The inevitable tree planting video. We see how I plant a macadamia tree. Newly planted trees are checked out with a discussion of the trees and the future of them.
Great to watch your take on planting, Karl. Thank you for sharing. Such generous wide holes you've made for them too - I'm envious! Just one concern regarding the mulch. If you've not done so already, you might want to google around to find the carbon-nitrogen ratio of wood chips. If they're not well rotted down, they can leach nitrogen from the soil as they decompose - robbing the plant of its most vital nutrient. Not good for babies.. It's easily fixable by adding more nitrogen (blood and bone is great, albeit a little expensive over a large number of trees).
I thank the Dingo mini digger for those holes. Its all relative though isn't it. Recently I've watched videos on macadamia tree planting up around Bundaberg. They use a platform and plough towed behind a big tractor. The plough creates a trench and a tree is planted in the trench.The planter sits on the platform and plants the tree through a slot in the platform. Another plough pushes soil into the trench after the tree is planted. They plant a tree in about 10 seconds. With the wood chip mulch, I've heard from many about nitrogen depletion you warn of. However many say its a gardening myth. I'm doing an experiment in that around half the trees planted are mulched by straw, the other half mulched by wood chip. So we will see if there is a noticeable difference between the trees mulched with straw and those mulched with wood chip.
@@Karl_Degraa it’s been a year, can you see a difference? I expect the wood chip ones to do better long term, they only tie up nitrogen if mixed into the soil
@@plantparadisechallenge Hi Rowdy, if you look at a video I did on pruning the trees you will see how trees in the ground for eighteen months are going. Some trees are doing well, some not so well. I'm not too worried about them growing too slowly. Rapidly growing maca trees could possibly have problems when they get to around eight years old. If they grow too fast too quick they could be knocked over in a storm and then are finished. So it seems to be best to let them grow a bit slower and let their roots get out. Wood mulch surely cannot hurt the trees growing roots. Personally I do not believe decomposing wood chip or other mulches draw out very much if any nitrogen from the soil its sitting on. If there is any nitrogen being sucked out by the microbes in the mulch then its coming from the thin barrier where the woodchips are laying on the ground. We are heading back to the farm in March and will hopefully have time to show a few more videos. Maybe I can video this tree to give a follow up on it.
Hi Jarrod, we use bamboo to stake up floppy trees. I cut the bamboo from nearby. I am naturally hesitant to prune trees but you are correct. I would like to prune them after a year so they are established. I hope these trees to have a classic Christmas tree shape with lateral branches coming out from a single trunk. I will keep an eye on the tree pruned by mistake and see how it goes.
Gardening and Macadamia farming if you prune them after spring flush you should be fine. If you leave them they will keep growing up and will not branch and the staking problem will become worse as time goes on.
We are heading back there in September. This will be in the midst of Spring. I’ll look at the trees we planted last year. Those that are tall and stringy I’ll prune back and those too bushy I’ll try and pick a leader stem & prune the other stems back.
I plant to do a make a video on the pruning. I have pictures of the trees after they were planted and then a year after. So it will be a good record of how the tree is to when the tree is pruned. The basic rules of pruning I have is to cut any branch growing upwards, inwards or across. I'll try to follow those rules as well as cutting back any tree that has no branches coming out.
We did not have time to prune the older trees in September. I'm still hesitant to prune them. I know I should not hesitate. I'll aim to prune them next May when we are back on the farm for another five weeks.
True but I'm getting down on my knees anyway when planting a tree. Maybe I don't need to do so? I'm thinking if I use a long handled shovel then I could plant the tree while standing up without having to get down on my hands and knees. We are going to plant another 70 trees soon so I'll give it a go. However in a way I don't mind getting down on the ground & getting a bit dirty.
We have not really thought about pollination, can you give some ideas? We could plant a few trees of different varieties in spots to encourage cross pollination. The orchard will have two main varieties of trees of around 800 trees in total.
I've ordered some 246 variety trees. They will be planted in a few spots in and around the 849s. If any of the 849s die I'll replace them with 246s too. Next year we are going to plant MCT1 trees. I've been told this variety is self sterile. We are going to plant a fair number of A4 trees in the plot of MCT1s.
@@kdegraa in the end we have the following types of trees: 849s 246s A29s MCT1s A4s. They are mixed up a fair bit and are all in close proximity as they are planted in a semi circular area around the center point of the house and buildings. The other side of the gully are fairly close too. So there should be a reasonable amount of cross fertilisation.
