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Heart of Palm on "How It's Made" TV show

redbeard917
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http://science.discovery.com/videos/how-its-made-heart-of-palm.html

There are some nice shots of mature palms and palm germination at the beginning of the video. For those who aren't familiar with How It's Made, there are other videos on the site as well.

Woodville, FL

zone 8b

http://science.discovery.com/videos/how-its-made-heart-of-palm.html

There are some nice shots of mature palms and palm germination at the beginning of the video. For those who aren't familiar with How It's Made, there are other videos on the site as well.

Good show. Watch it often, but missed this one.

Thanks

Wai`anae Steve-------www.waianaecrider.com
Living in Paradise, Leeward O`ahu, Hawai`i, USA
Temperature range yearly from say 95 to 62 degrees F
Only 3 hurricanes in the past 51 years and no damage. No floods where I am, No tornados, No earthquakes
No moles, squirrels, chipmunks, deer, etc. Just the neighbors "wild" chickens

Very interesting way of extracting the heart of the palm and preserving it.

David

pretty cool! Thanks for sharing Lucas.

anyone known the species in the field, were those Euturpe sp.?

Luke

Tallahassee, FL - USDA zone 8b/9a

63" rain annually

January avg 65/40 - July avg 92/73

North Florida Palm Society - http://palmsociety.blogspot.com/

The palms look like Bactris gasipaes. The beauty of this clumping species is that is doesn't kill the palm to cut the heart out of one stalk. The worker cutting the stems in the field is certainly much faster than we are!

The B. gasipaes not only tastes great, but the form of the palm is quite attractive. We've let one get about 40 feet tall and I love to watch it sway in the breeze.

North of Hilo on the Big Island of Hawaii

1200' elevation, 200" rain/year

Year round stream with small waterfalls

Those are Bactris gasipaes alright. The domesticated palm of amazonia. Both B. gasipaes and Euterpe olearcea are grown in plantations for palm hearts in Brazil. And, both of the them produce fruit as well. The B. gasipaes is known as Pupunha here in Brazil. This video,

, shows some different ways of preparing fresh pupunha palm heart. The video is from two different TV shows, Globo Rural, a daily program on agricultural things, and Mais Voce a morning tv show. The videos are in Portuguese, but I think you can understand most of what is going on just with the video. There are a lot of options for preparing palm hearts besides canning them.

dk

Don Kittelson

 

LIFE ON THE RIO NEGRO

03° 06' 07'' South 60° 01' 30'' West

Altitude 92 Meters / 308 feet above sea level

1,500 kms / 932 miles to the mouth of the Amazon River

 

Manaus, Amazonas, Brazil - A Cidade da Floresta

Where the world´s largest Tropical Rainforest embraces the Greatest Rivers in the World. .

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Click here to visit Amazonas

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Great find! Love that show. Very cool to see how they are doing this in a fairly ecologically sound way. :) Thanks for sharing it!

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Thanks for sharring!

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EATING PALMS????

NO THANKS, LOVE THEM TOO MUCH!

Rafael,

Do you not want to eat them because they are palms or for some other reason. If you use clumping palms like Bactris gasipaes or Euterpe olearcea it is totally sustainble. In fact if you are growing either palm for fruit you have to regularly cut off the new stems as they come up. For maximum açai production you should not leave more than 4 stems growing per clump. Bactris gasipaes is similar if you grow them for fruit. The various dishes in the video I posted are delicious.

dk

Don Kittelson

 

LIFE ON THE RIO NEGRO

03° 06' 07'' South 60° 01' 30'' West

Altitude 92 Meters / 308 feet above sea level

1,500 kms / 932 miles to the mouth of the Amazon River

 

Manaus, Amazonas, Brazil - A Cidade da Floresta

Where the world´s largest Tropical Rainforest embraces the Greatest Rivers in the World. .

82331.gif

 

Click here to visit Amazonas

amazonas2.jpg

EATING PALMS????

NO THANKS, LOVE THEM TOO MUCH!

