How Mexico Grows Limes On Orange Trees To Supply The US | Big Business | Business Insider
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- The price of limes was three times higher than normal at the start of 2022. Droughts, freezes, and floods threatened the health of the fruit. We head to Veracruz, Mexico, to see how one farm is harvesting and processing millions of limes in the face of growing instability.
0:00 Intro
0:48 Growing limes
4:00 Picking limes
4:48 How limes are processed in the factory
6:15 Shipping
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How Mexico Grows Limes On Orange Trees To Supply The US | Big Business | Business Insider
Fun fact. You can grow any citrus fruit on any other one. You can have a tree that produces oranges, lemons AND lime. We do this here in Hawaii.😊
Yeah I think it was a bad way they explained and animated how grafting works. Don't they typically use trifoliate oranges as root stock for most citrus?
Same with peach, apricot and nectarine trees and some types of apple trees.
I think everyone who grows fruit knows this?! Most people buy either grafted plants or graft themselves, you dont see anyone really growing fruit from seed here (germany) except for the root stock ofc.
@@Donnirononon90 year old grandma was familiar when i showed her this vid shes from GTO,Mexico
Thank you Mexico for supplying the world limes and avocados. Can you also start supplying us your local salsa brands? Thanks.
Eat local. Importing of food en masse is detroying the land.
LMAO😂..... It's sooo eazy 4 or 5 things...blend or smash it up wit a lil sprinkle or 2 of salt and game over😅🎉
It’s all hand made
Thank you Mexico!
Can't help but think this is such a win on Mexican agriculture/technology. Defeated climate challenges, and automated photo sorting for limes.
my uncle lives in veracruz he’s a lime farmer it really is hard work i got to see first hand when i went back in 2019
Tell your uncle thank you. His work is so appreciated.
Tell him thank you for his hard work. Farming is a very demanding job , ive done farm work myself ,but its a very important job too. Much love ❤️ 🙏
Did help him aswell
Love that my people are still pushing to keep these lovely plants alive.
There's a situation which is not mentioned about growing limes. Certain areas are affected by this over-production for export only. The land started to change its own nutrients; droughts are more common these days in those areas because the need from the plant to grow. There's not enough water for closer town of this companies. one of the biggest examples is Michoacán. Also, this plantation industry keeps occupying a lot of spaces of closer woods, cutting down the trees to no disturb the growing from them. And no to mention the corruption problem this companies bring to the government and the permisions to expand their lands.
We must diversify the lime supply. Many other countries have great limes too
Sounds like a case of modern imperialism with the heads being multinational companies. Little to care for the local communities, sucking the local resources dry with no regard to sustainability, and tarnish the environment along the way.
there's also the issue of monocropping which depletes the soil of nutrients
Better than selling drugs.
@@cronoz7 It's a bit hard to rotate crops when trees are involved, 🙄.
You know this is bias, when they avoid mentioning the other reason why prices has spiked. Cartel who seize and blackmail the lime industry and stronger demand.
They're stealing avocados too. It's so infuriating that they steal the hard work from honest farmers.
No more demand for weed in america since a lot of states went legal. Werent avocados a target for cartels too?
Hay que leer más amigó. Es propaganda para desprestigiar el producto mexicano y entren nuevas competencias de producto como el limón , aguacate etc. Pero La calidad no va ser igual al Producto Mexicano que es mucho mejor
I heard they’re trafficking water too.
I heard they’re trafficking oxygen too. 😂
wow.. what an innovative process
Keep them coming Mexico. Love you
I have twelve Key Lime trees or citrus aurantifolia in the furthest part of my back yard. I don't water them and they grow out of control. I have people pick the fruit so they don't rot on the ground. I donate them to a food bank in Mesa, AZ. Every once in a while I will pick a couple to put in my Dos Equis lager which is my favorite Mexican beer.
You’re living the dream sir
Are you getting the green ones? I live in AZ and I have only seen yellow lime. In Mexico the green one is called limón.
