I Can’t Stop Planting Fruit Trees
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 12 ก.พ. 2024
- I’ve got a FEVER…and the only prescription…more fruit trees.
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Another fruit tree video? Mix it up dude. - Eric
You’re just jealous of my plums
Go away Eric! We want to watch these videos
Yep or at least do it better.
A fat...like olives? Almond?
And cork!!!!
A long story short, when my grandmother died, I inherited her garden, including her fruit trees. At first I hated the 40 foot tall monster grapefruit tree. I hated the thorns. I hated trimming it in January when it is cold. I went into it with a bad attitude. After the first year of getting 500+ sweet grapefruits for 8-16 hours worth of work/year, I converted. I could have grapefruits every morning for breakfast and still have enough left over for grapefruit syrup, grapefruit tea, dried grapefruits, candied grapefruit peels, and grapefruit zest. I bought another tree.
And so it begins 😂
Incredible!
Grandma blessed your perseverance with an abundance of fruit!!
Love this story
We’re SO PROUD to be a part of your fruit tree growing successes! Looking forward to watching your orchard mature! Happy Gardening 2024, Kevin! 🌱👍
Bro, I just found your page the other day. I'm over in La Jolla and in the past two years I've planted a full-blown mini orchard hahaha. Once you start, it's so hard to stop buying barefoot fruit trees from Walter Andersen! I have 7 varieties of peaches, 9 varieties of plums/pluots, 2 varieties of nectarines, 10 varieties of apples, and 3 varieties of apricots/apriums. I don't really have much room for all of them, but somehow I keep finding space haha to the frustration of my family 🤣

Last year, Eva's pride peach, fuji apple, double delight nectarine, and babcock peach just slaaayed. Hoping for a good crop this year on the others! Good luck to you and yours!
I am also obsessed with adding fruiting trees, bushes and perennials! I am running out of room soon tho... 😅
As someone on a plot of clay, I'm insanely jealous of how easy digging that hole was. 😂 I dread having to dig anything. Especially if it's wet.
Other than that, love the info as always.
Same over here with us. It's all clay. I'm so sick of dealing with it, I'm s skipping right over it and putting in raised beds. Better on the back anyways. Not quiet sure how to go about dealing with the clay and planting trees though.
100% with you. I'm in north Texas and we call outer clay gumbo. It's crazy dense, hard as a rock when dry, heavy and slimy when wet
Took a while but was worth the improvement process
Compost, wood chips, and a tiller.
I don't feel so bad after seeing your cherry tree. I have three similar sticks in the ground, a Lapins, Stella, and Bing cherry tree. I also planted an AU Rosa and Yellow Gold plum tree. I have two apple trees waiting to be planted. It will probably be Thursday before the ground, red clay, dries out enough to dig in after a recent rain storm. Central Alabama zone 7B.
So my Asian pair that I planted in 2002 in memory of my mom has been such a good fruitful abundant tree last year. We got the biggest and the most out of that tree they were all softball size very big very juicy and about 300 pounds of fruit, so it was hard for us to get them. They hadn’t been trimmed so long the tree so when this winter happened started, I had a guy come out and pretty much butchered the tree, but cut all out of 45° and made it to where when I need to harvest Which I thought maybe next year you know it will skip a year then I could reach because it’s not that high up a pole of fruit poke can get the fruit. Well my surprise my tree is blossoming it’s got a lot of blossoms within a week it’ll be fully loaded with white flowers and I’m thinking I’ll get fruit and when I harvest here in Houston. It’s always after the Fourth of July, so I will keep you posted but I’m excited and I’m pretty sure I’ll be able to harvest the pears since we did a good good trim on my 22-year-old pear tree..
It did take me seven years to get fruit but I’m pretty sure you might get one that can fruit sooner they sell those now
Not sure about everyone else but my multi graft trees were less productive as the weakest variety got smaller and smaller, whilst the strongest variety overtook the tree. To balance up you just end up hacking the biggest variety back to match the weak one. Two plants in one hole is better IMHO. Horticulturist, Australia.
