If you make loquat tea, be sure to only use dark green, mature leaves and not bright green new leaves. The new growth of loquats contain cyanogenic-glycosides which if eaten in quantity can be quite problematic.
Loquats are my favorite fruit, but I wait until they are more ripe. When they're an orange color they're super sweet. I've picked and eaten dozens at a time. I occasionally like them a little tart.
I'm all about permaculture and it's good to know I have another way I can use my loquat trees! I knew about guava leaf tea but its nice to know the two trees I have companion planted next to each other are both alternative tea options!
I agree, I'm in OC California and my grandparents had a tree in their backyard with kiwi-sized fruit. Maybe these weren't ripe enough. Tasted like a cross between a Lychee and a pear. Never knew those slimy seeds could be turned into an alcoholic drink--
Yeah, I’m Bay Area as well, and those didn’t have the brown speckles from being ripe. They’re definitely not ripe enough. The leaves also looked a bit small
Well, I used to eat on these my whole childhood and now I know what they are. My great grandmother used to make them into preserves. They grow really well in Louisiana. They are all over
Where I live in florida they grow everywhere and every year and the yellow ones are pretty sour but as time goes by they get a darker yellow or an orange and they are very sweet so I think you got some unripe ones
We call them "Bashmala" in Egypt, I ADORE these things! Really, really tasty, I could literally finish a whole tree's harvest of Loquats in one day! Thanks for the info that you can do even more with them, I will be sure to try the things you listed out!
Tart and tangy! There's a short window when they really ripen and are much more orange, soft, and sweet. I find them all sorts of places around San Diego. Your recipe sounds fantastic. Great channel.
@@SeriouslySeriousGrim There are varieties which have a longer flowering period and can produce fruit more reliably if a frost kills some of the flowers. Look for the varieties 'Novak' or 'Shambala' (from Floridafruitgeek in Gainesville).
Yes when 3:443:46 I lived in California I had about ten of these trees in my yard now I live I. Texas and growing my first trees one of the best fruits I’ve ever had and healthy
Those Loquats at the 1 minute mark are the ones that I would gorge myself on as a teenager and kid in Brisbane, Australia. It seemed that nearly everyone had a Loquat tree or two in their yard.
Nice, is it a seedling? If so give it at least 4-5 years to flower. When I grew one from seed, my dad almost chopped it after 4 years, I said let’s wait 1 more season & it gave an abundance of Flower & Fruit 10+ years on still beautifully going & the go to tree for all family & visitors in season.
Loved the video, your loquat dessert looked delicious and it's cool that you can use mature leaves to make tea, I love tea..but inquiring minds want to know, will loquats ketchup??
Loquat crumble is dope, we make it all the time, its like a superior apple crumble. Never knew you could make a tea, if your review is good, ill try it ❤
Ever try peach blueberry crumble? That stuff is the best. It probably tastes similar to loquat blueberry crumble, since the loquat is closely related to the peach.
Oh my...Loquat crumble is sooooo incredibly good, I never-ever have to add any other fruit to it! Our loquats come ripe in late March early April. I am making a crumble for Easter desert.
My grandpa in Japan had a loquat tree. The fruit were great late August, early September. He would make iced tea with the leaves, although he never bothered scraping the fuzz off! The color also turned out more pinkish.
When I lived in north Florida there were ornamental loquat trees everywhere. Nobody seemed to be eating the fruits. Sort of like the ones you’re eating near the start of the video...
I live in central Florida, and my grandpa has tons of loquat trees. I never really liked them much, so when I was little me and my cousins would pick a bunch of them and throw them at each other
There's a Winn Dixie near where we live that has loquat trees in the parking lot. Nobody ever picks them cuz you'd have to set up a ladder to get them as the trees are trimmed high.
Oh wow I would never know what you call Loquat is our Níspero tree, very good for bees, and the higher in the mountain you grow them the better, you need to let them almost go bad so they are the sweetest, very good tree, I have also seen them in Texas where they have frosts.
From growing up in Cape Town, South Africa in the 90s to Auckland, New Zealand in the mid 2000s to now Brisbane, Australia .... I have personally seen and eaten this fruit in abundance in all 3 cities... even growing my own loquat tree at the moment! I definitely feel that the humble loquat might just be, the worlds most abundant fruit.
