Planting a Forest in a Day - 300k Subscriber Special

[@TheKiwiGrower]

Do you have a favourite tree that's native to your country? Let me know below! :) Thanks so much for watching, and for your ongoing support! - Kalem

[@5pecular]

Great to see you planting NZ natives. At first I thought you might plant 300 fruit trees ,😄🍏. Subscriber from Wellington NZ.

[@This_sad_Guy]

I'd love to see a time lapse of the 300 trees, within the next year, you could take a picture every like 2 weeks so we can watch them grow for a year or two and that could be a video on its own but I love the fact that you guys are becoming self sustainable for the most part. I wish I had some land to do that with as well even if I'm not in New Zealand I would love to be able to do what you're doing much love from Colorado

[@dennyperkovitch]

try propagating your own seed its pretty easy just takes a while i managed to get around 20 kowhai to planting size in about 4 months using a method i saw a yt video on by red earth native plants.

[@thelandofthehorns8648]

gum tree (I'm an Aussie)

[@obennett100]

Favourite native : king fern. Growing Manuka and Kowhai from seed is relatively easy too

[@Kermitthebadger]

I wish more people around the world realized having a perfectly trimmed lawn around their property is really not peak landscaping

[@lolcat]

let your natural ecosystems thrive

[@bennybennerson7728]

And that grazing isn’t needed on your land to keep in healthy

[@st.peterunner8758]

@@bennybennerson7728 you don’t need grazing animals to have healthy land

[@thomas8192]

@@st.peterunner8758 Depends, if you have too much nutrients like Nitrogen in the ground you might need grazing animals for a period of time to remove the excess of nutrients.

[@bennybennerson7728]

@@st.peterunner8758 that’s what I meant just poor phrasing because a lot of people believe that you need grazing animals on your land when in reality even just leaving the land alone will be hundreds of times better for it

[@32bitDK]

Good to see more people trying to get nature back. Myself i do not own land large enough for trees, but i do grow trees and sell them cheap, then i that way can help getting trees back in the local area.

[@TheKiwiGrower]

That's an awesome effort! Great stuff

[@faletavitatalafaaoti8960]

Amazing work. Love it❤️

[@christianelila3374]

I love this so much! We have a tiny garden on the side of our house with two big trees. Lots of people told us to cut one of the trees because there is more shade in the garden and you have to collect the leaves. However, I love them both and planted two more. A fig tree and a serviceberry. 🙂

[@rinaakter5873]

Salute

[@ryanandjj1000]

🙏

[@93VIDEO]

Bravo ^_^

[@AutumnRa1n]

I would love to see updates every couple months on how the trees are developing and what the next steps are gonna be

[@TheKiwiGrower]

Will do my best to record updates and put something together at some stage :)

[@BeautifulEarthJa]

my thought too!

[@Not_all_as_it_seems]

Regenerative agriculture & whole property water management sets a place up for generations to come! Well done!!

[@TheKiwiGrower]

Cheers Jonathan :)

[@theJustinRhodesShow]

Excellent story telling, entertaining and educational. Right on man. You’re deserving of every single view plus more. Keep it up.

[@TheKiwiGrower]

Thanks Justin, I really appreciate that :)

[@Castkett4ever]

this is the best subscribers celebration I've seen in a long time! Thanks to you, I am now growing Pawpaw trees in Switzerland and it makes me incredibly happy!

[@TheKiwiGrower]

Thanks so much and that is so cool! Hope they grow well for you :)

[@DanielF3024]

Im doing the same thing in a small land that my father owned. A long 15years. Nature is amazing. Congrats from Portugal.

[@aBunnyThatWillChewOnYourCables]

That's lovely thing to do!

[@TheKiwiGrower]

That's great, well done! Thanks for the support :)

[@DanielF3024]

@@TheKiwiGrower today i planted 35more trees and bushes!! If we dont do anything and expect to someone do for us, probably the planet will be difficult for us to live here. Keep doing your great work friend

[@anttikuusmetso]

Otimo! Reparei que se preocupam muito mais com a natureza em Portugal do que aqui na Finlândia.

[@DanielF3024]

@@anttikuusmetso ola. Nao acredito. A finlandia tem imensas florestas em portugal 30% ja sao eucaliptos infelizmente.

[@gardenwitheden]

Congratulations on hitting 300K! I also live in New Zealand and have just started a gardening channel, I'm 15 and been gardening for the last 9 years, hoping to inspire other kids to start gardening!

