How To Plant A Fruit Tree 101 - Pro's Advice For Best Success
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- How To Plant A Fruit Tree Like A Pro 2.0: It was about time for us to create a new video demonstration since our channel has evolved quite a bit since the initial footage. If you are a humble beginner, or your fruit trees have failed you - this video will help you to understand a bit more of the challenges, mistakes & solutions for planting fruit trees in your garden, grove, food forest or landscape. (This tree planting advice applies to all trees, not necessarily those that bear fruit.)
In this clip, Pete shares his background & current knowledge of planting your tree high & tight. He also shares the tools of the trade, as well as his favorite amendments to top dress the tree with. Pete also discusses why it's not the best idea to add compost to the planting hole.
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I agree 100% DON'T PUT ANYTHING IN THE HOLE, honestly the less that is done the better I found trees adapt to the soil and grow faster if nothing is added in the soil only on top
Alex Contreras 🙌🙌🙌
I would powder the roots with mycorrhiza powder, and then nothing more.
@@Klubbexx13 That I do agree
In areas with very poor soil it's ok to add fertilizers but one has to mix them with the soil.
Works if its native florida soil but many homes today are raised up and built on fill dirt that is devoid of any organic matter, properly amending the soil to a healthy status is key
Pete, can you make a video about how to plant trees close together, creating a small orchard, and what to plant as companion plants, and why? I know most of your videos do contain elements of these things, but it would be a great to hear the 'why' behind what you plant where, and how close they can be placed together.
I love how you live in Pasco. It helps me so much because I know that whatever you can grow in your farm. I should be able to grow right here a home!
Pete, I swear by 'high and tight', you are 100% correct. In the special case of avocado, however, it is known to be seriously sensitive to any standing water. If the site has any propensity for standing water you need to plant avocado at least 1 foot above the known standing water level. I speak from the experience of losing several 10 year old avocados which met their death by drowning during a flood condition, even while being on a mound over 12 inches but which got flooded for several days.
thechief762 good point. I should have pointed that out seeing it was an avocado 😉
I’m also very familiar with this point and normally design with that in mind. This isn’t a problem here on my sand hill :)
thanks for the educational video on planting fruit trees!!!
Very practical way of planting a tree. Not digging a three by three hole just for one tree. Thanks a lot and happy planting to all of us!
Yo Pete!! This video is EPIC, awesome hints and tips.
Thank You so much dude, Keep up the great work!!
Thanks Martin! 👊🏻
I love hearing the sandhill cranes screaming loud at the end! We have them here in Parrish and can hear them for miles sometimes. Lots of babies out right now too.
The Lawn Care Nut we named our farm “sand hill farm” because of them not the sand 😂
I love that you chop and drop, leave that natural ground cover/mulch. Protect and feed the mineral/carbon interface and build soil.
Brian Smith 🙌
Great video! Thank you for going into details. This will help us plant our future trees
Thanks uncle pete,great timing.im helping a friend w a home orchard.it will morph into a semi food forest,he just doesnt know it yet.
Beautiful stuff. Thank you 🙏. This is how I plant 🌱 all my trees 🌲 learning from you.
The Apple’s Food Forest FARMacy awesome!! Thank you
I've been waiting for this video, what a huge help this has been...now to plan a trip to the farm for the coveted loquat tree...MANY THANKS!!!
Milkweed Dreams got wiped out today at the Loquat festival! Good thing we still have trees at the farm 😉
excellent class. Thanks
Perfect video for the perfect season. :) Thanks again for your willingness to share your passion with us.
I lost an Anna apple tree this year, and now have a lonely Dorset. I will try again in better light.
Eden Homestead happy planting my friend!
This is perfect timing! I"m planting two avocados this weekend!
What would you change for a desert climate with clay?
Derek probably a lot, good question . I wouldn’t pack it as tight and I’d probably amend the hole heavy.
Another great video, Pete! You are so right about Joey avocados. Last year, when we had so many freezes, my Joey avocado came through, hands down, better than any of the rest. Keep up the great work! Thanks for all you do.
Kimberly Blevins thank you! Great to finally meet you in person today:)
Pete you are doing great job.. Thanks for all tips...
