I Grew the BIGGEST CITRUS Fruit in the WORLD | Pomelo
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- čas přidán 31. 05. 2024
- In this video, I show you my first pomelo grown in our own backyard and do a taste test to see what this giant citrus fruit is like to eat!
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I’ve given up reading the paper in the morning and watch this channel instead. Suddenly the worlds a nicer place and my veg garden is too. Good on ya Mark.
Thanks Colin! Mate, I agree, reading and watching too much of the news these days is simply depressing... I love getting into the garden instead. Cheers :)
Yes. Turn off the news and build a garden.just like the Willie, Lukas and willies other son sang the song. The world's a better place.😁👍
And, in so doing, you will rise your vibrations.
@@yardleyj9391vibrations don't exist. Not in the context you're speaking of. The LORD created the earth and we're to take care of it.
"My name is Citrus Maximus Gargantuas"
-Russell Grow.
🤣😆😂
So right! I am almost craying from your statement! I just love watching him!
I came here to put a similar comment 😂
😂🤣😂 That comment, has made my 'gluteus maximus' quiver & wobble with hilarity!🤷♀️🤣
🤣🤣 too funny
Here in the Philippines we don’t cut the pomelo like apple otherwise it will taste sour or off to tastebuds. We usually cut the top off (delicately not cut from outside to flesh, just until to white layering only) and we just peel it like orange. You must peel it off that way for best taste. 😊
Hello, do you ship cuttings or seedlings am located within the PHL
This guy lights up my day! He is the most fun way to learn gardening!
Ditto
Yes he is
agreed him
And James lol
Lol Australians make great nature educators
@@coniferous4637 hhh! As soon as he says "let's get into it" I start impersonating his accent... So much fun!
Your citrus maximus joke is even funnier because my husband thinks you look like Russell Crowe🤣😜
He looks like Russell Crowes brother or cousin. Just enough similarity so you see it but not so much you get confused.
He is master and commander of the garden 🤣
I must say, I AM entertained 😂
You're gonna make his head, I mean fruit swell even more.
He does look like him 😁
Here in the Philippines, we prepare a dip sauce for that. We mix vinegar, a little bit of salt, and some chili pepper. BTW, we have 2 kinds of pomelos, white and red. Like you, I prefer red since it's more juicy especially in summer.
That dip sounds amazing!
@@BillyBobBeauBenson right? Yum!
What's the best way to know if it's ripe? I often get dry ones from the supermarket...
@@LaNoir. the color, it changes in to yellow color when it's ripe.
@@LaNoir. Sorry, I don't know. My mom and uncle always get them from the tree themselves. But we usually smell the citrusy smell everytime we pat the skin. Also, we prefer eating them in summer. They are not really juicy in autumn or winter season.
I love pomelo. I was served pomelo by a Thai lady. She peeled all the pith around the whole fruit first, then separated each piece by pulling them apart and then peel the fibrous skin, OMG, the best!
"My name is Citrus Maximus Gargantuan, commander of the orchard and grower of the biggest citrus known to mankind" ... This should be on a plaque at the entrance to your orchard
Oh man! I live in Northeast India and Pomelo is one of the tastiest fruits here and so refreshing eating under a tree on a hot and windy day 🔥😉
I had a tree of these , it was literally 2 story’s high! The whole backyard sky was taken by the tree, it was awesome, the fruit would slowly rip so we would have the pomelos half the year. The clippings of over growth, can be re rooted to make a new tree if you want , put in glass o water, it might make roots
Love all of your information. You must have been the funny one in the army. Your Special Forces Team was lucky to have you. Thanks for serving your country.
Love pomelo. Peel it like an orange and then take slices for snacks at work :) if you don’t cut it open like that it is very clean to eat, portable snack in it’s own wrapper.
Mark is the type of gardener that keeps a knife in his back pocket for "safety"
Yup! Lol
I love Pomelo! The pith is so thick its perfect for candying then you get this great pomelo cocktail syrup
Pomelo is my favourite citrus fruit and I'm just amazed that a video about it popped up on my feed just now.
"Sweet grapefruit" is the perfect description. I love them and am trying to germinate 10 trees from seeds now. It might be better buy more mature grafted trees, but I'm having fun anyway.
Great to experiment with Charles and you never know! Cheers :)
With citrus you often get sterile plants when grown from seed. They might never ptoduce fruit, but you'll only know in at least half a decade :/
That's the biggest pomelo I've ever seen! 😲 But, I've only seen them in the grocery store.
