Pistachio: Growing pistachio trees and harvesting your crop in Melbourne

How do you know when your pistachio nut crop is ripe, ready and delicious to eat? Karen shows us her ripe pistachio nuts and shows how to pick ripe nuts. The pistachio trees grow on the nature strip garden in Melbourne. The trees are planted in an exposed, windy and hot position and they are thriving as a productive street tree. Both a male and female tree are needed for cross pollination to produce a crop, Karen has planted the male and female trees close together which can help restrict vigour, she also prunes the trees to size.

Note: If you grow a tree from seed, it would take around 10 years before it flowers, which will allow us to determine the sex of the tree. The male tree has pollen on the flowers. The grafted trees will start to produce nuts before a seedling tree. My trees are grafted and you can choose the sex male/female when you purchase trees from the nursery.

Where can I get a pistachio tree?
Your local reputable nursery such as Bulleen Art & Garden Centre, Yalca Fruit Trees or CERES nursery in Victoria Australia. They may need to order in the male and female trees for you.

How to dry fresh pistachio nuts

[venusonfire]

God I love pistachios, I can never get enough of them.

[JhazeldeVera]

Thumbs up if you're eating pistachios while reading this comment

I just finished eating a 1.36 kg bag of kirkland pistachios and was curious how these are grown. Thanks for the very informative video!

[alwaysluvever]

Wow. It’s nice to learn that pistachio are pink and green when they’re fresh from the tree!!! Thank you for sharing!!!! Love pistachios!!🙏🙏🙏🙏❤️

[MaribelPerez-oqem]

😁😁😁 I'm just learning how pistachios grow 😁😁😁at my 50's

[manyakkedi]

Hi Karen, we have our own pistachio trees in Gaziantep, Turkey. They are more than 30 years old. Pistachio requires a strong patience because it takes more than a decade to give fruit. I really appreciate you!

[UnknownVentures]

Every time I try to stop myself from eating more, I see a pistachio smiling among other pistachios. I grab and eat it and then I see another one smiling.

[AleksanderPQ]

Wow! I NEVER knew how pistachios were made? This video is mindblowinggly awesome. Pistachiout

[shofnaakthar]

Wow it’s amazing how they grow. I always wondered where do they grow? I thought they grew under soil! Lol! 😂 well now I know. Thank you

[stantc]

Watching this eating some pistachios...such a stress reliever snack...!!!

[josefinaantiga]

Thank you for sharing the informative video about pistachio fruit tree

[drztopgun]

Is so funny that I'm actually eating pistachios right now and I wondered what the tree looked like, so are many people long live pistachios 😂

[maydee]

oh wow, what a beautiful tree standing in the street.

[ayeshatansyceria]

I wish i can make grow pistachio here.. Because i like pistachio so much

[ausieking]

So glad I saw this video! I love pistachios and funnily enough I’m also near Brunswick so good to know they can grow here 😁

[sudhindrakopalle]

I bet it must be so fulfilling to grow a tree like this and care for it until it starts bearing fruit. I would love to do the same one day!

[melissafarrugia]

I love nature strip food planting and pistachio's too, instantly subscribed, got to be binge watching your other content to catch up because it's obvious that I will love it 😍

[simonfanai]

Wow never knew it can grow this delicious nut in Melbourne wow 🤩

[cappy]

Those are some beautiful trees. I love Pistachios but I dont live in area where I can grow them. God bless 👍

[anthonyburke]

Thank you, I would never have thought the Pistachio could survive in Melbourne weather! One question, how do you guarantee you have a male and a female tree? I understand duo planting but sexing the tree (other than waiting until it flowers, which kinda beats the objective)