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Hi . I still don't have any trees because the companies sell in the spring time. Do you have any suggestions to get around this hurdle? This the second year I have researched and tried to purchase trees
Thank you for discussing zones. Many youtubers give advice but never reveal their zone or discuss the different zones like you do. I am in 9b so my gardening and seasons are almost the opposite of northerners.
@susangopher One under used resource is your local extension office. They can tell you what varieties do well in your location. Look under your local county listing in the phone book to find it.
🙋♀️ waving from 9B in Central California! What further complicates it is apparently many gardeners don't understand that the zones are related to low temperatures and freezes, not what your summer growing season is like. 9B is across the country and I assure you summer is different where I am, the extreme heat of Arizona and the humid heat of Florida. There's another RU-vid garden channel at the other end of the valley I'm in. His climate gets a marine influence from the Pacific and is easier on plants vs my area being influenced by Hades.
Nothing tastes more like fall than Paw Paw custard pudding! The farm that my grandmother grew up on had a bunch sprinkled in the field rows in between Osage Orange trees. While my great aunt was still alive, we would decorate with the bumpy green "sage oranges" and eat Paw Paw custard in October. It was magical!
Here in Northern Maine, after decades of transplanting trees at various degrees of growth, I have found that Fall Time has proved the best time to do so.
It's certainly easier. It's the closest to set-it-and-forget-it, at least with deciduous trees. If you're in South Florida planting tropicals, that may be different because you'd actually want to plant them during the rainy season, but for temperate zones, I think Fall mostly rules.
Another fun fact of the Paw Paw... if you are familiar with and love to eat, the tropical fruit, Guanábana, then you're in for a treat because they're in the same family and the taste/texture is very similar! 😊 Makes a great juice!
I think this was one of your best video. Thank you so much for all the information. I'm in zone 5b and had no idea I could possibly grow a pawpaw. Saving this to my Pinterest board. Very excited to rethink some of my fruit tree plans. 😊
You're welcome! You absolutely can. That will be no trouble at all for a pawpaw. You can also grow persimmons like Nikita's Gift for a special treat that will ripen all the way into October, possibly even November. It's great season extension.
I just planted out about 10 pawpaw seedlings. I put them under my pecans to grow as an under story layer. I also planted out a bunch of native persimmons and a bunch of wild plums.
This makes me nervous, because pawpaw trees do not fruit well grown in shade. They need full sun to fruit optimally. If you have 10 trees, it may not matter if production is lower, but full sun grown pawpaws make considerably more fruit. Some folks try to get around the shade cloth thing by planting in shade, but it bites them years later with low fruit production. Hopefully the canopies are not dense and it lets a lot of light through and the trees still get 6 hours of unfiltered light. You may need to thin the canopies if they don't fruit well.
I planted my latest pawpaws in buckets yesterday as I cannot dig the holes right now... I have been trying to grow them for over 20 years now, losing several to lawn mowers, more to cold winters and more just dying on me... have 3 planted in the yard (two ten foot tall ones), two seedlings in old two liter pop bottles and two new 3-4 foot tall purchased ones in 5 gallon buckets. Finally have 3 fruit growing on one... still hard and unripe as yet... more seeds to plant.
I live in central Missouri - last year in late Sept I planted a peach tree (it was about 4' tall) and got a harvest the next year, so this trick does work!
That was the fastest 19:38 ever!! Your video was so chock full of great information I was soaking it up like a sponge!!! I have to get one of those thunder shirts for my dog. He wont shy away from fighting any dog but thunder turns him inti a quivering mess!
Thank you! I try hard to not over-talk. A lot of editing goes into things to cut out extras. Usually, my videos are 30+ mins of footage that I cut down. As for the Thunder Shirt, I linked to the exact product down in the video description. Dale weighs 60 lbs and he takes a Large. It fits him perfectly. The Large size is currently on a big sale for $24.99.
Thunder shirts are amazing I got one for my last dog and man the difference it made was unbelievable. I’m lucky with the Labradors I have now none of the 3 are bothered. If it’s right over head a very loud one does get a bit figity and cuddles are needed but I don’t know if she picks that up from me as thunder and me don’t go. Lightning ⚡️ sets my seizures off and my anxiety so I think the girls pick that up. We know my support dog does but she’s trained too and I think the other 2 pick it up from her. They take it in turns to care for me bless ‘em
He's very sweet. We're lucky to have him. He is a really sensitive guy. Make sure with peaches you select a self-fertile variety if you only want one tree. Not all peaches are self-fertile. As for blueberries, almost all varieties need cross pollination. This video will help you with blueberries: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-5vvZzsHzA7M.htmlsi=dq6FS-rTvT9ToiHZ
Dang.. I wanted to plant a fig in 9b because in Phoenix we had 30 straight days of 110+ this summer and even the heat-lovers like figs and mulberries struggled. I think I'll still put in a couple of 15 gallon BdV figs and see how it goes.
