Delicious grafted LOQUATS: This tree is a beauty in the food forest!
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- Loquat ( Eriobotrya japonica ) These trees make a great door yard tree. Typically they fruit December-March for us in Florida. Also know as Japanese plum, this tree is stunning in the landscape. We are growing 12 grafted varieties and have 10 varieties available in our organic nursery. Please like and share for more short videos.
VLOG #2 - I've have been challenged by Justin Rhodes with abundant permaculture to post a VLOG every day for 30 days... challenge accepted!
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We just love the information. Things don't need to be perfect. People can rewind if you talk too fast. You have lots to share and little time to do so. So being rushed is normal. Just don't get discouraged. Again thanks for the info.
Thank you Van!
I just found one in the woods and transplanted it to my yard. Love them. By the way, short videos, to the point are awesome. I don't have hours to sit and watch videos. So...keep em coming! : )
kelly smith thank you! :)
kelly smith thank you! You can always graft a different variety onto that seedling one day.
VoodooKitchenMama 🍐
Love loquats! My former father-in-law planted one in our front yard right after we moved into the house (1985). It grew to a big a very productive tree, but died suddenly a few years back. Now we have seedlings from it which are producing. Looking forward to improving my food forest with grafted varieties and to trying my hand at grafting onto the seedling root stock. These short videos are great! Keep them coming!
Pete we understand you are just starting out and don't have time to edit. Just do what you can. The world needs permaculture so badly and you have a love for it that will come through. Keep on keeping on and we love it!
You are really good at this...
I love the flavor of loquats, hence I have 3 in my back yard. Our native wood pigeon loves them. They grow like weeds in New Zealand with untold self seedlings. One of my favorite fruits.
Your videos are wonderful, very informative, great duration and you sir, are a natural orator, no editing required. I think most of us are enjoying your natural style. Don't change that on our account please.
Kazzana me too! Loquats are one of my favorite fruits, I love the fact they come in during the winter for us. I've just recently learned you can use the leaves for treatment eczema. Thanks for the compliment I appreciate the feedback! :)
I'm grateful you put out these short videos. Use your time for the good stuff, you don't need the editing!
Use to eat these as a kid from the neighbors tree that hang over our fence. Yum🇦🇺
Melinda Keyt me too! Loved them then and really love them now. I've had all kinds of calls for the leaves and seeds for medicinal purposes.
Short and sweet just how I like them. ( I don't have many GBites a month.)Thank you for sharing, it gladdens my heart to know their are people like you on our planet. Creating beauty and health for future generations.Kindly introduced by Justin Rhodes.
Awesome and thank you!
I am on the left side in zone 9b. Definitely going to try your recommendations. I also like under 5 min and one species. Thank you for taking the time and sharing.
I would love to hear about your success with it all! Keep me posted when you do. Thanks for the feedback & I'm always happy to share!
I am so glad I found you I am about 40 miles north of Tampa in slowly starting a food source / self sustainable homestead
DeAnna nice! In probably 30 miles North of Tampa, we’re almost Neibghors :)
watched you on Justin's vlog and I was so impressed with your knowledge and passion. Gavin is a cool kid obviously learning at his Dad's side. I like your to the point unedited fast talking style. Your fast talking just showed how passionate you are about what your doing and that's why I wanted to hear more of what you have to say. Thank you for taking the time, when your so busy, to share your knowledge with us
Thanks you! It's nice to know y'all can hang with fast talking mouth. lol
Not enough Florida content. Keep them coming Pete you have an audience that's been waiting and left wanting. A wealth of knowledge and living the dream. I'm a bit south of you about 1 1\2 hours on 75, but you push the zone a bit and grow many of what I want to or already do grow.
Thank you Jay! Yes we are banking on global warming. lol
Thanks Pete, for being willing to share your wealth of knowledge and your time.
I am 2 hours West of Pensacola, have lemons growing good. I want to try any thing just to see if it will grow in my area. Very interested in trying my hand at Moringa.
