I have 6+ acres ... I am land drunk and my land is mostly on a rocky slope with MOSTLY trees as I'm on the westside of the Rockies in Beautiful BC. I came from the east side of the Rockies 5 years ago and am in love with the peacefulness here. Thank you for the tutorial!!! I have established (maybe even too old) apples (3 maybe 4 kinds), cherry, plum, red current, Saskatoon and Choke cherry and I'm interested in propagating EVERYTHING
@@HomesteadingOffTheGrid Thank you so much -- yes I was meant to be here. I have family on 10 acres just 1 km up the road ... they call this 'God's country' :)
I would love to hear how these trees are doing! Did you do this with a wild variety of apples? Do you think that having different genetics from a rootstock and scion is unnessecary, or are you just trying to save money and hoping your apples still produce well? I'm leaning towards buying rootstock for it's proven productivity, hardiness, and easy maintenance (only a couple bucks each). We have so many favourite fruits that we want to graft on from friend's orchards!
HeLLO !!! ~~ Thank You So Much for this ❕❕❕❕❕❕❕Your thumbnail photo shows 3 jars 🫙 with apple branch prunings ~ Mine look like this too,, ~ Do I take all/most of the buds off the stalks ? 🍏 🌱🌿☘️🌱☘️🌱☘️🌱🌱🌱🌱🍏🍏🍏
Good on you for using the land in a positive productive way. I tuned in today to learn how to root apple trees from soft wood cuttings. I have a golden delicious in the front yard that I planted from a whip 17 years ago. I found it growing wild alongside an established tree that shouldnt have been where it was. I've cut it back HARD to 4' high with no vegetation 2 times since and it just keeps coming back. My neighbor has an established red delicious tree, I'm going to cut my tree back hard again and graft some of his RD stock onto my tree.
Great video your right about the rooting hormones. There might be several different factors I wether it might or might not work completely separate from the product itself. I've seen ladies in the Philippines just stick sticks in the ground and 4-5 months later have beautiful little new trees growing
Curious to ask what's in the deer repellant that makes it work? And how did the row of cuttings with hormone compare to those that sprouted without hormone turn out at the end?
Fantastic! I have a very old apple tree probably 24 inche trunk that is half dead. The will to live in this tree is incredible! However it is going to fall over soon so I want to take cuttings and grow new ones😊!! Thanks for the advice I'll keep you posted on the progress
Thank you, awesome knowledge shared. I'm across the river from Leesburg, VA in Adamstown Md 43 acres of God's country with a lot of pet deer. I'm going to try the cuttings with a different natural root stimulant and use your Deer deterrent spray idea is what i needed to hear, better than the wire hoops all through the woods for now but i think the wire hoops will be needed eventually to help the survival rate of the plantings. Blessings to you and yours. Jimbo
Good Day from Canada on the west side of Lake Superior. How old are the trees you took the cuttings FROM ? Did you buy them as trees from a nursery or did you get cuttings from someones trees and start the larger ones the same as you did in this video? If so how long then until they grew that big? Thanks I hope this comment was easy to understand.
I have tried and tried to grow things and they usually die after I transpLANt them. Can you give me a few points on how to prevent this transport shock.. They just turn brown and die. 😥😥😥😥😥😥
I have some scion I cut off a honeyscrisp tree to get it to fit in a tube. How can I store my branches in the winter to plant in spring? Located in Maine
I was going to say a month later the trees grew that much and then the grass having negative allelopathy. Sounds like the nitrates are skyrocket and are going to kill the trees from stress.
I'm kinda wondering about that also. Did any of the cuttings survive? Also wondering about quality of fruit. Will it be similar to what was on the parent tree.
When your planting those cuttings what’s your weather? I’m in Australia and now we are winter, I have a lot of cuttings from my orchard, I’m rooting them to my greenhouse but I want also to try what your doing.
In moderate CA cemtral coast valley, when pruning, plant long, strong whips. Poke a hole in the ground 10-12" with a rod/long screwdriver. Insert the whip 8" or more. Keep moist and it will root. (10? years later, 5-6 foot tree, still no flowers/apples.)
What is the status of the new trees that you have planted? I’m trying to do something like that on my 6 acre plot also I would like to know what you are doing looking like what I would like to do
I have a lot of cuttings that I planted on a sand, on a perlite mix with vermiculite and potting mix. How long before it roots and pls explain to me, after it roots I will plant them like what your doing is that enough as my fruit tree? I have hundreds planted now because after I prune my orchard I soak all my cuttings. I have still some soak on a water, cherries, apples, peaches, pears, apricot, nectarine and persimmon. I’m preparing my soil to plant them to build a bigger orchard. Is that right they can be my new fruit trees by just those cuttings?
