All About Barbados Cherries!
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- Barbados Cherry is a small, tasty, very nutritious tropical fruit that is native to the American Tropics including the West Indies, Central America, and parts of Mexico and South America. Today it is grown in many parts of the tropical world and known by many names including Acerola, Jamaican Cherry, West Indian Cherry and Wild Cherry.
Learn about the origins and history of Barbados Cherry, the tree, its fruit and more in this video!
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I was watching skydiving videos, and then ended up here. I have no idea how that happened. I know about Barbados Cherries now. You seem like a nice lady. We should party.
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I wish she were my auntie, I’d come over all the time to enjoy cherries and mangos
Funny!
@@TrulyTropical Very very funny
Here in aruba we have alot of them , we call them shimaruku .. i have 1 for over 40 years and im 34 now .. anytime when your sick or for just a sweet snack.. this fruit will come handy
Thank you very much for sharing ❤
I have 2 acerola trees in New England. One I brought from PR the other in a NY nursery. They respond well to banana leaf fertilizer (banana peel in water for one day the feed the tree)....my acerolas are sweet and have a pleasant taste; much like the fruit in PR....
How to make banana leaf fertilizer
I have one of those tree and 6 banana trees
I had that tree in the backyard when I was a kid,it was awesome to spend days picking and eating the entire tree worth of fruit
I was thinking of planting one and I was nervous about my kid eating too many.
I used to eat these many years ago back home in Vietnam!🥰 This is a popular treat that everyone loves, children, adults alike. It can be eaten as is, or with salt and crushed hot peppers. I am salivating right now!🤤
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The most thorough and detailed video I found on these. Thank you for the help!
This is little gem as fruit... I can confirm.
I grew up eating them and I didn't know they were called Barbados cherry. I know them as you mentioned in the description as acerola. Love the juice and the jelly. Soooo good.
Just planted one! It's been my dream tree for my home. God willing it'll become big and strong soon. Great video!
Thanks!
Huge amount of valuable historical info in this video... Superb video!
Agreed
Thanks!
I ate this as a kid in Trinidad and I crave it everyday since then. :(
We use to have a hedge of these cherries. Now I’m back living in Florida and will grow them. Yumo
Excellent information ty ! I grow them in ground in Phoenix with great success
Best video on these fruits, thank you!
Thank you for your kind reply. I will try to find one ASAP. I USE OLD FASHIONED 9 VOLT CLEAR WHITE CHRISTMAS LIGHTS UNDER A FROST BLANKET. RAISES TEMP 1-15 DEGREES. I USE PAPER CLAMPS 3" from amazon. No rust. Great in high winds and jumping squirrels. When in doubt I go for a good layer of black gold compost with lots of worms. Even a small harvest is a joy forever. I also encourage a micro climate by planting a wind break with other shrubbery etc. Isn't gardening AWSOME. BLESSINGS LINDA. IM NEXT TO CRYSTAL RIVER.
From the island of Barbados 🇧🇧 here these grow wild and taste great we call it bajan (pronounced bay Jan) cherry ( people of Barbados are called bajans)
I just discovered Barbados cherries this year & love them!!!
Your videos are so good. I am learning so much about growing tropical fruits
Great video. Thank you
It’s worth sharing that indoor container grown plants are even more susceptible to wind damage. It’s worth giving them some support if you move them outdoors seasonally.
My mom called these crab apples. We had a tree in our front yard and I would lay on the .lowest branch and contemplate life's mysterie, such as they were to a 5 year o.d
My goal is to be like you sooner than later! Thx for the great content (:
Kind regards,
I have two I bought from Home depot here in Florida two years ago (zone 9) I paid about $70 each., After planting I watered them frequently for 3 or 4 months , now, not so much, I got about 4Lbs of fruit the first season . I'm thinking of propagating some more out of them next year. Too much pit v flesh for me to be bothered to eat them fresh, but I'm going to make wine out of them. I would recommend it as an easy and attractive tree. The birds love them.
Funny I was just think about those $70 HD plants
I found mine at a tropical nursery in Phoenix for $45 and it was a 3 gallon. That’s good to know sometimes Home Depot sells them.
I grow them here in north Florida and don't protect them. Mine grow fine and we get lots of delicious fruits from them. I have them with protection on the north side.
I’m in north eastern FL and thinking about getting one of these trees. How is the taste of the ones you have? Would you say more tart or more sweet?
@@kevinsaint20 Mine are actually Surinam Cherries not Barbados. I was mistaken. The Suriname are very sweet when allowed to ripen. My Barbados got knocked back when we got to 18 degrees here two mornings in a row. The stems are still green so I believe it will come back. Hope it fruits.
Nice recipe,
I appreciate your channel so much! We are growing a food forest/orchard and I have learned a ton from watching your videos. Thank you for sharing your knowledge and experience! We can't wait to visit your orchard.
