Discover the Rare 'Guava Tamarillo' with Colour Changing Flowers + Tasty Fruits

Join me as we grow guava tamarillos from seed to harvest! 🌱 In this video, I'll briefly walk you through the entire process, from planting the seeds and nurturing the seedlings to watching the beautiful flowers bloom and the fruits develop. Finally, we'll enjoy a taste test of these unique and delicious fruits. Their scientific name is Solanum diploconos.

Guava tamarillos are not only a fascinating plant to grow but also a delicious and nutritious addition to your garden. They are known for their vibrant flowers and unique fruit, which has a sweet and tangy flavor. I love them as a snack while gardening! I hope you enjoy learning a bit about this unique fruiting tree!

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Hi, I'm Kalem, and this channel features all sorts of unusual and exotic fruiting plants with tips of how to successfully grow them. I'm interested in all things gardening and love growing my own food and all types of edible plants.
I live on a 2 acre piece of land in New Zealand where we are turning a grass paddock into and abundant, edible paradise and food forest! So come along on this journey with me as I experiment with growing, and try to push the limits of what I can grow. I'll share with you my successes and failures so hopefully you'll learn from them and have a go yourself! Come learn with me and Subscribe to join this awesome community :)

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[kittbenefield]

Far out this is a cool looking tamarillo, hey man if you’re ever selling seeds or seedlings of this plant I’d love to grab a couple for me mum. Keep up the clean kiwi content bro

[bigredtomato]

I absolutely love your videos! They’re a great way to relax, they’re entertaining, and they’re extremely informative! Thank you for sharing your gardening with us

[vancegilmore]

So inspiring and visually appealing as always. Thanks Kalem. 🌿🥀💦

[PeterEntwistle]

Wow, very cool and unique fruits, Kalem! I will have to keep an eye out for these 👍

[adamTT]

Looks amazing! Great job. Your videos are always relaxing and educational. Best wishes

[sebastianN]

I was just watching a bunch of your videos…you are so smart and personable…you make this look so simple. Thank you.

[Tin-tmsn]

You are the best I always watch your videos❤❤❤😊🎉

[kennedynthiwa]

Very interesting stuff. I'm glad to see you again. Keep that great content flowing. God bless

[kepler]

do some native New Zealand plant gardening

[RubenN]

Interesting fruit, where can you get seeds and/or the fruit in NZ ?

[robinwhitsell]

I’m intrigued how long it takes for your experiments to go from seeds to fruit-producing. You are one of the few YouTubers who posts the whole journey. This is amazing! How long did it take?

[felinetherapy]

Wow, all I can think is that you must have the BEST tasting tomato's! My Gran used to save the seeds from the best tomato's and melons to reproduce.

[dropdeur]

I love your channel hope your doing okay its difficult to live in our digital age

[Ruktiet]

Wow this thing grew thick and strong! I remember your previous video. Great, succinct video. Hope you give Lulo (Solanum quitoense) a chance one day. If you start seeds in a growing tent 6 months before when you usually sow seeds, you'll be able to get it to fruit. It's really tasty and makes one of the best juices ever. Just make sure to not overwater it because it's very susceptible to Fusarium infection.

[markis]

G'day Kalem, where do you get most of your unusual edibles from? Have you even considered raising some seedlings of these and selling them?

[patrickdemarcevol]

A bit short this video but still you're my favourite smf nursery guy/gardner on this media. Do you think this tamarillo would grow in my part of the world? France, close to the Mediterranean border with Spain, 650m altitude facing South with scortching sun 😀

[sossage]

It seems that you're in a slightly similar climate to us so it's good to know what would work and not work where we are in NZ. Thanks!

[XoroksComment]

This species can hybridize with C. corymbiflora which is another Tamarillo species with edible fruits that is really hardy, down to -9°C.

[almostthere]

Ripe and hanging on the tree, they look like persimmon. Actually the flower looks very similar too.

[mishmishm]

Dear Kalem, kia ora ❤🙋‍♂️
2 questions
1 does the fruit has some salinity like tomatoes do❓are they sweet at all ❓

2: you mentioned cold hardy
But how about hot climate hardiness ❓our limiting factor is hot 🔥 long summers getting worse each year .
Thank you
Happy gardening .

Mishmish