Went to the shops today to pick up some trees and followed your advice . I got chatting to the lady over trees . I got her number and now we banging many thanks bro 😆 😉
Here in Australia, we can buy "fruit salad" trees. They are, grafted trees, but instead of just one graft, they have multiple grafts. So for citrus, you could have 4+ grafts, which could include; a lemon, an orange, a mandarin and a grapefruit etc... they also can be kept small by growing them in a pot
@@theconsciousmovement9669 the pair came from a garden center here in kansas Jhonson, the only other place i will trust to buy so.ething like this is Onegreenworld in oregon, excenlent trees they have 3 in 1
Nice one mate - I caught the passion for growing fruit trees about 5 years ago, now I've got just over 50 peach, nectarine, cherry and citrus varieties in my little backyard in the Adelaide Hills
@@70sfred1 peaches and nectarines are pretty much the same genome, so sure they will, but most of the varieties we have these days are self fertile so no need to worry
Lowes in gainesville va will give me a new tree or dicount on a new tree if I purchased the failed tree at half price Southern States has refunded failed trees as well one year guarantee one year but. Mine didnt last two weeks
Great vid! Smaller trees, for the win! Something I've found tough with Big Box vs. nursery is that Big Box is often missing important information (don't know rootstock, cultivar type, etc).
Great tips. One I'd like to add is READ THE LABEL. My local Lowes had a fairly decent selection of apple trees that actually do well in my area, but they were STANDARD size! I don't have a lot of space and I always plant semi-dwarf.
Glad you're planting peach trees. I've planted a new nectarine and three plums. The rest of my fruit trees are looking pretty good as well. This is great info. Loved it. thanks. God Bless you, Bertha in TEXAS
Our local nursery is in danger of closing...they do great business but they want to retire and no one has come along that would run it to the standards they expect. All of their staff have certifications in agriculture and/or botany studies and they want a new owner that will uphold that and their employment standards. They supply many towns in our region with plants for beautifying the cities and parks, so I hope they don't face the same fate as your local nursery. Thanks for all of your great tips! : )
I like your take on the fruit trees but I have a comment for you my friend for 25 years had one which was a peach tree in his backyard and it produced so many peaches every year in the Warren Oakland County area that it was just fabulous and the peaches were delicious keep going with the great garden information I use and like how much you explain what you do
Thanks for the info. We're removing 2 gigantic pecan trees due to storm damage and disease. I've wanted to replace them with fruit trees but have been hesitant buying from Lowe's etc. Now I know what to look for! Thanks
@ihave35cents yes, we have well fed squirrels around here. I watched one eat a baby summer squash right off the vine a couple days ago. They pick my cherry tomatoes, sit on the fence around my garden and eat them. I had to build an enclosed planter for my strawberries too, little stinkers!
All my trees go in when they're dormant...bare root in winter. There's just too much variability in the spring with a tree that's broken dormancy early. And...bare root is cheap, just have to plan and do your research. I've got a list for next winter.
Hi Luke! I love your vids! I saw a few recently by happenstance that were vintage MIgardener. One was an orchid vid (hi LARRY!) and one about saving tomato seeds filmed when you were in high school still living at home. Both were priceless! You’ve been at this for a long time!! Keep the great content coming please!!
Another thing to watch out for is the rootstock. If you’re lucky they tell you semi dwarf, dwarf or standard. Most of the time they don’t, which usually means a standard tree. I personally haven’t purchased anything but a plum and a fig from a big box store. I like to know what variety of rootstock my trees are grafted to, whether I’ve purchased them or grafted them myself. I really like M111 for apples. If you want inexpensive apples, learning to graft (I learned from TH-cam) saves a ton. It’s usually $3 for a rootstock and $5 for a scionwood, and a scionwood will do several trees. This year I am propagating my own M111 rootstock, so that part will be free.
Good information. When I bought my first house my backyard was bare. I went out and purchased some expensive plants only to see them die. Now I only buy pricey plants when they are on clearance. My favorite are plants that are half dead. The stores are usually willing to mark them to a fraction of there price. At the end of the season is also good. You don't get the best but if they survive the winter and some TLC you have a beautiful garden for a few dollars come spring. The bonus is playing doctor with the plant. With fruit trees for new gardeners make sure you buy a variety that is good for chill hours for your region. Big box stores are bad about this.
Thankyou so much for your time to educate the public especially New gardeners like me 😃 I have shared your video to all our friends who are interest to have fruit trees in their garden this summer 😉
Great information. I'm lucky that I can go to a propagation fair near me and get grafted trees. I just got a honey crisp apple tree grafted on semi dwarf root stock and my Mother got a pear tree for $6 each. There were seed swap tables and plant swap tables. Plus a few plants for sale.
Good concepts. In my area, there are really no apples or pears, but lots of citrus. Several houses on each block will have orange, lemon, and/or avocado trees. And the dormant tree thing I don't think applies -- I almost never see dormant trees for sale, but I think it's probably the zone.
*Watches from Georgia* The fruit trees we get come from Tennessee and are always starting to pop late February/early March. It's actually really hard to get bare anything, we get dormant grapes and blueberries and similar but they just pop almost immediately and it makes it hard to keep them alive in the nursery. If a tree looks dead, I scrape the bark gently to see if it's still green. I wouldn't pay full price for something dicey though.
