SHARE THIS VIDEO IF YOU FOUND VALUE IN IT! Timestamps 00:00 Intro 00:10 How You Can Get Apple Production Consistently 00:41 Which Trees are Best to Plant 01:07 How to Plant a Bare Root Tree 01:52 A Mistake You Can Not Afford to Make When Planting Trees 02:23 How to Plant a Potted Tree 03:00 Important Techniques to Give Young Trees a Healthy Start 04:25 Tuck Protecting the Garden 04:53 The Importance of Properly Pruning Young Trees 05:53 The Ideal Shape for Growing Apple Trees 06:21 The Importance of Proper Branch Angles for Apple Trees 07:03 How to Train Branch Angles to the Ideal Angle for Produciton 07:36 Pruning and Training an Old Tree Vs. a Young Tree 08:50 How to Get Fruit on Trees as Fast as Possible 09:58 How to Get Good Pollination for Apples 10:19 How to Protect Apple Trees from Pests and Disease 11:59 The Magic Powder I use to Protect Apple Fruit from Pests 14:43 A Simple Way to Reduce Pests and Disease in an Orchard 15:12 The Best Varieties of Apples to Grow 16:11 How to Know When Apples are Ripe 17:20 Here’s Why Everyone Should Be Growing Apple Trees 18:00 After 12+ Years of Growing Apples Here is What’s Important 19:16 Final Thoughts
One lesson I learned about growing fruit trees is to start with varieties that have good disease resistance. While it isn't an absolute, disease resistance eases the burden of applying fungicides .Three years ago I planted a variety called "Pristine" and this year the first harvest from that tree was spectacular and the fruit was free of scab. As James said, picking up and disposing of fallen fruit is a must , as is removing any spoiled fruit that hangs on the tree. Also, rake up and dispose of the leaves in the fall as they will harbor fungal spores that otherwise will re-infect the tree in spring.
When planting any grafted tree, MAKE SURE !!! you plant the tree with the graft union toward the North, above the soil line, away from the strong Southern summer sunlight, UV rays, and potentially UV and heat burning the graft. This saves the graft union, making it strong and healthy.
@@MrWildplum There is no true total graft union going all the way around (per se). You will see the major bump, knot, or burl in the grafted bark. The graft scion will be a young branch that is cut into a long "tongue" or chisel shape with the cambium having its long cambium "V" attached to its mother wood "V" shape. There is the cleft graft. Most times the graft stump is larger than the 2 conventional smaller grafts. This is an older graft stump, and you are attaching smaller and younger scions into the tree. You have a horizontal flat cut across the graft stump. You cut a slice (hatchet or knife) across the entire diameter of the stump, opening up the cleft, some 1 -- 1 1/2 inches in cleft and cambium. You put in 2 grafts (scions), with their cambium-to-cambium connections on each side of the cleft attempting graft. In the end of this, most times the lesser graft will be cut off, and the greater graft will remain. As such, you will see a large knot of graft stump heartwood on the lesser cut area sticking out. This will be the healed bump, knot, or burl of the graft stump with the scion. This faces NORTH. Additional waxing, painting, or tree tar is applied over the entire successful graft and greaft stump cut porton of cambium and heartwood, keeping it dry, clean, away from bacteria and bugs. There is the V graft. Much like the cleft graft, but the size of a single young graft scion diameter closely matches the young graft stump diameter. This is totally done when both trees are young. You want to have a near-same diameter of tree-to-tree cambium-to-cambium entire contact around the entire surface. You are attempting the entire cambium diagonal areas of the graft stump and graft scion to completely merge. You can't just put a blunt stick against a blunt stick and have a graft. That is why the cleft or V graft must have the graft scion heartwood "tongue" pierces down into the receptive cut of the graft stump heartwood, providing a base of support, and eventually holding both pieces firmly grafted and growing further annual growth wood rings together. The other is inlay grafting. This method uses multiple smaller and younger graft scion tongues, ... with no hatchet/knife cut "V" across the ikder graft stump horizontal cut top. A small knife is inserted between the wood and cambium loosening up the bark. Smaller graft scions with chisel tips are put into the loosened cambium. Think of putting a WW II torture bamboo needle under your fingernail. The graft stump is the cambium and bark (fingernail) and the heartwood (finger). You can put multiple smaller grafts into the entire perimeter of the stump cambium. One then takes the eventual best grafter to remain, while cutting out the lesser grafts. This leaves you again with a large portion of the graft stump appearing. This overgrows with a knot or burl forming on the graft union. As grafting also involves waxing and wrapping, or just wrapping, the graft merge point, with some later tree tar (of the ancients healing and protective barrier against water, molds, mildews, fungus, or boring insect attack, this will be that dark portion of the graft area. Look for the graft stump top, and keep it to the NORTH. Other methods like whip, tongue, splice, or bud grafting are used upwards on the tree's smaller branches. We are discussing the graft stump with the scion at the ground planting level. There are side-grafts, in which you vertically slice open the cambium bark, and then insert the same graft scion slid into the bark, but kept in an upward diagonal graft. The graft stump is not cut off. This technique is used for the many fruit variety of trees with multiple apples, or multiple cherries, or plums, etc. Each scion will then grow its true species. Such other UA-camr has his FrankenApple trees with up to 50+ varieties inserted onto a main apple tree.