Remember your video on the Baobab trees in Madagascar and how they many of the trees on the island had been cut down to make charcoal for cooking fuel? There is a device called a Solar Cooker that would help. People can cook using just the energy of the sun. There are organizations which distribute them and teach people how to use them in third world areas. I couldn't find a message button on your channel and I sent you an email, but I thought I'd tried here, too. The friend who was on that trip with you seems like he'd know what to do with this info and how to make things happen. I'm not. The organization I did contact only takes unsolicited grant proposals. I know I'm a pest but the situation there bothers me, especially since there is something that can help.
Kind of a weird comment... Why would when you watch the video (early, an hour after he uploads, or years later) change whether or not you like the content of video??
I live in South Florida and grow several trees of the same variety. The fruit on mine have flesh that is darker orange and they are not tart at all. I think because of our more tropical climate, they become a little bit sweeter.
This bring back my memories. Loquat leaf contains ingredients that suppress cough reflex in nerves. It was quite common used in traditional Chinese medicine to treat cough caused by cold. I still remember drinking it when i was a child got cold and cough 25+ years ago. But I have never tasted the real taste. Because I have only had it when got cough, and always a lot sugar was added, which also helps relief the cough. So the taste I can recall was just sweet. Now in rural China, almost everyone have access to modern medicine. So kids today may never heard of this tea.
a nice fast way to remove the fuzz is to stick the leaves in boiling water for liek 10 seconds then dunk them in ice water. Then the fuzz just mushes off really easy. You just mush it off.
These grow everywhere down here in Florida. My grandad has them growing in his front yard and whenever I go out to visit the animals I pick one off the tree. All we do though is wipe the fluff off on our shirt, eat the fruit, and get rid of the seed. Peeling them doesn’t really effect anything as far as I know.
It's pronounced Y̵̡̧̻͔̯̩̦̮͙̹̭̠͓͎̓̒̉̇̆͘͝͠e̷̮̺̜̥͈̰͆̑͐̎̀͂̀̚̚ȑ̴̡̧͙͎̮̪̖͚͈͓̜̳̞͊̅̂̌b̵͓̼͙͈̠̬̮̏͗͆̊̐a̸͔͚̱̳̼̖̋̋́̑̓̔͐͒̈́̂̿̏͜͝ ̷̢̛̘͈͒̓̆M̴̡̹̞̠̣̺̟̩̜̪̃͊̓̈̽́̾̕å̵̢̨̨͙̝̬̦̯̘̝͈͔̠̒̃͠͝t̷̛͕̳̎͛̇̽͊̆̏̆̀̉̑ȩ̵̮̘̜̹͕̗͔̻̽̋̐̊̈̔͛̊̂̊̿! Get it right!
Loquat trees are common all over the suburbs of Melbourne! I find them to be sweet and tart and terribly messy. Didn't know anything about the trees though. Thanks!
I had these trees in my backyard growing up in New Orleans. They are tart when they are still yellow. You have to wait for them to turn orange before they are sweet. We have a lot of names for them too: Japanicas, Chinese Plum, Japanese Plum, Misbelieves, and I have a friend from down river who calls them Mishbilish (not sure how that would be spelled). I didn't realize most of the rest of the English speaking world called them loquats until I was an adult.
I live in countryside in italy and my family has a couple of loquat trees, this year they did a real lot of them, and we ate many. Now I know more stuff to do with them, thx p.s. the ones we have here are much similar to the ones sent to you but a bit more on the dark orange (i think the ones sent to you weren't ripe beacouse i can eat a lot of them in sequence) we call them "nespole"
New subscriber here, I love this video and your detailed descriptions. I’m looking for a variety for my container garden and this is sooo helpful. Good to hear the tea reminds you of Yerba mate. Thank you 🙏🏼
These look like the loquats that you are all over Greece and Turkey. They’re definitely for eating there but they are very variable. Some are sourish, some are a perfect tart sweet, and some are completely, “why-the-hell-did-I-buy-that” kind of tasteless. In Turkey they make a loquat kebab when they’re in season. Maybe you can try it with non-meat meat.
Down in South Louisiana we call those Thumbquats. They grow all over the place here. They look different from the ones you showed. I didn't know they where from the same family of fruits.
