Thank you for watching. Plant propagation is way easier than most people think. If you want to propagate just about anything, check out my book "Free Plants for Everyone" here: amzn.to/2YiGHtP If you are interested in monetizing your passion for plants by starting your own home plant nursery, you should enjoy my book on the topic - check it out here: amzn.to/38uwRXu Get my free composting booklet: www.thesurvivalgardener.com/simple-composting/ "Compost Your Enemies" T-shirts: www.aardvarktees.com/collections/vendors?q=The%20Survival%20Gardener
From my grandparents knowledge is u need to burn something under the coconut...and another is put salt between the coconut leaves...100% works for me...anybody can try n share your experience im in malaysia
I was having terrible problems with my fruit seed starting. They'd die fast one way or another. I saw a video on programming seeds. It was about starting the seeds with the worst soil on your property. So far so good. It apparently gives the seed low expectations and kicks it into a sort of overdrive. So far so good. But I will use your method at planting time for sure!
I like to extend my air conditioning drip line out to service a tree or two when I can. Just letting it sit on that toot zone gives it a consistent drip of moisture in the hot summer months. Works very well
I started my greenhouse last fall. Alot of chop n drop, compost tea, chicken poop and forest covering. Planted some stuff and when it got cold I got a drip hose. Ran the drip overnight below 40°. Even the avocado tree loved it. Went down to 24°, still have the avocado, longevity spinach, shiso, turtle vine, wandering jew, parsley, moringa and even an orchid hanging up is setting a bloom. I'm so flabbergasted.
So THATS why my lemon tree is producing so profusely this year! I’ve been loving it a little too much and giving it lots of water. Lol then I gave it some shake and feed in February. I didn’t think I was going to get anything from my tiny citrus but they’re all going off!
I can relate to this bit of advise as I planted coconut at the same time as my neighbor but mine are all loaded. I watered them all through the dry season I got fruit I 1.5 years instead of 3
Great example with your tree vs your neighbors. Dripping water on it slowly every other day and use Manuer. I just started my 1st white mulberry tree cutting from a friend yesterday with chicken Manuer and water. I’m currently manually watering it and I can tell after hearing your video I didn’t do enough. Thank you!
There is a reason we turned the front lawn into a food forest and not the back..... it means its in sight and in mind all the time. Although I got lucky with the soil, not much organics atm (it was a lawn for nearly 50 years lol) but it is a loam soil tending towards a little more clay. Even during our hot Aussie summer, I only need to deep water maybe every 2-3 weeks, as long as I keep the sugar cane mulch up. I can dig the soil and its damp to a foot and a half (that's where I stopped digging). Trees seem to love it, especially my Magnus Summer apple. It went from maybe 40cm high to well over 2m at this point. It exploded. I will cut it, sorry prune it in half come winter in a few months. So nature has taken care of the water problem, I just need to keep feeding the soil.
@@davidthegood I have no doubt, we learn absolutely worthless data in school for adulthood or pregrad prep. Few have horticulture programs and none support organic due to Monosanto the seed owners. Biggest lobbyists in the world
absolutely TRUE! tree well, fill 3x water, feed, every 3 days. everything that was ded that was brought home, I brought back to life and thrived. 100 plants, bushes and trees. 99 survived, 9500 elevation, ski country.
Hey survival Gardner here's a tip: find a metal rod about a 1/4" or 3/8" thick and 3' long. on one end make a dull point, on the other end fashion a "T" handle. use this device to poke deep holes around your trees so that the water can more easily get down into the roots!
I'm using fertilizer spikes to apply the feed below the grassroots ('cause I don't want to grow grass) and giving about 3-5 gallons of water per day during the growing season for my nut trees. This will be year three for my pecan trees, and they look like they will be producing at least 20lbs of nuts per tree. The hazelnuts that I planted THIS year are growing like weeds (7-10 gallons), and will likely produce nuts next year. Water, water, and water Is absolutely the trick, especially when your tree is trying to fill out it's fruit.
You can easily tell when a fur tree finally finds it's own water - you'll see 6 to 10 inches or more new growth at the tips, and they will shoot up vertically. It's a glorious sight!
Aside from hammering, you can burn leaves near the tree to smoke it. It is used to stress the tree to think it is in danger so it will produce flowers. The smoking method is used here in South East Asia
You know so much and are really helpful to us all. I watered my plum after watching this. I like it when you sing in your gardening videos. It’s happy making!!
Very, very good advice. I just wish that we had that problem. We have the opposite. Way too much rain. We have to put our new ones in raised beds this spring.
Thank you. Too much water is a big problem. They should still benefit from regular feeding, though, especially with how nutrients are probably washing right through.
Same works for nut trees to. Helps to maintain adequate moisture also. Keep the mulch/fertilizer away from the trunk of the tree, fungus etc (diaper rash?).
