I find them quite pleasant, there are now some better named cultivars such as ka-pow which tend to be larger and juicier. My plants survive -5 unprotected with no problems but were killed back to the ground at -7 unprotected so may need protection by covering in some regions.
I've had one that took much more, roughly -10 (it was near a house wall which probably heated it up a bit) covered in snow. But a freak -13 freeze with no snow after a very unusually warm El Nino winter killed it. They're one of those few plants that actually does better with prolonged cold that you get in temperate west coast climates, so will be a bit hardier, and snow cover works wonders for them too. I had it in a terrible location too, very rocky soil and exposed to wind, it never really grew much but it survived at least. Nice plant but needs to be in a good position and appreciates temperate climates.
@@allthefruit I had trees with seedling from fallen fruit survive last winter unscathed. 1” tall covered in snow for nearly 2 weeks. Also you don’t like the taste because you didn’t actually taste them. The sugars hadn’t formed or broken down, they are in peak ripeness for a day - 12 hours. You want to eat them just before they rot.
I have 2 plants growing in the UK. One in a sheltered position but open to lots of light is very productive. The other in shade has only a handful of fruits. The are a favourite for birds that can soon strip the shrubs of fruits.
Love this plant… I’ve been growing it for many years now. It’s very forgiving but some protection is needed. In Germany your summers will be to hot for full exposure. Your winters may be too cold without protection. They are excellent for pot culture and new varieties are coming out all the time.
will you visit malay/indo this winter? meteorologist said we have early rain season this year because la nina, so fruit season must be better than last year. maybe early too, because early rain means early fruit season(?)
Lots of fruits on that little plant! I grow them here in the UK. I find if they are picked under ripe they aren’t very sweet, they go quite soft when they are at their best. Of course, the flavour and sweetness will vary depending on the variety. I like the KA-POW variety the best so far.
@@allthefruit It’s a bit exotic. I have seen a few of the videos. After rarely leaving the house due to the (not nature-related) studies, I don’t exactly need abroad experience, if I haven’t went outside in Germany much either.
An even hardier myrtaceae is Myrteola nummularia, it grows all the way down to the southern parts of Patagonia. As for this, I've grown these myself, I find them to have a sort of spicy-aromatic floral taste, kind of tropical but yeah not the sweetest and juiciest fruit and like you said with thick skin. I never got mine to produce much and the fruits were always small, probably the PNW's Mediterranean climate dry summers were not great for it, it needed some constant irrigation. I had it in a frankly terrible spot in poor rocky clayey soil exposed to the wind and shaded half the day by an east facing wall. It hung on for quite some time, never grew much (due to terrible location) but was pretty remarkable just for surviving in a spot where even supposedly invasive temperate Passiflora vines were struggling. Handled some pretty intense winter cold, at least -10 but maybe all the way down to -15, though being near a wall and having snow cover surely helped a ton. They were finally done in by a freak -13 freeze with no snow after a shockingly warm El Nino winter (we're talking like 10 degree days consistently throughout the winter, warm enough that some plants were still growing even) but held on through quite a lot. I'm not surprised that they're doing nicely in a good spot in a garden in Germany. Great plant if you want something exotic for very temperate gardens and like floral taste.
@@allthefruit Yeah if there ever was an obscure tough as nails exotic fruit for temperate climates, this would be it. And again, if this doesn't have enough cold hardiness than surely Myrteola will, and I suspect it will be equally tough in other regards, coming from the rocky stormy windswept lands of southern Patagonia. I found some at a local nursery even, so it shouldn't be too hard to get a hold of, and some online nurseries carry Myrteola. Best of luck!
30 cm entfernt, oben halbrechts stehen 2 mickrige Sarracenias (S. purpurea und S. leucophylla). Das sind reine Moorpflanzen. Der botanische Garten hat in dem Bereich sicher ein amerikanisches Moorhabitat nachgestellt. Der Boden besteht an der Stelle sicher zu einem großen Anteil aus Weißtorf. Sollte man beachten, wenn man diese Pflanze im Garten erfolgreich kultivieren will.
I think that these are still a bit too frost tender to grow here in southern Sweden. Sounds like we aren’t missing out on anything amazing though, based on your reviews. Will the mysterious camera assistant become a regular feature on the channel?
