this stuff clogs most of the swamps, bayous and waterways in Louisiana. I wish someone would create a market for it. I had it in my pond for a while, when i thinned it out, i used it for compost. Best damn compost i ever had!
We grow them in the pond and since they grow and multiply fast, we put a physical barrier to contain them. We cook the bulbs and also make a salad out of them. We are also planning to use them as compost in the farm.
It does beg the issue. You can throw it away or you can use it. Heck, in China they are making furniture out of it. They turn it into a rope and then make rattan-like pieces. It really comes down to a matter of attitude. It is more than knowing the plant can be used. There has to be a willingness to use it. You can waste money on it or make money. It all depends where your head is.
I've ate them raw and never had itchy skin I live in Florida but I didn't know it was illegal I grow these in my fish pond they spread like wildfire in the spring and summer the flowers are beautiful my water hyacinth are huge I mostly utilize them to feed to my rabbit chickens and also add some to my compost I could care less about being illegal I'll keep growing them😂 I know waterfowl loves eating them water Hyacinth is also shown to be great for your skin
It probably would taste great with coconut cream onions salt and some pork or fish....or both and baked until soft, like how Taro greens are eaten in Polynesia. Just thinking of it is making me hungry.....
Can you do an episode on pain relieving natural plants that can be easily foraged I've been looking for natural pain remedies don't want anything from big pharma I've heard about wild lettuce but i have no safe area to collect them from living in the city people spray all types of things and its very polluted in the city when I go to Bradford Pennsylvania to see my brother I'll go foraging in the woods or mountains
Lactuca Serriola is so thick around that I use it all the time. I have some dried for use in my kinnickinnick. Also, have a gallon glass jar of tincture for daily drops. 10 drops takes away the pain from arthritis and degenerative disc disease.
@emilykbisignano A local herbalist would be the best choice. But one book is standard, It is: Easter/Central Medicinal Plants by Steven Foster and (Dr.) James A. Duke.
Yeah Green Deane, it was a good biz while it lasted. I did get a permit to sell water lettuce from Florida dept of ag, but the water gardeners up north just love them hyacinths. As do my pigs....Today they ate 3000 bucks worth, ha.
There are places that use this to make charcoal briquettes. Quite the industrious idea. It can be used for animal fodder, crafts, food for us, oh yeah so many uses. Gee, if Lake Okichobee (sp?) is so toxic with the extreme excessive amount of nitrites, why not use this to help clean it up?
Was trying to find out if essential oil could be extracted from this. But, since it's such a great live stock fodder, just going to stay on that course. Thank you for all your very informative videos. You are such an amazing person.....
If only more people would think like you. What a great resource. Thanks for the video. Maybe if more people watch this, they will start thinking along those lines of its usefulness.
It almost has the NPK of alfalfa. The NPK analysis is 1.29%, 0.06%, and 2.67% respectively. It composts very well. Some companies convert it into biochar. It also makes great food for chickens, ducks, rabbits, goats, and cattle. It is also made into liquid fertilizer in Africa. They harvest it in Africa and make very clean-burning charcoal briquettes. It cuts down on deforestation.
@@82926ocram - It would need additional light to perform a higher rate of photosynthesis. It would also need enhanced airflow across the leaf stoma to assist the exchange rate of CO2 and O2 as well as high enough humidity to prevent desiccation. You can't let it get too hot in the process.
It appears that tortoises and iguanas are not crazy about hyacinth. They will eat a little, and it won't kill them, but they don't take it as readily as other leafy greens.
As a child I remember this stuff on Lake Limestone in Texas. Before dawn my father would navigate our flat bottom through mazes of it to get to our duck blind on the backside of the lake. It was great because very few would chance the shallow timber and Hyacinth infested journey. The ducks knew it and they were all ours!
this water plant does not pose me a problem. I cultivate them in an unpolluted pond, and harvest them then fed to my rabbits either fresh or dried. Of course I wouldn't feed them from polluted water because we eat the rabbits and we don't want concentration of heavy metals in their meat. such a beauty in the pond especially when they are in bloom.
