MUST WATCH: If You Are Growing Fruit Trees In Containers 🤯 (Are you Really Watering Your Tree?)

[@lupitacameron9693]

Thanks Diana, for the reminder to be balanced when it comes to gardening especially when it’s one person working the garden. We can only do so much. Very informative and helpful video.

[@undercovergardener5632]

Nice tips, my citrus was doing the same thing. It was root bound, so I took it out of barrel and cut some roots and and put fresh soil in !

[@GardenloveHomestead]

Thats is awesome, great job. Thats exactly what you need to do. I have some video on that 🤗🤗🤗🙂🙂🙂👍👍👍

[@Satisharibam]

Great information madam,many people who grow fruit trees in containers,or any other tree for that matter,will benefit from this video 👍

[@GardenloveHomestead]

Thank you so much I hope this video help a lot of people trees can be a little tricks something if you dont know what you are looking for. 🙂🤗

[@TheMsMii]

Thank you for all of the info. I am excited to start my journey with trees in containers.

[@GardenloveHomestead]

Im excited for you, please keep me posted. What trees do you have or what will be your first tree?

[@TheMsMii]

I purchased a belle of Georgia peach tree and a honeycrisp apple tree.

[@rebeccacordero5396]

I just noticed the dry root ball yesterday on my peach tree, I'm so glad I found this video, thank you!

[@terber12392]

Very good advice about putting them in water and letting them soak.

[@GardenloveHomestead]

Thank you, and Thank you for watching 🙂Have bless day.

[@farmerdurrn]

Wonderful wonderful content ! I really appreciate you going over this! Also, I need that utility belt you have.

[@SowGoodGardener]

Great tip my friend! Thank you for sharing your knowledge and I’m sure that your tree, or any tree will fully recover after utilizing this technique!

[@GardenloveHomestead]

Thank you 🤗 Im glad you though so. I hope it xan help other. This tree will be looking healthy in no time. Thank you for your support 🙂have a bless day.

[@diamondbellranchhomestead4298]

Thank so much for the tips for overly dried up fruit trees. Have a bless day too.

[@GardenloveHomestead]

Thabk you for watching 🙂have a bless day.

[@hotpepper7782]

Thanks you for lessons well learned.

[@KashmirMovieProduction]

Great works and information. 🍊🍊

[@GardenloveHomestead]

Thabk you so much🙂

[@PrairiePlantgirl]

Great tips not just for fruit trees

[@liltbennet]

That's a great tip. I'll keep this in mind in case my fruit trees experience this!

[@dorothypetioni1921]

My papaya will hold on to the fruit now

[@GardenloveHomestead]

Thank you for your support 🙂

[@GardenloveHomestead]

@@dorothypetioni1921 yay! Let me know when it does

[@KeeKeeSoto]

Thank you for the info. Im trying to learn as much as I can about my fruit trees!!

[@GardenloveHomestead]

Thank you for watching im happy to help with what I know 🙂🤗

[@G.W.H.]

Thank you, I need to check my trees.

[@GardenloveHomestead]

Awesome 👌thank you for watching 🙂

[@MSMAXIALE]

Excellent video. I am good with in ground plants but planters are my weak spot.

[@GardenloveHomestead]

Thats awesome, with planter you just have to remember that you are the only source to that tree or plant. You have to fertilizer more often and water more often depending on the weather.

[@suzanneweary9739]

Thanks for the video! I would like to know what soil and fertilizers to use. I am ordering my lemon and lime trees this week.

[@GardenloveHomestead]

Where are you located? If you can find EB Stone citrus and palm I would get that. They also have a great fertilizer, along with IV organic, and Fish fertilizer

[@suzanneweary9739]

@@GardenloveHomestead okay, thank you. I have fish fertilizer.

[@GardenloveHomestead]

@@suzanneweary9739 perfect 🤗🙂

[@suzanneweary9739]

@@GardenloveHomestead I'm in Georgia

[@laurensanchez]

Yes i would love to get your help in learning how to ammend my soil for my container fruit trees. Like when to use vermiculite or pumice or bark. :D

[@barbbrownlee9188]

Hi Diana!🤗 Great video and tips on growing fruit trees in a container! Enjoyed the joint, "Live" you were on with Grow family Network!👏 I will be planting an apple & peach trees in containers soon. And I welcome all your great tips you can share! Stay blessed and safe! 🦋4/10/2021🦋

[@lyonheart84]

Great video Diana although of course I have the opposite problem here in my climate, at this time of year all of my container grown dormant fruit trees are absolutely waterlogged lol, it never seems to stop raining here in winter 🤪🤪

[@GardenloveHomestead]

I can see that. I was thinking about making a video about the opposite ehat could happened if you live in a raining place. I dont want my subscribers to take my tips an apply them if they live in a wet place 🙂🤗. Thanks for the reminder. How are your trees?

