If you'd like to check out more fruit tasting videos, here's one I made about White Sapote, which also includes a growing experiment. ruclips.net/video/rWGlrDwWR5s/видео.html](ruclips.net/video/rWGlrDwWR5s/видео.html Thanks heaps for watching! :) -Kalem
I wanted to tell you that you’ve inspired me to be interested in growing plants, and you’re a huge inspiration overall to me so when I saw a new video I was very excited
It’s addicting trust me There’s some cool methods air layering and cutting propagation With the cuttings NEVER use potatoes the cutting will rot and you’ll only get potatoes use rooting hormone instead Doing strawberry from seed yeah it’s possible but I don’t think it’s worth it I grew a few strawberry plants from seed it took forever I had to try a ton of times before the plants made it and I hardly got any strawberries get runners or plants instead
Tomatoes- u can get the suckers to turn to full new plants Strawberry- the runners turn to full plants but leaving them on takes away the energy from fruiting I think that was my issue I let my runners grow and hardly got any strawberries😕
Black sapote is beautiful when it’s blended with vanilla Ice cream and banana. Tropical fruit world on the Northern NSW coast has a soft serve making machine and that’s what they do.
My wife makes black sapote cake, very similar to a banana cake. It turns out to be delicious and even that it’s made with white flour, the final cooked cake is color dark chocolate.
This is what you're supposed to do with persimmon too. You're supposed to let them go half-rotten (a process called 'bletting'), before eating. They end up the consistency of pudding, and they taste amazing. The more bletted they are, the more sweet they become.
Those were the permissions i used to find , nowadays , all i see are the asians big hard ones and they are ready to eat. I do find the half rotten ones to be sooo much sweeter. I wonder if you know the difference in name
@@louloupinky try looking for 'sharon fruit' instead. They are a type of persimmon hybridized for growing in the middle east and they are famous for their sweetness.
My ears perked up at the mention of the Black Sapote being native to Mexico. I feel like the climate in South Australia is probably pretty comparable. I would love to give a shot at growing them. Great video, Kiwi. 🤙
When my family and I went to Cairns, there was an ice cream place that had black Sapote ice cream ( and white?). It was, seemingly, in the middle of nowhere. Was very delicious, but not sure if it tasted like chocolate.
Kalem, to say every one of your videos are interesting is major understatement! The presentation is top notch, the audio is great, your explanations are clear and full of nuggets of knowledge, and I love your how you have transformed your property into a wonderland. All the best to you, my friend. I can't wait until you release another video.
I found your channel by accident. Absolutely enjoy watching and learning. You have a wonderful energy and I look forward to seeing more videos. Thank you
I never would have thought black sapote and persimmon could be related but it makes sense. Persimmon fruits grow in many different shapes, sizes, and traits from being the firm, sweet, and squat pumpkin shaped ones (my favorite), the super sweet, jelly-like roma tomato shaped ones, or the horribly astringent pre-frost, berry shaped mountain persimmon.
I love this channel. Got this video in recommendation and I've never been so thankful to YT Algorithm. This is what I will do when I will be reach enough to buy some land.
