I think you solved one mystery. The story is my balding great grandfather made a putrid paste that he rubbed into his head every night. He wrapped his head with a towel and let it work as he slept. His hair regrew, full, thick and jet black. Then he went and found a new wife and had eight more children. Sounds like he made a saw palmetto berry paste.
Great video! My son and I were following our piglets out to pasture and forgot our water bottles. We pulled a few fronds and chewed the ends along the way. Very mildly sweet, pleasant taste somewhat like a water chestnut. Haven't tried the berries yet but will in the fall.
If you haven't already and if its not too much trouble, could you do a video showing how to collect the other parts of the saw palmetto besides the berries?
Be careful if your a native because they will arrest you. They are illegal to pick and harvested. These plants our ancestors haven eaten for thousands of years and yet they made illegal for us to eat them.
Thanks for writing. The other parts (the core and where the fronds go into the core) can be eaten raw and are mild tasting. In fact, you can buy heart of palm in the grocery story that tastes the same. It is the fruit that is the gustatory challenge. They are an acquired taste.
@EatTheweeds Ok.. so I've been Searching for INFO on the Pit.. or Seed of the saw palmetto berries, as far as can you or Should you grind Them up with the fruit part, to place in capsules to take@ do you Not include the Pit? And ehy or why not? Sorry.. all other resources online Would Never Give and detail of the Pit part, or even mention them at All!, regardless of how nany differt ways i tried wording it to find out! Any info is greatly Appreciated! Thank you Sir!
Ok.. so I've been Searching for INFO on the Pit.. or Seed of the saw palmetto berries, as far as can you or Should you grind Them up with the fruit part, to place in capsules to take@ do you Not include the Pit? And ehy or why not? Sorry.. all other resources online Would Never Give and detail of the Pit part, or even mention them at All!, regardless of how nany differt ways i tried wording it to find out! Any info is greatly Appreciated! Thank you Sir!
Five in one sitting over the course of a few minutes, if you can eat them that fast. They are strong. In fact, it is the aftertaste that has all the muscle. The initial taste is quite pleasant then that same flavor blasts off.
Note: This intensely sweet taste is also found in the dwarf palmetto (Sabal Minor). I wonder if you could make a chocolate replacement using crushed palmetto berries?
While Dickenson said the chief "ate of them greedily" among living Seminole Indians is the saying of don't eat more than five at a time. Their flavor is very strong and I suspect if you eat more than five you won't taste anything else for several hours. Even when you eat one the flavor l lasts a long time. The oil, the fatty acids, coat your mouth. No doubt it is an acquired taste. There is a good reason why it comes in a tasteless capsule.
I eat them all the time. I don't find them to be oily at all. They do taste like blue cheese and pepper though. My latest has been chalky and very dry to my palette. Difficult swallowing the pulp as it's dry. I like them and have eaten around 20 in one sitting.
The fruits of the Sabal palmetto (cabbage palm) are edible. I tried some at the state park the other day they were tasty and had 3 seeds inside each one. Also tried sea grapes they were okay one lard seed inside. The really ripe ones taste a lot like sherry.
I thought the berries tasted like that because I had left them on the bush too long and they had rotted. Now that I've wittnessed a human swallow this it gives me more courage to try again.
Haven eaten a couple, who could eat enough of them to make a difference? Saying they taste like tobacco juice and rotten cheese is either an understatement, or being unkind to tobacco and cheese! Just watching you eat this made me recall the taste...and I'm actually thinking about picking some to save for future tastings...sort of like a sore tooth. Hurts like crazy, but you can't stop from running your tongue against it. Thanks Deane!
Thanks, I've been locking for a description of how to eat the berries. I had also read of the shipwrecked English. Do you know of any way to cook or prepare Saw Palmetto berries. I was first interest in the plant as a erosion preventive, similar to Azalea, perhaps as a second or first barrier to Azalea for wave action.
At Ponce Inlet Jetty park there are thousands and thousands of cut branches strewn about the entire park when these things turn black. Every year someone goes in with a cart (I see the tracks in the sand) and cuts every possible branch and shakes the berries off and throws the branches on the sand. It must be an effort by many people as I can't imagine one human being could possibly cover the area alone. Finding a single ripe berry is quite impossible some days. Bummer.
And to mention a point I just got in an email, there is a scrub palm, sabal etonia, that resembles the saw palmetto closely but it does not have spines on its stalks. I have a reference that says they are edible but I have not tried them personally.
