Grow Trees & Produce Fruits QUICKEST || The modified BLUEPRINT METHOD || Ellen White Way 

Thank you for making this video with very detailed step-by-step simplistic instructions for planting a fruit tree with the Ellen White method. I'm so glad I stumbled on this video! 👍😊

One thing i discovered over the years is that if you dig a little bit and pour a bucket of water and let it for a few hours, the dirt gets softer and efforts digging will be way more productive, thank you for this video 🙏

After many years of many years of planting trees the best advice I can give: 1/ strip the sod, dig the hole and put the sod upside down in the bottom of the hole before planting the tree. 2 / plant the crown above the ground level. Soil always settles significantly when plants are watered in a new hole. If you don't do this the crown will settle in lower than is healthy. You can always add soil if planted to high but if planted to low the tree can be killed by stem rot. In the diagram at 5:08 I would say the plant is planted too deep.

I like how the young men are helping.. so much energy and they actually look like they are enjoying helping out.

Thorough video, thanks! Generally speaking, most people now dig square holes as it encourages the roots to push out at the corners. Otherwise you risk roots growing in circles, as in a pot, if your deeper substrate is particularly hard. Roots grow in the path of least resistance.

One of the best fruit tree planting videos I've seen. Your orchard is beautiful!!

Well done. I have been saving the Ellen White method for my future grow. Thanks for the step by step. Great teaching, zero ego. Appreciated.

That was awesome I loved every moment of it especially when you had the children helping 😀 ❤ so informative. Thanks for sharing this I am ready to start digging.

Excellent educational discussions and helpful diagrams. I have used modified methods similar to this in the past with great success ! Most appreciated. Regards.

You guys did a great job presenting this method.

This is the one of the best video I ever watched.

Very industrious and energetic kid!

This is the best video. Very clear and detailed. Thank you.

Thank you for the great explanation & demonstration of the Ellen White Method of planting trees. I suggest putting the top soil in buckets, wheel barrows or on a sheet of plywood to keep it separate from the deeper dirt and to make it easier to replace in the top of the hole. 10/05/2021

I love your little helpers 😀. I will try this.

Salamat Marie! Really appreciate you and your family's efforts in documenting and sharing this method.

This was very educational. This was a prime example that if you’re going do it, do it right. By the way, your property looks very beautiful. Thank you.

I was skeptical when I learned this method. However I decided to try it on one of my banana tree as an experiment. Actually I planted 3 banana plants, only one of them using this method to make a comparison. Also I modified this method and added some good fungi in the mixture (trichoderma) as a bio control agent also as an experiment. From what I read on some scientific acrticles from the internet, the trichoderma fungi suppose to protect the plant from bad fungis like fusarium, verticillium and etc.. not really sure about this, so I just give it a try:) After observing about a few months, I was blown away by the growth and performance of the Banana tree planted using this method vs the others using conventional method. My guess the air pocket creates aerobic environment for the good microbes and fungi to flourish under the tree thus resulting in excellent growth rate and healthy tree.

a very well done video as well illustrated as didactic. Thank you, keep going !

This is the best explanation of the EGW method I've found. Thanks!

This wonderful view for picture for plan

I truly appreciate this video. Thank you for sharing.

Thank you very much for sharing! You have explained with details

Well done looks like alot of work.....nice to see the kids so involved.

Thank you for this vid, 1 of the best most concise videos when it comes to planting fruit trees😊

Awesome way to use those kids energy..and making them stronger and ready for hard life... Better than public school... mucho better

Thank God for His wonderful science. Thanks for sharing 😊🙏

Great info! Your orchard looks awesome!

It is very effective, even if we only use the available local materials! Thanks for inspiring again.

marie, you kids are very precious! i love their enthusiasm!!:) You are a whiz! i have many many trees to replant, and am very excited about using your method. thank you my friend! valerie michigan

What a clear and precise and complete exposition. One of the best tutorials I have ever seen on Utube. You guys are teachers as well as orchardists. Thanks, enjoy that well earned fruit.

Wow, Beautiful Upload friend. keep it up. Thank you for sharing this to us. Greetings from Korea

U guys are awesome so clear in your explanation may God bless u all ….by the way your boys are so cute helping out

Huh, I like how detailed this is. Very well explained. You earned a sub

A lot of people are complaining about the plastic pipe. When this method originated many years ago they used clay pipe for the cavity. I was told the reason for it was that it would hold water but nowadays they are saying it's to help aerobic organisms thrive and cause the compost to decay faster. I don't know but it doesn't hurt to do it and it might be something to it being beneficial.

