The Distance You Should Plant Between Your Fruit Trees
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- čas přidán 25. 07. 2023
- I've spoken to many people about how far distance we should have between our fruit trees and have many answers. I put the information to the test and can tell you the best distance to place and what not to do.
If you have a yard and you are growing fruit trees I'd love to come and film, especially if you are in the South Florida area. You can contact me at paul@rawlife.com please include the area you are in.
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I didn’t realize how much they grow in one year😅. Thanks for sharing your knowledge.
Spot on Paul. 16 ft is the absolute bare minimum for mango trees and still requires lots of pruning. And if doing multiple rows, the space between rows needs to be wider, 20-25 ft. It is important to know the growth rate of the variety before planting as well. Other fruit trees (besides mangos) can allow more flexibility but still important to have enough space to get between them
Every day is a learning experience there’s a beautiful trees you have❤❤❤
Great video. I wish i could have watched this video. Ten years ago. I'M in the same boat your in.
Paul as usual thank you for another grand slam video. Can you please make video on the proper way of moving a mango tree to another spot or in a pot?
Exactly what I wanted to ask!
Awesome. Greetings from Perth, Western Australia.
I'm sorry Paul, but you're going to have to buy a mango farm.😂
Hatcher property! Top work all those old trees 🌳
For real!
@@greatergood3706There is a book “Grow a little fruit tree”, I still need to get a copy but the Kindle sample made it sound like you could do her methods with just about any fruit tree. But saying that Paul’s yard is really tight.
Hey genius I had an epiphany in the last 2 weeks that I’ll share with you. Think like this. All the mango trees keep growing every year. Some can grow even 6 feet a year. All the trees need to be lowered if not this year then next year. If you feel like you just expressed that it’s going to be too crowded going forward and you are obviously young and healthy enough to work on your trees start thinking like this. Play musical chairs with your trees. Alternate which trees you don’t care that much about not fruiting next year and prune it straight across at 4-5 feet. OK the 2 trees adjacent to the Sweet Tart will get lots of sun and have a chance to maximally fruit and the Sweet tart in between might have a none or maybe a few on it’s side then next year you have to prune the 2 adjacent trees way down but you’ll be getting fruit from the Sweet Tart and a few fruit from the adjacent trees if you were able to leave some branches on the sides. Pruning never ends unless you are lazy or you think it’s OK to plant the trees more than 40-50 feet apart but even then they have to be lowered so you can find and pick fruit but more importantly for the tree’s health to cut down on fungus and pests. You know that game in the video arcades where you get a hammer in hand and those little animals pop up and you get points when you hit them do the same with your trees. Plan on having fruit on certain trees 1 year and none the next year. The trees will be all the more healthy growing back their wood and leaves without the fruit sucking the life out of them. All the pointing at the trees and removing is not necessary and it’s funny your first pointing was at Sweet Tart because with my crowd I decided to lower big time many of my varieties and this year unbelievably Sweet Tart is on the top of the list. Others include Pineapple Pleasure because it hardly produces and it’s hard to pick and ripen as easily as Lemon Zest. But in any decision making you ain’t king the trees tell you what must be lowered and what can stay tall but reachable and what needs to be cut back for the trees own health. And all this work will keep us human caregivers mental and physical health and keep us young and vigorous. The biggest problem if you don’t figure it out right is debris removal and patients. And you can’t even be a tree doctor if you don’t have “patients” and your patients are your trees!!!
PS otherwise I loved the video cause there were some great tips in there for example pruning 1 side and when you spoke about how some trees help by growing ways to their own advantage like growing where there is space.
Thank you. Come up to WPB one day and check out my yard if you have time
@@FruitfulTrees I’ll keep it in mind. I added a couple of extra comments at the end.
My back fence is 125 ft long. I plant 24 inches from the fence. I'm not concerned about neighbor getting fruit. I'm happy to have ½ a tree of fruit. My current neighbor loves ❤️ the plan
This guy needs to be featured in a video! Great comment, learned from it.
Another great video and very good information for all of us growing mangoes. Thanks for doing video.
Thank you for good information
Not only did you save yourself time from pruning so many trees but also it's going to be MUCH easier to do lawn maintenance.