I had the same idea and put a water plant in my pond called Parrots Feather....It completely blanketed my pond and was so thick that I could throw a baseball at it and the ball would never touch the water. If you care about fishing in your pond I would not put any aggressive plants in it.
iv been selling this plant for years didnt no you could eat them ..If cows can eat so could my chickens i buy 100 a year sell 3 to 400 .This year i put it in my pond its down well cant wait to go eat it right now thanks Dean
if it is watched, and they are found to be a weed why do they care if people pull it up? all they have to do is check that it is not in any watched waterways....rediculous.
fuck me, ur smart, lol. I've watched all kind of stuff on the net on wild fire spreading bio aquatic organism, and i can't believe people are so narrow minded to call this organisms INVADERS when in fact they are blessings. But well, i'm glad that there are people like you out there that are acctualy taking advantage of this instead of running around yelling the "END IS HERE"
Actually there are isolated spots of them as far north as Canada... in buildings, factory hot-water discharges and the like. In some countries there's so many it makes a raft and they haul the raft out to sea to kill them.
I have grown these in a water garden with fish and turtles. Pumped the water into my little garden as it was very fertile. The water hyacinth and water lettuce have the long dense floating roots, they act as a nursery for breeding fish and frogs. And oh! The dragonflies will be everywhere. If it became too over grown I would use a hoe or take to pull some out. Shake out the fish and tadpoles and then compost them. Wonderful compost. I always carried some inside to put in the window before frost so I have a good start for the following year.
note- I just tried this tonight, simple boiled with olive oil/salt/pepper. DELICIOUS! and it gave me ideas a ton of other cooking recipes, can't wait to try them out.
This video is really interesting because utilizing this type of noxious weeds for human diet highly beneficial to meet the hunger of millions of people, who are in below poverty line-Dr.V.V.AppaRao
Just started watching your vids and cant stop now...have to say that you are excellent, really appreciate what you do! Thanks for all the films and hard work youve done here!
these will take the oxygen out of your pond at night, so if you have a small pond ..beware, or you could have a bunch of dead fish. learned the hard way..
If you go to my website eatheweeds (dot com) and look up water hyacinth in the archives the nutrition is listed there. To save you the trip: The water hyacinths leaves are a source of vitamins A, B1 and B2. They contain 18.7% protein, 17.1% fiber and 36.6% carbohydrates
.... my mother in law read about it being invasive. She griped every time she visited that I needed to get rid of the hyacinth. Finally, to hopefully shut her up, I compromised and put some grass carp in the pond as a control measure. They ate all the hyacinth in less than 2 years. Water clarity went to sh*t. I want the hyacinth back. If they ever overrun, I'll watch this video again and used them as food or fodder. Currently, I'm trying to kill the grass carp without harming the other fish. :(
Water hyacinth gave the NPK values, 1.29%, 0.06% and 2.67% respectively. It has a high potassium content which is one of 17 nutrients that are essential for plant growth but a low phosphorus content.
Ha ha... first I don't have any seeds, and sending them to you would get me a very large fine. More so while the plant can seed it reproduces most of the time vegetatively.
@MickScarborough In my 30 some years of wandering around Florida swamps I have seen snakes in the water twice, once about 100 feet ahead of me and once right under my nose (fortunately a harmless water snake.)
I never knew this. I'm with you, if you can eat it or use it, it's a recourse. I saw another video about cooking and eating it and that one prompted me to see if you had one (cause I knew you must have one). Good, informative video, as always. Here's the other video I saw using it. ua-cam.com/video/-hLc8nOgI80/v-deo.html
We have being trying to control this invasive weed by using biocontrol agent Neochetina eichhorniae and bruchi without much success. Your nice videos gave nice new ideas for us to try. Thank you
Great video! I use water hyacinth to filter for my turtle ponds. But now that I have too much of it, I am wondering if I can feed it to my other (herbivorous) reptiles. My sulcata tortoises are grass grazers like cattle, and you mentioned it's a great cattle feed. My iguanas would also have a similar diet. Sound like a good match? My only concern is the water source. Do you think my aquatic turtles are creating enough waste to make the hyacinth unhealthy for other animals to eat? Thanks!