Thank you for your great coverage priceless education simply awesome 👍🏿🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾🌹

Your video was very helpful. I liked that you gave us so much detail. ThNks!!

Thank you for this sis, I have become more interested in the method ❤

Superbly explained. Thank you very much

I Thank You for the video guide to a successful planting of fruit and probably any tree !!!

Sana all Tess! You're so resourceful. Dia nang visit ko. I guess I need to try this here in the Philippines. Wow Ellen White method pa giod. Gotta do this in the island.

Thank you for a great video. Very informative. God bless you and your family.

Love the kids helping

I just think it's awesome that your kids are actually interested in hard work outside!

Thanks for that information regarding the explanation of the layers

What, no biochar? Tip for digging on hard ground: fill the hole with water and let it soak for a few hours at least, that will soften it a lot. Also to fill the finished hole with water, preferably overnight, before planting. A little watering after each layer... In Mexico they add some sprouted corn, for growth enzymes I think. Will try that someday

Very good information, thanks 😊

Hi from Melbourne Australia my husband done this as well sister White method. Its amazing! my dwarf lemon tree the fruits are unbelievable! wish i can share photos of them here. God Bless you.

thanks. learn a lot.

Excellent narration. Good video

thank you. clear and precise. your kids are great helpers. namastè

The rocks aren't 'for minerals', they create a membrane between the richj compost layer and the soil above, which have different electrical properties. This creates a battery-like effect that does something that I don't fully understand.

Looking fantastic Fantastic and lovely presentation Friend obrigado friend lovely presentation Friend obrigado

Amen sister

Good job guys 👍👍👍👍👍👍❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️

Good guidence. Tq for sharing.

I have a guess as for why dry climates would use gypsum and warm ones would use dolomite: Gypsum is water-soluble, while dolomite is not. But both will dissolve in acidic water. You might be able to use chalk/lime instead of gypsum if you want. Fun fact: Most of the "blackboard chalk" you've used was *actually* gypsum. Another fun fact: Marble is metamorphosed calcite (like chalk and lime), and has the same "dissolves in acidic water" problem that calcite does, though it takes longer.

Very tiresome process but very good exercise. Good job guys! Thanks for sharing sis

This method is great… I can see burying some logs under the ground as well… 🐸

Thank you for this video is really inspiring

Something I do with citrus skins, blend them unto a slush in a blender. they compost MUCH faster. If you don't, they will be around for what seems like decades lol.

We planted 8 fruit trees last month and it's very hot. Yes it's a lot of work that's why it takes time for us to haul all the soil and other ingredients 😀. We still have 5 more to plant and hopefully our trees survive in this heat. It looks like our trees are so stress that all the leaves died in 100 degrees temperature. You have a beautiful orchard there. Thank you for sharing. I am from Philippines too but live in US. Hopefully EGW method of planting will work for us after all.

Good job 👏💐👍👍👍

Excellent video, thank you

at 23:05 you mention planting at the ideal time of year. I took the advice of Jim Putnam (I think that is his name) here on RU-vid and he said you can plant trees in the hottest months of the year but you have to prune the terminal buds on all of the new growth. I did that for two peach trees I planted in July on two different properties and both of them did awesome. The idea behind it is the new growth is what demands the most energy from the roots so you stop that demand and let the roots catch up. While the roots rebound, new buds form on the branches and by the time those grow the roots are ready to handle the demand.

nice nice, i'll give this a go

Tess, ka daghan ug likes ani nga wonderful video. He he. Wow very resourceful! Te Jing ni, he he.

Excellent 🧐🧐🧐🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾well documented 🧐 I love this part of gardening I would add some azomite as you set..the tree 🧐and a pinch of seaweed and fish emulation this would be my icing on the cake 🍰🎂🎂👍🏿👍🏿

Thank you for sharing the information

Nice 👍🏻 video. Poor guy he looks tired 😪

Wow! Nakakabilib naman kau insan..

Inspiring.

A small tip for digging deeply into a relatively small hole... use a post-hole digger. I plan on planting some trees and will be using this method. Thank you

Proven and effective.

thank you excellent greetings from Panama

beautifully explained

Wow nice good job

I wish I had easy access to these things, for I live in the city. I like the video because it’s easy to follow. I will be referring back to it when I am ready to plant. It won’t be an orchard though😅

Thank you for sharing

What I would do different is measure the tree root ball confirm where the graft was so that’s not buried when you fill the hole. Measure the depth so you know exactly how the center should be left alone and dig around that center like a tower which the tree will sit on so when the soil settles over the next year or so, the tree won’t move leave 12” center. Also remove all the grass in a 4 foot circle around the center so the roots of the tree aren’t fighting for the nutrition that the grass is trying to take up.

