He is so skilled and well articulated, I'm blown away! And for free? Heck yeah! Content like this is extraordinary but rare. Much appreciation to both of you for adding value on a platform like this and making it easily accessible to others!
Taught myself how to prune years ago by downloading and reading every extension office publication I could find, and by darn I've mostly been doing it right. Thanks for the instructionals..
My dad said a whole dead chicken was by far the best fertilizer he ever tried for his fruit trees. He said a dead fish and a dead cat(natural causes) did little but the chicken fed cherry tree went crazy with growth.
But it needs to be a chicken from your own or your neighbours garden, right? It wouldn't help if I buried a chicken from the supermarket which is probably filled with antibiotics etc. Or am I wrong?
I planted an apple tree in winter with a chicken (that died of natural causes) and it grew almost 20 apples the first year. I had to take them off when they were small so they wouldn’t break the branches
In the end it's all pretty much the same protein and bones. Fish has less bones so less minerals like calcium and phosphate. It all breaks down in in the the first year with the bones, feathers and hair potentially lasting a bit longer. Antibiotics and whatever else you're worried about in supermarket chicken is a non-issue. To be honest regular small applications of a balanced fertilizer including micro-elements during the growing season will give you better results. If this were really the most effective way to fertilize a tree commercial orchards would do it.
Daniel and you, Anne, should be very proud to know that following your previous video i immediately went out and removed any labels remaining on my trees. You both have done a great public service to my little garden
You can store parts those branches as scion wood to graft onto rootstocks. Also as an arborist myself I encourage people not be afraid large growing rootstocks you can just prune them keep them under control and they have better bigger root systems. Important thing is rootstocks match your soil type
@semiprolific774 I done alot self study on fruit tree pruning. Attended workshops on orchard and polyculutre agroforestry pruning. And experience at home pruning my own trees that are 7 years old now I propagated myself I years ago. I started a community food Forrest project then decided wanted take my experience further and 3 years ago started Arbourist apprenticeship and just finishing Last couple papers now be qualified. So I've got just as much if not more hands on real life experience as I do with all the academic side of arbouriculture
@@zanecrofts7085 cool. I’m currently a computer programmer, but have been pruning trees and plants on my property for a few years. Worked at a winery about a decade or so back and used to winter prune grapes…I just want to mess around outside and stop sitting all day
I love this collaboration you guys have. He brings the technical knowledge expressed in a simple way, and you bring the common questions and thought process many people who are learning would have which is a great combination. And you both love what you are doing :)
I'm so glad you made a followup! The original was the first video of yours' that I ever saw, suggested to me because I had been watching videos about tree care. More recently, I discovered Daniel's own channel independently, but for the same reason. Looking forward to the videos on planting and root collar maintenance!
For some reason I can watch videos or read about pruning trees and once I'm out in the field, I look at my tree, pruners in hand, branches everywhere and I'm like whaaat... am I doing? I think I have a tree pruning learning disability.
We grow peaches commercially and everything he has stated and demonstrated is true. A very informative video for those who have questions or don't know.
So I watched y’all the first time he pruned I have a 20 cheer year old Asian pair that is abundance but it was getting too hard for me to harvest. They were so high so I this of winter I had a young man come and do a hard hard pruning on it, and every lamb was trimmed at a 45 so make sure I did see that on 45° angle and now the spring is coming the blooms are coming it’s looking good it doesn’t make me feel so bad because it was like a butcher so I feel like I will get fruit this year last year. We got 300 pounds and so I’m happy it looks good. The tree looks happy, I usually harvest in the end of July to August so we shall see but right now white flowers are all over the place and it starts to look lovely. Thanks for having him there.🌱🌱🍐
So Much Great information. The March/April winds are coming; and Ive been eying my Cherry Tree this winter thinking, I gotta trim up this tree right now! And you've posted this wonderful video. Thank You for the reinforcement of my madness. The Neighbors are gonna say "Look at that crazy guy trimming his tree in the winter!"
