Growing Popcorn From START TO FINISH & 100K Subscriber Thank you!
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- čas přidán 29. 06. 2024
- Today I'll be sharing the whole process of growing popcorn from start to finish including starting popcorn seeds, how to care for the plants, harvesting and even popping your own pop corn. There are many amazing varieties of popcorn out there to try and today I'll be growing an heirloom variety called Strawberry Popcorn. This variety is great for small gardens as it only grows to around 5 ft. tall, and it produces small red ears of popcorn which look pretty amazing. The kernels are small on this variety but they still pop well and the corn can also be ground and used to make flour, cornmeal and polenta. Next time I'm planning to try glass gem corn which have full sized, and multicolored kernels - they look pretty epic! I hope you enjoy this popcorn growing guide, and have a go planting your own pop corn in the garden! :)
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Hi, I'm Kalem, and The Kiwi Grower is a channel featuring 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 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! So come along on this journey with me as I experiment with growing, and try to push the limits of what I can grow in my area. 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!
Thank you to Lee from / urbanveggiepatch for allowing me to embed a few photos of her amazing glass gem corn at the start of the video.
0:00 Intro
0:23 Starting Seeds
0:51 Planting Seedlings
1:41 Watering
2:10 Pollination
3:12 Harvesting & Drying
4:12 Popping the popcorn
6:09 100K Sub Thank you!
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Hey everyone, thanks for watching and a big welcome to all the new subscribers! Appreciate the support, and all the best with the things you're growing :)
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I have some pink dragon fruit seeds if you want some. :)
I'm happy to trade for some red seeds maybe.
Hey! Love your videos and was wondering if youve ever considered growing pistachios? I've heard their "fruit" encasing is quite unique and delicious in flavor
Quick quiz: how did you solve the bird problem? I live in Australia and the parrot here eats everything.
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i dont know how long now but still waiting on that coconut update... or at least what happened to them lol
I’m so impressed with the sheer effort to keep all the projects organized and edit your videos to put together a start to finish overview with helpful commentary at every step!
Thank you so much! Really appreciate it :)
Agreed
Tbh this channel is practically my comfort channel. No problems,no arguments,and no hate just pure plants and a chill dude living the good chill life.
Thanks heaps mate, so cool that the channel can be that for you. Comments like this mean a lot so really appreciate it :)
@@TheKiwiGrower No prob love from Philippines 😘
that's the reason I sub to this channel XD
This is not home grown popcorn. Its clearly from a farmers market.
@@JohnSmith-lc1ml what? He legit showed us him getting it off the plant
Stumbled into your account and immediately it immediately became a favourite. I love what you do and how you do it.
Thanks heaps, really appreciate it! :)
The multi-colored variety is rather bland, all for show. If you regularly make popcorn, I can recommend a hot air popcorn maker, perfect results. Just keep the kids away from it. I came down one morning to every bowl and saucepan filled with popcorn with them in a panic trying to find more and more space for popcorn - they had filled the machine to the brim. It was hilarious that "just switch it off" had never occurred to them and that they thought they would be in big trouble!
Good to know, thanks for that. Haha that’s crack up!
hilarious :D
That's so fucking funny, I can't imagine that it seems like something out of a cartoon lol
OMG I have done that-at 32 years old!
Stove is the best way...
Brings back so many great memories with my Dad. He would grow strawberry corn and we would pop them. So much fun
Loved seeing the popping part! Great video 🙂
Thanks Tanya! :)
This is amazing! I've been a gardener for about a year and a half now, already got a killer tomato and pepper harvest this summer. Thank you for the amazing tips on produce!
Hi there, Kalem! 👋🏽 Greetings from The Bronx, NY (USA) 🇺🇸 New sub here. I love how your videos take us from start to finish on most projects. Looking forward to many more great videos.
Thanks heaps, glad you're enjoying them and welcome to the channel! And Hi from NZ :)
We are growing popcorn for the first time next year! Very excited about it. My daughter love popcorn on movie night and it would be awesome to be home grown! Thanks for the tip about the sweet and popping corn I’ll try that out next season!
