Greetings from rural northern California! I have been an arborist since the 1980s. Your video was a bit different, and I can see that it works for you. The one thing I would submit concerns making proper cuts when pruning. I needn't say a lot... just don't leave stubs. They die, dry and crack and let in pathogens that will allow disease. People can use the pruning books to see how to make the 3 step pruning cut, and what the desired result will look like, so the tree can seal over a pruning wound. For discussion, let's talk about pruning for more fruit. To do a regulation pruning on a fruit tree you will get a thinned out tree. It will grow less fruit because it is smaller. However you will get a better quality fruit because the growth and development energy has less tree to support. So each remaining item gets more attention from the tree's system. For apples, for example, it takes about 35 leaves to support each fruit. Thamks for a good video. It was easy to watch.
Michael Dougfir Thanks for the ‘35 leaves to support a fruit’ tip. That’s one of those things that will stick in my mind and help keep things in perspective I also wanted to ask what you mean by ‘stubs’. Are you saying to cut as close to the supporting branch as possible? And is there a situation where you’d use a product to put on a fresh cut? Or just let it heal naturally?
Does it matter which branches are pruned? I have an apple tree that had a ton of tiny branches coming out of larger main branches, and there are alot if medium sized branches too. Should I just go for all the small ones and a few medium ones? No idea what kind of apple it is. Previous owner didn't know either.
@@swaggattarius4355 Always let it heal naturally. Do you want to cut close to the tree but you absolutely do not want to cut into the branch column. Look it up on Google and you’ll see what it is, usually it is fairly easy to determine its location all the way around the branch you’re trimming off. When you trim a branch off it stops growing from the stub and begins growing from the branch color, which is trying to grow over the end that you just cut so as to seal the tree off from pathogens. The smaller of the distance between the branch color and your cut, the faster the tree can seal its wound.
@@nickuva6508 Leave the bigger, more mature branches if possible. Ideally you want to trim dead, diseased, and crossing branches first, then look for branches that are pointing straight up or inwards and trim those.
Your trees look beautiful Mark. When transplanting young peach trees, i leave the suckers the first year in case of transplant shock, one of my best trees died down to a single stalk after I moved it 5 years ago. I didn’t have the heart to cut the small sucker that had started beside it. Today the sucker produces well, just to be different I suppose. I started the mother tree from a seed when I was a boy. so I’m a bit sentimental about the peach trees.
Perfection..You have the most incredably Awesome, lush, magical piece of heaven on earth!. Strange to say, when watching your vids I can feel the earth beneath your feet, feel the air..the peace is palpable..and the sounds are soooo..unfamiliar. I would love a walk about with the sounds of your native and mysterios bird folk..I live in a beautiful place, stunning really..named Paradise buuutt your tropics are the grass looking greener on the other side lol. Thank you so much for sharing, for all you do and your more than terrific talents in the kitchen as well as your garden A true fan
Hey Mark! Husband and I appreciated the video - we bought a property with fruit trees on it last year and they need lots of love so this is good timing! We had a follow up question, though: how do you harvest a lot of fruit? We are up to the task of caring for a small orchard, but we would love some tips or ideas for how to best tackle harvesting! Thanks in advance, we have learned so much from your videos :) Much love from Seattle, Wa USA!!
Hey, thanks for the tips. I just came back from a garden meeting here in Margaret river and I have learned that pruning in summer, right after fruiting, is very good too. I did not exactly hear why though. Next time I will ask the person when I see him again
Hii I love ur voice so much ...ur voice relaxs me I'm also in progress self sufficient in food I have around 40kinds of fruits nd 30+ veggies nd trying to increase ur video really helps me a lot...
been watching your channel for a few months now, starting the process of trying to grow some fruit trees from seed and this video was very useful thanks
Hi Mark. New subscriber from the UK. Your subscribers went from 80k to 81k in a day! 😀 You definitely deserve to meet more people..I like all the effort and the information on the videos!
I've watched a few homesteading and self sufficiency TH-cam's but most of them are either boring or the presenter is annoying. You on the other hand are interesting and practical. I'll definitely follow your videos from now on :)
Excellent tips! I would have added don’t put diseased branches in the wood chipper as you will spread the disease throughout your orchard and either burn or completely remove diseased branches from your property. It is surprising how hardy trees can be to pruning! But take care not to spread disease. Keep some alcohol wipes in your pockets to wipe down between trees at the least. If you are pruning limbs that you know, or suspect are infected, wipe down between cuts so that you don’t spread the infection throughout the tree.
