Observation to save YOU time and money

Using the example of sunscald to demonstrate how observation will save you time and money.
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[@bonnieoppelt2734]

Wow! You just saved me a headache I haven't gotten yet. Thank you

[@The.Art.Of.Gardening]

Hi Stefan, I like your videos very much. Your information’s are priceless (your channel is like a library), but it is not just information’s each video have a piece of your hart. You motivate me, you make me laugh (sometimes). I am from northern Greece, I have started an orchard 4 years before with 1/4 of acre and now it is 3/4 it is an experimental orchard, I have try to grow every fruit and nut tree that it can find. ( cherries, apricots, pears, pomegranates, peaches, plums, persimmons, apples, almonds, walnuts. the climate that I live is very strange Cfa, zone 7 with extremely hot summers sometimes 40+ Celsius and 500 mm/year(olives get damaged by frost hare and last year i had frost damage in the blooming of apricots). Also, I am ending my studies in agronomy. I have to say that learn more thinks from my orchard and from internet (from channels like yours) than from my university studies (but of course the university studies it was helpful) and now I am taking Geoffs online PDC.

[@StefanSobkowiak]

Congratulations for getting such a great piece done while still in school. Looks like it will be a great example to see in a few years. We pass through Europe every year in November and early December to give courses. Maybe we could stop in Greece.

[@The.Art.Of.Gardening]

@@StefanSobkowiak Sorry for the late response, Yes it will be a great example in a few years. It will be an absolutely pleasure to have a course from you her in Greece. Also it would be awesome if you can give a talk in my university (I can get in touch with them). My e mail is [e-mail], I will be more than happy to help in any way that I can if you came to Greece.

Very interesting! I learned that observation is the base to start permaculture. I thought I had to wait spring before I start observing my land, I was wrong! :)

[@marcelforget89]

I really recommend the video and if you’re fortunate enough to visit the farm. Please do it. It’s a real eye opener!!!

[@andreajohnsMyPotteryBliss]

Thank you for the information. I’ve seen the exact same thing on a few of my trees and couldn’t figure it out. I thought maybe it was rabbits or voles but never correlated the way the damage looked to pest damage.

[@MadhuReddy-js2nb]

Love watching your videos even though I am in India in semi arid lands with a Guava and Mango orchard to take care of.

[@schaefercofarm2584]

Thank you, thank you, thank you. No one could tell us why our trees were cracking with bugs in them. One persone knew what would prevent it but not to stop it. He said wrap the trunk for support. It's sun scald. Wrapping soon and planting shrub in spring. We have one out of five or six that has not come close to death yet. My beloved D'Anjou pear tree. Best taste i ever had in a pear / fruit tree that we grew. Thank you so much. Maybe we can save the othere two trees as well.

[@arthurdewith7608]

Schaeferco Farm wrap with burlap

[@StefanSobkowiak]

Or cardboard or lean something like a board against the tree. It doesn’t take much.

[@annebeck2208]

I got so much out of the DVD and still get lots more from you. I loved your aphids one and always find a tidbit that I need. Often it is that making a change based on observation can save me so much work or problems. Thanks again I love listening to you!

[@sillydog70]

Thank you for this information I have several wild apple trees I’ll keep an eye on creating my own food forest

[@coarsegoldguy7414]

Thank you so much for sharing your knowledge.

[@timbushell8640]

Excellent... ... connections that have multiple uses, which can be an added item or an elimination. Thanks for the reminder.

[@keithashline505]

Rite around the 2:28 mark of the video the trees damage actually looks like canker or fireblite. I never though how much the snows reflective ability had on the trees well being but, as you've explained the impact of the sun and snow combined makes complete sence.

[@StefanSobkowiak]

Keith Ashline both are different. I should do a follow up to show what fireblight looks like, and canker although I have not seen canker on the trunk for years. Saw some on a branch yesterday.

[@keithashline505]

About 4 years ago I noticed on my M7 Empire tree on its central leader a pretty bad sight which turned out to be canker. I decided I wasn’t going to let it destroy it so I cut out the infection and sprayed a solution of isopropyl alcohol at 70% mixture every day for around a week and the tree responded to this treatment and it healed itself. I’ve seen fireblite and took note of it but, it wasn't on my trees thankfully.

[@Zelenacija]

Good stuff!

[@noeraldinkabam]

People are the natural world too.

[@georgedillon2412]

Thank you Stefan for another great teaching video, your the Best

[@humboldtpelikan9407]

Nice video with some really good advice. As always :)

[@fatjuniesfarmette6030]

The film dvd is worth every penny!!!

[@StefanSobkowiak]

Thank you. You’ll love the virtual tour coming out soon.

[@RaveBabyFuu]

so does this also mean that sun scald cracks only happen on the west side of trees? [granted if the tree is wide enough to have "sides"] if this is true, it would turn out to be an interesting factoid.

[@StefanSobkowiak]

Yes sw in our climate with snow cover. I don’t know if it happens where you don’t get snow.