Acerola cherry is sooo delicious
Excellent Information ...growing cherries in the South almost seems impossible but you are saying and proving to can be done,I’m on a mission now to find some and add them to the elderberry orchard,thanks so much for your time ...
These are not related to northern cherries, but they are a tasty and nutritious snack.
Tropical cherries .. Jamaican..rio grande .. pitanga
Just purchased my first Barbados Cherry tree
Thank you!
I have two in a pot, we had snow freezing weather, they froze. They are coming back, hopefully I'll get fruit. Thank You for this very informative video.
I went to your website but did not see any Barbados cherries. Please let me know if you sell. Going to look for more videos from you! Thank you, I enjoyed very much. I want to give one to my neighbor!
Great info on this beautiful berry
Very nice video, I am think of getting this fruit for my yard in the Houston area, it appears that this tree/plant will do very well there. Thanks everyone for sharing your experiences with this amazing fruit.
Acerola!!!! 😍❤️💕😍❤️💕❤️😍💕❤️😍❤️
wow what a special tree, to me its very exciting and rewarding growing tropical fruit trees
Very informative video. Thank you!
Thanks!
Many years ago I had a farm in PR. These acerolas were loved by everyone. Question: Does anyone know how many of these you'd need to eat to ingest 1000mg of vitamin C? Thank you.
I've been searching how to say the name of this fruit in English for forever now, I'm so happy I found your video! In Brazil we also call them "acerola".
Thanks for watching the video! And thanks for letting us know what the fruit is called in Brazil.
There is a tree home. They are indeed delicious and help to cure cold. We trim them daily because their branches are at times invasive.
It is actually also native to the Rio Grande Valley in deep south texas
good to hear...I just planted one, I'm in the coastal bend
Great video. Learned a lot 🌱
hi Chris, wanted to grow some and did a search and was so happy to see a video from you and of course that's the one I went to! My fruit punch finally started pushing out new growth! Did squat all spring but we recently had a heat wave and that seemed to have woken it up. I think I got rid of the anthracnose as well :)
I have this tree. Very hardy tree and reminds me of a small oak tree. Drinking it as a juice is awesome. Thanks for this great video
Thanks for sharing your favorite way to enjoy the fruit! and of course, thanks for watching
LSanti can send me some seeds tk Mexico my mail is sarcorampuspapa@hotmail.com
The green ones are ok to eat but they have no taste and no the seeds are not poisonious i grew up eating them here in barbados and i love them
The green ones have more vitamin C and if I'm not mistaken the reason why they become sweeter when the fruit ripens is because the vitamin C (sour taste) is converted to sugar. It's the opposite of what happens in the liver of many animals. Animals that can produce vitamin C convert sugar into vitamin C in their liver.
Great fruit, i have 5 of those tree's and didn't know there was different varieties !!!! Good video
Thanks!
Most of what is sold in Florida is 'Florida Sweet'
Always love cherries.
I just found you guys and went to your website! I'm so sad you guys sell so many cool fruits and trees! I wish ya'll shipped to Cali! :D
Does it sweet in taste
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Very informative, nicely done!
Thanks!
3 of these cherries a day is enough vit c per day and fight is so healthy..... have 3 bushes in my yard. In Suriname we call it Surinaamse kersen or West Indische kers
We have alot of these cherry in jamaica
I have a bush from a seed in Bolivia. It's not as big as yours. More sour than sweet but good snacking when in the yard
Thanks
I was wondering what this is supposed to taste like cuz it wasn't really tasting like what I thought it should be tasting like to be called a cherry
Thanks for the information
How much time it takes to the tree to bear fruits from an air layering ?
I appreciate your video a lot it was great
Good question 🤔
wow. great research and history..
We used to have 3 of these in the backyard in Dominican Republic, one of those produced tons of fruits, some of them were almost dark purple in color. The leaves can cause rashes on body.
That you for your informative video. Are these trees self pollinating or do you need two trees before you can get fruit. Thank you.
Great, thorough, video! Thank you. Do you have some suggestions on seed germination?
I have 6 bushes currently. One bush has never bloomed (or fruited obviously) even though it gets the same care and lighting as all the others. Is there something I can do to get it snapped into production?
I have four small trees, and we get freezes here. Hope they make it. Liked and shared :). btw You never mentioned if it is safe to eat the green ones.
I'm guessing green ones would give you a stomach ache more quickly than ripe ones would, but you would get more Vitamin C
Great video,
Thanks!
Omg I love this fruit in Cuba we called cereza
Thanks for the great video. Florida Sweet grows very well here in South East Queensland Australia, but unfortunately the fruit fly get em all... :-(
I see that your fruit has small holes on it did you see if anything was moving inside. I tried a similar berry to this and when I bit into it I saw something moving and I’m assuming it was a fruit fly that laid it’s egg and since the fruit has thin skin it’s the perfect place
The small holes on our fruits are from birds tasting the cherries.