i live in Calif. and have a White Sapote......Planted it in full sun, as directed, and it was on the verge of death after about 2 mos. Decided to move it to a pot in the semi-shade of a Dombeya tree, and it started to leaf out in about 3 days, and is now fruiting! So much for full sun! 🍈🍈🥝🍈🍈🍉🥝🥝
When they are small with no seeds they are often unpollinated they can grow big in New Zealand but they will usually need multiple trees from different parents 😉
i have two of these trees here in Australia, but i nearly killed both by over fertilizing, it was just a stick by the time it stopped dying, i washed the roots of and soil, put it in a new pot with soil and 6 months later it come back to life, i dont here much about this tree here, so its nice to here any new info on them, keep up the good work mate,
Part of my family is from Mexico and my Oma from the side of my mother family had this beautiful vast garden in the property she used to own before my Grandpa had two episodes of strokes and a brain tumor and had to sell it for money. I remember that in her huge garden she had this weird but tasty fruit among hibiscus, pineapple, all sorts of weird nuts and many other plants both common and weird looking. I remember the first generation of grandkids whenever we met at their home during the holidays, we would eat a lot of them and in the place where my Oma used to live, it was pretty common to roast them and serve them with freshly squeezed orange juice or as a candied treat that was really tasty and décadent. The pair of the fruit and the juice was exquisite and for a boy at the time born and raised solely in Germany, it was quite the exotic oddity that helped me got rid of my picky eating behaviours when I was a kid. Whenever we went to visit Oma, she would also make them into a candy or to be exact several forms of candy and while yes, I do agree that they don't taste like chocolate pudding, the texture is very silky and pudding like and when made into candy, they were really close to tasting like chocolate to my surprise but maybe it was due to the cane sugar she used and other ingredients she might had cooked with. There was also a cactus that normally is eaten along side Black Sapote also as a candy that had this really unique flavour and texture that was pretty wild and weird in a very good and unique way but think nowadays it is an endangered species and you can no longer eat it as it is illegal and it can put you to jail which is really sad. I'm happy people are getting interested on exotic fruits. Some are really weird, tasty and fun to eat.
Thanks for the video Calem. I've never tried them, and never found anyone that was able to articulate what it tastes like that well. Merry Christmas bud.
This is for sure gonna be part of my rare fruits collection. Gonna be a difficult one to keep alive in Scotland but my greenhouses are pretty good and improving all the time as technology improves.
I tried this fruit a year ago from a friend's garden. Had the same experience as you. Silky smooth texture but more like avocado in flavour. When i was in Thailand a few years back i tried a fruit called "Lamut Khamen", also known as Egg Fruit or Canistel. These things are super tasty and reminded me of pumpkin pie. You have to wait until they are really soft. Next time I'm visiting my partner's parents in Thailand in going to try making a pie with them.
That's an interesting looking variety, the ones I've seen tasted elsewhere have always as you said been much bigger but also green even when really shrivelled and more of a dark brown inside. I've never tasted one of course in the UK but I always felt they got their name from the appearance. I suspect some people might think they taste a bit chocolatey because the appearance autosuggests the flavour to the brain, sight can be a powerful convincer lol
Yeah a lot different to the photos I've seen of them too. And that's a good point, they look so much like creamy chocolate it's not to surprising that some people make that link in terms of taste. Maybe they should try it with their eyes closed haha
@@TheKiwiGrower There are many Diospyros species. From the ones I know of, yours look more like a bigger version of the Texas persimmon (Diospyros texana) rather than chocolate pudding fruit.
I just discovered you yesterday and am absolutely in love. You seem like such a good person, living your best life, and I wish you nothing but the best!
This reminds me of my childhood, my dad used to bring us sapote so we could eat the together, also marry and guanabanas. My family lives down in México in the state of Michoacán ❤️
I need to head over to the hill country here in Texas and collect some of the wild persimmon fruit to grow a few trees since they were delicious when I had some.
@@TheKiwiGrower they're a bit different from what you find in the store. I'm having trouble remembering what different since it'd been a bit more than a decade since I last had one. I remember them being very sweet and a bit on the liquidy side with 3 to 5 seeds. Still wish we had saved some seeds to plant when we got home back then.
The skin it's eatable too, little bitter in the good way! Another thing, the membrence that raps the seeds are delicious as well 😋 Try them for me please, I'm living in CALIFORNIA & I don't find them here...
I live in southern California in the USA near the Mexican border my climate along the coast is classified as a Mediterranean climate. I grow black sapotes, white sapotes, and chico sapotes(also known as sapodillas). I also have a mamey sapote in the ground and I hope it will grow and fruit. one thing about Black Sapotes is that there are male and female plants. There is also a tree which is both male and female and that one is self fruitful. Since seedlings are unpredictable and you might not get fruit, it's that you need a male or female tree near it to produce fruit.I know that Australia has some fanatastic Black sapote varieties. In Mexico when they eat the black sapote they add a little fresh orange juice to the pulp it is delicious. Also they make a Black sapote sorbet out for the pulp look up the recipe in the internet I'm sure you will enjoy it.