I have read that saw palmetto has properties that block DHT which is the hormone that causes male pattern baldness. I have read that there are a certain natural medicines contain extracts of this plant. I want to know if saw palmetto actually blocks DHT production in males?
There are some reports that it does reduce hair loss. The logic behind reducing hair loss is the same as lessening prostate growth. The berry reduces the amount of proto testosterone being made into testosterone. The less testosterone made the less that accumulates at the base of a hair so the hair lives longer.
Why you would want to eat them? Why not? More than likely they contain more minerals and vitamins then our farm raised plants grown in NPK only fortified soil. It is always good to know and try new things. You never know when this stuff might just save your life. When you know what edible plant you like you will not waste time looking for ones you don't.
Walked outside and ate one of the berries. I miss eating cheese, so it was a strangely pleasant experience. It's like eating a blue cheese stuffed olive plucked out of a Bloody Mary mix.
I LOVE Blue cheese, I just ate a large amount about 3 hours ago! :) I hope their in season, I want to go try one. I love eating hot peppers too. I hope I can find some today. I know where a ton of different palms are. Now that I know which ones are edible. Most here I think are "cabbage palms" which have tiny berries and probably not edible, idk.
Well, thank you very much for your answer, I didn't expect it to come so quickly. I was wondering also if you might have any knowledge about a plant called Epilobium Parviflorum or Epilobium Angustifolium, thanks.
That is not my area of knowledge. But, my understanding is it does not block the production but lessens it like a governor on a motor. Said another way, DHT is still produced but less of it, and that appears to make a difference. As for the above question from another visitor about yohmbie, I know nothing of it except it grows in Africa.
Hi, Deane. I just subscribed to your wonderful channel--it's loaded with great information. I would like to know how I can make an oil infusion with the saw palmetto to be used in scalp massages? what oil is best, and what do I do to the berries--boil them, grate them or what--prior to placing them in the oil? Thanks. Oh, and once the infusion is made should it be refrigerated to keep it from going rancid? Thanks for your help.
wow thanks for the quick reply, i just ate two, it didn't taste that bad but im one to chew raw garlic. question- how many should i eat a day? they are very small.
They plant these things everywhere in San Diego and they are very hard to kill. Even if you remove the stump of the plant it can still grow back. I once made the mistake of trying to park next to one of these plants and the spines on the frond's stem left some very deep scratches in my car door.
I'm a Florida native and I've eaten Saw Palmetto a couple times it is NOT tasty. But it will not kill you. Rotten cheese in tobacco juice, I agree is a very good description. I sort of decided that this is medicine for men, since some people say it increases testosterone, I decided it was likely something I didn't want anyway.
I am sorry, I did not see you comment until now. Yes you are right. That said, saw palmetto may be an acquired tasted. Seminole Indians have a saying to only eat five at at time. They make the mouth somewhat sensitive to hot water.
Ok.. so I've been Searching for INFO on the Pit.. or Seed of the saw palmetto berries, as far as can you or Should you grind Them up with the fruit part, to place in capsules to take@ do you Not include the Pit? And ehy or why not? Sorry.. all other resources online Would Never Give and detail of the Pit part, or even mention them at All!, regardless of how nany differt ways i tried wording it to find out! Any info is greatly Appreciated! Thank you Sir!
Tried this today for the first time. First one I SPAT OUT! Woah! OK.. tried again. Now I know what I'm getting into. Success! Third one I actually almost could appreciate. There was actually a hint of sweetness.
I live in South Texas and what I have always known to be a Palmetto is a palm that lives in the low land wet areas. Also I have never seen one taller than 3-4 feet high but they do look exactly like what you showed in this vid. I'm assuming that I'm referring to a different species of Palmetto. Is the one in my area also have editable fruit that you know of?
They are both palms but that is like saying beagles and Great Dame are similar dogs. Both palms have a lot of fat but the fat profile is different. More so, the saw palmetto is a very strong flavor that is hard to moderate. Most folks will not find it palatable.
@ericladnier One has to be brave.... and if you don't like the flavor it will be with you for about an hour... hard as it is to belive they used to make a soft drink out of them.
