I always wondered about these fruit producing palms in our area. You answered two questions for me, yes they can be eaten and no not all palm fruit is edible!
@Jdaniel314 The answer is I don't know. However, they do grow very slowly, a few inches a year, and I've seen palm that would be about eight years old. and two feet high.
I found something that looks like palm fruit, the color is red and it was bigger than a golf ball. But when I cut it I realize that the seed is really big and there's not much meat in there.I began to doubt that what I found is a non edible one.The seed have a black stripe all over it and It doesn't smell fruity at all...
I have never made the jelly...what I have made is a juice which is so delicious all my neighbors are asking for more. Because they're so high in fiber I recommend drinking a small portion at a time, unless you need a cleansing then have more..LOL
Hey Deane! I found a palm that was producing orange fruits just like what I saw in this video, and I think it was a pindo palm. I made a preserve out of it and it tastes a lot like a fruity honey! It's wonderful on ice cream!
Hey, the Queen Palm Fruit is edible...do a search for "University of Florida extension fact sheet (MDCE 00-50-1) produced November 2000 to find a document that lists all edible parts of most palms...it is an amazing resource!
@BreezerSkatesAmerica Yes, I should been clearer when I made that video. The unripe fruit is not good but the ripe fruit is. I need to put an editorial bubble on that comment. Thanks for having keen ears.
You have some serious video quality issues tied to "over compression" or "too low of a video quality record setting" possibly both.
You need to "reduce the compression" on whatever "upload software" you use. It should be adjustable.
You should have at least a couple "video quality recording" choices. Choosing the "high Quality Record" option will fix problems caused when Youtube "stretches out the pixils" on low quality recordings to fill their bigger screen.
@1JONATHAN The camera settings, software settings, and upload settings are set, that is I have little choice. However, around video 35 the camera maker had a patch that improved the quality. The later videos are better. I am making some of those early videos into DVDs and we are struggling mightily in post production to improve the quality.
The fruit is not ALWAYS yellow, it is varibale from tree to tree. The most common fruit color found here in north Florida is orange (just like a queen palm) however I have heard reports of orange/red fruits as well on the Jelly Palm, some trees dont produce a tasty fruit so experiment with many trees.
@EatTheWeeds So are the orange fruits from the hybrid jelly palm okay to eat? Are they toxic? We have a hybrid without the smooth thin trunk. Our trunk is thick and spiny and the tree is about 17ft tall. The fruits are also orange.
Thanks for the info! My children were wondering if the fruit they found at the doctor's office, from a palm tree, were edible...now we know! Free & delicious!
I have a tall slender pindo palm--that I suppose you are saying is a queen palm and that the fruit is inedible. I did some research and the university of florida says the queen palm fruits are edible as well. . . could you please investigate this so that I can rest easy about eating them? Thank you!
Thanks for writing. Then pindo palm and the queen palm are close and can hybridize. As for edibility, yes, it is edible at the last possible moment but it is toxic until then, very fiberous and not too tasty. From my liability point of view it was just safer to say avoid it. If you do try your fruit, do so when they are extremely ripe, and only a little.
I'm eating some Pindo Palm fruit right now. It is absolutely scrumptious! I think it tastes like a combination of banana/ mango/ and pineapple. My mom and I are going to try and make some jelly with it this weekend.
If you like them they are delicious. It is very easy to eat too many. As for jelly... the amount of pectin varies tree to tree and year to year, so you may have to add pectin, or you may not.
"A trash tree"? I've never heard them called that... They're one of the most incredible trees on earth; the most cold-hardy of all the feather-leaved palms, and probably the most beautiful. And I've seen many over 20' tall in south Louisiana. Luckily you ended by calling it a "great tree"...
I can't imagine adding sugar, since the Pindo fruits I've eaten have been ridiculously sweet, even sweeter than Medjool dates. And they've been more orange than yellow. Great video overall...
Here in manicured Florida it is indeed considered a trash tree. You have to understand that 99% of the people who have them don't like the fact it drops fruit on their lawn. They also don't eat it the fruit because they don't know it is edible. And some times in some seasons sugar has to be added to help it jell. Not all trees in all seasons produce sweet fruit.
love this series, just found a huge stand of pindo palms, theyre just starting to fruit, have a few small green fruit on the stalks. Was wondering how long i should expect to wait til they are ripe, thanks
Pindo syrup is quite easy. I put the fruit --six cups -- in a pot, water to cover, bring to a boil then simmer for about 40 minutes, and I mash the fruit with a potato masher. Cool and filter. That should give you about four cups of juice. You can add two cups of sugar and one package of pectin if you like. I boil until it is a syrup or a jelly or if you like until it changes from yellow in color to reddish in color. Syrup or jelly, it tastes great.