[@lyonheart84]

@@GardenloveHomestead nearly everything ( of my hardy unusual fruits ) are still dormant , the asian pears however are just starting to flower....

[@toosense]

Hi. Im in Houston and we tend to go through very rainy seasons. Sometimes I cover the soil in my large containers with blue tarps I buy from the Dollar Store, just wrap it around the trunk and close with cheap clothes pins or whatever. The water runs off. Not for long term use as the tree soil needs to dry between waterings but helps prevent root rot. Good luck with your trees.

[@lyonheart84]

@@toosense gets a bit impractical for me to cover the soil as I have around 50 frost hardy fruit trees growing in containers outdoors ( fortunately they tend to be wet resistant) plus another 40 to 50 sub tropical and tropical fruit plants but I bring them indoors in winter so of course they are not exposed to our continuous rain. Unfortunately we dont get the wonderful heat you get in Houston 😎😁

[@dandeleona4760]

Take a long screwdriver and stab the soil, then twirl it around until you make a channel through the root system. Good way to get water closer to inner roots without injuring them ... they move aside ... and a good way to add amendments dissolved in water . Soil should have 32% oxygen to finish the nitrogen cycle, so these channels work well when they dry out to get oxygen down to roots and microbes busy with the nitrogen cycle.

[@GardenloveHomestead]

This is a great comment love the solution. I've done it before and it really works. Thank you

[@dasledogg64]

My Boston helps me with my lemon tree too! Another excellent, informative video. I live in Pittsburgh so my citrus comes in for winter and this was my exact issue. Time to get down and dirty.

[@GardenloveHomestead]

Yay, I'm so happy to hear you are growing fruit trees even if you have to bring them in for the winter. I can see this happening if you keep your trees inside. Im sure you dont water often while their inside. How often do you water them inside the house?

[@dasledogg64]

Last year I made the mistake of watering it every 5 days and it dropped all the leaves, before bouncing back and blooming. This year I have the room set around 75° and have a humidifier going too and I water about every 10 days. No major leaf drop this year, but it hasn't bloomed yet. Any suggestions?

[@GardenloveHomestead]

@@dasledogg64 yes I can see that. When their indoors they need water less often. I would just give it a good fertilizer. Once thw weather is is right and you take it outside I would fertilizer once every 5 to 6 weeks. And have a good watering schedule and check soil in between. MULCH MULCH MULCH 🙂

[@dasledogg64]

@@GardenloveHomestead thank you so much! I will be sure to implement this wisdom.

[@CBGRAPHICSAirbrushArt]

Thanks for sharing 👍🏽

[@GardenloveHomestead]

Thank you for watching 🙂

[@tlpgardeningchannel5677]

Thanks Garden Love!

[@GardenloveHomestead]

Thank you 🤗👍🙂

[@djchancla2451]

Good idea with the kiddie pool

[@GardenloveHomestead]

Thank you, I hope you found it informative 🙂🤗

[@SonnyVu-d8n]

I put mine in fabric pot double bags

[@GardenloveHomestead]

Nice how is it going?

[@SonnyVu-d8n]

@@GardenloveHomestead just start 2 week ago waiting 6 months 🤣

[@ransfordrowe6409]

Hi Diana hope my comment on one of your videos did not offend you.It was suppose to be a compliment.Anyway I will continue to watch your videos and support your channel.Some good advice in this vid about watering very dry soil for a plant.

[@lovelyvillar22]

Should I put fresh soil in pot every spring?

[@mjt2582]

What organic worm castings do you recommend and where do you purchase? Thank you

[@GardenloveHomestead]

If it needs it. Theres a different between adding a little soil on top vs needing to Up-Pot or root prune. Imm be making a video on that soon. How old is the tree? Is the soil low?

[@GardenloveHomestead]

@@mjt2582 any available, I harvested mine.

[@lovenotes5299]

I need to know the soil i need for my fruit trees

[@GardenloveHomestead]

Mrs.Lovenotes. I will make the video for you soon 🙂🤗🤗

[@lovenotes5299]

@@GardenloveHomestead I have tried to get some of the soil you were using from the beggining of your channel, can't find it here or online

[@msjoy2005]

Wouldn’t you need to up-pot this tree?

