This Guy Grows Over 100 Fruit Trees on a Small Space Residential Lot
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- čas přidán 29. 06. 2024
- John from www.growingyourgreens.com/ goes on a field trip to South Florida to visit a bearded man who grows over 100 fruit trees in 10,000 square feet of space.
In this episode, John visits his friend Paul, who grows an insane amount of fruit trees on a small 1/4 acre residential lot. You will learn many of the techniques that Paul uses to grow fruit trees and manage them.
First, you will learn how to not get people to steal your fruit if they are walking by, you will learn more about specific fruit varieties and cultivars that produce well in South Florida as well as Perennial Vegetables that you can grow.
You will learn about growing tropical fruit trees in South Florida and how close you can plant trees together in your tropical perennial food forest.
You will learn about many good-producing fruit trees for South Florida and how you can eat avocados off your trees 9 months out of the year.
You will also discover the one pest that is plaguing Paul's collard greens and how to effectively deal with them.
Finally, John will interview Paul about growing high-density fruit trees, his CZcams channel fruitful trees, and much, much more.
Jump to the following parts of this episode:
00:00 Episode Starts
00:22 Over 100 Fruit trees on a 10,000 sq ft lot
01:47 How to get people to not steal your fruit
03:12 Grow fruit trees shorter than taller
03:30 Mango Trees Planted 8 Feet Apart
04:15 Most productive fruit tree for Florida
05:21 Paul's favorite Fruit - Miracle Berry
06:33 Growing Figs & Pomegranates in Florida
07:15 You Should Grow a Moringa Tree
08:17 Edible Katuk - Tastes like peanut butter
09:31 Growing the Best Varieties of Sapodillas aka Chico Sapote
11:12 Mamey Sapote - Pumpkin Pie Fruit
11:58 Backyard Tour Starts
12:08 Dragon Fruiting without pollination
12:31 Jackfruit Seedling Tree
14:49 Eat Avocados 9 Months of the Year
15:47 Raised Bed Vegetable Gardening
16:56 Growing Collard Greens
19:44 White Sapotes Taste Better in Florida
21:04 Soursop Tree
22:02 Growing the Best Mangoes
24:23 Interview with Paul Nison
24:41 What motivated you to plant all these fruit trees?
25:55 Is it true you can eat fruit every month of the year of your property?
26:55 What are the top 3 trees to grow in South Florida?
29:32 Why did you start your channel Fruitful Trees?
32:49 What is your favorite video on your fruitful trees channel?
34:42 What top tip do you have for gardeners in South Florida?
36:48 Can people hire you to help them plant fruit trees?
41:08 How can someone find you?
After watching this episode, you will learn more about growing fruit trees in small spaces, the fruit trees that grow best for south Florida, techniques you can use to grow tropical fruit trees, and much more.
Referenced Episodes:
How to Juice Moringa
• Best Way to Eat Moring...
How to Force a Star Fruit to Make Fruit (Heart Village)
• Florida Garden Demonst...
Paul's Raised Bed Garden Build
• If you grow a garden y...
Paul Grows Larger Vegetables with Humanure
• Human Manure Better th...
Truly Tropical Mango Farm Visit
• South Florida Mango Fa...
Subscribe to Paul's Fruitful Trees CZcams Channel at
/ @fruitfultrees
Previous Episodes with Paul:
Last Episode with Paul and his Front Yard Food Forest
• Front Yard Aloe Garden...
How to dry Moringa filmed at Paul's House
• How to Best Grow, Harv...
How to Use Your Waste to Make Fertilizer (Humanure at Paul's Place)
• Make Garden Compost ou...
Edible Patio Condo Vegetable Garden Conversion (original episode with Paul) Part 1 and Part 2
• Edible Garden on a Con...
• Edible Garden on a Con...
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#### Summary
This guy has over 100 fruit trees on a small residential lot by planting them close together and using specific techniques. He focuses on trees that are easy to grow and productive, like star fruit and moringa. He also grows subtropical trees like figs and pomegranates. He uses the Miracle Berry tree to make sour things taste sweet and enjoys the challenge of growing different varieties of fruits.