With that knife, you were sort of looking like a gladiator.☺️
Thanks for taking us along! 💜🇺🇸
Hope to try the fruit one day too. 😋
Hahaha, thanks Trish! Cheers :)
Love Mark's fun and refreshing approach to gardening.. his enthusiasm is deliciously contagious! 👍😀
We in north India take out the pulp add little sugar,salt red chilly and green cilantro , garlic(optional) and eat it quickly... because its gets bitter quickly....
Its a winter fruit here and is best enjoyed in sun 😎...
Its tastes amazing the way I told u so please give it a try
The punster is at it again. Well done Mark . Citrus brings out the best in you . Living well down under . Good job by you.
Love your sense of humor! Thanks for the video
Definitely gonna need that low budget gladiator, shot for shot, remake now
It has to take place entirely in his garden
These big boys fascinated me when I went to China. Just blew my little mind. Everyone I visited had these individual lobes each the size of a banana sitting in a bowl. Not super sweet or juicy, but just nice to eat. Pretty filling.
I love Pomelo! But that Gladiator joke was the best thing I've seen all year! Hahaha :D
"I'll put this in my back pocket for safety!" Just after saying the ground is muddy! You're risking a knife in the back doing that mate! One slip in that mud and that knife is going straight in your back!
*You're
We all know the knife would bend...
@@colinsavill3459 haha
Pomelo is my favorite citrus! I like to just peel the whole thing apart. And the flavor is the best!
Pomelo is so amazing, it makes a brilliant citrus base for salad dressings with a mild undertone
pomelo is very handy for citrus breeding, its DNA adds sweetness to the seedlings, and it is the only citrus that doesn't have some seeds that are an exact copy of the parent ( non - parthenogenesis ) in other words it's babies (seeds ) have 1/2 mother's DNA and 1/2 fathers DNA, other citrus have some seeds that are just copies of the parent.
Citrus Maximus !! lol I love it ! And grown by the Russell Crowe of veggie/fruit growing !! A big citrussy thumbs up Mark from Ontario Canada ! ;)
LOL... Thanks Mike! Cheers mate :)
Where I'm from we call these Bali limes and oddly the tree at my grandmothers house is a variety sweeter then any other of its kind ive ever tasted
I bet in a blind taste test you wouldn't be able to tell the difference
You are my favourite person to hang out with on CZcams Mark. I am currently renting a house in Coffs Harbour after recently making the move from Sydney and although I cant have raised garden beds I spent the day planting out a heap of containers of different vegies today. Thank you for all the hard work and love you put into your videos, you are so inspiring ♥️
I have two yellow pomelo trees ,planted from seed 10 years ago. We are in the lockyer Valley queensland Australia and have had ripe fruit for the last month. Fruit fly were bad at the start but good now. Our trees have been fruiting around 100 fruit each year. I blend them, eat as snacks. Amazing fruit
You can also make a wonderful pomelo marmalade from those things. Boy, those look fantastic!
Chinese Cooking Demystified has a recipe for pomelo skins
Yes, good video, thanks! czcams.com/video/HQomVDn4XA4/video.html
You have done your best to invent every new things in growing all sorts of plants. I mean how the whole world peel pummelo to make it appealing to eat and you cut it like a lemon, how the whole world grows dragon fruits by trellis and you grow it without, and how you use eggs feed your trees etc. Even though it all fails from my point of view but I have to acknowledge it's brilliant efforts and is very entertaining.
I absolutely migrate to your videos and watched your testimony. My family loves watching your videos. Keep on keeping on.....
I love pomelos! We always have them during the Lunar New Year! If you open them a certain way, you can wear the rind as a hat!
Thats awesome
Explain how to make a hat please
@@bgram7866 Instructions for pomelo rind hat (usually reserved for the youngest of the family, but we're all babies to someone):
1. Slice off top part of rind, so that the top is flat.
2. Score (cut the rind, but do not cut into the fruit itself) the sides in a kind of "X" design, but do NOT score to the bottom. Score a little bit past halfway to the bottom, otherwise, you will just have separate pieces of rind.
3. Carefully peel the rind away from the flesh. It should come off in one whole piece. It will look similar to a fat squid.
4. Cut off one of the wedges of rind (one of the squid's legs) for the face.
5. Find the youngest in the family, and place on head. You may also wear it yourself. It is very aromatic.
6. Save the hat to make braised pomelo rind, or just toss it in the compost.
I was introduced to pomelo in Singapore when we lived there. I liken it to a cross between a grapefruit and an orange
I have planted the seeds and had about 4-6 small plants/trees in a height of more than one meter (took like 6-7 years in Sweden). As we need to move my dear friend Marco-Antonio adopted them, so I hope he will take really good care of them!
