Pro Tips for Growing Organic Fruit: Tree Pruning & Spray [Permaculture] | Fresh P

[@Big88Country]

I found out this year that plums require A LOT of pruning. They grow so fast it's sometimes hard to keep up with them. Looks like you have got a handle on them now though. I just planted an orchard of Donut peaches, Santa Rosa and Methley plums, and waiting for my apples to arrive. Can't wait to get them all producing. Everyone should have a few fruit trees, it's so rewarding!

[@Thefreshp]

Pruning in the winter will thwart growth, summer pruning encourages growth. Learning this helps. Enjoy them.

[@kimberlydenning884]

I enjoy your gardening videos so much. Thank you for making them. I will definitely use your tips on pruning my fruit trees.

[@teresacrone4865]

So glad to hear that you will be planting your trees soon!

[@Thefreshp]

+Teresa Crone meee tooo

[@ChrisMassie_RVA]

Wow, I had no idea pruning was so complicated! I've had visions of growing fruit trees on my little property for a while, but now I'm having second thoughts. Takes a lot of planning and patience. Kudos to you, +Fresh Princess for doing it!

[@Thefreshp]

+Chris Massie no way, just stick em in the ground with the graft facing east. The first year cut them at hip level. Then in subsequent years do a little research and pluck out a couple branches here and there. You got it. Growing fruit is so rewarding.

[@olswole3658]

Lol, I had no idea you had so many wonderful fruit trees. I've watched quite a few fruit tree KZbin videos, but never came across cutting them to hip height in order to force root production for the future of the tree. That's one of those lil jewel tips. This is an enormously informative video for those of us interested in fruit trees delivered by a delightful personality. Thanks!

[@Thefreshp]

+ol' Swole thanks Love. The orchardist around here have such a wealth of knowledge; I'm luck I get to tap into it.

[@bqqstin]

Wow, a ton of great tips! Thank you!

[@rhondawelker6742]

Thanks for the tips! Don't you just love it when you can see things waking up and poking their heads through at the beginning of the season? I love it when I see a plant that I think didn't make it and then, Voila! there's new growth emerging from the ground. Will be looking forward to seeing more of your garden.

[@Thefreshp]

+Rhonda Welker it's so exciting. I planted a hedgerow last year and we had such a hard winter, but it looks as if everything survived.

[@melvis2017]

Great job wish you the best

[@ildiko1vt]

looking forward to more of your gardening!!

[@VictoryinUnity]

I love your gardening vids Corinne! I'm a city dweller and still have a ways to go before I can start growing my own, but I find it so interesting and a little zen to watch you out there. Could you do a sort of aerial view of the garden? I have a hard time picturing the overall design/layout of it and am super interested to see your thought process in placement of different plants. Thanks!

[@Thefreshp]

+VictoryinUnity my bro has a drone. I'll get footage one day this spring. I can do a Porsche view next, that's pretty good. I hope you get your garden soon.

[@real_wakawaka]

a little tip! your trees the ones you showed are still relatively thin around the trunk so air layer at knee or hip height. This way you get two trees and you get your main tree at the correct height but also the second tree that has been air layered is mature and will produce fruit the next year (first year it would but recommended to remove for root growth). I have done it with several trees already planted.

[@theweekendhomestead]

Perfect timing for us, we are hoping to prune our orchard in the coming weeks

[@nickpelkey]

Came by to check out your current style for how you're filming these. Looking good! Happy Spring.. waiting for the snow to go here!

[@oxfordsausage508]

Very interesting! Thank you for sharing this. X

[@Thefreshp]

+Kelly Moe 💋

[@bealtainecottage]

Good advice on pruning...thank you X

[@delectablemountainshomeste8629]

Apricots are so yummy, I would love to grow some!

[@sahmadi1000]

There are also sweet leemoo in Iran called Leemoo Shirin. No one in America believes that there are sweet lemon. Thank you for sharing your knowledge.

[@deanerichardson8930]

Thank you SO much for the information Fresh P, I have an apple that needs help.