LUKE, what are your thoughts on those "fruit cocktail" type trees that have numerous different fruits grafted together? Apple, peach, cherry, etc, all on 1 single tree?
Rev 22:2 The Tree of Life has 12 different fruits. Just thought I'd throw that out there. Many others in Heaven have more varieties I've read in scripture what was "interpreted out of the Bible."
I was just looking at the apple trees they had where I am at and the only apple variety they had was Red Delicious so I passed. I am NOT a fan of Red Delicious at ALL. I would like to get a Honeycrisp!
Great information! I just ordered 9 fruit trees! Raintree Nursery in Washington state. They should be here soon! I bought heirloom varieties. I don't want to spray! I even got 2 Mini-dwarf apple trees! One Liberty and one Enterprise. The rest are dwarf. I'm 67 and I'd like to have fruit ASAP! They have some videos on TH-cam, with Wranglerstar. I found them years ago.
I'm in East Central Florida and bought a Red Ruby Grapefruit/ Meyer Lemon grafted tree from a big box store. It had blooms and it lost them after the transplant, which I am ok with. I wish I had seen this video before that, but it is still good information for the next trees I buy.
I learned so much from your fruit trees videos! I wanted to know if you were going to give us updates on your columnar fruit trees? And would it be possible for you to explain what the differences between dwarf and columnar trees are, as well as any things to watch out for when buying one vs a regular fruit tree like you did in this video? Thank you so much!
Planting my first apple tree this week and found your channel for some valuable info. It’s a “honey crisp” variety and i am trying to figure out a proper phosphorus, magnesium, potassium and nitrogen to give it ( it’s a heavy clay soil and i want to make sure the tree is supported but also not overwhelmed). Just learning that if I plant Peaches I’ll have to double up 👏🏼✅🙌🏼
Just got a few from rural king the other day gotta plant them today. I got a peach plum combo tree and a cherry and Jonathan apple gotta get another peach and a red or yellow delicious to help the other apple tree
Big box stores use pesticides that kill the bees. Drive a little further to get to a plant nursery. Quality and price are better. They also understand that we need bees.
I plan to plant 10 more trees this year. This vid has helped a bit. I'd love to hear more about your views on citrus trees. When to give up on them etc. I have a few of them from the previous owner. im not sure if they are dead or just dormant.
Citrus trees are deciduous meaning they do not go dormant during winter and keep their leaves. If there is a citrus tree with no leaves, it is likely unhealthy or dead.
I got a peach tree today. Last one on the shelf was fairly cheap. When I was transplanting it the root ball partially collapsed. I was so frustrated with myself. I hope it still makes it though, I'm gonna wait before I buy another.
Thank you man. This was great information for me who has had some what I thought was bad luck purchasing fruit trees from this type of store. Grateful 😁
Have been growing fruit trees for a good while now and after watching this its opened my eyes to what im acatually selecting for my graden. Shape, variety, quality, can it hekp another tree already in my garden. Thinking ahead rather than for the now. Great detailed video thanks very much and keep up the good work!!! Kind regards Paul
Budget and Economy plays a great deal, if not the deciding factor, in all our purchasing decisions. If you're made out of money or got in on TESLA when it was $40, great! However, for the rest of us, there's real life decisions. I purchase the trees which mean the absolute most to me from Alisha, the lady in my own subdivision who sources trees from her trips to Miami and cares for them in selection, feeding and so on, like a mother. She's slightly higher than big box. I get cultivars of Mangos and Avocados from her. Then, "stuff", or trees I want because I want them, like Barbados Cherry, Queen Palms, Date Palms, Red Grapefruit...I watch and I wait. Thus far, I've got trees which HD thought were damaged, which were just not shooting yet, for $25 each, at 8' tall. I have a FoxTail palm I paid $25 because the price was wrong. It was supposed to be $125. It was marked, $25. MINE! There are "deals" and "steals" to be found in abundance if you take advantage of big box's inefficient inaccuracies, mispricing and lack of knowledge over their products. Believe me, they charge others enough to make up any loss.
Pay attention when you're buying fruit trees or food bearing plants make sure they're not charging you sales tax I Just caught Home Depot and Lowe's both unlawfully charging sales tax on fruit trees and food bearing plants here in Florida it is unlawful the charge sales tax on food or food bearing plants or trees check your home state laws
Caught a few of your videos and found them interesting. Realized you are in my neighborhood and now I watch more! Feed N Seed is a great local, family owned place we have tried to support for years!
Thank You Luke for your videos My mom gave me a rue and a grape vine plant and in each of them were a very small peach tree growing so I have two peach trees now they are a foot tall and growing small branches my mother grows everything from seed and I'd Like to learn more about them.
Great info!! We are cleaning up the family farm and we have 2 very old pear trees and 2 what my grandma called spice apple trees. I want to create an orchard and plant so many varieties......this info has been great, informative and helpful. Happy Homesteading! ~Shaina~
Man i wish i knew where you lived in michigan... im here in St Joe and you taught me so much about the climate can't wait for the sun to come out and grow!
My husband and I are sitting here going, “huh...” Great information. I certainly will check out my local nurseries first before the big box store, but feel armed with information.
