Such an awesome video! Thank you for showing the results of the following spring. So many videos don't do this and you have no idea if they failed or succeeded. One thing that I don't understand from literature is that apple roots can't go very much below freezing. I've had personal experience where this doesn't seem to be the case. It looks like your experience in Northern Minnesota also seems to disprove this. Would you mind me asking your growing zone? It looks like zone 2b from zone maps. I'm sure it drops to very cold temps well below freezing for long periods of time? Thank you for a very informative, well edited and thoughtful video!
So once you cut the initial tree back to a stump, we’re you adding a first layer of sand and then sawdust on top of that for the new roots to grow into??
No. Allow the stump to sprout shoots. Then once they are long enough to be buried about a foot deep and still have around 6” of leaves exposed then you’re ready. Most likely it will take around 2-3 months after you cut it to the ground before you start adding soil at the base.
@@greeneacreshomestead i'm from indian occupied kashmir.. and I have three types of rootstock.. m9,bud9 and mm106..now I will use the same technique.. Thanks
@@greeneacreshomestead Amazing your technique! (I've only started a garden now for the first time) - so a sapling can start from a seed or not? And in your demonstration case, how did the young tree start ? Thanks
Absolutely wonderful video! Great job!
Thank you
Such an awesome video! Thank you for showing the results of the following spring. So many videos don't do this and you have no idea if they failed or succeeded.
One thing that I don't understand from literature is that apple roots can't go very much below freezing. I've had personal experience where this doesn't seem to be the case. It looks like your experience in Northern Minnesota also seems to disprove this. Would you mind me asking your growing zone? It looks like zone 2b from zone maps. I'm sure it drops to very cold temps well below freezing for long periods of time? Thank you for a very informative, well edited and thoughtful video!
So once you cut the initial tree back to a stump, we’re you adding a first layer of sand and then sawdust on top of that for the new roots to grow into??
No. Allow the stump to sprout shoots. Then once they are long enough to be buried about a foot deep and still have around 6” of leaves exposed then you’re ready. Most likely it will take around 2-3 months after you cut it to the ground before you start adding soil at the base.
Very nice and simple ..by the way which rootstock is this..?
It is a “red splendor crab apple” that I’m using.
@@greeneacreshomestead i'm from indian occupied kashmir.. and I have three types of rootstock.. m9,bud9 and mm106..now I will use the same technique.. Thanks
is this tree first on seedling
This tree was planted as a sapling not from seed.
@@greeneacreshomestead Amazing your technique! (I've only started a garden now for the first time) - so a sapling can start from a seed or not? And in your demonstration case, how did the young tree start ? Thanks