How to get a FREE Fruit Tree!
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That's a great tool. I always learned to do it with aluminum foil. 💚
Yes you can!
Its better to spend money on this product /s
@@roo9569...why 👀😢🤦♀️
@@goodkarmaiscomingtoyou1381 /s means sarcasm..
I used to watch them do it on apple trees with tennis balls
The first thing you need is someone with a fruit tree. The second thing you need is their permission to do what you're doing.
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Lol maybe
Not necessarily true. You just need to not get caught doing it.
@@turtleman190For 2 months.
@@vincentbarnett4222 you over estimate people's ability to notice things.
or if you don't have the Aloe or that tool he's using, you can get a cutting of an already ripe banana fruit about less that an inch size with some soil(potting soil) wrapped in kitchen plastic wrap followed by some more wrapping with aluminum foil to hold it in shape for a couple of weeks time. Oh, the reason for the banana is that it's loaded with natural potassium and phosphorus to promote root growth.
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This video and the comments have been so informative. I want to start a small self sufficient homestead and videos likw this give me great ideas.
Thanks!
The first thing I'm going to need is to move out of Alaska.
If you have an aloe Vera plant, break one off and smear the jell on the bare stem. It helps with the rooting. Like a hormone. Or just get some rooting hormone.
Also, if you do this, do it at the end of winter/early spring.
Also, I've seen better results with wrapping the entire ball with plastic and taping it real good. It acts as a moisture retaining green house.
Aloe Vera prevents rotting as well
or if you don't have the Aloe or that tool he's using, you can get a cutting of an already ripe banana fruit about less that an inch size with some soil(potting soil) wrapped in kitchen plastic wrap followed by some more wrapping with aluminum foil to hold it in shape for a couple of weeks time. Oh, the reason for the banana is that it's loaded with natural potassium and phosphorus to promote root growth.
They'll still grow roots fine without rooting hormone.
You can also do it with a cup, trashbag, and water bottle. Basically anything that can hold a good amount of dirt. I find it easier to wrap it inside a black plastic bag so the water doesn't evaporate.
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I'm currently trying to root a couple of different tree branching's but I'm doing it with large branches. They range from 3' tp 6' and 1/2" to 1 and 1/4" thick. Some are hard wood and others are still soft wood. I peeld the bark off the bottom of each anywhere from 2 to 4 inches and dipped them into rooting powder and planted them in there own pots that had a 1 to 1 of sand from the bottom of a wash and fruit tree fertilizer. I stripped off the bottom 2/3rds of leaves and I water the leaves and pots they are in every other day. I've checked to see if the mixture has gotten dry and it stays moist after the 1st inch of 8 to 12 inches of soil. its been about 4 weeks and the 1/3rd of leaves are just about gone and the branches are starting to dry up a little. Has anyone tried doing something like this and was successful. Im figuring i wont really know until this spring to see if anything starts to grow green. I'm learning and just trying things. My logic is if this works I will have saved 2 years of growing. If not, I will have wasted 4 to 5 months.
From the CIA growbook:
"by partially waterboarding the tree, you make it think it's drowning, but what it actually causes is the production of stress roots..."
Every tree in the nursery is started this way
Thus was super helpful and informative. Thank you for teaching me how to air lair a fruit tree using a ball of soul.
That's clever. A lot of people dont realise that most fruit trees are grafted. Meaning a chosen type of apple is stuck onto a sturdy root stock plant. The shoots growing from the base will be from the stock plant which is probably not the apple you want to end up eating or might never produce fruit at all.
thanx. i actually thought most use an apple tree stock, to grow whatever other fruits from the graft addition.
Bwahaha @@dcs4555OMG
The Internet is a huge place for education. All you did here was open your mouth and remove all doubt to your intelligence 🅾️
It's not that clever because the tree you get won't be hardy. The whole reason they graft trees is so you get good fruit up top and the root system of the tree is hardy.
If the fruit variety isn't grafted onto a suitable rootstock it may take well over a decade for the new tree grown on its own roots to fruit.
