they look pretty good

@zuditaka

5 жыл бұрын

They are very nice, but cockatoos are pretty keen on them, too... Is there a Greek cake shop, near you, with all sticky cakes in the window? They use pistachios in those cakes, along with slivered almonds, I think. 🍰 😋

@dianarussell6278

5 жыл бұрын

@@zuditaka Baklava? Love it. I've never had it with pistachios though. Most here are made with pecans or walnuts.

@dianarussell6278

5 жыл бұрын

@@zuditaka I think all parrots are nuts for nuts. Cockatoos are probably the only ones with the beak strength to crack them.

@zuditaka

5 жыл бұрын

@Diana Russell! Yummy! 😋🍰

@zuditaka

5 жыл бұрын

@Diana Russell Yes, Cockatoos do have amazingly strong cutting power. They can even tear pine cones to shreds to get the pine nuts inside! 🌲🌲

Sirora looks like a wordplay developed by the CSIRO?: *SIRO* ra ?

Zuditaka, I didn't know that pistachios were related to mangoes. They do look like tiny mango's. Very interesting. I wonder if you can eat the inside of a mango seed? I also wonder if pistachios would grow in Colorado? It's hot and dry in the summer then frosts in the fall but often snows in the winter. I always learn something new when I watch your videos.

@zuditaka

5 жыл бұрын

Hi again, Diana. I don't know how cold-hardy pistachios are, but they need some chill if they are to fruit. I think there are KZread videos discussing the uses of mango seed--edible or otherwise. familywize.org/blog/health-benefits-of-mango-seed Pistachios, mangoes and cashews are all members of the "Anacardiaceae" family, as I recall. And that family includes sumac and poison ivy! :/ So some people can be allergic to that family of plants.

@zuditaka

5 жыл бұрын

Hmm. Looks like you might be able to get away with a Pistachio nut tree that will even fruit in Utah and Colorado way up high: kzread.info/dash/bejne/iIWbkqStY83UZ7A.html 🌳⛰

@dianarussell6278

5 жыл бұрын

@@zuditaka Interesting. I eat mango's, pistachios, and cashews with no problem. Also I grew up camping amoung poison Ivy and possibly sumac and have never had a reaction. However, I am very sensitive to poison oak and had a very severe outbreak as a child. Ignorant me tried to pull the vine off an oak tree barehanded. I had the rash all over both hands. I couldn't use them for a week or so. Does Australia have poison Ivy, sumac or oak? Or do you just have the deadly snakes and spiders?

@zuditaka

5 жыл бұрын

Oh, we have introduced Sumac and it is a pest and officially listed as a "noxious weed". It has very pretty autumn display, though. Some people are even affected by the smoke when burning it, apparently. We have all sorts of introduced weeds in Australia. I don't think we have ragweed, yet. Not sure. Achooo! 🤧

@dianarussell6278

5 жыл бұрын

@@zuditaka I have head about people getting a rash in their lungs when they breathed the smoke of poison Ivy and oak. We use sumac as ornamental plants here.i don't know if they are a poison variety. They are very pretty in fall, mostly reds. No ragweed? I can send you some. My yard (2 acres front and back) is full of it in the summer. I don't sneeze a lot but my eyes water and my nose runs. Worse than ragweed is the infamous tumbleweed. When I try to clean them up (they blow in from everywhere) I woke up the next morning with my face blown up like a balloon. I thought maybe eating them would help lesson the allergy but I only tried it once. Yes, you can eat them if you pick them young and green (American Bush Tucker.)They taste OK. Like cabbage X spinach. What turned me off was the grittiness. I washed the heck out of them and could never get the grit out. I don't know how my grandmother did it. My father grew up in west Texas during the Great Depression, in the Dust Bowl Era. My grandmother was Native American,one of 13 children, and she knew about American Bush Tucker. During Dads childhood the only thing green that would grow was tumbleweeds. They had some chickens and a few steers and occasionally a rabbit for meat. I wish I had planted more trees when we first bought this property. I would have liked to have elderberry and a few nut trees. Now we are going to be leaving the property and I am disabled and unable to dig holes for trees.

How you grow it ?

@zuditaka

Жыл бұрын

It needs lots of water to fill out the nuts well! ;D

is possible to graft a male (Peter) onto a female tree (Herman)?

@zuditaka

3 жыл бұрын

I imagine it would be, but I am no gardening expert. I've got a suspicion that Pistacia vera can be pollinated by male flowers of P. chinensis and/or P. atlantica, as both are weed trees in my area, and the only branch left of male P. vera died during a long extremely severe drought and water restrictions, but the females were still setting fruits somehow. There used to be a pistachio orchard, not far away, but I think those trees might be gone, nowadays....

How to identify the male and female?

@zuditaka

3 жыл бұрын

Go to Google images and check out "male pistachio flowers" and "female pistachio flowers". The difference is obvious as the male flowers sorta look like red broccoli. Hope that helps. ;D

Where v vl get d plants plz giv me nmbr