I just ate my first pindo palm fruit today and found it so tastey I went back and retrieved the whole stalk of fruit. Now I have about 40 lbs. of fresh pindo palm fruit and really don't know what to do with that much. I will surely make some jelly or jam, but was wondering if pindo palm syrup would work too. Any jelly/jam or syrup recipes appreciated. Exact amounts please.
This last batch I used five cups of juice and two cups of sugar. I picked them early so they were tart and the pectin varies year to year so I had to add one package of sur-jell. Then I cooked it down until it turned magenta or deep red then canned it. Came out fine.
I had found a recipe online a couple of weeks ago and tried it today. It called for 7 1/2 cups of sugar for 5 cups of juice - this jelly is way too sweet - what amount of sugar do you use - or better yet - how about your recipe!!
The natural pectin can vary from year to year. I would put your syrup back in the pot, add a package of sur-jell and re-heat and boil until it takes on a red hue. Then try it. (And make sure its a pindo palm, not a queen palm.)
Mr. Green Deane, I need your help! Could you please supply your palm jelly recipe?! You inspired me to make my own but I just cannot get it to set. Not a problem since I have five of the trees in my back yard! I had no idea they were known as "jelly palms" until your video. I only knew the squirrels go crazy this time of year for the little fruit!
Well... that's because the jelly palm has sugar so you usually don't have to add some. But plants are not like commercial products and sometimes some sugar is needed to jell, some times some pectin but most of the time neither is needed. As a natural jelly source it usually has to be cooked far longer than more common fruits, sometimes twice or thrice as long
I always wondered about these fruit producing palms in our area. You answered two questions for me, yes they can be eaten and no not all palm fruit is edible!
tiedyekris 2 weeks ago
I have a question:
Do you know what age a Pindo palm starts bearing fruit?
Or:
How big was the smallest Pindo that you've ever seen that had fruit on it?
Jdaniel314 1 month ago
@Jdaniel314 The answer is I don't know. However, they do grow very slowly, a few inches a year, and I've seen palm that would be about eight years old. and two feet high.
EatTheWeeds 1 month ago
I feel like such a baboon! I had a couple of these growing in my backyard at my old place a few years ago and never even considered trying them!
celticgaurdian1400 2 months ago
I found something that looks like palm fruit, the color is red and it was bigger than a golf ball. But when I cut it I realize that the seed is really big and there's not much meat in there.I began to doubt that what I found is a non edible one.The seed have a black stripe all over it and It doesn't smell fruity at all...
lova368 3 months ago
@lova368 What does the plant look like?
EatTheWeeds 3 months ago
@lova368 Also where do you live?
EatTheWeeds 3 months ago
@lova368 Without more information my first guess would be a lychee
EatTheWeeds 3 months ago
I have never made the jelly...what I have made is a juice which is so delicious all my neighbors are asking for more. Because they're so high in fiber I recommend drinking a small portion at a time, unless you need a cleansing then have more..LOL
50bofish 5 months ago
Hey Deane! I found a palm that was producing orange fruits just like what I saw in this video, and I think it was a pindo palm. I made a preserve out of it and it tastes a lot like a fruity honey! It's wonderful on ice cream!
PirateOfTheInternet 6 months ago
In GA the pindo palm tree fruit is always orange. light orange to dark orange.
Quranite 6 months ago
@Quranite They can hybridize and be off color.
EatTheWeeds 6 months ago
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SuburbanShinobi8000 6 months ago
@LocketupTight Usually that is the Queen Palm, not the pindo. Pindo palm fruits are usually yellow.
EatTheWeeds 7 months ago
@EatTheWeeds Do you know if there are any pindo Firnt in indiana... I want one so I can get a seed and grow one my self.
SuburbanShinobi8000 6 months ago
@SuburbanShinobi8000 Washington DC is about as far north as it grows, unless you take it inside during the winter.