I believe that CA is one of the few states left where they're legal to buy/sell, but i'm not sure about that... but, living in cali, I find them for sale at many nurseries such as OSH during the spring and summertime. I bought one plant for $1.50 once years ago and have never needed to buy anymore since! I can really see why this is such a problematic plant.
I built an acre sized pond. Put these water hyacinths, along with various other water plants (lilies, rushes, and underwater oxygenators), many varieties of fish, turtles, frogs, mussels, snails, etc.into the pond. The pond was lovely! For over 5 years I had balanced, clear water without even having a fountain. All the the water fauna, even my pet dogs and visiting wildlife, ate the hyacinth. When the hyacinth was in bloom it was beautiful and all my neighbors complemented it. But then........
It's just a plant that has grown too big for its boots. Fight it aggressively but to try to wipe it off the face of the earth (good luck!) and banning it instead of controlling it - isn't it like throwing the baby out with the bath water? It's such a pretty plant, too.
Wow. I have this stuff in my turtle pond (made out of a bathtub). I'll have to check it out and see if the floating mini-lettuce-looking things are edible too. Is there a section on edible aquatic plants on your webpage??
SPRING IS HERE!! i was planning on digging a pond and using edible plants as a natural water filter so my fishes wont die, this plant seems like a likely candidate, what do you think?
I want some of the water hyacinth, but i can't figure out if it's legal to have or not, i live in CA, and i want it in my aquarium. So do you know if it's legal to have?
I believe they can't be imported or cross state lines, but here is the catch I think they can be transported from already existing sites within the state. Look up a local online nursery called pondplants.
I wonder if this plant could be genetically engineered to self-destruct at a certain stage of development, then the altered version could be introduced into the environment in order to slow the reproduction rate through cross-pollination with wild varieties. Then also they would have a genetically altered version which could be controlled and then clean up large pollutes bodies of water like the Great Lakes.
oh jeezzz.... now this damn fly or whatever it is will create a different problem. and a year from now they will decide they wish they had the water hyacinth back for biofeul argg
this stuff clogs most of the swamps, bayous and waterways in Louisiana. I wish someone would create a market for it. I had it in my pond for a while, when i thinned it out, i used it for compost. Best damn compost i ever had!
We grow them in the pond and since they grow and multiply fast, we put a physical barrier to contain them. We cook the bulbs and also make a salad out of them. We are also planning to use them as compost in the farm.
It does beg the issue. You can throw it away or you can use it. Heck, in China they are making furniture out of it. They turn it into a rope and then make rattan-like pieces. It really comes down to a matter of attitude. It is more than knowing the plant can be used. There has to be a willingness to use it. You can waste money on it or make money. It all depends where your head is.
I've ate them raw and never had itchy skin I live in Florida but I didn't know it was illegal I grow these in my fish pond they spread like wildfire in the spring and summer the flowers are beautiful my water hyacinth are huge I mostly utilize them to feed to my rabbit chickens and also add some to my compost I could care less about being illegal I'll keep growing them😂 I know waterfowl loves eating them water Hyacinth is also shown to be great for your skin
I wouldn't eat this as it's known to absorb heavy metals out of the water.
In theory, perhaps. They are not hollow but sponge-like inside, which is why they kind of resemble pork crisps when fried..
Remember to cook them well.... try a little first even after cooking to make sure they don't make you itch...they do make good chicken feed.
i hear these are the best compost that exist!!!!
In Cambodia, we eat the flowers of water hyacinth by dipping it into sauce made from fish, peanut and others similar to salad.
It probably would taste great with coconut cream onions salt and some pork or fish....or both and baked until soft, like how Taro greens are eaten in Polynesia. Just thinking of it is making me hungry.....
Can you do an episode on pain relieving natural plants that can be easily foraged I've been looking for natural pain remedies don't want anything from big pharma I've heard about wild lettuce but i have no safe area to collect them from living in the city people spray all types of things and its very polluted in the city when I go to Bradford Pennsylvania to see my brother I'll go foraging in the woods or mountains
Lactuca Serriola is so thick around that I use it all the time. I have some dried for use in my kinnickinnick. Also, have a gallon glass jar of tincture for daily drops. 10 drops takes away the pain from arthritis and degenerative disc disease.