[@Thefreshp]

+Deane Richardson go help her ❤️

[@gowharhussain6809]

this vedio is exciting for me I want come ur garden to learn more and more can I please

[@gardengal3918]

My palms are itching to get at my trees, flowers and garden. We are still under two feet of snow. Great educational video.

[@chipwright6193]

Great pruning advise! It does seem barbaric to wack the tops off of your new baby trees, but if there is more up top than the roots can handle then the tree will suffer. I want to get into the habit of spending​ a little time trimming my trees each year so that I'm not creating large wounds from lopping off larger branches. I was doing good for a few years, but I let them go the last couple years. I got lazy because I have heavy wire fence looped around each tree to keep the deer away. It worked so well that it's​ been keeping me out too! lol

[@Thefreshp]

+Chip Wright I'll remember that when building my deer barrier.

[@chipwright6193]

The deer here are terrible. They destroy anything I leave unprotected. If they don't damage the bark with their antlers, they eat every leaf off of the tree including the tips of branches! It's incredible how they don't miss a thing! I bought some 4-5ft tall fencing, made 6ft loops with it around each tree, and staked it down. It was expensive, but it completely ended the deer problems.

[@goldstar3642]

Dear Fresh, I loved this video, and understand the concept of pruning for production. It all made a lot of sense.Thank you for sharing. Did you get any footage this year, of the trees in full bloom or fruit.

[@Thefreshp]

+Goldstar 36 the baby trees won't produce for a couple more years but I'll post an update, they did grow a fair bit this year.

[@Canadiansasquatchbrewery]

Great stuff as always! I've always wondered about the pruning process, you simplified it very well. Cheers! (=

[@karynb7781]

Tree Training... Don't miss the '1st yr tree analogy'- lob it off hip height so it will grow roots that will stabilize it for it's whole life...Wow, a little like adolescence/ young adulthood? Pruning of Trials & Tribulations may ground us for stability for our whole lives? Agreed. I remember feeling like I was 'knocked off my feet'! Prayers for the youth out there, life's tough for a new sapling.

[@Thefreshp]

+browneyedbabes it's a perfect analogy isn't it. Just cut em down.

[@JaimeDrewatWoodenU]

I have two plum trees and a peach tree. The peach tree looks great and extends out horizontally but the plums just grew straight up it seems. I meant to prune them before now because the leaves have all come in. I have to thin out the peaches when they come in because last year we got a bunch of little ones. Do you think it would be ok to prune the plum trees now last year was their third year I think and we only got about three plums a tree. Either way I think I'll spread the branches out with bars thanks for the insightful video.

[@Thefreshp]

+Jaime Drew stone fruits can be pruned after leaf, you'll likely loose some fruit, but yes, I'd prune them now.

[@JaimeDrewatWoodenU]

FRESH PRINCESS thank you!

[@bealtainecottage]

It is interesting that you spray as I never have and enjoy wonderful crops.

[@Thefreshp]

+BealtaineCottage I live in an apple/pear growing valley, if I neglect my trees I could foster a disease that wipes out a commercial orchard. Copper is approved as a pre season fungicide.

[@bealtainecottage]

I am impressed by your work there and have subscribed. Thanks for explaining. Blessings X Colette

[@Thefreshp]

+BealtaineCottage anytime. I don't spray otherwise. Last year I balanced the soil with a custom blend of minerals and sea plants, but most years I rely solely on building the soil with compost/mulch/green manures.

[@dnguyen2708]

How do you call the red plastic you keep distance 2 branches? what is that ?

[@Thoreauificationify]

I absolutely love the painting that's behind you while you're sitting on the couch at the beginning of the video. Who is the artist?

[@Thefreshp]

Thank you, it's by Eric Jacobsen; he's one of my favorites. Here's a video I did with him in his studio. goo.gl/38I0oJ

[@dpower02]

blenna? apricot pruned tree looks kind of congested will all the fruit get enough sun? I tried pruning my McIntosh apple trees like Paul Gautschi shows on his video , basically cut the branches down as flush as possible not leaving a stub and the apple bark will grow over the wound if it is flush but if you leave a stub to dry and fall off it leaves a hole for insects to get into, if you check out Paul's pruning utube video he shows evidence of how the bark can heal a cut if you cut it flush. I always was told to cut it an inch out from the ring at the branch but that is not a good way, the stub dries and the bark tries to grow over it but it cannot bark just bulges around base of the stub. I didn't leave stubs last pruning's and the bark grew over the cut. One thing for sure is pruning does invigorate growth I didn't believe it but it is true, Good Luck, Happy Pruning!