The plant likes a lot of rain, if there isn't sufficient rain it doesn't get juicy. Mine are growing in Ireland are not yet ripe, they should be ready in two or more weeks, then they are very sweet and fairly juicy(about as juicy as a blueberry). I would recommend trying them in 2 to 3 weeks, the skin should be less tough then too.
Habe es mit zwei Pflanzen bei mir im Garten versucht, aber die haben es nicht geschafft. Ich finde den Geschmack auch sehr interessant. Eine gute Selektion würde aber nicht schaden. Wie du beschrieben hast, gibt es geschmacklich einige Makel. Ich bleibe da lieber bei der brasilianischen Guave.
It was apparently queen victoria's favorite food. So maybe the anglos took it from there? I don't really like them, very aromatic. We aren't really trying to grow it commercially. I would say NZ has more tried to commercialise tamarillo and pepino.
@@allthefruit Well, our economy relies on kiwifruit pretty heavily. Noone can grow actinidia without a license to prevent disease spread, which is kind of a joke because there are feral vines all around the country anywhere someone drops a fruit.
Planted some this year, they grew from 10cm to 30cm 😅 we will see in winter I think it already had some human selection in chile but not true domestication yet
Nice. I hope we beat the kiwis with the fruit propaganda just because of national pride and bias... Ofc. And what comes to the taste they are very variable I've heard, but there are better Chilean myrtles y think like luma apiculata in my taste.
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I find them quite pleasant, there are now some better named cultivars such as ka-pow which tend to be larger and juicier. My plants survive -5 unprotected with no problems but were killed back to the ground at -7 unprotected so may need protection by covering in some regions.
Ah, so its a matter of luck here
I've had one that took much more, roughly -10 (it was near a house wall which probably heated it up a bit) covered in snow. But a freak -13 freeze with no snow after a very unusually warm El Nino winter killed it. They're one of those few plants that actually does better with prolonged cold that you get in temperate west coast climates, so will be a bit hardier, and snow cover works wonders for them too. I had it in a terrible location too, very rocky soil and exposed to wind, it never really grew much but it survived at least. Nice plant but needs to be in a good position and appreciates temperate climates.
@@allthefruit I had trees with seedling from fallen fruit survive last winter unscathed. 1” tall covered in snow for nearly 2 weeks.
Also you don’t like the taste because you didn’t actually taste them. The sugars hadn’t formed or broken down, they are in peak ripeness for a day - 12 hours. You want to eat them just before they rot.
Oh, so another tasty fruit with non existing shelf life
I have 2 plants growing in the UK. One in a sheltered position but open to lots of light is very productive. The other in shade has only a handful of fruits. The are a favourite for birds that can soon strip the shrubs of fruits.
So it needs light. Same here in this garden
@@allthefruit Yes it does.
If i ever grow it ill pick a sunny spot
Love this plant… I’ve been growing it for many years now. It’s very forgiving but some protection is needed. In Germany your summers will be to hot for full exposure. Your winters may be too cold without protection. They are excellent for pot culture and new varieties are coming out all the time.
Maybe its better for nw Germany then
will you visit malay/indo this winter? meteorologist said we have early rain season this year because la nina, so fruit season must be better than last year. maybe early too, because early rain means early fruit season(?)
Must decide this week. Where are you and what could be ripe in 6 weeks?
Lots of fruits on that little plant! I grow them here in the UK. I find if they are picked under ripe they aren’t very sweet, they go quite soft when they are at their best. Of course, the flavour and sweetness will vary depending on the variety. I like the KA-POW variety the best so far.
Probably mine were underripe but i was there for a day only
Your video in my recommendations has given me hope that there are yet things I have to see.
There are always new things for us to see. Did you see my Borneo playlist yet?
@@allthefruit It’s a bit exotic. I have seen a few of the videos. After rarely leaving the house due to the (not nature-related) studies, I don’t exactly need abroad experience, if I haven’t went outside in Germany much either.
Go out more. Crazy stuff is everywhere
Danke für die gute Anbauempfehlung. Sicher eine sehr gesunde Frucht wenn auch der Geschmack nicht umhaut.