Wish you well , videos are great and very informative. Thanks again. Paula
Thanks you! We are doing a project in the panhandle in a few months.
loquat are great at naturalizing, I have seen many grown by seed with delicious fruit, growing all on their own in san diego
I really appreciate all the work your doing. Great job and these short videos are perfect. I know Pete your business will thrive. Keep up the great work I am going to recommend everyone I know to come by and make a purchase. Thanks again for all your hard work.
Much love and thank you Ryan!
I am so happy you are making videos. Love all your information. Keep it up! Thank you!!
I just came over from Justin's channel. YOU DA MAN!
brad campbell thanks bro!
Hi Pete, can you make a detailed video of the moringa health benefits but mainly how exactly to prepare it for human consumption?
Willie Els its on my list 😬
Willie Els it's best dried, ground and powered. I prefer it capsuled, it's very strong and can over power a smoothie in my opinion.
Lol That Justin and The Beautiful One, are AWESOME PEOPLE
Nice and informative! The name sounds familiar, but I've never tried Loquat. In Justin's video, you mentioned figs not doing well in Florida. I knew some farmers in south Georgia that was having the same problem and they had success with fertilizing the fig trees with molasses mixed with water. It fed the beneficial insects that ate the nematodes (or something like that).
Mona-Britt Folds glad you found me. Yes I've heard the same with molasses and you can also introduce beneficial nematodes. We are experimenting with a nematode resistant root stock at the moment. I have a friend that's had success with this new root stock in the Gainsville area.
Alright I’ll get one
I find most seedling grown trees have a bitter citrus kind of taste. I grow a couple of varieties (nagasakiwase and enormity) and they are sweet with one or two small seeds. I found champagne watery and tastless in comparison. Fave is nagasakiwase.
Absolutely love the channel, just subscribed. I have a Loquat tree in my backyard that dad planted from probably close to 20 years and we (luckily I have now learnt) get delicious loquats every year! we make jam and sauces as well. Glad to see a video on them and looking forward to browsing through your videos and a new Gardner/Wanna be farmer!!
*As a new
Really glad to see videos coming out of your channel. Hopefully I can visit the farm someday.
Granted most loquats sold are just seedlings, but since you appear to have several named varieties, could you do a video rating/comparing them? (Flavor, flesh color [carotene source], season [in Zone 8, this is relevant for frost tolerance of the crop; everywhere it matters for spreading out the crop], and perhaps size &/or pulp to seed ratio seem the most important characteristics to me.)
Thank you and your doing a great job. This is one of your earlier videos and you have come a long way. Love learning new things from you. I was going to grow a loquat from seed. Did not know about the parent grafting.
Hey Pete, awesome video !!
I would like to purchase some cuttings from you as I have some one year old
plants started from seeds and I don't want to wait 10 years before I can enjoy
the "sweet fruits of my labor" - - - if you would like to sell some cuttings for
grafting purposes, please let me know.
John in Kissimmee, FL (john.infla@yahoo.com).
I was thinking that you should have your channel when Justin said that you just uploaded a video!!!! I'm in central Florida . I will be looking forward for your videos!!!! keep going!!!
Mayra Hernandez awesome and thank you :)
New subscriber wandered over from the Rhodes videos from the Great American Farm Tour. Really enjoyed what I've learned this far. Keep up the good work!
Rusted Oak Homestead thanks so much for the support!
I lived in Spain there was a fruit call Napa I think is this what this is I loved it
Love the way you record your videos mate, learnt heaps since finding your channel!
David Dakota - I appreciate that & I'm so happy to hear you are getting some good stuff out of it!
I have two young loquat bushes, started from seeds. I ate the fruit and put the seeds in soil. Then I forgot... When they came up, I transplanted one to a pot and put it indoors. I thought the other one would die in winter. It didn't! Both look well now, so I decided the one in the pot will move to the garden soon 😀 I don't know if they'll produce fruits in this climate (about zone 5)
Wow that's impressive! Im guessing it would be too cold for the flowers to set fruit properly but the tree is still hardy. Good info,Thanks!