Nursery charge about 20 dollars more for the same size tree that is sold @if box store but a local nursey outside of Warrenton va has varieties that are not available at big box store. Honeycrisp apple and regina cherry are two examples
As a retired soft fruit grower, Okanagan Valley British Columbia, we only plant barefoot trees, with proper rootstocks, for our soil conditions, tree size, and just as important variety. Now have food forest in Arizona, and a hobby orchard in BC, I still buy bareroot, citrus, fig, pomegranate, are posted, but in soil from a experienced grower, most big box trees are just bareroots in some form of compost, so I don't plant the compost football, the tree won't thrive.
Either you didn't film this recently or your season is very late, because all my apple trees are well out of dormancy and into flower now! The tip for telling whether a tree is alive or not during winter is to see if there's green under the stems. Brown is dead, green is good. Apple trees are seriously resilient though, you can't massively go wrong with them, I say this as the current owner of an 85 year old bramley tree...although the tree owns itself.
Thanks so much for sharing, i looked at this video just in time because i am getting ready to purchase an apple tree with your help i will try to select the right apple tree. Thanks
NOOO! I bought a red Fuji Apple, golden delicious apple, and fuyu persimmon on Sunday. You were two days late! Down in SC all of are trees here are active, so we have to buy them like that. The persimmon and one of the apples I bought actually already had flowers and fruit on them.
Your trees will be fine if you keep the soil moist during the first year. Landscaping companies plant millions of trees every year with leaves and flowers already out. This video has incorrectly exaggerated the need to plant trees while dormant. And failed to address the most important thing, and that is to look for signs of diseases. Most fruit trees are very susceptible. Spray your trees with copper sulfate asap.
Try Lowe's potted fruit trees are going for $24. 95 Japanese maples and weeping willow $90. Walmart $24. 95 as well that was in mid April . No leaves on the trees. Later this spring expect to pay $30 for fruit trees at Lowes then Liwes gets an autumn shipment of potted trees in August. I bought a peach last August or Sept. No big box stores in the Wash DC area sales bareroot threes
Hi, I live in Kern County, California's high arid desert. Apples don't do well out here, I don't know about pears. Our weather can get down to 19 ° in winter and 115 ° in summer. I do have a Nectarine I stratified from seed, and it loves it here. I have an almond tree which needs a second pollinator , mulberries, and an ornamental pear. I have been told that Pistachios do well out here, but I'm not sure. Thank you for your informative video I will definitely keep those things you said in mind when buying new fruit trees.
Actually I have peaches and they are self fruitful, they don't need another tree or bees to pollinate, but having another tree can supposedly increase yields. But peaches overproduce, so it really isn't necessary. Very great video though...good tips!
A few years ago I bought two cherry trees from (Home Depot Vigoro brand). I was concerned about neonicotinides which are not only sprayed on plants but also used as a SOIL DRENCH. So before I purchased, I contacted HD Corp and they said that ALL Vigoro products that did have neonics would be labeled. So when I shopped, I looked very carefully for this tag. Finding none, I bought. We dug the holes opened up the bag and all the excelsior, etc. fell into the hole. That's when I found the neonic card: IN THE ROOT BALL! I carefully gathered the contaminated excelsior/soil, putting it and the tree in a contractor bag. Then I called Home Depot. I demanded that they refund my money AND pick up the poisoned tree, since I had to take 2 cabs to shop for that tree. They complied. Neonics are systemic, persistent, and non-discriminating. We are in the middle of an insect apocalypse. Insects provide a vast number of free services which we can't reproduce artificially. The different species also balance each other. By decimating one species, we can start a cascade of decimations of other insect species, the plants they pollinate and protect from plant eaters, insectivore birds and animals, and finally the animals that eat the plants pollinated and protected by insects. It's very hard to assure that you are buying bee-safe plants. Please start from seed when you can. Please file requests with retailers and producers for information about neonics sprayed on plants or drenched in the soil. Please talk to your state legislators about banning neonics. Please talk with retailers about why this matters to you.
@Cole Weede Did you completely miss the part about the HIDDEN LABELING of the existence of that poison??!! Shameful to attack someone without opening your eyes to the real issue in this case. It's nothing to do with her opinion! It's EVERYTHING to do with DECEPTIVE MARKETING!!!!!
thanks for that info i been getting tomato plants from big box stores(The home Depot) and most times they die i looked for the ones with fruit growing on them already.
Do you let your fruit trees produce on their second year after transplanting them? I have 2 pear trees that I bought last spring and Im not sure if I should let them fruit yet. I'm zone 3 Canada.
This is great! Thank you, it also explains why I might have lost my passion vine to shock. It was getting ready to bloom and go to fruit. It bloomed and then started to die instead :(
can you make a video about ''trimming'' a pear tree? I have a pear tree, but i dont know how to trim it, so i didnt do it. :') But i feel like i should do it next year.
I kind of have to disagree here though, for me at least, I have a single peach tree, of the Saturn variety (flat / donut peach) and I'm very confident that, at least that variety, does not really need any other nearby peach tree to do well. I'm still having to thin out clusters of 5 or 6 of these tiny peaches on a single flower cluster. It does a hundred times better alone, than my Pear tree (Conference, so should not need another nearby either) does whilst having at least a few more pear trees in the neighbourhood.