Thank you! Pruning has always scared me. It's a topic my husband and I disagree over often. Now, I can help him instead of hindering him. :D BTW, I couldn't help but immediately think of the Crocodile Hunter when I first saw you - talking with your hands and with the same passion he had for animals--in the first few seconds of the video. A new subscriber here!
Thank you so much for this video on pruning. I don't have many fruit trees but hope to in the future, and have been wondering how to prune what I have.
We moving in to a house that has some fruit trees, which we've never owned. The orange tree is so thick, we can't get a fruit picker up there to get the oranges. Every day 4-5 oranges drop down. They're already moldy and split when they hit the ground. We can even see some brown shriveled up oranges up there. The tree also has small green oranges, so it's still producing. You mentioned it's not good to prune while the tree is producing. So what should we do? There's also a apple tree in the same condition. Any advice would be greatly appreciated. I live your channel because you're have a wealth of knowledge, I live the Aussie accent, and I so love your humor and quick Witt. Thank you for sharing!
We love watching your videos, i have a lot of pruning yet to do in AZ. so you got me stirred up to get it done. You have a beautiful place great gardens and trees.
Hello from Puerto Rico. I am a big fan About the Custard apples, they are starting to ripe when they turn a bit darker and sweet smelling. It will also become softer. Hope that helps.
Aloha Mark Great videos. Love your enthusiasm and the Love for gardening. I live in Maui and have planted some fruit trees. Lemons, orange n fig. I let the branches grow, but they start to break. So, I end up running to much. What can I do? Can you show in your trees what you do? Thank you! BEAUTIFUL GARDEN YOU HAVE!!!
Hi JT and thank you! If the fruit is weighing down the branches causing breaks see this video for a quick fix th-cam.com/video/cexb-rDjIAM/w-d-xo.html All the best :)
Great video! Question about mulch: I have been told to mulch very lightly, like an inch deep at most, so that the roots can get "air". I live in Anchorage, AK, which has 19.5 hours of light in summer, and only 5.5 hours of low light in winter. Our climate is relatively cool and rainy, although some summers can be quite dry and reach 80 degrees (F). We more typically have 65 deg. weather in summer with occasional days reaching 70 deg. For this climate, would you still suggest mulching as heavily as you have shown in your video?
If you keep the mulch away from the stem of the plants it should be fine. Think about trees in a natural environment without intervention - fallen leaves, debris, etc build up under the tree - it's natural. Rainforests are a classic example. But if you are unsure, perhaps try mulching one tree deeply and leaving the other with limited mulch and see if you can spot any differences in growth. Generally, I start every new tree with a good thick layer of mulch for about the first year at least to get them off to a good start. All the best :)
Another excellent presentation. ‘Liked’ There is still SO much confusion out there about WHEN to prune. Particularly for here in the UK. We are told by many to limit height and extent of apple, pear and stone fruit trees by SUMMER pruning and that winter dormancy pruning encourages excessive ‘water-shoot’ growth and reduces fruiting! What are your thoughts on this?
I second that. Out of all my gardening research, I think my plum tree care has been the most confusing/contradicting. Apparently Silver leaf disease is what to avoid by pruning in the summer. The more videos the better 👍🏻
I just ordered a persimmon! It's coming at the end of March. I live in a very different climate so it's probably the only overlap fruit tree we have haha. It has a very large zone range!
Hi from Argentina! I love your channel and wisdom! I bought a young 4 seasons lemon tree some weeks ago and it is already transplanted in my garden. I put some rocks around making a circle and some plane rocks inside the circle onto the soil, is it ok or the soil needs to be with nothing heavy on top? Thank’s!
Hi Julie, I've heard plum trees are an exception to prune in winter as rot can set in. I would leave to spring as weather is warming. Please research this on internet further. Regards Alan
+Alan Shrimpton Well, thank you so much for the advise. I will look it up. It's a very old tree, but still producing, and I want to give it all the help I can.