I'm a tea nut, and I'd not tried this. Loquats are in season in Spain and I'll be taking some leaves on my next orchard pass (the orchards are abandoned, I'm not stealing). A few things: * Use a knife to cut out the vein. I mean, faster, and why rip? * Boiling is almost always a bag idea for tea. High temp is probably desirable because the leaves will be a little unwilling to give up what they've got. I'd stick below 180 * Cut the leaves before remitting them to the water. I saw some oriental woman blend them, and I thought that was nuts on the one end because there was no way to strain stuff out. Yours is nuts on the other end: get better extraction by making the leaf bits more like tea. * Water quality matters. That is an article in itself.
I do landscaping and have never had a client ask me to do anything but remove their loquat trees because they don’t like how they look. It kills me. Loquat are my favorite fruit and nobody locally even knows they can eat them. They’re the best fruit tree in the gulf coast area. Where other fruit trees take a lot of care and attention to get a lot of fruit, these dont give a damn. Stick them in a corner, dont water or fertilize them, let them bake in the sun or grow in part shade, whatevs. Each tree will probably make 1000 fruits a year.
My parents had a loquat tree at their house and they made me that medicinal tea when I was a kid to help with a a bout of coughing. It was STRONG and I couldn't drink much, but it wasn't unpleasant. Although to me it didn't taste like mate cocido (tea made with yerba mate). To me it tasted like the turpentine flavor you can taste in some mangos, and the color was reddish. BTW mate cocido is one of my favorite drinks, and the correct pronunciation for yerba is with a SHH sound (I'll offer the words "jet" or "gentle" for reference)
I want to buy Jared a pith helmet, and acompaning clothing. I don't think he would wear them on his next trip. Still, it would be wiser to just to support him. Thanks. Loved this video. Leaf look like olive leaves?
I love Loquats! Finally got my tree to fruit!🤗 The smaller tart ones are common in the US and Mexico. I like to eat them sweet and Tajin on the less ripe tart ones. I made tea with the leaves and I couldn't taste anything. It was like drinking pure hot water. 🤔
I got a tree only front yard in Florida. Fruits in February have to harvest before mid-March because the critters will pick the tree clean at the pike of ripeness!
Making a loquat jam for the first time today. I’ve made the tea many times and like it as an iced tea. Sometimes I’ll add a little lemon and honey, but it’s nice without it too, or just the lemon.
Theoquats you are eating must not be fully ripe. I remember eating loquats when I was little and they were very sweet with a hint of tanginess (I don't think it us a word), the trees grew everywhere and everybody who had a garden had at least one tree. Those loquats were so tasty that you couldn't stop eating them. They don't grow where I live now because it us too cold.
Those loquats probably weren't ripe or that tree just doesn't make good fruit cause I would go around and pick these off of people's trees and they were good.
There are some loquat trees on the streets where I live, with fruit similar to the ones you showed, but oval instead of round. My grandmother has a tree on her backyard and the fruit is sweet, with a mild and pleasant flavor. The ones I picked from the street trees were not as good...
I just tasted some before this video, I thought it tasted like oolong or yerba mate. I brought the leaves home from south Georgia after we identified the tree online, so I was still a little sketched about trying the tea because it didnt turn red like the article I read, it was more golden like this...now I feel better about drinking more lol
My grandparents had a loquat tree in their backyard, and I loved them! I actually really loved the fuzz, and I used to collect the seeds cause I thought they were neat
Yours arent quite ripe. They need to be a mid orange color to be fully ripe. They dont ripen off the tree though as far as ive noticed. Riper is sweeter.
we have 2 types here in florida, the ornimental has very little flesh and the more edible ones look like the ornimental but have a lot more flesh, also just rub the fuzz off with your fingers, i rubs right off. these are one of my fav fruit trees
Had these as a kid all the time same species all around california. If you got sour ones they definately are not ripe they have a slight tartness but are mostly sweet when properly ripe.
I love in plant city Florida and the ones that ones that grow in my side yard are smaller than them and there like lil balls of sugar I like to make pastries with the jelly
have 2 loquat trees there young in pots 5 ft tall brought them into the greenhouse in case they bloom as they bloom in winter time and where i live zone 8 no bee is out to pollinate must be done by hand.
These are the same as the ones here in Broken Hill Australia, yet if they stay on the tree until they turn soft and orange, then they are sweeter. You have unripe fruit.
If you make loquat tea, be sure to only use dark green, mature leaves and not bright green new leaves. The new growth of loquats contain cyanogenic-glycosides which if eaten in quantity can be quite problematic.