@EatTheWeeds Yeah, I guess he ate some too since he had the surge in virility (he had already fathered 9 kids from his first wife). I forgot to mention that he razor shaved his head (plus he had male pattern baldness kicking in overdrive) prior to this home treatment.
hey i have a plant in my home it 100% look like saw palmetto but i m not sure is it ! . b coz i cant found any person who tell me that it really saw plmto . then how could i sure about it . plz guide me
Difficiult to say. Seranoa repens is listed in only one country in Texas, the most southern one. It will grow in dampish areas abut is usually seen in dry areas. Palms do not like to have their feet wet. The Texas Palmetto is a tall palm that likes dry areas.
I have a bucket of saw palmetto fruit right now and am doing some online research to determine how edible this is really going to be. Thank you for this video. The Dickerson survival story is interesting. I'll have to look it up. I can't imagine the logistics, however, of pulling rowboats at the shoreline while walking on foot in wet sand. I'd love to see a demonstration of that feat. If I tow anything at the Fla shoreline - from surf/body boards, to rafts, to large, multi-person kayaks, to canoes, to inner tubes and floating jumping platforms - they all get slapped around by the waves. They get tossed around and flipped and pushed up into the shallows ("beached"), or pulled out to sea, depending on the tide and if you run into rip currents. The logistics of this trick fascinates me. How their boats (steered by a rudder, presumably) didn't just angle into shore every 15 feet. And, how they managed to dodge all of the windy days - because, you know that on a windy day, the surf will get higher and the boats will have two choices - 1) row much further out, past the surf line, or 2) get flipped and pushed into shore. This is without reconciling the part about them having no food or fresh water. I'm not sure how you survive marching for a whole day without a gallon or two of fresh water (each) - and that's even up north. Try that in summer, in Florida, and I don't think you last 2 days. So I wonder how they were carrying gallons upon gallons of water (and keeping it fresh if it wasn't mead/ale) all the way up the Florida coast line. I think MIA to ST AUG is like 400 miles. Curving miles at that, if you're not on a straight, engineered road. And not all of it is on the beach - as some of it will be broken up by inlets and intercoastal waterways with islands back before they had bridges spanning these. I guess they used the rowboats to ferry people back & forth across these obstacles? But even if you managed to hike 20 miles a day (in wet sand???), you'd still be on the road for 20+ days. Without food or water ready? I mean.. if you had to stop to forage or find locals to trade with... then the journey gets even longer. Again, fascinating story. I'd love to hear the logistics so I think I'll do some research.
Why would one eat them? They actually grow on you... perhaps an acquired taste. They go fairly well with a full-bodied dry red wine, especially if you like blue cheese or cheeses in that realm. Refrigerating them for a while lessens some of the intensity and pepperness. In fact, I am having one... one... right now. If a person does not like the flavor they are stuck with it for 15 to 20 minutes
This is an older video but maybe someone will know the answer...what is the name of the Saw Palmetto soft drink you mentioned? I had never heard of a soft drink made from saw palmetto berries. Thanks
You are confusing two different plants. The Sabal palmetto and the serenoa repens. The S. palmetto is a tall palm and cutting off the top does kill it. The S. repens is a many-headed crawling palm and cutting of one head does not kill it. The core of each is called the heart of palm. And to add to the confusion the S. repens is commonly called a palmetto.
thanx for give the information i need a littel more help from u. you seems much knowledge about the weed or herbs just tell me what called saw palm in ( hindi or urdu ) if you dont know you must have links to find out . i am so much graetfull to you for helping me .
Question I just bout some dried berries. I 'm grinding the berry and gong to drink it in a worm tea. What should I do with the seeds? Any recommendations? Thank you, great Video!
Can you provide me with 100 kilos of Saw palmetto seeds? I want to extract oils and sell them locally . What is the price per kilo? Please specify an acceptable price
is saw palmetto good for hair loss problem? there are pills selling on the internet and they advertise it for the hair loss problem. can i buy and use it without a doctor consultancy? is there any risk or side effect?
I am sorry to say I do not. But if you google 'Plants For A Future' and once on that page put Epilobium Parviflorum into the search blank at the upper left you will get some information and references.
If one is allergic to peanuts, has eczema, is lactose intolerant, haves asthma and is allergic to sea food will they also be allergic to saw palmetto berries?
I think you solved one mystery. The story is my balding great grandfather made a putrid paste that he rubbed into his head every night. He wrapped his head with a towel and let it work as he slept. His hair regrew, full, thick and jet black. Then he went and found a new wife and had eight more children.
Sounds like he made a saw palmetto berry paste.