In my country we feed it to the ducks, they love it.
@emilykbisignano A local herbalist would be the best choice. But one book is standard, It is: Easter/Central Medicinal Plants by Steven Foster and (Dr.) James A. Duke.
Yeah Green Deane, it was a good biz while it lasted. I did get a permit to sell water lettuce from Florida dept of ag, but the water gardeners up north just love them hyacinths. As do my pigs....Today they ate 3000 bucks worth, ha.
Such an amazing video!
Water hyacinth is the worse water weed in the world. If I knew how to get rid of it I would be a millionaire.
There are places that use this to make charcoal briquettes. Quite the industrious idea. It can be used for animal fodder, crafts, food for us, oh yeah so many uses. Gee, if Lake Okichobee (sp?) is so toxic with the extreme excessive amount of nitrites, why not use this to help clean it up?
As they are banned nearly every where buying them would be a challenge. B&T Seed might have them.
Was trying to find out if essential oil could be extracted from this. But, since it's such a great live stock fodder, just going to stay on that course. Thank you for all your very informative videos. You are such an amazing person.....
I love this guy's attitude...he'd be a great professor or teacher. Maybe he is one?
In Asia we grow it as foods.
I love the fact that you cooked and ate it right at the pond Great Job.
If only more people would think like you. What a great resource. Thanks for the video. Maybe if more people watch this, they will start thinking along those lines of its usefulness.
It almost has the NPK of alfalfa. The NPK analysis is 1.29%, 0.06%, and 2.67% respectively. It composts very well. Some companies convert it into biochar. It also makes great food for chickens, ducks, rabbits, goats, and cattle. It is also made into liquid fertilizer in Africa. They harvest it in Africa and make very clean-burning charcoal briquettes. It cuts down on deforestation.
@@82926ocram - I doubt you have to fertilize them. Active circulation of the water surrounding the roots might have a profound effect.
@@82926ocram - It would need additional light to perform a higher rate of photosynthesis. It would also need enhanced airflow across the leaf stoma to assist the exchange rate of CO2 and O2 as well as high enough humidity to prevent desiccation. You can't let it get too hot in the process.
Came upon your video while researching Water Hyacinth edibility. Subscribed!
It appears that tortoises and iguanas are not crazy about hyacinth. They will eat a little, and it won't kill them, but they don't take it as readily as other leafy greens.
As a child I remember this stuff on Lake Limestone in Texas. Before dawn my father would navigate our flat bottom through mazes of it to get to our duck blind on the backside of the lake. It was great because very few would chance the shallow timber and Hyacinth infested journey. The ducks knew it and they were all ours!
this water plant does not pose me a problem. I cultivate them in an unpolluted pond, and harvest them then fed to my rabbits either fresh or dried. Of course I wouldn't feed them from polluted water because we eat the rabbits and we don't want concentration of heavy metals in their meat.
such a beauty in the pond especially when they are in bloom.
I had the same idea and put a water plant in my pond called Parrots Feather....It completely blanketed my pond and was so thick that I could throw a baseball at it and the ball would never touch the water. If you care about fishing in your pond I would not put any aggressive plants in it.
iv been selling this plant for years didnt no you could eat them ..If cows can eat so could my chickens i buy 100 a year sell 3 to 400 .This year i put it in my pond its down well cant wait to go eat it right now thanks Dean
if it is watched, and they are found to be a weed why do they care if people pull it up? all they have to do is check that it is not in any watched waterways....rediculous.
fuck me, ur smart, lol.
I've watched all kind of stuff on the net on wild fire spreading bio aquatic organism, and i can't believe people are so narrow minded to call this organisms INVADERS when in fact they are blessings. But well, i'm glad that there are people like you out there that are acctualy taking advantage of this instead of running around yelling the "END IS HERE"
Actually there are isolated spots of them as far north as Canada... in buildings, factory hot-water discharges and the like. In some countries there's so many it makes a raft and they haul the raft out to sea to kill them.
@Pig560 dude, you've got a home in Bangladesh and water hyacinths are your biggest worry, I wouldn't be too upset if I were you.
