We Wish We Knew This Sooner - The Secret to Growing Healthy Fruit Trees.

[@dirkdiggler1861]

I can't believe it's been 8 years...I've been following your channel since the beginning. Appreciate your work here 💚

[@KingsMom831]

Same! Great channel!😊

[@FloridamanForager]

I’m a big fan of planting seeds/seedlings bare root. The study and intention of researching what trees will do best in your native soil is so valuable.

[@danielstonejd]

Your comment really sparked a memory...I started my small farm two years ago and it was advice from my great-grandma, "When you are in your garden, act deliberately and with the positive intention to nurture the plant from the root to the fruit." She was a bad a$$ Idaho gardener from Shoshone, Idaho and grew amazing fruits, berries and veggies in a garden taht started as a lava flow; I have a raspberry patch in her honor still in my growing space. Mahalo for the videos, when I get a chance to get my retirement farm in Naalehu I'll know a handful of things about growing on the big island and have abundance :D

[@happybeans415]

So amazing to see you two from where you started till now. My husband and I just love your energy and videos. We moved from California to Big Island and we are building out one of our three acres. Great advice and beautifully romantic memories you shared. Mahalo!

[@taylornorrisreiki]

I am at Home Depot watching this trying to figure out what shovel to buy 😅 I love y’all ❤ and the lemon tree obviously!

[@GG-qy2js]

I just watched your video from 8 years ago. Glad you hung in there. 🤟🏽

[@gabriellens2289]

Sending love to you all! So glad to see you are still doing great on your property 🙏

[@GodIsLove447]

You guys are clearly in love and I wish you long life and many more beautiful experiences.

[@OffGridHawaii]

Thank you! 🥰🥰

[@ngohung49]

Interesting to lemon tree could bring abundance, lucks,.etc.. ❤❤😁😁😁🥰🥰🥰👌👌👌

[@tomtice6103]

Aloha Michael and Pauline , thanks for all of your advice🤙🏽😃✌🏾

[@SN1987A]

I only have small backyard. And in a budget. I never use tap water. Got 100 Gallon Rubbermaid stock tank. Throw some copper stuff in it. Plus some fish - biodiversity Plus some water plants. For soil I just make sure it has full of life.. from micro to worms all the way to insects. Fertilizer I got racing pigeons manure. Tricks: electro culture. All u need is a copper wire and a stick.. do a research on it. Pest only attack sick crops or crops in a wrong location or planted in a wrong time. Do search some companion plants like marigold 😁 Save Soil 🙏

[@JudePowell-b3r]

I love your approach. I'll do it with all the plants and trees that I grow.

[@OffGridHawaii]

Aloha and happy growing!!

[@KawoaDogClub]

This video hit home! Thanks for sharing. SO beautiful

[@jackdakin7282]

This is incredibly helpful information. Thank you.

[@OffGridHawaii]

Yay thanks! Glad you find it helpful :)

[@wMerlinw]

Hahaha. I got so much stuff to plant. Not sure how I'll ever get around to planting it all. It's so easy to get plants. Hard to plant them. We have no soil, so I gotta build mounds. I'm learning, buying less plants, but sometimes temptation wins.

[@chriskeaton603]

Given your experience with papayas, is there a particular variety/varieties that stand out for you? Thanks!

[@OffGridHawaii]

The most common papaya here are solo and strawberry which are both smaller and sweeter varieties. They are both excellent but I personally like the strawberry more. There is also a variety called exotica that we grow which has an interesting story about how it came to this island. It is also very good and has larger fruit.

[@marker113]

Thanks for sharing this, cheers!

[@m.mickeypayne9811]

I had you on all alerts and yet KZbin hasn't put any of your videos in my queue for at least 4 years. I didn't look myself because I had a head injury.

[@dirtyjarhikes]

The tree of love!!!