All herbs or berries n bark hv healing properties but take it in moderation.
Great video! My son and I were following our piglets out to pasture and forgot our water bottles. We pulled a few fronds and chewed the ends along the way. Very mildly sweet, pleasant taste somewhat like a water chestnut. Haven't tried the berries yet but will in the fall.
If you haven't already and if its not too much trouble, could you do a video showing how to collect the other parts of the saw palmetto besides the berries?
I've lived in Florida all my life and had NO idea! I love learning about the edible and medicinal plants around us daily. This is a great series :D
For women, these can inhibit female hormones. Take care with this stuff.
Be careful if your a native because they will arrest you. They are illegal to pick and harvested. These plants our ancestors haven eaten for thousands of years and yet they made illegal for us to eat them.
These also grow in Mexico too.
Thanks for writing. The other parts (the core and where the fronds go into the core) can be eaten raw and are mild tasting. In fact, you can buy heart of palm in the grocery story that tastes the same. It is the fruit that is the gustatory challenge. They are an acquired taste.
@EatTheweeds Ok.. so I've been Searching for INFO on the Pit.. or Seed of the saw palmetto berries, as far as can you or Should you grind Them up with the fruit part, to place in capsules to take@ do you Not include the Pit? And ehy or why not? Sorry.. all other resources online Would Never Give and detail of the Pit part, or even mention them at All!, regardless of how nany differt ways i tried wording it to find out! Any info is greatly Appreciated! Thank you Sir!
Ok.. so I've been Searching for INFO on the Pit.. or Seed of the saw palmetto berries, as far as can you or Should you grind Them up with the fruit part, to place in capsules to take@ do you Not include the Pit? And ehy or why not? Sorry.. all other resources online Would Never Give and detail of the Pit part, or even mention them at All!, regardless of how nany differt ways i tried wording it to find out! Any info is greatly Appreciated! Thank you Sir!
The dead palm fronds are very flammable and burn quickly. I've used them many times for bringing a fire back from a dull ember after it has died.
Excellent presentation, Mr. Green!
Some natives used them as a staple food. The Seminoles have a saying of don't eat more than five at a time.
That's why baldness is very uncommon among the Seminoles
I absolutely love you channel, thank you for sharing your knowledge!
Five in one sitting over the course of a few minutes, if you can eat them that fast. They are strong. In fact, it is the aftertaste that has all the muscle. The initial taste is quite pleasant then that same flavor blasts off.
Note: This intensely sweet taste is also found in the dwarf palmetto (Sabal Minor). I wonder if you could make a chocolate replacement using crushed palmetto berries?
Some think it helps with hair loss. The size can vary.
While Dickenson said the chief "ate of them greedily" among living Seminole Indians is the saying of don't eat more than five at a time. Their flavor is very strong and I suspect if you eat more than five you won't taste anything else for several hours. Even when you eat one the flavor l lasts a long time. The oil, the fatty acids, coat your mouth. No doubt it is an acquired taste. There is a good reason why it comes in a tasteless capsule.
I eat them all the time. I don't find them to be oily at all. They do taste like blue cheese and pepper though. My latest has been chalky and very dry to my palette. Difficult swallowing the pulp as it's dry. I like them and have eaten around 20 in one sitting.
The fruits of the Sabal palmetto (cabbage palm) are edible. I tried some at the state park the other day they were tasty and had 3 seeds inside each one. Also tried sea grapes they were okay one lard seed inside. The really ripe ones taste a lot like sherry.
I thought the berries tasted like that because I had left them on the bush too long and they had rotted. Now that I've wittnessed a human swallow this it gives me more courage to try again.
@luvmyhair2 Usually the oil is just expelled and saved that way. Or a tincture is made. Here on you tube look for charles marble saw palmetto.
Haven eaten a couple, who could eat enough of them to make a difference? Saying they taste like tobacco juice and rotten cheese is either an understatement, or being unkind to tobacco and cheese!
Just watching you eat this made me recall the taste...and I'm actually thinking about picking some to save for future tastings...sort of like a sore tooth. Hurts like crazy, but you can't stop from running your tongue against it.
Thanks Deane!
Thanks, I've been locking for a description of how to eat the berries. I had also read of the shipwrecked English. Do you know of any way to cook or prepare Saw Palmetto berries. I was first interest in the plant as a erosion preventive, similar to Azalea, perhaps as a second or first barrier to Azalea for wave action.