If it is possible, can you do a video about stunted seedling growth or grafting failures, only if possible, and I'm also interested to know,about any indoor plants or ornamental plants you have, it would be nice to see them in a video BTW really good video, excited to see the next one too.
Doesnt taste like chocolate but it's really good. Silky like avacado texture, nutty and a bit blue berryish. You scoop it and spread it on bread with butter they are so good.
We grew this while living in South Florida and were amazed at how fast this tree grew! Try making flan with the fruit, or spoon it out and whisk some powdered cinnamon in it, slice some strawberries on top and then squirt some cream on top and enjoy! Also makes great bread. My experience with picking them green is they will mold.
I have one doing quite well on the South Coast of NSW and it is bright green and glossy and has been in the ground for about three years. For eating the fruits try a drizzle of rum and vanilla.
AWESOME video, and very informative. I live in Florida USA; zone 9b, and have been torn whether or not to buy one from my local nursery because I’ve never gotten any good information on the taste, but you answered every question I had. Looks like I’ll be heading to Rockledge Gardens soon🥳
Love your vids Kalem. I am trying to grow lemons in a London apartment from a small (now 3 years old) lemon tree. It has grown green unripened fruits once, but I think it's just way out of it's comfort zone. This last few weeks though I followed some of your tips and guides and now my lemon tree is covered in little white flowers and thick buds! Looks like I have lemons incoming
They look like black persimmons, I wonder in their related 😍 lol whelp you’ve answered my question. I’ve been obsessed with persimmon for the past 3 years, now I’ve got to get my hands on these!
Could you please do a video on growing tagasate trees from seed. I am struggling striking them and noticed you have whole trays. Please share your success.
I think you can eat the green sapote. I mean if you open it there are seeds inside of it and the seeds are edible, chewy and it tastes like coconut fruit. You just remove it's coat. But your sapote is quite smaller than I have tasted before.
Thanks for these videos! My baby black zapote trees seem to be doing well here in Guatemala (sprouted from seed, from some delicious fruits i got in mexico). Out here the fruits do get much bigger as you mentioned, but in my experience they should stay green even when fully mature. Theyve turned black for me like this when i kept them in a plastic bag (even just for a day) and the flavour turned sour. When they were left to ripen properly they stayed green even when super soft and almost falling apart, and then they really do taste just like chocolate pudding!! But any fruits I've eaten that weren't perfectly ripe like that never developed the chocolate flavour.
Hi congrats! I tasted mines a week ago they were amazing! Mines really taste similar to chocolate mousse , very sweet and very good. I was lucky because I have just one plant, it seems it has hermaphrodite flowers
@@TheKiwiGrower yes, all of them produce 3 to 8 seeds or so, maybe from hermaphrodite flowers. I will do a better video soon, I sow it by 2013 or so and tasted the first ones just some days ago. See ruclips.net/video/csIQh-LgIIQ/видео.html
Can you try grafting a piece the black sapote on the persimon tree? It might benefit from the cold resistance of the persimon and actually fruit earlier
Great video. I’m with you on food texture, don’t like too many things that are squishy. My friend tends to overcook his veggies and I never liked that. Gonna see if i can plant these Black Sapote here in Hawaii.
seeds come from polinated flowers so when the fruit is at the flower stage if no polinators come around or if they dont have the right pollen that means that it will grow with no seeds i think.
Hi Kalem! Greetings from Davenport, Iowa USA. I have really enjoyed your channel. I just discovered it a couple days ago. Are you located on the N or S Island? Do you work as a botanist/horticulturist? I look forward to your next videos.
Hi John, I'm in the North Island (North Waikato area). No I'm not in the horticultural space for my job, I've previously been a zoo keeper caring for Primates and now I manage logistics for a consturction company. Glad you're enjoying the channel :)
Maybe.... I think you should start thinking in building a greenhouse the size of Auckland to shelter every tropical tree you're growing... (and would be a national treasure!) :)
Thx for the Video. I just wanted to say that about 10 years ago I bought the same knife as you can see from 4:49. Be careful with that, because mine broke while cutting about 2 months ago and I almost had the blade in my hand. There is only a very narrow bolt that connects the blade to the handle. It was rusted through and broken. When did you buy this knife? Greetings from Germany.