What is the legal penalty in Florida for possessing, distributing, and/or cultivating water hyacinth?
is water hyacinth toxic when it grew on a very polluted water? is its extract from the leaves capable of making medicine?
i grew up eating it, mainly with fish or duck. free food so lets destroy it WTF???? good job poster. i due mean that in a good way.....
I have grown these in a water garden with fish and turtles. Pumped the water into my little garden as it was very fertile. The water hyacinth and water lettuce have the long dense floating roots, they act as a nursery for breeding fish and frogs. And oh! The dragonflies will be everywhere. If it became too over grown I would use a hoe or take to pull some out. Shake out the fish and tadpoles and then compost them. Wonderful compost. I always carried some inside to put in the window before frost so I have a good start for the following year.
Thanks for bringing us closer to nature.
Love, peace.
note- I just tried this tonight, simple boiled with olive oil/salt/pepper. DELICIOUS! and it gave me ideas a ton of other cooking recipes, can't wait to try them out.
This video is really interesting because utilizing this type of noxious weeds for human diet highly beneficial to meet the hunger of millions of people, who are in below poverty line-Dr.V.V.AppaRao
It's a matter of attitude. You can view it was a weed to destroy or a food source.
Just started watching your vids and cant stop now...have to say that you are excellent, really appreciate what you do! Thanks for all the films and hard work youve done here!
It's strange how we don't use all our available resources.
Thanks for this wonderful video. You are the man!
Pigs, rabbits, and compost worms can also eat these as a part of a varied diet!
these will take the oxygen out of your pond at night, so if you have a small pond ..beware, or you could have a bunch of dead fish. learned the hard way..
When you own a pond with fish it's always a good idea to have an oxygenator.
Wow, great video Green Deane, your an outlaw, lol.
Is that how Water Hyacinth is pronounced?
If you go to my website eatheweeds (dot com) and look up water hyacinth in the archives the nutrition is listed there. To save you the trip: The water hyacinths leaves are a source of vitamins A, B1 and B2. They contain 18.7% protein, 17.1% fiber and 36.6% carbohydrates
Close. There is Roman Latin and English latin. Eichhorinia is ike-HOR-nee-uh. Crassipes is krah-SEE-peez or KRASS-ih-peez.
I don't have an aquatic plant section but I have many aquatic plants in my index.
.... my mother in law read about it being invasive. She griped every time she visited that I needed to get rid of the hyacinth. Finally, to hopefully shut her up, I compromised and put some grass carp in the pond as a control measure. They ate all the hyacinth in less than 2 years. Water clarity went to sh*t. I want the hyacinth back. If they ever overrun, I'll watch this video again and used them as food or fodder. Currently, I'm trying to kill the grass carp without harming the other fish. :(
Salad? No no no... raw they will probably make you itch. They should be cooked. Read about them on my website.
@rugbyman2000 I think your turtle effluvia won't be a problem. But I don't know if they will or can eat water hyacinths.
It is definitely a plant the state of California wants to control. If it is not illegal it probably will become so at some time.
what nutrients are there in a water hyacinth? especially in the leaves?
Water hyacinth gave the NPK values, 1.29%, 0.06% and 2.67% respectively. It has a high potassium content which is one of 17 nutrients that are essential for plant growth but a low phosphorus content.
Ha ha... first I don't have any seeds, and sending them to you would get me a very large fine. More so while the plant can seed it reproduces most of the time vegetatively.
@MickScarborough In my 30 some years of wandering around Florida swamps I have seen snakes in the water twice, once about 100 feet ahead of me and once right under my nose (fortunately a harmless water snake.)
Awesome
thanks....Got to try to make 'em interesting now and then...
@MickScarborough I wasn't suggesting we make them legal. I was only showing they are edible.
Fantastico
This is a classic.
The floating mini-lettuce things are probably Pistia stratiotes, definitely NOT edible.
Awesome job! Very informative and explained flawlessly 🙌🏻. You’re an amazing teacher ‼️
the best, i'm vindicated ;p
Yes, it is very toxic when grown in polluted waters. No medical use that I know of.
Usually said plants are dried then burned, depending upon the heavy metal they collect.
