even if he was an expert you shouldn't just go online and then decide to eat wild anything just because an internet video has someone doing it without doing real research from reliable sources. it's just common sense.
thank you for taking the time to make these informative videos. As for azacs comment - why don't you try making some videos and just see for yourself how difficult it is - it is a learning experience - as for me - I like the style - it's like taking a walk with a friend - much appreciated.
pods are edible ,young shoots and leaves and flowers.. You have to boil the plant in three changes of water ten minutes each time like poke to make it safe to eat its not really a survival plant because of the boiling process.. Do not eat the plant unless you boil it like I explained here you will get sick
The flower, before it opens, is edible and quite delicious - better than broccoli! I picked some when the flower clusters were still close together and steamed them with young asparagus. Try it!
Good video, gets people talking and makes them aware of their environment. ;-)
Thanks for sharing. In our area of south central Texas, we have the Antelope Horn milkweed, which doesn't grow very tall (maybe 10-12 inches, at best) but produces these interesting balls of flowers. Similar leaf structure as your type, though.
thanks.i had no idea what milkweed looked like.i did know it was edible pods and ,has white latex.pods need to be cooked with change of water few times,like you said it may be extremly toxic.
another use for the "milk" or sap is to remove 'brown spots' on your skin. dab the sap onto the spot and let dry, it will start to remove the spot after several applications, forming a scab where the brown spot was. when the scab falls off it leaves no scar. It is also used to remove "skin cancers".... works in the same way.
milkweed, goldenrod:) makes me a little homesick. the fluffy milkweed pod seeds were great fun in the late summer and fall. you can pop them open and scatter them in the breeze:)
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it would make everyones life alot better if you talked about the things you know....If you spend time in every video talking about what you don't know you are wasting our time. Take the time to do the research before you even think about sending a video!
I make videos not as an expert talking but as a regular guy talking to a person in frotn of me...I dont planj out my videos or script them...Im sorry if you dotn like them becaue of that but thats part of my personality and what I do..
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That's great but since there might not be a regular guy in front of you do us all the favour of thinking ahead and imagining how a regular person will feel in they watch a 5 minute video for 2 minutes worth of it they are just being told i don't really know about this you should go look it up somewhere else. If you want to be a regular guy stick to what you know!!!!
close to 6,000 views with 64 ratings of 5 stars and 60 posotive comments, your the only person who didnt enjoy it, that makes you the minority, sorry you didnt like it, but your the only one...or at least the only person to take the time to comment...
ya, I'm just one guy. Don't take my comments too seriously. I love milkweed, I'm honestly glad you're passionate about it too. I'd crude as I am about my feedback I actually do want to see you keep making videos. Regardless of the stats you can decide for yourself if my feedback is worthwhile or not....Have you eaten much milkweed?
sorry if I was being rude to reply the way I did, I just dont make videos as an expert, nore do peopel expect it, anyway I have only eated the young shoots before, I ahve yet to eat the tops, I just dont catch it in season...
@cutlerylover You may find it interesting,but in India the plant that has similar sap and similar seeds, called Dhatura, is offered to Lord Shiva ,the great Chemist who used the seeds as an intoxicant!!! Maybe if we ate the Milkweed seeds ,the effect would be the same .Wait till they ban growing milk weeds!!!
milkweeds are rather common but i dont believe any of it is edible or worth eating for that matter unless you are a monarch butterfly. very interesting info on the usefulness of the plant however.
the flowers taste like brocolli, but its such a small tioem frame to harvets them and eat thgem its not the BEST known wild edible...alos the small stalks cna be cooked ina few changed ofm water and are ok, but bland in ym opinion...
oh shit now i know what these r caled thanx! i saw this exact same thing near my Cogo's store and i told my ffiends i planted them there but i never knew what they were called to i called them milk pods lol. now i know . thanx
The edible part is the pods when they are young, 1 1/2" or smaller. From personal experience, I can tell you that they taste like snow peas when raw. They can be chopped up and boiled, then eaten with butter and salt. When prepared this way they sort of taste like corn, but not quite.