Good to know! pinning this
I drank the fresh leaf tea and now I feel funny
Well said
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Loquats are my favorite fruit, but I wait until they are more ripe. When they're an orange color they're super sweet. I've picked and eaten dozens at a time.
I occasionally like them a little tart.
This is one of the most interesting channels on TH-cam.
I'm all about permaculture and it's good to know I have another way I can use my loquat trees! I knew about guava leaf tea but its nice to know the two trees I have companion planted next to each other are both alternative tea options!
I’m from the Bay Area in California and these trees are everywhere. The fruit is quite sweet, definitely not sour!
My grandparents lived outside of Sacramento and had loquat trees. I remember climbing them and picking loquats as a kid. They reminded me of apricots.
I agree, I'm in OC California and my grandparents had a tree in their backyard with kiwi-sized fruit. Maybe these weren't ripe enough. Tasted like a cross between a Lychee and a pear. Never knew those slimy seeds could be turned into an alcoholic drink--
I reply the same I am from Fresno never had a sour Loquat
They are common in S.C. too
Yeah, I’m Bay Area as well, and those didn’t have the brown speckles from being ripe. They’re definitely not ripe enough. The leaves also looked a bit small
Well, I used to eat on these my whole childhood and now I know what they are. My great grandmother used to make them into preserves. They grow really well in Louisiana. They are all over
I’m in Louisiana and they are everywhere!! Never made preserves from them tho.
@@meggorogers it’s sooo good. I guess a plus of them being a little tart. I recommend!
Where I live in florida they grow everywhere and every year and the yellow ones are pretty sour but as time goes by they get a darker yellow or an orange and they are very sweet so I think you got some unripe ones
We call them "Bashmala" in Egypt, I ADORE these things! Really, really tasty, I could literally finish a whole tree's harvest of Loquats in one day! Thanks for the info that you can do even more with them, I will be sure to try the things you listed out!
i think i remember doing loquats in gym class...
Tart and tangy! There's a short window when they really ripen and are much more orange, soft, and sweet. I find them all sorts of places around San Diego. Your recipe sounds fantastic. Great channel.
Yeah, I live in Florida and I feel lucky when I see these things grow! They hardly ever fruit, or atleast it feels that way.
@@SeriouslySeriousGrim There are varieties which have a longer flowering period and can produce fruit more reliably if a frost kills some of the flowers. Look for the varieties 'Novak' or 'Shambala' (from Floridafruitgeek in Gainesville).
They are common in S.C. too
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Yes when 3:44 3:46 I lived in California I had about ten of these trees in my yard now I live I. Texas and growing my first trees one of the best fruits I’ve ever had and healthy
I bought a tooth brush from Dollar Tree and use that to remove fuzz. Works great.
Those Loquats at the 1 minute mark are the ones that I would gorge myself on as a teenager and kid in Brisbane, Australia. It seemed that nearly everyone had a Loquat tree or two in their yard.
I just planted a loquat tree. Thanks to your video, I’ll definitely be trying some tea!
Make sure you read the pinned comment first!
Nice, is it a seedling? If so give it at least 4-5 years to flower. When I grew one from seed, my dad almost chopped it after 4 years, I said let’s wait 1 more season & it gave an abundance of Flower & Fruit 10+ years on still beautifully going & the go to tree for all family & visitors in season.
Loved the video, your loquat dessert looked delicious and it's cool that you can use mature leaves to make tea, I love tea..but inquiring minds want to know, will loquats ketchup??
There was a loquat tree outside my childhood bedroom window. It never bore fruit though. It was a crucial part of my fire escape plan.
Loquat crumble is dope, we make it all the time, its like a superior apple crumble. Never knew you could make a tea, if your review is good, ill try it ❤
Woah! It smells amazing while brewing, but the colour for me is rose gold!
Ever try peach blueberry crumble? That stuff is the best. It probably tastes similar to loquat blueberry crumble, since the loquat is closely related to the peach.
Oh my...Loquat crumble is sooooo incredibly good, I never-ever have to add any other fruit to it! Our loquats come ripe in late March early April. I am making a crumble for Easter desert.
A hot drink in a glass cup? BARBARIC!
My grandpa in Japan had a loquat tree. The fruit were great late August, early September. He would make iced tea with the leaves, although he never bothered scraping the fuzz off! The color also turned out more pinkish.
When I lived in north Florida there were ornamental loquat trees everywhere. Nobody seemed to be eating the fruits. Sort of like the ones you’re eating near the start of the video...
