Watering Fruit Trees in the Desert | Summer Watering Schedule 

You do such a great job explaining everything. I started watering my trees more and they are doing much better this year then last year.. Thanks to you..and your advice. GOd bless

@Edge of nowhere Farm ,I like how you fly your drone,it shows the beauty of your Farm.

That is amazing in the middle of nowhere

More amazing content from "The Edge of Nowhere University" (Whitmann Campus) ! ......Six days ago I planted some Black Oil Sunflower seeds (bird feed).....They are now 6 inches tall! I learned it all right here!

We sold out two male goats this morning, broke our hearts watching them go :( But we had to make room for some milking goats.

Your orchard growth is very impressive in that amount of time. Your watering system seems to work great.

What a pleasure having a family that has really refined their knowledge through experience and is willing to share it so abundantly. Logos continue to bless you!

Another fantastic video covering likely one of the most important parts of gardening/farming in the desert. I definitely need to lay more water on my plants and get thicker mulch on them. One of these days they will look lovely like yours :)

Trees are very healthy! Thanks for the great info.

Very thorough. Great video!

Thank you for sharing. So many great ideas.

Thank you.

Thanks for sharing

Like you, I have never lost an in-ground tree to over-watering. Great episode. Rd

Excellent video, Lot to learns. Lori is great woman

Thank you! I am learning so much from your educational/comprehensive videos God bless you dear brother 🙏🏾😊

We're getting some much needed rain in Tucson today which will help the watering.

Great video, we just got a ton of rain over the last two days, we definitely need a lot more wood chips to help slow evaporation and thanks for sharing.

LOL I feel you on trying to line up a shot by yourself. If your camera has a timer feature you could take a picture before you start shooting. Long as you go back to the same spot you'll be more sure of the lineup. :)

Irrigation question! As we southern Arizonians come into fall and then winter how much do you cut down your watering during those months? Especially the winter. I'm replicating your flood set up with my trees from RSI growers. Thank you again for sharing your amazing wealth of knowledge to the world. Your an inspiration to many including myself. I hope to shake y'all's hands some day and tell you all this in person someday.

I think the trees should be closer for shade and different kinds of fruit trees too. I dont like the straight lines its not naturally how plants grow. But its working anyway but taking a lot of water.

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Do you grow jujube trees? It would be interesting if older trees could grow without irrigation.

The water is a interesting thing. You need more water. Right now we been getting water every day for the last 2 weeks. Its great for growing. But now we are where we can't cut the hay. And with all the water we are getting a big over growth in weeds. But some of my grass is as tall as the top of the bed on a dodge Dakota 2x4 pickup.

Yeah your watering timing of evening and night is a good choice to stop the plant from using all the water during the height of the sun for photosynthisis and growth. It strains them less.

Look into soil regeneration

Amazing Job, you just inspired me a lot to grown trees on desert, Thank you, just quick questions, it is 24 trees per zone but how many Gallons per minute did you got on your pump?

do you plan to do annual pruning for stone fruit tree? How do you control the weeds in area not cover by the wood chips?

Getting ready to plant an orchard. How exactly does your irrigation work? I notice the bubblers on the outside of the mulch ring.

Another great video and information. God bless you for sharing all this wealth of info and detail. I have mature orange trees. Do you use the same schedule and amount of water for those trees as well?

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Hello! Great video. I've been having some confusion about how much to water my fruit trees. I've got a fruit salad tree with different types of stone fruit, an apple tree with different types of apples, and an Asian pear tree. I believe they're all a couple years old. We bought them from a nursery in pots. They gave us an information sheet telling us to water them each day between 2 and 4 gallons each time (once a day if it's under 90° and then going up to twice a day at 10am and 2pm when it goes over that.) I thought maybe I had been over-watering because I was giving them twice that amount. I cut back the past few days because I started seeing some little orange spots on the leaves and some other signs of either a disease or some watering problems on some of the other leaves as well. But now that I see this video, I'm thinking that maybe it could be some sort of disease and not a sign of over-watering. I live in zone 8 up in Camp Verde, in the Verde Valley. Do you think it would be good to go to a weekly watering schedule and just water a whole lot more each time? We have the really hard heavy clay soil here that has quite a bit of rock in it.

Hi! Could you please advise how to deal with termite infestation of the mulch using organic methods. Regards.

on over 100F of temperature, how many times a week you suggest watering? thank you for sharing this information

Nice results! Have you also experimented with something that could enchance condensation?

Thanks for the info. I am not as successful as you here in Cave Creek. Would you mind letting us know where you get your bubblers and what controller that is? Thanks for the videos!

I dug a my first hole to plant a tree , my property was alfalfa fields 30 years ago , I’m going to add some fertilizer to the hole and fill it with water again. How long should I soak this ground before dropping tree in ? It’s caliche , water drains slow , do I need to worry about getting water deep before planting?

What kind of mulch do you use for your trees?

Can you use pine wood chips on food crops.? GOD BLESS FROM CHRISTMAS VALLEY OREGON, HIGH DESERT

Now I have a craving to go out and water everything! do you think I should wait till the rain stops? Seriously, no rain up your way? You usually get more than we do! I catch AZ Family (Phoenix area) and half the stories are complaints of flash floods. We in the San Pedro canyon, have been getting everything from mists to major t-storm almost every day. We're under flash flood warning almost daily. I'm praying you get it good! And, that all of Arizona does, as well.

Two questions: have you tried reducing the water at all, seems like a ton? And my trees in Tucson are showing signs of Chlorosis (yellow with green veins) which is likely due to alkalinity. Do you get that and how do you deal with it- I hear cooler soil makes it worse which is what your mulch does?

Thanks for the information. I'm not a farmer neither a farm owner, but I like what you are doing. Kindly if you add measurements in m, aqr meter and cubic meters; because it is difficult to imagine measurements. Hoping ALLAH help you achieving your goals.

loch ness black berry thats the scottish variety? we only had 25 percent of our normal rain over here this year , need to get the heavy mulch going again.

Where do you get your mulch?

I’m looking into a 6 acre property in Pima County. I want to know how much did it cost to tap a well. How much are the electricity bills ?

I’ve always been told to not put mulch right up to the tree but your trees look like the mulch is all the way to the trunk right?

While you're talking at about 19 minutes a bunch of Quail run across in the background. Just thought it was cool and adds to the video.

In your county are you allowed water catchment? 🌧️

Do you recycle your laundry water?

I bought lots of mulch from Lowes and only AFTER we poured it in the trees we noticed they were FULL with termites 😭😭😭 do you any remedy I can use to kill them?

How have you dealt with your caliche soil?

Are theses not massive amounts of water to each tree ? Not many people have such huge amounts available.

Do you utilize grey water on your farm, raineater?

How far apart did you plant your trees and why.

Hii bro. I am from india i need pistachio rootstock seeds how can i buy any idea.

Do you have avocado?

I know in a previous video you mention your water guy (the one who set up the tank, and exterior pump and such...Are you able to provide his contact details to me? Im also located here in Wittmann...

why are your tree trunks white ??? never mind , I found out why .....to "prevent sun burn "

why are your grapes (on bottom)surrounded by chicken wire. never seen that before

I’m just wondering why you would go into this horrible climate to grow things that nature has wisely decided not to grow. It seems a huge waste of a natural resource. Am I missing something? You are very efficient but what’s the return on investment in terms of product when considering the enormous amount of your time and a precious resource like water? I’m sure you have good reasons but I’m just not seeing it.