Thank you! Just got an Avocado tree this week from our friends at the Pensacola Organic Garden Club plant swap. Now I will get it in the ground! Let's hope it's a Joey!
I am so glad I have found your channel. You are more help than you know. Sounds like you grew up in my neck of the woods in PA.
Hey Amber! Glad you found us also. I was born in Long Island, I’ve been here since I was 10yrs old.
Great video,I am in PC and planting a food forest to replace all the trees that hurricane Michael took. This was very helpful thank you.
Awesome! Thanks Karen
Karen, where are you getting your trees & plants? Im in. West PC, but I'll drive for a good source. Blessings!
After clicking on about a half dozen videos that didn't tell me what I needed to know, I found this one that was just what I was looking for. Hello from Fort White in North Florida. It's beautiful up here in Columbia county and I have 1 1/2 acre with mobile home that needs some fruit trees and I might even go for one of the Avocados that you said were cold hardy.
😊 i learned a lot someday i will doing it! Thanks for sharing the methods
Great lessons learned. Thanks for this free video
Thank you Pete!! Great tips!
Nice one Pete. These instructional videos of yours are great. Love to see you getting your hands dirty. Thank you for sharing.
Thanks Charlie! 🙌
Good to know all this info before I start planting out my fruit trees. :)
Belinda thank you! Happy planting 🙌
I absolutely love this channel!! Informative and inspiring!! GREEN & GROWING!!
Thanks so much!!
👊🏼 great simple and to the point video 👊🏼
Julio Lomeli thank you!
So glad I finally found a good source for planting in Florida! Sarasota County here.
Awesome! Thanks
This was a awesome vid! Thanks man! Very good information here.
Off Grid Northwest thank you!
Great Pro Tip Pete Thanks Sooooo Much!
Steve's Outdoor World 👊
Finally, there's videos of someone about planting here in central Florida! Planting here is totally different than the rest of the country. So glad to find your series. Thank you for the terrific video.
Recently, MIGardener did a video about planting fruit trees where he said the roots on some of them (mostly stone fruits?) tend to swirl around the hole as they grow instead of spreading out, and he suggested squaring off the hole so that when the roots get to the corner, it forces them to continue growing into the dirt. What's your opinion on this for our area?
Nice thanks again.
Good stuff always something to learn by watching your videos !
richardnolan27 thank you!
Best time to plant a tree ....... 20 years ago, LOL !!! True dat !!!
Goes against everything I was ever taught, but makes the most sense. I have to say, I just got schooled !!!
Awesome video, awesome Intel, keepin it real with the Green Dream wisdom. You rock brother
# dirt & be blessed. 😎😎😎
Gerald Franz much love bro! Truly appreciate the support 👊
Thanks. Great gardening
Planted 2 lime trees, 2 pecan, 1 peach and 1 orange this spring...not sure about how fun it was but it was surely satisfying! 👍🏼Thx for the vids
julio CS thanks awesome! #dirt
I always learn something new from your channel thank you very much
Mission accomplished! Thanks April :)
Wow, great video friend.👍👍👍
La Horteta de Bussy thanks man!
Will b planting my super mulberry tree soon 🙌🙌🙌🙌 thanks for that info Pete
Finca Ahuitzotl happy planting. #dirt
Great video, thanks very helpful. You are a good teacher. Watched lots of videos and found your video to be the most helpful.
Thanks 👊
I may not have a lot of money, BUT PETE, YOU ARE MY INSPIRATION, I changed my life style, little bit at a time. I already feel the difference
I love it!!! Thanks 🙏
Thanks for this video!
Glad to help!
So helpful, thanks Pete. A good follow up from the 2017 video
Thanks Matt!
Great video - always good to look up how it is done👌👊
Glad you enjoyed it!
Your a fruit tree wizard! Glad I found this channel!
Thanks! Glad to share 😊
YAY, I think I saw your old vid on planting and needed this for my red mulberry :) Yes, I saw the high and tight style u did and then I saw one out in AZ and they put so much in the hole and dropped it level with the root ball, needless to say I was confused. But I am in South FL and I knew you would have the best tutorial.