I'm researching to trim my baby apple trees that we planted last spring. I did some pruning on the existing small apple tree the year before and it seems to be helping. I wish i could move that tree, but i don't think it's possible. It's been there at least 5 years. It's only about 6.5-7 feet tall, very scraggly, they planted it along the driveway where it's over 3 foot deep of heavily graveled soil (from over 100 years of gravel driveway), the trunk is CHEEEWED up from constantly being weed whacked, severe eastern lean, and gets wind damage. They planted it in "the wind tunnel." Our shop, barn, and shed are aligned in such a way that they create a wind tunnel when we get a wind from the west. The poor tree gets BATTERED. my plan is to bolster the fruit on the east side by giving better leaf break on the west side and having more heavy branches on the west to counterbalance the heavy eastward lean. It had a stake that they tied to it WITH WIRE. it was literally cutting into and healing into the bark. Last year it looked much healthier than the first year we were here. I'm hoping next year i will get an actually edible apple on it that doesn't get just dropped because of wind blight.
my neighbor and I planted the same variety of mulberry but my neighbor buried his dog under his mulberry and his mulberry is HUGE!! Mine is small but healthy
I enjoyed watching and learning about pruning tree in this video. I also totally agreed with you about safety. It is a number one concern when working with tools.
Thank you!!!!! I have watched numerous video on how to prune a fruit tree and learned nothing. The doing while videoing was hugely helpful and having a lay person either reiterate or ask for clarification was an additional useful method to convey information.
My peach trees are about 4 years old and its time for this exactly. Im keeping them a bit tall as late day sumner sun gets blocked lower down by the trees uplight of them as part of my privacy screen and shady nooks plan.
Thank you for this! I’m getting ready to prune my fruit trees before I miss my winter window and this video provided more information that I can use to change my strategy pruning. I might even consider looking for an arborist in NC that can help assess my tree situation.
Burying the chicken absolutely has everything to do with the growth. The past years I could afford to bury whole fish and my Apple tree went crazy with growth!!!All my other non fish trees died and got replaced. 🍎 tree is strong!!❤
"this is literally my whole fruit tree... but okay, it's good, it's fine.." bahahaha!!! I would have DIED! I wonder if you can graft that onto rootstock and have another mature peach tree LOL
Awesome video! I have 3 pear trees, and 6-7 apple trees to deal with (plus a few plum trees several super old non-dwarf ones that are a lost cause, but I'm a good climber😂). I got less than halfway last winter, then I got sick and it was spring and too late. Good call on the eye protection. I'm paranoid now about that as I've had LASIK, so my eyes are even more vulnerable if injured. I got some awesome cool looking wraparound safety glasses that I also wear on windy days and cycling. Bonus!
I once got a splinter on the underside of my eyelid while pruning a large tree. Fortunately I went to an optometrist friend who figured it out quickly and used an instrument he made to pull it out. He said that had I gone to the ER, they would have likely assumed it was gone and the eye was just still irritated. I then used safety glasses that were contoured a little closer.
I always learn so much from these excellent videos of you and Daniel educating us on proper pruning methods. So i thank you for another great video. One thought that i had at the 7:40 time stamp when he removed that large multi-branched section, was what a shame it was that you didn't do an 'air layering' propagation on it a few weeks before this pruning session. It looked like it had really nice balanced structure and would have made a good tree i think. Sorry if reading this now gives rise to any feeling of regret over that missed opportunity Anne, not meaning for that to be the case at all. Just thinking out loud i guess. :-) EDIT: Lol, ohhhkaaaayyy....if i had watched all the way til the end before making my above comment, i would have known the answer to why you didn't propagate any of the branches being removed. 🙂
Thank you for sharing these invaluable tips, I absolutely love trees and the bushes on our property. We've received good advice and bad advice and all of this knowledge will help for a better plan
It might sound daft but bonsai artists probably give some of the best advice on tree pruning. I use bonsai principles to all my tree/shrub pruning in my garden (as well as all my bonsai).....
This is a rerun belief I've seen this several times, but it is a great video. I've 5 apples and have been caring for 3 years but have improved thanks Yes a rerun
Omigosh getting poked bending towards the blueberry its like a phobia for me so many eyepokers the worst are the short bamboo stakes especially if they get hidden.....scary. and a point about safety glasses is wear goggles. My first eye injury was japanese pine hooked right around behind regular safety glasses and slashed my cornea. Safety glasses that arent goggles are less than half protection.
Yeah, me too. ALL my neighbours have fruit trees and they all said that was the way. I should have known better because I was getting nice easy to reach apples from the small branches... Oh well, now I know!
These videos really helped with my liberty apple. Unfortunately, I'm in zone 6b and we're under knee deep snow, so it'll be a bit longer before I can do any pruning. Probably best to wait until spring anyway.
actually, it’s really best to do heavy pruning when the tree is dormant during winter months, before the tree starts putting energy into budding out, so now is the time!
