Bill takes a walk through his orchard by Hilo Hawaii and discovers some high quality Abiu fruit that he grew from seeds. This is a easy to grow and fast maturing crop for tropical environments.
+Tim Brown I'd have held the two fruit at crotch level if I was trying to shoot an X video. Most of us have never heard of Abiu. That's what I'm here for! They really were good by the way.
Yes, I recognize that name. It isn't used much in the USA but I have seen it in print. Most American's have no idea what this fruit is. Most of the time when I offer trees for sale people say, what's that? If you are interested in swapping seeds fro Hawaii to Peru I am always looking for interesting crops.
@@GreenGardenGuy1 I live in FL niw and while I would love to plant fruit trees I dont have the space in my backyard. I was in Hawaii in October, the fruits over there are the sweetest, the most delicious, they test even better than the ones in the Amazon, lucky you calling Hawaii Home
The actual origin is very hard to determine. The fruit that I harvested the seeds from was sold in the local Hilo, HI farmers market. The way it arrived here is questionable. Te local USDA Tropical Fruit Repository does not have this variety.
It is tropical so freezing will kill the tree. The only data I can furnish is weather recorded here on this farm. In Hawaii the tree tolerates winter night temperatures as low as 50 f. The summer highs here are around 88f. The Abiu is from Amazonia so I suspect it will handle temps near 100 but I don't have any data for that.
Hey Bill! I am probably one of your few subscribers that lives in a similar climate in California and also am very familiar with the big island. Is your place in Puna? My family, we have a property in Nanawale estates, there is very limited top soil on the site... what advice do you have for people living in California but have a vacation home and nursery in Puna? And on the topic of building soils on lava flows (especially when gone for periods of time) Thanks Bill and appreciate your diligent responses
+Jake Rick It is all about organic matter and microbes. Really no different than what we use on the Mainland. I have videos about IMO farming in Puna and a few other soil building topics shot in HI. They are probably easier to find on my alternate channel Hawaiian Herbalist. If you go there pay special attention to discussions with Gregg at his Kapoho Dragon Fruit Farm. th-cam.com/channels/B0t_ghl_UFZ-Qav96PHhTg.html What you do depends on where you start from. Plants will grow to one extent or another on lava or soil in Puna. Some better than others. If you are on Pahoehoe lave then it is much more difficult. If you have A'a lava then life is easier because it is soft and spongy. A lot of people use the local municipal compost here. Gregg makes his own from all those junk Albizzia trees that crack in the storms. Gregg makes his own IMO's but they are available commercially here. I even saw bags at the KTA supermarket! Because this property was destine to be my retirement home I did not want to bust holes in lava to plant stuff so I bought land with 16 foot of top soil on it. A friend of mine was just clearing three acres in Hawaiian Acres yesterday and discovered he had pockets of soil on land he though was all rock. He is happy as a clam, saved all the soil in a pile and he is spreading it over the work when done.
I just randomly bought a tree today coz i didnt have a clue what it was and the bloke at the nursery said taiwanese love it so got it to please the inlaws lol. Grest to see its a tasty fruit, look forward to it fruiting. Thanks for ur review
Abiu is good fruit. I have yet to meet anyone who tries it that doesn't smile. They are fast to fruit. My trees made fruit in 4 or 5 years from seeds. The only problem with the plant is I haven't figured out anything to do with the fruit other than sell it and eat it fresh. It doesn't appear to be good for processing.
+stuart sullenbarger If I convinced you to lick the screen then my mission was accomplished. I like this fruit a lot. Great taste and only four years from a seed to harvest. Nice little know fruit from the Amazon.
Currently I just harvest the last ripe fruit and shipped the seeds. There will me more fruit in the tree soon but it could be 1 to 2 months off. I do sell the seeds but I will only ship with in the USA. If you are on the Mainland you can contact me for more information at my email greengardenservice@yahoo.com
Yes, there are cultivars of Abiu out there. If I had the intention of producing grafted named trees I would consider naming the plant. Since all I am really interested in is the fruit, the seeds and plants grown from the seeds the naming isn't important to me. Naming process is a bit of a hassle and has no economic worth for me at the moment.