Everyone has their own style and way. This is just what works for us and I've planted thousands of tree's now in this area. I think for Figs, Bananas and Papayas its worth amending the hole to combat the nematodes. I'm also experimenting with planting them in the pot and only cutting out the bottom.
So my little Mulberry twig is only in a six inch pot, the gardener I bought it from had a ton of growth in a year down here, his was about 9ft high from a 3ft twig like mine. I have a Strangler Fig and thought it’s dappled light would be good but is this video the better method for that tree full sun and this method high and tight? I have to clear grass out of the way. I just got a bit confused and remembered how you top dressed, but could not remember why, nothing against the guys style, I am just new to fruit trees. Just so very glad you are going over it again.
Thank you for clarifying I know you all are very busy so appreciate hearing from you at all.
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Machond sweet bro! That shovel is a game changer.
Well done
I love your channel. I love plant so much 😊
ต้อม Garden Plants awww thanks!! ❤️
Thank you
Sweet. Fruit trees coming today!
Awesome! Good luck
hello pete i'mi looking at your CZcams channel from fontainebleau an old green city near Paris in france your video's specialy costa rica trip are totally amazing i'm planting too thousands of fruit tree's tryinng pommegrana and persimon's keep up you're good job you're not alone we are many in france try to changing mind of people so thank you fir showing tital beauty and abondance of nature!!!!!
Yannick Bouchain much love my friends! I really appreciate that 👊
Sending love to France! ❤️
Ty 4 sharing.
Let me know when 2XL t-shirts come in. Ty
Wolf🐺 👍
Hey Pete, we had our trees high and tight but the extreme drought last year didn't do them any favors. They were watered well, but the surrounding sugar sand hill was just an oven. This week I am planting a new round of avocados and citrus in 3' square raised beds, shaded with their own hinged wood pergola 😂The idea is to give them some shade, but still good ventilation. Cheers
Hey Greg! Sorry to hear that, was this on the hill? This method has always worked well for me. Are y’all living over there yet?
Great video Pete! I'm thinking this planting method would work great for non-fruiting trees as well. I've got an elm I need to get in the ground. Gonna give this a shot. Thanks neighbor!
Hey Jennifer! Yes, we follow this method across the board. Thank you 🙏
Perfect timing!!! I just got a pineapple pear tree. I will use these instructions to plant it this weekend. 😉 Thank you
Melinda Schneider awesome! Pineapple pear? Pineapple guava? :)
@@PeteKanarisGreenDreamsFL Pineapple Pear. 😀
Melinda Schneider whoa! Pretty cool, I’ve never heard of that variety.
Watched it again! It is less laborious than Ellen white method. Both method is amazing but yours is a lot easier!
I think the Ellen white method is just asking for deep trees, they will sink.
2:08 Joey Avocado, very cold Hardy. North Florida parts of Alabama. Prefer dappled light,not full sun the first few years. 10 feet to each side. 15 feet high for room.
Hi Pete, just came across your Chanel and absolutely love it. Where you live have you ever encountered sink holes? I’m thinking about growing my own food, just not sure if Arizona or Florida is the right choice. Thanks Pete!
Yeah I started planting mine a bit high and mulching to meet the pot soil's top has worked well
John Doe awesome! I really appreciate you sharing your results.
@@PeteKanarisGreenDreamsFL Will do I'm in zone 6 just outside Detroit, just planted a Jiro persimmon
John Doe very cool! I grow Jiro too
Pete, I have a lot of good clean fresh pine woodchips at a different location than my home. I am wanting to start planting fruit trees and bushes. I also plan on making raised vegetable beds within the next few weeks. Should I use the pine chips or get the oak woodchips? Reference to any other of your videos or suggestions would be apricated. I enjoy all of your videos. Thank you.
I love this video and it’s very timely for me. I have access to good compost, worm castings, Lots of red Wigglier worms, seaweed and good quality wood chips. Will that be acceptable alternates? I don’t have easy access to the things that you used.
Thanks for this video. My fig tree was in a tin bucket and attached it's self to the ground. Whats your best advice of getting ot out of the tin bucket?