Ive talked to you at the store in Port Huron, my garden is in lexington. My father in law has a peach tree on his property. He planted it about 10 years ago, he has the only peach tree I know off and it does amazing every year, minus fruit loss from a frost after the tree flowers. Wondering if it would be worth trying to either grow out a clipping from tree or do it from seed? Wondering what your thoughts are on the topic. Maybe a video topic which is better to do a cutting/clone if its locally grown/ sourced or growing from seed. Thanks alot Tim
Meijer used to have excellent bare root trees at really good prices. If you prefer these like me. Tractor supply still carries them. He talks about pruning branches off these small trees when planting. I've grafted the free sicons I cut off on to other trees with success.
My local nurseries have closed, but not because they weren't popular. They were bought up and turned into housing tracts. Same with many of the local farms.
@@gendeb9666 Same. Southern California used to be the orange producing capitol of the world (before Florida). But then everyone decided to move here. There are still some towns full of orange groves, but they're dwindling.
well i think i bought the worst tree of them all then. It came from a local nursery. the trunk has a curve, it was already growing peaches with plenty of leaves and it was about 6 feet tall when i bought it. i also planted it about a week after i got it (in march 2019) went from 20 something peaches to 4. and i have one giant one and the rest do not seem to be growing. Is it too early in season to prune the tallest portion?
Definitely needed this! Would citrus also need to be dormant? I got a grapefruit from Lowe’s about 3 weeks ago, already had about 20 fruit buds. And it is a pretty small tree, maybe 2.5-3ft but very dense with leaves.
Citrus are evergreen trees, so don't go dormant but will drop old leaves throughout the year. It will also drop any fruit it cannot handle. Hope that helps.
Only citrus I can possibly plant is trifoliate orange, I grew some from seed last year and I see one starting to regrow now after losing its leaves... pretty sad I cant grow any
Excellent video as always! What advice would you give me about growing columnar apple trees on a 9th floor, southern exposure balcony? Should I attempt it and, if so, in addition to the recommendations in this video, what additional information would be needed to ensure success? Thank you in advance for your assistance.
very helpful and timely..I am about to go to Costco to buy fruit trees but I dont have ground to grow. Can I grow them in pots. I plan to buy Cherry and Pomegranate?
Went to the shops today to pick up some trees and followed your advice . I got chatting to the lady over trees . I got her number and now we banging many thanks bro 😆 😉
Here in Australia, we can buy "fruit salad" trees. They are, grafted trees, but instead of just one graft, they have multiple grafts. So for citrus, you could have 4+ grafts, which could include; a lemon, an orange, a mandarin and a grapefruit etc... they also can be kept small by growing them in a pot
I have 1 in 4 pair tree
ohh, ive been looking for some! where did you buy them from? (im in australia too)
@@theconsciousmovement9669 the pair came from a garden center here in kansas Jhonson, the only other place i will trust to buy so.ething like this is Onegreenworld in oregon, excenlent trees they have 3 in 1
Those were popular here for awhile.
Wow that’s cool
Nice one mate - I caught the passion for growing fruit trees about 5 years ago, now I've got just over 50 peach, nectarine, cherry and citrus varieties in my little backyard in the Adelaide Hills
Hey neighbour! Just catching a the gardening bug here in Strathalbyn 😁
Do peach trees and nectarine trees cross pollinate with one another?
I would love to see that yard of yours
@@70sfred1 peaches and nectarines are pretty much the same genome, so sure they will, but most of the varieties we have these days are self fertile so no need to worry
@@lauraallen7755 hey there Laura - glad to see a fellow neighbour on this channel!
One good thing about big box stores keep the receipt if it dies within a yr you can get it replaced for free.
Case G is that so? So the warranty from Home Depot is a year?
Lowe's would give me 1/2 my money back when mine died, unfortunately for them their stock was 75% off. So I got 2 trees instead of the dead one
Lowes in gainesville va will give me a new tree or dicount on a new tree if I purchased the failed tree at half price
Southern States has refunded failed trees as well one year guarantee one year but. Mine didnt last two weeks
Technically not for free because you’ve already paid for the tree, your just switches it out
Is big box stores the name?
I am SO glad I didn’t buy fruit trees yesterday. I am confident now thanks to this video. Thank you so much!
Great vid! Smaller trees, for the win! Something I've found tough with Big Box vs. nursery is that Big Box is often missing important information (don't know rootstock, cultivar type, etc).
I just got 3 peach trees last week! You’re complete growing guides have been super helpful! Watching from Alabama!
I’m from Alabama as well. What kind/ variety did you get?
Great tips. One I'd like to add is READ THE LABEL. My local Lowes had a fairly decent selection of apple trees that actually do well in my area, but they were STANDARD size! I don't have a lot of space and I always plant semi-dwarf.
Glad you're planting peach trees. I've planted a new nectarine and three plums. The rest of my fruit trees are looking pretty good as well. This is great info. Loved it. thanks. God Bless you, Bertha in TEXAS
I buy mine online and have gotten the best trees from nurseries
heather Ellis hello what website?
I ordered 20 root stocks. Apple pear and plum from Cummins nursey of New York. About 80 dollars including shipment
@@jessicaluna9743 nature hills nursery
Our local nursery is in danger of closing...they do great business but they want to retire and no one has come along that would run it to the standards they expect. All of their staff have certifications in agriculture and/or botany studies and they want a new owner that will uphold that and their employment standards. They supply many towns in our region with plants for beautifying the cities and parks, so I hope they don't face the same fate as your local nursery. Thanks for all of your great tips! : )
I like your take on the fruit trees but I have a comment for you my friend for 25 years had one which was a peach tree in his backyard and it produced so many peaches every year in the Warren Oakland County area that it was just fabulous and the peaches were delicious keep going with the great garden information I use and like how much you explain what you do
Oh wow....this was some very helpful and important tips thanks for sharing
I don't know how I missed this wonderful video 3 years ago. Better late than never.