+Mirakel Spektakel It took me 4 years from seeds to get the first crop of fruit. These figures are deceptive though because I have never been anywhere that plants grow as fast as they do in eastern Hawaii. The fruit is not well known. It hasn't spread much from it's original home in the Amazon.
+cetuspa Man that would be one big bird! The seeds are designed to slip through some sort of body but I bet it is something larger like a sloth. The largest fruit eating bird we have in the area is the wild Jungle Fowl roosters. They eat my fruit but leave the seeds behind. Sloths are notoriously slow at spreading anything so it looks like it is up to people to do the spreading. So far so good, the fruit made it to Hawaii from Amazonian. Bill
+=: Flora in the room := Sorry, I am having trouble with the translation here. This video was about Abiu rather than bananas but we can talk about Ae Ae. Ae Ae is a varigated banana that was traditionally the property of Hawaiian royalty. The plant is grown on the Islands to this day but it is very rare and extremely expensive to purchase. The main reason for this is because the bans on the foliage are caused by a virus that weakens the plant. This makes it very difficult to propagate and extremely slow growing. Never the less it is beautiful but the value has caused old existing plants to be removed for profit so it has become rare. My neighbor how is a banana farmer has the plant but refuses to sell it to anyone.
+Fringe Gardening channel The wait is short compared to how long most fruit will bear. I just keep planting trees. At this point I can't even remember what I planted or how long it took to yield. I love finding surprises like this Abiu. Tropical fruit growing is a cool thing but the climate only crosses over well with subtropical plants the temperate plants like cherries or plums don't do well here at all. No matter where you live you can't have it all. For years I had temperate orchard crops, subtropical and tropical because I shuttled back and forth between California and Hawaii. This spring we will sell the California house and I will say good bye to Apples, Cherries and Pears. Hello Rambutan, Rollinia and Abiu!
+pato milbert I am growing grapes in Hawaii too. I found the vines with fruit in Hilo, near sea level. Peaches usually need some chilling but there is one from India called the Ceylon Peach that is tropical. There is always the chance that a seedling from a common peach may have had the ability to grow with out chill. Stranger things have happened with plants.
+pato milbert Nance is known in botany as Byrsonima crassifolia. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byrsonima_crassifolia I am familiar with plants in this family which includes acerola but not Nance directly. Your experience with things turning sweet from sour reminds me of eating Miracle fruit, Synsepalum dulcificum. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synsepalum_dulcificum The first time I ever ate this berry I sucked on a lemon afterwards and the juice taste like pure sugar syrup. I grow this in Hawaii. It is a strange and useful ingredient in cooking. It kills the tongues ability to taste acid for up to 20 minutes.
+pato milbert There are so many common names for plants in so many languages. I like to use the most common local names but I always use the Latin to keep the nomenclature accurate. Latin name are easy to read. This one means the botanist who named the plant was called Bryson (Brysonima) & the plant has dense or thick leaves (crassifolia). I would swap Nance seeds for Abiu seeds if you like after I harvest some fresh seed.
+pato milbert Pig Latin in deed, I am still working on Hawaiian Pidgin. I am only good in two languages, English and botanical Latin. The Latin I needed for work and the English was always one of my favorite subjects in school and college.
I have an abiu tree inside small greenhouse in southern California from a seven gallon pot, but I just read that they are NOT self fertile. But I also have a very small seedling sent to me from another nursery. Would you recommend that I buy another 5 or 7 gallon Abiu and plant it in same green house with my first one? Or what about the chances of my Canistel and Ross sapote trees, both in the same genus, I believe, that being pouteria.
The plant is from the Amazon and is cold sensitive. If You had a greenhouse or some other shelter from winter cold it could grow in a pot. The good news is the tree produces fairly young on small trees.