@@dcs4555it all depends on what zone u live in and what fruit u are trying to growm. There's all kinds of different root stocks that are used.
I've used seran wrap for years. As long as you've got enough soil and moisture it works great. I definitely want some of those root balls though. 💜
Encapsulating a node will get you faster rooting auxins
Yes. 100% true.
I cut a branch off an orange tree and stuck it in a pot and weeks later started establishing then eventually pulled it out and into the ground and 15 years later oranges 🍊 galore.
Amazingly i never did anything special not even trying to establish a root system from a stick nor any fertilizer.
Nature is amazing
Yes but there's a reason we graft fruit trees. The roots of this new tree will likely not be as robust as this tree. There are many reasons to use the host plants toot system over what you will get out of that branch. I'm not saying it won't work. I have close to 100% success rate cloning. Have you tried grafting a new fruit to your tree. It might be better to grow several types of fruit from your one host plant. You have an established root system and fewer space requirements. This is very useful information though.
Maybe with an heirloom fruit tree great idea. Problem most fruit trees are grafted to root stock that help a tree be successful.
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@@saltyacresncso if that’s the truth then can we still do this? What is the name of the items?
@@MA-vm6jlyes you can stilll do this successfully you will just grow a full sized tree
Yes most are grafted but thats mainly the trunk. The fruit bearing branches this would still get the fruit tree
@@MA-vm6jlYes.
“Don’t mind me ma’am, just trespassing to install this nifty device on your fruit tree. I’ll be back in 2 months to collect…erm…don’t touch it.”
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So what do I tell Judge Judy when my trial comes up?
I used to do this too my neighbors trees when I was a kid. I would reach over the fence and peel back the bark with a razor blade. then I would put soil in a Ziploc baggie and saran wrap it to the branch. I would wrap it in a cloth sometimes, and then come back after a few months and clip it off. I grew all types of trees and would bring them home to my grandma to grow
Is there a video showing it rooted?
We need a part 2
Pear trees and apple trees don't usually ever air layer successfully. They don't even work as cuttings.There won't be any part two in my opinion.
@@inharmonywithearth9982spot on
Its how garden centres trick you into buying "old" bonsai tress, just air layered. I've made £400 of one magnolia bush, selling 8 well established air layering's bushes.
My mother in law did this with a weeping fig tree and plastic bag. It was non fuiting and in the house. It was touching the roof. She then had 2 trees.she would water at top.
We have always just stuck a trimmed limb into a bucket of water for about a week till it grows roots. Then put it in the ground. Started several trees this way.
Put some cinnamon on that skinned part, a natural rooting hormone. Or use store bought rooting hormones. This would speed up the process.
Why spend money to purchase a routine hormone when you can use something already inside your home/pantry
@@miztri true. Aloe vera does the same thing too.
Grafting onto a rootstock tree is best.
My Father was confused about fruit trees as a small child because Grandpa had grafted several different fruits onto a rootstock tree in their yard.
I have known this for years, but what didn’t expect and find useful is that there is a ready made tool for this.
This kind of technology fascinates me.
There’s no reason this technique couldn’t have existed for millennia, but here we are. Imagine how this would have revolutionized history
I always cut a diagonal and score about a centimeter off the bottom and leave it in a glass of water filled with a little bit of Miracle-Gro rooting stuff and I have pretty much every clipping to work from every plant
you can do this with a walmart plastic sac or serene wrap... doesnt hurt to innoculate or buffer you soil mix with a flowering mix or something wtih phosp. you get better results, the phosp. encourages rooting
You ca also put growth hormone on the peeeled bit to help it produce roots faster. You can also use literally anything as a container as long as the patch is completely covered by soil and no light can get to it. Its those two specific things that forces the plant to grow roots. No light and a bunch of substrate.
You could use one of those little small water bottles that hold like 4 oz, heat the top and flange it just a little bit with a lighter and a screwdriver then cut it in half and cut out a circle from the bottom and there you go. You might want to spray paint the inside with a little bit of dark spray paint.
Bread tie. One of my favorite regional terms my old boss uses. Like yardbird.