New subscriber here! I have really enjoyed your videos. They're educational, entertaining, and-- as weird as it may sound-- soothing. Thank you for all the time and energy you put into your content! Best of wishes from the US!
Hey, welcome to the channel! Thanks heaps for the kind comment and glad you're enjoying them :)
That was delightful from start to finish. Congratulations on your beautiful popcorn!
Ahhh, watching someone working hard and explaining stuff while lying here in the bed is really the best, thx man appreciate it
Yippee! I’m sprouting some popcorn I bought at the grocery store in my kitchen right now. This will be my first year growing food and I am very pleased to have stumbled across your channel tonight! Thank you
This is one of the most amazing videos I've ever watched! So much great information, presented in an amazing way, keeping the viewers attention...LOVE IT!!!!!
It was so fascinating seeing the various stages from plant to the final popcorn product. Thanks for the video, I liked it!
It excites me so much to watch your vids, im so happy that i found your channel. Im passionate about growing my own plants and trees since i was a little kid and seeing someone doing it makes me smile so much. ❤️ Thank you for all the work and amazing content!!
Thanks so much for the comment Petre, cool to connect with other passionate people and glad you’re enjoying the vids! :)
my second year growing strawberry corn, awesome to see someone else growing these and getting stoked on them
Interesting corn variety, the actual corn shape and colour reminds me of those red coloured Banksia plants we have here in Australia. I swear corn seems to just do so well for you, I've never really had success growing corn before, it usually grows with little to no vigour for me and flowers when the plant is still tiny, producing pretty much nothing. I also noticed at the end that you have started a small collection of cacti too.
I just a a single video of yours and now I am already a fan of your work.
Thank you for doing this video! You helped us answer some questions in our homeschool today.
I love your videos!!!! So informative, fun and the quality is on point
I planted the same corn this season and so far it’s growing great.
Dooooooooooood. The harvest and pop footage has me super excited for the fall and winter. I have strawberry and Dakota black popcorn sprouted and planted for thw first time.
It's earwigs that get into cobs here in Tas. They also eat the silks preventing proper pollination. Chooks are great for keeping them out of the corn.
Always something wanting to munch them haha. Good to know about chooks, sounds like a good idea
Your videos are awesome and I have learnt heaps already by watching ! Thank you so much for your vidoes !
I love your videos, they're always fun to watch and informative! My garden did very well this year and seeing everything grow was pure joy! Cheers from Ontario Canada
Thanks! Glad you're enjoying the gardening life too, hope your Winter isn't too long and cold :)
@@TheKiwiGrower 🥶 Where I live, our winters are very long, verrrrry cold with mountains of snow! It usually starts snowing in November until April. January and February are the coldest months with temperatures from approximately minus 10° Celcius (if we're lucky) to minus 25°-30 °Celcius. The gardening season is very short so I start the seedlings inside the house and then they can be planted outside around beginning may or so. However, not everything can be planted outside at this time of the year because at night it still might be too cold. For exemple, tomatoes should be transferred outside only around mid -June to avoid possible frosty nights. The growing season is approximately until end of September- mid- October. My lemon tree, lime tree and orange tree are in big pots and brought into the house in September. Take care and best wishes! 🍄🎃🌼🍂🍁🍂🌼🎃🍄
Slaters! That's a new to me term for copepods. Neat. My favorite name for them is "land shrimps" 😊 Currently planting out my first batch of popcorn in the garden. Fingers crossed, and thanks for sharing your insights.
I very glad I came across this channel. I have never been curious or interesting in gardening before until now. You have brought something out of me that I didn't know I liked, thank you for that. I wish you all the best, love from Palestine.
That's awesome, I'm so glad I could ignite something in you! How cool. Sending love from New Zealand :)
@@TheKiwiGrower I would love to visit New Zealand one day! It's on my bucket list along with Sweden and Iceland. Is it possible to grow olive trees in NZ? Here in Palestine we have lots of olive trees that grow naturally. I would love to learn how to grow one myself.
