Plant Profile: How to grow, pick and preserve capers

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  • @Genesaysok
    @Genesaysok 2 роки тому +7

    I had no idea that capers are unopened flower buds. Great information, thank you for making the video

  • @Stink777
    @Stink777 2 роки тому +7

    My caper bush died but a volunteer seed sprouted under my shed and has been prosperous for 3 years now with minimal maintenance

  • @ThatWeirdDude40
    @ThatWeirdDude40 4 роки тому +12

    To those of you whom want to cultivate it. The first two years, it needs water, at least once a week. Give it water if the soil is almost fully dry for 2 days. Keep it in a pot, with an mechanism where excess water can flow out.
    It needs a lot of sunlight and dry heat. Best countries would be those that have a hot, dry summer, with temperatures between 25 and 35°C, temperatures around 20-25°C and a bit of rain in autumn, and a mild winter with medium rain, approximatly every 4th or 5th day. It also needs a lot of fresh air. Good wind with around 12-20 km/h would be optimal. As for the substrate/soil, the optimum would be a mineral rich vulcanic soil.
    Once the 2 years are gone, you can put it out of the pot, and plant it somewhere where it gets what I wrote above. From that point on, the plant is self sufficient.

  • @carltaylor4942
    @carltaylor4942 4 роки тому +8

    Thanks for that - these things grow all over the place where I live in Andalusia and I wondered what people did with them. The plants here are enormous - up to about ten feet across.

    • @urbanodebora
      @urbanodebora 3 роки тому

      Damn you could start a business

    • @2222isabella
      @2222isabella 2 роки тому +1

      I had them in the garden and I prepared them for years. They were delicious.

  • @kimmcvitty3580
    @kimmcvitty3580 3 роки тому +9

    A Dutch lady, living in Turkey, prepares her capers by soaking in water in a plastic bottle with the lid on for about 5 days. Each day she releases the top and gas comes out. After about 5 days no more has is produced , then she drains them and covers in apple vinegar. I assume she changes the water in the bottle every day while curing them.

  • @drawitout
    @drawitout 3 роки тому +3

    I don’t know what I would do without capers in my life. Especially with my garlic sensitivity.

  • @leannewyker3637
    @leannewyker3637 5 років тому +4

    I adore capers. Got some seeds online from Australian seed but no luck propagating them yet. I wish I could find someone who sells the bush in perth. Tasty and what a pretty plant.

  • @justinbarrington6584
    @justinbarrington6584 5 років тому +5

    Please can you offer advice on how to propogate caper plants?

  • @chrisf.50
    @chrisf.50 5 років тому +7

    Also, the caper leaves are great in salads.

  • @Phil-ud2vv
    @Phil-ud2vv 5 років тому +1

    I love capers , caper berries , I just love em 👍👍

  • @loveforthe90s
    @loveforthe90s 5 років тому +12

    Eating these crazy good capers I got as I watch this 😆😆

  • @agehamochizuki
    @agehamochizuki 3 роки тому +1

    At 1:52 when that branch snaps so did my heart ;;

  • @roundersproduction
    @roundersproduction 4 роки тому +1

    I have this plant good to know it gives fruit also 🤩

  • @johnmonck5054
    @johnmonck5054 5 років тому +1

    capers and pesto ..... yum ... who would have thought

  • @MsGaella
    @MsGaella 3 роки тому

    Wonderful. Thank you!

  • @harrypack7808
    @harrypack7808 3 роки тому

    i love caper!

  • @harryt988
    @harryt988 4 роки тому +1

    Capers are good with shrimp on the Barbie !

  • @tsetse7120
    @tsetse7120 4 роки тому

    You can pickle thin brunches with the leaves too

  • @adrennalin892
    @adrennalin892 3 роки тому

    Can this plant have thorns on branchs?

  • @jamestucker6988
    @jamestucker6988 5 років тому +1

    Does anyone know where I can get plants in Sydney?

  • @paulfitton285
    @paulfitton285 3 роки тому

    We use nastersiums, also flowers & leaves edible

  • @EdonFlat
    @EdonFlat 5 років тому

    thanks so much for sharing this! :-)

  • @sislertx
    @sislertx 4 роки тому

    Where do u get one or two..or five or six

  • @randomfaz3867
    @randomfaz3867 5 років тому +3

    Caper pesto oh my yes. Marry me Brian.

  • @maragrace820
    @maragrace820 2 роки тому +2

    capers have the highest content of quercetin. ..... no need for supplements, just eat the right foods

  • @TheGrmany69
    @TheGrmany69 5 років тому +1

    There is way better information about it in Italian, and no, the plant is highly prolific, it must be the conditions where he is growing those plants.

    • @TheGrmany69
      @TheGrmany69 5 років тому +1

      @LagiNaLangAko23 Absolutely, the Mediterranean climate is quite hot and dry in summer, the only thing would be that it will not tolerate wet soil, think in rosemary.

    • @TheGrmany69
      @TheGrmany69 5 років тому +1

      @LagiNaLangAko23 you need well drained soil, think sand.

  • @peetnienaber4006
    @peetnienaber4006 4 роки тому

    6

  • @ShepherdsChapelonYT
    @ShepherdsChapelonYT 3 роки тому +2

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