YIKES!!!!! Everyone else on YT...now, cut about 25% at a 34-degree angle after the summer solstice close to 8 pm at night. Meanwhile... crank up the hedge trimmer/chain saw. Love this guy, this is how we trim fruit trees in Thailand as well. Cut it..it'll grow back in spite of us. A+ for this video!!!!
It's funny, I'll spend hours pruning my trees deciding which parts to cut and which to leave. I get some fruit but not an overwhelming amount. This gentleman took hedgetrimmers to his tree and had bountiful amounts of fruit!
Oh, but didn’t you notice how he carefully maneuvered the hedge trimmer so as to make each cut about 1/4” above an outward facing bud? Yeah, me neither, lol.
Thank you for this video! What a beautiful orchard! Those plums look delicious! Well said: "How many fruits do you need as a home orchard?" 14 trees have been packed into our 1,000 sq/ft garden and plan to add 4 more in Spring. And you guess it: there are plums and pluots! :)
This orchard is amazing!!! Definitely love the idea of having trees that are a height that is accessible and the bird netting and tips for rats it was all fantastic. Thanks for sharing.
Good advice to keep the trees smaller as we only get older. :). Dennis looks healthy and fit for being older. I like that he is growing Gravenstein apples. Keeping the variety live in No Cal. His property is beautiful.
Just found this video. So great to see how it is possible to successfully grow small fruit trees. I would love if you could do a new tour showing where you pruned from the very beginning. Where were initial cuts for the first year or two.
Love your passion for gardening. Important point which you shared is to keep the height of trees less than 06 feet so that you may not facing problem while harvesting especially WHEN YOU ARE OLDER CROSSING 70.
Interesting concept .I come from a commercial side large orchard and I have down sized a lot . Like yourself I also like short trees 5 to 10 ft is my speed.
This video been extremely helpful for me. I have the same size land and thinking about planting 100-200 orange trees. My neighbor keep feeding the deer and I been trying to come up with ways to combat the deer. They will destroy everything in a single night.
When the master wants to top a tree, he reaches for a chainsaw. Gotta respect that. The productivity speaks for itself. (I see now that it is a gas-powered hedge trimmer. My new weapon of choice in the coming zombie apocalypse.)
I did, but I never thought of hedge trimming first for a uniform height, or of wrapping the netting around the trunk to keep mammals out! Startlingly new ideas.
i totally understand why you chop all the up-going shoots, but personally I like to let my trees attain full height (dwarf or semi-dwarf, so 10-15ft mostly), with a lot of accessible fruiting branches at around shoulder height. I will often clip off juvenile fruit on the upper part of the tree, and then the lower fruit which i intend to ripen, I will bag individually. If I want more yield, I may get out the orchard ladder and bag more fruit higher up, but other times I will just let them go. as you said, how much fruit do you really need? I've found that an orchard ladder is so wide and stable, that i have no problem using it. in fact, it's kind of fun. I also feel like the trees are a bit healthier and more productive if they aren't wasting energy into producing shoots that are doomed to be cut. but i can see if you are older, and/or have limited space, you may not want to be hauling an orchard ladder around your trees.
I have been looking for a video like yours for years. I know that this is what I want to do with my trees I have dwarfs and almost sent me to us and they are 20 ft tall I always want to bring them down but there was no videos that will confirm that it could be done.
I hope to live long enough to eat my fruits i have about 20 fruit trees everyone thinks im crazy laughs at me but sure enough some of the trees already got good fruits from it. Evidently a family member just brought a thief over n stole a few of my fruits!
