Last year, I ordered from Starkbro's because I heard good thing about them. Plus the trees was on sale during April and May. They ship them at their own time. Once it's shipped, it came fairly fast considering they are from the Mid West and I'm from the West Coast. I ordered 4 pears and 2 apple trees. All woke during shipment. Once I got them, I soak them in the bucket of water. Then, plant them in the evening time. Plant them in partial shade or shade was provided during summer. All was professional prune, except for 1 tree. They cut into a third of the main trunk. It was their pruning mistake. One of the tree looked like a 1 year old instead of 2 year old tree. The caliber maybe 3/8 inch on the bottom, but the top was 1/3 size of a pencil. The smallest tree of the 6 trees. All are still alive the next year.
About 8 bare root fruit trees, all but the pear doing fine. Took the pear out, potted it, put in in my shed and cut the limbs way back to see if it wakes up instead of just dies. The 15 bare root roses way past bare root season heavily discounted at Walmart, 3 months past bare root. 10 okay, budding out in the soil. 5 put in pots and put in my shed out of direct summer sun to recover. One might not make it, other 4 should. One just put out its first bud. Pulling the pear out its problem became apparent. The roots were too aggressively cut back and cut short.
Maybe I got lucky? I got two bare root trees in February of this year, a sprite cherry plum and a delight cherry plum. As soon as I planted them, they started taking off. They look great and took this years extreme Arizona heat very well.
Thank you so much for this video. I just planted 4 bareroot trees today and will prune them back asap. I had no idea how these bareroot trees are mass harvested by commercial growers.
I searched for an informative video like this and there were none. Outstanding job! You answered every question I had as if you read my mind. Got a bare root Crabtree from Arbor tree. May need another to do this right. Thanks
Thank you. I finally found someone who knows what they are talking about. Im trying to save two bare root plum trees I bought on May 31st this year and Ive seen so many RU-vidrs telling people this n that, but even as a “Yearling” gardener I see mistakes they making or one said “I read somewhere to scratch the tree so lets try it”. :/. Omg that means she knows even less than I do. I already pruned one way down based on my instinct after verifying those parts were dead after the scratch test and now will lop down the others struggling. Luckily Im renting so collecting trees for next May/June when I buy my first house in MN (probably) with land. I’ve subscribed and have never donated the Thanks before, but your info is so spot on and literally will help me save these trees. When I gave a little mire money Ill donate again too. Gratefully, Christina
To be honest, Stark Bros prune their bare roots, so the customer doesn't have to. I got 2 peaches and an apricot from them end of March this year. All 3 are doing great here in GA. New growth and stuff. No shading, no special treatment. Maybe watered them an extra time during 2 weeks of no rain.
I really think it depends where you buy them. All of my fruit trees have been fruiting size, bare root, and supplied fruit first year. I dig a good planting hole, and I always use 2 ounces of mycorrhizae to the roots before planting, and also sprinkled in the planting hole. Last year I got a fig and is now providing fruit for the second time. Late frost took flowers from a peach I got but the tree is now 15ft, looks great, and is going through high temps here in FL. I use Willis Orchard.
I'm glad you wrote this comment! I just discoverer Willis Orchards & have been contemplating putting a large order in with them. I have a small flower & vegetable farm & in wanting to increase my fruit production. Yes it depends on the company that ships, & if you keep itlwell watered after, & got big of a tap root that it had/how damaged it was.
@CraftEccentricity There is only DWN that's left that grows bare root trees. Most nurseries buy from them and resell to the public. Doesn't matter where you get them, just ensure to prune them back when you plant them as Alex said to give them the best chance at surviving. I've purchased several DWN bare root trees from different nurseries some online and some local. They have fruited the very next season. Water them plenty right at the root ball. DWN uses citation root stock for most of its stone fruit which is not drought tolerant at all. Watering is everything. Best to avoid planting in summer unless you can shade them.
I purchased a Kousa dogwood sapling last year and planted it in March 2022. It leafed out normally last year, but this year there were no leaves except near the graft scion near the bottom of the trunk. The branches still seem pliable and the flesh is white-colored underneath the cambium. You are the first person I have seen to suggest a remedy like this to save a dying tree. I plan to prune it like you did yours in this video. Also, over the past year, I have given it liquid organic fertilizer. This has been a very helpful video! Thank you! 👍
This is the best explanation of what a bareroot tree is and what happens to it after it's been yanked out of the ground, not to mention it's so important to prune it back. I don't think I will ever buy a bare root tree again! Thank you!