This video is part of a series- if it’s your first time pruning, it may be helpful to do a late spring or early summer pruning to see how the tree reacts/responds to your pruning (as shown in the first video in this series th-cam.com/video/h6hWa3nx7yo/w-d-xo.htmlsi=rD92XlyIiFII7pyI) before doing a more heavy prune in the late winter/very early spring before the buds start popping, as shown in this video here.
Do it do it ..a hard pruning will keep the tree living longer.. So my 22 year old parent treat I planted as a just a young little 3 gallon pot. I planned the day after I buried my mother and they told me he would take 5 to 7 years to fruit and it did and we cared for it and and it’s actually Not far from my house like it’s in the grass line of the house so it’s not on the other side of the sidewalk it’s in the front and I always love it because it gives great shade. I do fight the black Crowes but it’s been good and we had pruned it but not a hard pruning so I’m happy I was devastated but I knew I had to do it and we did a hard pruning and it’s perfect nowand I don’t know if I’m going to do a summer pruning because here in Texas we have so many bugs and I’m worried that bug will get inside my tree disease damage
Me too, but Western Washngton. But don't prune stone fruits-peach, plum, cherry, Apricot- in the winter when it's raining, where fungal and canker, bacterial infections are enhanhanced by opening the tree with "wounding". Prune these after the rainy season, (April)May-July. typically
Great video, it would be interesting if you could plant 2 more fast growing peach trees and leave one to do its own thing with zero maintenance and then keep the other one regularly pruned and maintained. Chickens buried under both for good measure😂
I thought dead animal decomposition can heat the ground a lot, enough to burn the roots (at least from what I saw when someone was measuring the heat of their compost pile that hadn't fully rotted coming at 60*celcius. Is there a specific depth to plant a chicken to get the benefits without the harm?
Stay tuned for our propagation video coming this fall! We’ll go in depth into air layering, propagating cuttings and picking the right trees/species to do so. We intentionally DID NOT show that in this video, because we wouldn’t want to directly root these particular cuttings from these particular trees. Cuttings from grafted dwarf trees like these wouldn’t make for the kind of fruit trees we actually want unless we were to graft them to other dwarf root stock. Also, cuttings that are simply rooted will make perfect clones of the species of whatever was originally grafted onto the original dwarf rootstock they came from, so directly rooted cuttings from these specific trees would, more likely than not, produce an unmanageably tall tree unsuited for safe/efficient fruit picking. Without a diversity of species/variety of trees, orchards are far more prone to devastating plights of pests and diseases, because if one tree is affected, it’s highly likely all the other trees of the same species will also be affected, and that danger is only amplified if you’ve got cloned trees. If a pest/fungus/disease settles into a monocrop orchard (or worse, an orchard of cloned trees), it will have a veritable buffet of susceptible plants at it’s disposal, and will multiply and get out of hand quickly. As an organic farmer, because we don’t use pesticides, herbicides, or fungicides, we want as many different species of trees from as many different sources as possible in our orchard, because this way, if a certain pest or disease likes one variety of tree but not another, then we only lose the crop/ or a single tree rather than the entire orchard.
Girdling of trees is a method used by pioneers to kill trees to provide firewood or lumber. They would do it in the fall after all the sap has drained to the roots and harvest in the spring.
Ok so how do I get my peaches to ripeness without losing them to pests and mildew? Guild? Neem? I've heard the woes of hobby farmers saying not to plant peaches but my kids begged (by way of stuffing seeds everywhere and sprouting several trees that needed to be transplanted😂)...so here we are.
Do you have a link to the video about what to do about the tree planted too deep? I think that's what happened to our peach tree (all of the fruit trees in our yard were planted a year or two before I bought the house). Most of the young tree died within our first year here, apparently with some sort of beetle infestation, leaving only one living branch. The tree was planted in a locally low spot in the yard and I could see water wasn't draining well around it, so instead of building soil up into a mound at the base, I basically dug out a circle some four feet out, and sloped the soil from the base of the tree to the perimeter of the circle. The tree did better the following several years, although the squirrels have been eating all of the fruit. Now my husband has mounded soil up at the base of the tree again, which I think may be a mistake. Just wondering whether I did right, and whether I should undo my husband's handiwork or just leave it alone, or if there is anything else we can do to help this poor tree.
We dug it up and replanted it (that is the tree we are doing root surgery on at the end of the video). If I were you I would immediately unmound the dirt around your tree and continue to redirect the water. That is what I would have done as well. You don’t even have to fully uproot it like we did with this tree, either, you can carefully excavate the soil away from the trunk of the tree until you get down to the top of the root system. Then I’d just add some leaf mulch and call it a day.
