Planting Fruit Trees in Wicking Tubs Ep 38 

I have always admired True advise from elderly Folks. This man is a genius.

I always learn something new when I watch your videos.

Love the drip pipe idea

That's what I needed to hear and see. Going to grow some fruit trees this spring. Your enthusiasm is infectious. Thank you Leon.

I can watch your vedios all day long .. Loaded of knowledge. Press like and like the ring the bell straight away.. ❤❤❤❤ @Little Gold Kiwi

Great design Leon, thanks for sharing. However I found by adding 2" of stones at the bottom of the plastic containers, it helps the soil to dry out every month or so, which keeps the soil from getting sour. I use this idea on my concrete roof where I have trees growing in large plastic containers which I then put into larger concrete containers. The trees provide shade and make for a beautiful garden setting on my roof. I live in the tropics in an area that doesn't rain that often but when it does it pours. I needed away to capture the rain in a low maintenance and mosquito proof way. Now if there is a big rain the water is stored in the plant containers instead of washing away or going into under pot platters that would allow for mosquitoes to breed. I also use a piece of clear plastic tubing to stick in the pvc pipe to check the water level by covering the top with my finger like a straw and pulling it up. God bless...

Thank you very much I am slowly converting all my plants even house plants into this system. Being a 58yr old single income family your system allows me to keep working and prepare for retierment in a manner that even in a wheel chair food is avalible without transportation issues to the store (🙋hi Hank) plus allowing more funds into the cost of utilities and medicle needs. I'm grateful for your willingness to freely share your life saving knowledge on you tube so both the poverty and disabled can enjoy there struggle to servive = a true blessing from above deliverd to all man kind THANK YOU for being a good steward

I am a recent addition to the group of admirers of this gentleman and very much appreciate his wisdom and advice. His low key but no-nonsense approach is what has endeared him to me me. Gardening enthusiasts like me who are still learning, and he is teaching us without making us feel like dummies. Thank you, Sir.

Brilliant video very good job guy

You sir are AWESOME ! THANK YOU for making the time to break it down so that even a blind man could learn from you. Many wouldn’t make the extra effort to educate but you did !!! Any idea at what point in the growth where they must be transplanted due to becoming root bound ?

Thank you God, I could listen to a country accent all day long, as luscious as any Irish/Scottish sing song.

Thank you for the video!

we need to listen to are Elders. There experience is valuable when it comes to growing food. Tricks of the trade. 1/4 acre with a house can feed a family of 4 to 6 with only containers and cheap

Great video. Answered a few of my questions. Thank you for being so generous with your knowledge. May the Lord bless you and yours.

I have always enjoyed your videos I can always learn something

This is so great. Your time was NOT wasted thank you.

Great video Mr. Leon. Thank you so much. I am going to grow some plumb trees now in a few wicking containers

I bet ole Leon could grow some badass MARIJUANA

God Bless you Leon, and thank you for sharing your amazing knowledge with us. You are truly brilliant. THAK YOU From Melbourne, Australia 😊

Thank you Leon

What a genius system! 👍 This is going to fix everything that's wrong with my container plants except the grasshoppers! 😊 Thank you so much! 💜💛💚💙💜💛💚💙

👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍❣ I've been using method number two for 20 years now and it works wonderfully I've started lots of apple trees and actually been growing pineapples in Southwestern Colorado pineapples take about four years though before they start producing and I only have five one that's produced and the other four from plantings from the mother plant mother looks like she's about to produce again . I always use the standpipe but I use wash stone instead of laying pipe in the bottom . I used the yard cloth only because I was given a few free rolls before that I use cardboard with no print and or straw works very well . I use clay and concrete pots , plastic and Metal watering troughs . The pot or trough I am growing in I make sure is well-ventilated from the sides as well as the bottom but has good support . 2 to 6 holes on the sides depending on the size of the pot and one good hole in the bottom in the middle is enough . My property is pretty much all clay so outside I dig a hole to set my trough or pot in leaving a good trench all the way around it . then the trench gets filled with cedar mulch . if I were in Porous ground I would definitely use a liner . inside everything's in a pot in a shallow trough or tub . I put the pot in the tub put the stone in the pot . then around it in the tub , doesn't need but two inches thick and inside the pot 3 to 4 . The very first time I actually did this with a raised bed over a bed of stone 4 in deep 8 in in the ground . It was 10 ft long 4 ft wide 3 ft tall with two and a half feet of my composted soil . the sharing of peace light loving gratitude and pH balance give equalizing freedom !!!!!!!!9 HHBpHhelps Henry

Leon Your self-watering containers rock! I made some this summer. They are great!! I have made many others made differently but won’t come close to yours! Thanks Leon! Love them!!