#### Highlights-
🌳 He has over 100 fruit trees on a small residential lot by planting them close together.-
🌴 He focuses on easy-to-grow and productive trees like star fruit and moringa.-
🌿 He enjoys the challenge of growing subtropical trees like figs and pomegranates.-
🌱 He experiments with different varieties of fruits to find the ones he likes best.
Jump to the following parts of this episode:
00:22 Over 100 Fruit trees on a 10,000 sq ft lot
01:47 How to get people to not steal your fruit
03:12 Grow fruit trees shorter than taller
03:30 Mango Trees Planted 8 Feet Apart
04:15 Most productive fruit tree for Florida
05:21 Paul's favorite Fruit - Miracle Berry
06:33 Growing Figs & Pomegranates in Florida
07:15 You Should Grow a Moringa Tree
08:17 Edible Katuk - Tastes like peanut butter
09:31 Growing the Best Varieties of Sapodillas aka Chico Sapote
11:12 Mamey Sapote - Pumpkin Pie Fruit
11:58 Backyard Tour Starts
12:08 Dragon Fruiting without pollination
12:31 Jackfruit Seedling Tree
14:49 Eat Avocados 9 Months of the Year
15:47 Raised Bed Vegetable Gardening
16:56 Growing Collard Greens
19:44 White Sapotes Taste Better in Florida
21:04 Soursop Tree
22:02 Growing the Best Mangoes
24:23 Interview with Paul Nison
24:41 What motivated you to plant all these fruit trees?
25:55 Is it true you can eat fruit every month of the year of your property?
26:55 What are the top 3 trees to grow in South Florida?
29:32 Why did you start your channel Fruitful Trees?
32:49 What is your favorite video on your fruitful trees channel?
34:42 What top tip do you have for gardeners in South Florida?
36:48 Can people hire you to help them plant fruit trees?
41:08 How can someone find you?
Subscribe to Paul's Fruitful Trees Channel at www.youtube.com/@FruitfulTrees
I'm on a cell phone how can I find your products.
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He needs a goose to mow the grass. Chinese geese have the best egg laying rate, btw.
I live in northern Illinois zone 5.my tiny 1/4 th acre lot has 35 fruit trees. They are planted close and so doing great. Work with what youve got.
I'm in Northern Ontario Canada (zone 4a) and I'm growing almost sixty fruit trees just under an acre of land, Paul is absolutely right we can grow food pretty much anywhere in the World. I have apples, peaches, plums, pears, apricots, sour cherries, sweet cherries, kiwis, grapes, almonds, northern pecan, english walnut, black walnut, hazelnuts, chesnuts, heartnuts, and so many varieties of berries as well. Thanks for the wonderful videos and all the work you both do.
I’m in US Z5 and can ask you about my dwarf apple dilemma. I planted dwarf apples only 4’ apart because I intended to train in columnar fashion. Everyone tells me they are too close and don’t understand what I’m doing. Now they sell columnar trees🙄. I was going to move every other one of the 5 to give them more room. I have plenty of room and suppose they do ‘look’ close together. It is sandy and dry and maybe it would help if they are close together. They will only live for about 15 years and haven’t grown much in 2 years.
Do you think they will be fine to just leave them? I’m reluctant to move them as this might be the year they fruit.
We are having a terrible time with severe drought and temp swings. About 15-20 above normal all December and rain on Christmas Day. Was concerned plants would start budding. It was so hot this May that it advanced berries and grapes so much some died in late frost.
You have a wonderful variety in your garden! Our neighbor has a black walnut and they are growing like weeds everywhere and I have to keep nipping them out. I have hazelnuts I just started last year, but lost one-got irrigation now-the drought was too much to keep up.
@@dustyflats3832 I would leave the trees as you have them, a excellent source of information in your zone would be Edible Acres on youtube.
I find that the trees will find a way to survive and thrive even close to each other. You can assist them in pruning and training certain branches to allow the best light and space for each individual tree but as for the roots and below soil, its not a problem. In nature and when walking in the forests trees of all kinds grow together in much closer proximity and thrive.
As for the drought problems mulching with whatever you have and as thick as you can to retain moisture. I am of the belief that trees should grow like weeds and if they don't do as Paul mentioned and once they have had enough time change them out.