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If you'd like to check out more fruit tasting videos, here's one I made about White Sapote, which also includes a growing experiment. ruclips.net/video/rWGlrDwWR5s/видео.html](ruclips.net/video/rWGlrDwWR5s/видео.html
Thanks heaps for watching! :)
-Kalem
I realize you've stated this a few times, probably each time you do a vid, but, what's your growing zone?
thanks
I envy your climate, stuck in Canada here, our climate SUCKS🤣🤣🤣🤣🙌🙌🙌🙌
The reason why some think they dont taste like chocolate pudding is because american chocolate is putrid
can you send me some seeds
Can you send me some seeds?
I wanted to tell you that you’ve inspired me to be interested in growing plants, and you’re a huge inspiration overall to me so when I saw a new video I was very excited
Oh thank you so much, that's so cool to hear! Really appreciate the comment :). Good luck with the growing
This man makes me want to move to the country and be self sufficient
Yeah same here totally interested in growing fruit trees
It’s addicting trust me
There’s some cool methods air layering and cutting propagation
With the cuttings NEVER use potatoes the cutting will rot and you’ll only get potatoes use rooting hormone instead
Doing strawberry from seed yeah it’s possible but I don’t think it’s worth it I grew a few strawberry plants from seed it took forever I had to try a ton of times before the plants made it and I hardly got any strawberries get runners or plants instead
Tomatoes- u can get the suckers to turn to full new plants
Strawberry- the runners turn to full plants but leaving them on takes away the energy from fruiting I think that was my issue I let my runners grow and hardly got any strawberries😕
Black sapote is beautiful when it’s blended with vanilla Ice cream and banana.
Tropical fruit world on the Northern NSW coast has a soft serve making machine and that’s what they do.
That sounds sooo good!
Everything tastes good when it is mixed with ice cream😆
My wife makes black sapote cake, very similar to a banana cake. It turns out to be delicious and even that it’s made with white flour, the final cooked cake is color dark chocolate.
That sounds so good, interesting how well it colours the cake
The color is a beautiful dark brown more to the black tone, and more delicious than the banana bread.
Recipe? 🙏
I am traveling, but once back at home I’ll ask my wife for the recipe. It’s really so delicious.
@@shandusaWell... aren't you back home yet?
This is what you're supposed to do with persimmon too. You're supposed to let them go half-rotten (a process called 'bletting'), before eating. They end up the consistency of pudding, and they taste amazing. The more bletted they are, the more sweet they become.
Those were the permissions i used to find , nowadays , all i see are the asians big hard ones and they are ready to eat. I do find the half rotten ones to be sooo much sweeter. I wonder if you know the difference in name
@@louloupinky try looking for 'sharon fruit' instead. They are a type of persimmon hybridized for growing in the middle east and they are famous for their sweetness.
The ones i seem to get a hold of suck every drop of moisture from my mouth when i try to eat them. Anyway to get past this?
@@icarlyIVyes let them ripen
My ears perked up at the mention of the Black Sapote being native to Mexico. I feel like the climate in South Australia is probably pretty comparable. I would love to give a shot at growing them. Great video, Kiwi. 🤙
Awesome, hope you get a change to grow some! Thanks :)
you'll need to protect them from the frost the first couple years and the sun above 40 as with most tropicals.
I know white sapote grow in SA not sure about black ones but it should be similar
When my family and I went to Cairns, there was an ice cream place that had black Sapote ice cream ( and white?). It was, seemingly, in the middle of nowhere. Was very delicious, but not sure if it tasted like chocolate.