I've heard it's trickier. I do want decent production but don't need crazy because I prefer to eat most fresh no preserving.
If you plan it carefully you need to know what is more Vigorous. And give the least Vigorous the most sun.
I forgot his name, but an expert on pruning said the weakest variety should be cut back more than the stronger ones. Aggressive pruning encourages more growth.
Love the orchard! I’m up to 4 persimmon trees now, and I’ve learned a lot! The coffee cake is a PVNA (pollination variant, non astringent) variety, meaning it will change in astringency depending on cross pollination. The Jiro is a PCNA (pollination constant, non astringent) meaning it is always non astringent whether or not it’s cross pollinated. It may just get some seeds if cross pollinated. Harvesting the coffee cake this season was a bit like Forest Gump’s box of chocolates you never knew what you’d get! You don’t know until you cut into them how they were pollinated. About 10% of mine became non astringent with cross pollination with delicious cinnamon colored flesh. The rest ended up astringent, but I just dehydrated them and they lost their astringency and were good to eat as well. I had a maru, and a fuyu persimmon, but it didn’t give enough cross pollination for my liking. I added a chocolate persimmon this winter hoping to up my percentage of non astringent fruit. 🤞🏻for next season!
That’s really good to know about the pollination types, I had no idea! Thanks!
My TH-cam feed just served up multiple videos about Fruit Tree Guilds 2 days ago and I've become astounded by their logic and beauty. Guilds are a part of Permaculture and I now understand that they are groups of various plant species which grow together in synchronicity for the health of all in the guild. Have you heard of this? If so, then have you ever considered using some of these principles? Thanks for all you do Kevin! I understand about the incoming storm - I'm in Shasta County and our low precipitation totals have been catching up lately! Am sending my best wishes for your new plantings.
Your soil looks so good!
We are in the process of planning our front yard, and have decided to run trees up both sides which allows us to have about 30 trees. I can't wait to start planting!
I noticed chickens lay more eggs with more time in sun. After noticing i realized i had too many places with shade and took everything out but one corner this winter i had 5 out of 8 eggs a day. Nights are still mid 20s but they are producing well. I think we over protect them with too much shade thinking its whats best but they use it more for hiding than actually feeling hot at least in winter 😅
Fruit trees are great - incredible production with minimal effort. The problem can be using it all.
Your soil looks good!
A good problem to have :)
I would LOVE to see more info sources about the stainless mesh around the roots, because my arborist sister saw that and said it's interfering with proper root development.
I would be concerned about it it too. I'd rather have fine guage non-stainless that would rust away before it became an obstacle to root growth, or a root strangler. Dig that thing out! And put in place some gopher control measures.
Food Forests are the way to go. Make that whole thing an orchard.
For that gopher wire, do you need to remove it later once the tree and roots get bigger and establishes itself? Or does it stay there?
It stays. The roots will go through it and possibly stretch/break it. It may end up causing the tree to not grow as big which isn't the worst thing if you want to keep the tree smaller.
I wouldn't use it.
I wouldn't do this for larger trees. Dwarfs may be fine. But larger tree roots may girdle.
We grow persimmons here in Australia, where I was first introduced to them about 25 years ago after growing up in Massachusetts USA. Everyone here pronounces persimmons as 'per-sim-mons' with the emphasis on the 'per' and it drives me nuts. :0 But they sure are delicious! Just a fun fact.
Your zone is very similar to mine in my home state of South Australia, and I have learned so much from your channels. My next big challenge is putting my pot grown fruit producing mango tree in the ground, and I wondered why you didn't decide on getting one when you went to the garden shop to get the other fruit trees. And if you have finger lime trees available there I would definitely recommend growing one. They are so delicious and I guarantee you that you won't regret it. Especially if you like a nice G & T after a hot day in the garden!
