Growing & Tasting Some Of My Favourite Unusual Fruits

Today I wanted to share some of my favourite unusual fruits to grow at home. We'll be growing and tasting them out in the garden as I share a bit about each fruit tree or fruiting plant, how to eat and use the fruit, plus some growing tips throughout. All these fruits are really delicious and so cool to have growing in the garden.
We'll be taking a look at Australian Finger Limes (also known as caviar limes), Styrian Hulless Pumpkin (Austrain Hulless), Feijoa (pineapple guava), plus the Feijoa flowers, and Red Banana Passionfruit (Vanilla Passionfruit) which are so incredibly good.
The chosen fruits are all quite different, and hopefully you'll find one that will suit your garden, or otherwise I hope this inspires you to grow anything unusual in your garden. It's great to experience some of the amazing textures and flavours that the world has to offer and even better to harvest amazing fruits and vegetables right at home, fresh from the garden :)

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0:00 Intro
0:13 Australian Finger Limes
2:38 Styrian Hulless Pumpkin - Seeds & Fruit
5:46 Feijoa (Pineapple Guava)
8:07 Feijoa Flowers
9:27 Red Banana Passionfruit
11:50 Gobble gobble

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[TheKiwiGrower]

What's your favourite unusual fruit or edible plant to grow? Or do you have one that you want to try out?
I've added some other videos to the description too that you might find helpful.
Thanks a lot for watching and for your continued support :)
-Kalem

[simonroper]

This is so inspirational. Watching is so satisfying and lifts my spirits. I think I’m going to end up in a four acre plot with goats and wifi

[PS-wzfc]

Dude.. Your farm and those grassy meadows are unbelievably beautiful.. You sure live on a piece of heaven.. Lucky chap..

[denisegibson]

When We lived in South Africa we grew a fruit called a guavadilla. It was bigger than the usual passionfruit (granadilla) and the skin was yellow but the inside tastes just like the normal passionfruit. They were vigorous growers and I just loved them.

[tonton]

When the pandemic happens, I started planting fruit trees and berries. Now I had almost hundred varieties of figs, 15 varieties of dragon fruit, some grapes, tropical fruits such as coconut, tamarind, chico, duhat, rambutan, guyabano, mango and other fruit trees in the Philippines. I also grow apples, pears, lychee, jujube, oranges, blackberries, mulberries, jaboticaba, finger lime, magic fruit and other fruit that are not common in my country. Two months ago I moved to Australia, fortunately I have my mon taking care of my plants and I miss them.

Btw Kalem, if you can accessed to magic fruit that would be awesome with the finger lime, as the magic fruit will make those lime sweet. It's like popping sweet citrus on your mouth.

[escapist]

This is how I wanna live my life. Surrounded by nature with lots of plants, lots of pets and lots of happiness.

[lordtachanka]

Finger lime pearls seem like they'd be a good garnish for a desert in a fancy restaurant

[jenniferk]

Glad to see I’m not the only one that likes to grow the unusual stuff!

[HashishFTW]

That passionfruit looked out if this world haha :D

[derbmann]

We (Austria - Styria) also call them Oil Pumpkin because the Seeds get dryed like you did and pressed afterwards to get Pumpkin Oil.
But you need around 3Kg Seeds to get 1L Oil. And we use the Oil mainly on Salads but you also can use it in like ice cream etc.
You can basically do everything with it, except heating it because it will burn.

[nukungsinjan]

I love the feijoa plant, its fruit is delicious and I have planted it in my house.

[Jacksirrom]

I want to try one of those finger limes so much. Looks GOURMET.

[fabe]

Your combined grafted tomato-potato plant has got me interested enough to seriously consider planting some of my own veggies once I’ve left my job and have a spare few months to get started. Really enjoy your concise but informative style :)

[davidhalliday]

Oii, cheers from Colombia! I had never seen that type of maracuyá. I have to agree feijoas are one of the best fruits ever, there are also plenty of feijoa trees where I grew up, one thing that is pretty common here is to serve every fruit as juice, so you might be surprised on how delicious some of those fruits are when you turn them into juice, my favourite way to make a feijoa juice is to blend it without the peel, and also accompanied with milk, I bet you are gonna love it!!.
I have also heard and tried a couple of desserts prepared with these fruits such as Feijoa mousse and like a Feijoa flower cake, I'd love to know if you tried any of that stuff!!

[chrrmin]

I will never understand why i find it so entertaining to watch somebody else eat fruit. Also hows the dragon fruit doing?

[StuffandThings_]

Another great thing about Feijoas is their cold hardiness. I've managed with them in USDA zone 8a in the Pacific Northwest for quite a few years, they handled 9 degrees F (~-12 C) no problem. Unfortunately we had an unprecedented freeze of 5 degrees F (-15C) last winter which killed them to the ground. Funnily enough they seem to struggle with the lighting issues with the very long summer days and short winter nights more than the temperatures, unless of course its a really extreme freeze. The flowers on the variety "Nikita" were much sweeter and tastier than on the Coolidge, and supposedly its fruit are very well liked too, so I'd give that one a try if you can find it. It also struggles less with lighting and has smaller leaves which look nice.

[joesarva]

The banana passion fruit (aka Curuba) is amazing when made into a smoothie in a blender with milk and a little sugar. It’s creamy like a drinkable yogurt. Same goes for the feijoa fruit blended with milk, but unlike the banana passion fruit which is almost like a peach yogurt, the feijoa tastes more like a citrus yogurt.

[haley]

Age of empires got the turkey sound right haha. That's very wholesome that they hang around you like that :)

[urbanfrog]

Greetings from Hawke's Bay. One of the really big advantages of the banana passionfruit is their lifespan. Typically standard passionfruit only live 5 to 7 years. Banana passionfruit, on the otherhand, will live live between 20 and 25 years.

[melonbloxRBLX]

this dude inspired me to make my own garden, now i get to have salad with my own vegetables in my lunchbox