The Sapote negro the Chico Sapote 😋 and the Sapote Mamey 3 different delicious Sapotes
Kalem, to say every one of your videos are interesting is major understatement! The presentation is top notch, the audio is great, your explanations are clear and full of nuggets of knowledge, and I love your how you have transformed your property into a wonderland. All the best to you, my friend. I can't wait until you release another video.
Thanks so much Joe, really appreciate the encouragement and I look forward to sharing more :)
I found your channel by accident. Absolutely enjoy watching and learning. You have a wonderful energy and I look forward to seeing more videos. Thank you
Finally, a way to trick my kids into eating more fruit! lol!
It looks like an oversized blueberry! Would love to try it one day. Cool video.
What a wild fruit! That colour is incredible.
I never would have thought black sapote and persimmon could be related but it makes sense. Persimmon fruits grow in many different shapes, sizes, and traits from being the firm, sweet, and squat pumpkin shaped ones (my favorite), the super sweet, jelly-like roma tomato shaped ones, or the horribly astringent pre-frost, berry shaped mountain persimmon.
Yea so cool ay that they're in the same family. So many fruits out there to try :). I've only tried to fuyu (non-astringent) persimmon so far.
I love your content so much that i started growing my own crops!!
That’s so cool! Awesome to hear :)
Wow that is power!! Congrats!!! Enjoy the gardening life. You’ll appreciate more than you have ever know
I love this channel. Got this video in recommendation and I've never been so thankful to YT Algorithm. This is what I will do when I will be reach enough to buy some land.
i live in Calif. and have a White Sapote......Planted it in full sun, as directed, and it was on the verge of death after about 2 mos. Decided to move it to a pot in the semi-shade of a Dombeya tree, and it started to leaf out in about 3 days, and is now fruiting! So much for full sun! 🍈🍈🥝🍈🍈🍉🥝🥝
When they are small with no seeds they are often unpollinated they can grow big in New Zealand but they will usually need multiple trees from different parents 😉
I love them
They are delicious
I blended some with a dollop of double thick cream and it brought out more of a fruity flavour
i have two of these trees here in Australia, but i nearly killed both by over fertilizing, it was just a stick by the time it stopped dying, i washed the roots of and soil, put it in a new pot with soil and 6 months later it come back to life, i dont here much about this tree here, so its nice to here any new info on them, keep up the good work mate,
All the sapotes are good Sapote mamey and the black sapote are my favorites. 🇲🇽
Part of my family is from Mexico and my Oma from the side of my mother family had this beautiful vast garden in the property she used to own before my Grandpa had two episodes of strokes and a brain tumor and had to sell it for money.
I remember that in her huge garden she had this weird but tasty fruit among hibiscus, pineapple, all sorts of weird nuts and many other plants both common and weird looking.
I remember the first generation of grandkids whenever we met at their home during the holidays, we would eat a lot of them and in the place where my Oma used to live, it was pretty common to roast them and serve them with freshly squeezed orange juice or as a candied treat that was really tasty and décadent.
The pair of the fruit and the juice was exquisite and for a boy at the time born and raised solely in Germany, it was quite the exotic oddity that helped me got rid of my picky eating behaviours when I was a kid. Whenever we went to visit Oma, she would also make them into a candy or to be exact several forms of candy and while yes, I do agree that they don't taste like chocolate pudding, the texture is very silky and pudding like and when made into candy, they were really close to tasting like chocolate to my surprise but maybe it was due to the cane sugar she used and other ingredients she might had cooked with. There was also a cactus that normally is eaten along side Black Sapote also as a candy that had this really unique flavour and texture that was pretty wild and weird in a very good and unique way but think nowadays it is an endangered species and you can no longer eat it as it is illegal and it can put you to jail which is really sad.
I'm happy people are getting interested on exotic fruits. Some are really weird, tasty and fun to eat.
Really weird timing. Today my Black Sapote seeds sprouted.
Love the video. Cheers.
Haha that is weird timing! Hope they grow well for you :)
sapote in general taste good and have a smooth texture also mamey i love those
The colour of these is amazing!
looks like a huge blueberry.delicious!!
Thanks for the video Calem. I've never tried them, and never found anyone that was able to articulate what it tastes like that well. Merry Christmas bud.