As soon as you talked about fruit tree, I knew somewhere on the list would be the fig tree. I really like your enthusiasm about that fruit. Thank for the advices, it may explain some things I noticed, because I didn't usually pay attention to when I planted the fruits.
@@smilehunter2138don't overwater them. Get them established first then ease back. Less water condenses the sugars and makes for sweeter fruit. Once you get them going there is nothing more delicious than picking fruit about 30 minutes before you want to eat it then rinsing it and popping it into the fridge to cool down slightly.
I always plant fig trees in September here in Vienna/Austria and protect them if needed. The last 3 winters were 8b/9a/8b. I don’t have time to water figs planted in spring, especially older trees need a lot water if they were planted in spring during our hot summers.
HI. Thanks for another great video! For persimmon, I am pretty sure that having two trees will not help you much in terms of fruit set unless your second tree is a male - persimmons are generally dioecious. They are also usually parthenocarpic (females will set seedless fruits even without being pollinated), so when you purchase a named cultivar (either american or asian), you are being given a known female and should get fruits even with just one tree. Please correct if I'm wrong, but I think this is the case.
❤for the Houston shoutout! Today was 105 but tomorrow forward is supposed to be much cooler, highs of 95-98 for the next few weeks. I really want to plant some fruit trees but I've been holding off. Blackberries are at the top of my list! I've watched your Prime Ark Freedom video multiple times and will watch it again. I wish I could source a 2- or 3-in one citrus tree - a Meyer lemon, lime and kumquat combo would be awesome. The only place I've seen that sells those is in Australia and they don't ship to the US. It's awesome and inspiring that you grafted your own! #goals I've also been considering mulberries but I've never actually tasted those (nor Kumquats, for that matter) and I'm hesitant to invest all the time in a tree where I might not like the fruit.
@amanda- there are nurseries in the south that will ship citrus including kumquats to you. I'm in zone 9 in California but state law requires I buy citrus here. I love kumquats! Mulberry trees are huge and the fruiting females are extremely messy. I would not recommend them for a home gardener.
Found this video at the perfect time. I had been researching when to plant fruit trees and was conflicted about spring or fall. Almost ready to put it off until spring, but now I'm going order those fruit trees. Thank you very much. Have now subscribed.
You get much better selection in late winter/early spring when all the bare root fruit trees are in stock. Also, the trees are much less expensive then too.
That will depend where you're located and what you need. It's true that most nurseries stock the most varieties in spring. However, a lot of online nurseries still have a significant amount of stock ready for immediate shipping. Local nurseries will vary. If the trees you want are in stock now, it makes more sense to order them and plant them ASAP rather than wait.
You're welcome! The Thunder Shirt has helped immensely. He's still nervous, but it has a profound calming effect. If you have a dog that suffers from storms, I recommend it.
If you are ordering trees online you want to order them at a time when they are dormant. Nothing worse that getting a tree delivered in growing season to find all the leaves dried up in shipment. Been there done that.
I to am a transplant to NC .I enjoy gardening also .Coming from OH 40 years ago. You have sand and here I have red clay. Both difficult but rewarding with persistence. The man I worked with could be your brother. Happy gardening.
Great advice! Here in Zone 9B, fig and citrus trees do great. But not so much for pear trees or blueberries. Although occasionally people have success with a couple of low chill hours varieties of them after they have first created a good yard climate. Poor Dale.
Hope you did alright with the Idalia rainfall! Fruit trees are SO tempting, but I’ve cut a few of those off my list since some trees require lots of chemicals due to insect pressure OR they are too sensitive to late season freezes. I love my fig trees and Asian persimmon which are low mntc. I bought a “dwarf pomegranate “ tree/shrub from JC Raulston Arboretum - it sets ONE lovely fruit every year and that fruit is about 1” in diameter, adorable! 🤣🤣 Note that your state Extension office may list which varieties of these fruits are best suited for your region. Thanks for another great video! You are most inspiring!
Thank you for this informative video! I live in zone 11b. I am preparing to move a small fig tree to a shadier, north-facing location. I hope it does better there… Your videos inspire me to to keep trying. 😊 Plus, I love the Dale vignettes. 🐶
those horizontal branches on those trees u got back there are so cool i might have to try that i already have a peach tree with angled branches but havent tried that yet
After this very hot and dry summer I'm almost afraid to plant any fruit tree other than a berry bush of which I can plant it in partial shade along the house. Zone 9a Manvel Tx. We were 106 yesterday. Great video and very informative.