[@musaadfelton3909]

The reason that soil is dry is because most people use potting soil which consists of things that is not supposed to be underground where the roots are. Those things in potting soil should be above the soil. The proper soil to be used should be sand. The roots won't be deficient of nutrients because the roots create there own micro rhizome. As long as you have good mulch on top like leaves and maybe broken up seeds. Or compost above the soil. That will be food for the microbial life that lives in the soil. The roots cannot uptake any of the potting soil material. It first have to be broken down by micro biology. So if you use sand. You will never have this problem in containers and you can never over water your plants because there will be no decaying matter in your soil that can rot the roots. I'm not talking about construction sand but rather if you look in your yard. That sand under your grass. That soil is the best. Potting soil has bark and many other things in that when it becomes dry then it repels water. Also potting soil has things in it that when over watered it clumps up and smothers your roots so then it cannot breathe and that's why the roots rot when over watered. So sand soil is amazing and the natural way. If you want to introduce microbial life in the soil then you use a weed tea or maybe a cup of compost and just mix it I the sand. But that's all you need. No need for buying expensive potting soils that just does more harm to your plants. It's a money making gimmick. I've got many trees growing in containers and every tree I plant I use sand. Everything I grow from seed grows huge in like 3 to 4 years. Many of my seedlings is already flowering in containers which people will say is impossible for a seedling in containers in only about 3 years. My seedlings are not fruiting yet but flowering. They are bushy and lush. And different varieties all with the same sand soil. It's amazing and exactly the same as putting your trees in the ground. ❤ Just thought I'd share this🙂

[@LadyGoza]

Where did you get your extra large tree container?

[@GardenloveHomestead]

Hi, this one was from Costco. They using have good size container anf good quality. This one is plastic 🙂

[@LadyGoza]

@@GardenloveHomestead Thank you! LOVE your videos!

[@sales4malidadfoods655]

Thanks Diana for a good video but fruit trees growing in containers is not common in Uganda Africa

[@ransfordrowe6409]

Interesting that you used worm casting soil.I only heard about this in the last few weeks.Your one of the few channels I have ever seen using worm casting soil.Its suppose to be great for plants.

[@toosense]

After the Arctic Frost killed a bunch of my citrus trees I bought a few more and had them in containers. I planned to keep them there for the next year BUT I couldn't resist and ended up planting them in the ground. If we get another freeze next winter I'm going to be so mad. Lol They are super happy for now and putting on new growth, the leaf miners haven't found them YET. Every year that is a problem for me even though I use neem oil and other sprays. Any recommendations?

[@dunedainmom]

Next winter, fill up a 55 gal barrel with water and put it behind the tree (north of the tree). The water will absorb sunlight during the day and release heat at night, keep the tree from freezing. Maybe even tie the tree to the barrel. Helps keep it warmer

[@taniabernal1172]

Do we water our trees everyday?

[@GardenloveHomestead]

Thats a really good question. Short answer is it depends on the weather, soil its in, container and age of the tree 😅. Ill make a separate video tomorrow on how often to water a tree. Just for you. 🙂. If I dont get the chance ill make it soon. Jut its a really good question.

[@taniabernal1172]

@@GardenloveHomestead gracias eres la mejor😘

[@lovelyvillar22]

What should I do if my fruit tree in pot is root bound? I want to keep it in that container. I took it out and the pot still has some room to add soil to the bottom and a little on top but I'm sure by next year the tree will be 100% grow out of that pot.

[@GardenloveHomestead]

You did an amazing job, if you want to keep it in the same container you do what you just did but you root prune it a little bit. Fill the bottom and then put the tree back in. I would do it every other year if its at its max space.

[@lovelyvillar22]

@@GardenloveHomestead thank you so much. This helps a ton

[@lovelyvillar22]

Have you ever had white grubs in your soil. They look like big white worms. What should I do? Are they harmful?

[@GardenloveHomestead]

Yup, in several of my pots when I've up pot them. Its a good sign of food soil but not so good for your tree roots. Just remove them and put fresh soil. So no eggs are left behind.

[@QompleteFreedom]

I have a key lime tree and all the leaves have fallen off and it's turning brown..CAN YOU HELP ME!!!!

[@GardenloveHomestead]

Check to see if any water is getting to the roots. If its an older tree it might be root bound . Ill be doing a vidoe soon about watering trees, schedule, root bound, container size ect. Did you try this to ensure the tree is getting water to the roots?

[@QompleteFreedom]

@@GardenloveHomestead I haven't and it's a young tree...maybe 2 feet..I will follow your direction from this video and see

[@QompleteFreedom]

@@GardenloveHomestead it’s dry but I put my finger in the holes at the bottom and it’s wet. So it’s wet at the base n dry at top

[@QompleteFreedom]

@@GardenloveHomestead did everything in video and it's still turning brown 🤷🏾‍♂️🤷🏾‍♂️🤷🏾‍♂️🤷🏾‍♂️😢😢😢😢 new to gardening so I'm still try to learn..still upset it's dying and I can't fix it or rather don't know how to

[@geriannroth449]

Hi i seen you go to several plant nurseries cross the States. By any chance do you know any which ships internationally outside the USA?

[@GardenloveHomestead]

Im sorry, I wish I did. If I find one I will let you know. 🙂

[@geriannroth449]

@@GardenloveHomestead gosh please do I'm desperate!

[@YOUR-WORD-IS-YOUR-BOND]

Your fruit trees will fruit more in the ground...

[@GardenloveHomestead]

Definitely agree, I moved it to the ground and just added a sister plant. Hopefully this year it Fruita

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