[@Thefreshp]

+dpower02 Blenheim cool info, I'll check it out. You see that in nature a bunch. I wounded if it makes the trunk more susceptible to disease?

[@minakokabi7143]

Would you please share the picture of copper bottle . Many thanks

[@Thefreshp]

If you Google copper for trees you'll find it. You can buy both liquid and granular. It's blue.

[@minakokabi7143]

@@Thefreshp I really appreciate it

[@BethGrantDeRoos]

Do you have problems with deer nibbling your fruit trees? Am blessed to live in an area of California where I think every fruit and nut tree can be grown.

[@Thefreshp]

+Beth Grant-DeRoos they're fenced. I pick up three more trees this week that I'll have to build cages for.

[@mitchh9111]

Interesting as the practise & pruning advice in the U.K is different. Stone fruit should only be pruned when in leaf to avoid things like silver leaf disease in Plums....

[@Thefreshp]

We have problems with that in other parts of the country, cherries are susceptible so I prune them in summer, after fruit. Plums grow wild here, so they are really hardy.

[@dietrichvarez1720]

Women that like to garden...are the best.

[@Thefreshp]

I'd have to agree 😉

[@falfas55bgas]

Do you know how to sharpen and tune your loppers? I bet Cody could teach you if you don't.

[@Thefreshp]

+falfas55bgas no. I think I bent my other ones. I'll ask Felipe when he comes back.

[@jasondykstra5985]

Freaking awesome video love it keep it up !!! Lol

[@Thefreshp]

+Jason Dykstra I love your enthusiasm. 💋

[@an4491]

good

[@MrsSoapPeddlersHomestead]

I have a problem when the plum fruit is ready to harvest. It falls off before it is ready! What am I doing wrong? It is an old tree...15 years I guess and we have never been able to get enough to even make jam.

[@Thefreshp]

+Mrs Soap Peddler's Homestead my Santa Rosa drops. At the first one I go out and pick all of the rupiah ones and bring them in to ripen on the counter, repeat daily until you've got them all. Plums often drop when ripe.

[@MrsSoapPeddlersHomestead]

Thank you! Will do!

[@sgj4aj]

For your fruit tree spray, did you mix it yourself or did you purchase it? I know you add water, I just looking for what you used for the concentrate. If you mixed it yourself, how much of the cooper did you use and how much omni oil?

[@Thefreshp]

2% solution for both

[@rswind1964]

What did you spray them with at the end of the video?

[@Thefreshp]

+Robert Schniedewind copper

[@caseroj6020]

That looks like a Meyer Lemon. It's a cross between a regular lemon and a mandarin orange. I have one of them growing in my garden. They are much juicier than ordinary lemons but not nearly as sour. I like the tree but I find they are best for lemonade. If I want to use a lemon for cooking then I want it to be as sour as possible. What I really like are the Mexican limes aka...key lime tree. They are small limes but boy do they pack a sour whallop!

[@Thefreshp]

Zone 7b, citrus doesn't grow here.

[@caseroj6020]

@@Thefreshp Ok I wasn't sure what zone you were in. I know Meyer Lemon has been grown successfully in Victoria Island, British Columbia but they were surrounded by water which acts to mitigate temperature fluctuations and they also took the extra precaution of planting the tree next to a wall and using Christmas lights to keep it warm during snow storms. I do know that Meyer Lemon is one of the few citrus trees that can survive in USDA zone 8. Cheers!

[@caseroj6020]

@@Thefreshp Here are the youtube videos about Meyer Lemons in your zone kzbin.info/www/bejne/ZnnEdZWLaKamfsU kzbin.info/www/bejne/jomQg2uppptgrMk It can grow in your area if you are willing to put the effort into conditioning the micro-climate for them.