When I move to a warmer climate I defiantly will grow these citrus trees as the whole family loves them. Mostly the red ones but also the honey pomelo (white flesh).
More videos please Mark, I’m running out and need your channel for my daily chill out time here in Britain 👍🇦🇺🇬🇧
I've missed watching your channel. And it's good to be back. Thank you for another great installment to my brother from across the pond 🙏❤️🙏❤️
I had to replace all of my citrus trees this year. My orange and grapefruit trees died in the Texas winter storm. I replace them with a republic of Texas orange tree and a Meyer lemon tree. I’m also growing a flying dragon, that I will use as a rootstock for grafting next year.
Sorry to hear about your fruit trees dying but it's great to know you have already got back into it! Cheers :)
@@Selfsufficientme yeah, there’s always a silver lining. I got to plant new varieties.
You seem like such a genuinely nice guy. And I'm jealous of your garden.
Goodness! That is HUGE! Love your channel and humor!
Lol I’ve been hoping you would post soon!! Been spending all day “getting into it” in my garden.
Blessings to you mark!
Good on ya Arianna for getting into it! All the best with your garden this season. Cheers :)
Greetings from Latvia!🇱🇻
Eyyy, nedomāju, ka te būs latvieši :D
Vaine?! :D
@@Ernescme Vēlviens uzradās?!?!!!
@@lacplesis484 un vēl viena. Ne slikti priekš vienas dienas? lol
@@livingonhighvibe Tā gan :DD
Those pomelo fruits look like little moons at night time, I planted one just to have the same effect on my backyard, love the fruits too🙂
This grows and a variety of this called Toronja, grows in the streets of my city in Argentina
We get them here in France from the store. They’re the yellow flesh type and they are called Chinese grapefruit, with a sweeter taste than regular grapefruit. They are imported from China.
i hope they stopped importing anything from China.
Loving these videos, it's my dream to have semi-self sufficient property. You are giving me a lot of inspiration even though I live in a different climate so I can't really grow what you have. Just to see someone doing it is really motivational.
Grow what you like and what you can in your region , I agree mark has rekindled my gardening interest
Pomelo is good for people with hypertension. It's filling too. You can dip it with just salt. It amplifies also the taste. You can also make it as a salad with cucumber and other stuff. I always envy your garden. I could only wish going to Australia
In Vietnam we use the peels of the pomelo for hair nourishment, it actually works very well. Just simply dry it up and boil it in water, you can use the the tea to rinse you hair with. I can still remember the lovely smell 🤗
Looks delicious, I’m thinking the ones I’ve seen at the store are inferior to fresh ones. When I used to live in Florida, I’d eat oranges from a friend’s tree and they were heaven, better than anything I’ve ever found at the store. Great video 😃🤗
I’ve never heard of Pomelo! I bet you’ve been eyeing that one on your tree for a while!!
Pomelo is great! Its like a grapefruit but less bitter
Great video, we have two palmello trees and one is REALLY producing (much older tree) and we just LOVE IT!!
I suppose if you keep the cuttings, you could start your own base stock for future cuttings of other fruit trees. Thanks for all you do.
That’s what I was thinking when he pruned the suckers
Haha, I thought the same thing with the Roman Warrior of the orchard. Thought it, then you said it. So good!
You are great Mark
I like your videos so much i like them before even watch them.
Great garden !
I love this channel and I think it's underrated! ❤🧡💛💚💙💜
My Mother who lives on Guam, has these tree's and we just call them grapefruit. Nice to know it's real name.
Thank you for always sharing such wonders as a fruit tree first giving fruit, I can't grow many things in my current living conditions but hope to one day have such a great family orchard like you
Man you have an amazing garden !!!
You are related to Russel Crowe!!! I knew it!
"and in this life or the next, I will have my revenge"
:D
LOL...
Delicious fruits. Looks like paradise to me!
Thanks Mark; lovely fruit! What a wonderful garden you have!👵😊🌱🌱🌱
Pomelo is one of the best fruit out there, we don't cut straight through the middle but score the outside and peel it like an orange 😂 also I believe the reds taste sweeter than the normal one according to my mom 👀 your pomelo tree looks amazing!
They’re big in China. Personally, don’t like them at all. Taste is like a dry grapefruit.
My neighbor growing up had a 20 foot tall red pomelo, I stole a fruit off it when I was 10 years old and was mind blown by such an enormous fruit! I remember it tasting very similar to the way you described
Ooh, please do try the braised pith recipe and let us know how it turns out!