Great video , good advice as hard as it is to chop your tree in half it’s the only way . I have tried both ways and the trees I didn’t cut always die or struggle for years before they take off
Yep, I got tired of seeing all the hype about bareroots. Especially seeing all these "TM (trademark)" varieties that literally taste the same as common varieties just to justify their prices.
I work in a commercial orchard and we grow our own stock. Dig them dormant and try to transplant in the fall. Weather doesn't always allow planting so they stay bare root in the cooler. We dig and plant hundreds of thousands of fruit trees a year. We have very few fatalities. Its best not to prune before winter as you are opening up wounds allowing infection. Wait to cut back after buds are pushing. Potted trees are rootbound and never push like a bare root tree planted properly
Potted trees does push, if not better than the bare root trees. The trick is to break the roots up if they are root bound. It may take more time for them to get use to their new location than the bare root trees. Once they start pushing, it's faster. They are faster because all their leaves and roots are there. The leaves provide energy to the root. The root provide nutrient and water to the leaves and branches.
This video truly helped me to understand what is happening to my Amling pecan tree that I planted nearly a couple of years ago, as a bareroot specimen. This year, despite producing some foliage last year, it produced none! I thought it was dead. But, I scratched the bark to see if the cambium layer was still green, and to my amazement it was! Based on the info I gained from this video, I surmise that my bareroot Amling pecan tree is suffering from root damage and is going through a recovery stage. So, with the spring season temperatures hanging in the mid to upper 90s in my area, I will be shielding the bark from those harsh solar rays while it develop a better root structure. I plan on providing an update on my efforts... Thanks for the awesome insight!
One fruit tree whose type I forgot as it was planted 5 years ago just lingered and barely made it through each summer. I almost threw it out last year. This spring, it finally decided it was a tree and put out new branches. One leader is over a foot. Several others close to that. In all past years it just leafed out with no noticeable new branching, or maybe an inch or so.
I pulled a mullberry out of a clients yard and wrapped the roots in a garbage bag and threw in some water, it’s now growing in my front yard. Free tree babeeee
Stark bros prunes there trees back I got two apples last year and exploded and I just but a plum and peach one i just planted today. I've had worse luck with home Depot trees in containers tbh. But I learned allot about bare root trees here I didn't know before
I planted a bare root cherry tree yesturday. The root system had heavy pruning. Yes it did cost a lot. The tree was from one of the best and oldest suppliers. The "legal fine print" was restrictive, according to them I can never re-sell the tree, so if I move I guess I have to take the tree. Otherwise they might hunt me down and take me to court. They even have their own "patented version" of heirloom varities. I also find it interesting that every fruit tree has to have grafted root stock. A few years ago I bought a colorado blue spruce from a big box retailer at Christmas, in a container. It didn't live and when digging it up I noticed the roots had heavy pruning, to fit it in the container. So as pointed out in the video going either way can have issues. Frasier fir trees are another tree I have had no luck buying bare root, they just seem to live for a while, not grow, then die in about a year. It's human nature to buy the biggest tree, yet this might not be the best idea. It's routine for me to have a 100 percent sucess rate when starting seed, yet a lower percent of the bare root trees I plant survive.
I ordered three bare root muscadines last year and they struggled to grow. Two of them died. I planted them in the ground in direct sunlight per the instruction, but it was too much for these plants to handle. Now when I get bare root plants I put them in a pot, and I put them in a shaded area. I don't prune them or cut them back. I realized it was too much stress for them to handle. I just let them sit in the pots until they get healthy and aclimate to the weather. You are right bare root plants are sick and they must be cared back to health.