Please can you tell me what you payed for your HAES 849 young macadamia tree in July 2020 or know the price for A or Hawaiian variety macadamia trees in March 2022. I'm assuming July 2020 is approximately the date at which you bought them. I live in WA and I want to buy up to 30 different variety macadamia trees, but named Hawaiian or A varieties are hard to source and often expensive. I have had experience over the last 16 years just growing 3 macadamia trees, A4, G6 and HAES 816 in a tiny Perth suburban yard, but am moving to a 5 acre property that has no macadamia trees. The 5 acre property does have several other nut tree types including a small pistachio tree orchard. Macadamia trees should grow OK in this region, of SW WA but if black cockatoos present a problem I intend to net the trees. I certainly won't let them grow beyond 4m height. The varieties I hope to source would be the Hawaiian 849, 842, 816, 741, 246, A4, A16, Daddow and if available in WA the MCT1 and some of those newer dwarf varieties A447, A538 and P variety. I would be gravitating towards the more spreading variety rather than tall upright variety, although the 741 may be more of a tall upright variety I would top it to 4m. I need to source Hawaiian and A varieties but don't want to have to pay minimum $80/tree unless they are advanced trees. There are other cheaper varieties, like lotsa nuts but don't have any information on them, however, the information does say they are a small tree, so I would buy several of those if that information about their size is correct. I do also have 2 HAES 695/Beaumont varieties which I bought from Bunnings and will take them with me to Bridgetown when I relocate there at the end of this month. They could also be a valuable addition and will buy several more if I see them at Bunnings again. The Hawaiian 849, 816, 246, 741 and Daddow and A4 and A16 would be the majority of the trees.
Hi John, These trees were purchased from a local nursery called Yarrahapinni Nursery. I think they cost around $20 each. I’ve purchased maca trees of the MCT1 variety from another nursery up near Lismore NSW for around the same price. This year I’m buying ten more MCT1 trees from a different nursery for around $25 each as it’s a small quantity. I’ve seen grafted trees for sale from around the price of $17 up to around $25 in NSW and Queensland. I have no advice on where to purchase macadamia trees in WA. Perhaps you could contact the Australia Macadamia Society and ask if they know of any nurseries there who sell grafted maca trees. We bought and planted maca two trees from Bunnings. One died but the other is going strong. They were the first maca trees we planted and we really did not know much about them. Another maca grower thinks the tree is an A variety tree. I know one landowner in WA who has maca trees on his place so these trees can grow there. I think if the trees are regularly mulched with wood chip or another organic matter they will do fine. If it gets frosty there one tip I’ve heard is spraying the trees with a seasol solution.
On the Macadamia Buy Sell FB group a fellow from WA is selling maca trees. facebook.com/marketplace/profile/100000186979421/?ref=permalink Not sure if this link will work. His message is as follows. Have some macadamia trees for sale, better than you’ll get anywhere in WA! Depending on size, 5-20 dollars a tree, located in mandurah and some in boyup brook! call or text Marty- 0498402225
@@Karl_Degraa A4 definitely because I grew one since 2006 but removed it from my yard a couple of years ago and I think A16 and possibly other A varieties have serrated edged leaves, so if your Bunnings macas had serrated edged leaves then they would have some tetraphylla in their background. Unfortunately about 10 years or more WA macnuts which was the biggest macadamia grower in WA with around 3000 trees became a wholesaler and stopped selling macadamia trees to the public and they sold many different macadamia tree varieties. I bought my only Hawaiian 816 from Macnuts in 2007. I think I will eventually source some Hawaiian or A varieties at a more reasonable price on facebook. Unfortunately the property I just sold, the 816 and G6 I'm to leave on my suburban property and can't take them and transplant to my 5 acre Bridgetown property. Bridgetown does get frost in winter and so I will take extra care of any young macadamia trees and try seasol to help them cope with the cooler conditions in winter.
I'm not sure as I'm in Australia and have never been to Nepal. However this video shows an Australian macadamia expert helping people in Nepal with their macadamia farming. th-cam.com/video/rldfOqcf8hA/w-d-xo.html
Great to watch your take on planting, Karl. Thank you for sharing. Such generous wide holes you've made for them too - I'm envious!