Thanks for this video, the explanation is great! I was wondering if you can use the clay dirt from the bottom of the hole and amend it?

great. job. maranatha!!!!

Thanks for shareing

Love the Content .. Mostly Love the Family Dynamic 💞

I live in upstate New York and I have several clients whose trees are not doing well, fruit trees that is, I think this is the reason why they’re not doing well they weren’t planted well to begin with.

This is a wonderful explanation of the Ellen White planting method, thank you for posting it. What part of Maine are you in? My daughter-in-law is from Maine!

Thank you!

The video is quite interesting and I congratulate for the efforts. If I may add my two bits worth as an agronomist, I would say that the blueprint, not bad to give an all around idea but being quite generalized, need to be modified/adapted to the area you live in (weather condition/erosion/soil texture etccc) and the plants you’re going to plant, since the structure of their roots apparatus will change greatly and so it will their need for minerals, support and expansion. Beside that even considering where the underground water will run (presence of springs and such)! which kind of plant has been there before and a test of the dirt itself. That will consequently affect the layers we may decide to put into our hole; The hole we have prepared for the tree is a great help as a starter for its growth, but if the other condition are poor and miscalculated for the real need of the plant we may find ourselves facing a lush growth in the first years and then a phase of stalling for the years to come. Simply meaning the plant may not give its full potential. Not to be picky, and definitely even simply planning to layer a hole is way more than 99% of people would do, but since the topic was about growing trees quickly I told to write down this quick reminder. :) Nice channel

AAAGGGLLL- I was in the middle of a response thanking you for this video. Microsoft interrupted me, trying to sell me what I don't want. It wiped out everything I had typed! Quick summary, I didn't know how important the rocks are. I have clay and lots of rocks. In one area of my yard, is all rocks, cemented with clay- takes me a day to dig a decent hole with a shovel, trowel, and a 40 lb. iron crowbar to pry the rocks loose. I discarded the rocks to a back yard wall to level the back yard. Filled the hole with mix of compost, original soil and (upper layers, decomposed leaf mulch). It never occurred to me to add worms. Last Year I made a compost pile that never got hot. Couldn't figure out why. I looked at it April this year and it was full of huge worms! I'm in zone 7A, southern NY. I start planting lettuce, radishes, onions, & root veg's, carrots, turnips, beets Feb. 1. It's May, I now have incredible harvest of lettuce, scallions & radishes! End of April I have my tomatoes trans-planted. now working on peppers.

1 change. Add a piece of PVC wen doin all this. Then u can water from the bottom & encourage the roots to grow down. Will help speed up growth also. You would still have to do some surface watering until the tree gets established. If u live in a dryer climate this can help also by getn the roots deeper faster where the water is. Just pour the water in the pipe & the roots will follow the water down. Happy planting

You are fortunate to live in a place where holes can be dug so easily. Here in NE VT we have more rock than dirt. It requires blasting to dig a hole in ledge. We have worked around it.

Thank you

6:41 it is best practice to dig a square hole especially if you have machinery, the square hole enables the roots to find corners, But if you have no choice, then to dig by hand, the round hole will do just fine .. Especially with this method of blending materials, along with man-made parts to encourage faster growth

Great video. Glad to watch that you are involving kids in planting trees. “Children learn what they live” - without a doubt they will be planting trees to fulfill their part in saying thanks to Mother Nature. Thanks for sharing your video.

Everyone says not to bury the grafting area of the tree where it meets the root stock or you will get unwanted growth from the stump causing the tree to grow at a different rate then the root stock. Do you bury your grafting area and if so do you see any ill affects? Thanks this is the first video that I’ve seen where results are shown years later! Great work!

All the photos of mulch are volcano mulched. I suggest maybe revising that. The volcano mulch doesn’t allow the root flare to breath and invites borers to attack the trunk.

nice

I have a huge untouched forest behind my house and i scrape all the surface material and add it to compost. So its all micro rhizomes, black live topsoil, dirt, and decaying material. Makes the best planting material for all my fruit trees. I dig out a huge hole then fill it up.

just make sure you don’t do it in clay soil because the hole becomes a water trap and will kill pretty much everything you plant in it

it is good.