Thanks, @@AnneofAllTrades . I'm going out in the yard tomorrow to move an Acanthus mollis (Bear's Breeches) plant, so I'll take care of this while I'm out there.
I no matter how well, or even if you didn’t print at all, fruit production depends on the weather. Storms during bloom will wash off the flowers and our little honey bee buddies won’t be out pollinating . If your tree is blooming and we get storms, that tree is not gonna have as much fruit, bottom line
@@AnneofAllTrades that's interesting thanks! Mine are still very young with only like one branch of each type so if I trimmed them, I worry they'd spread in the wrong directions 😳🤪
You’d think, but I’d invite you to walk through the woods behind my house and see all the trees that have been ruined by wind, the weight of snow and ice, and general lack of pruning. Nature does take care of itself, but not nearly in as efficient or long lasting as we homesteaders might like from the trees we intentionally plant.
In a forest, I guess the cycle of life works fine with random falling trees to open up light for others to grow, and provide dead wood for fungus etc to break down to feed the trees. But when we only have a few trees, our stakes are higher if we lose a few. I've lost one cherry, probably lose another plus 2 or 3 apple trees because of previous (and frankly my own) neglect. Some are really old though!
That’s why we pruned it this summer first, to see how it would respond/react to pruning so we could prune accordingly this winter ;) th-cam.com/video/h6hWa3nx7yo/w-d-xo.htmlsi=wh0AGTpLIzxgLdVY
Peaches often get pruned by one- half. But here in the rainy PNW we never prune stone fruits in the rainy season, all sping-summer pruning due to bacterial canker.
He is so skilled and well articulated, I'm blown away! And for free? Heck yeah! Content like this is extraordinary but rare. Much appreciation to both of you for adding value on a platform like this and making it easily accessible to others!
Word! This is TH-cam University.. thanx Ann
He’s able to bend and flex really well? 🤔
Taught myself how to prune years ago by downloading and reading every extension office publication I could find, and by darn I've mostly been doing it right. Thanks for the instructionals..
My dad said a whole dead chicken was by far the best fertilizer he ever tried for his fruit trees. He said a dead fish and a dead cat(natural causes) did little but the chicken fed cherry tree went crazy with growth.
But it needs to be a chicken from your own or your neighbours garden, right? It wouldn't help if I buried a chicken from the supermarket which is probably filled with antibiotics etc.
Or am I wrong?
I planted an apple tree in winter with a chicken (that died of natural causes) and it grew almost 20 apples the first year. I had to take them off when they were small so they wouldn’t break the branches
@phoebeel why would a supermarket chicken be any different
In the end it's all pretty much the same protein and bones. Fish has less bones so less minerals like calcium and phosphate. It all breaks down in in the the first year with the bones, feathers and hair potentially lasting a bit longer. Antibiotics and whatever else you're worried about in supermarket chicken is a non-issue.
To be honest regular small applications of a balanced fertilizer including micro-elements during the growing season will give you better results. If this were really the most effective way to fertilize a tree commercial orchards would do it.
@@phoebeelI think the important part is that a soul is bound in the roots of the tree. Might as well be a supermarket chicken soul.
Daniel and you, Anne, should be very proud to know that following your previous video i immediately went out and removed any labels remaining on my trees. You both have done a great public service to my little garden
You can store parts those branches as scion wood to graft onto rootstocks.
Also as an arborist myself I encourage people not be afraid large growing rootstocks you can just prune them keep them under control and they have better bigger root systems.
Important thing is rootstocks match your soil type
What education and training did you receive before becoming an arborist?
@semiprolific774 I done alot self study on fruit tree pruning. Attended workshops on orchard and polyculutre agroforestry pruning. And experience at home pruning my own trees that are 7 years old now I propagated myself I years ago.
I started a community food Forrest project then decided wanted take my experience further and 3 years ago started Arbourist apprenticeship and just finishing Last couple papers now be qualified.
So I've got just as much if not more hands on real life experience as I do with all the academic side of arbouriculture
@@zanecrofts7085 cool. I’m currently a computer programmer, but have been pruning trees and plants on my property for a few years.
Worked at a winery about a decade or so back and used to winter prune grapes…I just want to mess around outside and stop sitting all day
I love this collaboration you guys have. He brings the technical knowledge expressed in a simple way, and you bring the common questions and thought process many people who are learning would have which is a great combination. And you both love what you are doing :)
I'm so glad you made a followup! The original was the first video of yours' that I ever saw, suggested to me because I had been watching videos about tree care. More recently, I discovered Daniel's own channel independently, but for the same reason. Looking forward to the videos on planting and root collar maintenance!