[@karenreeves856]

Congratulations! 300K is amazing! Probably my favorite tree (I'm up in Northland) is Kauri, I'm blessed to have one on my property. She's quite a big tree, planted around the time my house was built, around 1885. She has a lot of natives living around her, but she's the biggest tree on my property by far. I have a lot of re-emerging natives here, on what was very poor farmland for many years. Love what you're doing, and feel very privileged to be one of the 300K club!

[@TheKiwiGrower]

I think Kauri would be my favourite too. Especially the giants. You're property sounds amazing, awesome that it's regenerating!

[@caubengoan1326]

Would love to see the updates on them in the future ❤️

[@riyakumar8932]

Love how you use the indigenous names for different plants and mention their role in indigenous culture/history. Very cool to learn about and demonstrates yet another reason why native plants are so important! (And I'm not Maori o maybe take this with a grain of salt but the pronunciation sounds pretty good too haha)

[@tommiestrydom973]

Awesome effort. Turning two of my paddocks into Australian native gum tree forest.

[@TheKiwiGrower]

That's awesome! They're so beautiful

[@tjwells6824]

This is seriously the most heartwarming video. It's definitely inspiring to see the land return to forest. Thanks for all of your content and congrats on 300k.

[@TheKiwiGrower]

Thanks so much!

[@z0eshi]

Honestly just seeing your land and how you live on it just makes me think you really are living your best life, looks like the best way of enjoying the world, being that close to nature must feel amazing

[@TheKiwiGrower]

Thanks for your support :)

[@Alsphat8airborne]

Yeah his just close to wild am planting first plants and then to go extreme planting trees

[@mort3562]

I LOVE THIS!!!! I, too, hope that people will be inspired by this video. This world could be so much more beautiful if everyone had a closer connection to their local ecosystems and nature in general. Please keep up the good work!

[@TheKiwiGrower]

I hope so too! The world is too beautiful to not experience what's out there in nature :)

[@debbiehenri345]

I know, this is just a great video. We hear so much bad stuff about the environment right now, and it can be so overwhelming at times. But if we refuse to give up, and keep doing our part as much as possible, then with each effort (big or small) we give the Earth a better fighting chance to survive.

[@eogus0628]

So awesome seeing your appreciation and knowledge of all the native trees, really inspired to take up growing my own food and plants some day! Also amazing editing! Congratulations on the channel, Kalem, really appreciate you sharing your passion its infectious :)

[@TheKiwiGrower]

Thanks so much for the comment, that's really nice to hear :)

[@thomaspitto5663]

i can't get over how beautiful those new Zealand forests look! great work and excited to see the natural succession!

[@aussiecountry9320]

I'm just impressed that you dug all those holes yourself instead of using an auger! Such an awsome project, I love home reforestation projects, it gives me lots of insporation for things to do at my house and learning about new plants is always fun.

[@TheKiwiGrower]

Thanks, glad you enjoyed it!

[@KikiT92]

So...one tree is, like...ME?

[@TheKiwiGrower]

You got it! Thanks for your support! 😁 🌳

[@unexpectedguest3734]

I love watching this channel! I'm so glad there are people sharing diversity in the living world! A lot of people need to be aware of this sort of stuff. Love your channel!❤️

[@TheKiwiGrower]

Thanks a lot :)

[@Cringility]

This is one of the best videos I've watched in a long time. Just seeing the passion you have for nature, plants, animals, and all sorts of wonderful flora and fauna, really just puts a big smile on my face. Though it will definitely be difficult having to maintain and monitor the conditions of these trees that you had planted but I'm sure with enough motivation, support, and passion, you can do it! Keep up the brilliant work!

[@TheKiwiGrower]

Thanks so much for your comment, I really appreciate it and glad it made you smile :)

[@ScottRiddleArtist]

New Zealand is such an amazing country. Was there last year and was so impressed. I live in North Central California up in the mountains of the redwood forests and about 25 minutes from the ocean. We live in a strange micro climate that’s really being challenged by climate change. my big experiment because we’ve only been on this property of 3 acres for about three years. Was to bring the orchard back to health and start planting fruits that were possibly a zone or two higher than our designated grow zone. Tropical fruits from Australia and South America.I just know that the warming is happening faster than they understand. And I want to be prepared for that inevitability. It’s a really interesting experiment that takes some manual labor when we have frost to the young trees. But I can’t wait to see what happens in five or six years.

