Pruning, Staking, and Harvesting tree collards

This is an updated garden tutorial on Pruning, Staking and Harvesting Tree Collards, using a mature, woody Purple Tree Collard as an example. For more information go to: www.projecttre... where you can also buy tree collard plants, cuttings, and seeds. Project Tree Collard is dedicated to being at the heart of research on everything to do with tree collards and widely sharing information on these wonderful plants. If uncared for, tree collard plants can get quite gangly and unattractive after 3 years although they can live over 20 years. In this video, you can learn how to keep them healthy and productive with pruning and staking.

[@UnleashYHS]

Thanks for sharing🙂 We love growing leafy kale and collards here in zone 10b. We find them more productive than most other traditionally temperate-weather vegetables.

[@projecttreecollard]

yes:)

[@Artofabeautifullife]

I’m learning so much from your videos! I watch them over and over and always pick up on something new. All my new plants I got from you are doing so well! I’d love to see a video on first harvests and what that looks like.

[@projecttreecollard]

great idea! thanks:)

[@ericscavetta2311]

Thank you. Changing my biggest-first leaf-harvesting strategy now, as my purple collards is beginning to look like a palm tree. 🌴😅 Although there are some small leaf shoots below, they are tending to yellow and drop as the plant seems to be favoring the uppermost leaves (they only get afternoon direct sun).

[@projecttreecollard]

yes! I like to keep the plants compact and bushy:)

[@SunshineCountryChickens]

I just ordered 3 purple tree collard cuttings from you! So excited! My jolly green cuttings from you are really nice and long I cut them in half and all 6 pieces have new growth already its only been a week!

[@projecttreecollard]

yay! great to hear:)

[@CF_Joel]

Thank you! I ordered some seeds from you! Can't wait!

[@Eyeofthestorm812]

Thank you. I am just about to harvest my final leaves for the winter. Yummy! Good to know I can cut them and they will grow back tall again! Richmond CA

[@projecttreecollard]

I also have more recent videos on pruning them to be more dense and productive

[@projecttreecollard]

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[@Eyeofthestorm812]

@@projecttreecollard wonderful. So excited to get a bushy farm like crop in my little back yard. They are so prolific!

[@giorgioregni2639]

Happy to see an update on the project! I live in Albany, CA and I've been following your videos to prune and replicate my own tree collards, thank you!

[@tomatoesstokes8658]

Just ordered 2 tree collards and it is rooting very well, I also ordered some seeds they are coming up beautiful. I am so excited.

[@LSinclair]

Exactly what I needed to know, thank you!!

[@projecttreecollard]

yay!

[@richstone2627]

Thank you for your time and for sharing your knowledge.

[@projecttreecollard]

you're welcome:)

[@MasterCoachUniversity]

our regular collards last 2 or 3 years... amazing that those tree collards last so long. we haven't gotten any tree kale to last more than 1 year yet... they like to die and seem a bit leggy, especially compared to our regular collards. going to work on pruning earlier to try to encourage more propagation and we'll see.

[@projecttreecollard]

keep me posted. Where are you growing "tree kale?"

[@MasterCoachUniversity]

@@projecttreecollard Jacksonville, FL (NE FL)

[@LindatheOldBird]

thanks for sharing this - I ordered one and can't wait to plant it! John 3:17

[@bobjones1131]

Exciting, I planted my three cuttings and watched them slowly die. 🤪

[@LindatheOldBird]

I'm so sorry :(

[@micaelakingslight]

That is very helpful! Thank you! I have one that isn't doing so well in the Pacific northwest and only has a few stalks with leaves (It's April 5th) I pruned the ones without leaves in hopes of getting it to come back. (The branches are still alive) is there something else I can do to help it out? I get full sun in my garden but it did get cold this winter.

[@projecttreecollard]

I use crushed oyster shell or crushed eggshells and rock dust as fertilizers. Of course lots of compost is really helpful. I would tip prune as in the video (heading cuts) to help the dormant buds leaf out.

[@user-px7nh7vs4b]

I would love some helpful hints on successful growing of tree collards in hot, humid east Texas (zone 8b). I've tried three times and each time the cuttings either failed to root or failed to thrive and them died. Help please. I did just order seeds and cuttings again so fingers crossed for my success this time. This time will be the first time I have tried rooting the cuttings in cooler weather instead of spring. Thanks

[@projecttreecollard]

I will never be an expert in rooting in humid climates however, I have heard from customers that what you are doing is correct: it is best to root cuttings in humid/hot climates in the cool season. It's probably a great time to gerrminate the seeds too as long as the temps aren't too low.

[@wemuk5170]

Can you hard prune the heads off throughout the year as you harvest? Or is hard pruning (heading cut, I mean, topping off) done only in the summer season during vigorous growth? Or is that best in dormant winter?

[@projecttreecollard]

it really depends on your climate. I prune the heads off most of the year except in the coldest and hottest months.

[@christiegrows2022]

Can you move an established plant to another location?

[@projecttreecollard]

the only chance of survival would be in moderately cool weather (65 to 50 degrees F)

[@christiegrows2022]

@@projecttreecollard thanks I was wondering if I might try in early winter. I have several spring plantings