For some reason I can watch videos or read about pruning trees and once I'm out in the field, I look at my tree, pruners in hand, branches everywhere and I'm like whaaat... am I doing? I think I have a tree pruning learning disability.
Forester here, look, decide, cut gotta just do it
We grow peaches commercially and everything he has stated and demonstrated is true. A very informative video for those who have questions or don't know.
So I watched y’all the first time he pruned I have a 20 cheer year old Asian pair that is abundance but it was getting too hard for me to harvest. They were so high so I this of winter I had a young man come and do a hard hard pruning on it, and every lamb was trimmed at a 45 so make sure I did see that on 45° angle and now the spring is coming the blooms are coming it’s looking good it doesn’t make me feel so bad because it was like a butcher so I feel like I will get fruit this year last year. We got 300 pounds and so I’m happy it looks good. The tree looks happy, I usually harvest in the end of July to August so we shall see but right now white flowers are all over the place and it starts to look lovely. Thanks for having him there.🌱🌱🍐
This guy is the Ryan Hall Y'all of trees. Awesome!
Lol you're right! I wondered why he felt so familiar to me. 😂
I am glad that you did the follow-up for this video. It is very helpful to learn the foundamentals because I have young fruit trees.
Watching this for the fourth time and still gleaning lots of good stuff. Thank you!!
Hi Anne I hope your doing well and your hand has healed nicely!!
the anvil side of your pruner will harm the bark so put it to the outside of the cut. Good video.
Girdling stops the downward flow, holding the sugar in the top where it's available to push into the fruit. It doesn't stop upflow
So Much Great information. The March/April winds are coming; and Ive been eying my Cherry Tree this winter thinking, I gotta trim up this tree right now! And you've posted this wonderful video. Thank You for the reinforcement of my madness. The Neighbors are gonna say "Look at that crazy guy trimming his tree in the winter!"
I'm researching to trim my baby apple trees that we planted last spring. I did some pruning on the existing small apple tree the year before and it seems to be helping. I wish i could move that tree, but i don't think it's possible. It's been there at least 5 years. It's only about 6.5-7 feet tall, very scraggly, they planted it along the driveway where it's over 3 foot deep of heavily graveled soil (from over 100 years of gravel driveway), the trunk is CHEEEWED up from constantly being weed whacked, severe eastern lean, and gets wind damage. They planted it in "the wind tunnel." Our shop, barn, and shed are aligned in such a way that they create a wind tunnel when we get a wind from the west. The poor tree gets BATTERED. my plan is to bolster the fruit on the east side by giving better leaf break on the west side and having more heavy branches on the west to counterbalance the heavy eastward lean. It had a stake that they tied to it WITH WIRE. it was literally cutting into and healing into the bark.
Last year it looked much healthier than the first year we were here. I'm hoping next year i will get an actually edible apple on it that doesn't get just dropped because of wind blight.
Great communication you guys! Your explanations are very helpful and informative. Understanding is key to properly pruning multiple trees. Great job!
my neighbor and I planted the same variety of mulberry but my neighbor buried his dog under his mulberry and his mulberry is HUGE!! Mine is small but healthy
I enjoyed watching and learning about pruning tree in this video. I also totally agreed with you about safety. It is a number one concern when working with tools.
Thank you!!!!! I have watched numerous video on how to prune a fruit tree and learned nothing. The doing while videoing was hugely helpful and having a lay person either reiterate or ask for clarification was an additional useful method to convey information.
My peach trees are about 4 years old and its time for this exactly. Im keeping them a bit tall as late day sumner sun gets blocked lower down by the trees uplight of them as part of my privacy screen and shady nooks plan.
I am looking forward to seeing the bumper crop this tree provides this summer! Learning a lot for sure.
Thank you for this! I’m getting ready to prune my fruit trees before I miss my winter window and this video provided more information that I can use to change my strategy pruning. I might even consider looking for an arborist in NC that can help assess my tree situation.
Thank you. I love the Fuji apples and Old People's Faces apples here at the ranch, but I have no idea how to care for the treees.
