Salak, Snake Fruit, Fruta de Serpiente, All You Ever Wanted to Know, ft. Chiquita

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There everybody, Dr. Mendo here. Well let's take a little inventory of my solid fruit snake fruit that I have here. So that was the mother tree there. We'll go back to that and pick those out. There's a small one. There's a medium sized one there. Actually, I got six total. There's some of the petacules, whatever you call them, I don't know. I'll get into that little later. But here, a few of them here in my yard. There we go, and this one over here. Like I said, I got about six of them total. And we're going to show you and pull one apart and you can check out the whole fruit system. I'm still trying to figure out what's a male and what's a female. So anyway, here's some helpers here because they had to clean off with the machete. Some of the spiny branches here, stems, as you can see, they'll get you, man. They'd like jump out and bite you. So we've got to reach our hand in there and dig them out. And be very careful. Anyway, like I said, I'm trying to still learning what's a male, what's a female. Luckily, this one was a female. A lot of the eggsacks seem to be dried up and from what I just learned, they're only blossomed for about three days. So I'm pretty sure that this is a good female one that we have here. And the others with the smaller pedestals are the male. There we go. Look at that. Yummy, yummy, yummy. Okay, let's go to here one apart. Okay, let's open up one of these bad boys here. Okay, you can see where the palm is off to my left up in this area here where this actual snake fruit, solid came from. So get a closer look over here. You can see it's very spiny. It has a very rough edge to it and skin to it is why the name snake fruit, fruit that they serpent that or solid, S-A-L-A-K as I said. Okay, hopefully you can see the texture. You know, they're on the bottom part here. Yeah. Oh, this one's up in one of these tough areas. Okay, it's very tough, very hard, good luck, six. And you know, the snake skin is actually pretty tough. Peeling it off. Ouch. A little rough on the fingers. Got to open it up and get your legs in there. To when they're nice and ripe, the skin comes off pretty easy. You can see how that is. My computer camera here. And this is the fruit, the yummy fruit that you have inside. Pretty unique. They pop open like this. You can see some of the seeding inside, which I will harvest and absolutely plant some more of these. But let's take a bite. Very unique fruit. I don't think I've ever tasted anything similar to this, but if I have to put a label on it is more like a... Mmm. Alright, this one's really sweet too. I bet this would make a great wine because it's full of sugars. Good vitamins and minerals. Look at the notes below. Mmm. Mmm. Oh. There you go. I'll just see if I get it there. And the rest of it here. This one probably could have gotten even bigger. This little section here could have grown more and produced a seed out of it, but this particular one is just going to get me two seeds and neck I'm more than half of it without. So there you go. Crackle one open finally. I'm from five years of waiting. I went by two parrots this morning in farmers markets. Under a boat closed, man. Understand this chronic crap that will sit us down here too, but... Snake fruit. Fruit the Deceitre Penta. Solid. You ever get an opportunity to try it? It's very unique. You might have to go to Indonesia, right? Come on down here. I'll let you try one. Be aware of you. They put a hot water in my head. Cause of the things I did I said.