I would rather you make raw rough cut videos than none at all. so excuse those that critisize. What are are sharing is worth more than editing. I am in zone 9/10, like right on the border of the 2 zones. This is so encouraging.
Just Sew Trish - thanks for the peptalk! I'm genuinely grateful. Glad that I can inspire someone else!
I am about 2-3 hours south of you,next time I am driving through I would love to check out your food forest. Do you sell to the public?
the hard part about growing over night is that (1) there is a learning curve (2) you get better with each additional video (3) there are always a critic, 1 for every couple hundred and you overnight got a bunch. Dont let it get at you. you have wonderful good stuff in that brain, please share, share, share all that knowledge you have. I know you don't know it all, but you have more than most of us.
Just Sew Trish - we are a private nursery, not so much open to the public. If you could send me an email, we can schedule an appointment. Also, If you sign up for our newsletter, we can let you know as we plan our spring-fall farm tour schedule. The nursery page on our website will list our entire inventory stock with sizes/pricing.
Just Sew Trish - & thank you again for the positive booster.
Hey Pete, thanks for the videos, I just found out about them and subscribed today. I am a fourth generation citrus farmer and my family owns a small citrus nursery in central Florida.We've felt the affects of canker and greening for years. We still plan on growing citrus but I've currently been interested in alternative plants for the future to grow as well, if not for profit, family and friend use. Thanks again for your videos, very informative.
Hey Pete, I have no issue with the short videos, it's worth the information.
Love it! Am in Central Alabama and want to grow more fruit. Loquat may be a good thing to experiment with. Thank You.
Thanks for watching!
The flowers/fruit are less hardy than the tree (27 vs 15 F). It blooms in fall and ripens into spring, so you need to protect the fruit or get a really early season type. Bears most years in Gainesville, FL and should work in Mobile, but central AL (Montgomery?) may be pushing it a bit. If you have space, try it, but other fruit (persimmons, mulberry, jelly palm, Japanese or Chickasaw plums, mayhaw, fireblight resistant pears...) will be far more reliable.
Your doing a great job. Keep it up. I've already order Mexican sunflower as my comfrey of the south.
Thanks for the support! So happy to hear you have some mexican sunflower coming! You are going to love it!
a lot of love, love from Kenya...Justin brought me here ❤...am glad I got your channel..
Love your videos Pete
Nandani Persaud thank you! :)
your awesome🙌
another childhood favorite from Tarpon! there are sooooo many trees bearing fruit in my neighborhood and I just want to pilfer them under the cover of darkness!
When I travel I know where all the good fruit trees are on my route locally :)
You know so much! I definitely subbed after your video with Justin and can't wait for more videos. Keep it up. I like the guerrilla style video. 👍🏾
Thanks buddy!
Are the varieties from seed not good? I have one in my yard, but I don't know if it is from seed or grafted (it was here when we bought the house). It produces fruit, but they are VERY sour.
Growing up in Haiti, these are what saved me from starvation some day
Love that fruit. I have two growing in pots. The seeds were from fruit taken from my brother's tree. Can I graft them with cuttings taken from the parent tree??? Or would it be better to just take a cutting from my brother's tree and stick it to the ground? Not too many people eat these fruits. They just don't know it, so ....we have very happy birds instead! LOL
ChezGra yes you can graft any improved cultivar to that root stock .
Could you give the planting zones please? Thanks for what you do!
SouthernLady44 Yes, please give us zones. I am hungry for every bit of knowledge you have to offer...hanging on every word. Thanks Pete! 😊
SouthernLady44 they say zones 8-10. In south Florida most people I know can't even get loquats because of the fruit fly problem. I shipped a few out of state they are being kept as condo trees.
I like the sour ones too. They are delicious
Me too!
Great knowledge and Glad to be a new subscriber
Roger Hart thank you!
They fruit around september here, absolutely delicious.
One of my favorite!
Thanks so much I visited with Justin's tour I learned so much I can't remember it all! is i think these short vlogs are so helpful to understand one plant at a time and I can go back and reference it...it possible to purchase some plants from your farm? I Am not sure I would find the same thing at another nursery. I live in Zephyrhills I brought the butterfly orchid now you know who I am!