Would be cool if you visited NZ! :) Yup olive trees grow here
@@TheKiwiGrower It's a dream of mine! Beautiful country with incredibly nice people!
Wow! You've really gone from start to finish on this one. You've got a winning format that makes for great quality vids that are really satisfying for the viewers. Kenzie is a great looking sheep. Is she your lawnmower? 😁👍👍
Thanks John, glad you think so :).
Yep she’s one of our 7 lawnmowers / friends haha
I'm planting some of these this year :) Looking forward to seeing how they go!
Awesome! Good luck with it :)
A few years back i grew some of the small ones you have in your hand! It popped small but tasted ok! It was a fun thing to try! I live in Canada so not as warm as where you live!
Thank you for the information. My granddaughter is interested in growing her own popcorn. She is 8. This is great. Again thank you
You’re so much fun to watch! Thanks for sharing your journey!
Thanks so much, glad you like them :)
You are filling a big drought in well made and thought out gardening videos! New favorite channel for me! Keep up the great work
Thanks Robert, really appreciate it! :)
I once planted some popcorn that was just bought from the bulk bin at the supermarket. It grew well, but we moved house before it was ready to pick.
wow nice gardening first time to like that king of popcorn
Strawberry popcorn, sooo kool!! I've never heard of it before.. Thank you for your insight and Congratulations on the subs! Well- deserved! 👏
Thanks so much, glad I could share something new with you!
This was soooo good! Very informative! Thank you soooo much!
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Brilliant and thanks for this very useful information on growing and harvesting corn - we will grow and try some next season
I need these popcorn kernels... The cobs are so adorable
I've been growing pop corn on a raised bed for 7 years. I usually plant about 32 seeds, and yield at least 2 ears per stalk. Not bad for a 4 x 8 bed.
I really enjoy all of your videos ! because of your videos I just get to know a lot of new variaties :)
I can’t wait to move out and start growing!
I too just harvested my first crop of Strawberry popcorn! Well done mate.
Nice one! Hope you enjoy it
Just got strawberry popcorn seeds today! So excited thanks for sharing 🎉
Awesome! Good luck with them :)
I just found your channel and I love the content. I became interested in flower gardening a few years ago and I’m now interested in growing fruit and veggies. Thanks for the helpful information.
Thanks heaps, glad you enjoy it and good luck with the growing! :)
I have an ancient popper. Love it.
Video quality is so clear.
Lovely stuff. Interesting and fan to watch
This looks really fun, I might suggest it for our community patch in my apartment building as the kids in the building would love it!
Hi Jasmine, that's a great idea, I'm sure they'd love it! Would be a cool memory for them to have :)
first time seeing this colour of maize.. It’s really amazing to see.. Here we see yellow colour maize...
Now I can grow my own popcorn and pop them
And the color of those popcorns have the color of the rainbow. That’s pretty cute
3:28
Another name for these little crustaceans!
A fine addition to my collection.
The water actually doesn't turn to steam initially with heating. Due to the hard shell the heat causes the pressure to build up while keeping the water in a liquid state until the rupture happens. This pressure release causes the superheated water to immediately turn to a gas which is what makes the pop, and rapid expansion makes the spongey soft texture we all love.
Always awesome content mate! What a beautiful variety of corn!
Thanks heaps Reuben :)
They're so beautiful
Well done. Thank you.
those crimson ears are beautiful
I've never seen strawberry corn! How cool! We used to take an entire ear of pop corn and put it in a paper bag and microwave it. Those tiny ears you grew would be a perfect snack. If you love the stove top method and really want to sin...pop your corn in bacon grease.
Super awesome videos! Can’t wait to see what you got going in the next ones
Cheers Jacob! :)
Love from the Philippines 🇵🇭., ❤❤❤
Thank you, this video improved my horrible mood a little. Made me so happy to see you be happy to eat your own grown popcorn
Thanks for the comment and glad the video did that for you :).
Keep well 💚
Great stuff.