Another point as Paul was mentioning talk to people around you and local nurseries and orchard and choose the best trees that are the most pest and disease resistant for your area.
To address your concern about budding in December we need to remember that it is a combination of temperature and hours of daylight that control the trees dormancy period. So although it was warm enough to open the daylight period wasn't long enough.
I am also in Ontario North,but I have not been able to grow Peaches,are you growing in Greenhouses?
@@sonyabarkwell6077 I’m curious also. I had a wonderful Madison Peach at our last house (produced the first year from bare root stock)and moved 2 miles away and cannot keep a peach tree alive. I have no idea what is wrong unless it’s because we are a bit lower elevation. Peaches and Peonies are a problem here. The peach trees come back from the root and the peonies just won’t bloom no matter how or where I plant them. It’s frustrating.
Both Paul and John create very informative and fun videos to watch.
Agreed
And that's what I'm working on...LOTS OF FRUIT TREES! Already up to 27.
Wish I could grow avocados here in Kentucky 😢
But when we bought our property 10 year ago and while my husband started building our house, I started planting fruit trees. We have apples, pears, peaches, plums and also bushes like blueberry, black berry and my perennial strawberries. 😀
I'm in TN and I have two Moringa trees in pots for three years. I grew them from seed and they are doing well. They go dormant in winter in my unheated garage and then resume growing in spring after I bring them outside. No drumsticks yet but the did flower this past fall.
Your still adventuring. I first watched many years ago and now have a 19 plant mostly citrus food garden in Canada's west coast. Thanks for adding to the spark,
I dig it when you visit him every so often.
I have to stop following Paul, thanks for his videos I got over 25 varieties in my backyard 😂
Mango trees
Lol right 🥭🥭🥭🥭🥭🥭🥭
😂😂😂
Lovely do not stop growing a variety
Any seeds u want to sell??
I like someone like you who cares about his environment. Just continue what you started and you will be blessed! 🎉❤
In my tropical warm house, my Dwarf cavendish fruit banana has finally managed to start flowering. With a lower trunk diameter of a good 20 cm, this could produce an impressive harvest by around June. Happy new year to everyone who is interested in warm house plants, just take a look at me.
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Do you have English subtitles?
Thank you John great to hangout with you
It is amazing how some will help themselves to your produce. We bought a house in town Once and a lady was picking our cherries!
I was concerned I planted dwarf apples too close as I was going to train them columnar style and now they sell them, but I think I will leave them be and not move them. If this guy can grow them close they should be fine-I hope😊. Then I can plant more👏🏼👏🏼.
I have to comment again! This video was so valuable. And I absolutely love your guys’ friendship and I love how you keep poking small fun at Paul for cutting down his trees lol Thank you for this great video! I am so inspired to grow trees! Fruit trees and even some veggies. 😊
The wild animals love us for sure!👍🏻🤟🏼
I can feel the magic from cold rainy England. Inspiring.
I love your laugh John 🐸
Looking forward to visiting Paul soon! Great video!
34:03 we need more bees 🐝 The trees are flowering, but are making very little fruit.
Our neighbor is new to bee keeping and think he did some things that killed them in winter and he had hives leave. This year I planted borage and calendula for the first time and maybe it helped because a swarm returned👏🏼👏🏼🎉! Plant multi blossom type flowers and garlic chives and spotted horsemint just hum with pollinators. I’m concerned about all the double flowering varieties appearing on the market as pollinators can’t get to the pollen/nectar.
I have a very small yard (5667 sq feet) south of Tampa and always wanted to grow fruit trees. My father has 6 acres in south Florida and has hundreds of fruit trees. I thought I would need a lot of land to grow fruit trees. I was surprised how many trees I was able to grow in my yard. I'm in hoa so in the front of my yard I created a cacti/succlent garden but placed lots of dragon fruits in it. On the side of my yard, I started passion fruit and sugar apple. In my back yard I have a mango, fig trees, moringas, papayas, lemon, lime, and I did have banana tree but it took up too much space, so I cut them away. I've not had any complaints from the hoa but I had to be proactive with rats. As I did have an issue with them at one point.