[@shubhamsai7652]

❤from India

[@TheKiwiGrower]

💚🌳

[@sharonhoffer3599]

Fantastic way to celebrate 300,000 subs! And nothing better than a big shower of rain just after planting. Great job 👏🏼🌿🌳💚

[@dougs_urbanfarm]

Wow you have come a long way Kalem, congrats mate from across the ditch.

[@TheKiwiGrower]

Thanks mate! :)

[@wackynz3260]

One of the 300k

[@iri3977]

Ditto...up North 👆

[@nicholasdubov3376]

Great job! I want to do something like this a few years from now. Will these trees not overcrowd and heavily compete each other when they've fully grown in a decade or two since they're so close together?

[@TheKiwiGrower]

Nice, sounds like a good plan! In the long term there will likely be some that either get blown over or don’t make it, however the support that they provide each other as they grow is where a lot of the benefit is. Even for a natural forest, eventually the early succession trees get taken over by larger emergent trees and the succession of the forest continues. I’ll plant some of those types of trees at a later stage. We get very dry Summers here, so getting that quick shade is essential for the trees to thrive :). Trees can also share and gain nutrients and water through fungal networks, so hopefully that will develop with the trees to further strengthen them :)

[@nicholasdubov3376]

@@TheKiwiGrower I didn't expect for you to reply to me, thank you so much for the information!

[@TheKobiDror]

@@nicholasdubov3376 That's what he does and that's why he deserves way more than 300k subscribers. He still cares about everybody.

[@petergilfillan8340]

Wonderful to see. Looking forward to updates on this Project. Well done : )

[@MarinaMidnight]

Very cool idea! I'm based in Christchurch and you've helped me so much with my urban garden. I've planted fruit trees around my property and added gardens. Our property was completely bare after the earthquakes and difficult soil but things are humming along beautifully. I love seeing your updates on your land. It's going to be absolutely amazing in 10 years time. Keep the videos coming. I'll keep following along with your journey. 🥳

[@brigidaodonnell7053]

What a cute cat you have playing in the wood chips! I am also trying to plant as many native trees and plants as we can fit in our garden, and live in the South Island of New Zealand. It definitely encourages a lot of bird life, and I have been busy watching all the birds every day which is so lovely!

[@TheKiwiGrower]

That's great, so nice seeing the native wildlife benefitting

[@MitchK_]

Congratulations on your well deserved 300k, Kalem! Making your own forest is so cool, man! I love hiking in the forest, I go hiking once a week with my dog. 🥾🐕 🐾

[@TheKiwiGrower]

Thanks for all your support Mitch, always appreciate it. Glad you make time to be in nature too :)

[@kennedynthiwa5100]

Well done. Great job guys. Can't wait to see your forest.

[@vanessasmith8198]

I love this. I was thinking it would cost loads to plant that many native trees so havent looked into it. This inspires me to start one tree at a time. We have loads of akeake sprouting here so will start to plant them closer together to create a windbreak. I didnt know kowhai were nitrogen fixing so thanks for all the info

[@TheKiwiGrower]

Sounds great Vanessa, hope it goes well :)

[@jvp714]

All of these trees are so amazing! In the US, at least where I live, we have maples, oaks, and pines. I wish we had more diversity like this.

[@tanakakokilovad1594]

Thanks you for planting trees🌱🌳🌲to save our planet🌱💚🌳 🌍🌳🌏🌳🌍🌳🌳🌳🌱🌱👍🌱🌱🌱🌳🌳🌳🌳🌳

[@LizZorab]

Congratulations for 300K subscribers - well deserved!

[@TheKiwiGrower]

Thanks Liz!

[@Ashgangtv]

We also need update👍

[@sithummk4818]

lol i thought u had a twin for a sec with those cool edits.

[@Cesc8170]

I am growing portuguese oak, cork oak, round leaf holly oak, flowering ash, chamaerops little palms, the local viburnum, bay laurel trees, strawberry trees and other local species from the western Mediterranean. Lots of congrats, let's build living harmony within the ecosystem we are a part of. :)

[@herbedwards8156]

Thank you, very informative. I hope it all works out well for you. Greetings from Paradise, NL, Canada.