Hi Mark. I loooove your channel. Thanks so much for the time and effort you give to making them. I have a question I'm hoping you can help me out with. We have mangoes that are 15-20 metres tall (yes - metres). I'm just wondering how hard we can cut them back once summer is over? I'm in the NSW Northern rivers. Thanks so much, Lucy
Great vid you much live somewhere in my part of the world , I live on the Sunshine Coast in Currimundi I have a 1 and 1/2 year old lemon have 3 fruit growing , I’m constantly spraying for leaf miner using detergent , veg oil and a little neem, mixed with water seems to help, I have pruned in March and got some new growth but confused on exactly what is water shoots ??, where it grows crazy but there is no more fruit, can I prune now (May) ? Or let it go ?, it’s 2.5 metres high and I believe healthy , any advice I would appreciate Thxs
Can you do an olive video?! I was told you canteat them straight the tree (from my crazy Italian aunt...so I'm not completely sure about that one), if so how do you cure them? Thanks from Maine!
Hi there nice video i am English but have land in north Thailand and i have 3 lime trees that a doing ok.(I am back in England working for a bit so only see them in pictures)I put concrete circles around them at 1st really to keep the soil and compost in as the rain in the (rainy season is so powerful)I have read that standing water is not good for lime trees do you think it is better to remove them or as they are producing plenty leave them be. Cheers Scotty
Standing water is not good for any tree! Do not put concrete or anything like that around trunks. let the trunks grow. the compost should saty if it is healthy fungal rich composted mulch. Keep the trunk stem dry!
Fantastic video. I love nothing more than pruning our fruit trees. I love the way you simplify the process, as a lot of gardeners get caught up in all the technical literature on how pruning "should" be done. I think this scares a lot of people.
Excellent common sense tips, thank you! And, congrats on reaching 80k subs. Very well-deserved. Here's to your continued growth, in the garden and on YT! ~ Lisa
Grafted multi fruit trees can be a challenge as one graft can outgrow the other, such as a lemon/orange fruit salad tree. It's been advised to prune back the faster growing graft and let the slower one catch up. I've done this for mine and the orange seems to be coping ok. All in the learning.
the mulch ideea is great. i would apply it but i use the wood for heating as i live in a climate where winters are frosty. what i use for trimming are secateurs (Felco), hand saws from sliky saws (zubar and gomtaro) and a chainsaw (Makita on batteries). i'd rather use those japanese saws as they do not vibrate, don't need batteries, lighter to carry and make a clean cut.
I don't have a huge garden, all of my fruit trees are either columnar type which only grow 2 meters high or dwarf varieties which will grow in a patio pot. Very little pruning needed, if ever. So far my small orchard has, Apple, pear, plums, green gage, peach, apricot, red and white grape vines, cherry, figs, lemon, lime and a small orange. No matter how small your garden is, you can grow fruit trees.
I have only came across your videos today and I am hooked:0...you do a great video....I live in TRinidad and the lime trees we have have a lot of thorns ......also a rough skin lemon and a mandarin ....and a few mango trees....I have learnt a lot from you...I will get my husband to mulch the trees and I really love the idea to prune the trees I never thought you can prune mature trees to a height you want...Do you have an email address I can send pics for you to see the trees and I have a Tambarind tree that only started bearing fruits after 25 yrs also a Pommecythere tree...which I also want to prune but people are saying you cant because the tree will die...I would love your advice:)
I don't have any garden to grow, I just watch your videos because I love the joy and passion you put in your work. Bye bye from Italy
Maybe start with 1 potted tree :)
You can start with container growing
this guy is the freakin' Steve Irwin of gardening! love it.
True!
@@youtubeaccount5201 not funny
Best part is , both Guys are from the same area / sunny Queensland is the place to be 😊😊
@@andresibarra9914 why?
Lmbo that was exactly my first thought!.
This guy is good. And I actually understand him. Have a good day.
Greetings from rural northern California! I have been an arborist since the 1980s. Your video was a bit different, and I can see that it works for you. The one thing I would submit concerns making proper cuts when pruning. I needn't say a lot... just don't leave stubs. They die, dry and crack and let in pathogens that will allow disease. People can use the pruning books to see how to make the 3 step pruning cut, and what the desired result will look like, so the tree can seal over a pruning wound.
For discussion, let's talk about pruning for more fruit. To do a regulation pruning on a fruit tree you will get a thinned out tree. It will grow less fruit because it is smaller. However you will get a better quality fruit because the growth and development energy has less tree to support. So each remaining item gets more attention from the tree's system. For apples, for example, it takes about 35 leaves to support each fruit.