Perfect timing for this because I was going to go look for a couple trees myself!
These were amazing tips. THANKS!!!!!
Thanks for the info. We're removing 2 gigantic pecan trees due to storm damage and disease. I've wanted to replace them with fruit trees but have been hesitant buying from Lowe's etc. Now I know what to look for! Thanks
@ihave35cents thanks. I'm going to go get a couple now.
@ihave35cents Ive been researching them and peaches are my favorite as well as apricots
@ihave35cents yes, we have well fed squirrels around here. I watched one eat a baby summer squash right off the vine a couple days ago. They pick my cherry tomatoes, sit on the fence around my garden and eat them. I had to build an enclosed planter for my strawberries too, little stinkers!
@ihave35cents lol...I like watching them
All my trees go in when they're dormant...bare root in winter. There's just too much variability in the spring with a tree that's broken dormancy early. And...bare root is cheap, just have to plan and do your research. I've got a list for next winter.
Hi Luke! I love your vids! I saw a few recently by happenstance that were vintage MIgardener. One was an orchid vid (hi LARRY!) and one about saving tomato seeds filmed when you were in high school still living at home. Both were priceless! You’ve been at this for a long time!! Keep the great content coming please!!
8 years and counting!
Another thing to watch out for is the rootstock. If you’re lucky they tell you semi dwarf, dwarf or standard. Most of the time they don’t, which usually means a standard tree. I personally haven’t purchased anything but a plum and a fig from a big box store. I like to know what variety of rootstock my trees are grafted to, whether I’ve purchased them or grafted them myself. I really like M111 for apples. If you want inexpensive apples, learning to graft (I learned from TH-cam) saves a ton. It’s usually $3 for a rootstock and $5 for a scionwood, and a scionwood will do several trees. This year I am propagating my own M111 rootstock, so that part will be free.
Great info! The lower shoots are called suckers. I didn't know that about buying them when they are too leafy.
Good information. When I bought my first house my backyard was bare. I went out and purchased some expensive plants only to see them die. Now I only buy pricey plants when they are on clearance. My favorite are plants that are half dead. The stores are usually willing to mark them to a fraction of there price. At the end of the season is also good. You don't get the best but if they survive the winter and some TLC you have a beautiful garden for a few dollars come spring. The bonus is playing doctor with the plant. With fruit trees for new gardeners make sure you buy a variety that is good for chill hours for your region. Big box stores are bad about this.
Thankyou so much for your time to educate the public especially New gardeners like me 😃 I have shared your video to all our friends who are interest to have fruit trees in their garden this summer 😉
Great information.
I'm lucky that I can go to a propagation fair near me and get grafted trees. I just got a honey crisp apple tree grafted on semi dwarf root stock and my Mother got a pear tree for $6 each. There were seed swap tables and plant swap tables. Plus a few plants for sale.
At what point do you recommend pruning the top off the tree? Immediately after planting or should you let it establish for a year first?
Thanks for your such great advice because I was in my local garden hardware store🙂 now I know what tree to look for👍
I'm commenting on my own message lol
Good concepts. In my area, there are really no apples or pears, but lots of citrus. Several houses on each block will have orange, lemon, and/or avocado trees. And the dormant tree thing I don't think applies -- I almost never see dormant trees for sale, but I think it's probably the zone.
Getting ready to buy some fruit trees and glad to have this information. Thanks as always!
*Watches from Georgia*
The fruit trees we get come from Tennessee and are always starting to pop late February/early March.
It's actually really hard to get bare anything, we get dormant grapes and blueberries and similar but they just pop almost immediately and it makes it hard to keep them alive in the nursery.
If a tree looks dead, I scrape the bark gently to see if it's still green. I wouldn't pay full price for something dicey though.
Same way here in Virginia suburbs of Wash DC no bareroot trees usually all potted
You can order from some smaller stores online, theres some neat varieties you can find too
Stark bros. Countless peach and apple trees bought, always great trees and big producers.
LUKE, what are your thoughts on those "fruit cocktail" type trees that have numerous different fruits grafted together? Apple, peach, cherry, etc, all on 1 single tree?
Rev 22:2 The Tree of Life has 12 different fruits. Just thought I'd throw that out there. Many others in Heaven have more varieties I've read in scripture what was "interpreted out of the Bible."
Red Delicious are probably the worst-tasting apples😕
Good video though, thank you!
hahha yes. i hate them but i still bought one lol
I was just looking at the apple trees they had where I am at and the only apple variety they had was Red Delicious so I passed. I am
NOT a fan of Red Delicious at ALL. I would like to get a Honeycrisp!
ugh! I am in absolute agreement
I agree. Red Delicious is something that people find in the supermarket, so they know the name, but the flavor is pretty minimal.
