How to Plant Fruit Trees for MAXIMUM Growth and Harvest
How to Plant Fruit Trees for MAXIMUM Growth and Harvest
Late winter and early spring are the best time to plant fruit trees and bushes. In this video, I’m showing you how to plant a bare root fruit tree, plus what to look for when choosing your tree, and how to properly care for, fertilize, and water your tree once it’s planted.
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Another helpful video! Thank you ☀️🙂
Excellent video. You prevented me from taking some bad advice.
I will be sharing the information with my sister who bought trees with me.
Thanks
You are to awesome, very informative and cute to!!!
Thanks
Woohoo! Ordered my trees this was helpful, in the east coast can’t wait to use what I learned from you! Thanks for sharing!
this just takes up so much time i could be spending on making money to send someone to the farmers market for me…
Hi nieces stay standing in prayer
Thanks for the info
Point the graft to the north
Your soil is so gorgeous I can’t wait until I get mine like that.
Wow! … I’m laughing. It’s been awhile since seeing one of your vids. Good lord woman, talk about informative, did you miss anything, I doubt it. Great job, very well done, thanks so much.
Белоручка ты.
I plant them much the same, if a bare root tree is a bit small in gage I will put it in a container for the summer or a year and then plant, I tend to prune back a tree a lot so that the roots develop more in proportion to the top, as well as keep well fertilized from the grass tea I make from mowing a non herbicide use lawn. what I find when I leave the top with a lot of growth and have not that much roots developed yet it is harder to control several diseases.
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I just hope that the seeds I plant come in Jamaican
Done it for years in the orchids here, first time I’ve seen it on YouTube. Excellent.
Great video…
Wow! I love it 😍
She so pretty!
You are great thank you so much!
Great video, very helpful. Thank you!
A good pair of gloves will save your hands….
I put compost on top of my bush cherries and some thing decided to come and eat it!! They tried to dig further but not focused on the cherries as it was shallow. I think it was a dog. I did put some Bio-Tone at the root level to hopefully encourage some mycorrhizae development.
Thank you for sharing this video, we all love fruit planting.
One video was teaching we have to train the roots to go down 🤔
Great video. Thank you!
I never plant a bare root tree in a round hole. I do a large rectangle 3′ by 2′ or larger and 3′ down. Judi
Корни атас быстрее ставь их в таз.))) Правильно что сразу провели обрезку. Только мало , слабая корневая пышную крону не вытянет. Время потеряете дожидаясь естественного баланса.
Hi Melissa, I’m getting ready to plant 36 apple trees. I like the idea of using the "netting technique" to deter the deer. Looks pretty straightforward. Any other tips when netting the trees? You mentioned that they hadn’t leafed out yet. Should I make an adjustment to the netting when they leaf out? How often are you adjusting the netting? Thanks so much!
I used white craft paint at the urging of my friend who has worked her entire life around Orchards , I just paint the bottom of the trunk because she said rabbits will leave the trees alone and not chew at them.
Nice twees ^^
This was super helpful! Thank you
아름다운 생각을 가졌어요~~🥰💕
Break up your back fill before you put the tree in the hole for easier planting
https://youtu.be/vMbSa2TQGlY
Great video! Everything I was taught to do too One time I transplanted White pines for a hedge row Early every Spring I cut the top out and sprinkled a handful of 10-10-10 fertilizer around the drip edge Wow in maybe 5-10 years they were huge! Xmas tree growers advice!
Any advice on rootstock growing suckers even though graft is above ground?
My dad’s apple 🍎🍏 tree’s grow straight up. How tall do you want them to be? Can you cut the top off?
It can be beneficial to bury the tree deeper to grow more roots off of the original base. Giving the tree more nutrients and moisture.
I use the great big dog method of keeping deer away from my fruit trees.
It’s awesome, I loved it.
My soil is heavy clay and very slow draining….is it possible to still grow fruit trees. What kind of ammendment can one make for this problem. Thank you for this video!
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=UgMV-XYgvQU
Awesome video
Do you know if I can use gorilla hair mulch on citrus and fruit trees?
That’s amazing! Ive been in a panic, cuz my husband brought home a bunch of fruit trees(apple, plum, blueberries, grapes) & every video I’ve seen talks about treating the soil for at least a wk or 2wks before planting!!!!!
THANK YOU!
Wait…i have a baby apple tree thats been putting out a ton of little apples (i actually cut a few off just to help it lighten the load) but your saying that i need to cut off ALL the currently growing baby apples? is that for every apple tree or just a certain type? i have 4 and never heard of that before but my fruit trees are all in huge pots….
I just purchased some apple trees and I obviously bought them at the wrong time of year 😬 is it ok to plant them?
I would have cut back some of the long outward roots and the main root. This way it will grow down and outwards. Then cut back almost the whole tree and top it off at the height you want your branching to start. Or top it off at almost ground level and grow a new central leader. So, i plant "roots" with a stem with only a couple of very small branches. Thus i balance my "tree" with the roots and re-grow them on a new location, as if it never have been moved around. The tree will grow mutch faster, if you start from almost zero and not with a shaped tree that has to adapt it selfs. Also remove the grass more (2m) and put a thick layer of mulch on it. And only water and feed far away at least 1/2 height from the trunk where you want the roots to grow to. You can put a small mash/chicken wire around the trunk for air circulation and animal protection and mulch with some bark or woodchips closer to the trunk. And use some white latex paint with out fangi protection and add 50% water and paint the trunk for sun protection in the first 4 years.
This is the 2nd consecutive video I’ve watched where you have a cold. Just a little tip.. Walact-D (formerly Actifed) is great for fighting a runny nose, or allergies. And it’s only about $8 (for 48 tablets) at Walgreens, behind the pharmacy counter. They’re the only store that sells it. One tiny tablet will begin to work on me in about 20 minutes, and is good for 4 to 6 hours. It’s an antihistamine, so expect to get drowsy. I hate using drugs that don’t work, and I call Walact-D one of my miracle drugs because it actually works. I get this feeling that you get lots of runny noses, or colds. BTW… I love your videos, even though some don’t apply to me, but they’re still very educational. Thank you!