Thamks for a good video. It was easy to watch.
Michael Dougfir
Thanks for the ‘35 leaves to support a fruit’ tip. That’s one of those things that will stick in my mind and help keep things in perspective
I also wanted to ask what you mean by ‘stubs’. Are you saying to cut as close to the supporting branch as possible? And is there a situation where you’d use a product to put on a fresh cut? Or just let it heal naturally?
Does it matter which branches are pruned? I have an apple tree that had a ton of tiny branches coming out of larger main branches, and there are alot if medium sized branches too. Should I just go for all the small ones and a few medium ones? No idea what kind of apple it is. Previous owner didn't know either.
Interesting thanks
@@swaggattarius4355 Always let it heal naturally. Do you want to cut close to the tree but you absolutely do not want to cut into the branch column. Look it up on Google and you’ll see what it is, usually it is fairly easy to determine its location all the way around the branch you’re trimming off. When you trim a branch off it stops growing from the stub and begins growing from the branch color, which is trying to grow over the end that you just cut so as to seal the tree off from pathogens. The smaller of the distance between the branch color and your cut, the faster the tree can seal its wound.
@@nickuva6508 Leave the bigger, more mature branches if possible. Ideally you want to trim dead, diseased, and crossing branches first, then look for branches that are pointing straight up or inwards and trim those.
Best pruning tips I've heard
Your trees look beautiful Mark. When transplanting young peach trees, i leave the suckers the first year in case of transplant shock, one of my best trees died down to a single stalk after I moved it 5 years ago. I didn’t have the heart to cut the small sucker that had started beside it. Today the sucker produces well, just to be different I suppose. I started the mother tree from a seed when I was a boy. so I’m a bit sentimental about the peach trees.
Perfection..You have the most incredably Awesome, lush, magical piece of heaven on earth!. Strange to say, when watching your vids I can feel the earth beneath your feet, feel the air..the peace is palpable..and the sounds are soooo..unfamiliar. I would love a walk about with the sounds of your native and mysterios bird folk..I live in a beautiful place, stunning really..named Paradise buuutt your tropics are the grass looking greener on the other side lol.
Thank you so much for sharing, for all you do and your more than terrific talents in the kitchen as well as your garden
A true fan
Thanks Jennifer I'm wrapped that you can get the "feel" through the camera that's important to a video creator and valuable feedback. Cheers :)
Seriously enjoying your content. Just the sheer enthusiasm makes it worth while. Easy to follow instructions, sensible notions.
Just a big thanks
Hey Mark! Husband and I appreciated the video - we bought a property with fruit trees on it last year and they need lots of love so this is good timing! We had a follow up question, though: how do you harvest a lot of fruit? We are up to the task of caring for a small orchard, but we would love some tips or ideas for how to best tackle harvesting! Thanks in advance, we have learned so much from your videos :) Much love from Seattle, Wa USA!!
I will always come back to your videos to learn because you get to the point and are so helpful!! Love your channel
I enjoy watching this guy's videos. very good , well done
The lemons looked beautiful
Brigitte LM yeah they did
The most helpful pruning tips I've been looking for. Thank-you.
Hey, thanks for the tips. I just came back from a garden meeting here in Margaret river and I have learned that pruning in summer, right after fruiting, is very good too. I did not exactly hear why though. Next time I will ask the person when I see him again
Fantastic video! Glad to see another subtropical Australian backyard grower, your info could never be more relevant for me, many thanks!
Thanks Joe, cheers mate :)
Hii I love ur voice so much ...ur voice relaxs me I'm also in progress self sufficient in food I have around 40kinds of fruits nd 30+ veggies nd trying to increase ur video really helps me a lot...
I just love watching your garden ...its so beautiful
Love your energy mate, enthusiastic, simple and no bs. entertaining too!
I always learn so much from your videos and don't feel silly because I didn't know the material presented. Thank you Sir.
been watching your channel for a few months now, starting the process of trying to grow some fruit trees from seed and this video was very useful thanks
Great information, detailed explanations and LOVE the before and after picture. Thank you so much!!
Hi Mark. New subscriber from the UK. Your subscribers went from 80k to 81k in a day! 😀 You definitely deserve to meet more people..I like all the effort and the information on the videos!