Becca Becca thanks for coming out! Yes please give me a call to schedule an appointment.
I just subbed you, Justin Rhodes sent me.
I am all ready checking into some of your plants. Thanks for sharing...
Do you sell any of the plants?
sharon crowe - Snoo's Homestead and Bushcraft thanks for coming!
sharon crowe - Snoo's Homestead and Bushcraft we do sell plants. I'm working on an online site now, it should be up late April. We an availability on our website.
I also subbed bcoz of Justin Rhodes vid
Hi Pete! My neighbor has a loquat and I love the flavor of the fruit. Neither of us knows the type. There is very little fuzz and have 1 or 2 seeds. I planted a couple seeds the other day, will they taste like the original? Why do you graft? Should I just buy a tree? Loving the videos, keep them coming. Thanks
Su Enich - unfortunately, they will not taste like the original, which is the exact reason why we graft. A graft (or air-layer) is the only way to clone flavor, size & other traits. The seeds will be great for growing as rootstock to graft a cutting on to. Loquats are said the be one of the best trees to learn grafting on.
Su Enich & thanks for the feedback & support!
In which climate it grows? Temperature and humidity required?
They do have delicious fruit! My Father in Law had a Loquat tree. He called it a Japanese plum tree as you noted in the description. Sadly when he passed away another family member did not want to deal with the tree and had it cut down. We were not even able to pick any fruit/seeds from the tree to grow ourselves. My teenage children grew up picking the fruit with their grandfather and they have great memories. So we were crushed when we found out the tree was cut down. Do you sell the seeds to the public? I would love to grow one for my children in honor him. If so how do I go about ordering them? Also, I have a few questions...If you have time to respond- What you mean by grafting the seeds? What is the greening problem? Are we not able to grow citrus here in Florida? I am a real newbie and I am learning a lot... Thank you!
C C - where are you in Florida? Next weekend April 8 is the loquat festival in New Port Richey, Florida. I will have grafted varieties available for purchase. Loquats are not true to seed, meaning that if you planted the seed from a fruit that you ate - you are not guaranteed that the fruit your tree produces will taste like that of its origin. Now... what you could do with that seedling loquat tree... is use it as root stock & graft a named variety onto it - that WILL give you guaranteed traits, like sweetness, less fuzz on skin, larger size and less seeds. Wild loquats/seedlings can be pretty tart & just marginal in flavor. Grafted loquats are diverse and incredible! I will try to do a video on grafting in the future that might make it a little easier to understand.
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What grafting technique you practice on loquat?
I've had my best luck with side veneer or chip budding.
Love your videos take any don't matter how short they are
Daniela Pettus thank you! I be making lots of new videos around the farm soon :)
Love your garden
Dwight Mann thanks man!
Hi Pete, thanks for the video! I just bought an old 1960's florida home that has 2 loquat trees growing on the property. Both of them are in excess of 20ft tall. I would like to cut them back and then retrain them to be more of a manageable height. Is there a way to do this without damaging the tree? Can I cut them back to the stump and then retrain new sprouts? Great video by the way. Keep it up!
Thanks Joshua! You can cut them back drastically without damaging the tree. I wouldn't take them all the way back to the stump, more of a rejuvenation pruning. You would want to do this very soon if you want any chance of a fruit set next year.
Thanks so much Pete. Going to hack the main branchlines back and leave only the side shoots that are lower. Thankfully my Dad has a knack for the art of visualizing how a tree branch structure will look when it grows up. Keep up the good work. I learn so much from your videos and continue to be inspired to the divine from the beauty portrayed in your videos.
Thanks, really helped with a report I had to do on Florida!
Awesome!
I got 5 of them I hope they give fruits, I'm from huntsville al
just love these short videos. thank you! P.S. l put you on the subtitles to get all the names. thanks again.
Cheryl Stahlman - that's great! Haha. Very smart!