@Jalf Dado in México the yellow and green ones are called 'limón' and 'lima' is sweet lime. Predominantly in the rest of Latin America the latter is lime and the former is lemon.
wait till those bugs invade your area & it will all change!
I grow a few from seed. Mine aren't good producers. But the ones I gave to my other does better. but mine are in pots.
Grafting is done to just about every fruit tree sold in stores, its something you can do yourself. You can also do it to members of the nightshade family, and get many different fruits on the same tree. If they had left some orange branches on, it would have produced both limes and oranges. Grafted plants have larger fruit, and more of it. They also have the immunities of both parent plants, rather than just one. You could, for example, graft lemons, limes and oranges together, to tomatoes and potatoes. In fact a company called Territorial seed company frequently advertises grafted potato and tomato plants called "Ketchup and fries." You can also use the same grafting tape to fix a broken stem, which I did once with first aid tape when i broke a mexican sunflower plant.
You can’t graft a orange to a tomato plant
@@demetriuspowell29 you misread the comment
they do this with avocados too
@@allouttabubblegum1984 my bad
We are in Trinidad and we run a small family lime business where we pick, package and deliver the limes to our local groceries . One of the pest that is destroying our lime trees are the giant African snails. It’s very difficult to control because they multiply so quickly.
What about d black fly..??..I have a neighbor who have citrus and d leaves black..
It has a plot of land in Belmont that them snails on..they can't finish kill snails there..
They're bizarre creatures
Hey, I'm from Trinidad too and lime juice is my absolute favourite to drink. I can smell it all in my sleep when it's being made. Most delicious drink I ever had the pleasure of tasting, and I've loved it from small.
@@jmg9509 very bad for you genetically modified limes
Is it just me or has this been uploaded before?
Re-upload
Yea, same thought I remember seeing it. I noticed that some stuff is blurred out so maybe they had to censored the company name. Example: 4:46
It was reuploaded, but I recall in the last one they also discussed Cartels involvement in the agricultural field.
Deja Vu
@@modusoperandi4624 Nah, that’s for avocados.
As previously posted, turf wars between Mexican cartels has affected both production and distribution of limes for the last several years. "They (cartels) impose the price of the limes, they decide if the price can be lowered or not, they dictate prices to producers, pickers, packers, and transporters. .......Avocado production is another area of cartel control, though not as much as limes." (La Reforma)
The cartels who you make them get the millions because YOU CONSUME the drugs and YOU SENT the guns to these cartels...
Yes but the big company’s are part of the cartel
My family is from Michoacan THAT IS NOT TRUE. only to small section is that really true.
Consumers decide the price of limes. If they get to be $5 per lime, no one will buy them. If they are 100 for a dollar, they will be heavily consumed.
I live in Texas and NEVER saw a spike in lime prices... did they spike in other states?
I’ve worked with Mexicans on a cruise ship. They are one of the most hard working people I’ve ever met! Also very friendly :)
this is a nice comment, but unnecessary to me as a mexican. but probably a necessary first step to traditionally racist people
@@alejo2957 shut up
@@eldoritos5893 nah im good, if i made you uncomfortable reflect on that
I love Mexicans lol, some of the best friends I’ve ever had were Mex-American. I grew up in San Diego so I have always been very close to Mexico. My uncle and cousins are even Mexican! The racism against them (against anyone actually) is so ignorant and breaks my heart. Their culture is fascinating and beautiful, the food is delicious, the people are very family oriented and hard working, but also very playful and will always take the opportunity to make jokes. God I miss my home and family 😢
Saludos a todos los mexicanos/as que trabajando se ganan su sustento y respeto del Mundo agro. ♥️
This documentary makes it sound like grafting is a new thing because of climate change, but it's been in use for decades for mass production.
Almost ALL avocados are grafted.
This isn't anything new, but they used the lime shortage to try and present it as "this new thing because of climate change".