Your videos are very helpful for me..from Egypt. Thanks a lot
I've watched a few homesteading and self sufficiency TH-cam's but most of them are either boring or the presenter is annoying. You on the other hand are interesting and practical. I'll definitely follow your videos from now on :)
Excellent tips! I would have added don’t put diseased branches in the wood chipper as you will spread the disease throughout your orchard and either burn or completely remove diseased branches from your property. It is surprising how hardy trees can be to pruning! But take care not to spread disease. Keep some alcohol wipes in your pockets to wipe down between trees at the least. If you are pruning limbs that you know, or suspect are infected, wipe down between cuts so that you don’t spread the infection throughout the tree.
If you know how to compost the mulch, the "diseases" will be killed and overtaken by the beneficial microbes in the good mulch
You thrill me sir! Thank you! Can’t wait to go down the rabbit hole of pruning on your channel! 😇
very good... nicely and simply explained
You have a good voice to listen to and a good pronounciation. Can you please also make videos about how pruning berry bushes like ribes?
Your property is wonderful, yhank you for sharing the tips.
Thank you for watching Brigitte! :)
He’s so happy!! I love him!! This is a great video. 👏🏼💯🥰
Thanks Mark. Love your videos.
Thank you! Pruning has always scared me. It's a topic my husband and I disagree over often. Now, I can help him instead of hindering him. :D
BTW, I couldn't help but immediately think of the Crocodile Hunter when I first saw you - talking with your hands and with the same passion he had for animals--in the first few seconds of the video. A new subscriber here!
Nutrition Prepper's Sister thats nice ... 😊 and you are correct
I love this guy. Love watching him in the garden. Keep it up!
Thank you so much for this video on pruning. I don't have many fruit trees but hope to in the future, and have been wondering how to prune what I have.
Thank you Sally and I'm glad you found the video helpful! :)
We moving in to a house that has some fruit trees, which we've never owned. The orange tree is so thick, we can't get a fruit picker up there to get the oranges. Every day 4-5 oranges drop down. They're already moldy and split when they hit the ground. We can even see some brown shriveled up oranges up there. The tree also has small green oranges, so it's still producing. You mentioned it's not good to prune while the tree is producing. So what should we do? There's also a apple tree in the same condition. Any advice would be greatly appreciated. I live your channel because you're have a wealth of knowledge, I live the Aussie accent, and I so love your humor and quick Witt. Thank you for sharing!
Excellent production! Cheers from Newcastle ❤️🇦🇺
thank you ... you make a lot more sense than many of those pruning books. Great info and a great video
We love watching your videos, i have a lot of pruning yet to do in AZ. so you got me stirred up to get it done.
You have a beautiful place great gardens and trees.
Glad I could help motive to prune and thank you for watching my vids! Cheers :)
Always informative thanks for sharing your video's
Excellent summary at the end!! 👍🏼
Excellent. Apt and very informative. Thanks
Hello from Puerto Rico. I am a big fan About the Custard apples, they are starting to ripe when they turn a bit darker and sweet smelling. It will also become softer. Hope that helps.
Great job Mark. Very informative video
Aloha Mark Great videos. Love your enthusiasm and the Love for gardening. I live in Maui and have planted some fruit trees. Lemons, orange n fig. I let the branches grow, but they start to break. So, I end up running to much. What can I do? Can you show in your trees what you do? Thank you! BEAUTIFUL GARDEN YOU HAVE!!!
Hi JT and thank you! If the fruit is weighing down the branches causing breaks see this video for a quick fix th-cam.com/video/cexb-rDjIAM/w-d-xo.html All the best :)
Thanks Mark, great vid. Heading out to the orchard right now to do some overdue pruning. 😃
Great video! Question about mulch: I have been told to mulch very lightly, like an inch deep at most, so that the roots can get "air". I live in Anchorage, AK, which has 19.5 hours of light in summer, and only 5.5 hours of low light in winter. Our climate is relatively cool and rainy, although some summers can be quite dry and reach 80 degrees (F). We more typically have 65 deg. weather in summer with occasional days reaching 70 deg. For this climate, would you still suggest mulching as heavily as you have shown in your video?