Great info, I was about to get ready to plant 14 potted fig trees in ground as soon as fall started here in zone 8b PNW. I guess I’ll wait and get them woken up early and plant in ground after last frost date in spring now.
I always heard you can plant fig trees any time. My small trees always die back to the ground but I've heard you can mulch them well and cover them after they lose their leaves and they will maintain their branches. You can look on you tube videos for more info. I'm in zone 9A and the 3 ft. inground fig tree came back whole with just a blanket over it during the 28 degree nites.
@@randyadams7269 I have planted figs in ground in fall last year and they didn’t produce figs this year. So I’ll just hold off and it will let me give them a head start in the greenhouse. I have 10 or so others (peach, honeysuckle, chestnut and walnut), I can plant in ground here shortly. Lots of work always here on 20 acres.
You always have great information! I will plant some apple and peach trees this early fall. I followed your tomato video, and had really great success with 55 plants this year! Thank you! I'm in north Alabama
It looks like it's going to be pretty far out to sea, thankfully. I already lost 80% of my corn, all my summer tomatoes and half my new fall tomatoes to the last tropical storm, and there is still a lot of season left.
@TheMillennialGardener my tomatoes and some of the peppers in the back yard are still trying to put out their first fruit that bugs don't get. Front yard has intermediates still trying to hang on (I kinda wanna see what they'll do), just east of Charlotte here
I've never personally grown them, but I imagine they'd be the same as other cold hardy berries like blueberries, blackberries and raspberries. Fall planting would be the best time.
I really appreciate it. I certainly am far from the most knowledgeable gardener out there, for sure. But I enjoy learning and documenting what's worked for me and what hasn't. This lifestyle always keeps you learning and honest.
Zone 7A 7b I recently bought 2 different varieties of 1 yo pawpaw trees 4 all together.I’ve always set out my fruit or flowering trees in the fall.I just keep getting conflicting information about waiting until spring to set these out!our first frost date is is always last of October right into November and usually never have more than 20 days of sub freezing temps through winter.of course our summers are hot and humid.
The Low Bush Blueberries are marvelous and having lived in Alaska for 10 years I used to go out and pick (along with the bears) these grape tomato sized blueberries and eat them right off the bush with bears eating on one side of the patch and we eating on the other side of the same patch. Absolutely marvelous. What zone is Prince William Sound area of Alaska?
I've purchased trees from literally dozens of nurseries, both in-person and online. I purchase my trees based on variety, not the nursery. I find the varieties that I want, and then I order from the nurseries I can find that are either in-stock or have the best shipping rates. I don't have particular loyalties, except when it comes to citrus. I have a go-to citrus nursery, but everything else I shop around for exactly the trees that I want.
I’m in 9b and we get pretty dry and hot summers. I found the Desert Peach to survive well here. They are small peaches but delish. Less water is needed as they are drought tolerant. Just watch out for critters. Our ground squirrels love them and like to wait until the day before I’m going to harvest and wipe out every fruit. This year they got around my netting and left me 1 peach with a bite taken out of it! I swear I could hear them laughing! But that’s a topic for another day!
Nice tips on the fruit trees, especially that variety of hybrid persimmon, hadn't heard of it. Appreciated. The info about figs is a bit off, though. The reason they are deciduous and semi-hardy in places with freezing winters isn't because they are from the Med region. They're actually native to the Caucasus region and that explains their frost-hardiness but lack of severe cold hardiness, and also why they are deciduous. Unlike the Med region, that region gets regular hard frosts in winter, but not severe cold. Most native broadleaf true Med trees are actually evergreen: cork and holm oaks, olive trees, and others. They deal with light frosts (if any), but not extended hard frosts. Also, I wouldn't call the Med region "high latitude", it's really in the lower half of "mid latitude", about 45 N at the highest to about 35 N or a bit further south: closer (some parts, a lot) to the equator than the north pole.
Quick question: this spring I bought a Chicago fig (bare root I guess) and planted it in a 3gal pot. It's grown but seems to of 'stalled. My question is...I shouldn't plant in ground now while it's still warm here in 7b Charlotte?
Hey. Love your fun facts and historical sidebars Do you have a video re: espaliered fruit trees they look like 3 cordons and on 4x4? I want to do a few against my fence but need some guidance on setting up these. Similar to the fig espaliers... Like height of the cordons and training and spacing. Thanks!