EatTheWeeds 6 months ago
the fruit of the queen palm is edible too, but the flesh is thin and rather stringy
rlt94 10 months ago
I had no idea the fruit was a delicacy. I see them from time to time here in Arizona. Does anybody know where I can buy some jelly?
kaiboy42 1 year ago
Hey, the Queen Palm Fruit is edible...do a search for "University of Florida extension fact sheet (MDCE 00-50-1) produced November 2000 to find a document that lists all edible parts of most palms...it is an amazing resource!
BreezerSkatesAmerica 1 year ago
@BreezerSkatesAmerica Yes, I should been clearer when I made that video. The unripe fruit is not good but the ripe fruit is. I need to put an editorial bubble on that comment. Thanks for having keen ears.
EatTheWeeds 1 year ago
Is there a way to pit the fruit in raw form? Would olive pitters work for this fruit?
Quranite 1 year ago
You have some serious video quality issues tied to "over compression" or "too low of a video quality record setting" possibly both.
You need to "reduce the compression" on whatever "upload software" you use. It should be adjustable.
You should have at least a couple "video quality recording" choices. Choosing the "high Quality Record" option will fix problems caused when Youtube "stretches out the pixils" on low quality recordings to fill their bigger screen.
1JONATHAN 1 year ago
@1JONATHAN The camera settings, software settings, and upload settings are set, that is I have little choice. However, around video 35 the camera maker had a patch that improved the quality. The later videos are better. I am making some of those early videos into DVDs and we are struggling mightily in post production to improve the quality.
EatTheWeeds 1 year ago
The fruit is not ALWAYS yellow, it is varibale from tree to tree. The most common fruit color found here in north Florida is orange (just like a queen palm) however I have heard reports of orange/red fruits as well on the Jelly Palm, some trees dont produce a tasty fruit so experiment with many trees.
fritoxtrme 2 years ago
Thanks for writing. The pindo and the queen palms can hybridize leading to trees that look like pindos with orangish fruit.
EatTheWeeds 2 years ago
@EatTheWeeds So are the orange fruits from the hybrid jelly palm okay to eat? Are they toxic? We have a hybrid without the smooth thin trunk. Our trunk is thick and spiny and the tree is about 17ft tall. The fruits are also orange.
bluebirdluv 1 year ago
@bluebirdluv Edible yes, but not that good.
EatTheWeeds 1 year ago
I think its a House Wren
sirflewaway 2 years ago
@sirflewaway - I was going to say some kind of wren, too.
ScottfromTexas 1 year ago
How could anyone think this looks like a trash tree? Also so abundant in fruit! What a beautiful tree. Again great vid...thanks.
TheCurrahee101st 2 years ago
Becuase it is usually grown on manicured lawns and when it fruits it drops them. Most owners do not know it is edible.
EatTheWeeds 2 years ago
Thanks for the info! My children were wondering if the fruit they found at the doctor's office, from a palm tree, were edible...now we know! Free & delicious!
troyshado 2 years ago
As long as it is a pindo...
EatTheWeeds 2 years ago
Hi Green,
I have a tall slender pindo palm--that I suppose you are saying is a queen palm and that the fruit is inedible. I did some research and the university of florida says the queen palm fruits are edible as well. . . could you please investigate this so that I can rest easy about eating them? Thank you!
ginajyoo 2 years ago
Thanks for writing. Then pindo palm and the queen palm are close and can hybridize. As for edibility, yes, it is edible at the last possible moment but it is toxic until then, very fiberous and not too tasty. From my liability point of view it was just safer to say avoid it. If you do try your fruit, do so when they are extremely ripe, and only a little.
EatTheWeeds 2 years ago
I'm eating some Pindo Palm fruit right now. It is absolutely scrumptious! I think it tastes like a combination of banana/ mango/ and pineapple. My mom and I are going to try and make some jelly with it this weekend.
LindseyDoesStuff 2 years ago
If you like them they are delicious. It is very easy to eat too many. As for jelly... the amount of pectin varies tree to tree and year to year, so you may have to add pectin, or you may not.
EatTheWeeds 2 years ago
"A trash tree"? I've never heard them called that... They're one of the most incredible trees on earth; the most cold-hardy of all the feather-leaved palms, and probably the most beautiful. And I've seen many over 20' tall in south Louisiana. Luckily you ended by calling it a "great tree"...