Great video Papa keep em coming...
Thank you for your video. You don't have to take out the Sugar Apple tree because it will not be a big tree.
As a homeowner, first you tried to grow a few fruit trees, then you wanted grow more trees, and then, there is no more space you can walk.
Note: If you grow Sugar Apple, it needs only 6ft space between the two. For the mango, I believe 12ft space between two mango should be enough.
they get huge if left un pruned
Great video! Always learning. Just cut back my mangoes and my sapodilla tree. Bought a chipper to make mulch out of all the branches and leaves. Let me know what y’all think of that idea
good idea
I have some leaves of my mango tree that were spotted with black spots. Do you think I should worry about mulching that up and putting it around my other fruit trees? Thinking it might spread disease
@chaselex96 the microbes will break down your mulch. Keep chemicals out of your garden, equilibrium, and balance will be your reward
@chaselex96 what chipper did you get?
@@greatergood3706 yep not doing anything artificial. All organic. That’s why I got the mulcher, to make my own mulch during pruning seasons
Spot on paul I also remember everything was about high density high density but like you im moving to 20ft
Thank you 🙏🏾 ~Gratitude ✨
Paul do you remember where you got your Lemon Meringue trees from those years ago? I’m having some trouble finding the variety, I’m thinking channels like yours and Sulcata Grove have driven up demand with limited supply for the variety. Thanks for the video good stuff for sure.
I don't remember but I think a good amount of people sell them
It seems that you didn't take into consideration which varieties were vigorous growers and which weren't.
And ya just mixed them all together with out having a strategy in place.
Maybe a dwarf in-between the vigorous growers and still spacing them appropriately. With regards to just the mango trees that is.
Thanks for sharing.
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“I took it when I found it” lmao you could pass as a shopping cart thief
Ok but you gotta do a video on you taking out these trees especially the big trees
I just removed 5 trees and replanted them for friends and family in their yards..... making room for more mango's and figs in my yard.
This is great was in another wonderful tropical gardeners live last night and someone asked this very question. I am trying to do the tips you mentioned. Definitely want more tastings before I commit to bringing home trees. Thanks for this Paul. Can you chop and drop the ones you can’t dig out to sell and feed it to your favorite varieties?
there is no reason you can't dig them out. Chop and drop is fine if you want to
Hey Paul have you considered making a cocktail tree? Multiple varieties on one stump. Now would be a good time of year to try. And you have a good idea of which varities are vigorous so they wont outgrow each other on the graft. Just a thought. Cheers
thank you I already have a cocktail tree but don't want too many like that
@@FruitfulTreeswhy no cocktail trees?
You have some problems over at your house.lol Love your passion, I move around my yard just like you. I had 2 lemon zests! Both were blasted in the hurricane. My LZ was 18 ft tall in 6 years by 22 ft wide and not near full size. You need a 30 ft spread for that tree unless you want to continually prune when your 75 yrs old and tired of all the work. Plan in advance! I am putting in 3 more trees and spacing 27 and 28 ft apart except for the Cecilove which will be 21 ft away for I am out of room at the end of lot. Of course I am allowing a 15-20 ft spread for Ceci which should be plenty of room in case I need to use fungicides and whatever else. Rather have 5 healthy trees over 8 that are crammed in. Always good to remember, you cannot eat all the mangoes. Nobody can have and utilize more then 5 trees of fruit, even if you freeze all the fruit. Save room for the watermelon crops is what I say!
So true I recently cut down my coconut trees that was to lose to my avocado tree
Contemplating taking down 2 Royal palms and add 2 mangos. Chopping up massive palm fronds is getting old. Want to plant Jehangir and a Little Gem.
@@greatergood3706 i have a small backyard but usug large half of barrels to plant my grafted lime lemons an avocados like 3 together
@devbachu7072 I'm at an age that dragging a hose is not that appealing. I have a 2 year rule on establishment. After that - they get the water 💧 that God sends to them.
What part of Florida are you in?
I’m in Miami Gardens and I believe I’m planting my tree to close. I only have one mango 🥭 tree but I have other fruit trees.
BTW it was Henry Flagler that introduced the Mangos to Florida when he brought the seeds from India
my favorite part of having a fruit forest is trimming the trees!