Daniel knows his stuff! Well done. Only watched half so far but already a great video! 👌
I am a new subscriber and i just bought several fruit tree and was concerned about the growth so thanks this helps alot
Burying the chicken absolutely has everything to do with the growth. The past years I could afford to bury whole fish and my Apple tree went crazy with growth!!!All my other non fish trees died and got replaced. 🍎 tree is strong!!❤
"this is literally my whole fruit tree... but okay, it's good, it's fine.." bahahaha!!! I would have DIED! I wonder if you can graft that onto rootstock and have another mature peach tree LOL
Awesome video! I have 3 pear trees, and 6-7 apple trees to deal with (plus a few plum trees several super old non-dwarf ones that are a lost cause, but I'm a good climber😂). I got less than halfway last winter, then I got sick and it was spring and too late. Good call on the eye protection. I'm paranoid now about that as I've had LASIK, so my eyes are even more vulnerable if injured. I got some awesome cool looking wraparound safety glasses that I also wear on windy days and cycling. Bonus!
You were SO AFRAID of him trimming your tree . So glad you accepted what he was saying about trees
Winner, winner peach tree got a chicken dinner
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OH YEAY!!! I have been looking for this update! Thank you for posting Anne!!!
Also (A D D moment) the pond looks great!
Dude, isn’t it great?! I still can’t believe it worked!! I’ve got 5 kinds of fish on order
@@AnneofAllTrades I can’t imagine kicking back and fishing on my own property after a day of hard homesteading. THAT’S AWESOME!😎
I once got a splinter on the underside of my eyelid while pruning a large tree. Fortunately I went to an optometrist friend who figured it out quickly and used an instrument he made to pull it out. He said that had I gone to the ER, they would have likely assumed it was gone and the eye was just still irritated. I then used safety glasses that were contoured a little closer.
I always learn so much from these excellent videos of you and Daniel educating us on proper pruning methods. So i thank you for another great video.
One thought that i had at the 7:40 time stamp when he removed that large multi-branched section, was what a shame it was that you didn't do an 'air layering' propagation on it a few weeks before this pruning session. It looked like it had really nice balanced structure and would have made a good tree i think. Sorry if reading this now gives rise to any feeling of regret over that missed opportunity Anne, not meaning for that to be the case at all. Just thinking out loud i guess. :-)
EDIT: Lol, ohhhkaaaayyy....if i had watched all the way til the end before making my above comment, i would have known the answer to why you didn't propagate any of the branches being removed. 🙂
This is amazing! I’d love to see him do a columnar fruit tree if possible as well. Small yard so I’ve got two columnar apples and a dwarf peach 🍑
Thank you for sharing these invaluable tips, I absolutely love trees and the bushes on our property. We've received good advice and bad advice and all of this knowledge will help for a better plan
It might sound daft but bonsai artists probably give some of the best advice on tree pruning. I use bonsai principles to all my tree/shrub pruning in my garden (as well as all my bonsai).....
So do I :)
Really enjoyed your video! It is easy to understand and follow the reason to prune. Live the seesaw and parasail examples
Great! Looking forward to the planting video as i have fruit trees coming in a month and a half or two.
This is a rerun belief I've seen this several times, but it is a great video. I've 5 apples and have been caring for 3 years but have improved thanks
Yes a rerun
It's not a rerun; it's a followup to a previous video from this past summer.
Trees require summer and winter pruning. This is the winter pruning of the tree we saw summer pruned earlier.
Omigosh getting poked bending towards the blueberry its like a phobia for me so many eyepokers the worst are the short bamboo stakes especially if they get hidden.....scary. and a point about safety glasses is wear goggles. My first eye injury was japanese pine hooked right around behind regular safety glasses and slashed my cornea. Safety glasses that arent goggles are less than half protection.
One of the best explanations I've seen. Thank you both ❤
So informative and this lady is fabulous. Thanks!
i've been guilty of lion tailing ,but i've not learned different before today, thank you both
Yeah, me too. ALL my neighbours have fruit trees and they all said that was the way. I should have known better because I was getting nice easy to reach apples from the small branches... Oh well, now I know!
Could you guide me to fungus prevention and fertility snd. Calcium maintenance. Tips for fruiting.
Daniel is the man. I love these videos.
Good video! The guy definitely knows what he's talking about
These videos really helped with my liberty apple. Unfortunately, I'm in zone 6b and we're under knee deep snow, so it'll be a bit longer before I can do any pruning. Probably best to wait until spring anyway.
actually, it’s really best to do heavy pruning when the tree is dormant during winter months, before the tree starts putting energy into budding out, so now is the time!
@@AnneofAllTrades what's one more shoveled path?
Thanks!
Thank you. What about timing? We know that this is winter pruning. But does it matter if there is a frost after pruning?