This is good info. I rarely water my trees, but we have been getting quite a bit of rain the last couple of years. But yeah, I think I will try using compost more and watering more often this year especially since I water everything with rainwater so it doesn't cost me anything but time.
Great info. My local home store stopped carrying the manure based fertilizer I was using on my citrus. So I switched to what they said was the product I needed...and all my fruit stopped. Now I know why. Thumbs up to anyone quoting Scripture.
Try education. I NEVER yell at a tree. I explain to them that trees are used to produce fruit, firewood and/or shade. I ask them which they want to be. Most decide not to be firewood.
Hanora Brennan - Yup, banana skins = potassium and they work wonders on all types of plants. I make my husband eat tons of bananas (I love the flavor but hate the consistency) just to tuck the skins everywhere! Hello from Florida 👋 Love your country, hope to visit again someday!
I believe that techniques to make plants bear fruits fast, is called grafting techniques if I recall it right, these techniques is taught in East Visayan School of Arts and Trade in Dumaguete City Philippines
Nice one! I'm in the Permaculture camp and there's a paradigm of "letting the plant find its way" but I often find myself suggesting out loud to the screen, "give it some food and water" when the presenter is saying, "It's just not doing very well here".
I keep a dishpan under the drip spout of my AC. Every AM before leaving for work and every PM when I get home, I dump the distilled water from the AC on my avacado tree tree.
This is great info and a good reminder. I have some avocado, cashew, jackfruit and cinnamon trees on nursery and a couple dozen other fruit and nut trees as well as coffee and cacao planned for my food forest. I’m still building my house and waiting for my well to be drilled before I can plant the first trees. Here in Liberia, we’re in the middle of our six month dry season and our last rain was 7 weeks ago. So building on a hilltop without running water, it’s a terrible time to plant anything. Hopefully I’ll be able to get some trees in the ground next month. I’ll definitely be following your advice! Thanks, brother!
Thanks, Mr Good. This lifehack video is 12,000 years overdue. Imagine what our ancestors could have done with this knowledge. This constant irrigation and fertilizing business is revolutionary stuff indeed.
I have 2 spruce trees in pots that I've been keeping alive. Bare rootstock. They're sitting against the front porch so that I don't forget them, even in winter here in SW North Dakota I go out on really nice days and water them. Sadly the total of them were 15, but the uncle had them out in the open, unprotected, didn't water them very often. 😕 Currently, I have apple and pear seeds stratifying. So I can pot them up. Can't wait to see what I get for fruits on them. 😁
@@davidthegood wow, CZcams sure does wonderful at notifications. I only got this tonight. Thanks David! The apple trees are still doing well, 4 surviving so far. I have to check the seeds again soon. The pines are doing great. I haven't had to water them through this 2nd part of winter. We've been getting regular snowfalls. 🎉
Trick I learned from an old timer: use a 5 gallon bucket with a small hole in it to provide a slow drip of water. Especially to trees that are tough to get to with a hose and also have to check on them less ofted.
Thank you. Not many people share their knowldge so honestly. Many people want to impress others and don't tell it like you do. Thank you very much for sharing.
The Baby nurturing parallel is so true. I turned out ok I guess, but all my siblings were between 10-15 years old before learning to walk. Now it all makes sense why.......
I’m setting up a 3 acre food harvest. I set up 300 sprinklers on a push button system. My fruit trees look super healthy and growing well. Most have grown feet not inches in 5 months. I thought it was pretty obvious to water every few days in our hot climate. I Fertilise with mainly grass clippings and occasionally cow or chicken manure tea.
Grandma had the best lime tree. Always full of the biggest lines! Fast forward, the contractor doing a remodel for my folks found a leak in the water supply line. Here in Puerto Rico, it is common to find trees growing near or next to septic tanks. Whether by design, mistake or fate they always have the best fruits. Kudos David.
I guess it depends on the species. Many fruit trees wait for droughts to signal when it’s time to flower, most famously Durians. If they are continuously watered year round they’ll never make fruit.
Ps maybe that's why my 20' avacado tree never has produced one avacado! Although it did survive hurricane irma and is coming back to life three yrs later. AND i just learned a couple of days ago that the leaves are edible with vit b6 etc!!!💜🙏
You can also use some type of soil moisture granules for newly planted tree that are too far away easy water source. . I always get tickled folks think there is enough water from the dew or occasional rains for a newly planted tree...anyone whoever puts a spade in the ground should know that is just doesn't work that way. I am RADICAL about watering my trees! (and have had 2 back surgeries to prove it ;) )
Amazingly you better put it on a well grinded sandy hill with wide smooth surrounding to grip ground (waterflow spreading the roots.) OK the manore. Spreading is more important than collecting.
i recommend catching and using rain water if you don't have well water. chlorinated water no good for plants unless you let it sit for at least 24 hours and let the chlorine evaporate out of the water.