Love your videos man.. Ur like a Og Big bro who knows his trees. My first experience with bareroot were the lowes trees I even got em at a discount bought a bunch and potted em in 5-15 gal containers had to prune roots like u mentioned. Didn’t think of pruning canopy ,, I’d say 40% or em died on me. The rest did good because common sense told me they can’t take full sun. Grew em out all season in shade . This season they dormant alive and I’m getting ready to put em in ground! … the wait is real with bare root trees. .. gotta go sprinkle magic juice to make em grow faster 😂
I just got a bare root dwarf Fuji apple tree from Home Depot even though I swore off buying bareroot plants after I had wisteria, raspberry and hydrangea barefoots either never wake up or die shortly after waking up. I couldn't resist. However I also had a star fruit shipped to me last week and I did notice they already pruned back branches even thought it was in a pot. Waiting to see the conditions of the palmer mango I ordered but I never thought about pruning bare root trees before.
The ones that are at your local big box stores are almost always dead, because they sit there too long, at the incorrect temperature, with either not enough moisture or too much because the employees are not knowledgeable about how to care for them.
@@ElderandOakFarm both of my barefoot trees are still alive. One is struggling but that's only because a branch from the neighbors oak tree fell on it and bent it over a month after I planted it
I really like that you're very genuine very authentic and super down-to-earth so glad I found you I'm here in Southern California yes I do have quite a number of bare root trees and I did buy some that were in pods but I'm hoping cross my fingers that everything will be okay but if not then I do have my receipt from Home Depot and Lowe's and it looks like Lowe's will no longer be selling bareroots any longer from what I was told
Rob*. I have probably 85 trees. The rest vines, bushes, Cane's, etc. very diverse coloctection for zone 8a. In total I would say about 125 different varieties of fruits. Just got my first cold Hardy avocado the other day.
I can't tell you how many bare root fruit tree I received that has NO, NONE, ZERO NADA feeder roots. They come with 1 or 2 'main' roots that are chopped off after 4 inches or so. I don't think a single one that arrive that way take. I naturally NEVER use the nursery again. They ones that come with larger root masses usually do better. I don't understand why don't nurseries take better care. Sorry for the rant this well done video triggered me.
I bought 4 bare root trees last year in May 2022 they were trimmed( tyty nursery pruned before sending)when they arrived 3 (Cherryx2 & applex1)were 4-5 ft tall the jujube was 6-7 ft I immediately planted them they all died after growing leafs looking like they were going to survive, the jujube it had three leafs during the summer in fall they all fell it has gone threw our central Texas heat and our 4 day 17 degrees freeze on December I check the trunk often and it’s still green I dug the hole a lot deeper than it needed so it would not struggle to extend its roots. 300.00$ later I have nothing left from my trees the only surviving tree I thought maybe it was something I did wrong but this information makes sense to me as the roots are the heart of a plant. I order on line because many of the trees I order are not available here in San Antonio all the potted avocados that I’ve ordered are thriving it’s so disappointing to lose my much wanted trees. I was getting ready to order 4 more bare root trees from a different company to give it another chance but after this I will never order another bare root tree. Thank you for much needed educating information. My jujube has been in ground for 9 months now still green but just a bare 6-7 ft stick😢
May is a bit too late to plant trees. Stark Bros offer 1 year survival guarantee warranty on all their stuff. I've ordered bunch from them. Something is yet to die... 😂🤣
Don’t think it has anything to do with bare root trees. It’s either the company you got the trees from didn’t sell you healthy trees to begin with , or you either made a mistake during planting time, over watered or under watered , or like the commenter above stated, planted wrong time. Bare root trees need to be in ground before it starts to wake up.
My 8 bareroot trees are now cut back and in pots sitting in the shade. One of them was already drying out and had very little root. We'll see what happens to Miss Plum.
Yes u have a good point but trith is most nurserys not talking about yours wich u obviously now what ure douing buy bare root plant them a month or 2 and sell so same damage so most new plants just treat as a sick plant ast start specialy if re planting facts
@@qctropicalsNot if you buy it from say, your local home improvement center. If you have circling roots you have to do something about it before planting. A nursery is usually going to change pots out if needed. But the kids at the chain store won't. If the tree lingers the roots can become a mess affecting the health of the tree. May look good when you plant it then struggle. I realize your just speaking on your trees but most people just buy where they can.
So, trim them back to at LEAST 50% and more if you think the roots won't sustain 50%. I would have cut that peach tree another 8" - 10" and wrapped the cut end in parafilm. Rooted that sucker in the best dirt I had in a pot that would fit all the roots it has. And hope for the best. I hate bare root trees. Bare root little plants, yeah, OK, I can deal. But large trees, no way. No Dirt, No Sale to Salex. Thanks Alex for letting me know what I did wrong with my dead trees (and yeah, they were dead, the scratch test proved that down to the graft point). I just wish I would have seen this before I bought the stupid things.
