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Fruit Pruning Channel
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Knowing how to prune trees and shrubs can be daunting, especially if you're trying to maximize fruit production. Follow us as we explore and discuss how to prune and care for fruiting trees, fruiting shrubs, grapes, and brambles.
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Never Growing Blackberries Like This Again!
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Never Growing Blackberries Like This Again!
Modified Central Leaders in Fruit Trees
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Modified Central Leaders in Fruit Trees
The Biggest Mistake Gardeners Make When Pruning Open Center Fruit Trees
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The Biggest Mistake Gardeners Make When Pruning Open Center Fruit Trees
3 Reasons to Plant Bulbs in your Orchard this Fall
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3 Reasons to Plant Bulbs in your Orchard this Fall
This Pest is Eating my Fruit Tree Bark!
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This Pest is Eating my Fruit Tree Bark!
5 Things you can do this Fall to Prepare your Fruit Trees for Winter
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5 Things you can do this Fall to Prepare your Fruit Trees for Winter
Can Fruit Trees Be Pruned in the Fall?
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Can Fruit Trees Be Pruned in the Fall?
How do you know when it's time to harvest your apples?
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How do you know when it's time to harvest your apples?
Case Study: Corrective Pruning a Peach Tree
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Case Study: Corrective Pruning a Peach Tree
OLD Leather Smith here, very nice, thank you, I purchased mine @ only 3" high now it's 8' high. I am guessing you prune in the fall when it's dormant. Thanks 4 your video. GOD'S BLESSINGS ✝️🥎🙃
Gotta suck to be a sucker😅 good advice brother
Suckers do suck! Glad you found the video helpful.
How to stop suckers?
@@larrybounds9001 if you browse my other videos you will see I have several about preventing suckers.
and if you have 10,000 trees?
Good luck! Not sure the most cost effective way to keep deer out of an orchard that size!
Thank you for the explanation of the trunk of fruit tree.
I'm glad it was helpful.
I have so many suckering trees owing to buying a 100 year old home that was empty for three years between the original owner and my move in date. Then I became disabled and was sick out for two year, totally. Then I took care of my parents property during a part of Covid and then my dad died of neglect because he was hospitalized but DIDN’T have Covid. (Bad time for a high blood sugar spike as diabetic supplies were more difficult to obtain…and no, not because of supply issues…I recently learned from my cousin in pharmacy the whole “not enough precursors” has been a lie. It’s been a created shortage.). So then I was caring for my mom for over a year after my dad passed as she can’t do anything but cook and clean and have hobbies…she never realized the physical plant portion of home ownership was WORK! She also wanted her actual forest groomed….in the meantime I have three lots in a city with dozens of trees, from a maple planted by the city that suckers like mad, to fruit trees. I haven’t even gotten diatomaceous earth spread from last fall to this spring to keep the Japanese beetles from eating all the foliage off a 100 year old grapevine!
Wow! Sounds like a lot of work! Sorry for your loss.
I think we've noticed that the fence trick is really the only thing that really works. Our deer kept destroying our trees, tearing branches out of them or injuring them beyond salvation with their antlers. The fences kept them from breaking or eating the trees so that they actually had a shot of reaching maturity.
Yeah, I don't know any other way that works as good as a simple fence around each tree.
Google lens works great too!
Yeah, good tip!
Nicee 👍 I also have some fruit trees and they are a great bonus to the garden 😁
I don't think a garden is complete without them.
Just curious do all blossoms turn into fruit?
All blossoms that aren't damaged by frost, and they must be pollinated. So usually a percentage of the blossoms don't turn into fruit, but they could.
If you mean fruit trees, apples are pretty easy
Apples are pretty easy, but it's hard to keep bugs out of the fruit.
What tree do you think is the easiest to grow?
I think apples are the easiest trees, but in most climates they are the hardest to keep bugs out of the fruit. Peach trees are hard, but easier to keep bugs out of fruit.
I wondered what easiest way to do this would be. Thanks!
Pinching off each blossom is extremely tedious.
Love the Element in n the leaves
Isn't that fun!?
This is a dream for children
Adults are just big children.haha
@@fruitpruningchannellol
Amazing brother
Glad you like it!
That’s awesome!
Might effect presence of pollinators doing their job. How cold did it get?
The forecast said it got to 32° f. I don't have a thermometer in the orchard, but it seemed a little colder than that. There was frost everywhere the next morning.
I had a grandma tell us to put bad or old eggs into the gopher holes so they would move along & leave youe trees be.
I've heard of that, but I've never tried it.
Are you using this mix every year on “all” your fruit trees? Exactly which month do you spray? I live in Italy and have a wide variety of fruit trees and I spray them in November and February with just a copper mix but spray my peach and nectarine trees at least four times and the trees always end up with leaf curl problem. Using your mix on your peach trees do you have the same problem as i do? Lastly, how much neem oil and copper is in your mix? Thanks for your feedback
I just mixed the products according to the label. What I use here may not be the right thing for your specific area. I guess the point of the video was to explain The importance of understanding your specific pests and using specific products for those specific pests at specific times in order to manage your orchard according to your area.
Interesting, is there much pressure from codling moth up there on your apples?
We don't have coddling moth. Our winters are cold enough that many pests can't survive.
@@fruitpruningchannel Wow! That's nice! What zone is your orchard?
@@ejfoodguy we are in zone 4a
Thanks for posting, its fun to see progress updates!
Thanks for watching!
I have a Redhaven peach tree and for the last couple of years I'm getting leaf curl on it. Not too much, enough that I just physically pick off the leaves, but what can I do to prevent it all together....what natural spray could I use?
Chelated copper mixed with your dormant oil spray in the spring is a good start. If you don't have a real severe case, pulling the leaves, though tedious, is a pretty good way to eliminate the disease before it spreads.