The audio sounds that you make on your blogs, keep making me feel like my earbuds need to be recharged! 😀
Super excited about your plan! It is great that you and Jacque are doing a swell; an ancient, no-cost, and time-tested technique. I am also excited to see how the bare roots do. There's a back-and-forth debate on the survival rate of bare root but I think it is all about technique and understanding your environment and the plant's needs. Can't wait to see how yours do!
I have that same Asian pear combo. Watch out for fire blight. I also share your addiction in planting fruit trees. I got tired of buying multi grafts and learned to graft my own. Much more fun!
You're SO lucky to have such a big backyard in a place like SD!
Love the fruit trees - the painted ones look a bit like birch bark :)
This was both helpful & timely. I'm currently reading "Grow a Little Fruit Tree" by Ann Ralph and she recommends that super-short pruning just after planting bare-root fruit trees and it's nice to watch somebody actually make the (scary!) cut. Also, a few days ago I ordered a dual-grafted bare-root Asian pear tree so now when I pick it up I will hopefully know what to do... Thanks.
Awsome Kevin! Love the new look of the Epic garden!
I love the graffiti/ painted wall. The homestead has come so far. Ive learnded so much from your videos. Thank you
Good morning! This is a good thing. Plant like crazy. I am trying to restore my orchard from a wildfire back in 2014. I have a long way to go. Looks like you’re in a tropical growing zone? Nice! Have a blessed day! Wendy🙏🏻🇺🇸
Your first dig into the soil and I'm like, his soil is rich AF
Great vid Kevin, if this is what you envision for your future at epic, I’m all on board. I’ve always wanted to see the homesteading channel flourish. Love from Toronto
Two years ago I started the same kind of orchard, but I put 3 and 4 fruit trees in one hole...then moved 6 months ago. My apples were so happy. Flood irrigated them once or twice a week in a high desert garden, mulched really well. I actually cut them all down to knee height when I put them in, and when we left they were all about shoulder height with good growth all the way around.
I did have another apple, same age, that got knocked over and broken 3/4 of the way through at the base, right above the graft, after consulting my dad, I staked it back up with the pressure against the break and it lived! It grew back together so that after a year, I could take the tie downs (yes, I used 1 inch wide tie downs, since I already had them) and it was solidly grown back together. I was not expecting it to live.
I've planted 4 trees since Sunday and have 1 more to go. I really want to go purchase some more. Lol
It would be so much fun to see you trying to grow pineapples 😃
Wow your garden looks great, nice simple and functional.
Trying that one myself. The markets do not have good tasting pears so I got my favorites. Let us see yearly growth on those 2 together.❤
I wish my soil looked like that omg. Working on amending all this clay
Clay is the gift that never starts giving. Just feed it more organic matter than you think it can handle, and it will slowly get better.
Signed, a clay gardener
Daikon radish, pink dandelion, purple cosmos carrots are great too o do this.
I also have had Fruit Tree Fever. At 72 years old, I dug most of the holes, made berms and swells, and did some composting in place around the trees. The next year, I removed the grass in the front yard, made a half-circle of berm/swells and planted more trees. Then I started planting anywhere I had enough space. Unfortunately, in west Texas we had really, very extreme cold temperatures in the winter followed by extreme hot during the summer. I wish I had painted the trunks. What is the name of the “paint” you used? Maybe some trees aren’t so far gone that they can be helped.
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Thanks for the video, Kevin! I feel that paint trick works really well. I've only tried it once though. Essentially, when we bought our house there were two citrus trees (lemon and lime) already in the front yard. Our neighbour had the same trees and apparently planted theirs the same time ours were planted. A couple of years babying the small trees and giving them pretty much the same attention as my neighbour gave to theirs showed little promise. After seeing one of your videos where you painted your trees a few years ago I thought I might as well give it a go. Our sun is brutal here, even in winter, and our front yard gets sun the entire day. So, I i painted the trees, but our neighbour didn't do theirs. Over the next year our trees absolutely exploded and more than doubled in size. The neighbour's trees remained small and one even died. So, painting the stems is not such a crazy idea and does work from what I i can tell.