Crop failures have happened all throughout history even in antiquity for various reasons.
Why would they not mention all the other plants that get grafted? Like tomatoes grafted onto potato rootstocks?
It's literally because they "like bringing you SOME facts, while pushing an agenda."
Else they would have taken the extra 1 minute to explain how grafting is used in MANY other plants, and how it's FAR from being new.
What you missed about cultivating the plants is that limes are hybridized and growing them from seed will not yield the expected results. They are grafted to a hardy relative rootstock mainly to ensure the intended fruit is produced.
All citrus are hybridize, being hybridize is irrelavant to them grafting them as all citrus are hybrids, even seeded lemons and grapefruits. It's just a mutation that prevented it from producing seeds, but regardless even seeded fruits are grafted as seeds don't hold true to the mother plant and are a gamble of genetics. All fruits from the grocery store are grafted from wine grapes to avocado, apples etc
@@alexcontreras6103 Yes, I missed that this variety is seedless, but we are saying the same thing
Them being grafted does not have any effect on the fruits being produced by the plant. It just makes for hardier plants overall.
This applies to basically all citrus
That is only a problem for those who take Mexican limes and use those seeds to try to grow new limes. Basically, you need to know what you are planting before you plant something.
In my country, rootstock for grafting citrus, is from plants grown from seeds of sour Orange. Sour Orange or natural Mandarin provide very hardy plants. When you buy a Lime, Orange, Tangelo, Grapefruit, Tangerine, Dansee, Portugal or edible citrus fruit plant from our Ministry of Agriculture, the rootstock is Sour Orange.
Trinidad & Tobago.
West Indies.
Yeah basically all citrus in the world is grafted.
French wine grape vines are the same thing. The French grape stock is grafted onto American root stock. There’s a mite that kills the French grape roots but the American roots have developed a tollerence to the mite. So all French wines are grown on American roots!
My wife and I were talking about how you can use limes as a natural deodorant and this shows up in my feed.
Wow! Plant science is amazing
This inspired me to grow more limes
Abby Narishkin is a terrific narrator. Love her pace, intonation and voice quality that has a nice genuineness about it that actually improves the viewing of the video itself. Nicely done.
Love this kind of info. Keep it going
Come on to TECOMAN, COLIMA, MEXICO… the real industry of lime in mexico is in there!!! World lime capital!!!
beautiful doc, thanks!
Wow this is crazy. I am happy I learned about this.
I grew up in a small Southern California town. When I was in 4th grade, my first ever job was working for my tío’s small plantation picking limes.
I learned this in the Peace Corps and taught the same thing but with oranges and lemons. It wasn't a 100% success rate but most succeeded and was a great way to grow oranges faster.
Those limes look delicious!!!
I love that you can just graft a lime sprout at an internode of an orange tree and gaslight it into becoming a lime tree by pruning all the orange leaves
Lots of plants can be grown that way. Its a very old trick to get plants to grow in regions they normally wouldn't be able to.
@@Moosetick2002 yes, I’m very familiar with the concept of grafting
@@Moosetick2002 - Many other plants as well; for instance, practically all good-quality hybrid "tea" roses are grafts; they're usually put on a strong, reliable rootstock, and sold as teas (which are small but "shapely" roses). What's even odder if you're a gardener is that if the stock grows again (which sometimes occurs), they're almost always a bright red "running"rose" 🙂
I've also got a neighbor who has very ordinary native (Texas) pecan trees in his yard, but over the years, has grafted shoots of various types of pecans; he has chosen them so that no matter what time of year it is except maybe dead winter, he has a producing supply of pecans!
One thing I might add is that the "Orange tree" rootstock, generally isn't from regular Orange trees. Most citrus trees are grafted onto Trifoliate orange (poncirus trifoliate) rootstock. Sometimes called a hardy orange, they have golf ball size fruit that is full of seeds. They are also sometimes called a flying dragon tree due to the large twisted thorns covering the tree. Thay are hardy down to -10 F. My trees have actually lived thru -16 F, with no problems. So, grafted on orange trees....yes, but possibly not oranges as we normally think of.