[@OffGridHawaii]

😘 🌳 Paulina and Michael sitting in a tree k I s s I n g first come loves then comes marriage then comes the baby in a baby carriage 🐣

[@J9coughlin]

Mahalo, Janine

[@chrismurphy2769]

better check that tree for girdled roots now, before they grow full-size... The tree is pretty. I might get one... :variegated pink lemon: 7:18

[@xx-pm5if]

good timing for me aloha

[@ambitiouskitchen6596]

Looking forward for your silver play button 🙏💪

[@OffGridHawaii]

We have a long way to go but we are looking forward to it too 😊

[@halehamakua8341]

New to your channel! Thank you for sharing your wisdom. Could you share what your inputs are? What was in the wheelbarrow? :) And are you fertilizing with just the kelp extract? Or mixing something else in there? Mahalo!

[@OffGridHawaii]

Mahalo for subscribing! Great question. I didn’t want to get into the specifics of what I was using because each different type of tree might be different and I wanted to encourage the research aspect of planting for your specific tree. But to answer your questions the wheelbarrow starts with homemade compost from our chicken house. Then I usually add in chicken manure, biochar, bloodmeal, bonemeal, triple super phosphate, dolomite, borax and epsom salt. as for the foliar feeding there is kelp, fish hydrolysate and epsom salt. I have been experimenting to hopefully correct some nutrient deficiencies and promote budding. It’s definitely something extra though and should be in addition to a normal fertilizer and mulch schedule.

[@עידודרוזד]

What website would you use for the information and guidance for the trees ? Thank you

[@OffGridHawaii]

In Hawaii we have ctar, but usually I just do a search on google. KZbin is a great resource too 😊. Basically just read and watch as much as you can without going too crazy.

[@natzvideo]

Love your work! I am Kona side about to plant a tree and this video came at such a right time :) p.s. where do you get your mulch from and do you use city mulch around your fruit trees?

[@OffGridHawaii]

Great timing! Yes we use county mulch when we have it, but also grow mulch crops for the bulk of the mulch we need. County mulch is great but it’s in such limited supply on hilo side.

[@natzvideo]

@@OffGridHawaii it is free and daily here in Kona waste center (my new favorite hang out spot haha). I am hesitant to use city mulch for food/ edible trees, I feel like it has a lot of chemicals. So we mainly use it for flowers and general landscaping. But that is just my intuition, do you think using that mulch is safe to feed the trees?

[@OffGridHawaii]

There is always the possibility of chemicals in it but I believe it’s minimal. We use it for growing food and I think most ppl do.

[@ericdpeerik3928]

The planting trees video was made shortly after the smoking trees video

[@molassescricket6663]

I’ve been gardening for over forty years and I still make mistakes!

[@kenshanbackyardgarden]

Natural materials (grass, leaves, manure etc) are already FERTILIZERS. Are you still using synthetic fertilizers?

[@OffGridHawaii]

I didn’t want to get into the types of fertilizers we use in this video because it was more of a concept video. We wanted ppl to do the research and decide what is best to add for their soil and their tree. To answer your question though the only synthetic fertilizer we use is triple super phosphate and that is on new plantings only, it can be switched out for bone meal though. The reason for this is because the soil we use has a high phosphorus fixation which means phosphorus is there but locked up and hard for the plants to absorb. Adding phosphorus helps with this issue. Aloha

[@CoconutInformation]

"Dig a $50 hole for a 5$ plant"

[@OffGridHawaii]

I’m not sure I understand your comment.

[@goofyshorts5508]

You got anymore for $5? 😂

[@socloseagain4298]

its not possible to be 2 years old justn ot possible

[@OffGridHawaii]

You are technically right. We planted it 2 years ago. I’m not sure when the rootstock was grown and when it was grafted but this was just a regular small tree from plant it Hawaii. You can see from the the wedding footage how small it was when it was planted.

[@reformedguy777]

​@@OffGridHawaii I understood what you meant, for what it's worth, and didn't find it confusing. 2 years from planting, not from seed sprouting. (And presumably the 8 year tree was also 8 years from planting, not 8 years from initial seed sprouting.)

[@socloseagain4298]

@@OffGridHawaii Yeah all good it's probably 2 or maximum 3 years that it was in the nursery and then 2 years at your guys' place 😛Still impressive ofcourse! 🙂