They came out of a batch of fruit purchased from a grower at the Hilo Farmers Market. Most of the trees were similar to the original fruit but this one tree decided it wanted to be extra special. In season I sell seeds from this tree. I expect Feb to be the next crop. When they are available I will post them on my website as Improved Abiu seed.
I had not heard anything about England being sold. I didn't realize I put that into the video. The USA has definitely been sold, sold out to the highest bidder!
You're getting pretty close to X rated on this one Bill! You're enjoying that a little too much for fruit...and one that I've never heard of.
+Tim Brown I'd have held the two fruit at crotch level if I was trying to shoot an X video. Most of us have never heard of Abiu. That's what I'm here for! They really were good by the way.
FOUR years from seed!!!!!!! Yikes! How coooool.
I find it generally takes two trees to pollinate though.
I am from a town of the Amazon Jungle of Peru, and we call this fruit Caimito, they are soo delicious and sticky...
Yes, I recognize that name. It isn't used much in the USA but I have seen it in print. Most American's have no idea what this fruit is. Most of the time when I offer trees for sale people say, what's that? If you are interested in swapping seeds fro Hawaii to Peru I am always looking for interesting crops.
@@GreenGardenGuy1 I live in FL niw and while I would love to plant fruit trees I dont have the space in my backyard. I was in Hawaii in October, the fruits over there are the sweetest, the most delicious, they test even better than the ones in the Amazon, lucky you calling Hawaii Home
@@seus2731 It is true. Many fruits reach their peak under Hawaiian conditions.
This is probably an "abiu tikuna", a bigger kind of abiu, domesticated by the tikuna tribe.
The actual origin is very hard to determine. The fruit that I harvested the seeds from was sold in the local Hilo, HI farmers market. The way it arrived here is questionable. Te local USDA Tropical Fruit Repository does not have this variety.
Hey what zone would be best for this fruit?
10 to 12
How much highest and lowest temperature Abiu plant can tolerate?
It is tropical so freezing will kill the tree. The only data I can furnish is weather recorded here on this farm. In Hawaii the tree tolerates winter night temperatures as low as 50 f. The summer highs here are around 88f. The Abiu is from Amazonia so I suspect it will handle temps near 100 but I don't have any data for that.
Hii dear friends
Ineed Abiu plant or Abiu seeds
Please reply please please
Seed available in Feb. Shipments inside USA only.
Been trying to grow mine from seed
They are easy from seeds. Extract the seed fresh from the fruit and lay it sideways on soil half exposed.
Ordered 3 seeds, wish me luck.
There should be no problem. Abiu is easy from seed. Lay the seed on it's side, half exposed and do not over water.
What is the taste its sweet or sour
The brix measures about 18 which is sweet and the pH is 7 making the fruit neutral. It has a subtle vanilla hint.
Hey Bill! I am probably one of your few subscribers that lives in a similar climate in California and also am very familiar with the big island. Is your place in Puna? My family, we have a property in Nanawale estates, there is very limited top soil on the site... what advice do you have for people living in California but have a vacation home and nursery in Puna? And on the topic of building soils on lava flows (especially when gone for periods of time) Thanks Bill and appreciate your diligent responses
+Jake Rick It is all about organic matter and microbes. Really no different than what we use on the Mainland. I have videos about IMO farming in Puna and a few other soil building topics shot in HI. They are probably easier to find on my alternate channel Hawaiian Herbalist. If you go there pay special attention to discussions with Gregg at his Kapoho Dragon Fruit Farm.
th-cam.com/channels/B0t_ghl_UFZ-Qav96PHhTg.html
What you do depends on where you start from. Plants will grow to one extent or another on lava or soil in Puna. Some better than others. If you are on Pahoehoe lave then it is much more difficult. If you have A'a lava then life is easier because it is soft and spongy. A lot of people use the local municipal compost here. Gregg makes his own from all those junk Albizzia trees that crack in the storms. Gregg makes his own IMO's but they are available commercially here. I even saw bags at the KTA supermarket!