Thanks Rory, Merry Christmas to you too
Hi
I saw black sapota first time
Thank you for introducing new fruits
Thanks, glad I could share something new :)
This is for sure gonna be part of my rare fruits collection. Gonna be a difficult one to keep alive in Scotland but my greenhouses are pretty good and improving all the time as technology improves.
Hey how is it growing?
Wow I have never seen that kind of fruit in my life good to see thanks
Kellum I absolutely love your videos. Lots of love from The Bahamas….❤️🔥👩🏾
I tried this fruit a year ago from a friend's garden. Had the same experience as you. Silky smooth texture but more like avocado in flavour.
When i was in Thailand a few years back i tried a fruit called "Lamut Khamen", also known as Egg Fruit or Canistel. These things are super tasty and reminded me of pumpkin pie. You have to wait until they are really soft. Next time I'm visiting my partner's parents in Thailand in going to try making a pie with them.
Could you not be cursing all in the comments geez?
That's an interesting looking variety, the ones I've seen tasted elsewhere have always as you said been much bigger but also green even when really shrivelled and more of a dark brown inside. I've never tasted one of course in the UK but I always felt they got their name from the appearance. I suspect some people might think they taste a bit chocolatey because the appearance autosuggests the flavour to the brain, sight can be a powerful convincer lol
Yeah a lot different to the photos I've seen of them too. And that's a good point, they look so much like creamy chocolate it's not to surprising that some people make that link in terms of taste. Maybe they should try it with their eyes closed haha
@@TheKiwiGrower There are many Diospyros species. From the ones I know of, yours look more like a bigger version of the Texas persimmon (Diospyros texana) rather than chocolate pudding fruit.
Thank you! I've been tossing up whether or not to grow one of these tree's for a while now, but you've convinced me to go for it!
Nice, hope it goes well :)
Western Australia, so my biggest trial will be keeping the poor thing watered! Thanks for multiple inspiration videos!
super cool to see such a close look at the fruit.
Oh I wish I had those!
My favorite channel right now !!!
😊🌱 awesome! 😁
So nice to have NZ based advice. Maybe after watching a few videos I'll stop killing my strawberries 😉
Your videos are always so interesting and I can’t get enough of them!
Thanks mate, glad you like them
I just discovered you yesterday and am absolutely in love. You seem like such a good person, living your best life, and I wish you nothing but the best!
I can’t get enough this fruit not only it’s not that sweet(I won’t feel guilty) but has amazing flavor...
This reminds me of my childhood, my dad used to bring us sapote so we could eat the together, also marry and guanabanas. My family lives down in México in the state of Michoacán ❤️
I need to head over to the hill country here in Texas and collect some of the wild persimmon fruit to grow a few trees since they were delicious when I had some.
So cool that you can find them wild there!
@@TheKiwiGrower they're a bit different from what you find in the store. I'm having trouble remembering what different since it'd been a bit more than a decade since I last had one. I remember them being very sweet and a bit on the liquidy side with 3 to 5 seeds. Still wish we had saved some seeds to plant when we got home back then.
I wish I had your growing climate, the most exotic thing we can grow in the yukon are a special breed of cold resistant apple
I’m in New England and we can grow some stuff but it’s definitely limiting
Where abouts are you from?
@@TheKiwiGrower Yukon territory Canada, apparently
I need a larger garden... 🤣
You make me want to grow so many different foods
I have started watching your videos and,so far I like them!
I use to eat smashed black sapote with some sweet orange juice 🍊 , tastes tarty but delicious.
That would be cool to try! Sounds yum
Ngl one of most beautiful fruits I’ve ever seen
Beautiful 🌱plant!
The skin it's eatable too, little bitter in the good way!
Another thing, the membrence that raps the seeds are delicious as well 😋
Try them for me please, I'm living in CALIFORNIA & I don't find them here...