The flowers when they first come out and are bright pink are very sweet and tasty. Unopened flowers look and taste a lot like peas.
Anyone that post plants should also talk about the poisonous lookalikes. Like he said, get a couple different sources Because Dogbane shoots and Butterfly-weed shoots look a lot alike and are Poisonous! common milkweed: downy-hairy with milky sap; Dogbanes: Hairless; Butterfly-weed: Lacks Milky Sap.
I dont think there is any of it you cna eat raw, but you cna prepare parts of it which is perfectly fine to do, but messign around with wild edibles is somethgin you need to rtesearch alot before doing..
Yeah I know I'v been an Outdoor Educator at one of the largest Nature Centers here for the past 5 years leading kids in Nature teaching them to respect and care for it as well as how to have fun in it. Which is why i was kinda confused because I know monarchs are toxic to birds and such
The young shoots, young leaves, bud clusters, and flowers are all edible. The seed pod is edible when it is young. You need to boil it in 2 changes of water to remove the bitterness though. Tastes good with butter and garlic salt.
It might be edible, but whatever you do dont get the sap in your eyes. I did when I was younger and it blinded me for a few hours and my parents had to call poison control. Flushing your eye's for 15 minutes straight is no fun at all.
The only thing I know about South Dakota is that we are the only state the hunts our state bird(ring-neck pheasent). Amazing video, I hope to see the next ones soon :)
Yes I know how to make a fire with a bow drill, some good vids here on youtube search it as well as a hand drill (whithout using the bow) my favorite way of makign fire is with flitn and steel, but even though you cna find both flitn in the wild as well as a form of natural iron to do it, its hard to find in alot of areas...but the bow drill and hand drill can be done with just wood and in the case of the boew drill you need a string of some kind, but worst case senario you could use a shoelace
Also a less heard of method is the "fire sword" where you has some tinder sandwiched between a split wood(different wood is better then others) and a third is sawed over the tinder to create an ember to light the tinder.
Yeah, another not so common way to amke fire is a "fire thong" some tribes use this to make fire by fruction usign natural cordage, although In have seen it demonstarted with shoelaces as well as paracord...not that easy to do though...
Cool, I didn't know that I have never seena fig tree before, but I like figs...Only purchased from the store, infact when I was a kid fig nootens (spelling?) were my favorite soft cookie, lol...
yeah, we have a fig tree in our backyard, u have to be careful though, cause according to my grandma getting too much of the white sap on your hands can result in alot of your skin peeling straight off.
Honestly I dont know, but I woudl say probably...however the pant itself wotn die from just that...these are reeally just big weeds, hard to kill them, lol...
Cannabis is the plant that is saving the world. THC especially high concentrates of it kills cancer. cannabanoids will replace 80% of the FDA approved pharmeceutical medicines.
To all of those saying for warts, etc etc, it's the Euphorbia Peplus you're thinking of. Go read the wikipedia article on it. Welcome guys. To cutlerylover: Love what you're doing, continue on.
rubber tree's are a good example of what isn't edible because of that milky sap. when the sap comes out you get latex and rubber. which probabl isn't the best thing to have in your stomach hehehe. but thatnks for the info jeff. 5 stars on all that cool stuff i've learned.
Actually marijuana can be very usefull medically, the problem is most of the people who fight for the right to legalize it just like to get high...lol...I own a great book on medical marijuana...The FDA will never aprove of marijuana becuase even though it helps for certain thgins it still delivers smoke to the lungs, and there already is a man made THC product, a pill called marinol...it has all the benafits from marijuana without the smoke...