[@devon932001]

Great video, I'm dealing with sunscald this winter in by backyard orchard in Cheyenne, WY.

[@StefanSobkowiak]

Lean something against your trees a board or wrap cardboard. Can do it now.

[@lesliejacobs1439]

I get sun scald on my green ash trees in Lander WY also.. ( I have been painting them)wondering what kind of bush to plant ? Here in .zone 3-4..and does it matter how old the tree is for competition issues..?

[@devon932001]

I've been painting all my trees this year. Then going to plant comfrey around them, artichokes (will be annuals/chop drop), and perhaps some other fruiting plants and bushes.

[@lesliejacobs1439]

Devon Henry I don't know where you are..but in WY in the winter when to sun is low in the horizon..shining on the trunks..and or reflecting off the snow..there would not be any live vegetation..like comfrey ..berries..so that is why I wondered what substantial bushes he would being using..as he has snow and cold like WY

[@devon932001]

Leslie Jacobs Agree, I'm in Cheyenne, WY. So I'm painting my trees white, as they're in my backyard and I only have about a dozen fruit trees. Then planting around them for summer heat to and one of his replys below said that the branches from the various bushes he plants helps with the sun scald, even though they are leafless.

[@Lawman212]

I would have been interested to see your shrub placement. Do you have a shrub for each of the 3000 trees?

[@arthurdewith7608]

Lawman212 now the rabbits r coming over to eat the shrub bark and the tree trunk bark igo out hunting at night with my be able minus 20

[@StefanSobkowiak]

Lawman212 we place a shrub 1.5-2 feet (50cm) from the base of the tree to the southwest. We try to have one or two shrubs in that position for each tree, even the nitrogen fixers.

[@rosehavenfarm2969]

Stefan, the shrub doesn't have leaves during late winter, either. How does the shrub protect the tree trunk during that time of year? Is it just the density of the shrub's limbs? Thanks.

[@StefanSobkowiak]

Exactly it doesn’t take a lot, 4 or 5 stems does the trick they act like mini long clouds.

[@lesliejacobs1439]

Stefan Sobkowiak what kind of bushes? Does it matter how big.trunk diameter is of the tree?Competition in growing?

[@keithashline505]

Your example tree with the sun scalding looks to be around 10 years of age, does the age and size of the tree impact the suns damage? I have trees in my orchard between 2 to 4 years old.

[@StefanSobkowiak]

Yes it affects younger trees more than older trees. Once bark is rough and scaly it helps protect from sun scald.

[@Hatarue]

Yes, I want to buy the movie. Which version is better English or French? Is the French version voice over?

[@StefanSobkowiak]

Si tu parles du film ´Le Verger Permaculturel ´ il a été filmé en français et en anglais, donc pas de version traduite. Mais la version anglaise vient avec plusieurs langues en sous titrage.

[@Hatarue]

@@StefanSobkowiak MERCI! :)

[@Hatarue]

@@StefanSobkowiak jai acheter les deux version pour te supporter et partager la conaisance :)

[@deflatermouse9948]

The links to your spring and fall tours don't seem to work

[@StefanSobkowiak]

Sorry. Spring tour is over here is the correct fall tour link: www.eventbrite.com/e/harvest-time-tour-of-the-permaculture-orchard-with-stefan-sobkowiak-tickets-55925451531

[@arthurdewith7608]

Plant an orchard near large water bodies and st lawerence river many benefits

[@timbushell8640]

And/or ensure that the setting sun direction is well shaded with evergreen hedge/tree line maybe

[@arthurdewith7608]

Tim Bushell ur missing the point not all land is suitable for commercial orchard production. Hail blossom frost fall frost deer water table loan soil soil drainage are important considerations in orchard site selection makes life easier

[@StefanSobkowiak]

We’re just far enough away (about 1 mile) from the St Laurence large water body to not get the season extension but do benefit from a regional weather pattern that keeps hail away most of the time (2 hails events in 25 years)

[@sillydog70]

That fungus growing on the apple trees how do you get rid of it?

[@StefanSobkowiak]

It’s a harmless fungus that grows on sugar from pruning cuts.

[@sillydog70]

@@StefanSobkowiak my trees have it all over the damn place lol but I do thank you for teaching us about the heat affecting the bark didn’t notice that before but I will make sure the paint trunks of the trees from now on

[@marilenebeaulieu9727]

Simple question and maybe stupid one. But what if the tree is burried in 3-4 feet of snow? Will it crack buttom up with the snow melting?

[@StefanSobkowiak]

Never a stupid question, you may just get sunscald higher up the tree.

[@marilenebeaulieu9727]

​@@StefanSobkowiak So I should plant a bush that comes higher, like corylus cornuta?

[@StefanSobkowiak]

Maybe depends on the size of the tree and where you would get sunscald. Look at other trees in the area, you can usually see at what height it is affected. I would guess no more than 4' high.