Love the video Brother very well putt together I know for a Fact you’re On point 💯💯💯every time I plant a Tree I water it put dead animals an fish in the Ground just past the drip line an then some organic stuff around the drip line around the tree on top of the soil….. wen I plant something I give it love 365 they Blow 🆙 Man 😉💯💯💯🙏🌎❤️💪👊
How to make a Waterboxx? That's a key question for me because I think they could be more water efficient than typical methods. My other thought was this: which is more water efficient: 3" of wood chips, 6" wood chips, a Waterboxx, or a drip line or some combination?
most people kill their plants by overwatering and fertilizer david but I know where you're coming from I have over 70 "babies" all exotic tropical fruits in socal. majority in big pots 25 Gal or bigger
i have never killed a plant from overwatering it when it is in the earth. plants in pots....yeah, thats a different story. some die from too much water, some die from not enough. i have had the most success doing exactly what he said though. give it a little bit of water every day if it is in a pot.
There is an abandoned field with mandarins lemos and oranges growing in the middle of nowhere. No one waters them unless it rains. These trees have so much fruit that the branches are draging on the floor. I have a few citrus trees that I did everything you did and barely give any fruit. So frustrating "lol"
" *He spake also this parable; A certain man had a fig tree planted in his vineyard; and he came and sought fruit thereon, and found none.* *Then said he unto the dresser of his vineyard, Behold, these three years I come seeking fruit on this fig tree, and find none: cut it down; why cumbereth it the ground?* *And he answering said unto him, Lord, let it alone this year also, till I shall dig about it, and dung it:* *And if it bear fruit, well: and if not, then after that thou shalt cut it down." Luke 13:6-9*
There is a ton of good agricultural info in the Bible. People weren't stupid back then and paid a lot of attention to what worked and didn't work. Lots of observation and growing based on observation.
@@davidthegood, amen David. God has shown me my place in heaven in a vision before. It was beautiful, I lived among the tree of life that grew on either side of the crystal clear river of the water of life as described in Revelation chapter 22. I tended a garden of vegetables there forever and fed all the people who came..... that is what I live for and treasure the most, is to be there someday...
@@davidthegood, " *And he shewed me a pure river of water of life, clear as crystal, proceeding out of the throne of God and of the Lamb.* *In the midst of the street of it, and on either side of the river, was there the tree of life, which bare twelve manner of fruits, and yielded her fruit every month: and the leaves of the tree were for the healing of the nations." Revelation 22:1-2* Perhaps someday I will meet you there. May God bless you and your family.
" *Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon earth, where moth and rust doth corrupt, and where thieves break through and steal:* *But lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust doth corrupt, and where thieves do not break through nor steal:* *For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also." Matthew **6:19**-21*
Have you tried orgonite cellphone tower buster to make it rain? I've also heard adding quartz crystal and other rose quartz to improve the growth of a plant or tree.
I agree with what you say in this video for most trees, but Avacados do not like wet feet past your original start up. I watered mine every day for 1 week, every other day for 2nd week, then never again, I it produces tons of avacados for me after 4th year. I do have chickens under it, & I do fertilize, but no addl water for avacados for some reason.
I've taken on this attitude with my baby apple trees and indoor plants I grow in winter, it works. New leaves and growth much faster than the conventional teaching of letting them dry completely between watering. I am also using vitamin b12(cobalt) with every feeding, besides overall health it prevents diseases and cures scab
Good info. Does Steve Solomon's book Water Wise Gardening conflict a little with this 'never stress the tree' concept in that occasional heavy watering will force plants to push their roots further and make them have more vigor, resilience and mineral absorption? I bought the book right after you started selling it so it's been a bit since I've read it. But I realize I have cognitive dissonance and believe to take max care of my plants but also to sissify them and make them push their roots out so they're more resilient. Maybe Solomon's book was more about breaking the capillary action via a fluffy dirt surface and spacing plants far enough that your plants can dominate it's area and extricate all the moisture for itself, but I did come away with the idea that plants that grow in spartan conditions (say, after adolescence) are more hardy and tasty and productive than plants that have overabundance of everything they need and have little/no stimulus to push their roots out.
Thank you! I just ordered your new Florida survival gardening book and two of your previous books. I also ordered the English version of the JADAM organic gardening book. I live in Citra, FL, and was going broke buying topsoil and composted cow manure for my sandpit yard! I am going to add a food forest and new garden areas once I have killer trees professionally taken down and the branches and tops chipped. The topsoil and compost proved I can grow stuff on Citra Beach, but I need to do things differently to scale up. Thank you! P.S. Your wife is a great teacher, too!
David, bro , you’re in the tropics now why are you not using tithonia diversifolia aka Mexican sunflower to feed your trees? More potent than chicken manure.
I feel like there's probably growth hormones that you could give it to help them grow but that requires buying or manufacturing it after the outro I'm guessing you wouldn't want to buy it and I'm not sure if they could be produced substantially without ordering them but idk how their produced so it's something you'd just have to look up
True :) ...Though just as or b4 fruiting; many fruit trees respond better if water & fertilizer are cut back...it quickly goes into reproduction attraction or species survival mode...including heightened brix levels in the fruit to further entice the reproduction cycle.