I love how short your video and how it just about one plant. Some youtuber take for ever to get to there point. Keep up with your videos.
Jer Yang - thanks for the support! I appreciate the feedback. I will try to keep them short & sweet.
oh yeah, Justin R. sent me! lol
I enjoy your videos. I make my living dealing with turf and ornamentals. I grew up eating loquats and I am a native. My question is where can you get the different varieties of the loquat. I am in Pinellas County and I have never seen any loquats for sale.
Hey Spencer! Thanks fir the feedback. I also used to do turf and maintenance work. Not sure if anyone ships scion wood but be have at least 40 varieties in Florida. Maybe 10 are commonly available though.
Cant find them anywhere in NJ ...grew up eating them in central california
I am in Austin and the loquat tree I have has super tangy fruit.
Nice! I prefer the sweeter varieties my. Is it a seedling?
@@PeteKanarisGreenDreamsFL don't know was here when I bought the house.
I love loquats! Was the Moringa tree that i saw in Justin's video (at your place) only three years old? You had said all the plants were I think. Just wondering if they get that thick of a trunk so fast..Thanks...:)
Princess PeriBanu yes it was a 3 year old tree. I'll be doing a detailed video here soon on moringa.
That's amazing..Thanks! :)
I will check them to see if they will thrive in the Rocky Mountains!
Hello from Honduras we called them nisperos over here
Dwight Mann very cool! They call something different nispero in CR. So interesting how common names can vary.
Pete Kanaris GreenDreamsFL good morning some people call the ciruela japonesa japanes plums i belive because its a japanes fruit tree your tree looks amezing huge fruits
Would a loquat tree do well in North Texas Dallas/Fort Worth area? We had hard freezes during the winter. The lowest temperature here in the past 35 years was in the single digits 6/7 degrees.
Hey David, the tree should be fine, the question is would it set fruit properly. You would want to get a later fruiting variety and not an early variety like Christmas. For us they set fruit December-April.
You Rock Bruh! Keep it up! Love the passion too!
Pete, great video, love that you keep it short so don't mind how fast you talk, plus you can always replay it right LOL. Where do you get your stock from? I am in Phoenix, there are people that sell them here, but it is hard to know what type they are, whether they are with lots of fuzz and large seed. Most of the sellers here also get their stock from Florida.
Garry Cole - I have sourced my grafted cultivars from a wide range of commercial brokers, but over the last couple years, I've been growing my own rootstock from seed then grafting the named varieties onto them.
Garry Cole - & thank you so much for the feedback!
Keep it up! 👍
Hi Pete
Thanks for teaching us so much! I want to know if I can buy a home near Tampa or Orlando that has like fruit orchard in it already like maximum 1 acre lot. Please tell me how should I search that.
Thank you very much my friend
Human First I'm glad you're enjoying the content! I've only seen one or two homes advertised with edible landscaping in Florida, both I believe were listed in the Florida Permaculture group. I'd try joining that for starters. Plants grow fast I wouldn't be afraid to start something new, a blank slate can be better for many reasons. If I was you I'd start with contacting a local realtor and giving them your search criteria, this way every time something comes on the market you'll be notified. Game changers for me are, no HOA, good well, little topography ( dreamy in FL ) and some old groove oaks on the land. Good luck!
I love short unedited videos. Do it myself, I don't know how to edit 😆
love your farm. I will keep watching you. I am in Fort Worth Texas and I am a newbie. My problem is I planted to any Fruit seeds in pots. Now it need to plant them in the grown. All I manage do is kill lots of trees a couple of months after planting.
I would like to know what if you have a Pete Kanaris Dream list of step of questions that someone like me should have asked her self be for planting a fruit 2 year old fruit tree in the grown just to watch it die. I would like to make a mini food forest any tips on design I have no clue of were to begin pleas help.