@@TheMillennialGardener thank you! I have them in pots, they haven't been fruiting yet, too young. I am in Arizona and learning from you a ton. With some impressive results in the garden to show on year 3. Love your tips about natural fertilizers and bone meal.
Hey, I love your video series! My wife and I live in coastal NC (same town!) and we're interested in expanding the number and kinds of fruit trees in our backyard. We currently have two figs and two plums that have survived for about a year and we have 3 blueberry bushes that we've had forever. My question is how much space should we give individual fruit trees? If we were to add peaches and pears to the mix, how much space should we allow between all the trees?
If you go to the websites of the fruit tree suppliers/growers they will tell you what is best for each variety they sell. It varies greatly, no one spacing suits all. You're dealing with two things. How much space the roots need as well as size of the crown. Pay close attention to the height and spread of the crown. If you are planting close, at minimum suggested distances a tall vigorous grower will shade out a smaller less aggressive tree. If you can maintain an aggressive pruning program you might be OK for a few years. Last year I lost my Blenheim apricot to my neighbors persimmon. They only ever pruned the lower limbs, so it could be walked under. It was coming over the fence too and I can only do so much. My partner wasn't much help. The apricot was putting most of it's effort going sideways to the light. I finally convinced him to help me prune back the persimmon. Ironically, got up that morning and the apricot had fallen over, uprooting it's self and a tree service was removing the persimmon. 😢 So your trees need plenty of light and air circulation.
Fig trees have to be covered in the northern climates during the winter (I'm in 6b). Most people wrap them up in burlap or moving blankets and then throw some plastic or a tarp over while leaving some space at the top for moisture to escape. I even throw pipe warmers inside to add a little extra heat. I've heard of others burying them. Either way, they need to be kept relatively warm in the winter, having a hardy variety (like Chicago Hardy) also helps.
I wrapped my fig tree up haphazardly with White garden mesh, I think a black trash bag, and threw a kitty pool on top and wished it luck. I'm growing it in a huge pot in the front yard and it survived! It put on a lot of figs this year. I think it's an Olympia.
I got a owari satsuma for a gift. I live in zone 8b want to try to grow my owari statuma outside next to my house. Would it be to late to plant it out now that summer weather is almost over or should I wait till spring next year.
I would strongly urge waiting until April to plant the satsuma. While Owari is very hardy, it isn't when it's young. It needs significant protection the first few years, and it's asking a lot of a young tree to try and establish itself in a Zone 8 winter. Plant it after your last spring frost so it has maximum time to establish before its first cold winter.
I live in Vancouver 🇨🇦 which great tasting pear tree is best for a smaller yard (and how much sun does it require) ? Thank you, just found your channel 👍🏻👍🏻
Did you train those espalier trees yourself or did you buy them like that? I’d like to start an espalier tree and would appreciate any tips in the subject. Thanks in advance for the info. Also I bought a Chicago hardy fig after watching your last fig tree video. I think I’m going to go ahead and plant it as I think it’s roots will be better protected in the ground than in a nursery container. It’ll be in a fairly protected area and I’ll try to offer additional protection if needed. Wish me luck!
I train them myself. It is simple. You just need to do it while they're young and pliable and stay on top of it. I have a series on how to do it here: ru-vid.com/group/PL1gY7BoYBGIFlbg2ri_7gCJPhXaZ_nOvy&si=NxggPDxZe9Y7bFDe All trees are hardier in-ground than in containers, because the ground keeps the roots warm. Root balls in containers are much more susceptible to cold damage, in general.
It depends what you're growing and when you're planting. Bare root trees are going to be deciduous trees that you plant while they're still dormant. Since it's currently September, you aren't going to be able to find bare root trees. Everything is alive and growing currently. Bare root trees are trees sold over winter for spring planting. If you want to spring plant a deciduous trees, I usually order bare root trees, because they're a lot cheaper to buy and ship. If you want to plant something now, everything you buy is going to be a potted tree.
@@jeanniebebe1889 I've ordered from dozens of online nurseries. I recommend researching the varieties you want to grow, then order from the nurseries that have the varieties you want for the best rates. I don't order from a single nursery, because no single nursery has everything I want.
My Asian persimmon got hit by the Arctic blast. The top part has died. The leaves came out on the bottom half, but know fruit. So sad. Last year, I got 217 persimmons. I wish I knew what I could do. This was very informative. Thank you!
When you say "bottom half," do you mean above the graft union? Most Asian persimmons are grafted onto native American Persimmon rootstock, so if your tree died below the graft line, you'd wind up with a seedling American persimmon.
