hope yours grow well for you!
Have you seen Ben Falk's freeze and beat method for seaberry picking? It seems miraculously fast, but is it counterproductive to your goals of producing suckering photocopies? He has a super quick video on it an I thought it was nifty.
Got 5 orange energy seaberries from you last fall (plus the bartered "tall male"), looking forward to some production and some suckers soon!
Yes, we've seen it and we use that method... On a smaller scale but it works great. It works with the goal of getting softwood cuttings for summer propagation since we're cutting branch material anyway and I'm not sure if it stops them from suckering or running to be honest...
I've got a total of 5 plants that I planted last year. 2 known female varieties and 3 that I started from seed and survived my terrible care. I assume at least 1 of the 3 is a male and I'm hopeful that they'll grow fine in my very overcrowded garden since I need their nitrogen fixating and really want their fruits.
Seaberry ice cream or sherbet sounds delicious! Let us know how that turns out please :)
So we live in the foothills of the Rocky Mnts. in northern Colorado. Zone 5B. Can be very dry in the summer, although this year has been pretty wet which is great, but unusual. Hot sun at elevation in the summer. Have a little shade under large pine trees, but otherwise, very open. Any thoughts on how seaberry would do here? There is a native variety, but not with the kind of fruit I am looking for. Planting a lot of natives, but also growing for food - berries, annual veggies, asparagus, etc. Keep thinking about growing seaberry, but don't see many around here or in the nurseries. Thoughts???
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Perhaps you will answer this in an up coming video when you prune. Does that method of harvest where you freeze them on the stem have an effect on next year's production?
If there are enough plants growing it wouldn't matter much but yeah, it reduces the yield on that plant for the next year... We're just learning about it now and hope to share some notes!
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what model of omega juicer do you have? we are at the point of investing in something better than cheesecloth and would love some direction on what to invest in! also we are expecting our first bebe in 7 weeks, so happy for you and sasha :)
8004 - it's an older one but works insanely well at pressing juice from them. Highly recommended if you have the budget. I suspect you can find a reconditioned or used one or something like it on ebay...
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Mongolia has sea berries
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Interested in getting some; we are in Zone 7A.
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2nd year seaberries are coming in well but no fruit. Hopefully next year. Anyone ferment them? I hear they are even better for you after fermentation.
We haven't but we should try. 3rd year onward is when they start happening so long as you've got a good male and female
I'm guessing that they won't grow in our 100+ Texas heat :-/
Are they full of seeds like rosehips ?
Each one has a single seed that you can definitely pop with your teeth and enjoy, it has a lot of nutrients in it, or we send them through a juicer to macerate the seat and pulp and liberate a ton of flavor in medicine
have you tried harvesting the berries with a berry picker? and do you have experience with the fruit quality of seedlings of cultivars?
No direct experience of fruit quality from seedligns but we hope to try and learn! No, I haven't tried the berry picker...
I tried starting seaberry seeds last spring but none of them germinated.
I live in south central Pennsylvania, is there a place online you would recommend to get cuttings or bare roots I could get in the ground now?
Thank you!!!!
perfectcircle.farm is a great source for seaberry related things, also bcfnursery.com
They aren't super easy from seed!
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Do the birds not like them?
I find birds go after fruits with high sugar content. Seaberries are tart. I haven't seen birds eating these (in my context).
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Would you consider making seed available for purchase? I might have to roll the genetic dice here in Alabama to grow them.
twisted-tree.net may be doing them, also perfectcircle.farm could be... I'm not likely to do it, just too many moving parts in our life!
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Is there a way to get rid of the olive oil taste? Is it an actual oil that you can let settle to the surface and remove that way?
yeah
I'm not sure, but I love the whole flavor so I wouldn't try to remove it :)
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are these what we call seabuckthorn in Himayalas(India)?
Yes, it is the same thing.
Yep
Can I grow them from seed?
You can, but they sucker so readily giving you clones of the same cultivar variety. Good cultivars are important because they are more productive and less thorny.
i grew some from jiovi seed. took a while and lost a lot of seedlings through the past few years, but i just like the challenge. finally, I've one plant with berries this year. buy cuttings if you want quicker results.
It's a good experiment but strong encouragement is to grow from known cultivars as a primary focus...
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