@@exalted_space9224 look into citrus fruits. It's absolutely mind boggling. You assumed an orange was always an orange, a lemon always a lemon and so on.... No we crossbred and bastardized and then crossbred and bastardized again for centuries.
@@whysocurious7366 I d k but marketing board members usually make more $ than farmers truckers or grocers. Another reason they are harvested & transported under ripe is extension of shelf life. Citrus, like other fruits and veggies are perishable. People may prefer sour green limes ripening on the shelf to yellow ones that could sooner go moldy. Bananas are almost always also harvested and shipped green. Some transports gas them enroute to speed their ripening to be yellow upon reaching the stores. Makes me wonder if lemons might also be harvested still 💚 🍏 green
I once did a big irrigation job on a ranch and helped myself to some very large, very juicy, but yellow "oranges." They were so juicy and it was 110F so I couldn't help myself. The property owner asked me how I liked them and I said "man were those oranges juicy, but they were all really sour!" He was like "bro those were limes; how many did you eat?" Needless to say I went home with a sour stomach and had the squirts all night from eating 10 to 15 baseball-sized limes.
Grocery store lemons are also under ripe. I start harvesting just before Christmas and strip the last fruit off the tree about April 1st. The longer it's on the tree the sweeter and bigger they get. And much juicier
Weird, we have a lemon tree and we pick lemons very late (we kinda forget about them and just harvest whichever are ready in one go) and they're just as sour as grocery store ones
At my house we have a Mexican lime tree, and it makes about 300 limes a season. So when the limes get nice and yellow you just have to shake the tree a little and limes come raining down and they are the best limes ever
"An over-ripe lime, that's just a lime. A lime is just an under-ripe lime. And a lemon, that's something completely different altogether" I will now live my life based on these words
It has less of the aromatic lime flavours, and tastes more just generally citrusy. It’s fine but has less flavour. It’s still sour but not quite as sour as a green lime. It’s sour in a way similar to a unusually mild lemon and not like a orange or something.
My aunt and my neighbours have visually identical limes yet they tastes absolutely different, so who knows My aunt's one is like a bitter sour that's quite nice despite that description, while my neighbour's one is like crazy sweet with a tiny pinch of sour
peel the outside and put the skin in a jar with sugar. it will make a syrup after a while, mix that with the juice and water to get better limeade. works for lemonade too.
Im Mexican and something we like to do is have hella food growing. My neighborhood was also mainly Mexican so everyone just traded shit around. When I left for college and moved to Davis (I’m from socal) I was very shocked by grocery stores. No one sold many of the things I grew up eating like yellow limes. I remember asking if they had any and they said “you mean a lemon” 💀
@@c0ltz450 uhh.. i truly dont know what you mean my friend, Jesus truly does love them and you my friend, if youd like to talk about it I am happy to :" )
Yeah but the overripe,sour, seeded lime that is most common on my part of Mexico is disgusting. Something on the rind goes off. Green is good. Yellow... 😖
@@gcc2313 it depends. There is the seeded lime or limon agrio. That's the most common, and quite sour. If left to overripe on the tree it tastes bad. When grown commercially it is harvested underripe (sometimes very much so) and it is good only to provide a sour kick to any food or drink, sweet or savory, whatever zest you'd expect from the rind loses its smell. People who say they have a lime tree at home, have this variety. When used right after the fruit was picked, even green, the rind has an aroma so it is not just sour juice. A freshly squeezed limeade or a lime dessert made from this is delicious by its own right. Then there is the seedless lime or limon sin semilla, which I understand is very similar if not the same as the persian lime. To my best knowledge this is only grown commercially and harvested green. The rind has a little more aroma and is not as sour as the other variety. Last time I was in the US they gave me a slice of lime at a thai restaurant because I just cannot eat rice without lime juice. I gather that was persian lime. Just about the same as the seedless limes I can buy here at the supermarket in Mexico. I don't know about key limes, tho.
Great just promote alcoholism 🙄 You people should feel ashamed for how diseased you are There needs to be WAY more stigma about people intentionally poisoning themselves
Gardening is something only a mother understands. As a brave and stunning female, I have a divine affinity towards plants and nature. Something the patriarchy will never understand or comprehend. #Feminism
OH MY GOD! You've just solved a YEARS LONG mystery for me! The first lime I ever tasted was when I was like 11, from the bar at our local Texas Roadhouse. It's was sweet & delicious, and I proceeded to eat several more pieces. I've tried limes DOZENS of times since, wanting that flavor again, and I've never found it! So thank you, SO very much!