If you keep the mulch away from the stem of the plants it should be fine. Think about trees in a natural environment without intervention - fallen leaves, debris, etc build up under the tree - it's natural. Rainforests are a classic example. But if you are unsure, perhaps try mulching one tree deeply and leaving the other with limited mulch and see if you can spot any differences in growth. Generally, I start every new tree with a good thick layer of mulch for about the first year at least to get them off to a good start. All the best :)
Mulch is good but do not get it on the stem and do not pile it too deep. Older aged diverse mulch is best.
EXCELLENT Video Mark!!!
All great tips. You are the BEST!!!
Amazing videos. I've learned so much.
Great video. Awesome orchard!
The tips are spot on - great video, mulching seems to improve fruit tree resistance to fruit fly as well...
Is that right! I didn't realise that it can help against fruit fly but I'm glad it possibly can. Thank you :)
marilyn gandhi i use a natural compost/ mulch type blend of grass and straw, no fertilizers, just a bit of soil amending 😊
The Steve Irwin of gardening😂 love watching and very knowledgeable 🦘🐨
Like always lots of good information , thank you mark , for time and efforts to for sharering
Thanks Hala! :)
I just got and planted 2 dwarf apple trees should I leave them to settle and grow on for the first few years? . And a big hi from the uk 🇬🇧🏴👋👍
I live in South Florida and I constantly struggle with ball kinds of pests on my citrus tree . What homemade or safe pesticide should I use?
Thank you dear I would ask you about the suckers that grow on the top of the citrus tree.shall prune them at any time
Another excellent presentation. ‘Liked’
There is still SO much confusion out there about WHEN to prune.
Particularly for here in the UK.
We are told by many to limit height and extent of apple, pear and stone fruit trees by SUMMER pruning and that winter dormancy pruning encourages excessive ‘water-shoot’ growth and reduces fruiting!
What are your thoughts on this?
I second that. Out of all my gardening research, I think my plum tree care has been the most confusing/contradicting. Apparently Silver leaf disease is what to avoid by pruning in the summer. The more videos the better 👍🏻
Dude, you rock, thanks for all your advice. As a first time owner of a house with quite a bit of land it's really helpfull to watch your videos. :)
An excellent video Mark, really informative, great tips and well filmed/edited. It's a thumbs up from me mate. Cheers Adam
Thanks Adam - I appreciate your feedback mate! :)
Superb presentation, thanks a lot.
Thanks Sandra! :)
I just ordered a persimmon! It's coming at the end of March. I live in a very different climate so it's probably the only overlap fruit tree we have haha. It has a very large zone range!
great video...love your garden! you are blessed. 😊👍
Thanks Lorraine! :)
Im sooo glad i watched this video 1st ... Thank you
Hi from Argentina! I love your channel and wisdom! I bought a young 4 seasons lemon tree some weeks ago and it is already transplanted in my garden. I put some rocks around making a circle and some plane rocks inside the circle onto the soil, is it ok or the soil needs to be with nothing heavy on top? Thank’s!
Mark, wonderful, full explaination. Very helpful. As it's winter here in the US, perfect timing for me to tackle my plum tree. Thanks and cheers.
Julie Mix Good Morn Miss Julie, from where do you hail? I'm in Nor Cal..Paradise
Hi Julie, I've heard plum trees are an exception to prune in winter as rot can set in. I would leave to spring as weather is warming. Please research this on internet further. Regards Alan
I think you should not prune your plum tree in the winter but wait until the sap is rising to avoid silver leaf .
+Alan Shrimpton Well, thank you so much for the advise. I will look it up. It's a very old tree, but still producing, and I want to give it all the help I can.
+Jennifer Prescott Hi, down there. I'm up in Washington on the penninsula. Cheers
Thank you.
Hi Mark. I loooove your channel. Thanks so much for the time and effort you give to making them.
I have a question I'm hoping you can help me out with. We have mangoes that are 15-20 metres tall (yes - metres). I'm just wondering how hard we can cut them back once summer is over?
I'm in the NSW Northern rivers.
Thanks so much,
Lucy
Thank you for this!
Awesome video. A lot of information.
Love your videos! Very helpful.
Nice tips! Also diseases may hide in the soil and climb up from the lower branches!