Dalia, I'm so sorry for your loss.😢 My thoughts and prayers are with you!🙏
Hi Kevin,
Love your videos!
This time I will have a comment for you:
I think your pea is to near to the greenhouse and the cherry to near to the wall. Think about that the branches will go bigger and longer and you can’t go round your greenhouse. And the rootball of the cherry could damage your wall when it will grow older and bigger.
Have a nice Sunday!
Greetings from Germany!
Sanne
The Epic Thiccies young and old are looking like One Flock, love that
i know the feeling. I've put like 40+ fruit trees in my backyard, everywhere!
Also, i like that south facing balance trick you mentioned.
Great tip!
That is a very vibrant flock! Nice!!
Excited to watch the trees grow. And, best chickens ever :)
Great info !! Thank you !!
I bought a persimmon that was a stick too. I didn't trim it like that and it only branched out at the very top. I might try that since it's only been a year. Thank you.
I'm with you man! I am growing my orchard in a 3 configuration, each about 4 feet a part. Right now I have 3 pears and 3 peaches. I'll be adding more this year to probably get them up to 12 all together.
The hens are gorgeous! 😍
to the title: me either! 😂 its addicting. Its like, what else can I grow?!
The chickens are just so beautiful!
Love seeing the epic thiccees again! Glad the new gals have been adopted into the flock ♥️ theyre all looking gorgeous
Just noticed theres a small pomegranate tree on at my new farm, it looks a little rough but after I give it a touch of some fert and some regular watering it should boom come spring time 👍 I plan on planting quite a types of fruit trees since Im working with about half an acre
THANK YOU...for planting your fruit trees close together. If you do it, i feel good about what I've done.I have a small lot .25 acre. Planted 34 fruit trees & some are as close as 4 feet apart. They are doing great.
Love to hear this
I was just exploring the possibility of getting a small cherry tree. I’m looking forward to watching more about their care.
Could you drop a link to the tree paint and wrap? Also, do you recommend staking?
Here is a suggestion... one day if you have a storm, place a camera outside to record it and the sound from it. I fall asleep to recordings of rainstorms on youtube and would be fun for you to have one with your garden in view and those palm trees swinging.
Love the fruit tree videos!!
your flock is beautiful! Are you at all concerned about the eventual amount of shade all those trees will cast on the garden crops? Really enjoy your channel.
Nope! They're on the north side of the garden
For the two pears being right by each other it would be interesting to see you graft a brand from each growing between them to connect them. They would then be able to share nutrients and one wouldn’t over shadow the other also it would function as a living spacer between them
I’m glad I’m not the only one who is sat going “Well, I mean I do have a bunch of trees… but I could get more…”
I’m waiting till after this year and see how big the ones I’ve got already get. 😅
After planting 28 fruit trees and 9 citrus, so far, over the past 7 years I now have gophers which I didn't plan on. If I were to do it again I would definitely have protected the roots as a precaution.
What nursery do you get your trees from? Also, I love how you planted the trees close by - I have never seen or heard of that.
That soil looks soooo good OMG
Kevin go ahead and do some more livestreams i binged your Lives yesterday and now i wish you would do some more lol
Good looking dirt
Great video. Just completed my first order from Botanical Interests today 😊
Hope you enjoy it! Appreciate your order
@@epichomesteading everything is germinating really well so far. I’m even experimenting with grafting a few tomatoes this year 😃🥲
The hosui pear is one of my favorites! If you thin them, you get huge fruit and they store really well. I had them in the fridge for over 2 months and used them for jams, pies, cobbler, and of course a lot of pear salads!