This video is part of a series- if it’s your first time pruning, it may be helpful to do a late spring or early summer pruning to see how the tree reacts/responds to your pruning (as shown in the first video in this series th-cam.com/video/h6hWa3nx7yo/w-d-xo.htmlsi=rD92XlyIiFII7pyI) before doing a more heavy prune in the late winter/very early spring before the buds start popping, as shown in this video here.
Great video!! Thanks for posting Anne!
Do it do it ..a hard pruning will keep the tree living longer..
So my 22 year old parent treat I planted as a just a young little 3 gallon pot. I planned the day after I buried my mother and they told me he would take 5 to 7 years to fruit and it did and we cared for it and and it’s actually Not far from my house like it’s in the grass line of the house so it’s not on the other side of the sidewalk it’s in the front and I always love it because it gives great shade. I do fight the black Crowes but it’s been good and we had pruned it but not a hard pruning so I’m happy I was devastated but I knew I had to do it and we did a hard pruning and it’s perfect nowand I don’t know if I’m going to do a summer pruning because here in Texas we have so many bugs and I’m worried that bug will get inside my tree disease damage
Very informative. Thank you for this. Looking forward to the planting video as there is a lot of conflicting information out there.
So excited about it! We’ll hopefully clear all that conflict up ;)
Good information! I’m in the PNW and will be finishing my pruning very soon!
Me too, but Western Washngton. But don't prune stone fruits-peach, plum, cherry, Apricot- in the winter when it's raining, where fungal and canker, bacterial infections are enhanhanced by opening the tree with "wounding". Prune these after the rainy season, (April)May-July. typically
Great video, it would be interesting if you could plant 2 more fast growing peach trees and leave one to do its own thing with zero maintenance and then keep the other one regularly pruned and maintained.
Chickens buried under both for good measure😂
Great info! Thanks!
Thanks
For removing steel fence posts or wooden fence get yourself a farmer's jack. Basically, an old-style car jack.
I thought dead animal decomposition can heat the ground a lot, enough to burn the roots (at least from what I saw when someone was measuring the heat of their compost pile that hadn't fully rotted coming at 60*celcius. Is there a specific depth to plant a chicken to get the benefits without the harm?
When it comes to the propagating just throw it in a pot to slow down the growth or dig up some of the roots for grafting.
Stay tuned for our propagation video coming this fall! We’ll go in depth into air layering, propagating cuttings and picking the right trees/species to do so. We intentionally DID NOT show that in this video, because we wouldn’t want to directly root these particular cuttings from these particular trees.
Cuttings from grafted dwarf trees like these wouldn’t make for the kind of fruit trees we actually want unless we were to graft them to other dwarf root stock. Also, cuttings that are simply rooted will make perfect clones of the species of whatever was originally grafted onto the original dwarf rootstock they came from, so directly rooted cuttings from these specific trees would, more likely than not, produce an unmanageably tall tree unsuited for safe/efficient fruit picking.
Without a diversity of species/variety of trees, orchards are far more prone to devastating plights of pests and diseases, because if one tree is affected, it’s highly likely all the other trees of the same species will also be affected, and that danger is only amplified if you’ve got cloned trees.
If a pest/fungus/disease settles into a monocrop orchard (or worse, an orchard of cloned trees), it will have a veritable buffet of susceptible plants at it’s disposal, and will multiply and get out of hand quickly.
As an organic farmer, because we don’t use pesticides, herbicides, or fungicides, we want as many different species of trees from as many different sources as possible in our orchard, because this way, if a certain pest or disease likes one variety of tree but not another, then we only lose the crop/ or a single tree rather than the entire orchard.
you need a root stock tree to graise the rootts with then graft on to the peach cuttings
Stay tuned for our propagation video ;)
Girdling of trees is a method used by pioneers to kill trees to provide firewood or lumber. They would do it in the fall after all the sap has drained to the roots and harvest in the spring.
excited for the next video on planting fruit trees! ^-^
Us too!
Fabulous information Anne and Daniel 👍👍
I cannot wait to see your summer pruning part 3 video. Summe ris sooo far away...
And you can get a fruit picker pole. The work great
Yeah, I have 2, one goes to 3m. And a cropper on a 2m pole. But I was always really good at climbing trees so I do that too :-).
Ok so how do I get my peaches to ripeness without losing them to pests and mildew? Guild? Neem? I've heard the woes of hobby farmers saying not to plant peaches but my kids begged (by way of stuffing seeds everywhere and sprouting several trees that needed to be transplanted😂)...so here we are.