@amka I'm Hispanic and I tried tajin and don't understand the rave. I've eaten chicken foot stew, liver stew, bacaloa a fermented fishy soup that stinks ur whole self up, mondongo, this weird chicken skin thing and more weirdness. BUT, I'm friends with Mexican, Cuban, Guatemalan, Puerto Rican, Dominican's and STILL nobody has mentioned it or ever made me food with tajin. Who TF uses it?? Lol, idk. Adobo is king, it's not great but it's in everything. 😂
There are like 20 species of lime. Persian or Tahitian Limes are your most common store bought lime. They get light green yellow but won’t turn 100% yellow or even pale yellow. The one's shown in this video are known as Sweet Limes.
These are normal limes i see them all the time growing here . They start off green but turn pale yellow. That's when they are at there best and juiciest.
Thank you for posting this, I've been seeing a lot of different hobby gardeners saying that a lime is just a unripe lemon when that's literally not true. They're two different species! 💚💚💚
@Rohan Potter which sucks because our lime tree didn't survive. The lemon tree produces so much now that we have to give them away. Maybe I'll try again
@@ameliasolis3981 Yes, I know. But comparing a fresh lime to a fresh lemon, it's much harder to get the juice out. NOW, that makes sense: they're not ripe! He shows how easy it is to get juice from a RIPE lime. (Thus has really nothing to do with leaving limes till they dry up.)
OMG thank you for sharing this information. I’ve been saying this for years and years and you would not believe the conversations I’ve had and the things that people actually believe when it comes to limes. Thank you Thank you Thank you You’re a ⭐️
Key lime is a citron x micrantha papeda hybrid. Limes get the bitter part of their flavor and their floral aroma from the papeda parent. Persian limes are a cross between key limes and lemons, designed to taste like a key lime but be bigger. Lemons are citron x sweet orange, and sweet oranges are mandarin orange x pomelo.
Limeade made from tree ripened limes is so good. And the smell of a ripe lime is wonderful. There are quite a few things sold under ripe that are more expensive if you buy them ripened. For example bell peppers.
Sadly, nearly all fruits are sold (very) underripe, as it suits the long travel and shelf-life values of the industry. They don't care about taste. Just appearance. I have been sad about fruit since the 1980s. ):
Yes!! I used to work at a summer camp that had a lot of lemon trees, and when I tell you eating a fresh lemon was life chnaging??? So much better than any store bought lemon
My little Meyer lemon produces clean dry peel but if or when I buy from grocery stores they are imported and the peel is shiny...sometimes obviously seeding a sprayed on coating. For culinary purposes can't stress enough to clean that peel if shredding it into zest recipes
So glad to find this. I had 3 limes grow for the first time on my dwarf-tree this year. I left them until one had fallen off before picking. They were bright yellow by then. Now for the taste test.
@TheMaskedRacoon1: ... onion salad??? Can I get that recipe from you? PLEASE!???!?😀😁😀🤗 ...or at least an idea of what goes into it? (I have a fairly good creative imagination... as long as I have an idea or lead on it, I can figure out the rest.)
While I prefer under ripe for my limeade, fully ripe limes have a really good flavor. I currently have 4 lemon trees and 3 blood orange trees started from seeds sitting in my bedroom under a grow lamp, anda batch of limes in the fridge, waiting to be used. They are super easy to start from seed, although a bit fiddly (you have to peel the seed coat for them to germinate, which is really slippery work). Just start them on wet paper towels in an old Chinese take out container, and keep them warm for a few days until they sprout. They make good container/Bonsai plants for us in -TheFrozenCrapholeofHoth- Ohio. P.S. My biology instructor used to say that only a madman would try to figure out Citrus taxonomy. He stated, with some vehemence, that if Citrus species were people, they'd be the kind that would put their beer goggles on after one drink of PBR, regardless of what the other citrus had going on at the time.
I hate to be that person but you will not end up with the fruit you are wanting or expecting. For citrus you have to graft it to rootstock. Since you’re growing from seed you are going to end up with completely unknown varieties of citrus. Could be good, could be bad. You won’t know until you get fruit but it absolutely without a doubt will not be the fruit that produced the seed you planted
@@Shivermetimbers90 you're correct. While it's certainly fun to do, it's not a way to propagate for food. Anti-bonus: citrus trees have huge, brutally sharp thorns.
This just cleared up so much for me. I have a lime tree and the first few years were totally normal looking limes but this year they looked like lemons and I was so confused
They aren't the only things that are sold unripe. If you notice, bananas are always put on the shelf when they're green. Almost all produce is picked early so it doesn't go bad in transit and is able to sit on a shelf longer. Less food waste
Don't get me started! We learn how to factor polynomials but not how to grow food, build furniture, or budget a household (at least not in California public schools). We are not taught to be self sufficient, or to think for ourselves, but are rewarded for parroting useless information. The goal of public school is to create obedient workers. Read "The Deliberate Dumbing Down of America"! You can find the free pdf by search.
I learned this when I moved into a house with a lime tree. We wait til they fall to use them. This year with tons of rain they are very fat and juicy. They do have a milder flavor though than when green so that may be part of the reason people use them when green. Distinct flavor difference. Definitely different flavor than a lemon though even when ripe.