Actually I woudl love to edjucate peopel on the benafits of marijuana...but most just like it as a drug, and dont see the health benafits...and it rasies legal questions as well so I wont, plus I don't have a plant to film anyway...
lol...many tiems police will fly over farmland in helicopters for that very reason, hahaha, but no, I wou;dnt do that these days...maybe when I was in high school though, lol...
all ur videos r great and this one is sweet. i can tw8 till part 2 and 3 and so on and i know something u didnt say that u couldve used thats not usefull but its something ive found out. when u break it open like that, the milky stuff smell really sweet and some what good. i thought id tell u that so u could try it if u want lol, and keep up the good work!!
interesting, I read that the milky sap is mildy poisonous to us so if we ate it raw we woudl get sick, but when eating parts of the pants they have to be boiled twice to get rid of it...More info in future vids on that...
never seen milkweed, will have to tell my dealer about it
dustinnop 3 months ago
even if he was an expert you shouldn't just go online and then decide to eat wild anything just because an internet video has someone doing it without doing real research from reliable sources. it's just common sense.
Rinsuki 6 months ago
thank you for taking the time to make these informative videos. As for azacs comment - why don't you try making some videos and just see for yourself how difficult it is - it is a learning experience - as for me - I like the style - it's like taking a walk with a friend - much appreciated.
boco888 6 months ago
pods are edible ,young shoots and leaves and flowers.. You have to boil the plant in three changes of water ten minutes each time like poke to make it safe to eat its not really a survival plant because of the boiling process.. Do not eat the plant unless you boil it like I explained here you will get sick
mdametalhead 7 months ago
The flower, before it opens, is edible and quite delicious - better than broccoli! I picked some when the flower clusters were still close together and steamed them with young asparagus. Try it!
Good video, gets people talking and makes them aware of their environment. ;-)
Irene00007 8 months ago
Thanks for sharing. In our area of south central Texas, we have the Antelope Horn milkweed, which doesn't grow very tall (maybe 10-12 inches, at best) but produces these interesting balls of flowers. Similar leaf structure as your type, though.
Kennedale01 10 months ago
thanks.i had no idea what milkweed looked like.i did know it was edible pods and ,has white latex.pods need to be cooked with change of water few times,like you said it may be extremly toxic.
mrhumboldthippy 10 months ago
@mimi0674 No lol It was only half a block
FabioCrow07770 11 months ago
another use for the "milk" or sap is to remove 'brown spots' on your skin. dab the sap onto the spot and let dry, it will start to remove the spot after several applications, forming a scab where the brown spot was. when the scab falls off it leaves no scar. It is also used to remove "skin cancers".... works in the same way.
A10TOES 1 year ago
why would you break the seed pod? must be a bone head from NJ.
uoyuoy444 1 year ago
One thing I do to help with the focus on my camera is to install a string the exact length of the correct focus; hold it up to measure and voila!
thx!
UnoRaza 1 year ago
milkweed, goldenrod:) makes me a little homesick. the fluffy milkweed pod seeds were great fun in the late summer and fall. you can pop them open and scatter them in the breeze:)
so there is another use for the milkweed--toy.
jen8933 1 year ago
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it would make everyones life alot better if you talked about the things you know....If you spend time in every video talking about what you don't know you are wasting our time. Take the time to do the research before you even think about sending a video!
azacs 2 years ago
I make videos not as an expert talking but as a regular guy talking to a person in frotn of me...I dont planj out my videos or script them...Im sorry if you dotn like them becaue of that but thats part of my personality and what I do..
cutlerylover 2 years ago 5
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That's great but since there might not be a regular guy in front of you do us all the favour of thinking ahead and imagining how a regular person will feel in they watch a 5 minute video for 2 minutes worth of it they are just being told i don't really know about this you should go look it up somewhere else. If you want to be a regular guy stick to what you know!!!!
azacs 2 years ago
close to 6,000 views with 64 ratings of 5 stars and 60 posotive comments, your the only person who didnt enjoy it, that makes you the minority, sorry you didnt like it, but your the only one...or at least the only person to take the time to comment...
cutlerylover 2 years ago
ya, I'm just one guy. Don't take my comments too seriously. I love milkweed, I'm honestly glad you're passionate about it too. I'd crude as I am about my feedback I actually do want to see you keep making videos. Regardless of the stats you can decide for yourself if my feedback is worthwhile or not....Have you eaten much milkweed?
azacs 2 years ago
sorry if I was being rude to reply the way I did, I just dont make videos as an expert, nore do peopel expect it, anyway I have only eated the young shoots before, I ahve yet to eat the tops, I just dont catch it in season...
cutlerylover 2 years ago
@cutlerylover azacs is a penis.