It's very true what you said at the end about the effect of care in general. For example, the Siberian pine and the Korean pine, which produce edible nuts and are very close relatives to the American white bark pine, are notorious for taking extremely long, many decades, to start bearing fruit in the wild. However, in cultivation that may take "only" as "little" as a decade.
Ok David I am going to really douse my lime tree. I have been begging it to fruit. Lots of TLC was given but I suppose it needs more water. Will let you know the result.
Thank you for this video! I tried for years to sprout avocados. I I think in 2019 I just gave up and threw theM into compost piles. W ell compost is used readily here and bingo I had on sprout in a raised bed. I dug it up and have been raising it in a food grade 5 gallon bucket. It’s about 2.5 feet. I think I need to repot or plant it. I am in Palm Valley Fl. Between Jacksonville Beach and St. Augustine. We some times get freezes … most years one…sometimes zero but on occasion three or four any suggestions?
For the coconut tree your right on the fertilizer but at the same time if you can add coco peat which keeps the soil moist the results are better. If you add rock salt just before rains it does wonders. P.S you need a lot and lot of water when you fertilize the roots really need to soak in once a week atleast. Best is to dig a trench around the tree.
I enjoyed your video, thanks! I have a question for you, my husband waters and fertilizes our avocado tree, but all of the fruit fall off before they grow, what do you recommend we do to have avocados? Thanks in advance for your advice!
That sounds like a pollination issue. Avocados like a pollinator. If you can plant another tree that is a match, that should stop the problem. A little tricky but less time consuming: you could graft a few scions from other avocado trees onto some of the branches so they will bloom and pollinate the tree.
This is basically a "hydroponic" apporoach where the plant is always being fed a little something. Additionally, stopping water and food for a prolonged period of time a few weeks, pruning, then giving it lots of food and water again will often induce flowering, if you time it correctly with the solar cycle, but this is more of a stress response than an effect of the overall maturity of the plant.
Thank you for watching. Plant propagation is way easier than most people think. If you want to propagate just about anything, check out my book "Free Plants for Everyone" here: amzn.to/2YiGHtP
If you are interested in monetizing your passion for plants by starting your own home plant nursery, you should enjoy my book on the topic - check it out here: amzn.to/38uwRXu
Get my free composting booklet: www.thesurvivalgardener.com/simple-composting/
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From my grandparents knowledge is u need to burn something under the coconut...and another is put salt between the coconut leaves...100% works for me...anybody can try n share your experience im in malaysia
very good life it
I was having terrible problems with my fruit seed starting. They'd die fast one way or another. I saw a video on programming seeds. It was about starting the seeds with the worst soil on your property. So far so good. It apparently gives the seed low expectations and kicks it into a sort of overdrive. So far so good. But I will use your method at planting time for sure!
I like to extend my air conditioning drip line out to service a tree or two when I can. Just letting it sit on that toot zone gives it a consistent drip of moisture in the hot summer months. Works very well
“Providing you can get funding” 😂😂😂😅 I’m dead😂😂😂😅 I’ve got a bunch of strangers staring at me right now wondering what’s wrong with me😂
lindsey hauk of COURSE, you make the water fund and build the wall 😂
Bahaha
Caught that too. Hilarious! Omg.
I started my greenhouse last fall. Alot of chop n drop, compost tea, chicken poop and forest covering. Planted some stuff and when it got cold I got a drip hose. Ran the drip overnight below 40°. Even the avocado tree loved it. Went down to 24°, still have the avocado, longevity spinach, shiso, turtle vine, wandering jew, parsley, moringa and even an orchid hanging up is setting a bloom. I'm so flabbergasted.
So much interesting that you supplied barely "warmed" water in order to keep frosts at bay with combination of the greenhouse. :)
I got my Thai Guava to bear fruit from seed after two years
So THATS why my lemon tree is producing so profusely this year! I’ve been loving it a little too much and giving it lots of water. Lol then I gave it some shake and feed in February. I didn’t think I was going to get anything from my tiny citrus but they’re all going off!
Just planted two dwarf coconut trees,
The planting is the easy bit, it’s the babying that is work!
I can relate to this bit of advise as I planted coconut at the same time as my neighbor but mine are all loaded. I watered them all through the dry season I got fruit I 1.5 years instead of 3
Very so much neat!
Great example with your tree vs your neighbors. Dripping water on it slowly every other day and use Manuer. I just started my 1st white mulberry tree cutting from a friend yesterday with chicken Manuer and water. I’m currently manually watering it and I can tell after hearing your video I didn’t do enough. Thank you!
I've also started adding vitamin B12 (cobalt) when watering fruit trees. Cures scab on apples in a single season
Very interesting. I will look into that.