I have both trees and I usually only pick them up if they fall to the ground after a light shake on the branches. I rarely pick unripe fruits, unless I really needed them (for cooking) or my friends/family ask for them. I use lime for cooking fish, and lemon for chicken. 🤤👍❤
Love this! Just a little tip, if you cut your citrus fruit the other way (across its belly rather than head to toe) you’ll be able to get more juice out easily, because you’ll cut every segment rather than just getting two of them.
I agree. When they are yellow they have a lot less of the distinct lime flavour, are less aromatic, and taste more just generally citrusy. I still like yellow limes, I love most citrus. And if a more mild lime sounds like something you would like yellow limes probably could be for you. But I think green limes tend to have more flavour, and more of a unique and interesting flavour compared to other citrus. Which sort of is lost when you let them get fully ripe and yellow
Last summer our local Grocery Outlet had yellowish limes. I held back on buying them because they were not lime green! thanks for the FYI, I'll know better this year
When I was little growing up in VA, we went to the farmers market and they had the best peaches I've ever had. They were like eating candy. Then after a series of pretty harsh hurricanes and tropical storms in the early 2000s, they weren't as good anymore. I'm pretty sure a lot of the trees got hit and the peaches were never the same 😭
I'm the same with almost all soft fruits. We had Italian prune plums (SO sweet), 2 kinds of cherry trees and a peach tree. Made me spoiled and store fruit mostly tastes like slightly sweet watery pulp to me. I miss our fruit trees! 😢
I went to a citrus farm in Riverside, CA. That’s where I learn limes are actually yellow and they gave me a full story why limes are green in store. Wish I could remember but it was more than just “big lime corp”
My Puerto Rican co-worker called limes "green lemons" He said "they grow on the same tree" and I would assume his family only had one or two citrus trees in his yard and used them interchangeably at different stages of ripeness.
Thank you for clearing that up because I came across some yellowish limes but assumed that they were discoloured lemons while shopping at my local fruit market. Now I'm going to return and purchase them.
Jalapenos and Serranos are also yellow or red, but are harvested before they are ripe. They do not taste a lot different, though. Maybe a little sweeter but the spicyness hides it.
Big lime, hilarious. And I never knew this, very cool. I have a citrus tree that grows lemons, grapefruit and oranges. Which is very cool, last year was the 1st time all 3 grew. But i wanted to grow a lime tree too or try to add it to my triple fruit. Now im definitely going to try
Logical, just like when mangoes are harvested when they are green and leave them to ripe after, taste totally different than the one that ripes on the tree
No, this is different. Yes it applies to mangoes, because they will ripen at home, change color, and get softer. I have never seen a like turn yellow on my counter, and I’ve never seen them that juicy. I get what you’re saying, but likes seem to be completely from what they do with mangos
I remember when I lived in Southern AZ I had a Mexican friend of mine tell me what Limon meant in Spanish. It is literally lemon and lime. It's the same thing.
Lemon is something mixed with an older version of an orange that people didn’t like before genetically breeding that orange into becoming the orange we have today
Fun fact: Life did not give us lemons. We made them. Lemons are a crossbreed between bitter orange and citron.
I did not know that.
@@exalted_space9224 look into citrus fruits. It's absolutely mind boggling. You assumed an orange was always an orange, a lemon always a lemon and so on.... No we crossbred and bastardized and then crossbred and bastardized again for centuries.
@@Steam_Engenius Human nature FTW baby! “We’ve found something new. Let’s figure out how to fuck it up a bit to give ourselves better sandwiches.”
@@voilet-the-non-violet-vulpix personally I try and refrain from citrus sandwiches, but I get what you're saying.
@@Steam_Engenius You’re missing out on those marmalade sammies bro
That’s so weird.. why they would make a law against selling sweet limes? Is Big Lemon trying to stifle competition? :o
You ever try actual “sweet lime”? Very sweet (no sourness) and juicy fruit :P
Possibly to avoid confusion in grocery stores because they look so much like a lemon on the outside
@@trishdavi7049 who decided that limes would get the worse deal? (forced to sell unripened)
@@whysocurious7366 I d k but marketing board members usually make more $ than farmers truckers or grocers. Another reason they are harvested & transported under ripe is extension of shelf life. Citrus, like other fruits and veggies are perishable. People may prefer sour green limes ripening on the shelf to yellow ones that could sooner go moldy. Bananas are almost always also harvested and shipped green. Some transports gas them enroute to speed their ripening to be yellow upon reaching the stores. Makes me wonder if lemons might also be harvested still 💚 🍏 green
Not sure why there is a law, but green limes are necessary because they’re more acidic
I once did a big irrigation job on a ranch and helped myself to some very large, very juicy, but yellow "oranges." They were so juicy and it was 110F so I couldn't help myself. The property owner asked me how I liked them and I said "man were those oranges juicy, but they were all really sour!" He was like "bro those were limes; how many did you eat?" Needless to say I went home with a sour stomach and had the squirts all night from eating 10 to 15 baseball-sized limes.
