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This is wonderful.

amazing! well worth watching!

fruit is my favourite thing in the world, this is pretty awesome to see this guys passion.

Brilliant!

^Thanks for all the positive comments.
I found this guy's story both enlightening and uplifting.
That's what I call a man that doesn't make excuses.

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Wonderful video, thanks for posting it.

Inspirational.

The guy didn't just overcame his physical challenges to accomplish something. He awesomely blew them completely away.

I bet he's gonna get a bajillion different seeds in the mail now.

P.S. Pause at 04:06 to see the raw intelligence and passion in his eyes. That's a guy who's found himself.

Tags for this video have been changed from 'rare fruit, fruitologist' to 'fruit, rare fruit, fruitologist, cerebral palsy' - edited by Norsuelefantti

I wonder if he's been able to grow Mangosteens in his garden. I've always wanted to try one.

Never heard of them, what are they? A mango cross, or something completely different?
I'm trying honeyberries this year, some kind of honeysuckle with a blueberry like fruit. I love weird fruits.

Just a note that the title is off. He's a rare fruit GROWER, not just a collector.

That's a LOT harder.

Not in my eyes, he has to collect them before he can even attempt to grow them...that can be a LOT harder, especially when it's hard for you to walk and talk.
Plants/fruits grow on their own, mostly.

True for many simple domestic species, but exotic gardening of foreign trees until they reach the point where they are bearing fruit takes a lot of knowledge on top of sourcing the seeds. How much water? What's the pollination process? Soil chemistry? Fertilization and nutrients? Diseases and pests to manage?

There are a lot of failed gardens out there.

I'm sure in many instances you're correct about his garden. It can be incredibly hard to grow things outside their native areas/environment. I try to do it myself, and it does take longer and more work to get them to fruit (I have some loquats and Asian pears growing here in N Cali, outside their preferred zones. The loquats fruited for the first time this year, after 8-10 years in the ground. The Asian pears are even older, and have yet to bloom. I hope I have better luck with my new nectarine tree.)

I just thought that finding out about these odd plants, finding where they might be, and collecting the seeds would be incredibly difficult for him, even with help. Also, he seemed to have quite a collection of seeds, I'm guessing some of them haven't been planted yet.