[@azazeldeath]

As an Australian living in Australia I wish so badly I wish I had the money to buy some land and do this for our native plants. That said I found it funny you were glad you weren't walking through the forest or bushland of aus because of snakes. Just be more careful when walking and stomp a bit more they will make way. Unless its something like a taipan they will run away. But I do love both nz and aus natives. Aus has some awesome native plants that provide some awesome tasting foods

[@ParCityDG]

I absolutely love seeing people make an effort. people have been too engulfed by the internet we aren’t even paying attention to our environment anymore.

[@Bernie5172]

hahahhahahha I just got to 300 viewers. Im proud of them all

[@TheKiwiGrower]

That's great! :)

[@brendancull]

Congratulations on this milestone Kalem! And wonderful work planting so many native trees, both of you! 💪

[@TheKiwiGrower]

Thanks so much Brendan 😀

[@zarynt1089]

I just bought a beautiful forested lot and the thing i hate the most is that im gonna have to clear part of it to build the house on. But if i didn't buy it someone else definately would and they would possibly clear the whole thing for a lawn.

[@agungkacaribu]

Awesome. Love this one bro.🌳👊. Such a hard job but going to be amazing seeing what birds end up loving there in the years ahead! Your turkeys are beautiful.

[@TheKiwiGrower]

Thanks Agung! 🌳

[@ashion7219]

my top are kauri so cool, kahikatea because of there hight and they help other trees in swamps, kowhai and pohutukawa.

[@wildchook745]

Congrats on your 315K subs! I will always remember you as the dude that made popular growing coconuts in New Zealand :)

[@TheKiwiGrower]

Thanks Mary, haha the old famous coconut 😅

[@ainedaly739]

What a great video, I’m delighted to be part of the 300k! Loved learning about the native NZ trees you planted. A huge congrats from Ireland (my fav native is the hawthorn)

[@TheKiwiGrower]

Thanks a lot Áine, glad you enjoyed it :)

[@ahmedbq670]

Good job brother, keep doing this. You are creating nature :)

[@alalessia]

Amazing job :) I'm sure it's a given but please do give us an update on your forest every now and again!

[@CIB8282]

I enjoyed the footage of the old growth forest contrasting with the agricultural land. You're going to have the best of both worlds. Cheers

[@em_pen]

Fan-freakin-tastic. I love that you've created your own forest, even better that it's mostly native. Great to see you talk positively about the Karamu - most people seem to treat them like weeds but I love them. Beautiful looking and fast growers. While the birds get a feed of the berries, sheep, goats and horses love to eat the leaves (and the tree doesn't care, it'll just grow more). I'm growing a bunch of Karamu, Karo, cabbage trees and a few others in my mini forest (actually a stupidly large berm area) mostly to feed my goat but also for shade and privacy. So far the cost is zero because I've been planting up the seedlings from my own trees, so I feel I'm one step ahead of you... except that you have Manuka which I adore but don't have because I'm determined to do it all for free! The cat in the mulch is gorgeous

[@TheKiwiGrower]

Cheers Em! That's great that you're growing a lot from seed, so rewarding to see them turn into beautiful trees, well done :)

[@lyonheart84]

Great job planting all those trees. I was surprised how few of the native New Zealand trees I'd heard of 😱😱. And you are already well over the 300k, amazing job 🤩

[@marisasanchez1699]

I love your channel. Thank you for such entertaining and interesting content 🙏🏼

[@TheKiwiGrower]

Thanks Marisa :)

[@leseraum779]

What a wonderfull and important project!

[@RaheEl_Qaisrani]

one of the best project any youtuber has done

[@TheKiwiGrower]

Thank you! :)

[@TheLazyDutchGardener]

You are an exceptional human being. You are doing the world a great favour by planting these native trees. Love from The Netherlands 🌱

[@TheKiwiGrower]

Thanks for your support! Love from NZ :)

[@col22669]

First?

[@krukpolny8505]

Planting Forest = Sadzenie Lasu. You Tube.

[@sachin..._]

Great job 💯💯

[@milenavonappen4214]

Love your videos

[@TheKiwiGrower]

Thank you! :)

[@benburns5995]

Hi Kalem, congratulations on reaching 300,000 subs. Always find you videos beneficial with ideas and learn a lot of helpful tips. Great environmental way to celebrate by planting 300 new trees on your property.