Limes also contain a certain chemical irritant. If you get it on your skin, and then sit in the sun without sunscreen, you'll get horrific blisters.
I mean... that prolly would've happened if you ate 10-15 oranges too dude😂
Lmao no matter what fruit, you are ending that way pound for pound
I thought that said "basketball sized limes"
@@totallynotdelinquent5933that’s all citrus. The acid makes your skin sensitive to sunlight after juice gets on your skin.
This explains why sometimes you can’t get much juice out of a lime lmao
the smoother/shiny the lime, the juicier.
don’t get the ones with huge pores. they’re usually the dry ones.
Why would you laugh at this?
@@chancemiller9340 it’s clearly wry laughter at the situation itself.
@@chancemiller9340 you ain't enjoying life
That’s so you have to buy more!
I can assure you this is true I found this out by forgetting I had a lime tree 😅
Lol me too
they are from two different bearing trees altogether!! Limes are more tart, whereas lemons are way more sweeter!😉👍
@@cko9672 I think it’s switched
Vladslicktender needs to see this
So what did you make with your limes?
Grocery store lemons are also under ripe. I start harvesting just before Christmas and strip the last fruit off the tree about April 1st. The longer it's on the tree the sweeter and bigger they get. And much juicier
Weird, we have a lemon tree and we pick lemons very late (we kinda forget about them and just harvest whichever are ready in one go) and they're just as sour as grocery store ones
I can pick lemons from my tree 12 months a year. It’s ever flowering
@@Nihlink how nice!
How long do they remain fresh?
@raerohan4241 you need more phosphorus in your soil.
At my house we have a Mexican lime tree, and it makes about 300 limes a season. So when the limes get nice and yellow you just have to shake the tree a little and limes come raining down and they are the best limes ever
Im jealous
I envy you this.
Didn't know that.thank you
Is that the name of the tree? Mexican like tree? I don't want to Google it. Answer my question.
can you link the photo? I would love to see it
"An over-ripe lime, that's just a lime. A lime is just an under-ripe lime. And a lemon, that's something completely different altogether"
I will now live my life based on these words
And, how are you doing that?
I haven't figured that out yet, but I will
Amen 🙏
Only in death does duty end.
What a profound commeny thread ... O.o
I love the progression of the juice on your shirt, like you had a few takes and it just kept missing :)
As a lime lover, I need to try an ACTUAL ripe lime now-
It has less of the aromatic lime flavours, and tastes more just generally citrusy. It’s fine but has less flavour.
It’s still sour but not quite as sour as a green lime.
It’s sour in a way similar to a unusually mild lemon and not like a orange or something.
It’s super good. My neighbor has a tree
Same… I love sour though so I will likely continue buying green.
sometimes you can find them in the fancy grocery stores
Word!
This explains why I have never been able to find anything that tastes like my Gramma's limeade.
My aunt and my neighbours have visually identical limes yet they tastes absolutely different, so who knows
My aunt's one is like a bitter sour that's quite nice despite that description, while my neighbour's one is like crazy sweet with a tiny pinch of sour
Good punctuation.
@@tydshiin5783 Subspecies, soil, and "supplementals" all affect the taste of crops. And water. More or less water can affect things.
peel the outside and put the skin in a jar with sugar. it will make a syrup after a while, mix that with the juice and water to get better limeade. works for lemonade too.
Or more likely your grandma used an absurd amount of sugar you would never think to use lol.
Im Mexican and something we like to do is have hella food growing. My neighborhood was also mainly Mexican so everyone just traded shit around. When I left for college and moved to Davis (I’m from socal) I was very shocked by grocery stores. No one sold many of the things I grew up eating like yellow limes. I remember asking if they had any and they said “you mean a lemon” 💀
Jesus Christ the sovereign God loves you my friend : )
@@joshua2400passive agreasive much?
@@c0ltz450 uhh.. i truly dont know what you mean my friend, Jesus truly does love them and you my friend, if youd like to talk about it I am happy to :" )
@@c0ltz450 Did you just learn the world little guy? I think you used it wrong
Limes are a street tree in Mexico, you can pick the yellow ones and make your morning margarita.
Yeah but the overripe,sour, seeded lime that is most common on my part of Mexico is disgusting. Something on the rind goes off. Green is good. Yellow... 😖
Mexican limes are different I believe tho. It's also called key lime. This is Persian lime.
@@gcc2313 it depends.
There is the seeded lime or limon agrio. That's the most common, and quite sour. If left to overripe on the tree it tastes bad. When grown commercially it is harvested underripe (sometimes very much so) and it is good only to provide a sour kick to any food or drink, sweet or savory, whatever zest you'd expect from the rind loses its smell. People who say they have a lime tree at home, have this variety. When used right after the fruit was picked, even green, the rind has an aroma so it is not just sour juice. A freshly squeezed limeade or a lime dessert made from this is delicious by its own right.