When steamed, they’re very interesting and taste delicious
the amount of patience to run a garden channel is insane, thanks.
Thanks heaps, it can be a bit full on at times haha
Looks so delicious
Just as adorable as a baby koala wearing a jumper! 😋 👍👍
You can you a glass bowl and 2 cups water cook 3 minutes in microwave. Perfect popped popcorn without any oil or fat.
I have watched your channel all the way back to growing coconuts from a store bought. Thank you for all of the good information. I also wanted to tell you about another youtuber Mark's garden life. You and he could pass for brother's. I suggested to him to check out your channel to see the comparison. I can see a collaboration there.. you're both awesome. 😊
Hey mate, thanks for all the support over the years!
I’ve actually been speaking with Mark recently, he’s a great dude! :) Cheers
My kids and I grew the pink heart pop corns aswell they loved to water it
Thanks Mate My Grandson Was Asking About Growing Popcorn. I've only ever Grown eating corn.
And you got youself another subsciber.
What a fun video. Thank you.
Cheers Jef, glad you enjoyed it!
I sprouted coconut with your instruction, it grew but died in the cold, will do it again in the summer for coconut balls, they r sweet and juicy.
Recently subscribed and love the videos :)
I'd love to see a full video about the climate where you live, possibly highlighting some of the more adaptable (but still uncommon) plants you've grown.
I think it'd be really helpful for viewers elsewhere in the world who want to try growing some of the plants we've seen on the channel, but are worried about investing time into something that might not grow very well in their part of the world.
Hey, welcome to the channel and glad you're enjoying them :)
I'll note that down and do my best to share as much info as I can about suitable climates etc.!
Cheers
Such a great channel! Great info and positive vibes every step of the way! :)
Thanks so much! :)
That was great, I want to grow my own now.
Amazing video! I learned a lot thank you
How cool!
Now thats how a video should be done👍👍👍
thank for showing popcorn plant
omg strawberry popcorn looks amazing!!!!
I absolutely love your videos and they are actually getting me into planting which is awesome.
Same
Thats awesome! So stoked to get you into it :)
We should promote this channel. Every video takes a lot of time and effort to accomplish!
I love Kenzie! What a woolly baby!
She's so cute ay!
They look awesome!! 😉
Nice video and your sheep is so adorable 😁
Kenzie is adorable!
Knowledgeable, Smart, Handsome - He's got it all and then some 😉 👏 👏 ♥
Awesome video. Loved it!!!
Thanks!
Thats awesome!!!! Looks like a fun kind of corn to grow
Cheers mate, it was! :)
I'm a new subscriber, and wow! I'm so impressed - your videos are so organized and you put so much work (and time, many months) into them! I've never heard about Strawberry Popcorn, I would probably use it as an autumn home decoration (throwing into the oil by accident also sounds like me) :D Have a nice day :)
Thanks so much and welcome to the channel! They definitely do make nice decorations and kind of a cool talking point :)
Hope you have a nice day too
These videos are great. Keep up the great work
I just propagated some from the ones u pop in a pot with oil, they are growing!
When I get my own place I also want to grow my own food. You’re inspiring! 😊
Cool, something to look forward to for sure!
I looked up how to grow popcorn, I got what I wanted. Thank you
That is some seriously cool looking corn
100k 10 months ago. Now 300k. Congrats man! You're doing great!
Thanks so much! :)
Congrats for the numbers! I didn't know that kind of corn, it's beautiful, I have to say. Once, I planted purple corn and the yield was... dissapointing, lacking enough pollination, although opening the ears was like Xmas. Enjoy Spring!
Thanks David, glad I could show you a different type. Always cool trying out the interesting varieties. Purple corn sounds cool too :)
@@TheKiwiGrower Yes, sure. Peruvian varieties, but also grown in Mexico, as flour for tacos, as corn for 'chicha morada' a drink of that colour. Next time, sure you'll be experimenting with something else, but this video was just beautiful. First frosts are arriving here so I'm extremely pleased to see some nice growth in your side!
just found your channel and gotta say already a huge fan
going through your backlog :D