@@TooMuchDramaInTheMilkyWay Words from the ancestor's commonsense knowledge ... passed down ... but forgotten by the majority of modern over-educated, UN-educated academic botanists, biologists, agriculturists, with more destructive pharmacological corporate profit motives. AND DON'T FORGET THE TREE TAR FOR CUTTING LOCATIONS, ... and household whitte interior latex paint and paint up the "legs" of the trees and up and outward on the lower branches of the "skirts" (female terminology for ... female fruiting trees and their dressings). Painting dark colored bark trees (plums, prunes, cherry, ..._ stops them from overheating, over-aspirating and dehydrating themselves into wilting, ... and sunburn of the cambium. The ancestors painted up all their fruit and nut trees, both for bark and cranny sealings against molds, mildews, fungus, rain water penetration, wood rot, dry rot, insect buryings, ... We need to return to this 1:1 ration of water and latex paint and slap on the brushes or farmer's sprayers and get our trees back to health, healing, safety, and proper disinfection and sanitary conditions.
Your passion for your plants & beautiful food forests is so amazing to see. I feel what you're feeling every time I walk through my outdoor gardens. 🪴 So many beautiful homegrown blessings. I wish more people understood how important all of this is. Your spirit makes me smile. Keep up the incredible work, James. 🙂
thanks for the info on apple trees i had 3 trees that was from the big box store . for years my husband and i tried to get apples i watched a few of your videos and last year we decided to cut two of the trees down they just would produce at all or the apples was inedible so i when ordered from the nursery you suggested i order the liberty and Williams pride and i couldn't believe it the liberty is growing good but the Williams pride flowered and gave us 1 apple from the first year i was surprised my husband and i baby that apple and i tell you that was the best tastings apple i ever had thank you and tuck for all your info not only with apples but all fruits and veg i was dumb again and got one cherry tree from the nursery you suggested and another from the BIG BOX STORE my dumbness was buying from the store the tree from the nursery is doing fine the other one died i will always get my trees and other fruit from the nursery thank again
I might have gone overboard this spring...I planted 4 apple, 3 plums,,2 peaches,2 pear, 2 cherry,, and 1 persimmons...everything still looks good and healthy so hopefully in a few years I will be harvesting my own fruits..❤ ya Tuck...
I don’t comment on videos unless they’re incredible, and this one is SO great, thank you so much for such a great video!! New subscriber and can’t wait to watch more!!!!
Important for me is to choose varieties and rootstocks that are disease and pest resistant - saves a lot of work trying to keep your tree healthy. There are rootstocks that are well suited to specific soil as well - I have a lot of heavy clay and the MM106 and M116 do very well and are both drought and wet tolerant
Thank JP and Tuck, great tips ! Believe it or not I have 9 Granny Smith trees growing in north Georgia. I started them from seed after peeling apples for my dehydrated apple stock I noticed some of the seeds were actually sprouting! I followed instructions on how to put seed in fridge for stratification then plant in soil uses cocoir like you said JP😊 I tried 15 seeds and 9 survived they are now about 7-9 ft. Healthy and we babied them during the cicadas 😅 omstarz!! They are in second year . Any advice welcome. Love this channel thanks so much for all you do you are a Blessing to all who follow you !
Great info! This coupled with your other pruning video has give me new energy to retry growing fruit trees as I've failed in the past. ♥♥♥♥♥ For the handsome guardian. Thank you!!
Hi James, I'm your neighbor about 50 miles south on the eastern shore. I'm continually amazed by how great your fruit harvests look. This year I must not have done the kaolin clay early or frequently enough, but the biggest problem was the bees and various hornets eating the fruit before they became edible. So almost all apples went to my neighbor's pigs! Learned the hard way to not plant Fuji, Braeburn, or Gala -- they are super susceptible to fire blight -- the only one left is the Fuji and I've decided to wait and see if he can outgrow the damage rather than prune and prune 'til there's nothing left but a weirdly mis-shaped tree. Planted and waiting for the disease-resistant varieties to grow (Sundance, Dayton, Enterprise, and William's Pride), and in the meantime need to find out a way to keep the bees from taking all the fruit! If you or your viewers have any ideas I'd be most grateful. Thank you so much!