There is a reason we turned the front lawn into a food forest and not the back..... it means its in sight and in mind all the time.
Although I got lucky with the soil, not much organics atm (it was a lawn for nearly 50 years lol) but it is a loam soil tending towards a little more clay. Even during our hot Aussie summer, I only need to deep water maybe every 2-3 weeks, as long as I keep the sugar cane mulch up. I can dig the soil and its damp to a foot and a half (that's where I stopped digging). Trees seem to love it, especially my Magnus Summer apple. It went from maybe 40cm high to well over 2m at this point. It exploded. I will cut it, sorry prune it in half come winter in a few months.
So nature has taken care of the water problem, I just need to keep feeding the soil.
Dang, the trick was the click bait. You mean I have to tend to my plants. This is crazy. It is no wonder my plants are not doing well.
It's amazing how many people just stick trees in the ground and don't really baby them.
I know it's kind of off topic but does anyone know a good place to stream new movies online?
@Esteban Tate I use FlixZone. You can find it by googling :)
@@davidthegood I have no doubt, we learn absolutely worthless data in school for adulthood or pregrad prep. Few have horticulture programs and none support organic due to Monosanto the seed owners. Biggest lobbyists in the world
absolutely TRUE! tree well, fill 3x water, feed, every 3 days. everything that was ded that was brought home, I brought back to life and thrived. 100 plants, bushes and trees. 99 survived, 9500 elevation, ski country.
Hey survival Gardner here's a tip: find a metal rod about a 1/4" or 3/8" thick and 3' long. on one end make a dull point, on the other end fashion a "T" handle. use this device to poke deep holes around your trees so that the water can more easily get down into the roots!
True wat u saying.. Speaking from experience... I put abundant chicken manure around n watered n the trunk in a year is super thick n tree grew huge
I'm using fertilizer spikes to apply the feed below the grassroots ('cause I don't want to grow grass) and giving about 3-5 gallons of water per day during the growing season for my nut trees. This will be year three for my pecan trees, and they look like they will be producing at least 20lbs of nuts per tree. The hazelnuts that I planted THIS year are growing like weeds (7-10 gallons), and will likely produce nuts next year. Water, water, and water Is absolutely the trick, especially when your tree is trying to fill out it's fruit.
Way to go. You are right - water is the biggest factor.
You can easily tell when a fur tree finally finds it's own water - you'll see 6 to 10 inches or more new growth at the tips, and they will shoot up vertically. It's a glorious sight!
Aside from hammering, you can burn leaves near the tree to smoke it. It is used to stress the tree to think it is in danger so it will produce flowers. The smoking method is used here in South East Asia
Very interesting! That is a new one for me.
You know so much and are really helpful to us all. I watered my plum after watching this. I like it when you sing in your gardening videos. It’s happy making!!
Thanks, I will use this on my semi dwarf Honeycrisp apple tree.
mine took off with lots of mulch out to the perimeter of the leaves.
Gary Hello
Did it work?
Thank you I love your show so much and I appreciate you don’t use foul language so I don’t have to quick run for the remote!!🥰
Very, very good advice. I just wish that we had that problem. We have the opposite. Way too much rain. We have to put our new ones in raised beds this spring.
Thank you. Too much water is a big problem. They should still benefit from regular feeding, though, especially with how nutrients are probably washing right through.
R u in mobile AL??👍
Same works for nut trees to. Helps to maintain adequate moisture also. Keep the mulch/fertilizer away from the trunk of the tree, fungus etc (diaper rash?).
Can’t wait to see how you build your new homestead on your new plot
I like your tips! thank you, now I know why many of my fruit trees are not bearing any fruit! 15 years took for my tangerine!
This is good info. I rarely water my trees, but we have been getting quite a bit of rain the last couple of years. But yeah, I think I will try using compost more and watering more often this year especially since I water everything with rainwater so it doesn't cost me anything but time.
Great info. My local home store stopped carrying the manure based fertilizer I was using on my citrus. So I switched to what they said was the product I needed...and all my fruit stopped. Now I know why. Thumbs up to anyone quoting Scripture.
My mom always said if a citrus tree isn’t putting out it’s in shock and it needs a baseball bat taken to it... it worked on a neighbors tree 😂
You can also fertilize coconuts by using sea salt as a fertilizer.
That's cool. I could bring some from the ocean.
Thank you!! Not bait and switch ...i needed to know this we just planted mulberries
That's too much work. A simpler way is just to ask the tree to grow fruit (yelling at it might help a bit).
That is funny.
Try education. I NEVER yell at a tree. I explain to them that trees are used to produce fruit, firewood and/or shade. I ask them which they want to be. Most decide not to be firewood.
lol I love this comment
Haha
@@FreeAmerican Yelling!That's child abuse.
Banana skins are great for rose bushes. I have roses until January in Ireland. Growing avocados indoors with year round herbs! Can be done.
