Growing Hazel Trees from Seed
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- čas přidán 5. 10. 2023
- Today on the smallholding I am doing the first steps in growing hazel trees from seed. I am preparing the nuts for a spring germination, where I will then pot them up individually to grow on next year ready to be planted the next winter.
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Well made and concise! Thanks!
Thank you
Bravo! 👍👍
Thanks 😊
I start my nuts (pecan, chestnut, walnut, hazelnut) in a plastic bag with damp sand, little clay to keep moisture from settling to bottom. Dark cool location and check for sprouts late winter, either a strainer or large tub to dump into and hand sort.
Sounds great!
Any hints on stopping the squirrels eating them. I bought 3kg last Autumn and planted them out as they germinared in a bag of compost. Squirrels ate 99% in a night.
I keep them off the floor to stop mice and I put chicken mesh over to stop squirrels
It has worked so far
Great video. When is the follow-up coming?
I’ve done a couple of shorts and a video of potting them on 👍
Can you share the link @@SmallholdingUK
Every year I get an abundant crop of hazelnuts on my 1 tree . But the squirrels know exactly when to harvest them and always get there the day before me and strip the lot. I’ve just gone online and ordered 2 kg of nuts from riughway farm as recommended. Should set up an affiliate link as he could events in Commission😂 thanks for the tip all the time
Good luck with growing the nuts you’ll have to let me know how you did 👍
It’s amazing how quick the tree rats strip them
Where can I buy some seed please
I’m in the UK I got mine from a company called roughway farm 👍
Started our version of a copse last year but are getting some deer damage on the young shoots. Other than a whacking great fence, have you got any tips on how to prevent it?
Deer can be a real problem as they reach over rabbit guards and nip the tips out, I’ve been having this problem, this year I’m making some guards out of old rolls of stock fencing to see if that helps, I’m also going to save all the bedding from my ferrets and walk round once a month with a small scoop and sprinkle a bit around the young trees to see if that keeps them away
Hi, I was watching you before where you were doing electroculture,
but I can't see the results, how did it go?
regards Australia
I think I started it to late this year to be honest and I’ll redo next year from seed sowing all the way through
But I must admit the leeks with the antenna seem taller
Hi,
Are you going to add some water at the end or no needs?
I have watered them since yes, I’ll check them weekly and keep moist
My hazel's haven't produced any nuts for about 6 years now, any idea what might have caused them to stop?
Are they old trees ? Do they get coppiced
Mine took maybe 6-8 years from planting to nuts and 3-4 from coppicing to new nuts
Hello sir! I just bought some hazelnut seeds, and I would like if you could tell me please what month to germinate them? and what is your successful method that you follow? Do you germinate them in paper towel, plastic bag or directly in soil
Thank you very much
where do you plant seedlings?
I’m slowly planting up the Smallholding to be a coppice woodland, I’m pretty much done with trees for firewood now so I’m filling any gaps with hazel
@@SmallholdingUK great, at what distance possdit hazelnut grown from seeds, I will not prune it?
I plant about 6-8 foot apart, I give first coppice after maybe 5 years to get rid of the shaggy young growth and it will then grow the nice straight rods, I then cut like every 6-8 years
@@SmallholdingUK ok
@@SmallholdingUK my brother mistakenly sowed seeds from a grafted hazelnut, what would be the difference in regrowth from the wild one in the forest?
Congratulations you are now compost selfsufficient. Not many around. It took me 7 yrs to produce a surplus from our kitchen scraps and garden waste.
Yeah it’s taken me 2-3 years but I’m a self employed gardener so I now try to save everything I can, I’m also now doing leaf mold so go out of my way to collect all the leaves I can and have just started using my first batch
Don't do that you don't know what you will get, unless you are planning to try to create a new cultivar by trials and errors, your chances of getting a good cultivar is one in many thousands
I think hazels have been growing themselves from seed for millennia 👍 I’m not a nut producer I’m just after the trees
I’ve got loads I’ve grown from seed and loads the squirrels have planted they are all doing fantastic
@@SmallholdingUK
How many percent are producing good nuts and after how long?
You can grow hazelnut trees from root suckers, they grow well this way "provided the mother tree wasn't grafted"
Well that’s strange all your other negative comments and my replies have disappeared 🤷♂️
Anyway I haven’t got time to do 400 root cuttings 👍
@@SmallholdingUK
I didn't delete anything
Me either 🤷♂️ CZcams strange sometimes 😆