MyLittleGreenThumb 1 year ago
@cutlerylover You may find it interesting,but in India the plant that has similar sap and similar seeds, called Dhatura, is offered to Lord Shiva ,the great Chemist who used the seeds as an intoxicant!!! Maybe if we ate the Milkweed seeds ,the effect would be the same .Wait till they ban growing milk weeds!!!
Mullikaji1 1 year ago
@azacs I have used this to remove some kind of warts from my hand when I was a kid and it worked , not for all warts I don't think
Daveyhunter1 1 year ago
@azacs Wow, your mature...
CountryGirl5077 8 months ago
Dont mind him he is a noob. Your vids rock cutlerylover!
cyrixproductions 2 years ago
milkweeds are rather common but i dont believe any of it is edible or worth eating for that matter unless you are a monarch butterfly. very interesting info on the usefulness of the plant however.
skaboss3178 2 years ago
the flowers taste like brocolli, but its such a small tioem frame to harvets them and eat thgem its not the BEST known wild edible...alos the small stalks cna be cooked ina few changed ofm water and are ok, but bland in ym opinion...
cutlerylover 2 years ago
oh shit now i know what these r caled thanx! i saw this exact same thing near my Cogo's store and i told my ffiends i planted them there but i never knew what they were called to i called them milk pods lol. now i know . thanx
pkkiller643 2 years ago
hahaha if you smoked milkweed you'd probably get sick
TheFallenFilms 2 years ago
The edible part is the pods when they are young, 1 1/2" or smaller. From personal experience, I can tell you that they taste like snow peas when raw. They can be chopped up and boiled, then eaten with butter and salt. When prepared this way they sort of taste like corn, but not quite.
The flowers when they first come out and are bright pink are very sweet and tasty. Unopened flowers look and taste a lot like peas.
BoingotheClown 2 years ago
I forgot to mention that as I was making this and the above post, I happen to be chopping up young milkweed pods for eating.
BoingotheClown 2 years ago
Anyone that post plants should also talk about the poisonous lookalikes. Like he said, get a couple different sources Because Dogbane shoots and Butterfly-weed shoots look a lot alike and are Poisonous! common milkweed: downy-hairy with milky sap; Dogbanes: Hairless; Butterfly-weed: Lacks Milky Sap.
mikeoutdoorsman 2 years ago
I live in Michigan and iv always been told milkweed is poisonous and that you shouldnt eat any of it
seander89 2 years ago
I dont think there is any of it you cna eat raw, but you cna prepare parts of it which is perfectly fine to do, but messign around with wild edibles is somethgin you need to rtesearch alot before doing..
cutlerylover 2 years ago
Yeah I know I'v been an Outdoor Educator at one of the largest Nature Centers here for the past 5 years leading kids in Nature teaching them to respect and care for it as well as how to have fun in it. Which is why i was kinda confused because I know monarchs are toxic to birds and such
seander89 2 years ago
Yes they are poisonous raw, but edible if properly prepared and cooked.
mikeoutdoorsman 2 years ago
I love milk weed. Mushrooms took over my neighborhood too...even after that video.
dollsandmagic 3 years ago
The young shoots, young leaves, bud clusters, and flowers are all edible. The seed pod is edible when it is young. You need to boil it in 2 changes of water to remove the bitterness though. Tastes good with butter and garlic salt.
gands1102 3 years ago
Very helpful comment... (*whispers* even more so than the video... shhhhhhh..)
dazigg 2 years ago
It might be edible, but whatever you do dont get the sap in your eyes. I did when I was younger and it blinded me for a few hours and my parents had to call poison control. Flushing your eye's for 15 minutes straight is no fun at all.