Alma Carter - Thank you! I really appreciate it! I would be happy to help & after this 30 day challenge is over, I will move away from the short clips on plants & focus on how-to's, I think an important one would be an intro to properly plant fruit trees. If you are planning on getting your baby trees in the ground before I record those clips, I can offer you a small amount of advice here:
1.) Be sure that the tree is not root bound in it's pot
2.) Make sure that the sunlight needs will be met (understory/dappled light vs. full sun needs)
3.) Fruit trees thrive on native soils & do the best when they are planted high. Plant them up to the half way point of the pot height & mound the soil up around the edges to cover exposed roots. Do NOT dig a big giant hole for your tree, or even backfill it with rich soil. We have learned that the ground settles & soils build over time, which means that your tree will settle into the ground, becoming water logged. There is only 1 exception to this - Figs (they need rich, moist conditions to combat harmful nematodes.)
4.) DO NOT add ammendments to the planting hole. No fertilizers/minerals/worm castings/anything else. If you do, your fruit tree's roots will be satisfied with the space & won't expand out in search of nutrients: meaning - stunted or slow growth will occur.
3.) Also, when planting your tree - make sure that the soil/earth is packed in as tightly as possible. There should be good contact with the roots of the tree & the earth that surrounds them (air pockets aren't good.) You can check by stomping on the surface around the tree - if it has too much "give", pack it in tighter.
6) Don't mulch right up to the trunk of the tree - this will cause collar rot. Mulching your tree is a great practice to keep the moisture in the roots, but be sure to separate any mulch chips away from the trunk itself.
7.) Watering the root ball only, until the root system is established - this usually takes about 3 weeks, then after that just water as needed (during drought times).
Good luck! Hope this helps!
Man, between wranglerstar, rhodes, good of the land, and now you.... I've just really gotta get myself some land. in the meantime though, say I've got a roughly 20ftx20ft walled in concrete courtyard that I could put some potted plants in and planter boxes shelved along the wall, is there anything I could really do with that space? how do I bring permaculture to an urban, concrete, unabundant space?
Michael P - so glad you came over to my channel. I love hearing that I'm part of that lineup! Thanks, man! I would suggest maximizing the space by looking at vertical elements like espalier, training vines, etc along the wall space. I woul suggest one hell of a container garden; perennials, natives & herbs. There are many small fruit trees that could work well in your space.
I love your videos, keep up to great work!! :D
You spoke the other night about Biochar , is that something the average home owner can obtain? How would it be applied?
Yes any and all can use biochar. We top dress everything, fruit trees, plants, raised beds etc. I would for a local distributer unless you are in Florida.
I'm in Central Florida
Keep the videos coming. I live in NE Fl. and will be buying some land in the summer. Definitely will be doing similar things with my land. Where do I find info on tours of your place?
Thanks Keith! All of our tour info will be listed on our website. Most of our tours this year are at client sites.
Debating planting one of these. I have tried them and I don’t like sour fruit. Are there any sweeter varieties?
David Welty yes there are sweet and sour varieties. I find Bradenton, Oliver and Yehuda To be the sweetest.
Pete Kanaris GreenDreamsFL thank you!
Can they survive in tropical land?
Definitely! Loquats love the tropics. They can’t handle snow now....
I hope you follow VeganAthlete on TH-cam, his garden is insane in a relatively small area. There's another guy in Arcadia, FL named Andy Firk that practices permaculture and collects lots of rare gingers. He healed his body of cancer with wild FL plants amongst other things.
I don't but I will. Im close friends with Andy Firk he's been here many times. I'll actually get him here to do a few videos for y'all.
Pete Kanaris GreenDreamsFL. Quick inquiry when is web shop going to be back up? Wanted to get 2 of the food forests in a box. Let me know when you can. All the Best, Brigitte in California
Anthula D'Imperio Jake Mace is a fake scam artist but he does have a great Garden
we have a farm for it in my country algeria ! (north africa)
they are tasty
Will this grow in ohio
Love them. In SW Fla and ours peak a little earlier than yours. Have you heard of anybody making jam or jellies with them? We also have Surinam Cherries. www.eattheweeds.com/surinam-cherry-only-ripe-need-apply/ They're kind of resiny flavored and an acquired taste but I've been eating them all my life and LOVE them.
Ayeeee lmao