The problem nobody is talking about is the use of insecticides
The Veracruz lime production has even bigger potential, as they have grown the sales to the USA by over 100%
in the last decade, the Mexican producers should also be looking at VALUE ADDING to the business, with many
other products that could be manufactured from the limes themselves, and possibly even using the limes that
are not the required size or shape, or they have bumps, marks or rashes on the skin, but the juice is still good
for the "value adding" of products such as SAUCES (chilli, lime, garlic, parsley etc.) maybe fruit juices, and fruit
"cordial drinks" (like Bickfords), tangy sweets, lime and other flavor yogurts, lime flavored ice cream, dips with
lime flavor (possibly including guacamole) And the potentially "biggies" "lime infused" BEER, and lime flavored
LIQUOR DRINKS (like certain types of RUM, VODKA, TEQUILA or GIN) some of these products could be popular
for the export market. Most of the "rich" countries are not good for growing limes, as they are in "colder climates"
Even just the 100% lime juice, in a glass bottle for the export market, never underestimate "super-food" products.
Imagine eating street taco without lime
Great video! I appreciate the hard work put into it, very informative!
🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾
so true 👏
This made me go outside and pick some limes from my tree :)
A lot of different kinds of grape vines are grafted in the US too.
I have a Persian lime here in the northeast USA in a pot it grew fruit a couple years ago.
THANK YOU
Amazing bro thnks
Saludos del Centro de California animo raza!!!!!
F..... AMAZING!!!!! THANK YOU GREAT STORY!!!!
Great story
I've always loved the idea of plant grafting, and am happy it was able to be used in a commercial way.
"Grafting"
This sounds a bit weird. Grafting is such an old technique, its even referenced in the bible. And has definitely been used "commercially" ever since
@@fluffigverbimmelt And your point is...? nothing.
@@Andy-ck6dq initial comment was edited. Sneaky!
I love limes 🥰
I love how they make it seems like a new innovative thing, lol.. people have been doing this for ages....
thank you :)
As a small farm owner in the state of colima mexico. The price for small time producers to sell our lime has dropped, making it very difficult to live and too keep fulfilling that demand..... How are we to keep up when that high demand when the price we get paid per crate is low
en cuanto están vendiendo la caja de 20kg? cuanto estan sacando por hectarea?
High prices never flow down to small producers. distributors and wholesalers can take advantage of you. What you might do, is form a coop. Work with other small farmers. If you are bigger, distributors might pay higher. large scale distributor do not want to buy from 100 farms. they might pay more, so they can go to 1 person for their needs.
Oh another interesting documentary on Limes/Lemons! Thanks for keeping us sustained with all the hard work of planting and harvesting! May you never get tired(Ha-Ha)! Cheers and a Very Merry Christmas! Khadeeja Alghali-Rahman (London, UK)👏👍🧭🐤🐥🐣🌟💥🤼💯⚓🕴️🦔🦋🦪🐌🐓🦉🦅🦇🦦🦟🦗🐜🦂🕷️🔪🌳🔨🌛🌜
What a stupid and short...
Thank Mexico for their Corona and Limes👍
*Avocados From Mexi--*
Oh, wrong video...
Good quality heads out.mest up lemon stays in mexico 🇲🇽.
I love Limes! 😍🤩😋
I Love Limes ❤️
Wow 👏 👌
Great to see the growth and processing of limes! Especially the combination of human and machine actions that are required for this are amazing!🍋
You know these guys fight over lime extortion rackets, right?
Hopefully this will become much better, so that they get a better price for the great product they grow and deliver!
Watching this triggered my salivary glands. 🤤
Thank you love bug for th video.
Citrus is very dependent on basic inputs like sun, soil, water. Dense wood, & fragile root systems.
