Paul, thanks for such encouraging fruitful tree videos. I’m 80, with a modest mango hobby: experimenting with just 1 hedge containing 9 mango trees planted just 3 feet apart in the row. Roots have space to grow outward into yard on either side of the hedge. I’ll try to keep canopy of hedge as low as possible, and train a couple of branches to grow outward on either side - hopefully leaving a kind of shady mango tunnel to walk under for maintenance and harvesting. I have 9 varieties and am currently grafting additional varieties onto the trees. It’s a hobby, and my goal is to create the smallest, most compact mango hedge that I can work while standing on the ground. My wife and I will be happy even if we just get a small amount of fruit per year (we can’t eat that much mango anyway, so we’ll just offer any excess to neighbors). A couple more years and we should see if this is going to work, or not…
I was going to transplant a few of my mango trees this weekend because I felt they were too close at 14 feet away but I think I'm going to keep them in the holes they're in. Thanks for the video
Wow! Thank you so much for posting this video. Some of us would never have believed it if you hadn't posted proof. Now I can relax and not worry so much about spacing. Fantastic!
Very aesthetically pleasing as well. Another factor that keeps average people from planting an abundance of fruit trees. Definitely will model my layout after this.
Absolutely beautiful and brilliant Paul. Thank you. I’m inspired to do something similar. I’ve saved this video as a favorite. Please can you make a pruning video. Much appreciated. Also how do I get some rare exotic fruits into Jamaica. I’m hoping to retire their in 12 years time. So I need to get tree planted on the property over the next couple of years. Keep up the good work buddy.
Richard Campbell is the expert that worked at Fairchild Tropical Gardens for many years. We bought a Graham tree at his advice many years ago. I don't hear too much about that variety. Lots of new varieties. Very good advice in your video. I think he has written books about plants.
Hi Paul, Thank you so much for an amazingly video on Ultra High Density Gardening. I watch your videos regularly and marvel at how people try to experiment on various styles of fruit gardening. I’m Buddy Paris and live in Sydney, Australia and I have a real small garden, but love to have a variety of tropical fruit trees. I have planted 4, 5, 6 and even 7 fruit trees in a 600x600mm square hole. I have 10 squares of such in two rows with a 1 metre between each square and one-and-a-half metre between the two rows. Of course my fruit garden is only two years old. I’d love you to visit one day via video. Thanks Paul, do keep up the good work. I always Subscribe to your Channels and give you a Thumbs up. Always, Buddy
Great tour! Really neat to see! It’d be interesting to ask what the root stocks are in these trees. I’m familiar enough with him to know that he likely started them all... so he’d likely know.
I thought I went crazy and bought a bunch of plants and seeds but that's a lot of plants. The tree guilding is a very cool way to plant. I have a grafted Glenn mango I just got I want to try planting with an ice cream bean tree and 1 other fruit plant in the collection.
This property was impressive when I saw his original video but it is even more impressive after seeing your tour. He uses growing techniques which aren’t for everyone but very interesting to see how everything is growing
Very good informative video, thank you @Fruitful Trees, Paul, and the homeowner for sharing! Question: Metal pipe for mature trees too? Why "three" pipes for one of the trees? And, what are those pipes (metal); and where to buy? Thank you in Advance!
I believe in mango tree planted close to each other I lived in Trinidad and the mango tree uses to be close to each other and no one planted them mange fields may be one tree was planted and when the mangoes dropped the seeds bear tress and the trees bears mangoes and the mangoes when they harvest they bear hundreds and hundreds of mangoes and the trees are twenty and thirty years old and could be younger I love to see mango tree grow like that it reminds me of my childhood in Trinidad
Beautiful! What city do you live?.. I'm in Melbourne fl central and trying to plant those trees..how old are the 5 mango trees?... and the avocado trees?
Miami. The trees are all different ages from new to 38 years old with the average age of mangoes around 4 years. Avocados a little older average. If I knew which 5 mango trees you were asking about I could be specific.
I usually have just done normal tipping on all my trees but for 2022 I’m experimenting on my producing trees and I’m going to let them grow with no pruning or tipping but will continue to tip non producers
This is amazing! I would love to see a pruning video on these trees. It’s unimaginable that such big trees could be so close. With that many mango’s you could feed the neighborhood. This is very timely. Because I am planning in planting some mango trees. Is the cement circle like “curbing”. Just ontop of the soil?? Thanks for this vid and taking the time. It’s fascinating!