Yes, you can grow new trees just from the cuttings. I took cuttings of my peach tree (maybe a month ago) and only one cutting survived, but it has nice roots on it now.
I’ve heard it works really well to plant them in the fall, as long as the ground isn’t frozen, and it roots overwinter and in early spring and is super strong next summer, fully rooted.
Actually he is taking cuttings most likely from a grafted fruit tree the route stock is a separate tree altogether and has a heavy root system They will not grow as good as the parents
If using a rooting hormone probably best to make a hole first because by stabbing them in the soil all the hormone as a thin film will be on the surface
6 acres is plenty , If you want to make good money twice in your life and pass a dream on so one day a family member will make a million, Take 5 acres and plant High Cost Lumber trees , ,, Find out the spacing and plant in a line , In about 20 years they will be ready to log , , when logged plant new trees in between the old rows , 20 more years more money , By an acre or two of old farmland with fields , plant that as well , Pass that dream on to your kid , Inside of two generations They will make 1 million , by the 4th Double that ,
I am currently trying to root some apple cuttings without any rotting hormone. It's been 1 month and so far all remained green except of one. Weirdly enough I've became attached to those lil sticks. Anyways, I am looking up to see the next update!
Hang in there. It can take them months to root. We've fallen in love with our little sticks, too. Thanks for the comment, and keep us updated as to how yours are going, too.
@@HomesteadingOffTheGrid any update on your apple trees? I would love to know how they are doing. I'm starting my own orchard and would really like to know what method worked best for you!
Homesteading Off The Grid - love the vids bud... TX homestead here...I use well water and am having some failure...do you replace water on a schedule or just leave the original water?
no. leave the original, and not all of them will root. MOST of ours did not. It's a numbers game. We always get several failures, but enough to get growing the next trees. Just keep going, and thanks for the comment.
I have been planting fruit trees either from seed sprouts or from a nursery. I have two trees that are showing good fruit, one is a tangerine tree and the other is a star fruit tree. I also have a delicious loquat tree, but the squirrels beat me to it every year. This year I have to find a way to protect them. But I find that even with one major fruiting tree, I am buried in star fruits. I throw almost all of them onto the base of the tree for compost, and the squirrels will take a little. But I think about the trees I am planting, (papaya, mango, moringa, sapote, jujube, mulberry) and wonder what in the world I will do with all the fruit. I can certainly give it away to neighbors or take it to the local food banks, but that can make for a lot of work every summer/fall. I don't mean to sound ungrateful, but I can see how the delightful idea of having a fruit orchard can be a daunting experience if you don't sell fruit commercially. I think I may have to back off of my excitement!
Sir ... what's the bottle in the bottle? I have an apple tree that I seeded from apple seeds ... now it's 2 months old, how to treat it so that the apple tree grows healthy? What vitamins are needed for apple trees? would you please reply to my comments that I really need. thank you
I believe a more important detail is the source of the seed. Many fruiting trees are hybrids. That means their fruit qualities can be eliminated in the first, sexually propagated offspring (seed). Try planting the seed from fruit of your hybrid cucumbers and you will see it in the subsequent, inedible fruit. Best to not invest years in a fruit tree to see this. Instead, focus on asexual propagation vía cuttings as done in the video.
Any update on this? Did you have much success? I'm looking to take cuttings from some very old trees that I fear are nearing the end of their lives. Fortunately they still kick out plenty of new growth every year but the bark is falling off the main trunks
probably failed. It's not easy even when cuttings are grown in water first and roots are developed before tranferred to soil. If there were no roots after a month of being soaked in water, it's failed already
I am experimenting with collecting a "collage" of the local mosaic of trees in my neighborhood. Not using any rooting hormone but i might if the cuttings i took wilt away. Been spending weeks prepping my living soil. Love the advice! Thanks for the upload!
a tip for protecting young tree from rodants take 4 in dia. drain pipe corregated saw into about ten inchs its cheap for a ten or twelve ft sec just stand it on each plant its plastic so it can be reused
Cut big chunks of Coast or Irish Spring Bar Soap. It keeps away the deer. It contains lanolin. So the deer smell the lanolin and think a predator is killing deer in that area and stay away.