Rafael,

Do you not want to eat them because they are palms or for some other reason. If you use clumping palms like Bactris gasipaes or Euterpe olearcea it is totally sustainble. In fact if you are growing either palm for fruit you have to regularly cut off the new stems as they come up. For maximum açai production you should not leave more than 4 stems growing per clump. Bactris gasipaes is similar if you grow them for fruit. The various dishes in the video I posted are delicious.

dk

Hi Don!

Taking the fruits off is definitively different than killing a palm to extract its heart!

Nowadays i think all the time about palms, and i just didnt like to see the quickly and simply way to do that!

But i do not say a word about people who do that, off course! :)

Edited by rafael

Furadouro and Ovar, zone 9b/10a.
PORTUGAL
http://www.palmtalk.org/forum/index.php?showtopic=20668
http://www.palmtalk.org/forum/index.php?/topic/31527-my-new-garden-ovar-january2012/

EATING PALMS????

NO THANKS, LOVE THEM TOO MUCH!

Rafael,

Do you not want to eat them because they are palms or for some other reason. If you use clumping palms like Bactris gasipaes or Euterpe olearcea it is totally sustainble. In fact if you are growing either palm for fruit you have to regularly cut off the new stems as they come up. For maximum açai production you should not leave more than 4 stems growing per clump. Bactris gasipaes is similar if you grow them for fruit. The various dishes in the video I posted are delicious.

dk

Hi Don!

Taking the fruits off is definitively different than killing a palm to extract its heart!

Nowadays i think all the time about palms, and i just didnt like to see the quickly and simply way to do that!

But i do not say a word about people who do that, off course! :)

Rafael,

That is fine. But, as I said above you do not kill the palm to harvest the heart. You only prune one stem. The clump remains healthy and in fact produces more fruit than one left unpruned. I am going to start eating the stems I prune from the clump from now on with both my Bactris gasipaes and my Euterpe olearcea.

Here is a video on açai, If you do not prune the stems you do not get good berries. So better to eat them than to throw them away. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kzAcpWLiLZM&feature=related

Here is my little Bactris gasipaes grove. Some of them have spines and some do not.

dk

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Don Kittelson

 

LIFE ON THE RIO NEGRO

03° 06' 07'' South 60° 01' 30'' West

Altitude 92 Meters / 308 feet above sea level

1,500 kms / 932 miles to the mouth of the Amazon River

 

Manaus, Amazonas, Brazil - A Cidade da Floresta

Where the world´s largest Tropical Rainforest embraces the Greatest Rivers in the World. .

82331.gif

 

Click here to visit Amazonas

amazonas2.jpg

EATING PALMS????

NO THANKS, LOVE THEM TOO MUCH!

Rafael,

Do you not want to eat them because they are palms or for some other reason. If you use clumping palms like Bactris gasipaes or Euterpe olearcea it is totally sustainble. In fact if you are growing either palm for fruit you have to regularly cut off the new stems as they come up. For maximum açai production you should not leave more than 4 stems growing per clump. Bactris gasipaes is similar if you grow them for fruit. The various dishes in the video I posted are delicious.

dk

Hi Don!

Taking the fruits off is definitively different than killing a palm to extract its heart!

Nowadays i think all the time about palms, and i just didnt like to see the quickly and simply way to do that!

But i do not say a word about people who do that, off course! :)

Rafael,

That is fine. But, as I said above you do not kill the palm to harvest the heart. You only prune one stem. The clump remains healthy and in fact produces more fruit than one left unpruned. I am going to start eating the stems I prune from the clump from now on with both my Bactris gasipaes and my Euterpe olearcea.

Here is a video on açai, If you do not prune the stems you do not get good berries. So better to eat them than to throw them away. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kzAcpWLiLZM&feature=related

Here is my little Bactris gasipaes grove. Some of them have spines and some do not.

dk

OK then, but, even in that case, no thanks, i am not hungry! :D

Furadouro and Ovar, zone 9b/10a.
PORTUGAL
http://www.palmtalk.org/forum/index.php?showtopic=20668
http://www.palmtalk.org/forum/index.php?/topic/31527-my-new-garden-ovar-january2012/

Thnx for sharing Lucas, great video :)

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