LEON!!! YOU ARE A GENIUS!!! LOVE YOUR VIDEOS.👍🌻 I FIRST SAW YOU ON ( ARMS FAMIL HOMESTEAD ). 👍🤗🌱

I love watching this guy I feel like my neighborhood grampa is schoolin' us in the best way

Thank you Mr.Leon I enjoyed the video God Bless

Truly appreciate these great videos. Thank you!

Thanks Leon, i bought 4 fruit trees and will use this method to plant them. Keep making these great videos you are helping lots of people.

Now I have to start saving me some milk juggs..thanks for this super informative video!!

I’ve never learned so much about gardening love this guy

I love your videos Leon! Thanks so much-

I love your videos! Thank you so much.

Super idea and wonderfully illustrated, Thanks I look forward for more updates.

Great idea Mr. Leon on the fruit trees. How about fertilizer schedule for them?

Love this video! So much useful information. Leon I hope you know how thankful to God we are for you. You're helping so many folks with your knowledge to succeed in growing food where they have had failures. We pray for continued blesses on you. ❤🙏😊

Great info 🤟🏼

Blessings to you SIR, JUST Found this video/ site , learning so Much.. THANK YOU FOR Knowledge , Way of Farming in America today.

Thank you so much for explaining about the size of the holes in the milk jugs. Also, thank you for sharing your knowledge. It is much appreciated!

Thank you Leon for your knowledge.. 👍

Thank you sir, a great demonstration video!

Thanks Leon your amazing I learned so much

I guess this is the best video !:)clearly I understand now how to do this proces -evean English is not my first language 👍I will be try this method in my small garden ,Thank you very much,all the best wishes

This is perfect. I found some little fruit trees on clearance and had no idea how I was going to pot them 😂 thank you!

That is a great way to plant fruit trees ❤️👍nice

I have been using wicking method in my pots for Year's. I like the refreshing course that I have been getting from your site. It really does work, my part of Kentucky has been in a drought. Thank goodness for the wicking planters. I enjoy your videos Leon

If you want grow your trees larger and Fuller, you need very heavy buckets, For this you will fill the buckets halfway with large gravel top with 3" sand, top this with dead matter like fish and chicken gut scraps, chicken poop horse manure ect. Add some enzymes and mis well with sand. Now bury your tree in soil to the top. Now drill one pencil size hole we're you want the water table in the bucket to maintain. Drill 2 - 2" holes 6 " apart across from each other 4" down from the rim. Get some 2" rope, cut in 1' lengths, put ends of rope in hole, splay ends of rope over itself and tightly wrap with bailing wire to form your knots on the inside of the buckets. Now you have self moisturising pots with good base material for tape root growth good spread root propagation and proper weight to keep it from blowing over. Handles to move it around or draft g it. all plants and trees need a ground connection, for this you will need to put a copper pipe in with the plant from bottom to surface of container and a solid copper wire running to a copper pipe 3' in the ground beside the bucket. Do one this way And one with no ground connection to see the difference it really makes in growth and health of the fruit. Water, nutrients and sunshine are fine and good, but with out connection to the mother's source of energy all things suffer to grow and strive. Bath naked in the morning glow and walk bare footed some times. You'll feel better than you do already. If my advice helps you. Keep your dollar I don't need COMPINSATION for helping you.

In a colder climate, water at the bottom of a wicking bucket will freeze solid during winter months and destroy the bucket.

Thank you for all your information and a very good video.

Thank you for the explanation, especially about the fill pipes, really need it, thanks again from Perth western Australia.