Especially with pears. I just snip off a good small branch and plant it like a normal person. 3 steps. Dig. Snip. Plant. Planted about a dozen from a single tree on just my grandparents property. Work smarter. Not harder.
I split 2 one gallon pots, put splits opposite each other, provide my own rain, and have a root ball large enough to avoid shock when I separate it from momma
You should also sprinkle some rooting hormone onto the soil touching the branch. Way more roots should grow and the chances of the tree even starting to grow roots there goes way up. Keep in mind rooting hormone will only activate once it gets wet.
You dont need those kits, just use a plastic wrap, transparent plastics are better, since we can see whether the roots have grown or not.
Tree gonna grow roots right thheeeeuuuurrr in the euuurrrrleuuuuur
Mycorrhizal powder helps this process too 👍 encourages root growth
Awesome video! This definitely got my brain going. New subscriber here! Be well.
Gotta love when the answer is to girdle a branch of a tree. (I know this doesn't actually hurt the tree... much)
Great advice, thank you! Love fruit trees!
I'm glad you corrected yourself by saying soil and not dirt
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I love this guys voice man
It's called cloning and you don't have to have that are layer ball you can do the same thing with some peat moss some potting soil and a brown paper towel to wrap around it tight and do the same thing I have done a lot of grafting and cloning and believe me it works very well
I bet this would work ten times better that cutting clones and juicing them with clonex..
A well timed rotation would be essential,but it would pay off in far healthier cuts you can take from plant to pot just before flipping....
This helped me alooot, i learned some thing verry important for my life, im serious❤❤❤❤ Thank you
Soo cool! Thanks for sharing! 😀
Thanks! Very helpful!
Does this also work on marijuana plants? Asking for a friend.
No need. Pluck off a branch and stick it into soil in propagator cloche with some rooting hormone. Remove most of the leaves and trim down remaining leaves to reduce transpiration until roots develop. Practice with a tomato plant.
You can air layer cannabis, but not exactly like this. Also, it's kinda pointless. The reason this is done with fruit trees is that seeds don't always produce the best fruit. But you can graft a branch of a successful tree to an unsuccessful tree, and grow good fruit. Where as with cannabis, you get a good strain, and just clone it it into sepperate pots and .ake individual plants of all virtually identical flowers
Lmfao. Keep dreaming
Make sure u pick a branch that is actually a productive part. Most fruit trees are grafts and on older trees the root stock can send up its own branches which will not produce the fruit ur looking for.
Ty! Never heard of air layering before
Raw honey is a great root stimulator due to it's high sucrose, and also anti bacterial.
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In dryer climates it's better to wrap it in some plastic so the soil doesn't dry out..
Damn, 2 months of root growth already ready already.. thats awesome.
You dont need the "air layer ball". You can use cello tape, or saran wrap, or paper, or willow bark....... just saying
Take a shot every time he says airlayer
What was the system called again?
Except it should be done below the nodule and the cambrian (white) layer should be scraped off. This interrupts the growth hormone and allows the roots to form.
BTW a plastic wrap and foil works just as well
Smart, completely avoids grafting which has the lower tree creating fruit completely different from the top of the tree.
The only thing is, is that with the air layering method you don't get the benefit/ traits of the root stock eg dwarfing, vigorous growth etc
Air layer balls aren't free! Just ask your friend for a scion (small leading edge branch about a pencil long and thick). Grafting is a lot easier!
"Keep the sohl mohst..."
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I wouldn't take all the bark away from that section. You need some cambian layer to feed the end of the branch.
You can do the same thing with spagnum moss a dark plastic bag and a role of tape
Works best on new limbs and also during the time new leaves are coming out.
And helping your neighbor prune their tree too!
It's better if you graft onto a rootstock that is best for your local environment, like nematode resistant or fire blight resistant or can handle clay or drought or wet root conditions. Whatever the conditions for where you're going to plant and local culture.
Actually it’s better if water can’t flow directly into the medium. Roots will appear faster if the soil is more aerated. If the medium get’s too wet the roots will grow slower or they will not form at all.