I can't imagine adding sugar, since the Pindo fruits I've eaten have been ridiculously sweet, even sweeter than Medjool dates. And they've been more orange than yellow. Great video overall...
ibelieveicansoar 3 years ago
Here in manicured Florida it is indeed considered a trash tree. You have to understand that 99% of the people who have them don't like the fact it drops fruit on their lawn. They also don't eat it the fruit because they don't know it is edible. And some times in some seasons sugar has to be added to help it jell. Not all trees in all seasons produce sweet fruit.
EatTheWeeds 3 years ago
pestercides
alienscreatedhumans 3 years ago
love this series, just found a huge stand of pindo palms, theyre just starting to fruit, have a few small green fruit on the stalks. Was wondering how long i should expect to wait til they are ripe, thanks
Jourdain28 3 years ago
Two to four weeks, and they ripen unevenly over time as well, so you will have quite a few for a while
EatTheWeeds 3 years ago
Pindo syrup is quite easy. I put the fruit --six cups -- in a pot, water to cover, bring to a boil then simmer for about 40 minutes, and I mash the fruit with a potato masher. Cool and filter. That should give you about four cups of juice. You can add two cups of sugar and one package of pectin if you like. I boil until it is a syrup or a jelly or if you like until it changes from yellow in color to reddish in color. Syrup or jelly, it tastes great.
EatTheWeeds 3 years ago
Wonderful video! So informative and fun.
I just ate my first pindo palm fruit today and found it so tastey I went back and retrieved the whole stalk of fruit. Now I have about 40 lbs. of fresh pindo palm fruit and really don't know what to do with that much. I will surely make some jelly or jam, but was wondering if pindo palm syrup would work too. Any jelly/jam or syrup recipes appreciated. Exact amounts please.
Marie
S. Georgia
mariemorris60 3 years ago
This last batch I used five cups of juice and two cups of sugar. I picked them early so they were tart and the pectin varies year to year so I had to add one package of sur-jell. Then I cooked it down until it turned magenta or deep red then canned it. Came out fine.
EatTheWeeds 3 years ago
I had found a recipe online a couple of weeks ago and tried it today. It called for 7 1/2 cups of sugar for 5 cups of juice - this jelly is way too sweet - what amount of sugar do you use - or better yet - how about your recipe!!
susieqwf 3 years ago
The natural pectin can vary from year to year. I would put your syrup back in the pot, add a package of sur-jell and re-heat and boil until it takes on a red hue. Then try it. (And make sure its a pindo palm, not a queen palm.)
EatTheWeeds 3 years ago
Mr. Green Deane, I need your help! Could you please supply your palm jelly recipe?! You inspired me to make my own but I just cannot get it to set. Not a problem since I have five of the trees in my back yard! I had no idea they were known as "jelly palms" until your video. I only knew the squirrels go crazy this time of year for the little fruit!
Thanks in advance-
dragnflies 3 years ago
Loved the video! Makes me wish I had some pindo palms up here in Indiana.
Shyguyx12 3 years ago
My pleasure.. I am working on a couple now... wild grapes and making vinegar (real vinegar.)
EatTheWeeds 3 years ago
Good stuff Green Deane, thank you sir.
Ninjaburger77 3 years ago
no SUGAR JELLY!!!
awesome
odin422 3 years ago
Well... that's because the jelly palm has sugar so you usually don't have to add some. But plants are not like commercial products and sometimes some sugar is needed to jell, some times some pectin but most of the time neither is needed. As a natural jelly source it usually has to be cooked far longer than more common fruits, sometimes twice or thrice as long
EatTheWeeds 3 years ago
Bravo!!!
Hellosharky 3 years ago
Thanks... It's hard to make jelly out of them because I want to stand there and eat them all.
EatTheWeeds 3 years ago
Another outta the park video! You rule!
yardsnacker 3 years ago
Thanks again...by the way, pindo jelly is as delicious as the fruit, but does taste different than the fresh fruit.
EatTheWeeds 3 years ago
I love you!!! I'm fascinated. Great sense of humor, great smile and all that knowledge! Are you single?
ShortBusUs 3 years ago 2
Life-long bachelor, or a least so far... I have a bio at the end of my archives on my website.
EatTheWeeds 3 years ago
Kick Ass Video Man!
Five Stars!!
MadBadVoodo 3 years ago