I live in southern California in the USA near the Mexican border my climate along the coast is classified as a Mediterranean climate. I grow black sapotes, white sapotes, and chico sapotes(also known as sapodillas). I also have a mamey sapote in the ground and I hope it will grow and fruit. one thing about Black Sapotes is that there are male and female plants. There is also a tree which is both male and female and that one is self fruitful. Since seedlings are unpredictable and you might not get fruit, it's that you need a male or female tree near it to produce fruit.I know that Australia has some fanatastic Black sapote varieties. In Mexico when they eat the black sapote they add a little fresh orange juice to the pulp it is delicious. Also they make a Black sapote sorbet out for the pulp look up the recipe in the internet I'm sure you will enjoy it.
One of my favorite fruits. I like the uniqueness of it a lot also. I have a small tree about 2 years old grown from seed.
Nice, yea nothing like trying something completely different!
Can you please make a video with tips on how to graft successfully?? 🥑 amongst others… so glad I found your channel! ❤️ 🇨🇷
Hope to grow some of these in the near future
Thank you for saying Sapote properly, and not "Sapotey" like some people!
If it is possible, can you do a video about stunted seedling growth or grafting failures, only if possible, and I'm also interested to know,about any indoor plants or ornamental plants you have, it would be nice to see them in a video BTW really good video, excited to see the next one too.
Hi Benny, will consider including some of these things in the future. I have a long ideas list at present but will do my best :)
Doesnt taste like chocolate but it's really good. Silky like avacado texture, nutty and a bit blue berryish. You scoop it and spread it on bread with butter they are so good.
Wow
We grew this while living in South Florida and were amazed at how fast this tree grew! Try making flan with the fruit, or spoon it out and whisk some powdered cinnamon in it, slice some strawberries on top and then squirt some cream on top and enjoy! Also makes great bread.
My experience with picking them green is they will mold.
I have one doing quite well on the South Coast of NSW and it is bright green and glossy and has been in the ground for about three years.
For eating the fruits try a drizzle of rum and vanilla.
Nice, sounds great
Thank you! I have new black sapote seedlings. Some of the leaves are a little black. I will keep my fingers crossed 🤞
Omg! Amaaaazing!
Now I soooo wanna try it as well
🙈🙊🙈
Looking good by the way!
💪🏻💪🏻💪🏻
Cheers Don, hope you get to try some! 😁
Wow 🤩
I need to try it again
I have last time skin still green, test very bad and my throat get itchy 😁😊
Sooo good, love your channel 🌺👍🇦🇺
Thanks heaps! :)
Awesome! I’ve wanted to grow it for years but didn’t think it would go well down here in Victoria. You’ve inspired me to try it 😊
AWESOME video, and very informative. I live in Florida USA; zone 9b, and have been torn whether or not to buy one from my local nursery because I’ve never gotten any good information on the taste, but you answered every question I had. Looks like I’ll be heading to Rockledge Gardens soon🥳
Love your vids Kalem. I am trying to grow lemons in a London apartment from a small (now 3 years old) lemon tree. It has grown green unripened fruits once, but I think it's just way out of it's comfort zone.
This last few weeks though I followed some of your tips and guides and now my lemon tree is covered in little white flowers and thick buds! Looks like I have lemons incoming
They look like black persimmons, I wonder in their related 😍 lol whelp you’ve answered my question. I’ve been obsessed with persimmon for the past 3 years, now I’ve got to get my hands on these!
That looks super tasty.
Florida viewer here. In south FL, we like to mix them with fig fruits.
Could you please do a video on growing tagasate trees from seed. I am struggling striking them and noticed you have whole trays. Please share your success.
Excellent content
Thanks!
Hmm, peculiar looking fruit. I'd probably try it if I came across one though
Outstanding! I love your videos
Thanks heaps! :)
The first human that was first to try is fruit was BRAVE!
Thank you for elborating on this funky natural desert... would love to see how you grew these especially here at home. NZ
Wow, in kiwi speak I would call them wee ones!😉
We had some 800g ones on my mossman this year, and they are delicious.
When growing Medlar friut, you need to almost let them rot after picking. It's called bletting
Really enjoying your videos, keep up the good work.🤗🤗
Thanks Vincent, glad you like them!