I don’t want to compare citrus size, but my grandmother in Houston (tx) had a 30ft tall grapefruit tree that produced HUNDREDS of fruits as big, some even bigger than the ones you have shown. She passed in 2013, but I believe the tree still exists, producing fruit for the new homeowners. Gotta love grandma’s homegrown grapefruit!
Known in the Philippines as "Suha".
Pinoys love this fruit :D
Thanks for sharing your information about Suha! Cheers :)
Here in my city we have serious plague problems when it comes to grow citrus fruits. So nice to see healthy ones. Cheers from Brazil!
Awesome, I love Pomelo!
My mum use to score the rind in a cross shape and then carefully peel it open like a flower and remove the flesh whole. The rind intact can then be used like a lantern and flesh stores really well for up to a week in the fridge as is. Before eating I’d remove just the pulp from the segment walls, they are too thick and bitter for my liking. Mmmm...wish I had one growing in my garden now!
I can't believe you don't have your own gardening show on tv yet!
More Russell Crowe impressions, please!
I agree. Tried a red Pomelo for the first time. Really like the taste. Looking to grow one in my yard. Thank you for the information. Appreciate your post and humor. 🙂
I love ur vids man I just watch u when I’m annoyed or tired not only are u funny and enjoyable to watch but I also gain gardening knowledge and wisdom ITS A WIN WIN lol
I used to have a tree laden with those fruits but a big vine killed it beyond revival :[
I have an apple tree and vines nearly killed it so I trim the tree to get rid of the vine.
Ah, that stinks.
@@WilliamHollinger2019 why didn't you cut the vine down instead of the tree?
It's one of those self sufficient 50 year-old Valencia's.
One of my favourite fruit to eat. My kids love it too! It’s easiest to just cut the ends off the top and bottom, then score the pith a few times and peel the chunks off by hand. Basically peel it whole.
AMAZING CITRUS .. NEVER SEEN SUCH A BIG FRUIT LIKE YOU GROWN IN YOUR GARDEN .. AWESOME ! I WISHED I COULD TASTE YOUR POMELO ! I LOVED THE RED POMELO GREAT TO ADD TO MY SALAD .. THANKS FOR SHARING !! GOD BLESS
My pregnancy app is saying my 25 week baby currently weighs the same as a pomelo, but it says they are 670g not 2 kg 🤣
I bet you’re glad your baby at 25 weeks gestation is not 2kg! What would it be at 40 weeks? 🤣 all the best for the next 15 weeks!
Hahaha that’s hilarious - happy baby on their way ❤️
@@jhrhiggi thats only about 4pound
so you've been hiding these beauties all this time! they are just wonderful plants as usual
You are so great, some people are just meant to be teachers and you are one of them. Thanks for all the great videos they keep gardening fun and realistic!
Thanks for another great video Mark. Love your channel!
That arm scar tissue looks like a painful story.
croc bite from when we has in the service
@@lobodelosfeliz Can’t tell if that’s a funny Australian stereotype or a fact.
Yeah I thought I heard he was in service in the army.
It was from a nasty parachuting accident he had while in the army. It's from a muscle graft.
I love the way you explain the details
I feel like I am there .in your garden and can feel the freshness of your fruits and vegetables stay blessed
What an amazing harvest. Thanks for sharing.
I can't tell you how grateful I am to have come across your channel!
I am beginning my garden journey this year in Wisconsin, USA. I seem to have found myself doing a number of things wrong, fixing or adapting, and then making it right or using it as a learning experience! Your expertise, as well as your personality, has made this learn - as - I - go process a bit easier!
Thank you so much for the content you put out. I greatly appreciate it!
Hi...... Mark nice to see you, thank you for sharing your video 👋 bye 👋 bye 👋 bye 👋 🎥👍👍👍
It can be white inside too depending on the variety. The tree grows big. Pretty common plant in Bangladesh. You can make a cap out of the skin. Real funny.
0:36 - It was at this moment I realized:
I would pay for a Gladiator Remake; with Mark as Maximus.
10/10
Now is season for pomelo. We call them "jeruk Bali (Bali citrus). Its very cheap here. Not very sweet, but you can chew big pulp. I enjoy it everyday!
Greeting from 🇲🇨🇲🇨
I love it! You made my day. So playful and light way to learn. Thank you!!!
Good day! There a way to open it easier. You dont wanna slice it all the way through because it will taste bitter. Just peel the white covering and it will leave you a round unblemished pomelo.
I had a huge pamelo tree in my school in srilanka. It had 100 fruits at any given time. Love this fruit. And just bought a plant today 😊
Most fun way to learn gardening
By far one of my favorite citruses.