Then there is the seedless lime or limon sin semilla, which I understand is very similar if not the same as the persian lime. To my best knowledge this is only grown commercially and harvested green. The rind has a little more aroma and is not as sour as the other variety.
Last time I was in the US they gave me a slice of lime at a thai restaurant because I just cannot eat rice without lime juice. I gather that was persian lime. Just about the same as the seedless limes I can buy here at the supermarket in Mexico. I don't know about key limes, tho.
Great just promote alcoholism 🙄
You people should feel ashamed for how diseased you are
There needs to be WAY more stigma about people intentionally poisoning themselves
Gardening is something only a mother understands. As a brave and stunning female, I have a divine affinity towards plants and nature.
Something the patriarchy will never understand or comprehend.
#Feminism
"Is an overripe lime just a lemon?"
"The answer is deeper than you think"
"The answer is no"
That's deeeeep
it wasnt very deep at all
Lol
💀
@@Acolis She said the same thing 😢
Wow, today years old. Thank you for sharing ❤
Right... thank you UA-cam
OH MY GOD! You've just solved a YEARS LONG mystery for me! The first lime I ever tasted was when I was like 11, from the bar at our local Texas Roadhouse. It's was sweet & delicious, and I proceeded to eat several more pieces. I've tried limes DOZENS of times since, wanting that flavor again, and I've never found it! So thank you, SO very much!
Bro just got enlightened
Don't you mean, enlimetened?
Now I wanna know.. is this the kind of limes people snacking on with Tajin?
I mean, they didn't even blink at the sourness
@@LogansDarling lmao
@amka I'm Hispanic and I tried tajin and don't understand the rave. I've eaten chicken foot stew, liver stew, bacaloa a fermented fishy soup that stinks ur whole self up, mondongo, this weird chicken skin thing and more weirdness. BUT, I'm friends with Mexican, Cuban, Guatemalan, Puerto Rican, Dominican's and STILL nobody has mentioned it or ever made me food with tajin. Who TF uses it?? Lol, idk. Adobo is king, it's not great but it's in everything. 😂
There are like 20 species of lime. Persian or Tahitian Limes are your most common store bought lime. They get light green yellow but won’t turn 100% yellow or even pale yellow. The one's shown in this video are known as Sweet Limes.
Where can i find sweet limes? I’m interested now
So this whole video is propaganda for big lemon?!?
I had a desert lime tree. They never got yellow no matter how long they were on the tree.
technically theyre not classified as different species, but hybrids or varieties
These are normal limes i see them all the time growing here . They start off green but turn pale yellow. That's when they are at there best and juiciest.
Thank you for posting this, I've been seeing a lot of different hobby gardeners saying that a lime is just a unripe lemon when that's literally not true. They're two different species! 💚💚💚
OK wtf. I went to a potluck and they had yellow limes that were the best limes I've ever had. I have been looking for them for YEARS now
I'm afraid you'll probably have to have your own tree, or know someone who does. Due to regulation it's almost impossible to find a yellow lime
@Rohan Potter which sucks because our lime tree didn't survive. The lemon tree produces so much now that we have to give them away. Maybe I'll try again
@@markm4952 it's the opposite for me, my lime tree has gone nuts and I've had 0 luck with lemons
You guys should sell them to eachother
Well now you know! Buy some, then wait….
I always thought it was weird that it was sooo hard to get juice from a lime! Now, I know! They weren't ready!!!!
They don't ripen better once off the stem. They will progressively get dryer as the lime ages so you might as well juice as early as you can
@@ameliasolis3981 Yes, I know. But comparing a fresh lime to a fresh lemon, it's much harder to get the juice out. NOW, that makes sense: they're not ripe! He shows how easy it is to get juice from a RIPE lime. (Thus has really nothing to do with leaving limes till they dry up.)
@@ameliasolis3981 I have a tree and the limes make 5x as much juice as ones from the store
ewww why would you juice a lime?
@@iopohable for lime juice
OMG thank you for sharing this information.
I’ve been saying this for years and years and you would not believe the conversations I’ve had and the things that people actually believe when it comes to limes.
Thank you
Thank you
Thank you
You’re a ⭐️
Key lime is a citron x micrantha papeda hybrid. Limes get the bitter part of their flavor and their floral aroma from the papeda parent. Persian limes are a cross between key limes and lemons, designed to taste like a key lime but be bigger. Lemons are citron x sweet orange, and sweet oranges are mandarin orange x pomelo.
I have to screenshot this! Thank you so much information so easily explained. Now what about grapefruits and blood oranges?