Can't wait to eat some!
Yassss keep planting fruit trees.
Where do you get you mix grafted trees?
2 persimmons that close is crazy. The persimmon trees I see near me in NorCal are huge
Active pruning
You may already know this but coffee cake needs to be pollinated to make that beautiful marbling inside. Fuyu does not product male flowers so it's not a suitable partner for coffee cake. Chocolate is usually recommended for this purpose
Added a dozen this year. Hopefully gophers don’t steal too many.
Would be cool to graft the two trees together and make them conjoined
Yay! More fruit trees 😆 🌳 🍑 🍒 🍊 🍎
Why no1 is mentioning the weather and the TEMPERATURE in that day ?? It is sometimes really important to learn in what weather condition it has been done
A video of the absolute best tasting things growing in your garden would be cool.
Sweet! Noice adding the other trees. Can’t wait to add some more to my property. Hopefully in the near future!
🌺Aloha, wish we could get some of those fruit trees here. I'm waiting for some apples or maybe pears that could grow here in Hawaii.
Dang Kevin and crew! 👀 Look at that soil now! Is that from no dig as i remember the native dusty soil when you moved in?!
So do we call you tree Daddy now or Thickbark?
It is! Thickbark will do
I have the Hosui asian pear. I don't know about the others, but , here, there's this pinkish fungus that will attack the fruit, and shrivel it up. At Tractor supply, we found an organic fungal spray. I spray the tree once a year, after the blooms start to fall. Makes a huge difference in yield
I'll keep an eye out!
I would advice against painting young trees, they need sun to help them grow bark. White paint, actually lime with water, is used on 3-4 years old trees to prevent trunk cracking because of sap moving thru the tree in warmer days, then freezing in the nights. So making the trunk absorb less heat during the day and less moving the sap in the trunk. Hope it make sense.
The Coffee Cake persimmon needs a pollinator or it won't ripen properly. And Jiro has only female flowers. You need to add another persimmon into the mix, probably Chocolate (Tsurunoko) to pollinate the Coffee Cake or it will be a huge waste of time and space.
Man i cant figure out your backyard plots? Is that all native soil or did you truck in soil? Its level with the whole yard yet you can dig out over a foot of black gold soil? How do you get plots like that? Im in Florida our native soil is sugar sand
Can you espalier this new row?
Please, please could you do a more in-depth explanation of the 2 trees 1 hole method? This is the first I'm hearing of it, and would love to know more :) As it would help me out so much in future when I get some eating cherry trees (and their subsequent pollinating partners)!
I'll add to the list
Hi, I just noticed that you buried one of the trees lower than the grafting place, here in my area this is not recommended cause it can rot the base therefore killing the tree... And also if it sprouts from tje ground you can't tell if it's from the variety that you want or not... So I think it a good thing to leave the grafting spot where you can see it so you can remove any new growth from below easily... just my experience here in the south of Brazil, maybe not applicable to your zone..
Adjusted it
Have you tried the Yuzu cold hardy lemon??
You will need a chocolate perssimon to pollinated the coffe cake
I'm always curious, with such a great variety of fruit trees how are they all productive in your climate? I feel like bananas need a different climate to say lemons but they all seem to be prolific in the epic homestead
Connect with the Urban Farmstead in Cali. He’s got some amazing tips for pruning newly planted fruit trees in close spacing.
What brand would you recommend if you had to buy compost from a local nursery?
I like a few types but recipe 420 is usually good
I legit have 30 fruit trees in my backyard!
CAN ANYONE STOP THIS MAD MAN!?!?
No
Dude! Your soil is LUSH! 😮😍
I couldnt beer bong Epic fruit tree content fast enough
Hahahhaa
Hello to the chickens!!!❤❤❤
Need more land to plant more treees
Here for this unhinged energy. Epic as always!!
Lovely video Eric
I am so with u, if I had space at all, fruit trees it would be