Ahhhh! here you go again---taking the apple tree out of the ground...lol I want one. Love the information by the way
Thanks 😊
Thanks so much :-)
I have a little ritual upon putting a new plant in the ground--I pee around it as an offering to the tree gods, works for ME.
Nice.🌈😃🤙
Very similar to my method!
Pete that was a wonderful video--in your clear and to the point style! Now, I'm just on the verge of planting a bunch of nut and fruit trees and bushes that are either blooming, fruiting or budding. Wondering if I should wait a little longer until they have produced anyway. Figuring the stress of planting them will cause them to drop flowers, fruits or buds?
Oh I just found a wonderful discussion on removing fruit from young trees--permaculture reasoning! permies.com/t/8152/Removing-fruit-young-fruit-trees
Finally...thank you for this awesome video. I have a question, I know this is an old post but maybe you'll still see this anyway. I have an avocado tree growing out of one of those large ceramic pots you get from home depot, it's wide but then it gets narrower at the top. After making guac one night I tossed the seed in there for shits and giggle and it actually grew! Not the ideal place but I didn't want to disturb it out of fear of it dying on me. Anyway, it's probably time to transplant it to the ground, it's full of healthy leaves and it's about 3ft in height with a stem as thick as an average persons thumb. It's been growing so well right alongside my Peace Lilly, that it shares the pot with. Recently, I started to notice that it's not as happy as it uses to be. I'm in Deltona, FL area and we pretty much have no soil, its very sandy. Our yard is a mixture of sand and weeds....it sucks. So my question is since I can't pull the avocado tree out of the pot, should I leave the tree inside the pot and just brake the bottom of it for the roots to be able to spread and find ground? Since the Peace Lilly is in the same pot, it would be impossible to determine whos roots belong to who. I will need to transplant them together, I'm just not sure how. Also, would you recommend me to add soil for the initial transplant? I know that avocados like lots of drainage so I'm hoping my sandy yard will be to my advantage. Hopefully, you will find this ...lol
That avocado from the grocery store isn’t suited to grow well in our area anyways. I would suggest buying a cold hardy Mexican variety of avocado that will actually grow and fruit here. The fruit from the grocery store isn’t suited for Florida.
Wow
Awesome 🙋♀️🌳Siobhan
Hey Bruce!
I'm in Pasco too.. Can you share where you got the Granite dust? I grow cactus also and have looked for it for years. Most of the rock companies around me look at me crosseyed when I ask.
Thanks
Probably way way too late to the party. No clue if these options will be fruitful. Try counter top shops. Also look into monument/ headstone businesses. Like I state I have no real experience with getting this particular resource. Nothing ventured nothing gained. Also consider showing up unannounced ready to go. Empty buckets, shovel, etc. Past experience with cold calling vs cold arrival has proved very beneficial. Have a great day.
Teach me... I want to be a part of this!
I'm not sure about your area but where I am we'd want to loosen up that root bound root some and spread the roots when planting. With regards to "high and tight"... I would pack the soil in tight but I'm not convinced I should plant that high. We like to have a bit of a ditch around the tree to water for the first year. If the tree were that high it would easily tip over. Yes I could stake it. As you said other areas may be different.
Amazing info, what about starting from seeds?
What kinds of cameras are you using Pete? I love the quality of these videos
Chris Holcombe thanks for noticing! I run a Sony a6500 with a Grimal. I think the gimbal and lens might be linked in the description.
Hello there thanks for the tips!
Question about the perennial peanuts (ground cover) : do these peanuts produce yields if yes what does it look like ? And how far do you cut it back from the threes if you cut it back at all ? Do you let it spread everywhere around the threes ?
Thanks to you in advance keep up the good work
I can answer; the perennial peanut doesn't yield but is there to fix nitrogen since it's a legume. It also makes a pretty ground cover. It will die back with a frost and return. So since it fixes N, you don't have to worry about keeping it away from the trunk as unlike other plants, it gives fertilizer rather than competes with the tree, like a grass would.