Just one concern regarding the mulch. If you've not done so already, you might want to google around to find the carbon-nitrogen ratio of wood chips. If they're not well rotted down, they can leach nitrogen from the soil as they decompose - robbing the plant of its most vital nutrient. Not good for babies.. It's easily fixable by adding more nitrogen (blood and bone is great, albeit a little expensive over a large number of trees).
I thank the Dingo mini digger for those holes. Its all relative though isn't it. Recently I've watched videos on macadamia tree planting up around Bundaberg. They use a platform and plough towed behind a big tractor. The plough creates a trench and a tree is planted in the trench.The planter sits on the platform and plants the tree through a slot in the platform. Another plough pushes soil into the trench after the tree is planted. They plant a tree in about 10 seconds.
With the wood chip mulch, I've heard from many about nitrogen depletion you warn of. However many say its a gardening myth. I'm doing an experiment in that around half the trees planted are mulched by straw, the other half mulched by wood chip. So we will see if there is a noticeable difference between the trees mulched with straw and those mulched with wood chip.
@@Karl_Degraa it’s been a year, can you see a difference? I expect the wood chip ones to do better long term, they only tie up nitrogen if mixed into the soil
@@plantparadisechallenge Hi Rowdy, if you look at a video I did on pruning the trees you will see how trees in the ground for eighteen months are going. Some trees are doing well, some not so well. I'm not too worried about them growing too slowly. Rapidly growing maca trees could possibly have problems when they get to around eight years old. If they grow too fast too quick they could be knocked over in a storm and then are finished. So it seems to be best to let them grow a bit slower and let their roots get out. Wood mulch surely cannot hurt the trees growing roots.
Personally I do not believe decomposing wood chip or other mulches draw out very much if any nitrogen from the soil its sitting on. If there is any nitrogen being sucked out by the microbes in the mulch then its coming from the thin barrier where the woodchips are laying on the ground.
We are heading back to the farm in March and will hopefully have time to show a few more videos. Maybe I can video this tree to give a follow up on it.
سيد جاك ادام الله عليك الصحه والعافيه وشكرا هل ممكن زراعه المكاديما عن طريقه الأقلام ؟
وشكرا على جهودك
Cut the single ones off at hip height and pull them back straight with a star picket
Hi Jarrod, we use bamboo to stake up floppy trees. I cut the bamboo from nearby.
I am naturally hesitant to prune trees but you are correct. I would like to prune them after a year so they are established. I hope these trees to have a classic Christmas tree shape with lateral branches coming out from a single trunk.
I will keep an eye on the tree pruned by mistake and see how it goes.
Gardening and Macadamia farming if you prune them after spring flush you should be fine. If you leave them they will keep growing up and will not branch and the staking problem will become worse as time goes on.
We are heading back there in September. This will be in the midst of Spring. I’ll look at the trees we planted last year. Those that are tall and stringy I’ll prune back and those too bushy I’ll try and pick a leader stem & prune the other stems back.
I plant to do a make a video on the pruning. I have pictures of the trees after they were planted and then a year after. So it will be a good record of how the tree is to when the tree is pruned. The basic rules of pruning I have is to cut any branch growing upwards, inwards or across. I'll try to follow those rules as well as cutting back any tree that has no branches coming out.
We did not have time to prune the older trees in September. I'm still hesitant to prune them. I know I should not hesitate. I'll aim to prune them next May when we are back on the farm for another five weeks.
You'll get sore knees with a short shovel?!
True but I'm getting down on my knees anyway when planting a tree. Maybe I don't need to do so? I'm thinking if I use a long handled shovel then I could plant the tree while standing up without having to get down on my hands and knees. We are going to plant another 70 trees soon so I'll give it a go. However in a way I don't mind getting down on the ground & getting a bit dirty.
You didn’t plant any pollinators in that block? Only 849?
We have older 246 trees on one side
We have not really thought about pollination, can you give some ideas? We could plant a few trees of different varieties in spots to encourage cross pollination. The orchard will have two main varieties of trees of around 800 trees in total.
I've ordered some 246 variety trees. They will be planted in a few spots in and around the 849s. If any of the 849s die I'll replace them with 246s too. Next year we are going to plant MCT1 trees. I've been told this variety is self sterile. We are going to plant a fair number of A4 trees in the plot of MCT1s.
@@kdegraa in the end we have the following types of trees:
849s
246s
A29s
MCT1s
A4s.
They are mixed up a fair bit and are all in close proximity as they are planted in a semi circular area around the center point of the house and buildings. The other side of the gully are fairly close too. So there should be a reasonable amount of cross fertilisation.