Whoever invented grafting was a genius. Air-layering is the most reliable cloning process.
I'm guessing nature invented grafting & humans just copied her. I have a bougainvillea that I recently pruned & discovered had grafted onto itself at one point (making it difficult to prune). Presumably humans in the past saw something like this & decided to try to do it themselves & then experiment to see how far they could go
@@mehere8038 fascinating! I’m wondering if it was observed prior to written history? Grafting has been used in grapes in recent history to combat root blight in Europe.
@@TamagoHead I'm guessing it would have been observed prior to written history, probably even more than post written history, as people were beginning to detach from nature as writing was starting. Yew trees are a bit different, but have a look into them, they're often found in church yards in Europe & considered sacred, but they weren't planted there because of that, the church was built there because of them! They naturally hollow out over time & get hollowed out by humans to live in & all sorts of stuff. I'm not sure if their branches "graft" onto themselves or not, but they're probably doing similar stuff, close enough to give an idea of what people were seeing & understanding of trees before a time when most people were literate.
I doubt people would have been intentionally grafting plant types that we graft today before written history, back then, they were more interested in increasing seed sizes & getting them all to mature at the one time & other stuff that today we refer to as "domestication". Domestication of plants occurred on every continent (except Antarctica & Zealandia, due to no humans there)
@@mehere8038 thanks👍Great stuff!
5:43 that’s right. The worst fruits are sold in the Mexican Market, the best are sold outside Mexico. Is sad, but that’s how Mexico stands out from other competitors.
The worst part is when
Mexican fruits are exported and sold back in Mexico with higher prices.
That’s why food regulations are really important. A lot of people complain regulations in the US and EU but they do a lot of good
that happens everywhere and is not necessarily a bad thing. Chile produces tons of avocado, but locally they sell the smallest ones. Sure, you might maybe 3 where you could have used one of the big, "premium" avocados for export, but they cost a lot less, and are super fresh!
I'm in Mexico and that's not necessarily true if you know where to buy. We have farmer's markets here every Monday where I am and the fruit and veggies are beautiful and delicious.
@@edyann of course local markets have better prices.
@@elesjuanpi7041 Lo que pasa es que estoy harta, siempre todo lo negativo de mi país. Los estadounidenses no se muerden la lengua...
Totally random, but since we're on the topic of limes, ever try squeezing some lime juice and a little salt on a boiled egg? It's surprisingly good, and you should try it! 🤘😆
Or squeeze a bit into your coke on ice. Even better on some watermelon (w a dash of salt).
I’ll eat it with anything so I’m not surprised at all
Lime on avocado slices (to put on toast w/ egg, or a sandwich etc) is amazing
I love limes
Cool I didn't know this. Kinda like roses
I LOVE LIMES !!!!!
Solo Veracruz es bello!!!!
Anyone else see that giant lime towards the end? 😍
4:31 YEAH THEY DO
Interesting….my wife is from South America, so we use a lot of limes in our food.
Good job good luck and good life 👍😘
Smart.
Watching this vid as i eat a lime and im from Veracruz ❤
Margaritas and señoritas😘💕
I do the same thing with mango trees in hawaii, 1 trees has 3 different mango varieties
Like the history of our grand father's red and apple trees in Mexico mountains
"It's a very sensitive crop"
Sorting Facility: YEET
I’d love to know where to get the fabric they make their pucker bags frim. Love the stripes.
Yea; I thought they should market that cause it's organic material.
I love mexico
I LOVE LIMES! 🍈
The way they trick the orange tree ...wow
It’s grafting
@@chingvang9320 going now
Mexican ingenuity
Can you capture the water from floods to use it in dry seasons?
Maybe but I don't know how complicated it is. Much of Veracruz is very flat so I don't think it's viable to build dams.
It would require an insane amount of infrastructure. Mostly because it would have to be resistant to the natural disasters, and also because the ground is mostly flat.