Because this property was destine to be my retirement home I did not want to bust holes in lava to plant stuff so I bought land with 16 foot of top soil on it. A friend of mine was just clearing three acres in Hawaiian Acres yesterday and discovered he had pockets of soil on land he though was all rock. He is happy as a clam, saved all the soil in a pile and he is spreading it over the work when done.
I'm going to call it the kissing fruit....unripe sap makes your lips stick together....you can figure out the rest....haha
In that case you better watch what you are kissing!
Hey Bill...how many yrs till your Abiu were producing fruit ? Did you prune more frequently to reduce juvenility and promote fruiting?
Four or five years from seed to fruit.
I just randomly bought a tree today coz i didnt have a clue what it was and the bloke at the nursery said taiwanese love it so got it to please the inlaws lol.
Grest to see its a tasty fruit, look forward to it fruiting. Thanks for ur review
Abiu is good fruit. I have yet to meet anyone who tries it that doesn't smile. They are fast to fruit. My trees made fruit in 4 or 5 years from seeds. The only problem with the plant is I haven't figured out anything to do with the fruit other than sell it and eat it fresh. It doesn't appear to be good for processing.
Lol....by the way....this screen tastes terrible.....I guess ill try that too...
+stuart sullenbarger If I convinced you to lick the screen then my mission was accomplished. I like this fruit a lot. Great taste and only four years from a seed to harvest. Nice little know fruit from the Amazon.
Thanks for the video. I would love to purchase some Abui seeds from you. Did you start selling them yet?
Currently I just harvest the last ripe fruit and shipped the seeds. There will me more fruit in the tree soon but it could be 1 to 2 months off. I do sell the seeds but I will only ship with in the USA. If you are on the Mainland you can contact me for more information at my email greengardenservice@yahoo.com
Maybe you wanna define your Abiu as a new variety? Are there even Abiu varieties? ^^
Yes, there are cultivars of Abiu out there. If I had the intention of producing grafted named trees I would consider naming the plant. Since all I am really interested in is the fruit, the seeds and plants grown from the seeds the naming isn't important to me. Naming process is a bit of a hassle and has no economic worth for me at the moment.
Very nice fruit, and one i never heard of before, how many years it took froom seed to mature fruit?
+Mirakel Spektakel It took me 4 years from seeds to get the first crop of fruit. These figures are deceptive though because I have never been anywhere that plants grow as fast as they do in eastern Hawaii. The fruit is not well known. It hasn't spread much from it's original home in the Amazon.
The birds should spread that crop far and wide.
+cetuspa Man that would be one big bird! The seeds are designed to slip through some sort of body but I bet it is something larger like a sloth. The largest fruit eating bird we have in the area is the wild Jungle Fowl roosters. They eat my fruit but leave the seeds behind. Sloths are notoriously slow at spreading anything so it looks like it is up to people to do the spreading. So far so good, the fruit made it to Hawaii from Amazonian. Bill
+GreenGardenGuy1
I invite friends channels? ;-)
+=: Flora in the room := Please do and thank you for watching.
Ok! So what about the striped bananas "Ae Ae" is not thought to grow?
+=: Flora in the room := Sorry, I am having trouble with the translation here. This video was about Abiu rather than bananas but we can talk about Ae Ae. Ae Ae is a varigated banana that was traditionally the property of Hawaiian royalty. The plant is grown on the Islands to this day but it is very rare and extremely expensive to purchase. The main reason for this is because the bans on the foliage are caused by a virus that weakens the plant. This makes it very difficult to propagate and extremely slow growing. Never the less it is beautiful but the value has caused old existing plants to be removed for profit so it has become rare. My neighbor how is a banana farmer has the plant but refuses to sell it to anyone.
The texture and juiciness mirrors a Bosc Pear! Love them...
+Bearworf1 the juice yes but the texture is more resilient and smooth. I compare it to the jelly masses that replace seeds in a Fuyu Persimmon
Looks good, wish I could grow tropical fruit. I can't wait for my trees to bear fruit.