@@fruitpruningchannel thank you!
I think you’ll need a higher fence!😂
Sure do!
Dinner!!
I love venison steaks!
Have you tried the Irish Spring soap bar trick? I'm wondering if that works.
Yes, it seems to help some, but like most methods deer get used to seeing, smelling, and tasting things, and end up disregarding things that are no longer a threat.
@@fruitpruningchannel Thank you for your response.
Black berry’s are awesome
Agreed!
Gotta love those water SHPROUTS!!!
Putting an SH in front of anything makes it better. Like shuper, shtupendous, and sharcastic.
Are you beekeeping?!
We have a local bee keeper who keeps hives at our orchard.
Sounds like the weather is a little crazy. It looks super nice over there!
Yeah, we finally got some good spring weather.
I agree with you. Although leaves by themselves also can be useful as a top dressing. One of the best things I ever did for my raised garden beds was putting a layer of leaves over top. Almost no weeds and it holds soil moisture in during the hot summer months.
Yes! Where leaves create a barrier that is hard for moisture to penetrate, it also creates a barrier that keeps weeds at bay and can hold in moisture when the weather is hot. Thanks for your comment!
My wife does this too
She must be a smart woman!
I’m thinking about doing rubarb in our yard. Just cause they are super cool looking.
Yeah, I think it makes a good landscape plant just for the visual.
Looks like fun!
I was just cutting up fruit wood, once I let it cure it'll make for great meat smoking wood.
Are you Steve Martin's son?
😂
Good stuff!
Thanks!
"Sun Scald" in the winter. Is that like from the sun's reflection in the snow?
Yeah I’m curious about that too
Sun scald happens when the sun heats up the bark in the day expanding it, and then low night time temperatures cause it to contract. This freeze and thaw or expansion and contractions causes the bark to peel away from the wood underneath.
Do I need the tree wrap in Spokane? And at what age of the tree do you not need the wrap anymore?
When I was in Spokane I saw a large weeping birch tree with lots of exposed branches on top. There was no sign of sun scald anywhere. Birch trees are susceptible to sun scald in many locations, but I think Spokane's mild, overcast winters are such that sun scald is probably not an issue.
Very interesting!
Glad you liked it!
Easily the most helpful video on peach tree pruning I’ve found!! Thank you!
I'm so glad you found this video helpful!
yeah whoever trimmed the pears and apples here created about 10 billion water sprouts and I'm kind of at a loss for what to do. will the ones along the top eventually shade the trees so bad that they won't be able to function?
Yes! The water sprouts will definitely shade out the older wood where the Spurs are found. There's no way to prune a pear tree aggressively without it responding with a lot of new water sprouts. It's just part of the process. You just have to accept that every year you will have to thin out most of the water sprouts to make room for the good fruiting wood to produce.
I pruned my first peach tree last weekend. I'm afraid I went a little too aggressive. oops Hope it comes back or my wife will be sad.
It is good to be aggressive with peach trees, but there is a balance. If too much of the canopy is removed then it can inhibit the tree's ability to collect sunlight during the summer and weaken the tree long term. I hope it bounces back so your wife doesn't get sad. Nothing worse than a sad wife. Haha
Really good ideas for doing a little each year; thanks for posting!
I'm so glad you like the video.
Do you have any recommendations regarding types of bark mulch that are better or types to avoid? I have been using red cedar bark mulch but as I was recently researching it seems there are different opinions (e.g. barks with tannins are a problem) out there. It seems to me that issues would be negligible but I would be interested in your opinion.
Any mulch under the tree is better than no mulch. Because I have access to branches with my pruning business my preference is to chip up all of my cuttings and make my own mulch. I like it best because it has a mixture of wood, bark, and leaves. I feel like it has a good diversity of material and it seems to decompose really well but also has a good structure so it lasts a while and doesn't blow away in the wind or after heavy rains.
Very good video . Thank you
Thank you! I'm glad it was helpful.
Yes , It's not good for fire blight... especially with pear trees😮😢.
Yes, if your trees have fire blight it's best to prune them in the winter because the fire blight will freeze and die if it's exposed to the cold temperatures. It's also important to make sure that you spray your fire blight infested trees with copper during the dormant stage and again when the pedals drop. You may need to do additional pruning and spraying throughout the season in order to keep the fire blight under control.
I put a plastic wire fence up they door my stakes up and crawed Under it. I woke up one morening and saw three deer in my 10x10 fenced area. Use metal wire. I don't think they like the way it pokes them.
Yeah, they're funny like that.
Just what I needed to know about spacing - thank you!
I'm so glad this was helpful.
Wondering, with all your hands-on experience, if you have any thoughts on this pruning idea that I came across that aims to keep scaffolds and secondary branches at the right sized ratio to help moderate the tree's energy economy: Especially when the tree is young (and later in crowded areas) remove every scaffold (or secondary branch) that exceeds 1/3 to 1/2 the diameter of the trunk (or scaffold) at the point of attachment to the trunk (or scaffold). The idea is that relative diameter of a scaffold branch at its point of attachment to the trunk strongly influences its access to sap and access to sap is the same as access to the roots. The smaller diameter stem tends to store relatively more of its carbohydrates and sends less to the roots creating a cycle of fruit productivity instead of vegetative vigor.
What you're describing sounds similar to the KGB method of pruning cherry trees.
Good information here.
Thanks!
Thank you! We opened up the canopy on some newer trees this spring! Keep the videos comming! I have one request, start the videos with a good dad joke 😊
I might have a few jokes up my sleeve.
Great video, I did not know that. So if your tree is pruned properly, you shouldn’t get very much drop?
@@ColeMetge Correct!
Sounds like kamala harris.
Not sure what that means.