At Ponce Inlet Jetty park there are thousands and thousands of cut branches strewn about the entire park when these things turn black. Every year someone goes in with a cart (I see the tracks in the sand) and cuts every possible branch and shakes the berries off and throws the branches on the sand. It must be an effort by many people as I can't imagine one human being could possibly cover the area alone. Finding a single ripe berry is quite impossible some days. Bummer.
In what season do they ripen? I'm in South Ga so I'd love to collect some one day.
@ScottfromTexas Thanks. The saw palmetto is both familiar and strange at the same time. As for durian... you either like it or hate it.
And to mention a point I just got in an email, there is a scrub palm, sabal etonia, that resembles the saw palmetto closely but it does not have spines on its stalks. I have a reference that says they are edible but I have not tried them personally.
The story of Jonathan Dickinson was really engaging. Great episode. :)
I have read that saw palmetto has properties that block DHT which is the hormone that causes male pattern baldness. I have read that there are a certain natural medicines contain extracts of this plant. I want to know if saw palmetto actually blocks DHT production in males?
There are some reports that it does reduce hair loss. The logic behind reducing hair loss is the same as lessening prostate growth. The berry reduces the amount of proto testosterone being made into testosterone. The less testosterone made the less that accumulates at the base of a hair so the hair lives longer.
Thanks, from Ontario, Canada... I heard about this today, from my daughter in Madrid, Spain. Really good information, EatTheWeeds...Loved it.
Thank you, I am so sure I'll have fun with these. they are all over here where I am at
Excellent, best 1 have seen!.
great story and presentation - thanks
Why you would want to eat them? Why not? More than likely they contain more minerals and vitamins then our farm raised plants grown in NPK only fortified soil. It is always good to know and try new things. You never know when this stuff might just save your life. When you know what edible plant you like you will not waste time looking for ones you don't.
Walked outside and ate one of the berries. I miss eating cheese, so it was a strangely pleasant experience. It's like eating a blue cheese stuffed olive plucked out of a Bloody Mary mix.
Sure hope that’s accurate because that sounds delicious! Can’t wait to try the ones on mine here in new home in Mobile AL.
I LOVE Blue cheese, I just ate a large amount about 3 hours ago! :) I hope their in season, I want to go try one. I love eating hot peppers too. I hope I can find some today. I know where a ton of different palms are. Now that I know which ones are edible. Most here I think are "cabbage palms" which have tiny berries and probably not edible, idk.
Well, thank you very much for your answer, I didn't expect it to come so quickly. I was wondering also if you might have any knowledge about a plant called Epilobium Parviflorum or Epilobium Angustifolium, thanks.
great info
Awesome video! Thanks for your work
That is not my area of knowledge. But, my understanding is it does not block the production but lessens it like a governor on a motor. Said another way, DHT is still produced but less of it, and that appears to make a difference. As for the above question from another visitor about yohmbie, I know nothing of it except it grows in Africa.
Hi, Deane. I just subscribed to your wonderful channel--it's loaded with great information. I would like to know how I can make an oil infusion with the saw palmetto to be used in scalp massages? what oil is best, and what do I do to the berries--boil them, grate them or what--prior to placing them in the oil? Thanks. Oh, and once the infusion is made should it be refrigerated to keep it from going rancid? Thanks for your help.
wow thanks for the quick reply, i just ate two, it didn't taste that bad but im one to chew raw garlic. question- how many should i eat a day? they are very small.
They plant these things everywhere in San Diego and they are very hard to kill. Even if you remove the stump of the plant it can still grow back. I once made the mistake of trying to park next to one of these plants and the spines on the frond's stem left some very deep scratches in my car door.
The tree I grew up with in Calif had little yellow things that looked like tiny dates. Are those edible?
Some refer to the Sabal palmetto as tasting "prune" like. I always found the sea grapes to be exotic.
I'm a Florida native and I've eaten Saw Palmetto a couple times it is NOT tasty. But it will not kill you. Rotten cheese in tobacco juice, I agree is a very good description. I sort of decided that this is medicine for men, since some people say it increases testosterone, I decided it was likely something I didn't want anyway.
Angela ::: yum !!! Rotten cheese good !!! LOL
I am sorry, I did not see you comment until now. Yes you are right. That said, saw palmetto may be an acquired tasted. Seminole Indians have a saying to only eat five at at time. They make the mouth somewhat sensitive to hot water.