J Rogers lol exactly! I like honey crisp and pink lady. What would you say are your favorites
Great information! I just ordered 9 fruit trees! Raintree Nursery in Washington state. They should be here soon! I bought heirloom varieties. I don't want to spray! I even got 2 Mini-dwarf apple trees! One Liberty and one Enterprise. The rest are dwarf. I'm 67 and I'd like to have fruit ASAP! They have some videos on TH-cam, with Wranglerstar. I found them years ago.
I'm in East Central Florida and bought a Red Ruby Grapefruit/ Meyer Lemon grafted tree from a big box store. It had blooms and it lost them after the transplant, which I am ok with. I wish I had seen this video before that, but it is still good information for the next trees I buy.
I learned so much from your fruit trees videos! I wanted to know if you were going to give us updates on your columnar fruit trees? And would it be possible for you to explain what the differences between dwarf and columnar trees are, as well as any things to watch out for when buying one vs a regular fruit tree like you did in this video? Thank you so much!
Planting my first apple tree this week and found your channel for some valuable info. It’s a “honey crisp” variety and i am trying to figure out a proper phosphorus, magnesium, potassium and nitrogen to give it ( it’s a heavy clay soil and i want to make sure the tree is supported but also not overwhelmed). Just learning that if I plant Peaches I’ll have to double up 👏🏼✅🙌🏼
Just got a few from rural king the other day gotta plant them today. I got a peach plum combo tree and a cherry and Jonathan apple gotta get another peach and a red or yellow delicious to help the other apple tree
I work at Rural King and most of our fruit trees come from North Carolina and Tennessee. I am zone 6, North Carolina and Tennessee are mostly zone 7.
3yr old video but I needed this today thank you 📝
Thanks for the useful tips, I am planning to buy apple tree this weekend, this is just what I need🌿🌱✅
Big box stores use pesticides that kill the bees. Drive a little further to get to a plant nursery. Quality and price are better. They also understand that we need bees.
I stopped using weed killer for the 🐝
Unless you live in Hawaii, the nurseries are super overpriced.
You have to shop around. No matter what the quality will be better.
SHOP LOCAL
unless the tree is flowering at that exact moment it doesn't matter.
SO glad I found your channel!! Thank you for the info
I plan to plant 10 more trees this year. This vid has helped a bit. I'd love to hear more about your views on citrus trees. When to give up on them etc. I have a few of them from the previous owner. im not sure if they are dead or just dormant.
Citrus trees are deciduous meaning they do not go dormant during winter and keep their leaves. If there is a citrus tree with no leaves, it is likely unhealthy or dead.
I got a peach tree today. Last one on the shelf was fairly cheap. When I was transplanting it the root ball partially collapsed. I was so frustrated with myself. I hope it still makes it though, I'm gonna wait before I buy another.
Thank you man. This was great information for me who has had some what I thought was bad luck purchasing fruit trees from this type of store. Grateful 😁
Oh wow Luke ! I thank you for all this valuable information. Perfect !
Have been growing fruit trees for a good while now and after watching this its opened my eyes to what im acatually selecting for my graden. Shape, variety, quality, can it hekp another tree already in my garden. Thinking ahead rather than for the now. Great detailed video thanks very much and keep up the good work!!!
Kind regards
Paul
Excellent informative video. Tons of good information squeezed in. Thanks
Budget and Economy plays a great deal, if not the deciding factor, in all our purchasing decisions. If you're made out of money or got in on TESLA when it was $40, great! However, for the rest of us, there's real life decisions. I purchase the trees which mean the absolute most to me from Alisha, the lady in my own subdivision who sources trees from her trips to Miami and cares for them in selection, feeding and so on, like a mother. She's slightly higher than big box. I get cultivars of Mangos and Avocados from her. Then, "stuff", or trees I want because I want them, like Barbados Cherry, Queen Palms, Date Palms, Red Grapefruit...I watch and I wait. Thus far, I've got trees which HD thought were damaged, which were just not shooting yet, for $25 each, at 8' tall. I have a FoxTail palm I paid $25 because the price was wrong. It was supposed to be $125. It was marked, $25. MINE! There are "deals" and "steals" to be found in abundance if you take advantage of big box's inefficient inaccuracies, mispricing and lack of knowledge over their products. Believe me, they charge others enough to make up any loss.
Pay attention when you're buying fruit trees or food bearing plants make sure they're not charging you sales tax I Just caught Home Depot and Lowe's both unlawfully charging sales tax on fruit trees and food bearing plants here in Florida it is unlawful the charge sales tax on food or food bearing plants or trees check your home state laws
Sow pics of the trimming please!
alarcon99 th-cam.com/video/p1mC5aeeyVw/w-d-xo.html he’s got a few other fruit tree pruning videos on his page too
Thanks for this info as I did not know what to look for I live in sturgis mich. I dont know much about tree planting .
Caught a few of your videos and found them interesting. Realized you are in my neighborhood and now I watch more! Feed N Seed is a great local, family owned place we have tried to support for years!
Thank You Luke for your videos My mom gave me a rue and a grape vine plant and in each of them were a very small peach tree growing so I have two peach trees now they are a foot tall and growing small branches my mother grows everything from seed and I'd Like to learn more about them.
Super informative! New nothing about buying trees, now I do! Thanks!
Great info!! We are cleaning up the family farm and we have 2 very old pear trees and 2 what my grandma called spice apple trees. I want to create an orchard and plant so many varieties......this info has been great, informative and helpful. Happy Homesteading! ~Shaina~
So much valuable information for my first video on this. Thank you so much!