+Fringe Gardening channel The wait is short compared to how long most fruit will bear. I just keep planting trees. At this point I can't even remember what I planted or how long it took to yield. I love finding surprises like this Abiu. Tropical fruit growing is a cool thing but the climate only crosses over well with subtropical plants the temperate plants like cherries or plums don't do well here at all. No matter where you live you can't have it all. For years I had temperate orchard crops, subtropical and tropical because I shuttled back and forth between California and Hawaii. This spring we will sell the California house and I will say good bye to Apples, Cherries and Pears. Hello Rambutan, Rollinia and Abiu!
+pato milbert I am growing grapes in Hawaii too. I found the vines with fruit in Hilo, near sea level.
Peaches usually need some chilling but there is one from India called the Ceylon Peach that is tropical. There is always the chance that a seedling from a common peach may have had the ability to grow with out chill. Stranger things have happened with plants.
+pato milbert Nance is known in botany as Byrsonima crassifolia. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byrsonima_crassifolia
I am familiar with plants in this family which includes acerola but not Nance directly.
Your experience with things turning sweet from sour reminds me of eating Miracle fruit, Synsepalum dulcificum. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synsepalum_dulcificum
The first time I ever ate this berry I sucked on a lemon afterwards and the juice taste like pure sugar syrup. I grow this in Hawaii. It is a strange and useful ingredient in cooking. It kills the tongues ability to taste acid for up to 20 minutes.
+pato milbert There are so many common names for plants in so many languages. I like to use the most common local names but I always use the Latin to keep the nomenclature accurate. Latin name are easy to read. This one means the botanist who named the plant was called Bryson (Brysonima) & the plant has dense or thick leaves (crassifolia).
I would swap Nance seeds for Abiu seeds if you like after I harvest some fresh seed.
+pato milbert Pig Latin in deed, I am still working on Hawaiian Pidgin. I am only good in two languages, English and botanical Latin. The Latin I needed for work and the English was always one of my favorite subjects in school and college.
I have an abiu tree inside small greenhouse in southern California from a seven gallon pot, but I just read that they are NOT self fertile. But I also have a very small seedling sent to me from another nursery. Would you recommend that I buy another 5 or 7 gallon Abiu and plant it in same green house with my first one? Or what about the chances of my Canistel and Ross sapote trees, both in the same genus, I believe, that being pouteria.
It is true that some Abiu trees under certain conditions are not self fertile and need cross pollination. Planting in pairs is good advice.
Thanks very much for your so rapid answer.
I love this fruit. The taste so great and yummy and can't stop eating it.. It grow in Malaysia too..
I really like the fact that it will produce in a very short time from seeds.
Does it taste like caimet?
Can I grow this fruit in the Hayward SF bay area in pot? Is it cold sensitve?
The plant is from the Amazon and is cold sensitive. If You had a greenhouse or some other shelter from winter cold it could grow in a pot. The good news is the tree produces fairly young on small trees.
@@GreenGardenGuy1 Thank you.
How did u get the seeds??? 🤤🤤
They came out of a batch of fruit purchased from a grower at the Hilo Farmers Market. Most of the trees were similar to the original fruit but this one tree decided it wanted to be extra special. In season I sell seeds from this tree. I expect Feb to be the next crop. When they are available I will post them on my website as Improved Abiu seed.
yum-yum?
+=: Flora in the room := Yes, they are totally delectable. It is sad the fruit is relatively unknown.
At that TH-cam is to uncover all the secrets of the unknown fetus!
é muito bom abiu, aqui no brasil tem muito
Abiu é nativo do seu país
Share man
They are at the website.
England sold?
I had not heard anything about England being sold. I didn't realize I put that into the video. The USA has definitely been sold, sold out to the highest bidder!
Are you able to sell the seeds?
+Riggins Riggins Sure I can sell seeds. Contact me at greengardenservice@yahoo.com
@@GreenGardenGuy1 Is Abiu self fertile? Or needs cross pollination?
@@mainghiem9865 They vary. It is best to have more than one tree.