Ok.. so I've been Searching for INFO on the Pit.. or Seed of the saw palmetto berries, as far as can you or Should you grind Them up with the fruit part, to place in capsules to take@ do you Not include the Pit? And ehy or why not? Sorry.. all other resources online Would Never Give and detail of the Pit part, or even mention them at All!, regardless of how nany differt ways i tried wording it to find out! Any info is greatly Appreciated! Thank you Sir!
Tried this today for the first time. First one I SPAT OUT! Woah! OK.. tried again. Now I know what I'm getting into. Success! Third one I actually almost could appreciate. There was actually a hint of sweetness.
Is there any other type of Saw Palmetto...which does not bear fruit...because in my country Philippines there are many such plants but they are small.
Great video, was wondering about this berry---such great information! Thank you!
I appreciate you very much. I hope you keep making videos just like this.
Enriched everytime I peek in here.......... I should peek in more often I suppose. Good googley moogely you're a neat fellow ! Thnx again Green !
The description (minus the peppery flavor) sounds like durian fruit which I love...have you had this fruit? Thanks for the video!
I live in South Texas and what I have always known to be a Palmetto is a palm that lives in the low land wet areas. Also I have never seen one taller than 3-4 feet high but they do look exactly like what you showed in this vid. I'm assuming that I'm referring to a different species of Palmetto. Is the one in my area also have editable fruit that you know of?
Is this a variety of palm tree? We have that in the farm. They grow tall.I is hard to pull the fronds. Just dry and powder the fruits to use them?
that flavor sounds really luxurious.
Whether these seeds of saw palmetto is available in india where to get itn
They are both palms but that is like saying beagles and Great Dame are similar dogs. Both palms have a lot of fat but the fat profile is different. More so, the saw palmetto is a very strong flavor that is hard to moderate. Most folks will not find it palatable.
@ericladnier One has to be brave.... and if you don't like the flavor it will be with you for about an hour... hard as it is to belive they used to make a soft drink out of them.
I just ground some up and made a tincture out of them, but you said don't eat seeds?? I ground seeds and all, are they poisonous?
@EatTheWeeds Yeah, I guess he ate some too since he had the surge in virility (he had already fathered 9 kids from his first wife). I forgot to mention that he razor shaved his head (plus he had male pattern baldness kicking in overdrive) prior to this home treatment.
Usually September and October, give or take a week or two depending upon the weather.
The berries on the saw palmetto in my yard are ripening right now! 8/18/2020 in Miami, FL
wow, i live in Jupiter and never knew why it was called Jefferson-Dickinson, you're videos are very educational.
What is the best way to obtain the understanding of this man? What study is this?
in which season in mean month saw palm,, is fuirting ?
hello can you make a video about yohmbie...thanks
hey i have a plant in my home it 100% look like saw palmetto but i m not sure is it ! . b coz i cant found any person who tell me that it really saw plmto . then how could i sure about it . plz guide me
thank you for makeing the video
Difficiult to say. Seranoa repens is listed in only one country in Texas, the most southern one. It will grow in dampish areas abut is usually seen in dry areas. Palms do not like to have their feet wet. The Texas Palmetto is a tall palm that likes dry areas.
Its a very tall palm tree, they fall off that way; orange with a hard center. Does that have something to do with the tree being male or female?
I have a bucket of saw palmetto fruit right now and am doing some online research to determine how edible this is really going to be. Thank you for this video.
The Dickerson survival story is interesting. I'll have to look it up. I can't imagine the logistics, however, of pulling rowboats at the shoreline while walking on foot in wet sand. I'd love to see a demonstration of that feat. If I tow anything at the Fla shoreline - from surf/body boards, to rafts, to large, multi-person kayaks, to canoes, to inner tubes and floating jumping platforms - they all get slapped around by the waves. They get tossed around and flipped and pushed up into the shallows ("beached"), or pulled out to sea, depending on the tide and if you run into rip currents. The logistics of this trick fascinates me. How their boats (steered by a rudder, presumably) didn't just angle into shore every 15 feet. And, how they managed to dodge all of the windy days - because, you know that on a windy day, the surf will get higher and the boats will have two choices - 1) row much further out, past the surf line, or 2) get flipped and pushed into shore.