Dtownknifekid 3 years ago
LOLOLOLOL that musta really sucked
steveo9001 2 years ago
Don't worry about the car. Thanks
jesussavedyouandme 3 years ago
The only thing I know about South Dakota is that we are the only state the hunts our state bird(ring-neck pheasent). Amazing video, I hope to see the next ones soon :)
Meleemaker 3 years ago
wow, interestign fact! you would thyink the state bird might be protected, lol...but I know pheasant huinting has become popular over the years...
cutlerylover 3 years ago
Can u smoke it?
OJSimpson100 3 years ago
No, not to my knowlegde...
cutlerylover 3 years ago
man these things hurt like shit if u hit someone with just the stem me and my friends were doin that one time and had red welts all over us
Bam128 3 years ago
Yes I know how to make a fire with a bow drill, some good vids here on youtube search it as well as a hand drill (whithout using the bow) my favorite way of makign fire is with flitn and steel, but even though you cna find both flitn in the wild as well as a form of natural iron to do it, its hard to find in alot of areas...but the bow drill and hand drill can be done with just wood and in the case of the boew drill you need a string of some kind, but worst case senario you could use a shoelace
cutlerylover 3 years ago
Also a less heard of method is the "fire sword" where you has some tinder sandwiched between a split wood(different wood is better then others) and a third is sawed over the tinder to create an ember to light the tinder.
Meleemaker 3 years ago
Yeah, another not so common way to amke fire is a "fire thong" some tribes use this to make fire by fruction usign natural cordage, although In have seen it demonstarted with shoelaces as well as paracord...not that easy to do though...
cutlerylover 3 years ago
YES ticks can be dangerous...I try to remember to check myself whenever I am in high grasses or wooded areas...
cutlerylover 3 years ago
A fig-tree is another -dangerous white sap- exception.
nice video again!
pingpongme 3 years ago
Cool, I didn't know that I have never seena fig tree before, but I like figs...Only purchased from the store, infact when I was a kid fig nootens (spelling?) were my favorite soft cookie, lol...
cutlerylover 3 years ago
yeah, we have a fig tree in our backyard, u have to be careful though, cause according to my grandma getting too much of the white sap on your hands can result in alot of your skin peeling straight off.
StConstantine 3 years ago
Im not sure about fiog sap specifically but with milkweed I read one in 10 peopel get a bad rash from direct contact with it...
cutlerylover 3 years ago
It`s because she did not want you to get a mess!
lilbob369 3 years ago
another milky type edible plant is the fig. Now thats an awesome fruit.
StConstantine 3 years ago
I didnt know fig trees also have a milky sap but thats cool!
cutlerylover 3 years ago
Hey, if you break some part of the plant (like when you show the milky sap) what happens to the part that was broken off in the video? Does it die?
play150 3 years ago
Honestly I dont know, but I woudl say probably...however the pant itself wotn die from just that...these are reeally just big weeds, hard to kill them, lol...
cutlerylover 3 years ago
Ohh..
play150 3 years ago
oh nice lol
necropost!
play150 2 years ago
Cannabis is the plant that is saving the world. THC especially high concentrates of it kills cancer. cannabanoids will replace 80% of the FDA approved pharmeceutical medicines.
dscglfr00 3 years ago
[citation needed]
TeslaWasHere 3 years ago
I just get people out of their paradigm. They will look into it if they are interested. You can learn anything you want off the internet these days.
dscglfr00 3 years ago
Another useful plant "Cannabis."
dhfdfhdfh 3 years ago
To all of those saying for warts, etc etc, it's the Euphorbia Peplus you're thinking of. Go read the wikipedia article on it. Welcome guys. To cutlerylover: Love what you're doing, continue on.
TeslaWasHere 3 years ago
Thanks...
cutlerylover 3 years ago
rubber tree's are a good example of what isn't edible because of that milky sap. when the sap comes out you get latex and rubber. which probabl isn't the best thing to have in your stomach hehehe. but thatnks for the info jeff. 5 stars on all that cool stuff i've learned.
