THE DAY AFTER - SO MANY DEAD TREES
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- čas přidán 5. 09. 2024
- Join me LA editor Welborn Ferrene as I travel 2000 miles from Los Angeles to Luverne Alabama to care for my orchard. It's not easy going from Pacific Palisades, CA editing TV series on AVID Media Composer like America's Got Talent, The X Factor, Master Chef, Face Off, Below Deck, etc... to getting down and dirty on our family Farm in Luverne AL. it's definitely an adventure!! - It's our second day on the farm after bush-hogging and weed eating all 10 acres. Now i have to remove the Tyvek sleeves from the smaller trees, get soil samples and assess each tree. the question is will I have time to do it all? I only have 4 hours and 500 trees! I can't believe how many trees died!! Find out how my trees did die and what did better; the bare root trees or the potted trees? And also... what's to come?
Great episode! Very interesting
Thank you Thorn Crown! loving your episodes as well!! Crazy that giants really did exist! Love all the proof provided. Amazing so much has been covered up!! And how it relates biblically... even in Indian lore.. Soooo cool! That's for subscribing and watching! Still diving into yours!
Its amazing how fast the weeds grow down here! growing up around San Francisco and living in south Alabama I cant wait to see the next update. I wish you all the luck
You know it!! Well they're growing again... right NOW! heading back there to do a spray soon! Next Episode will be my return to AL last November and man did I have a lot to do to catch up! Thank you for tuning in! It's all about to get a lot more fun!!
It looks like a lot of your content is posted long after the videos were taken. Advice: if you plant more acreage, join a local state and/or national association, go to meetings, take classes. Perhaps take the week long class in Texas. Do soil tests first, get a more comprehensive test than the one shown in earlier video. Amend soil and turn it in, use a subsoiler to bust up hard pan and help land drainage. Then install irrigation, then trees. Be careful on tree depth, some of yours seem to have sunk in the hole, others have roots visible above the soil line. All of them appear to have been planted in a small diameter hole, where water can be trapped and roots might have a tough time busting out.
Yes most of my videos, aside from Genesis, were shot after the 1st summer. November 2022. I live in LA and work 50hr/wk editing TV shows. So weekends are all I have and on top of kids, wife life, etc... and the fact that these videos take time to put together, I am a bit slow getting content out.
All your suggestions are great thank you!
So you know where I am at... This summer 2023 was my second summer. The trees, in November, will have been in the ground for 1.5 years. November I head back for 4 weeks to work on the farm. I have been doing soil tests. soil on the 20 acres I am planting is nice and consistent and I have been adding lime and phosphorus as directed.
I do not believe my issues were soil or lack of water related. When it didn't rain that first summer I sent out a water truck. I did that twice.
I really believe it was too much moisture from humidity and poor maintenance of the weeds that first summer and the fact that I used tyvek sleeves. Most of my trees I believe died from root rot because I had a lot of black trunks at the soil line.
The sleeves are excellent inexpensive alternatives to tree guards BUT... next time I am not using tree guards or tyvek. The weeds were so tight around the trees, holding moisture, and on top of that the vyvek held moisture as well. The guards and tyvek sleeves can also get buried in the dirt at the trunk and if you're not there every week to pull up the sleeves/ guards and maintain them they can cause issues with ants and other organisms nesting inside the guards. Next time I will not use guards at all and probably just use latex paint on the trunks. That's what I am thinking.
I'm battling with two things. Time, Money. I make it to the farm for quick weekends a few times a year and also November is usually when I go for 4 weeks. I plan on being around more, once my daughter is out of high school.
The land is raw. I had to get going on the project or honestly I never would have done it. My father's helping me and he's 84. Gotta get what I can out of him right now, lol It's a great project for us to do together.
I have to post the video but mainline header to irrigate all 32 rows is in. I have also deep disced all 20 acres and I have seeded Bahia grass on all 20 acres. I want to also seed a perennial legume to help set nitrogen. Ladino is a bit pricey, so for now I will throw out Crimson Clover. I want to get as much nitrogen in the soil as I can before I plant out the rest of the acreage.
This November I will add the driplines, add a 1000 gallon tank, revitalize an old well ( I hope. right now my water source is county water.) Soil test and apply what's needed as well as spray zinc and add fertilizer around each tree. I have to bus-hog, weed eat and then add wood chips down the rows where the future trees will be planted to prepare the burn strip areas.
This 1st 10 acres of trees I planted... they had it bad. If I had had the time and money I would have prepped a good foundation. But in the whole process I am following your steps and preparing the current orchard and the balance of the land for the future trees.
Thank you so much for taking the time to respond. Your input is invaluable, I really appreciate it. If you haven't subscribed to my channel, please do. I have already subscribed to yours. I could use the support from the community and I would love my channel to be a community where people can ask questions, learn new things and have a bit of fun watching my insanity!! Thank you!
Can you hook up a soil probe moisture meter to that weather station?
Yes, they do have a probe that you can stick in the ground that will tell you how much moisture is in that one little spot. I feel like the rain gauge is better though. The other attachment I could get that I feel like might be helpful, is a little flap sensor and it will actually measure how much moisture is in the air that gets on the leaves so you can take that into account, the moisture in the air as well as the rain that falls, Because trees get water both from the air and in the ground. My weather station is an Ecowitt you can go to www.ecowitt.com and find out all about it.
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Hey Doris!! Great to hear from you! Thanks for watching!!!