Hanora Brennan - Yup, banana skins = potassium and they work wonders on all types of plants. I make my husband eat tons of bananas (I love the flavor but hate the consistency) just to tuck the skins everywhere!
Hello from Florida 👋 Love your country, hope to visit again someday!
I believe that techniques to make plants bear fruits fast, is called grafting techniques if I recall it right, these techniques is taught in East Visayan School of Arts and Trade in Dumaguete City Philippines
You can't graft a coconut tree
Nice one! I'm in the Permaculture camp and there's a paradigm of "letting the plant find its way" but I often find myself suggesting out loud to the screen, "give it some food and water" when the presenter is saying, "It's just not doing very well here".
Yes, definitely!
I keep a dishpan under the drip spout of my AC. Every AM before leaving for work and every PM when I get home, I dump the distilled water from the AC on my avacado tree tree.
This is great info and a good reminder. I have some avocado, cashew, jackfruit and cinnamon trees on nursery and a couple dozen other fruit and nut trees as well as coffee and cacao planned for my food forest.
I’m still building my house and waiting for my well to be drilled before I can plant the first trees. Here in Liberia, we’re in the middle of our six month dry season and our last rain was 7 weeks ago. So building on a hilltop without running water, it’s a terrible time to plant anything. Hopefully I’ll be able to get some trees in the ground next month. I’ll definitely be following your advice! Thanks, brother!
Thanks, Mr Good. This lifehack video is 12,000 years overdue. Imagine what our ancestors could have done with this knowledge. This constant irrigation and fertilizing business is revolutionary stuff indeed.
love your gospel analogies my brother :))))
‘Provided you can get funding’ love it
Great idea to have a retention for water
I have 2 spruce trees in pots that I've been keeping alive. Bare rootstock. They're sitting against the front porch so that I don't forget them, even in winter here in SW North Dakota I go out on really nice days and water them. Sadly the total of them were 15, but the uncle had them out in the open, unprotected, didn't water them very often. 😕
Currently, I have apple and pear seeds stratifying. So I can pot them up. Can't wait to see what I get for fruits on them. 😁
Good luck!
@@davidthegood wow, CZcams sure does wonderful at notifications. I only got this tonight.
Thanks David! The apple trees are still doing well, 4 surviving so far. I have to check the seeds again soon. The pines are doing great. I haven't had to water them through this 2nd part of winter. We've been getting regular snowfalls. 🎉
Very true, luv that compost commercial. Good laughs😂 thanks guy's👍
Trick I learned from an old timer: use a 5 gallon bucket with a small hole in it to provide a slow drip of water. Especially to trees that are tough to get to with a hose and also have to check on them less ofted.
Thank you. Not many people share their knowldge so honestly. Many people want to impress others and don't tell it like you do. Thank you very much for sharing.
Thank you - that is very kind of you.
The Baby nurturing parallel is so true. I turned out ok I guess, but all my siblings were between 10-15 years old before learning to walk. Now it all makes sense why.......
Fine. You guilted me into feeding my fruit trees. 😎🌵🌻🍄🌴🐝
I have avocados trees about 5 years old please show me how to take good care of them I started from seeds they are 8 feet tall
I took the master gardener program here in Florida. Wasn't allowed to call fertilizer "food." ???????????? They claimed it lead to over-"feeding."
Me: okay, sure, I have 12 minutes to see what this guy's going to say.
Then I subscribed based on the shirt alone.
I’m setting up a 3 acre food harvest. I set up 300 sprinklers on a push button system. My fruit trees look super healthy and growing well. Most have grown feet not inches in 5 months. I thought it was pretty obvious to water every few days in our hot climate. I Fertilise with mainly grass clippings and occasionally cow or chicken manure tea.
Grandma had the best lime tree. Always full of the biggest lines!
Fast forward, the contractor doing a remodel for my folks found a leak in the water supply line.
Here in Puerto Rico, it is common to find trees growing near or next to septic tanks.
Whether by design, mistake or fate they always have the best fruits.
Kudos David.
Careful septic waste doesn't enter the root system. Human waste can get into the plant and you can become very ill.
I guess it depends on the species. Many fruit trees wait for droughts to signal when it’s time to flower, most famously Durians. If they are continuously watered year round they’ll never make fruit.
In that case, grow them big, then let them fend for themselves.
Ps maybe that's why my 20' avacado tree never has produced one avacado! Although it did survive hurricane irma and is coming back to life three yrs later. AND i just learned a couple of days ago that the leaves are edible with vit b6 etc!!!💜🙏
You can also use some type of soil moisture granules for newly planted tree that are too far away easy water source. . I always get tickled folks think there is enough water from the dew or occasional rains for a newly planted tree...anyone whoever puts a spade in the ground should know that is just doesn't work that way. I am RADICAL about watering my trees! (and have had 2 back surgeries to prove it ;) )
Amazingly you better put it on a well grinded sandy hill with wide smooth surrounding to grip ground (waterflow spreading the roots.) OK the manore. Spreading is more important than collecting.
i recommend catching and using rain water if you don't have well water. chlorinated water no good for plants unless you let it sit for at least 24 hours and let the chlorine evaporate out of the water.
