Palms and Cycads: My Butia Jelly, 0 by jackiescompost

jackiescompost wrote:
It *is* delicious! If I had known how good it would be, I'd have started this a long time ago! :)

Our Butia capitata was planted about 7 1/2 - 8 years ago and planted from a 15 gal pot. The first fruit it bore was four years ago. It bore two bracts. This year we had three bracts which yielded aprox 21-22 pints of jelly. I would have had more jelly but I didn't start collecting the fruit until quite a bit of the fruit had already fallen and dried up before I decided to try making jelly. I've learned I don't have to cook it the same day I collect it.