@@ellaakiyama5670 grapefruit is pomelo x sweet orange. Blood oranges are a variety of sweet orange that makes pretty colors, like Cara-Cara oranges.
key lime is a pie
@@mellissamercado7904 key lime pie is made from key limes- a specific kind of limes
Wow!
Limeade made from tree ripened limes is so good. And the smell of a ripe lime is wonderful. There are quite a few things sold under ripe that are more expensive if you buy them ripened. For example bell peppers.
Can we just say peppers in general to include Anaheim and jalapeno or am I going to piss off somebody who likes the green sauce?
@@FrancisR420 While you're not wrong Peppers can have different flavors and heat levels It's depending on what stage in the ripening
Sadly, nearly all fruits are sold (very) underripe, as it suits the long travel and shelf-life values of the industry.
They don't care about taste. Just appearance.
I have been sad about fruit since the 1980s. ):
Thanks for the education today.
When life gives you limes, wait for them to ripen and then make lemonade.
well you could make some limeade xD
But life doesn’t give you limes, limes are man made.
Doesn't work for store bought ones. They turn into rocks.
@@gabeclements2501those are lemons
@@eddie-roo lemons aren’t the only man made fruit, there’s actually only very few natural citrus fruit. Limes are not among the natural ones.
Had a ripe lime for the first time this year. Oh my goodness it was good!
You got really wanting to try a ripe lime now! That looked so good😍
I have some in the yard and they a sweet and fruity
They're nasty
@@thatsamazing1814 I can imagine! I would eat that like an orange
I want to try a properly ripened lime so bad
Tree ripened limes and lemons are in a place of their own. My uncle sends me both from his tree. They are different from store bought very good.
Yes!! I used to work at a summer camp that had a lot of lemon trees, and when I tell you eating a fresh lemon was life chnaging??? So much better than any store bought lemon
Lemons aren't natural, they're "man made",a hybrid.
My little Meyer lemon produces clean dry peel but if or when I buy from grocery stores they are imported and the peel is shiny...sometimes obviously seeding a sprayed on coating. For culinary purposes can't stress enough to clean that peel if shredding it into zest recipes
So glad to find this. I had 3 limes grow for the first time on my dwarf-tree this year. I left them until one had fallen off before picking. They were bright yellow by then. Now for the taste test.
All my family members in Mexico have a lime tree at their home. I always prefer to pick the yellow limes bc of how juicy they are!
Green limes are good for seasoning meat, chicken, and fish. Green lime is also good on salads with salt, especially onion salad.
Under ripe lime*
@TheMaskedRacoon1:
... onion salad??? Can I get that recipe from you? PLEASE!???!?😀😁😀🤗
...or at least an idea of what goes into it? (I have a fairly good creative imagination...
as long as I have an idea or lead on it, I can figure out the rest.)
@@rchaelk2319just like how green bell peppers are under ripe peppers. I prefer them in cooking though
@@rchaelk2319under ripe is relative in food you plan to eat. Peppers for example.
Why does lemons juice make my mouth water up.
Gosh, my mouth watered when he squeezed the lime.
The only man willing to take on big lime .
A ha ha ha
*Prepare for a lime battle lads*
🔫🐴
They'd make more money if they harvested at those 2 stages because I know dang well I'd buy the heck out of a sweeter, juicier lime.
Made my mouth water when you sliced it open!
While I prefer under ripe for my limeade, fully ripe limes have a really good flavor. I currently have 4 lemon trees and 3 blood orange trees started from seeds sitting in my bedroom under a grow lamp, anda batch of limes in the fridge, waiting to be used. They are super easy to start from seed, although a bit fiddly (you have to peel the seed coat for them to germinate, which is really slippery work). Just start them on wet paper towels in an old Chinese take out container, and keep them warm for a few days until they sprout. They make good container/Bonsai plants for us in -TheFrozenCrapholeofHoth- Ohio.
P.S. My biology instructor used to say that only a madman would try to figure out Citrus taxonomy. He stated, with some vehemence, that if Citrus species were people, they'd be the kind that would put their beer goggles on after one drink of PBR, regardless of what the other citrus had going on at the time.
Interesting, ty
Do you mind sharing what kind of grow lamp you use for these? I'm also curious- how big did the trees get before they bore fruit and how old?
I hate to be that person but you will not end up with the fruit you are wanting or expecting. For citrus you have to graft it to rootstock. Since you’re growing from seed you are going to end up with completely unknown varieties of citrus. Could be good, could be bad. You won’t know until you get fruit but it absolutely without a doubt will not be the fruit that produced the seed you planted
@@Shivermetimbers90 you're correct. While it's certainly fun to do, it's not a way to propagate for food. Anti-bonus: citrus trees have huge, brutally sharp thorns.
Ngl, this blew my mind. I never knew limes were yellow 😂
Thank you!
And some breeds of ripe oranges are mostly green, but in the US even these greener varieties are treated to look more uniformly orange
That's neon green, not yellow.