I think you can eat the green sapote. I mean if you open it there are seeds inside of it and the seeds are edible, chewy and it tastes like coconut fruit. You just remove it's coat. But your sapote is quite smaller than I have tasted before.
Thanks for these videos! My baby black zapote trees seem to be doing well here in Guatemala (sprouted from seed, from some delicious fruits i got in mexico). Out here the fruits do get much bigger as you mentioned, but in my experience they should stay green even when fully mature. Theyve turned black for me like this when i kept them in a plastic bag (even just for a day) and the flavour turned sour. When they were left to ripen properly they stayed green even when super soft and almost falling apart, and then they really do taste just like chocolate pudding!! But any fruits I've eaten that weren't perfectly ripe like that never developed the chocolate flavour.
Blend in some black sapote puree with cake batter for a delicious result. Use a little less water too.
Scoop the flesh out into a bowl, add a little thickened cream and whip hard. Absolutely delicious. 👍
Sounds great! Thanks
Hi congrats! I tasted mines a week ago they were amazing! Mines really taste similar to chocolate mousse , very sweet and very good. I was lucky because I have just one plant, it seems it has hermaphrodite flowers
That's awesome, does the fruit produce seeds?
@@TheKiwiGrower yes, all of them produce 3 to 8 seeds or so, maybe from hermaphrodite flowers. I will do a better video soon, I sow it by 2013 or so and tasted the first ones just some days ago. See ruclips.net/video/csIQh-LgIIQ/видео.html
That looks so good! I’ve heard of them but I have never seen them be sold
Can you try grafting a piece the black sapote on the persimon tree? It might benefit from the cold resistance of the persimon and actually fruit earlier
There you have your answer: No seeds mean no pollinator around. very often unpollinated fruit turn out way smaller.
had this fruit in townsville was really good like your show.
in my native DR we call them "caimito" and I always thought of them as a kind of persimmon; don't ever bite a green one, is like a ball of glue.
Graft the black sapote to the persimmon tree to increase the hardiness of the tree and it will last the winter outside
Great video. I’m with you on food texture, don’t like too many things that are squishy. My friend tends to overcook his veggies and I never liked that. Gonna see if i can plant these Black Sapote here in Hawaii.
Nice one, sounds good. And yea overcooked veggies is not where it's at! haha
I will try these as soon as possible!
I remember them with green skin. A nightmare to clean the floors under the tree lol.
seeds come from polinated flowers so when the fruit is at the flower stage if no polinators come around or if they dont have the right pollen that means that it will grow with no seeds i think.
Hi Kalem! Greetings from Davenport, Iowa USA. I have really enjoyed your channel. I just discovered it a couple days ago. Are you located on the N or S Island? Do you work as a botanist/horticulturist? I look forward to your next videos.
Hi John, I'm in the North Island (North Waikato area). No I'm not in the horticultural space for my job, I've previously been a zoo keeper caring for Primates and now I manage logistics for a consturction company. Glad you're enjoying the channel :)
Maybe.... I think you should start thinking in building a greenhouse the size of Auckland to shelter every tropical tree you're growing... (and would be a national treasure!) :)
Haha sounds like a great plan to me!
@@TheKiwiGrower Merry Christmas and a happy new seed! ;)
@@dvdpastor thanks mate you too :)
Merry Christmas and a happy new year! KIWI!
Thank you! Same to you :)
Awesome, thank you for sharing. I really enjoyed your energy and knowledge. ❤🖤😊😊
Thx for the Video. I just wanted to say that about 10 years ago I bought the same knife as you can see from 4:49. Be careful with that, because mine broke while cutting about 2 months ago and I almost had the blade in my hand. There is only a very narrow bolt that connects the blade to the handle. It was rusted through and broken. When did you buy this knife? Greetings from Germany.
Great video always
Give alot of energy
Try to gro ginger and make honey ginger ice cream... Its yummmy
Regard from Bali, Indonesia
Sir I've been loving ur channel so far.. thank u for such an interesting content..
I need this plant now!