Yes the concrete circle are poured individually around each tree. First they scrape off the grass where they will lay the concrete then just pour on too. The fill a bucket on the machine with fresh mixed concrete the walk around in a circle as the border pours out shaped perfectly.
This year I only pruned trees that blocked too much sun from others. Only pruned the north side of those trees. This year that was the only prunings. But at the end of next season 2022 I will lower every single tree down to 9-12 feet and prune the insides where possible then shape them all around. That will give the trees a well deserved rest in 2023 and me too. Maybe I’ll be able to go away that summer to a cooler place for a nice vacation. I’ll still have plenty of fruit even with the severe pruning.
@@weiss613 thank you Weiss. This is also a timely answer. My neighbor, with the best mango tree I ever ate from. Just hired a trimmer & they heavily pruned it. They were afraid it was too much. Including topping it. I was thinking. Well, at least it was after it fruited. And, there is enough time for it to rebranch! I sure hope so! As I’ve sprouted 13 seeds from that tree. And I want grafts from it to clone it in a couple months.
@@nikolaipizarro4732 it’s popular down here in FL. It’s really just like a curb to contain the bed. Like concrete edging. It doesn’t go down into the ground.
Paul, thank you for bringing this guy. great intelligent approach, it isn't just next mango's garden. lot of useful info in this video. Specially for someone who is new here and doesn't know where to start from. Also a lot of questions as well. the question about the rings. How they help to establish anchor roots? And where to get them? How deep inside the soil the ring has to be. Also a question does Richard can share some grafting woods? I saw his amazing grafting technique video. Thanks both of you. For the video, info, also garden ideas.
The inside plastic rings are 2 edging pieces attached to make a circle. They are from Home Depot. They are easy to move down into the soil because they have a pointy rough edge. When you water the tree with a hose it only takes a few seconds and the water stays inside the circle and goes straight down deep to the roots. The ring has to go deep enough so water does not leak out below from the sides. The only fertilizer used is one that was made for hydroponics and it has everything in it needed for perfection. It’s called Foliage Pro 9-3-6. Detailed instructions are on the container. Your friend has shared a link to a Home Depot product they think you would be interested in seeing. www.homedepot.com/p/2-ft-W-x-0-25-in-L-Green-Plastic-Easy-Edging-51034/206449737
Thank you for detailed reply and the link. I planted trees some 2 years ago some 1 year ago. I see some roots go around trunk not deep how I want them. And is it not too late to place the rings now? Or ring has to be wider? Thks a lot
@@irenenabatov186 paul was only half right when he talked about roots on mango trees. Initial there is a tap root that grows downward seeking water but then lateral surface roots take off. If you fertilize the roots in the hole when young they will continue to absorb the liquid fertilizer for life and you won’t need to worry about the lateral roots. If you don’t coral the water and fertilizer around the trunk so the liquid goes deep down straight this technique will not work.
That’s amazing. I can only imagine when thise trees fruit and he doesn’t pick them all, they drop and the smell is horrendous😱😳😂 All in all an amazing video and a more amazing property. So tidy with all those massive fruit trees. Aloha!!🤙🏼🙏🏼
I go outside and scout every tree at least 2 times every day and pick any drops up. They all go on the fences so the squirrels have plenty to eat and stay away from my trees.
@@simplysimple7628 it’s not tough. Since I’m retired I love to take advantage of constructive and creative things I can do to get exercise. Since I can’t dig holes or plant trees because all my space is already occupied I can’t wait to get up and do every physical thing I can do. Just hate the sweat! Want to live a long time and exercise is most important.
How tall do standard mango’s need to be to fruit well? The trees here look about 12 to 15 ft tall. I am getting older and I’m hesitant to climb ladders to prune trees. Dwarf’s like pickering would be easy, but how short could I keep the trees that are mentioned in this video?
Love it ,love it , love it I would do the same , it's truly a God given gift n a blessing , you got my blessings man , you go good health, strength and long life 🙏🙏🙏
Thanks for sharing this video blessings Can you clarify what the diameter is for each of the high density planted holes; for example what’s the size of the circle for the 5 trees and 9 trees etc. Gracias 🙏
The person that growth 2 or 3 trees in one hole, that would be me. I jam as much tree as I could on top of each others. They are really happy that I did that. Like human, we like to be near and dear until covid came. Tree like to socialize too and cross mixing. lol. Thanks for sharing. I'm really feels, at home here, so I don't think I'm too nutty after all. PEACE
Maybe I missed it, but it would help to know where he's located? For example, close to the coast or further inland where there's higher disease causing humidity.