They always try to do that, but there is a limit, specially for Veracruz. What my uncle, a lime producer, is trying to do is using more efficient methods of water irrigation, there is a gelatine like component that absorbs huge amounts of water, but he is worried about fungal infections. Still his biggest headache are stronger winters, locusts and the cartels.
@@Cier433 don't it have aquifers the water can go in and then pumped out from during the dry season?
Look into permaculture design. You implement ground works and "plant" the rain as your irrigation "system". Completely doable. Loads of farms across the world do this. There is an Indian guy who completely changed his town as a result. White Oak Pastures in Georgia did the same and employs 90% of his town now too. Thinking differently is all that is needed. We are learning the mainstream techniques don't work and aren't sustainable.
The yellow ones are bomb too 🤔
I’m from Martinez de la Torre, best limes and oranges in the world by far
wow ,amazing
I am groot keep trees going best we can.
might good idea have rain collection pond or barrows set up. if dosent rain not big deal. if me build pound near city take water off roofs. then send to canale to lime trees. they also dig pond with lime trees all around it. poor water from diffrent cities rain collection into it. empty city rain collection so next rain refile it. good luck.
I monitor food costs for our resort. It was shocking when a case of limes doubled in a few months. Since our cuisine is southwestern along with many drink offerings, we had to make some changes to afford these new lime prices. It’s more understandable after seeing this video.
I’m curious how you handle it? By rationing the use? Lime alternatives?
@@supriyasou3722 We limited fresh limes for drinks and used processed lime juice for cooking. It was a limited time until prices returned to normal.
@@edjarrett3164 makes sense. Thanks
I 💖 🍋
Viva la México 🎉
Grafting fruit stock onto hardier root stock bagan in China in about 2000 BC and has been done for 4000 years. It is very commonly done with fruit and nut crops.
Business insider❤️Thank you for the terrific content! Always put a smile on my face. the hard work u put in ur vids is just awesome ❤️ keep it up
"...convincing this orange plant that it's a lime one."
GASLIMING.
I'll let myself out.
Cosechados por manos morenas de nosotros los Mexicanos 😁👍🍋
What they don’t tell is that it’s paid per box and here in the USA it’s paid per lime! In Veracruz they pay the box about 20 to 30 pesos in rainy season (not even a dollar) and during the dry season it’s maybe $900 pesos ( about 50 dollars) FOR A BOX! If the product is 2nd or 3rd category then it’s paid less (bad or has blemishes) per BOX! The cutters are paid even less per box!
Facts until now unknown to many of us
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Limes are a very important fruit. I found it interesting that they are grafting to orange rootstocks. Why all the blurred out labels in the video. I guest growing limes is top secret.
Probably because the grower employs children or uses banned pesticide
@@hyphydan Probably the former. Pesticides cost a lot and limes aren't affected by pests as much as say,apples.
Mexico is imbedding microscopic nano bots into the limes. In a few years they will be able to mind control Americans. The US of @$$ will be over run with Mexicans. We need to build a wall. We need to impose sanctions and declare limes a national security risk.
In Mexico "limes" are called "lemons". Listen to 7:35 the man says " Nos sentimos muy orgullosos que consuman el limon Veracruzano, el limon Mexicano".
Limon. They are saying Limon. Lemon is "Lima". (But yes they did kinda get it backwards there.)
@@paulblichmann2791 ..In Mexico both the yellow and green ones are limones. Limas are sweet fruits, not sour like limones.
@@paulblichmann2791 So "Lemon" is female & "Lime" is male?
@@ceeril you usually just clarify with the color, limon verde, limon amarillo
@@robertbaumann9085 es que en muchas partes de México se le llama Lima a ese cítrico que en algunos lugares conocen como limón y viceversa.
Thumbnail looks like a screenshot of a stylized indie game ngl
Grafting is very common. Most grape vines in USA and Europe are grafted onto American species rootstocks.
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