Hier sagen manche vollreif ist sie besser
An even hardier myrtaceae is Myrteola nummularia, it grows all the way down to the southern parts of Patagonia. As for this, I've grown these myself, I find them to have a sort of spicy-aromatic floral taste, kind of tropical but yeah not the sweetest and juiciest fruit and like you said with thick skin. I never got mine to produce much and the fruits were always small, probably the PNW's Mediterranean climate dry summers were not great for it, it needed some constant irrigation. I had it in a frankly terrible spot in poor rocky clayey soil exposed to the wind and shaded half the day by an east facing wall. It hung on for quite some time, never grew much (due to terrible location) but was pretty remarkable just for surviving in a spot where even supposedly invasive temperate Passiflora vines were struggling. Handled some pretty intense winter cold, at least -10 but maybe all the way down to -15, though being near a wall and having snow cover surely helped a ton. They were finally done in by a freak -13 freeze with no snow after a shockingly warm El Nino winter (we're talking like 10 degree days consistently throughout the winter, warm enough that some plants were still growing even) but held on through quite a lot. I'm not surprised that they're doing nicely in a good spot in a garden in Germany. Great plant if you want something exotic for very temperate gardens and like floral taste.
Thank you for the info. Sounds like a fighter. I want to try it
@@allthefruit Yeah if there ever was an obscure tough as nails exotic fruit for temperate climates, this would be it. And again, if this doesn't have enough cold hardiness than surely Myrteola will, and I suspect it will be equally tough in other regards, coming from the rocky stormy windswept lands of southern Patagonia. I found some at a local nursery even, so it shouldn't be too hard to get a hold of, and some online nurseries carry Myrteola. Best of luck!
Good idea
30 cm entfernt, oben halbrechts stehen 2 mickrige Sarracenias (S. purpurea und S. leucophylla). Das sind reine Moorpflanzen. Der botanische Garten hat in dem Bereich sicher ein amerikanisches Moorhabitat nachgestellt.
Der Boden besteht an der Stelle sicher zu einem großen Anteil aus Weißtorf. Sollte man beachten, wenn man diese Pflanze im Garten erfolgreich kultivieren will.
Danke. Guter Tipp
The darker varieties are often more aromatic. Like strawberry, minty and oregano like.
Thank you. Now i need to find them
I think that these are still a bit too frost tender to grow here in southern Sweden. Sounds like we aren’t missing out on anything amazing though, based on your reviews. Will the mysterious camera assistant become a regular feature on the channel?
Maybe they need to ripen a bit more. Who knows? 🤷
The plant likes a lot of rain, if there isn't sufficient rain it doesn't get juicy. Mine are growing in Ireland are not yet ripe, they should be ready in two or more weeks, then they are very sweet and fairly juicy(about as juicy as a blueberry). I would recommend trying them in 2 to 3 weeks, the skin should be less tough then too.
Pity i will not be there. Quite a rainy year except for August
Habe es mit zwei Pflanzen bei mir im Garten versucht, aber die haben es nicht geschafft.
Ich finde den Geschmack auch sehr interessant. Eine gute Selektion würde aber nicht schaden. Wie du beschrieben hast, gibt es geschmacklich einige Makel.
Ich bleibe da lieber bei der brasilianischen Guave.
Ja, gute Idee aber die wächst bei uns nicht im Freiland
@@allthefruit habe die Acca auch im Folientunnel. Da klappt das sehr gut
Hier wächst und fruchtet sie draußen
Can you also try to find ananas guave
Still unripe but hanging full of fruits
It was apparently queen victoria's favorite food. So maybe the anglos took it from there? I don't really like them, very aromatic. We aren't really trying to grow it commercially. I would say NZ has more tried to commercialise tamarillo and pepino.
Oh and feijoa!
I guess its a matter of taste. We mostly get NZ kiwis here
@@allthefruit Well, our economy relies on kiwifruit pretty heavily. Noone can grow actinidia without a license to prevent disease spread, which is kind of a joke because there are feral vines all around the country anywhere someone drops a fruit.
I suspect this about queen victoria was made up at some point. didnt find any source just people repeating it 😂
Feral kiwis just starting here
Planted some this year, they grew from 10cm to 30cm 😅 we will see in winter
I think it already had some human selection in chile but not true domestication yet
That sounds like a job for you
@@allthefruit i will leave it to chileans 🙃
Since you are already busy guarding my pepinos 😋
@@allthefruit 😁
😁
This should never have been named a Guava, there is nothing Guava about it, it just a red myrtle...
Yeah but the name sells
Nice. I hope we beat the kiwis with the fruit propaganda just because of national pride and bias... Ofc. And what comes to the taste they are very variable I've heard, but there are better Chilean myrtles y think like luma apiculata in my taste.
I want to try them all