Same colour as a tennis ball.
Next thing you’ll tell me is you didn’t know ripe jalapeños are red
I like that limes are genetically mirrored oranges
Here in Brazil, they're all different varieties of lemon.
Yes! Same in Costa Rica. Every small ovoid citrus is called limón.
I could’ve literally died not knowing this. Seriously, I had no idea. I may have to grow my own lime tree so I can try it.
My eyes watered when you squeezed that ripe lime.
I’m convinced, my next fruit tree is going to be a lime.
This just cleared up so much for me. I have a lime tree and the first few years were totally normal looking limes but this year they looked like lemons and I was so confused
I mean, you could've just googled that... What if you never saw this short?
@@Feral_Sage I have a reputation as a dumbass to keep up
@@DarthYall ah, my bad. I'll kindly piss off then 😂
They aren't the only things that are sold unripe. If you notice, bananas are always put on the shelf when they're green. Almost all produce is picked early so it doesn't go bad in transit and is able to sit on a shelf longer. Less food waste
Darn you Kevin! Now I've gotta add a lime tree to my zone 5 citrus plants that I have to overwinter in my sunroom (that'll make 4 trees now 😳)
I have an organic lime sitting on top of my fridge that I'm now thinking of eating to get the seeds to do just this!
@@slowpoke4557 dooooo iiiiiiiit! Lol
LOL “What Big Lime doesn’t want you to know” 😂. Can’t wait to see you out the Carrot Cabal!
“This is what BIG Lime doesn’t want you to know” 😂😂😂 great intro!
Well, I would have never known a lime turns yellow at all.
I love the line “this is what big lime doesn’t want you to know” 😂
Im so glad you made this video, im sick of people saying limes are lemons.
This is the kinda stuff we don't get taught at school.
Don't get me started! We learn how to factor polynomials but not how to grow food, build furniture, or budget a household (at least not in California public schools). We are not taught to be self sufficient, or to think for ourselves, but are rewarded for parroting useless information. The goal of public school is to create obedient workers.
Read "The Deliberate Dumbing Down of America"! You can find the free pdf by search.
@@paigeb1318 damn, now I feel good about living in Argentina. America sounds awful.
@@paigeb1318bad take. You wanna learn, go out and learn dont blame the school.
@@skullphantom705lots of opportunity to learn in the US...just much of it not in the political public school system .
If you can factor polynomials, how don't you have the math skills to balance a budget?
Thank you for this video, you answered something I've wondered about for years
You are joking I hope.
I learned this when I moved into a house with a lime tree. We wait til they fall to use them. This year with tons of rain they are very fat and juicy. They do have a milder flavor though than when green so that may be part of the reason people use them when green. Distinct flavor difference. Definitely different flavor than a lemon though even when ripe.
I love these interesting shorts that teach you something you didn’t know!
A lemon is a human made hybrid by crossing a citron with bitter oranges.
Incorrect, it is a natural hybrid.
As a bartender I'm glad to learn this information
When you squeezed that lime into your mouth. My jaw hurt and I started salivating. Wtf man. You're a wizard.
I often wondered because grocery store limes aren't very juicey as compared with a lemon.
I have both trees and I usually only pick them up if they fall to the ground after a light shake on the branches. I rarely pick unripe fruits, unless I really needed them (for cooking) or my friends/family ask for them. I use lime for cooking fish, and lemon for chicken. 🤤👍❤
Love this!
Just a little tip, if you cut your citrus fruit the other way (across its belly rather than head to toe) you’ll be able to get more juice out easily, because you’ll cut every segment rather than just getting two of them.
I actually prefer limes when they're green. I've learned when to pick them so that they're still nice and limey, but also so so juicy.
I agree. When they are yellow they have a lot less of the distinct lime flavour, are less aromatic, and taste more just generally citrusy.
I still like yellow limes, I love most citrus. And if a more mild lime sounds like something you would like yellow limes probably could be for you.
But I think green limes tend to have more flavour, and more of a unique and interesting flavour compared to other citrus. Which sort of is lost when you let them get fully ripe and yellow
This ^
We have a tree, so when in need we just pluck out nice green ones. Better then the yellows
Last summer our local Grocery Outlet had yellowish limes. I held back on buying them because they were not lime green! thanks for the FYI, I'll know better this year
"You saying he lied"
"No, I'm saying he got it wrong"
Ahh tree ripe fruit is always the best😋 growing up we had peach trees and to this day they are the only peaches I will eat!
perv
When I was little growing up in VA, we went to the farmers market and they had the best peaches I've ever had. They were like eating candy. Then after a series of pretty harsh hurricanes and tropical storms in the early 2000s, they weren't as good anymore. I'm pretty sure a lot of the trees got hit and the peaches were never the same 😭
I'm the same with almost all soft fruits. We had Italian prune plums (SO sweet), 2 kinds of cherry trees and a peach tree. Made me spoiled and store fruit mostly tastes like slightly sweet watery pulp to me. I miss our fruit trees! 😢
I went to a citrus farm in Riverside, CA. That’s where I learn limes are actually yellow and they gave me a full story why limes are green in store. Wish I could remember but it was more than just “big lime corp”
Limes can also be taken as they become yellow - a nice mildly tart flavor. 👍 😊
What I learned today - limes are limes, lemons are lemons. Oh and I've never eaten a ripe lime, so my life is a lie....
killing it in the gardening plant game my dude!