Please can you tell me what you payed for your HAES 849 young macadamia tree in July 2020 or know the price for A or Hawaiian variety macadamia trees in March 2022. I'm assuming July 2020 is approximately the date at which you bought them. I live in WA and I want to buy up to 30 different variety macadamia trees, but named Hawaiian or A varieties are hard to source and often expensive. I have had experience over the last 16 years just growing 3 macadamia trees, A4, G6 and HAES 816 in a tiny Perth suburban yard, but am moving to a 5 acre property that has no macadamia trees.
The 5 acre property does have several other nut tree types including a small pistachio tree orchard. Macadamia trees should grow OK in this region, of SW WA but if black cockatoos present a problem I intend to net the trees. I certainly won't let them grow beyond 4m height. The varieties I hope to source would be the Hawaiian 849, 842, 816, 741, 246, A4, A16, Daddow and if available in WA the MCT1 and some of those newer dwarf varieties A447, A538 and P variety. I would be gravitating towards the more spreading variety rather than tall upright variety, although the 741 may be more of a tall upright variety I would top it to 4m.
I need to source Hawaiian and A varieties but don't want to have to pay minimum $80/tree unless they are advanced trees. There are other cheaper varieties, like lotsa nuts but don't have any information on them, however, the information does say they are a small tree, so I would buy several of those if that information about their size is correct. I do also have 2 HAES 695/Beaumont varieties which I bought from Bunnings and will take them with me to Bridgetown when I relocate there at the end of this month. They could also be a valuable addition and will buy several more if I see them at Bunnings again. The Hawaiian 849, 816, 246, 741 and Daddow and A4 and A16 would be the majority of the trees.
Hi John,
These trees were purchased from a local nursery called Yarrahapinni Nursery. I think they cost around $20 each. I’ve purchased maca trees of the MCT1 variety from another nursery up near Lismore NSW for around the same price. This year I’m buying ten more MCT1 trees from a different nursery for around $25 each as it’s a small quantity. I’ve seen grafted trees for sale from around the price of $17 up to around $25 in NSW and Queensland.
I have no advice on where to purchase macadamia trees in WA. Perhaps you could contact the Australia Macadamia Society and ask if they know of any nurseries there who sell grafted maca trees. We bought and planted maca two trees from Bunnings. One died but the other is going strong. They were the first maca trees we planted and we really did not know much about them. Another maca grower thinks the tree is an A variety tree.
I know one landowner in WA who has maca trees on his place so these trees can grow there. I think if the trees are regularly mulched with wood chip or another organic matter they will do fine. If it gets frosty there one tip I’ve heard is spraying the trees with a seasol solution.
On the Macadamia Buy Sell FB group a fellow from WA is selling maca trees.
facebook.com/marketplace/profile/100000186979421/?ref=permalink
Not sure if this link will work.
His message is as follows.
Have some macadamia trees for sale, better than you’ll get anywhere in WA!
Depending on size, 5-20 dollars a tree, located in mandurah and some in boyup brook!
call or text Marty- 0498402225
@@Karl_Degraa A4 definitely because I grew one since 2006 but removed it from my yard a couple of years ago and I think A16 and possibly other A varieties have serrated edged leaves, so if your Bunnings macas had serrated edged leaves then they would have some tetraphylla in their background. Unfortunately about 10 years or more WA macnuts which was the biggest macadamia grower in WA with around 3000 trees became a wholesaler and stopped selling macadamia trees to the public and they sold many different macadamia tree varieties. I bought my only Hawaiian 816 from Macnuts in 2007. I think I will eventually source some Hawaiian or A varieties at a more reasonable price on facebook. Unfortunately the property I just sold, the 816 and G6 I'm to leave on my suburban property and can't take them and transplant to my 5 acre Bridgetown property. Bridgetown does get frost in winter and so I will take extra care of any young macadamia trees and try seasol to help them cope with the cooler conditions in winter.
How can we buy these plants in nepal
I'm not sure as I'm in Australia and have never been to Nepal. However this video shows an Australian macadamia expert helping people in Nepal with their macadamia farming.
th-cam.com/video/rldfOqcf8hA/w-d-xo.html
You have not the faintest idea what you are doing. Why not hire a contractor?
Lol, I think everyone should plant productive trees, what did he do so wrong he should have paid thousands to a contractor for?