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That chicken was a good girl - still helping the garden. 🙂
Do you have a link to the video about what to do about the tree planted too deep? I think that's what happened to our peach tree (all of the fruit trees in our yard were planted a year or two before I bought the house). Most of the young tree died within our first year here, apparently with some sort of beetle infestation, leaving only one living branch. The tree was planted in a locally low spot in the yard and I could see water wasn't draining well around it, so instead of building soil up into a mound at the base, I basically dug out a circle some four feet out, and sloped the soil from the base of the tree to the perimeter of the circle. The tree did better the following several years, although the squirrels have been eating all of the fruit. Now my husband has mounded soil up at the base of the tree again, which I think may be a mistake. Just wondering whether I did right, and whether I should undo my husband's handiwork or just leave it alone, or if there is anything else we can do to help this poor tree.
We dug it up and replanted it (that is the tree we are doing root surgery on at the end of the video). If I were you I would immediately unmound the dirt around your tree and continue to redirect the water. That is what I would have done as well. You don’t even have to fully uproot it like we did with this tree, either, you can carefully excavate the soil away from the trunk of the tree until you get down to the top of the root system. Then I’d just add some leaf mulch and call it a day.
Thanks, @@AnneofAllTrades . I'm going out in the yard tomorrow to move an Acanthus mollis (Bear's Breeches) plant, so I'll take care of this while I'm out there.
Another Great Video 👍 Great content, keep up the great work!
Wish I saw this a few days ago when I did my pruning lol
I no matter how well, or even if you didn’t print at all, fruit production depends on the weather.
Storms during bloom will wash off the flowers and our little honey bee buddies won’t be out pollinating .
If your tree is blooming and we get storms, that tree is not gonna have as much fruit, bottom line
How about how to sharpen pruners
Oh god yes! I got a sharpening tool after seeing another video but I can't seem to make it work...
9:32 …an I’ll just pop in here
When did you pop out?
SO NEEDED
Excellent thk you
Before I made the decision to do a hard pruning on the pear tree, I watched so many videos.,
Great video on pruning, which I am trying to learn. Thanks! (Where did this guy learn to prune?)
Great follow up video. I’m now subscribed.
Very informative ! How can I also follow Daniel. ?
Great video thanks
I'm very curious how to prune combination trees, which have multiple varieties grafted onto a single rootstock!
The same way! I’ve got many trees like that here.
@@AnneofAllTrades that's interesting thanks! Mine are still very young with only like one branch of each type so if I trimmed them, I worry they'd spread in the wrong directions 😳🤪
Battery chainsaw and cow manure paste to paint the cuts 🤙
Hey Anne. I really would love to see how the tree reacted to this.. last season :)
You can see how all the trees do season to season in my garden tour videos ;)
Awesome thank you! The dead chicken probably helped indeed!
Now that’s how you maintain your plants, with a Moscow mule in one hand!
Is this good for all fruit trees, or only peaches?
Most fruit trees- check out this other primer for more tree species specific tips:
th-cam.com/video/h6hWa3nx7yo/w-d-xo.htmlsi=wh0AGTpLIzxgLdVY
I wonder if I can do this to my cheerry tree that insists on growing UP?
Absolutely would do.
But if we allow natural structure won’t the tree be stronger?
You’d think, but I’d invite you to walk through the woods behind my house and see all the trees that have been ruined by wind, the weight of snow and ice, and general lack of pruning. Nature does take care of itself, but not nearly in as efficient or long lasting as we homesteaders might like from the trees we intentionally plant.
In a forest, I guess the cycle of life works fine with random falling trees to open up light for others to grow, and provide dead wood for fungus etc to break down to feed the trees. But when we only have a few trees, our stakes are higher if we lose a few. I've lost one cherry, probably lose another plus 2 or 3 apple trees because of previous (and frankly my own) neglect. Some are really old though!
I would love Daniel’s contact info. We are in the Nashville area and would love to contact him!
I have no trees but ❤ video
The stake is still there :-)
When I lived in Florida, they would trim the trees before hurricane season.
Wanting dwarf fruit trees and such great information
What about the rule of only pruning 1/3 of the tree at any one pruning?
That’s why we pruned it this summer first, to see how it would respond/react to pruning so we could prune accordingly this winter ;) th-cam.com/video/h6hWa3nx7yo/w-d-xo.htmlsi=wh0AGTpLIzxgLdVY
Peaches often get pruned by one- half. But here in the rainy PNW we never prune stone fruits in the rainy season, all sping-summer pruning due to bacterial canker.
I’m about to plant some orange trees. hurry with the next video! :)
06:30 I swear that bud grew 0.5cm between clips. 😂
I would love to see a 80 ft tall peach tree