This is without reconciling the part about them having no food or fresh water. I'm not sure how you survive marching for a whole day without a gallon or two of fresh water (each) - and that's even up north. Try that in summer, in Florida, and I don't think you last 2 days. So I wonder how they were carrying gallons upon gallons of water (and keeping it fresh if it wasn't mead/ale) all the way up the Florida coast line.
I think MIA to ST AUG is like 400 miles. Curving miles at that, if you're not on a straight, engineered road. And not all of it is on the beach - as some of it will be broken up by inlets and intercoastal waterways with islands back before they had bridges spanning these. I guess they used the rowboats to ferry people back & forth across these obstacles? But even if you managed to hike 20 miles a day (in wet sand???), you'd still be on the road for 20+ days. Without food or water ready? I mean.. if you had to stop to forage or find locals to trade with... then the journey gets even longer.
Again, fascinating story. I'd love to hear the logistics so I think I'll do some research.
I have quite a few green ones, what should i do with them?
maybe dry them in the sun or can i eat them green? thanks again
It would be great if you could show how to clean the saw palm to get at the heart.
They taste bad when ripe (black) but are totally horrible when green. Let them ripen on the palm.
Another question. Is the meat of the berry supposed to be black?
As saw palmetto berries are high in oil certainly no more than two, probably just one. That is my best guess.
They restore testosterone! These berries were the source of the "fountain of youth" legends.
It DOES...I've been taking this for a few weeks and have seen real progress quickly
I only have orange berries with a hard center. How would i use it?
How many years does it take to see Swamp Cabbage mature?
I did not know that about JD Park..thanks!
Hi Green Deane - Do you know of a reputable / reasonable source where folks outside of FL can buy raw saw palmetto berries...?
Why would one eat them? They actually grow on you... perhaps an acquired taste. They go fairly well with a full-bodied dry red wine, especially if you like blue cheese or cheeses in that realm. Refrigerating them for a while lessens some of the intensity and pepperness. In fact, I am having one... one... right now. If a person does not like the flavor they are stuck with it for 15 to 20 minutes
This is an older video but maybe someone will know the answer...what is the name of the Saw Palmetto soft drink you mentioned? I had never heard of a soft drink made from saw palmetto berries. Thanks
You are confusing two different plants. The Sabal palmetto and the serenoa repens. The S. palmetto is a tall palm and cutting off the top does kill it. The S. repens is a many-headed crawling palm and cutting of one head does not kill it. The core of each is called the heart of palm. And to add to the confusion the S. repens is commonly called a palmetto.
It's not too difficult. Cut the end off, then cut or peel the outside off from the top until the soft core is exposed.
The you are not talking about the Saw Palmetto, which is short. You might be referring to the Queen Palm.
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Hello Dean is there anyway to may the sawpalmetto in to a drink?
Question I just bout some dried berries. I 'm grinding the berry and gong to drink it in a worm tea. What should I do with the seeds? Any recommendations? Thank you, great Video!
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@@artistsurafel you know the saying " when you have nothing nice to say, don't say anything at all..!"
Didn't he say don't eat them? Maybe plant them for more palms. Enjoy your worm tea ; )
@brizzx32 yes, it used to be a commercial product as a soda... Still tasted bad
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@EatTheWeeds What was the drink called?
where can I buy a tree or a seed?
Can you provide me with 100 kilos of Saw palmetto seeds? I want to extract oils and sell them locally
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What is the price per kilo? Please specify an acceptable price
do they help with hair loss?
i found some today in the woods , they are green and black, but much smaller than what you shown.
I've heard of such
is saw palmetto good for hair loss problem? there are pills selling on the internet and they advertise it for the hair loss problem. can i buy and use it without a doctor consultancy? is there any risk or side effect?
When are they in season?
I am sorry to say I do not. But if you google 'Plants For A Future' and once on that page put Epilobium Parviflorum into the search blank at the upper left you will get some information and references.
@odedaj Yes, when I lived in Japan.
If one is allergic to peanuts, has eczema, is lactose intolerant, haves asthma and is allergic to sea food will they also be allergic to saw palmetto berries?
Hi, I need to know will Saw Palmetto make your Cholesterol levels high?
I wonder if they can be cooked. Maybe to season the palmetto heart when cooking it.
Dried as a spice might work. They are intense. I think they have a flavor similar to aged cheese so they might work in similar recipes.
These the same as the berries on the Sabal palm?
Not at all. There's nothing quite like a saw palmetto berry as far as I know.