They grow and naturalize like crazy in Florida too
I live in central Florida, and my grandpa has tons of loquat trees. I never really liked them much, so when I was little me and my cousins would pick a bunch of them and throw them at each other
There's a Winn Dixie near where we live that has loquat trees in the parking lot. Nobody ever picks them cuz you'd have to set up a ladder to get them as the trees are trimmed high.
Oh wow I would never know what you call Loquat is our Níspero tree, very good for bees, and the higher in the mountain you grow them the better, you need to let them almost go bad so they are the sweetest, very good tree, I have also seen them in Texas where they have frosts.
I really like the flavour of loquat leaf tea when the leaves are finely chopped, dried and cured. Gives almost black tea like flavours to it.
Neat! In my block alone about 20% of the houses have loquat trees. People harvest the fruits frequently too, I've yet to actually try tho.
From growing up in Cape Town, South Africa in the 90s to Auckland, New Zealand in the mid 2000s to now Brisbane, Australia .... I have personally seen and eaten this fruit in abundance in all 3 cities... even growing my own loquat tree at the moment! I definitely feel that the humble loquat might just be, the worlds most abundant fruit.
Nice background music Jared. Bach Partita No. 2, Sarabande?
It's a pretty piece.
Remember your video on the Baobab trees in Madagascar and how they many of the trees on the island had been cut down to make charcoal for cooking fuel? There is a device called a Solar Cooker that would help. People can cook using just the energy of the sun. There are organizations which distribute them and teach people how to use them in third world areas. I couldn't find a message button on your channel and I sent you an email, but I thought I'd tried here, too. The friend who was on that trip with you seems like he'd know what to do with this info and how to make things happen. I'm not. The organization I did contact only takes unsolicited grant proposals. I know I'm a pest but the situation there bothers me, especially since there is something that can help.
Totally used to forage these off landscaping as a kid. Love them.
For me, loquat leaf tea has the flavor profile of quince without the astringency.
Wow that sounds yum! I didn’t realise that I thought it would be bland tasting, I’ll be trying it tonight, God willing.
fyi Loquat and quince are related and can be grafted to each other.
_Solanum pachyandrum?_ Is its common name Elephant tomato?
Quite early today, but still loving the content
Kind of a weird comment... Why would when you watch the video (early, an hour after he uploads, or years later) change whether or not you like the content of video??
I live in South Florida and grow several trees of the same variety. The fruit on mine have flesh that is darker orange and they are not tart at all. I think because of our more tropical climate, they become a little bit sweeter.
I have fond memories of these even in the most troubled times of my youth, I'm glad to put a name to them. The best ones were always too high!
This bring back my memories. Loquat leaf contains ingredients that suppress cough reflex in nerves. It was quite common used in traditional Chinese medicine to treat cough caused by cold. I still remember drinking it when i was a child got cold and cough 25+ years ago. But I have never tasted the real taste. Because I have only had it when got cough, and always a lot sugar was added, which also helps relief the cough. So the taste I can recall was just sweet. Now in rural China, almost everyone have access to modern medicine. So kids today may never heard of this tea.
These look like the ones grown in southern europe, but they ought to be more on the orange side when picking.
I second this.
You can find Lowquat leaf tee in Asian Supermarkets.
a nice fast way to remove the fuzz is to stick the leaves in boiling water for liek 10 seconds then dunk them in ice water. Then the fuzz just mushes off really easy. You just mush it off.
pro tip!
The f uck or u could wipe it on your shirt
These grow everywhere down here in Florida. My grandad has them growing in his front yard and whenever I go out to visit the animals I pick one off the tree. All we do though is wipe the fluff off on our shirt, eat the fruit, and get rid of the seed. Peeling them doesn’t really effect anything as far as I know.
Uno anus
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Yes i swipe that fluff off too!
they grow all over here in my home town i eat them all the time in season
Loquat: Will It Ketchup?!
It's pronounced Y̵̡̧̻͔̯̩̦̮͙̹̭̠͓͎̓̒̉̇̆͘͝͠e̷̮̺̜̥͈̰͆̑͐̎̀͂̀̚̚ȑ̴̡̧͙͎̮̪̖͚͈͓̜̳̞͊̅̂̌b̵͓̼͙͈̠̬̮̏͗͆̊̐a̸͔͚̱̳̼̖̋̋́̑̓̔͐͒̈́̂̿̏͜͝ ̷̢̛̘͈͒̓̆M̴̡̹̞̠̣̺̟̩̜̪̃͊̓̈̽́̾̕å̵̢̨̨͙̝̬̦̯̘̝͈͔̠̒̃͠͝t̷̛͕̳̎͛̇̽͊̆̏̆̀̉̑ȩ̵̮̘̜̹͕̗͔̻̽̋̐̊̈̔͛̊̂̊̿! Get it right!