That is wonderful. We also have a tiny yard about the same sq footage .13 acres..We have about 25 fruit trees…Along with a butterfly and vegetable garden. Since a bigger property isn’t in our cards I started following people with little mini food forest. It is possible for sure.I think you can inspire people with a smaller yard better ..than you can with a bigger piece of land…Which can be overwhelming with the shear size..
How did you deal with rodent issue?
Thanks for sharing have a blessed new year
So fun to see you guys together!
Well done...Thank u.
I also love watching Paul’s channel. 😊 The Mamey and Sapodilla are also some of my favorite. 😊
Awesome!
great information. This made me go back and watch the video about Paul and human #2. Will watch more.
Thanks, John!!! We love Paul, Torah Life Ministries!
I am sure you won’t be able to eat all these fruits all by yourself. So, it would be a good idea to make a small platform in front of your house and set a box on it to put all the extra fruits that you can’t eat in it for the foot traffic. It’s such a good feeling to share your bounty with others and not only think of yourself!
Great video John, and great tips, Paul! John, I love your deadpan humor! Nurseries will sometimes sell you tress which might not be right for your microclimate too. For example, I'm 15 minutes away from New Port Richey and the climate is completely different.
Nice sharing..👍
Cool Fruit Trees!
That was a great video and I am learning to grow orange trees in zapopon Mexico.
🍏🍎🍐🍋🍓🍑🥝 i’m growing 100,000s of a fruit trees and vegetables. I put them in pots so I could sell them so everybody in my area can have fruit trees and nut trees. I cannot believe they want over $100 for a fruit tree in the store and most stores don’t even carry fruit trees in the winter time when it is a really good time to plant
Your friend can make a huge amount of money, air layering all those trees instead of pruning them That your planted it’s part of it💰💰
True ! You could also plant a branch of a tree in RIVER sand and it will grow roots and it fruits much faster than planting by seed . Its an awesome way to get hundreds of plants .
I don't live close to a river, but close to the ocean would ocean sand work too???😮😊
Omgoodness! I have to say that your stories are too funny! And also how you keep mentioning that you wish that Paul grew more veggies 😆
@16:30 - incorrect, beef is
You’re welcome to come visit the spirulina farm I work on in Pierson, FL, where I also grow fields of roselle, moringa, and a dozen or so other plants. The landowner in Orlando had a very lush food garden like in this video, as well as
Great way to provide healthy food
On Maui, in Hawaii, the Filipino family along my back fence had a big moringa tree.
I just thought it was sort of a pain. Then I learned all the things they are good for.
I tried some, but maybe I didn't fix anything right, because it wasn't something I would choose to eat, unless I had too.
Same, years ago on Maui they said, "The calamugai is good" and my BF said you could eat the pods. Well, I tried cooking overripe pods and they do taste like artichokes but I learned after moving to Florida that they're best harvested much younger. I have a couple of young trees and plan to try it again when they seed.
It's called miracle tree ..look up benefits... doesn't have taste it absorbs flavors of whatever you are cooking with. Famine food in Africa. Blue Zone in Japan have moringa... you never have to buy vitamins....so many high nutrients.. 😊
oh man this my dream!
Puerto Rico? Awesome 💯.
Very cool! We have a quarter acre that we need to put a septic system on and I'm wondering how far should you plant kiwi or figs or other fruit trees from it? Thanks, although we live in Oregon I enjoy watching your videos and I'm excited about unique fruits
Fruitful trees
Not Cal to Vegas and now Puerto Rico!? Wow man 👍🏽 Are the properties in PR expensive? Is it safe there? Why PR over some of the other Caribbean islands?
There's a great ministry called ECHO in North Fort Myers (?). A great resource.
Yayaaaed I like it.
It makes sense.
I’d do the same thing.
Paul,
Which variety of Florida avocado tastes better than the California Hass avocado in your expert opinion?
Using the moringa extract what is the ratio per gallon?
Excellent stuff 🎉
Would love to see an example of this for us up in north Florida. I’m in the Panhandle, near Panama City Beach, and education is seriously lacking here. It’s an extremely biodiverse region, however, every few years we get a week of hard freeze which wipes out many citrus. Any videos or links to a north Florida variation to this video?