Man i wish i knew where you lived in michigan... im here in St Joe and you taught me so much about the climate can't wait for the sun to come out and grow!
My husband and I are sitting here going, “huh...” Great information. I certainly will check out my local nurseries first before the big box store, but feel armed with information.
Nursery charge about 20 dollars more for the same size tree that is sold @if box store but a local nursey outside of Warrenton va has varieties that are not available at big box store. Honeycrisp apple and regina cherry are two examples
As a retired soft fruit grower, Okanagan Valley British Columbia, we only plant barefoot trees, with proper rootstocks, for our soil conditions, tree size, and just as important variety.
Now have food forest in Arizona, and a hobby orchard in BC,
I still buy bareroot, citrus, fig, pomegranate, are posted, but in soil from a experienced grower, most big box trees are just bareroots in some form of compost, so I don't plant the compost football, the tree won't thrive.
Either you didn't film this recently or your season is very late, because all my apple trees are well out of dormancy and into flower now!
The tip for telling whether a tree is alive or not during winter is to see if there's green under the stems. Brown is dead, green is good.
Apple trees are seriously resilient though, you can't massively go wrong with them, I say this as the current owner of an 85 year old bramley tree...although the tree owns itself.
Could be you live in a warmer zone, most oak and apple trees where I live are just starting to fill out
@@bakachiki491 The UK, so..zone 8b ish I think if I remember correctly!
Thanks so much for sharing, i looked at this video just in time because i am getting ready to purchase an apple tree with your help i will try to select the right apple tree. Thanks
Hi. Here from Eastern Canada.
Take a risk. Going to plant 2 Stanley and a cherry. Today bought at large superstore. Mmmmm
I agree but it really depends.. *Make sure to buy two of a kind for cross pollination* ← I didn't think you would mention that well done!!
you can also graft a pollinator on the tree you have if you do not want a whole other tree
Thanks for the important information on choosing fruit trees, Luke!
NOOO! I bought a red Fuji Apple, golden delicious apple, and fuyu persimmon on Sunday. You were two days late!
Down in SC all of are trees here are active, so we have to buy them like that. The persimmon and one of the apples I bought actually already had flowers and fruit on them.
Your trees will be fine if you keep the soil moist during the first year. Landscaping companies plant millions of trees every year with leaves and flowers already out. This video has incorrectly exaggerated the need to plant trees while dormant. And failed to address the most important thing, and that is to look for signs of diseases. Most fruit trees are very susceptible. Spray your trees with copper sulfate asap.
Super Dave- Thanks for the advice! It’s normal in SC for all of our trees to have flowers/leaves already. It’s 85 today!
I miss Meijer. I am originally from Michigan and moved to Iowa 10 months ago and we don't have Meijer😭
Try Lowe's potted fruit trees are going for $24. 95 Japanese maples and weeping willow $90.
Walmart $24. 95 as well that was in mid April . No leaves on the trees. Later this spring expect to pay $30 for fruit trees at Lowes then Liwes gets an autumn shipment of potted trees in August. I bought a peach last August or Sept. No big box stores in the Wash DC area sales bareroot threes
I also miss Meijer. I use to live in Troy Michigan and now I live in Toronto Canada.
Thank you Luke, great information.
Happy planting.
A lot of great information in your videos ! I am learning so much from you! Thank you for sharing !!!
Perfect timing Luke! I’m wanting to get some citrus trees so this is very helpful. Thanks so much!
Did you ever get those trees?
Need to get a good rootstalk, it is key to how vigorous and tolerant to fire blight, diseases etc the tree will be, and the size you want.
Hi, I live in Kern County, California's high arid desert. Apples don't do well out here, I don't know about pears. Our weather can get down to 19 ° in winter and 115 ° in summer. I do have a Nectarine I stratified from seed, and it loves it here. I have an almond tree which needs a second pollinator , mulberries, and an ornamental pear. I have been told that Pistachios do well out here, but I'm not sure. Thank you for your informative video I will definitely keep those things you said in mind when buying new fruit trees.
Valuable information for us newbies! Thanks so much.
Actually I have peaches and they are self fruitful, they don't need another tree or bees to pollinate, but having another tree can supposedly increase yields. But peaches overproduce, so it really isn't necessary. Very great video though...good tips!
Thank you for the tips
Appreciated
Do you ever try to root cuttings from the tops of the lanky trees you prune back?
enjoyed your video and I think you made a good choice on what fruit tree to purchase there very pretty
A few years ago I bought two cherry trees from (Home Depot Vigoro brand). I was concerned about neonicotinides which are not only sprayed on plants but also used as a SOIL DRENCH. So before I purchased, I contacted HD Corp and they said that ALL Vigoro products that did have neonics would be labeled. So when I shopped, I looked very carefully for this tag. Finding none, I bought.
We dug the holes opened up the bag and all the excelsior, etc. fell into the hole. That's when I found the neonic card: IN THE ROOT BALL!
I carefully gathered the contaminated excelsior/soil, putting it and the tree in a contractor bag. Then I called Home Depot. I demanded that they refund my money AND pick up the poisoned tree, since I had to take 2 cabs to shop for that tree. They complied.
Neonics are systemic, persistent, and non-discriminating. We are in the middle of an insect apocalypse. Insects provide a vast number of free services which we can't reproduce artificially.