Jc3intelligent 3 years ago
good example!
cutlerylover 3 years ago
Can u get high off it
jorgerdz94x3 3 years ago
nope, if you ate the wrogn part or any part raw for that matter you woudl get sick...
cutlerylover 3 years ago
I believe you can use the sap to remove warts. Just apply several times until it falls off, same with Dandelion sap.
mulbert6 3 years ago
Read a book called Milkweed, it was good.
LEETLANDON 3 years ago
ya it is really good
meowned 3 years ago
can u do a vid on birtch sap, i hear it is very usful as an antiseptic, rich in vitamns, and it also has cacer healing properties,
mecrazy5 3 years ago
perhaps in the future...I ahve alot to film, lol...but the birch tree in general woudl be a cool one to show...
cutlerylover 3 years ago
cool
mecrazy5 3 years ago
will you do a vid on your atv
knifeman777 3 years ago
Yes I will soon...
cutlerylover 3 years ago
r you on an atv
archer1232 3 years ago
yes I am...
cutlerylover 3 years ago
I really appreciate these kinds of videos, these survival things are really useful and good to know.
Xcross079 3 years ago
Yeah, interesting at the very least, even if you dont use them its cool to see plants on the roadside and know what they are...
cutlerylover 3 years ago
I'm waiting for
Useful Plants: Marijuana
kleei2 3 years ago 11
are you raly that immature???
mrbloink 3 years ago
Actually marijuana can be very usefull medically, the problem is most of the people who fight for the right to legalize it just like to get high...lol...I own a great book on medical marijuana...The FDA will never aprove of marijuana becuase even though it helps for certain thgins it still delivers smoke to the lungs, and there already is a man made THC product, a pill called marinol...it has all the benafits from marijuana without the smoke...
cutlerylover 3 years ago
mrbloink are you retarded? Marijuana probably has more uses then any other plant.
dhfdfhdfh 3 years ago
needed?
mrbloink 3 years ago
Actually I woudl love to edjucate peopel on the benafits of marijuana...but most just like it as a drug, and dont see the health benafits...and it rasies legal questions as well so I wont, plus I don't have a plant to film anyway...
cutlerylover 3 years ago
i got some uses for it.....lol
mecrazy5 3 years ago
i dunno.. that property is pretty big lol who knows what can be growing out there lol
sgtrapcat 3 years ago
lol...many tiems police will fly over farmland in helicopters for that very reason, hahaha, but no, I wou;dnt do that these days...maybe when I was in high school though, lol...
cutlerylover 3 years ago
wait. were you meaning for medicinal uses?
mrbloink 3 years ago
very cool, thank you
Cuttincorners 3 years ago
all ur videos r great and this one is sweet. i can tw8 till part 2 and 3 and so on and i know something u didnt say that u couldve used thats not usefull but its something ive found out. when u break it open like that, the milky stuff smell really sweet and some what good. i thought id tell u that so u could try it if u want lol, and keep up the good work!!
halohitchhiker 3 years ago
interesting, I read that the milky sap is mildy poisonous to us so if we ate it raw we woudl get sick, but when eating parts of the pants they have to be boiled twice to get rid of it...More info in future vids on that...
cutlerylover 3 years ago
i really love knife videos, but your variety is so great and unique. keep that up. people need education! :)
STHFNGLD 3 years ago
I Hate Butterflies,I Was Chased a block and a half by 2 butterflies once
FabioCrow07770 3 years ago 12
lol...
cutlerylover 3 years ago
Thanks guys, yeah this one has some cool uses...More parts to come about this great common plant in the future...
cutlerylover 3 years ago
THIS IS COOL =]
XavMan91 3 years ago
sweet Ive always wanted to learn what uses most common plants have.
MrBlonde132 3 years ago
first vuer and rate and commenter
startraker3000 3 years ago