[@TheKiwiGrower]

Thanks a lot Ben :)

[@BigAlSparks]

Very kind and selfless thing to do there sir. I'd rather be 1/1000th of a tree to rebuild nature, than be 1 in 300,000 who might win a prize! Would be awesome if you could station some trail cameras around the planting to show a progression of wildlife/insects/ etc occurring as the months, and years pass.

[@TheKiwiGrower]

Thanks a lot, glad you liked the idea behind it :). I'll do my best to record it's progress

[@palestine2795]

Would you be able to plant a olive tree and a grape vine plant?

[@TheSoilandGreen]

I think when I hit 25 subs I’ll plant 100 plants

[@PlantNativeTrees]

Love it and thank you for planting!

[@Xavato]

Its great what you do and you got in some beautiful cinematic shots *but* aren't these trees WAY to close together ? In germany (where im from) trees have to be planted 4-10 meters apart depending on species, the ones in the vid seem a bit close to each other

[@TheKiwiGrower]

Many of these trees are large bushy shrub trees and are basically kick starting the succession of a forest. They're not really large trees that live for 100's of years, but instead are there to quickly grow, shading the grass out and creating an environment for the forest to progress into a more complex forest overtime. Often if you plant these types of trees more isolated, they'll grow much slower and require more watering and grass maintenance since there's less shade. Hope that helps

[@K_B_H_]

Love this. Wish more people would do this (and as thoughtfully) to their vacant land.

[@evereletkline8732]

Cool moment, realizing that I am a smidge of the reprezentation in one of thoze treez!!!! Thx!

[@TheKiwiGrower]

:) Thank you for your support!

[@NewOldEBM]

Honestly, a bit over $2 a tree seems like a steal

[@Lan1o]

Hey Kalem, can you please make a video about uncommon plants which can fit into small apartments and be not maybe productive but food source

[@TheKiwiGrower]

I'll note this down as an idea, I've been thinking of doing something along these lines at some stage :)

[@anaskellon8592]

Love your content, the contrast of forest and farmland, as well, your respect for your subscribers in planting out a forest in their honor. Big ups to you and congrats on 300 subs.

[@TheKiwiGrower]

Thanks so much Ana!

[@albertrust7211]

man this video was incredible.

[@TheCelineDionChannel]

Congrats ... you are my role model. I want to be just like you

[@halloschorle]

Hi there! Thank you so much for planting this huge amount of trees! More people should do this. Greetings from Germany Alex

[@TheKiwiGrower]

Thanks Alex!

[@thomas8192]

I always dreamed of planting a forest one day and im so happy you are showing me how its done! Thanks Kalem!

[@TheKiwiGrower]

Cheers Thomas!

[@ahmadbaihaqi3675]

You need some banyans and trembesis

[@gingerlove7739]

Some angels live in New Zealand, and I have been subscribed to his greatness ever since. Once in millennia, you'll see wonders to continue living on this planet. Thank you! ❤️ From Philippines

[@jayakrishnanjouno]

Wonderful I am from India 😅😅

[@bedtimestories9971]

Such a great idea for a subscribers special…think you so much for your work and love for nature❤

[@Rahulutd11]

We have Akeake here too, I'm quite surprised it's native to New Zealand

[@TheKiwiGrower]

Yeah it's very widespread around a lot of countries. I believe it became widespread through the seeds floating around the world.

[@LeoDas688]

Hope I can do this in Kerala ❤

[@jaidenmabe4526]

Na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na PLANT MAN

[@TheKiwiGrower]

I also love bats! ;)

[@markyamaguchi9571]

Do you have a update on the trees 🌲

[@chazhawaii7608]

Thank you for another awesome video! Loved the editing you did in this, I’m guessing you would like to have a real clone helping sometimes. 😉 It was cool that Caroline could help too.

[@ExploringSumatra]

Amazing job, and spectacular video. What an accomplishment that you get to be proud of over the next months and years! So cool! And congrats on 300K - well deserved and hard-earned.

[@TheKiwiGrower]

Thanks Agung and Carly! Appreciate your support ❤❤

[@MrSigmaSharp]

That's exacly why I subscribed. Not because you are good with the plants but because you are good for them.

[@davidleker9482]

great show we need more of this

[@craigray6090]

Any chance of an update!

[@robdude1969]

Wonderful inspiration. Cheers!

[@ashion7219]

all nz plants are so cool.

[@sarthakthememegod]

Amazing Initiative! So Excited to See the Trees Progress and Mature!

[@sheetalsuryavanshi2101]

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