The different species also balance each other. By decimating one species, we can start a cascade of decimations of other insect species, the plants they pollinate and protect from plant eaters, insectivore birds and animals, and finally the animals that eat the plants pollinated and protected by insects.
It's very hard to assure that you are buying bee-safe plants. Please start from seed when you can. Please file requests with retailers and producers for information about neonics sprayed on plants or drenched in the soil. Please talk to your state legislators about banning neonics. Please talk with retailers about why this matters to you.
Can't believe you made poor home depot suffer so much from your opinion and mistakes as a customer.
@Cole Weede Did you completely miss the part about the HIDDEN LABELING of the existence of that poison??!! Shameful to attack someone without opening your eyes to the real issue in this case. It's nothing to do with her opinion! It's EVERYTHING to do with DECEPTIVE MARKETING!!!!!
Can you do a segment on late blooming apples. Am in Central NY and have a climate similar to MI, but am seeing more and more late frosts.
Best Plum Tree ever I got at Walmart!!
thanks for that info i been getting tomato plants from big box stores(The home Depot) and most times they die i looked for the ones with fruit growing on them already.
Do you let your fruit trees produce on their second year after transplanting them? I have 2 pear trees that I bought last spring and Im not sure if I should let them fruit yet. I'm zone 3 Canada.
Let them fruit after the first year.
This is great! Thank you, it also explains why I might have lost my passion vine to shock. It was getting ready to bloom and go to fruit. It bloomed and then started to die instead :(
Thank you Luke? Shared big time. Blessings!
Good tips its usefull! Tanks from the Netherlands 👍
can you make a video about ''trimming'' a pear tree? I have a pear tree, but i dont know how to trim it, so i didnt do it. :') But i feel like i should do it next year.
I kind of have to disagree here though, for me at least, I have a single peach tree, of the Saturn variety (flat / donut peach) and I'm very confident that, at least that variety, does not really need any other nearby peach tree to do well. I'm still having to thin out clusters of 5 or 6 of these tiny peaches on a single flower cluster. It does a hundred times better alone, than my Pear tree (Conference, so should not need another nearby either) does whilst having at least a few more pear trees in the neighbourhood.
Ive talked to you at the store in Port Huron, my garden is in lexington. My father in law has a peach tree on his property. He planted it about 10 years ago, he has the only peach tree I know off and it does amazing every year, minus fruit loss from a frost after the tree flowers. Wondering if it would be worth trying to either grow out a clipping from tree or do it from seed? Wondering what your thoughts are on the topic. Maybe a video topic which is better to do a cutting/clone if its locally grown/ sourced or growing from seed. Thanks alot Tim
Meijer used to have excellent bare root trees at really good prices. If you prefer these like me. Tractor supply still carries them.
He talks about pruning branches off these small trees when planting. I've grafted the free sicons I cut off on to other trees with success.
One of my favorite videos, besides crimson giant
My local nurseries have closed, but not because they weren't popular. They were bought up and turned into housing tracts. Same with many of the local farms.
Big problem in Florida with the citrus groves.
@@gendeb9666 Same. Southern California used to be the orange producing capitol of the world (before Florida). But then everyone decided to move here. There are still some towns full of orange groves, but they're dwindling.
Great information! Thanks!
well i think i bought the worst tree of them all then. It came from a local nursery. the trunk has a curve, it was already growing peaches with plenty of leaves and it was about 6 feet tall when i bought it. i also planted it about a week after i got it (in march 2019) went from 20 something peaches to 4. and i have one giant one and the rest do not seem to be growing. Is it too early in season to prune the tallest portion?
Great tips. Cheers from Ottawa, Canada.
Just got a crab apple tree put in container hope it will fruit
Wow, thanks Luke, really great information.
Definitely needed this! Would citrus also need to be dormant? I got a grapefruit from Lowe’s about 3 weeks ago, already had about 20 fruit buds. And it is a pretty small tree, maybe 2.5-3ft but very dense with leaves.
I am into apple, peach and orange. Zip code 92407. Any suggestions?
Citrus are evergreen trees, so don't go dormant but will drop old leaves throughout the year. It will also drop any fruit it cannot handle. Hope that helps.
Citrus is essentially an evergreen bush/hedge that grows fruit. Anytime is a fine time to buy and plant citrus.
@@yanzhangmd I've planted all of those to success in Rancho Cucamonga. I've got some vids on these on my channel.
Only citrus I can possibly plant is trifoliate orange, I grew some from seed last year and I see one starting to regrow now after losing its leaves... pretty sad I cant grow any
Thanks men.
I noticed trees with multi branches... various apple types all on a single tree. A good idea?
you can do this yourself, I keep meaning to, it's a simple graft operation and nothing wrong with it at all!
You can do pears and some other fruits on it too I believe
Thanks for the furit tree tip I know what to look for now.
Excellent video as always! What advice would you give me about growing columnar apple trees on a 9th floor, southern exposure balcony? Should I attempt it and, if so, in addition to the recommendations in this video, what additional information would be needed to ensure success? Thank you in advance for your assistance.
Super helpful, thanks Luke!
very helpful and timely..I am about to go to Costco to buy fruit trees but I dont have ground to grow. Can I grow them in pots. I plan to buy Cherry and Pomegranate?