I live in california zone 9B. what I have for soil is a solid hard clay. I literally had to use a jack hammer to dig a hole. I just bought 6 mango trees from a tropical nursery. my question is can I plant my mangoes exactly the same way you did in this video? will the clay kill the tree eventually? Appreciate any tip you can give. Thank you
I planted a star apple (caimito) and an abiu last week in southeast Florida. Soil is the same. Sandy. After watching this I am afraid I played them too low. They are ground level. Both are grafted. The star apple is 6ft with a 2 inch trunk and the abiu is 3 ft with a 1 inch trunk. Should I dig them up and lift them? Any advice is appreciated. So much info out there. I am just going to start listening to Pete. Lol
Yes you still have time. I would replant them while they are young. 👊
Will definitely try these tips..if I live in volusia county then you don't recommend tropic sweet or Anna apple? Just asking because I know you mentioned it not being the right species
AspiringVegan cool! No, I wouldn’t waste your money on an apple in Florida.
Id love to hear more about tree diseases in central florida. The ants here tear up everything but Im noticing the plants get sick looking first
Great video! Do you have any videos on planting in clay soil?
Kevin Dwyer no I need to feature someone in clay basses soils. Thanks for the idea. I’ll try to get one this spring in North Carolina
Hi Pete! thanks so much for this info! Can you please share where you get the amendments locally? I am in Pinellas county and would love to know where I can buy big bags of amendments like you have there. Thank you!
Hi Lisa! We order in bulk from large AG suppliers because I couldn’t find it locally.
Can u make a video of making hybrid fruit trees
Should I be worried if I planted my fruit tree low? How will it effect its growth? It's already been in the ground months and seems comfortable already as I tried to pull it out so I left it.
Amazing teaching video!
As usual, very good information!
Which is the variety of the avocado tree?
Joey Avocado
tamara Acosta Valois thank you! It was a Joey
Hey man what trees do you recommend for a newbie?
Great job, I aways watching your video from Cambodia. Learning a lot of things from you. Have you heard about Korean Natural Farming?
Thank you! Yes, very familiar with KNF. I’ll be hosting a class this year. I hope to start sharing about it on CZcams very soon.
Pete Kanaris GreenDreamsFL great! Following you, can’t wait to learn more from you. Shalom
Do you move the avocado to full sun after a few years when its got more established in the understory or do they do well in shade for life? I have a small tree in the understory now and I am concerned because everything online says full sun.
I’ll be planting fruit and nut trees mixed within our trees forest of Douglas firs and pines. We live at about 4000 feet in Eastern Washington.
Shelly Pfluger that sounds like an awesome inner planting! Good luck
Do you have any info on moving fruit trees? Same yard a few feet due to property lines!
Can I sideline some NCAA tournament action summaries earlier...to watch Pete's planting video ?? Why, yes...yes, I can ! Lol....(irregardless of what some state out here in "AriDzona," ;) "high & tight" (I amend SLIGHTLY with organics--mostly top down--to help with drainage, just as you do in reverse) has ALWAYS worked for me out here--irregardless of what other's promote).
Jeff hahah your the best bro! I’m really trying to stay neutral with these other tree planting videos. I’ve already received threats from this one. 🤭
Hi Pete, I live in South Miami, in Homestead. We really don’t have soil, just grass on top of limestone. Does “high and tight” still apply?
jazzysticks1 hahah I was just thinking that while replying to comments! Y’all need dynamite 🧨 🤣
So planting a little high would definitely apply and so would packing the soil tight. As far as amending the whole, I suppose that’s a must with the rock.
Pete, you mentioned quite often the use of peanut as cover crop. Being from the north and now living in Kissimmee, I am not familiar with peanuts growing. Are they seeds or how do you seed or plant the cover crop? If you already covered it in some other video, just point me in the right direction and I will look it up. THANKS Clement
Hey Clement! Yes, I do have a video about this one. I'm talking about perennial peanut, its a nitrogen fixing ground cover with edible flowers. It doesn't produce any actually peanuts.
Hey Pete have you done a video with trees that are nematode susceptive?
Great idea!
Do you do landscape planning consultations? I’m in Brooksville
does this method apply only for florida? can we use it here in the philippines ? im a fan of your videos ❤️
It really depends on soil conditions. I find it works well for loose and sandy soils. It might not work as well in clay based areas. Glad you’re enjoying the channel 🙏