I never knew this. I'm with you, if you can eat it or use it, it's a recourse. I saw another video about cooking and eating it and that one prompted me to see if you had one (cause I knew you must have one). Good, informative video, as always. Here's the other video I saw using it.
ua-cam.com/video/-hLc8nOgI80/v-deo.html
Absolutely. That is why you have to collect it from clean waters.
We have being trying to control this invasive weed by using biocontrol agent Neochetina eichhorniae and bruchi without much success. Your nice videos gave nice new ideas for us to try.
Thank you
That is what they are used for in some places.
Great video! I use water hyacinth to filter for my turtle ponds. But now that I have too much of it, I am wondering if I can feed it to my other (herbivorous) reptiles. My sulcata tortoises are grass grazers like cattle, and you mentioned it's a great cattle feed. My iguanas would also have a similar diet. Sound like a good match?
My only concern is the water source. Do you think my aquatic turtles are creating enough waste to make the hyacinth unhealthy for other animals to eat? Thanks!
I believe that CA is one of the few states left where they're legal to buy/sell, but i'm not sure about that... but, living in cali, I find them for sale at many nurseries such as OSH during the spring and summertime. I bought one plant for $1.50 once years ago and have never needed to buy anymore since! I can really see why this is such a problematic plant.
@fishfarmerjohn Maybe I'm in the wrong business.
I think wilting or drying it first will also prevent the itchy or toxins from being a problem.
@fishfarmerjohn lolol ahahaha im from california! i got mine for a buck fifty. can't wait until it grows enough to eat it.
@fishfarmerjohn lolol ahahaha im from california! i got mine for a buck fifty. can't wait until it grows enough to eat it.
In south africa its blocking the river flows when it rains causing floods
I built an acre sized pond. Put these water hyacinths, along with various other water plants (lilies, rushes, and underwater oxygenators), many varieties of fish, turtles, frogs, mussels, snails, etc.into the pond. The pond was lovely! For over 5 years I had balanced, clear water without even having a fountain. All the the water fauna, even my pet dogs and visiting wildlife, ate the hyacinth. When the hyacinth was in bloom it was beautiful and all my neighbors complemented it. But then........
It's just a plant that has grown too big for its boots. Fight it aggressively but to try to wipe it off the face of the earth (good luck!) and banning it instead of controlling it - isn't it like throwing the baby out with the bath water? It's such a pretty plant, too.
Wow. I have this stuff in my turtle pond (made out of a bathtub). I'll have to check it out and see if the floating mini-lettuce-looking things are edible too. Is there a section on edible aquatic plants on your webpage??
SPRING IS HERE!!
i was planning on digging a pond and using edible plants as a natural water filter so my fishes wont die, this plant seems like a likely candidate, what do you think?
There is always this year.....
I want some of the water hyacinth, but i can't figure out if it's legal to have or not, i live in CA, and i want it in my aquarium. So do you know if it's legal to have?
I believe they can't be imported or cross state lines, but here is the catch I think they can be transported from already existing sites within the state. Look up a local online nursery called pondplants.
I wonder if this plant could be genetically engineered to self-destruct at a certain stage of development, then the altered version could be introduced into the environment in order to slow the reproduction rate through cross-pollination with wild varieties. Then also they would have a genetically altered version which could be controlled and then clean up large pollutes bodies of water like the Great Lakes.
They have been growing them in floating cages to clean water.
2:24 Because that's where all the nutrition comes from, and from the hyacinth's too.
Five Stars!!
oh jeezzz....
now this damn fly or whatever it is will create a different problem.
and a year from now they will decide they wish they had the water hyacinth back for biofeul argg
Thanks Deane for all your videos. It is so educational and entertaining.. YOu are awsomes !!!
Thanks for the video. This is great. I'm excited about trying to eat some.
Can cattle eat it raw?
Yes...
Lol love the beginning. Good job
Loved teh video. Interesting how the State of Florida approaches a problem
really weise man and great communicator
I'm sure FWC would get a kick out of you eating it.
yeah possession with intent to eat not plant.
i like you more political videos best :)
Where do u buy them?
I liv in CA