Although I am English and so was my Dad, you remind me of him, accent slightly different tho. Thank you Leon.

Thats Genius!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Thank You!!!

I am new to your videos. I am wanting to do container gardening and I am going to try to do what you are teaching. I live in Tulsa and am going to visit your place when I can. Thank you so much for all of your good information.

Thanks, I was really confused about that. Appreciate the time put into these videos.

Love you Leon 🌷🌷🌷

Hello first saw you on Arms Family Homestead's Utube channel.These tubs are a great idea thanks for showing the different ways of making them.Keep up the good works.Blessing's to you and your Family.Pia&Honey kitty in California.

Thank you for the info and patience showing us how to do this and with great detail, I might add! From here I can go straight into the nursery and get everything I need...

so happy to learn this I am ready to plant my trees but I guess I have to wait for the spring.

I love this idea. Thank you.

these videos are great and I really appreciate the knowledge and experience you share. thanks for taking the time to make these, I have really learned a lot from your channel.

Thank you for sharing your wisdom.

I am so glad i found out about this channel! I heard about you from Arms family Homestead!

another great video Leon. Thanks From NH .Bill

Great idea! It might be better to put the fill pipe (white plumbing), on the other side of the container as your drain hole. That will make sure the whole bottom is full of water.

Awesome! Glad you made this, I had no idea I could have trees on my porch!! I’ll be calling you for tubs!! Thanks Leon!

Thank you for this explanation. I was one of the ones wondering why no fabric. Totally understand this now. Appreciate your explaining this. Great video!

Now that is thej explanation that I now understand. You dont need to answer my questions left on other videos because this one explains it exactly.

You remind me of my dad. He was head strong when it came to growing fruits and veg.

Thanks Mr Leon, after watching your videos I went and brought 2 fig trees.

Great video great information please continue to post thank you!

I swear I think you have to be related to my grandfather who was from Okla., too! You look a whole lot like him~he was such a good man, too!!

Love the channel mr Leon! Cheerz

Great video! I wanted a few fruit trees on my deck. This will be a great spring project. Thanks for sharing.

Thank you!

You are so wonderful to share all this valuable information. Thank you,.

Shout out to blind Frank down in Texas , peace brother..... shame you won't see this Frank but you might be able feel the british love son

This is a great way to re-use that damn plastic, gonna do a couple thanks Leo!

for all us blind folks like hank =manythxs-leon-blessings cool share

I just wanted to say thankyou so much for sharing this in important information. My green thumb is aching to get started doing this in hot barren nevada. I think this is the only way things will grow in nevada. I really appreciate your educating me.

Thank you once again for the information. I'm sure this will help many do better.

Thank you Leon for sharing your vast knowledge of gardening and growing of our own fresh produce. One question, what types and varieties of fruit trees do the best in the wicking tubs? Keep up the awesome work you do!!!!

Thank you for taking time to do this.

Sending love to you Leon! Thank you

Thank you

Very good to watch. Suggestion: I would use gaffer tape to secure the white pipe to the inside of the pot.

thank you

Thank you brother, God bless!

A question about the milk jug-soda bottle tub: the water filling tube is connected to just 1 milk jug -- how long does it take to fill the system up with water, given that the water has to diffuse from the single jug to all 7 other milk jugs + soda bottles? It seems that it would take hours to diffuse to all the bottles-jugs, does the system need to be checked and topped off several times each fill-up? And how can you tell if the overflow hole is spilling because the water has not diffused to into all the jugs-bottles or if the system is really full?

I did a calamansi tree in one this spring. Thriving!

Thank You Leon for sharing.

Most comprehensive self watering bucket video you have done. Very nice. Hope everyone watches it.

Good video thanks for sharing

Thanks for the info.

Leon, you're my favorite

When I was a child in the 1940s in Oklahoma I also wore those Striped Overalls. The Chest Pocket which he uses for pencils was Great for CELL PHONES (if you had one).

Wow

thank you leon! you da man.

Very Interesting Video. I'm going to try this. Thanks so much. I shared your video, and I'm a new Subscriber.

Very interesting mr. Leon

Thanks for your wisdom!

How long can a tree remain in the original bucket ?