Air Pruning Bed First Harvest - Air Pruning Works!
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Building my first air prune bed today, thanks for the video.
Just come across your channel and sub great content thank you
Awesome
Great video, one question, imagine you have a group of young trees that need more than one season in the box, such as trees you intend to graft in 2nd year, or slow growers like pawpaw, could you just leave them in the box over winter, or must you take them all out, hill them in and replant them again in the boxes next spring???
Hi Mr. Chickadee, I haven't yet had occasion to overwinter trees and let them go through a second year of grow in an air pruning bed, however I'd imagine that would be my first choice instead of digging them out, hilling and then re-planting the next year. I'm also in a relatively warm climate - if you're in a place where it gets below freezing for large stretches you probably would want to dig out the trees and hill them to keep the roots from being frozen.
This is really cool.
I'm thinking one of these will help my backyard nursery production system...currently use raise nursery beds for seedlings, and Root Pouches for years 2-5. I will have to dig the air pruning beds in the fall though, because of our WI winters.
Is the tap root permanently dead? When planted in the ground is the tree weaker? Thank you 😊
No, the tap root is merely dormant. Because the root tip is effectively dehydrated when it hits air, it goes dormant. Once planted out, new apical buds will sprout from the dormant root tips and resume growing. This is one of the reasons air pruning is so helpful specifically for tap-rooted species - it just presses pause on the tap root, but doesn't stunt it as would a slick walled plastic pot. Cheers!
Do you have perlite in the air prune bed soil? What kind of soil did you start with to get the bed going?
What are you mean about healing them after you dig seedlings out?
If you are not planting in the ground and there is a risk of the roots freezing, the trees are bundled together and placed into pots which can be mulched around, or placed into holes/trenches in the ground and covered with loose soil and mulch.
What soil do you use for air pruned boxes?
Question: will there specific technique in planting them on their destination to make sure those beautiful roots keep on spreading?
Hi Teguh, yes, we generally dig the hole as wide as the roots will go, then create a mound in the center and splay the roots down the side of the mound to spread them out. We then fill in the soil around those roots while holding the tree in place and spreading the roots. It is very helpful to have 2 people - one holding the tree and spreading roots, the other filling in soil.
wonderful. i was thinking of Whitcomb 4-inch rule being violated by your system but the roots seem ok. what are your thoughts? mygreathanks and blessings
Hi Paul, yes, we still got a high degree of branching despite the seeds being planted more like 6" above the screen at the bottom of the beds. Next trial will be to create individual cells within the larger air prune bed using some extruded polyethylene panels cut into interlocking pieces to create a grid - I'm hoping to maximize the air pruning around the sides, not just on the bottom, while still taking advantage of the air pruning beds larger mass and connected soil bodies unlike using individual pots.
@@7thGenerationDesign wonderful. done with the trial you mentioned here - the individual cells within the air prune bed? but what i would like to see is how you then plant the seedlings to take full advantage of the huge root mass achieved by the air pruning beds...mygreathanks and blessings🙏
@@7thGenerationDesign any results on this extruded polystyrene trial? thank you!