[@mosthated8190]

I have a question for anybody who has an answer for me ! Ok so I'm trying to grow organic fruit trees from seed ! I'm very patient with that being said , how do I grow organic , I kinda have the idea of how to but what has been really been a big question of mine is , when I eat store bought fruit and take the seeds out and grow them organically, are they still considered organic if I didn't get the seeds from an organic labeled fruit ? Or does the fruit seeds have to be labeled organic to grow organic ? I have not found an answer to this anywhere !! Please any help , tips, suggestions would highly be appreciated, Thank You !

[@Thefreshp]

Growing fruit trees organically is a question that takes books to write. If you're not going to apply for organic certification it doesn't matter if the seed was conventional or not. You can still farm organically. You do know that most apple seeds do not plant true, so the tree you get will not produce the same kind of apple that you ate, it will be a hybrid, your own variety. Go to the library and get some books and start reading. My regimen is to spray with omni oil and copper in the spring right at budbreak, if rainy I might repeat the process. In the summer I spray a foliar fertiliser such as kelp or compost tea. In the late fall I spray with omni oil and lime sulphur. And that's the maintenance schedule. I amend the soil twice a year piling on compost and covering with wood chips. Happy discovering.

[@turnersparadise8368]

Okay, I give up, what was your first car? At first I thought Corvair, but that is wrong. It looks British, maybe an MG? Or Italian? I just can't see it good enough.

[@Thefreshp]

+Tenspeed TheBikeHanger MG

[@turnersparadise8368]

Awesome! My first car I bought was a Triumph Spitfire. Mechanical POS but boy was that car fun. It could hold with a 911 in the curves.

[@jokeal3613]

Ok, it was just that someone's full name was visible in the video so I was trying to protect that as I know he does.

[@NeilPost71]

Thanks P! Hmmm Pee.... That reminds me! How are the tree's you ordered at the show where you forgot your wallet?😉

[@Thefreshp]

+Neil Post they're waiting for me to go pick them up. Saturday's the day.

[@NeilPost71]

FRESH PRINCESS Hope you take us along!

[@Thefreshp]

+Neil Post would you like that?

[@NeilPost71]

FRESH PRINCESS Absolutely

[@Thefreshp]

+Neil Post ❤️

[@curtisgram8892]

you do not need to buy spreader bars just tie a string from your branch you need to train to the base of the trunk.

[@Thefreshp]

+Curtis Gram thx

[@dakotafarmgirl4032]

what would you spray for peach scab ( the little hard shelled sap suckers) ORGAINIC WAY

[@dakotafarmgirl4032]

SCALE NOT SCAB LOL

[@Thefreshp]

I use copper and lime sulphur. I'm not sure about peach scab.

[@dakotafarmgirl4032]

thank u

[@Thefreshp]

Copper in the spring, just after bud break before the leaves appear. I mix it with a fixative oil like omni. In the fall I spray with limy sulphur and omni oil. The oil keeps the minerals on the plant longer.

[@kathyyoung1774]

I have one peach tree I planted 9 years ago and haven't gotten a peach yet. What the deer don't eat, the birds and bugs get. Sigh ...

[@TheLogisticos]

did you tax that limon

[@Thefreshp]

+TheLogisticos tax? I paid for them before shooting the vid. Is that what you're asking.

[@bigjchristo]

hey p.:-)

[@Thefreshp]

+Jon Christopherson hey Jon.

[@1d1hamby]

you need to read a book or something on fruit tree pruning to get some help.

[@Thefreshp]

+d hamby I've read many

[@Pure_KodiakWILD_Power]

oy vay, sacrificing fruit is painful, indeed.

[@Thefreshp]

+kodiak wild it physically hurts

[@estebancorral5151]

what? no quince trees. Variety is the spice of life. Invest in a file or honing stone to sharpen your loppers. keep at it. some thing fanastic will come.

[@Thefreshp]

+esteban corral I have TWO! Ines 11, it doesn't need pruned, the other is knee high, not ready to be lopped off.

[@michaelalbert9057]

Lots of good content, but focus!

[@Thefreshp]

Nahhhh it's much more freeing to be expansive.