If it's just the top half of the crown or something like that it will eventually recover but might be ugly for a few years. Years ago we had an awful hard freeze in December that did serious damage to my lemon tree. I stripped all the ruined fruit off of it and waited until January to trim off all the dead and damaged wood. It also caused all the flower buds to drop so I got zero lemons for 2 years. That was rough. But it's going strong, about 45 years old now. Very little fruit this year due to weather and heavy pruning that was needed. Plus squirrels keep pulling fruit off.
Hi sir! I love your attitude and high skills you have in garden vegetables and garden trees. My question is : Where did you buy the little fruit trees because here New York are $80 one year little fruit trees,any suggestions please Thanks have a wonderful days
I love your channel-I’m new to trees but I have a very green thumb. Need help, fig tree(s), now. No figs this year but main fig branched out to 8 beautiful branches. What to do? I’m 80 but gardening 4, 20 yrs and everything grows for me Have 4 high raised beds Apples, blackberries, raspberries, elderberry and Aronia berries, French white cherry tree, red cherry, mint(s Lots of veggies.. But I miss the figs…thank you for your diction: every word is understandable and you should be, could be doing great voice overs. Now, how to prepare my in ground fig for the CT winter..? Can you help?Big thanks, A
Working on some red mulberry seedlings. A little late in the season to plant them, for me, but I need some advice. Should I try to keep them green over the winter, or let them go dormant?
I am in Charlotte so my season is the same as yours. I prefer to work from seeds. Can you get chill hours with seeds in a cup outside over the winter months? I may also be looking for videos on growing from seeds, but don’t hear much about when to start the chill ,or when to plant the new growth to the garden, time of year.
Just because you can trick the fruit tree into making fruit earlier doesn’t mean that you should. Producing fruit is extremely taxing on a tree. Especially if it’s not properly established. The tree will make fruit when it’s root systems can handle the load of making them. You shouldn’t rush the process by tricking it’s seasons. Add organic fertilizers and let the plant do its thing.
This isn't really "tricking" it. Like you said, the tree will produce its fruit when it is ready. Fall is healthy time to plant all kinds of perennial plants.
1:48 if we should plant them several months before hard freezes, that's more like July here. We get hard freezes in mid-late October typically. Our average summer soil temps are only 60-65F, daytime highs (air temp) of 65-85F. I dug up a panicle hydrangea at my old house and transplanted it this June. It took a week or two to get over the transplant shock, since it was about 10 years old, but after that, it was doing well and even flowering beginning in mid-summer. It didn't need much watering - I haven't watered it in over a month. Even right after transplanting, I only gave it a couple deep waterings per week. In my area (Zone 5, average January day around 25F high/10F low) the cold of winter is more of a concern than the stress of summer heat. Many summers it doesn't even reach the 90s a single time, like this year, the hottest day was 86F.
It depends what you're planting, I think. If you're planting an apple tree or a blueberry bush, I wouldn't think twice about it. They won't care about the cold at all. Something like an Asian pear I'd wait til spring. If your climate is particularly void of heat, spring planting may not be a problem. For many of us, we have "short springs" where it seems like we go from freezing nights to 90 degrees in 6 weeks, whereas Fall is a more gradual cooling trend. If you don't have those problems, you may buck the trend. This is ultimately a general guide, but not everyone fits neatly into the puzzle.
@@TheMillennialGardener Thanks. I just transplanted a Rose of Sharon 2 days ago because we sold our old house, so we're bringing it over. It was growing under the old house's roofline so the soil was super dry and the tree just came out of the ground without any soil attached. Current 7 day forecast is days in the 60s and nights in the 40s, so that should mean fairly little heat stress. Hopefully it still has time to re-establish its root system before winter since it's hardy to Zone 5-9 and we're only Zone 5. Will removing some leaves help reduce water stress? Obviously I'll be watering it daily.
I use them to trellis vegetables and fruit trees. But you can use them for whatever you want. You can hang them and run those decorative strand lights on them if you wish. I have videos on how I use the cables here: ru-vid.com/group/PL1gY7BoYBGIFLZ7_GvDMcqll1Sx6PS2jO&si=9_mW-evWDfQmOZme
My fig trees die back to the ground every year. I have 1 that doesn’t but it has never gotten bigger than knee high. A lot of people in my area have massive fig trees and I’m waiting for the opportunity to get some clippings off them.
Yes, now is a great time to plant. It looks like we have one last heat wave this week, and then it cools down. I'd be looking to plant in late September/early October in our location. That gives them about 6 weeks to establish before frost.