*This was like playing 3 card Monty, trying to figure out which is the green lime, the yellow lime, the lemon.* 🍋🍋🟩🍋
This man just took a drink of straight lime juice and didn't even flinch.... 😳
they're really not as sour as lemons! lovely to eat like an orange lol
That was a ripe lime, it's not very sour
My toddler does that doesn't even flinch 😂
I want lemonade mixed with lime juice now.
Add a smidgeon of lavender!
Ahh yes, hegemonade
Kinda like a lemon lime bitters
I do this all the time, it's amazing.
Yellow lime is absolutely phenomenal.
In Mexico we also have a lima. Which translates to lime, but it's not a lime. So is a lime a lime? Or a lima? 😂
Im wondering the same thing as you ..
From the non English speakers I know, they use their word for lemon for both limes and lemons lol
@@lavenderoh 🤣 that's my point... They are both lemons, and then there's a lime (lima)
My Puerto Rican co-worker called limes "green lemons" He said "they grow on the same tree" and I would assume his family only had one or two citrus trees in his yard and used them interchangeably at different stages of ripeness.
You probably can graft both limes and lemons on the same base stem.
This is the only correct answer. Green lemons ftw.
Thank you for clearing that up because I came across some yellowish limes but assumed that they were discoloured lemons while shopping at my local fruit market.
Now I'm going to return and purchase them.
You created chaos inside my head. I don't know anything now.
Jalapenos and Serranos are also yellow or red, but are harvested before they are ripe. They do not taste a lot different, though. Maybe a little sweeter but the spicyness hides it.
Awesome. I'll be shopping for yellow limes now! Thanks. 🍋
😂 you are #### for sure
Big lime, hilarious. And I never knew this, very cool. I have a citrus tree that grows lemons, grapefruit and oranges. Which is very cool, last year was the 1st time all 3 grew. But i wanted to grow a lime tree too or try to add it to my triple fruit. Now im definitely going to try
Green lime adds a better flavor on pork and fish yellow limes go best on chicken
"I did a little digging"....no I think you did a little picking. Lemons don't come from the ground 🤓
Good to know. I love limes. But, now I know they were under ripened. Now the quest to find a ripened lime.
have always thought about this, good to finally have a definitive answer 😂
The ripe lime seems absolutely DELICIOUS😋 What a shame they keep this from the general public:(
Dude the dribble stains on his shirt. He committed to trying that lemon off-screen 😂
Had a lime tree plant itself in our garden. For months we thought it was a lemon tree because the limes turned yellow when we didn’t pick them 😂
I absolutely love limes, but I always let them sit for a week or so after I buy them just to ripen up a bit more.
They make me stop and close my eyes and say, “I love lime” every single time. I love them so much.
But some freaks don't like them after they're picked and I think Citrus falls into that category... the peels change but the insides don't
I've tried that they just shrivel up. They never ripen like a tomato.
Limes only ripen on the tree; once they're picked, they won't continue to ripen.
Doing the Lord's work. Ive been confused about this for awhile. Now i REALLY want my own lime tree to have a ripe lime!
Logical, just like when mangoes are harvested when they are green and leave them to ripe after, taste totally different than the one that ripes on the tree
No, this is different.
Yes it applies to mangoes, because they will ripen at home, change color, and get softer.
I have never seen a like turn yellow on my counter, and I’ve never seen them that juicy.
I get what you’re saying, but likes seem to be completely from what they do with mangos
I remember when I lived in Southern AZ I had a Mexican friend of mine tell me what Limon meant in Spanish. It is literally lemon and lime. It's the same thing.
Wow this video made my mouth water I need some lemons and limes RIGHT NOW
And now to make it even more confusing, a lot of farmers let their limes grow on lemon trees
I always pick out limes that are partly yellow and not dark green :)
Never thought I'd be conspiring against Big Lime but here we are
Lemon is something mixed with an older version of an orange that people didn’t like before genetically breeding that orange into becoming the orange we have today
Ive been trying to stay under big limes radar but thanks to you I'm no longer safe!
This is just absolutely amazing to me; great job! 👏🏾👌🏾
I like whatever green limes that my life is accustomed to
The citrus industrial complex doesn't want you to know
They look so much better when you cut them horizontally 😅 I'll never understand people who cut them vertically