Green Dreams Pete Kanaris visited some N Florida gardeners, you might check out his YT. One man just below the GA border, some great info there.
Am I making a mistake by growing trees from the seeds that I get from stores? Because I've got tons of trees you know and they're about two three years old now
Paul,
Can you please tell me what is the name of the Soursop Variety in the video that had one fruit hanging on it?
I had no idea that you didn’t have to hand pollinate dragon fruit in South Florida. Does anyone know if this is with every variety or it’s just with certain varieties? I have two trellises with eight varieties. I’m just wondering if I need to hand pollinate
Everglades tomatos shud do well most of the year there
I'd love to know what he puts in his soil, because my trees have not fruited in the 4 yrs since planting them. This is the first year I'm giving them Phosphorus and Potassium so hoping this yr will be different. I'm not far from this area.
Just mulch like crazy
Fruit trees have a mind of their own, you can do everything you can they’ll decide to fruit when they feel like it. A good organic fertiliser low nitrogen is your best bet so you’re on track with that. Like above said ^ mulching holds moisture and encourages a healthier soil microbiome with more life so better root environment for the trees. You can also enrich the soil with conditioners like worm castings, organic bacteria/fungi feeders, seaweed extract etc which are somewhat fertilisers although not technically as they moreso feed and improve soil life and over all health and not the tree itself. Keep up with watering and maintain it, irregular water makes some trees not fruit. Also check your PH, some trees won’t fruit in non ideal PH conditions.
Some trees can take many years to bare fruit. Be patient 😊. Also, remember that most of them need the right polinator
Human manure is one of his specialities.
Yeah, I think I was giving them too much nitrogen from compost and not enough other minerals....I'm also using Azomite and kelp meal this year. Stay tuned.@@Azzury.
I agree you want big fruit. Picking little berries is a major time draw. Same reason big tomatoes are better than cherry tomatoes: they are easier to pick. Tell Paul to try growing heaven fruit (Willughbeia coriacea - Wall. or Willughbeia sarawakensis). They are supposed to taste like Orange Sherbert!
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Do you know the variety of pomegranate?
Everybody give this a like 👍 and show support to the John Kholer and Paul
Paul,
What is the name of the Dragon Fruit Variety in the Video that was full of fruit?
How many feet away are the trees from each other?
You’re in the acreage? 😂 awesome! Welcome!
What type of avacodo
how can mangoes grow in NY gives me hope i can grow them in Northern CA
oh snap i thought brooklyn ny haha
It was probably the soya bean sprouts.
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23 here
Nice, I've lived in Puerto Rico for over 3 years!! What part?? I'm on west side!! Welcome!!
Rincon/Aguada. Video coming soon :)
@growingyourgreens nice!! Looking forward to it!! Let me know if you need anything over here!! I'm not too far, in Lares, near San Sebastián border.. best of luck!!
Goals! I want to learn how to duplicate this 100%.
I was having moringa every day and it didn't suit me. So I prefer turmeric and Ashvagandha
Did he sell, can we buy
All I needs a lot…🐸🍺🔪🔥
haha, it's FruitfulTrees!
Where is his link???
czcams.com/users/FruitfulTrees
It's east to keep them out
Moringa leaf flavor?
It kinda just tastes grassy.
You introduce the trees but you didn't go closer to the trees and show the actual pictures of the trees.
Why in the world would anyone want to force a starfruit to produce more? My tree produces 250 lbs of fruit PER SEASON, and it has 3 seasons a year. More than that for what!?!? Half goes to waste anyway.
hello, do you dye your hair?
Where is a trusted source for good fruit trees?
They mix soursop w condensed milk over ice in the Caribbean, nice!
A good thing is that you do not have to buy fruits from market.
Like #213
Human manure compost is dangerous for leafy greens. I would not be juicing that.
California fruit isn’t always worth the stollen water, or the shipping cost to the rest of the country.
70 30 70 percent trees 30 percent veggies
This guy talks about his garden like a woman that I would call a keeper. 😅
Do you talk too much I mean I know you got to narrate but that's too much
This truly is my friend and fellow gardener 🥭🥬🥭🥬🥭🥬🥭🥬🥭🥬🥭🥬
Awesome!