7:30 So what you're saying is, it's almost--but not quite--entirely unlike tea?
@Atantuo: God, I hate the Sirius Cybernetics Corp.
Would blanching help hasten the skin removal?
Loquat trees are common all over the suburbs of Melbourne! I find them to be sweet and tart and terribly messy. Didn't know anything about the trees though. Thanks!
I used to jar them in brandy /sugar for drinks ,extract, gifts ....Mine were a combo of apricot/cantalope LOVE EM
A ripe loquat is right up there from my tree, eat a few you say? I could eat the whole crop off my tree, soo delicious!
I had these trees in my backyard growing up in New Orleans. They are tart when they are still yellow. You have to wait for them to turn orange before they are sweet. We have a lot of names for them too: Japanicas, Chinese Plum, Japanese Plum, Misbelieves, and I have a friend from down river who calls them Mishbilish (not sure how that would be spelled). I didn't realize most of the rest of the English speaking world called them loquats until I was an adult.
Lol I thought that louquats were common place in the us
I live in countryside in italy and my family has a couple of loquat trees, this year they did a real lot of them, and we ate many. Now I know more stuff to do with them, thx
p.s. the ones we have here are much similar to the ones sent to you but a bit more on the dark orange (i think the ones sent to you weren't ripe beacouse i can eat a lot of them in sequence) we call them "nespole"
I love that hot fruit geek
When I saw the thumbnail I thought it was beer.
I have a bunch in my front yard.
Those loquats are the South Asian variety and are also grown commercially. Biggest producer is Pakistan.
New subscriber here, I love this video and your detailed descriptions. I’m looking for a variety for my container garden and this is sooo helpful. Good to hear the tea reminds you of Yerba mate. Thank you 🙏🏼
These look like the loquats that you are all over Greece and Turkey. They’re definitely for eating there but they are very variable. Some are sourish, some are a perfect tart sweet, and some are completely, “why-the-hell-did-I-buy-that” kind of tasteless.
In Turkey they make a loquat kebab when they’re in season. Maybe you can try it with non-meat meat.
Down in South Louisiana we call those Thumbquats. They grow all over the place here. They look different from the ones you showed. I didn't know they where from the same family of fruits.
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I'm a tea nut, and I'd not tried this. Loquats are in season in Spain and I'll be taking some leaves on my next orchard pass (the orchards are abandoned, I'm not stealing). A few things:
* Use a knife to cut out the vein. I mean, faster, and why rip?
* Boiling is almost always a bag idea for tea. High temp is probably desirable because the leaves will be a little unwilling to give up what they've got. I'd stick below 180
* Cut the leaves before remitting them to the water. I saw some oriental woman blend them, and I thought that was nuts on the one end because there was no way to strain stuff out. Yours is nuts on the other end: get better extraction by making the leaf bits more like tea.
* Water quality matters. That is an article in itself.
I do landscaping and have never had a client ask me to do anything but remove their loquat trees because they don’t like how they look.
It kills me. Loquat are my favorite fruit and nobody locally even knows they can eat them.
They’re the best fruit tree in the gulf coast area. Where other fruit trees take a lot of care and attention to get a lot of fruit, these dont give a damn. Stick them in a corner, dont water or fertilize them, let them bake in the sun or grow in part shade, whatevs. Each tree will probably make 1000 fruits a year.
I am from Fresno Central California Loquats should not be sour......and they are grown in backyard hard to find in the US
My parents had a loquat tree at their house and they made me that medicinal tea when I was a kid to help with a a bout of coughing. It was STRONG and I couldn't drink much, but it wasn't unpleasant. Although to me it didn't taste like mate cocido (tea made with yerba mate). To me it tasted like the turpentine flavor you can taste in some mangos, and the color was reddish.
BTW mate cocido is one of my favorite drinks, and the correct pronunciation for yerba is with a SHH sound (I'll offer the words "jet" or "gentle" for reference)
I want to buy Jared a pith helmet, and acompaning clothing. I don't think he would wear them on his next trip. Still, it would be wiser to just to support him. Thanks. Loved this video. Leaf look like olive leaves?