Yes, it's better not to have the chlorine. Plants will appreciate your extra care.
thanks for showing on how to propagate my friend
Neatly explained in detail of everything comes to together, instead of just the blatant obviousness. :)
Love the video Brother very well putt together I know for a Fact you’re On point 💯💯💯every time I plant a Tree I water it put dead animals an fish in the Ground just past the drip line an then some organic stuff around the drip line around the tree on top of the soil….. wen I plant something I give it love 365 they Blow 🆙 Man 😉💯💯💯🙏🌎❤️💪👊
How often do I put cow manure in my tree and how much please
Go with horse manure from someplace that uses untreated hay. Rich people care more about their horses than farmers care about cattle.
Like the shirt, kinda get tired of hearing about isms but that is definitely one of the better ones 😀
Loved the Bible quote! 🌳
Good information! I just got a couple fruit trees!
How to make a Waterboxx? That's a key question for me because I think they could be more water efficient than typical methods. My other thought was this: which is more water efficient: 3" of wood chips, 6" wood chips, a Waterboxx, or a drip line or some combination?
most people kill their plants by overwatering and fertilizer david but I know where you're coming from I have over 70 "babies" all exotic tropical fruits in socal. majority in big pots 25 Gal or bigger
i have never killed a plant from overwatering it when it is in the earth. plants in pots....yeah, thats a different story. some die from too much water, some die from not enough. i have had the most success doing exactly what he said though. give it a little bit of water every day if it is in a pot.
There is an abandoned field with mandarins lemos and oranges growing in the middle of nowhere. No one waters them unless it rains. These trees have so much fruit that the branches are draging on the floor. I have a few citrus trees that I did everything you did and barely give any fruit. So frustrating "lol"
Where is this field you speak of?? Heaven? Lol
The parallels with our relationships is profound. They need watered and tended everyday also!
You are very right.
Is this the Michael I know?
Would you clean the grass away from the tree?
Yes
" *He spake also this parable; A certain man had a fig tree planted in his vineyard; and he came and sought fruit thereon, and found none.*
*Then said he unto the dresser of his vineyard, Behold, these three years I come seeking fruit on this fig tree, and find none: cut it down; why cumbereth it the ground?*
*And he answering said unto him, Lord, let it alone this year also, till I shall dig about it, and dung it:*
*And if it bear fruit, well: and if not, then after that thou shalt cut it down." Luke 13:6-9*
There is a ton of good agricultural info in the Bible. People weren't stupid back then and paid a lot of attention to what worked and didn't work. Lots of observation and growing based on observation.
@@davidthegood, amen David. God has shown me my place in heaven in a vision before. It was beautiful, I lived among the tree of life that grew on either side of the crystal clear river of the water of life as described in Revelation chapter 22. I tended a garden of vegetables there forever and fed all the people who came..... that is what I live for and treasure the most, is to be there someday...
@@davidthegood,
" *And he shewed me a pure river of water of life, clear as crystal, proceeding out of the throne of God and of the Lamb.*
*In the midst of the street of it, and on either side of the river, was there the tree of life, which bare twelve manner of fruits, and yielded her fruit every month: and the leaves of the tree were for the healing of the nations." Revelation 22:1-2*
Perhaps someday I will meet you there. May God bless you and your family.
" *Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon earth, where moth and rust doth corrupt, and where thieves break through and steal:*
*But lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust doth corrupt, and where thieves do not break through nor steal:*
*For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also." Matthew **6:19**-21*
@@rehoboth_farm, beautiful! Thank you very much for sharing this. May God bless you and your family.
Have you tried orgonite cellphone tower buster to make it rain? I've also heard adding quartz crystal and other rose quartz to improve the growth of a plant or tree.
I agree with what you say in this video for most trees, but Avacados do not like wet feet past your original start up. I watered mine every day for 1 week, every other day for 2nd week, then never again, I it produces tons of avacados for me after 4th year. I do have chickens under it, & I do fertilize, but no addl water for avacados for some reason.
I've taken on this attitude with my baby apple trees and indoor plants I grow in winter, it works. New leaves and growth much faster than the conventional teaching of letting them dry completely between watering. I am also using vitamin b12(cobalt) with every feeding, besides overall health it prevents diseases and cures scab
Where do you get B12 for plants and do you mix it in water or the soil around the plants! Thank you in advsnce.