That will grow a giant tree the fruit trees we have nowadays are grafted to a plum root stock.
You know, I always figured you know you,take the seed from the fruit and plant that into the ground. And that’s how you get the tree, but I guess you can do weird things too.
Just use aluminum foil.. and add mycelium/mycorrhizae to the soil for better root structure
Or for about the same money and way less trouble you can go to arborday and order them not only do you get the tree you want but this charity will use the profit to plant more trees in public spaces
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You can do this for free. Cut a branch, recut at 45°, if you have root hormone add it, if not just stick your branch in some good soil and keep it watered.
Cloning plants is way easier and needs way less equipment than you’d think.
ETA: and I know this works because there’s a mimosa tree, a dogwood tree, and a small juniper bush at my moms house that my dad planted from cut branches.
You can use baggies too
Using rooting hormone powder helps too.
I did that with zip lock bags 20 years ago 😂
Or you could just use moss instead of dirt. Wrap in some bubble wrap or other thick plastic. The exact same thing will happen
fell asleep to this and dreamed about it
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@@saltyacresnc you're not doing any graft union on a Rootstock?
Now you need to make a video on how to best sneak over to your neighbors yard to pull this off.
This is cool. Of all the ways we have done it in the past, thus one seems more guaranteed than our little ingenious invented ways.
Should apply aloe vera or clonex on stripped area.. To trigger roots
Man, I wished I knew about this in yhe spring... I could have saved part of my father's trees😢😢😢
Bark will grow back if you do not scrape the cambium. And it will fail.
“Ayer layer” 😂
"ær lær" that he feeled up with sol
Is what you typed what he is actually saying? Its all I could think about.
“Here’s how to get a free fruit tree:
1) find a fruit tree
2) buy this thing
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Amazing❤ thx
If you're going to do this with a pear tree, make sure that the fruit is edible. There are ornamental varieties out there, grown for looks or blossoms, but the fruit is inedible for humans.
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@@saltyacresnc My Pleasure 🙏 ☺️ 😊 Who Doesn't Want A "Free" Fruit Tree 🤣🤣😂. I had a Pear Tree in my yard growing up, however my Cross the Street Neighbors' Pear Tree had sweeter fruit, I enjoyed them both growing up in NY.
What variety of pear? Do pears on their own roots go crazy with growth like apples?
I'm going to try some air layers on something this year, so thanks for the video!
His accent was to heavy for me to understand. AirLayer, Airlair, Airlare, Hairlare Eralair?
Southern drawl.
@@Simba______ Agreed, I missed the specifics.
Maybe Hairer Lairer
Omg same 😂
Ok, I looked it up on Amazon. It's Air Layer. About $15 for a 9 pack
Nice job!
Was wondering at a client home what the heck they were doing to their tree.... Now I know!
I'm curious will it still be able to fruit even at such a small stature or would it take a while to establish a large enough root base?
I did that to my legs and now I have four wheel drive.
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While this is a method of propagation, it is the least recommended because it does not produce a strong root system. You're better off grafting scions to appropriate rootstock for a healthy tree, which is the number one way to propagate a fruit tree.
I just use hormone rooting powder on a cutting with zero problems.
Or u can spend the $50 and buy a grafted tree that will actually survive in your hardiness zone. If you want tree thats actually going to produce if needs to be grated to the right thing to survive and produce good fruit. Most if these fruit trees aren't going to be native to your climate.
Been doing this for 15 years on all types of tress using aluminum foil.
ive never heard them be called bread ties, i always have called them twist ties!
🤣 I don’t call them twist ties. Not sure I’ve heard of that
Just use a bottle and tape or cloth and string. These balls cost 10cents to make and I bet they don’t cost 10cents to buy for us.
Use a greener branch as well!!
How often do you need to water it if it doesn't rain?
Once a week
Should t need to water it if done correctly wrapping in plastic wrap can help with moisture should be done early spring when temps aren’t to cold or hot
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You can do the same thing with a Ziploc bag
Use to do this with grocery bags