Yes that's a good point! Thank you :)
Iky C please Pl
Great vid you much live somewhere in my part of the world , I live on the Sunshine Coast in Currimundi I have a 1 and 1/2 year old lemon have 3 fruit growing , I’m constantly spraying for leaf miner using detergent , veg oil and a little neem, mixed with water seems to help, I have pruned in March and got some new growth but confused on exactly what is water shoots ??, where it grows crazy but there is no more fruit, can I prune now (May) ? Or let it go ?, it’s 2.5 metres high and I believe healthy , any advice I would appreciate Thxs
Can you do an olive video?! I was told you canteat them straight the tree (from my crazy Italian aunt...so I'm not completely sure about that one), if so how do you cure them?
Thanks from Maine!
Fantastic video!! Just the information I was looking for!
Hi Mark,
I got in the garden this evening and realised the cockies had a field day at our young blood plum. They left us with only 10 left to pick.
good day Mark !! thanks for showing us how you prune your fruit trees to get the most out of the fruit
Like always lots of good information , thank you mark
Hi there nice video i am English but have land in north Thailand and i have 3 lime trees that a doing ok.(I am back in England working for a bit so only see them in pictures)I put concrete circles around them at 1st really to keep the soil and compost in as the rain in the (rainy season is so powerful)I have read that standing water is not good for lime trees do you think it is better to remove them or as they are producing plenty leave them be. Cheers Scotty
Standing water is not good for any tree! Do not put concrete or anything like that around trunks. let the trunks grow. the compost should saty if it is healthy fungal rich composted mulch. Keep the trunk stem dry!
Great video Mark!
Fantastic video. I love nothing more than pruning our fruit trees. I love the way you simplify the process, as a lot of gardeners get caught up in all the technical literature on how pruning "should" be done. I think this scares a lot of people.
Spot on advice. Thanks.
Great video as always Mark. Yep, fab tips too.
Excellent common sense tips, thank you! And, congrats on reaching 80k subs. Very well-deserved. Here's to your continued growth, in the garden and on YT! ~ Lisa
Hi Lisa, and thank you! Yes reaching 80k subscribers is amazing and very encouraging! :)
THANK YOU. I LEARNT A LOT.
Grafted multi fruit trees can be a challenge as one graft can outgrow the other, such as a lemon/orange fruit salad tree. It's been advised to prune back the faster growing graft and let the slower one catch up. I've done this for mine and the orange seems to be coping ok. All in the learning.
Hi can we use the suckers to propagate new plants like with the strawberry trees?
HI MARK, thanks for the adviss, ? i have 2 whips 1 almond 1 yelow plum ab 3 ft tale, when to prun? thank you,, ken uk,
Great tips! Thanks for sharing.
the mulch ideea is great. i would apply it but i use the wood for heating as i live in a climate where winters are frosty.
what i use for trimming are secateurs (Felco), hand saws from sliky saws (zubar and gomtaro) and a chainsaw (Makita on batteries). i'd rather use those japanese saws as they do not vibrate, don't need batteries, lighter to carry and make a clean cut.
Very knowledge dear 💕
I don't have a huge garden, all of my fruit trees are either columnar type which only grow 2 meters high or dwarf varieties which will grow in a patio pot. Very little pruning needed, if ever.
So far my small orchard has, Apple, pear, plums, green gage, peach, apricot, red and white grape vines, cherry, figs, lemon, lime and a small orange.
No matter how small your garden is, you can grow fruit trees.
Hey Mark. Love the variety. What spacings did you use for your trees? Dwarf and standard.
Hope to see some cooking videos soon. Love the videos Mark
very inovative
Thanks, great tips. Just curious. What do you do with all the fruit produced. You can only eat so much. Cheers
Thank you! We often preserve the fruit and/or give it away to family/friends. Cheers :)
Thanks for the information.
I have only came across your videos today and I am hooked:0...you do a great video....I live in TRinidad and the lime trees we have have a lot of thorns ......also a rough skin lemon and a mandarin ....and a few mango trees....I have learnt a lot from you...I will get my husband to mulch the trees and I really love the idea to prune the trees I never thought you can prune mature trees to a height you want...Do you have an email address I can send pics for you to see the trees and I have a Tambarind tree that only started bearing fruits after 25 yrs also a Pommecythere tree...which I also want to prune but people are saying you cant because the tree will die...I would love your advice:)
Useful tips for when I grow some fruit trees.
Best of luck for when you start growing yours mate! :)
I hope to start this year, if possible.
I live in a tropical area and we don't have winter here. So when should i prune it?
Thanks! Very helpful