Really great advice, David! Thank you so much!🙏
Thank you for watching.
pro trip
coconut and salt goes a loooong way
Good info. Does Steve Solomon's book Water Wise Gardening conflict a little with this 'never stress the tree' concept in that occasional heavy watering will force plants to push their roots further and make them have more vigor, resilience and mineral absorption? I bought the book right after you started selling it so it's been a bit since I've read it. But I realize I have cognitive dissonance and believe to take max care of my plants but also to sissify them and make them push their roots out so they're more resilient. Maybe Solomon's book was more about breaking the capillary action via a fluffy dirt surface and spacing plants far enough that your plants can dominate it's area and extricate all the moisture for itself, but I did come away with the idea that plants that grow in spartan conditions (say, after adolescence) are more hardy and tasty and productive than plants that have overabundance of everything they need and have little/no stimulus to push their roots out.
Please make one video on how to make store brought coconut dwarf varaity
Thank you! I just ordered your new Florida survival gardening book and two of your previous books. I also ordered the English version of the JADAM organic gardening book. I live in Citra, FL, and was going broke buying topsoil and composted cow manure for my sandpit yard! I am going to add a food forest and new garden areas once I have killer trees professionally taken down and the branches and tops chipped. The topsoil and compost proved I can grow stuff on Citra Beach, but I need to do things differently to scale up. Thank you! P.S. Your wife is a great teacher, too!
Thank you
Love the video. Thanks from the Bahamas.
David, bro , you’re in the tropics now why are you not using tithonia diversifolia aka Mexican sunflower to feed your trees? More potent than chicken manure.
Because I don't have any planted on this property yet. It's all over my previous food forest in Florida. You're right - an excellent fertilizer.
I feel like there's probably growth hormones that you could give it to help them grow but that requires buying or manufacturing it after the outro I'm guessing you wouldn't want to buy it and I'm not sure if they could be produced substantially without ordering them but idk how their produced so it's something you'd just have to look up
Funny I was told not to feed a fruit tree but to let it stretch it’s roots out and get used to it’s native soil.
True :) ...Though just as or b4 fruiting; many fruit trees respond better if water & fertilizer are cut back...it quickly goes into reproduction attraction or species survival mode...including heightened brix levels in the fruit to further entice the reproduction cycle.
This is true.
Wonderful garden information and tips 😀👌👍
Very nice!!! Great I will use this knowledge to plant my 3 avocado trees 😁
It's very true what you said at the end about the effect of care in general. For example, the Siberian pine and the Korean pine, which produce edible nuts and are very close relatives to the American white bark pine, are notorious for taking extremely long, many decades, to start bearing fruit in the wild. However, in cultivation that may take "only" as "little" as a decade.
How much funding did you get for building all those little walls.
Mexico paid for it.
@@davidthegood LOL
ROTFL!!! Mexico paid for it!!! 😂😂😂
Ok David I am going to really douse my lime tree. I have been begging it to fruit. Lots of TLC was given but I suppose it needs more water. Will let you know the result.
You don't need to be in a rain forest for consistent rain. Just come to Wales...
(Ok, so 2018 was an exception)
how often would you put manure or compost around the tree?
Until it flowers though . We need to water . If we over water after it flowers it will drop and we lose our crop
Enjoyed it brother!
Thank you - good to see you here, Rob.
you mentioned using blood meal, but won't a nitrogen source just add more leaves
How about mature fruit trees that wont bear fruit, i have avocado, lemon and lanzones trees. From the thr Philippines
Thank you for this video! I tried for years to sprout avocados. I I think in 2019 I just gave up and threw theM into compost piles. W ell compost is used readily here and bingo I had on sprout in a raised bed. I dug it up and have been raising it in a food grade 5 gallon bucket. It’s about 2.5 feet. I think I need to repot or plant it. I am in Palm Valley Fl. Between Jacksonville Beach and St. Augustine. We some times get freezes … most years one…sometimes zero but on occasion three or four any suggestions?
Good video. Need to do both these things (water and feed) more often 😊. Sometimes I just forget but am now setting up a timer in my irrigation water.
Good thinking.
Thank you my man, I appreciate the great advice!! By the way, I got the message about the wall if it’s paid for👍🏽👍🏽👍🏽😂
For the coconut tree your right on the fertilizer but at the same time if you can add coco peat which keeps the soil moist the results are better. If you add rock salt just before rains it does wonders. P.S you need a lot and lot of water when you fertilize the roots really need to soak in once a week atleast. Best is to dig a trench around the tree.
I enjoyed your video, thanks!
I have a question for you, my husband waters and fertilizes our avocado tree, but all of the fruit fall off before they grow, what do you recommend we do to have avocados?
Thanks in advance for your advice!
That sounds like a pollination issue. Avocados like a pollinator. If you can plant another tree that is a match, that should stop the problem. A little tricky but less time consuming: you could graft a few scions from other avocado trees onto some of the branches so they will bloom and pollinate the tree.
This is basically a "hydroponic" apporoach where the plant is always being fed a little something. Additionally, stopping water and food for a prolonged period of time a few weeks, pruning, then giving it lots of food and water again will often induce flowering, if you time it correctly with the solar cycle, but this is more of a stress response than an effect of the overall maturity of the plant.