I love Loquats! Finally got my tree to fruit!🤗
The smaller tart ones are common in the US and Mexico. I like to eat them sweet and Tajin on the less ripe tart ones.
I made tea with the leaves and I couldn't taste anything. It was like drinking pure hot water. 🤔
The Hong Kong variety most likely is in the “golden” variety while the USA south loquats are mostly of the white variety
I got a tree only front yard in Florida. Fruits in February have to harvest before mid-March because the critters will pick the tree clean at the pike of ripeness!
Thanks for the video. I am wondering whether one could do something with the seeds other than planting it. Could they be chopped and make a tea etc.?
You got the Japanese translation wrong. Biwa is a medicinal cotton filled sack that originated in frugal Japan I actually have no idea.
Making a loquat jam for the first time today. I’ve made the tea many times and like it as an iced tea. Sometimes I’ll add a little lemon and honey, but it’s nice without it too, or just the lemon.
I have a loquat tree that is like the one you are showing. But mine are very sweet. But I have ate the tart ones before but they are not all tart
Theoquats you are eating must not be fully ripe. I remember eating loquats when I was little and they were very sweet with a hint of tanginess (I don't think it us a word), the trees grew everywhere and everybody who had a garden had at least one tree. Those loquats were so tasty that you couldn't stop eating them. They don't grow where I live now because it us too cold.
Those loquats probably weren't ripe or that tree just doesn't make good fruit cause I would go around and pick these off of people's trees and they were good.
I'm just having some loquat leaf tea now
There are some loquat trees on the streets where I live, with fruit similar to the ones you showed, but oval instead of round. My grandmother has a tree on her backyard and the fruit is sweet, with a mild and pleasant flavor. The ones I picked from the street trees were not as good...
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I just tasted some before this video, I thought it tasted like oolong or yerba mate. I brought the leaves home from south Georgia after we identified the tree online, so I was still a little sketched about trying the tea because it didnt turn red like the article I read, it was more golden like this...now I feel better about drinking more lol
My grandparents had a loquat tree in their backyard, and I loved them! I actually really loved the fuzz, and I used to collect the seeds cause I thought they were neat
Cool! I just found out about this and of course you popped up. Thanks for the research
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Yours arent quite ripe. They need to be a mid orange color to be fully ripe. They dont ripen off the tree though as far as ive noticed. Riper is sweeter.
You can make raki with them. We are not supposed to do this. Oh it is not good. What would they do, oh my god! Respect.
Me personally, i like wine.
we have 2 types here in florida, the ornimental has very little flesh and the more edible ones look like the ornimental but have a lot more flesh, also just rub the fuzz off with your fingers, i rubs right off. these are one of my fav fruit trees
I have never peeled loquats, nor thought to do so. Interesting
Had these as a kid all the time same species all around california. If you got sour ones they definately are not ripe they have a slight tartness but are mostly sweet when properly ripe.
My wife uses the flower buds to make tea, dries them first, also buys prepared tea from Chinese shops.
boy, you take your loquats seriously. nice video
I love in plant city Florida and the ones that ones that grow in my side yard are smaller than them and there like lil balls of sugar I like to make pastries with the jelly
How much do I drink loquat tea a day ?
Or I just drink it like water ?
have 2 loquat trees there young in pots 5 ft tall brought them into the greenhouse in case they bloom as they bloom in winter time and where i live zone 8 no bee is out to pollinate must be done by hand.
I have a loquat tree. Theyre pretty tasty! Not at all that sour. Theyre sweet. Those were probably under ripe.
These are the same as the ones here in Broken Hill Australia, yet if they stay on the tree until they turn soft and orange, then they are sweeter.
You have unripe fruit.
They taste like apples if you make Loquat Cobbler.
My loquat tree is too small to make fruit but has a ton of huge mature leaves, definitely going to be trying this tea
I have had 2 homes in Texas and both of them have had Loquat trees :)
rub the peach fuzz off in your hands. then the skin is like a plum.
mmm that crumble looks so good 👌🏻
with some ice cream or whipped cream yeah
I lived in HK for 30 years and never had loquats that huge.
Biwa Cha!!
Loquats are my favourite fruit in the whole world.
Dude. That was a nice and easy recipe!
Thanks. Boil and simmer for 15.