I planted my trees 12' which is too close i already see 2 trees im going have to remove, it sucks that is both ceci love and sugarloaf. My biggest tree is a orange sherbet that hasnt fruited. Maybe i should top work that into both ceci love and sugarloaf
Thank you for this very important video Paul!! I hired “experts” that kept pushing me to grow closer. I have a Glenn 12 feet from a Pickering and other mistakes. You are welcome to come an film here South Venice, I’m raw vegan too. Thank you for this very important video Paul!! I hired “experts” that kept pushing me to grow closer. I have a Glenn 12 feet from a Pickering and other mistakes. You are welcome to come an film here South Venice, I’m raw vegan too.
I've got some 12 ft apart. I'm willing to prune.
@@greatergood3706 hi willing to prune but I am concerned that my Glenn will block the light for my Pickering even if I prune
@ellena858 you can keep Glenn at 12-15 ft. The Pickering will adapt. I keep a 70+ year old Haden under 20ft. Cut it back to 12 ft. grows 8 ft. Constant pruning during growing season
agree need more space and it's a full time job to prune, interplanting with banana and sugar cane can be good while you wait for the tree to grow and give fruit
Serious question: why is it bad if they are too close? What's wrong if the branches are entangled? That's how trees grow in forests...
It's about fruit production, more sun, more fruits. Leaving the mangoes to do what they will, you'll end up with fruit 20+ feet up in the sun exposed areas, difficult to pick. Trees pruned to 12 ft is perfect. Vigorous trees should be avoided unless you have acreage in my opinion.
I think the moral of the story is self control😂. The high density approach is more for the standard backyard gardener when u want a few mango trees and other varieties in your yard not 20+ mangos. Just too big a species. We have two (6 years old mangos) planted 6 feet apart as a mango hedge, but as u noted open on the other sides 4 light and get great production. Any more it wouldn't work (plus we have no more space). Again these are comments 4 the average home gardener that want's variety in their standard sized urban yard.
great video...optimizing your planting area requires some pre planning - most of us realize the problem after planting - your video provides some perspective in what not to do...
I really want to plant some fruit trees. But I don’t have a lot of space. I can only fit 4. So I’m really trying to pick the fruits I like best. 😳 honestly over whelmed.
Hi Paul, do you use organic or chemical fertilizer?
I'm just learning but papaya grow long with only a top smallish canopy and also only live to be about 20 years old. Hence, I'm planting papaya between the trees that grow to a wider canopy span. By the time the wider trees grow in, the papaya's life would be on the decline. I'm also growing melons on the ground under these young trees while there is still ample sun between the trees. I'd appreciate your opinion on this method.
papaya is a herbnot a tree and yes they can be planted between trees and much closer just be careful when you do cut them down. Also don't plant them too close to the fruit trees because their leaves can cause a lot of shade.
@@FruitfulTreesit's not a weed it's an herb.
@@msdramamusic he used to have his backyard full of bananas 🍌
@@msdramamusic Yes. meant to say that thanks for the correct i"ll fix it now
your comment about losing one side is fine but if losing two or more sides, it's something to think about
Shalom 💖🙏🏻
I planted mined in rows...ten feet apart....
Where did you buy all these?
different places
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20 feet is ideal.
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Anyone who tells you that you can plant mango trees 8ft apart has no clue what they’re talking about lol. Mango trees get huge. I keep mine at least 15+ feet apart and most of my varieties are “dwarf” or “compact” and even then I still expect to have to prune them to keep them from getting too big. I’ve seen mango trees kept at 12 feet apart and it has worked but it’s definitely cramped.
This is mostly about mango trees
so strange why my comment would get deleted..
I didn't delete any comments
You have a good problem. You can now decide which trees to keep and which to sell. Don't go crazy and over removing trees. Just remove one at a time and keep looking and idealing.
Plan to fail or Fail to plan
Paul is trying to save large, robust, growing trees. His New York state 🗽 of mind is ignoring growing only medium to small growth trees. Listen to the native Floridians, pruning 20-25% every season after fruiting.
@@greatergood3706 did you see the video I'm not letting any of my trees get too big and I'm pruning every year but still 10 feet is too close.