Do you sell seeds of Barbados cherries. Would like to buy. Thx
What's the difference in taste between a regular cherry?
Acerola
Great video. I am going to plant central FLORIDA gulf side. Do you cover with netting to stop birds? Crystal river can get into 30's, should I cover with winter row cover material or just protect roots with a bale of hay? Thank you. Im going to share with my neighbours!
That's a good idea
I live between Ocala and Gainesville, we can even go down to 17-20 at rare nights. Mine are several years now in large pots. I tent cover them with blankets held in place with clothespins and sometimes a large sheet of plastic over that. They do fine. My fruit yield is pretty small, I am trying to find out how to fertilize them organically. I love the flavor and healthy aspect.
Good video, nice job thank you =)
Thanks!
I have two in my front yard in Mesa, Arizona. They do very well but the sparrows have discovered them and eat all the fruit. 😮
in my country, they are harvested green/pink and they'll ripe eventually.
It bears a lot of fruit in my place
Great video! I have a tree in the backyard and it’s a heavy producer. I do have a problem with stink bugs on the fruits though. Any idea how to deal with the critters? Thanks in advance!
we don't seem to have much of a problem with them. I've heard that mulberry trees attract the insect, and then the stink bug switched to mango in the off season (for mulberries). There are other fruit that also attract the bug.
The better cherry..with a whole lot of vitamin c
It's juice is so good and tasty
Agreed! But you need a lot of fruit to make a glass of juice :)
I'm from Barbados I have those in my yard
Also Jamaican cherry or West Indies cherry. I’m still confuse on the Jamaican cherry they show on the internet or Strawberry cherry. Never seen it in Jamaica. Only this one is all over Jamaica.
Mere cherry plant me flower aate hai lekin gir jate hai.... Kya kare?
Just purchased one of these, looking forward to trying some. Can the seeds be removed the same way as regular cherries to make pies, etc?
No, the seeds are winged, and the fruit is softer than northern cherries.
This fruit makes great juice
Great information, thanks
Thanks for watching!
How long on average does the fruit (cherry) take to develop once the tree has Blossomed. I just planted two tree's about a month ago and one has blossoms now. I bought the tree's from a nursery and I believe they were Air-Layered.
It's about 25-30 days from flower to fruit for Barbados cherry.
Hay un palo de acerola en mi jardín
How to get it to set fruit? Mine blossomed off and on last year but no fruit...
prob a pollination problem
Very high in vitamin c good for cold
I just find your video. I am living in Arizona I hade one but is not doing well since I planted can you give me dome tips what to do
Arizona is a harsh environment for it. Warm, humid climates are best
Is there a limit to how many you can eat because of the vitamin c content? Or does it not matter??
Vitamin C is water soluble so It's hard to eat too many
@@TrulyTropical awesome! Thanks for the reply.
Barbados cherry is not Jamaican cherry/muntingia calabura. They are two totally different plants.
Very true. Jamacian cherry is totally different
It is Jamaican cherry.
The other fruit that they called Jamaican cherry, I have never seen it in my 49 years and most Jamaicans have never seen it.
Those who knew it call it tree strawberry. I only came to know about this fruit from TH-cam, and the people o see calling it Jamaican cherry, are not Jamaican themselves.
This is our Jamaican cherry, all Jamaicans agreed upon that, and that is it.
Hi Truly Tropical, How do you keep insects/birds/ squirrels away from the property to protect the fruits?
The animals get some. But the dogs chase away a lot of squirrels
@@TrulyTropicalGot it! That's a super great asset. Thanks for responding.
Can someone help me find viable seed please
I'm really sorry for this but I'm gettin real desperate cause i cant find any information on the internet and this for homework. But I just wanna ask... does anyone know whether acerola's are simple or compound fruit?
Looks like small apple is it related to apples?
No
Where can I buy Acerola juice in the Aventura, Florida area?
its populer in jamaica as well
it's a great snack when working outside!
Please tell the indian name of the fruit if you know
I have 2 Barbados Cherry trees. The first year they gave me lots of fruit. The last 2 years they flower but never have fruit. I do notice ants crawling all over the limbs and am wondering if this is the problem? I was going to use tanglefoot on the bottom limbs but I also have a bunch of lizards that I don’t want to hurt.any ideas about why I’m getting tons of bloom with no fruit? Im in zone 9b and they are protected from most wind.
Tanglefoot would definitely get a lot of lizards.
If you have a lot of ants, you might have scale... so treating the scale could solve the ant problem. The lack of fruit might be a nutritional problem... can't think of other possible explanations at the moment
Lizards 🦎 would learn to hop over the tanglefoot with time
Does the taste becomes sweeter when it is eaten after miracle fruit berries?
Good idea
Where’s the best place to buy seeds?
Seedling trees do not produce much fruit and the fruit can be sour... best grown from cuttings or air-layered
We have it in Jamaica