I could get along well with this guy... I have so many trees and have planted some in the same whole and was wondering if I was wrong, but now I know Im a right
Paul you're killing it with all these videos! Next stop....Bill's place in Davie. Chris from TT did a video on his garden, but want to see an update. Appreciate all that you do for the mango community.
The sun moving around all day long so tree will be getting some degreed of light different times of the day. Keep planting people good for the world and fruit to eat and sharing.
I am “the guy” The circles are for watering and liquid fertilization so that water and fertilizer goes straight down and not spread out superficially on the surface but penetrates down deep. Fertilizer is a hydroponic fertilizer. Look it up and see the ingredients and advantages. It’s Foliage Pro 9-3-6. It has all the needed micros too. It’s applied using a Chapin spray bottle that’s attached to the garden hose. There is an adjustable meter on top so you can set it on how many teaspoons or tablespoons per gallon you want to use. Much better than putting X amount in a 5 gallon bucket and filling up the bucket then lifting a 40 lb bucket up to pour. I can water 300 trees perfectly in 1 hour. Fertilizing takes about 2 hours or less but I don’t fertilize my fruiting trees from the end of the season till the fruit are about an inch and then only 1X a month for 3 months. My non fruiting trees are fed every month with Foliage Pros recommended dosage for 1X a month feedings.
Very nice looking yard! BTW, it will have a lifespan though. I have mango trees I planted 25 years ago, trunks and roots have taken over. Advise to contain roots somehow, if his concrete circles go down 3 or 4 feet.. that would help. Otherwise may have to completely clear out trees and bring in a stump grinder for the entire yard. Good news is he has about 25 years before roots start lifting sidewalks up. Cheers!
I have a grouping of 3 trees that are 18 years old and it hasn’t happened yet. Do not even see the roots on the surface yet. Driveways are perfect and the asphalt on the street are also not lifted up yet. Also have a big Haden mango tree planted in 1984 with no surface roots seen. That is 36 years
Lmao, he doesnt eat the fruit. He should open a fruit stand in front of his house. I was tempted last week to put my rosiegold and nam docmai in the same hole (which i know is not a problem ,so i just gave the 6steps of my size 12/13 feet. Lol thanks for the video. And as gardeners, we shouldnt be too worried about people or birds taking your fruit. That's why we do what we do, which is sharing and teaching. Truthfully u cant eat all that by myself.
Correction all the trees are not in one hole each tree had its own hole. But because they’re surrounded by a large circle of concrete it appears that they are in one hole in reality each tree has its own hole but they are close together and the concrete surrounding them all makes it just look like it’s in one hole. Where the trees are planted 6 inches down is either broken up or solid coral rock. Each hole was dug with a shovel and a pick and a lot of hard work or some holes were drilled with a big tractor and some holes we had to use a jackhammer. Lots of the best exercise.
@@weiss613 Yes, so i've read. I saw richard campbell actually cuts off his taproots and allows the surface, crown roots to dominate. I was just surprised they could do that well in such shallow soil, but it's exciting to know. Thanks!
Yeah he can plant many trees as he want in on hole but they’re not going to produce as much as one tree stand alone. Would it make sense if the commercial growers already doing it if it’s works. This is like one big tree with fruits outside and nothing in the middle.
I’m so confused, the homeowner doesn’t like eating mangoes but allocates a lot of time and space to mangoes and avocados. Then he has a problem with neighbors taking the fruit that he doesn’t eat.
Lovely but never-never plant mango trees close to your home they has destroyed the home foundation those trees can get huge as you know ever close to your home good luck
Only foliage pro 9-3-6. Just follow directions on the container. But you must put a small circle around the trunk so the liquid mix goes straight down into the earth and doesn’t flow away.
Let him send some for me mangoes so expensive were I lived in the Caribbean yes 4 for 3 usd or 4 for 3 usd it's true ok madness my Julie so long never bear 5 yrs an an avocado an coconuts I have to removed those coconuts trees😊😊