I've had little bare roots shrubs never wake up on me. 5 gooseberries and 2 black currants. All my bare root 5' trees are doing well though. Maybe it's genetics? I do prefer potted plants though. even if it costs a bit more due to shipping. Gonna plant 5 pawpaws this fall. Can't wait!
@@fcuk_xI planted 9 pawpaw bare root this fall 3 were seedlings and 2 grafted and 4 about 3 feet tall and lost 1 seedling and 1 of the 3 foot tall ones it didn’t hardly have any roots when I received it, I didn’t think it would probably live but another one that I got the same day hardly had any roots it’s barely has a few leaves ordered 2 more from the same place and they came with a better root system.
seeing the machinery ripping up the trees like that makes me want to grow my own trees in the ground and dig them out nice and gently by hand and sell them with nice GIANT healthy fully intact roots😍lol, they would look SO good in comparison, you should do that at your nursery! except just dig them up a lot younger so its not a nightmare to do it by hand i would fricking decorate my nursery walls with them as well hanging them like trophies for a nice aesthetic display😍haha
I put the bareroot trees I got in containers last year and they went through the summer and winter now they are waking up, I was going to plant them in the ground this winter but never got around to it. should I go ahead and plant them in the ground and shade them or what? Thanks
My wife bought a bareroot peach tree and planted it in a large pot. It leafed out, but now the leaves are wilting badly. It had been pruned back a little by the seller, but probably not more than 20%. Would it be helpful to prune it back some more at this point?
I live in New Mexico--also very hot in the summer. Do you think potting them up for the first summer to control the sun/shade is a good idea? Or is it better to put them in ground and shade them where planted? Also, I would like to start learning how to graft my own scion onto root stock, so I don't have to deal with the large growers, but don't want to grow trade marked stuff. Is there a source to find out when those TM patents expire?
Do what I do, plant them in the location you want. Shade them in that location. If it's impossible to provide shade, then planting it in the pot with morning sun and shade in the afternoon until the tree recovery.
Question on the bear root tree. Some are just stick and some of them actually have leaves that are starting to come out green ones. Would you recommend getting one that still looks dead or one that looks like it is coming alive?
Get the one that's barely coming out. Put the root in the bucket of water for 2 hours, but no more than 8 hours. Then plant them in the evening time when the sun is not hitting it hard. The plant will have the night and the early morning to recover. If it's not prune, then you should prune when you are planting it. If you summer are hot, then shade it or plant in partial sun. All my bare root tree comes alive during shipment and after 1 year, all are still live.
How would you suggest here in s. Cal. I have about 2k scions off my stone fruit trees. I have 2000 5gal trades. Leaeve cuttings in ground until next fall? Then plant in pots for winter? Sell spring?
Plant it in the pot. Move it to a place with morning sun and shade in the afternoon. Let it recover and plant it in the ground during Fall or early Spring next year.
I am receiving some 3-4 foot crab apple trees next week. So you are telling me that I should cut off 1-2 feet before I plant them? This will be in the upper peninsula of Michigan
I just bought a bareroot incense cedar from the johnsteen company. Its about 6 inches tall and the roots on it are even longer. Should I still cut the top off? I put it in a pot
your tree is evergreen. Most likely they simply removed the dirt to ship it to you. It wasn't grown in the ground. I would not do anything to it if i were you.
just got my mummies in the mail. specifically never wanted bareroot and accidentally purchased. and they charged $24 for shipping to ship within the same state. don't even bother.
Yah! I did not prune my stone fruit trees , after flowering they died(rip, apricot, rip plum) and now am watching one last bare root avocado, 1 year old and retarded I think! Am learning.
I bought like 9 bare root trees from ty ty nursies 2 years ago and every one of them died they looks nice when i got them i did what i could and they just dropped out a complete waste of money
Ty Ty nursery, I heard they are not good. I can't judge them because I don't buy from them. Some say that even if it's alive, you may get something different. It may be a different variety, than the one you ordered. From your experience, it's the worst since all of your trees died.