❤❤❤❤❤ love the boss . Just so you know I tried to plant apple trees but they died after getting tall. I live in the west indies and it's very hot . Thanks for all your advice. I also tried strawberry but because of the heat they are dying. I am so sad not getting to enjoy the fruit of my labor.
Wow, condensed apple master class! Thanks! I really appreciate all of the knowledge and experience you've gained with trial and error over the last 12 years. I will be using this information for sure! ❤❤❤❤ for Tuck
Great video. I am looking into varieties that will work in my area. The tree I have hasn’t done well. I love how your trees are dwarf and produce so well. Thank you. ❤️for Tuck. 😊
Thanks for sharing these tips. I don't have any apple trees but someday if I do this information could be helpful. 💚💚💚💚 for Tuck doing a great job keeping an eye on the garden!
Your instructions on how to grow apples are wonderful, I appreciate what you have instructed and I hope this will be spread so that many people will know and thank you. Apples are very nutritious and have anti-aging energy for the body.❤
Great tips, James! Have you tried Silken apples before? Not sure how hard it is to grow, but it’s a Canadian cultivar and we only ever get to eat them during apple picking season from our local orchards. It ripens together with Gala and Mac apples. It’s not available in grocery stores because it bruises quick, doesn’t really affect the texture and taste but the grocery store customers wouldn’t want bruises. So the only way is to wait every September. If you like Honeycrisp, you will definitely be amazed by the Silken, our family call it “the apple picker’s apple” because it’s so crunchy and sweet like a typical good apple, but it has that juiciness and aftertaste of a pear and it’s our only reason to go for apple picking because all other apples are almost available in the grocery stores. I wanted to grow it someday once we move out to a house with a bigger garden space, but if you do plant it, it would be such a valuable reference for us 😆
I love the clay idea, James. Thanks. I'm in zone 5b upstate NY. I'm growing golden delicious and one called "crunch a bunch" from Gurney(Not crazy about that tree). The next trees I plant will be better. Will you please talk about protecting young trees from deer? We had to put cages around our trees for the first three years. How do you protect your young trees from deer?
The deer ate the leaves off my young apple trees. I looked up scents that deer don't like, and made a concoction of oil mixed with cinnamon, clove, lavender, and tea tree essential oils, put that on some cardboard (like from a cheerios box) and hung the cardboard pieces from the trees like Christmas decorations. After that either the deer stopped coming round or just laid off because they didn't like the scent. Deer also don't like dog hair, so if you have some, you could try putting that on your trees.
This is so interesting! I love apples and have always wanted to grow my own in the backyard. However, I didn't know what all went into it. Think I will have to keep buying them till I have the time to devote to it.
@jamesprigioni thanks for making these videos. I’m active duty in the military, so I move too much to do more than herbs, but once I live in a spot for more than 2-3 years, I’m going to use all the tips from your videos. There is something super motivating about your enthusiasm, keep up the great work and Tuck is a boss!
Love this. We have northern spy, granny Smith, and Honeycrisp started in our yard. We got five Honeycrisp this year very exciting. Thanks for the video. Loved the big bite u took of the apple lol. Give tuck a scruffy from me !
I got about two dozen apples off my Wickson tree the second year after planting. In addition to being precocious it has what many consider the best flavor of any apple.
Hey James! I'm a new gardener also in NJ! I would love if you could share where you buy your trees from as I'm planning on putting a bunch in the ground next year. Love your videos, and REALLY appreciate all the information I've gathered from watching them all!
This was a great explanation. I was looking at my fruit trees today. I definitely need to prune them. Should I wait until early spring to prune my trees?
If you don’t live somewhere that it rains like many people out west, then you will have to water for the entire lifespan of the tree. Use a drip irrigation system that goes all the way around the tree. Make sure it is at the edge of the canopy of the tree and continue to move it out wider as the tree grows.
❤❤❤❤ much love to Tuck ❤️❤️❤️🍎🍎🍎🍎 what nursery do you recommend for apple trees I’m so ready to plant a couple squirrels will be my problem tips on them are helpful please keep doing videos I’ve watched all your videos thanks james for all the great information & inspiration I’m addicted 👏🏻🙌🏻 starting out new and inspired 🙌🏻 your amazing 👨🌾
James ,I just found out that bunnies don’t like a flower called the bobble head Allium ,just thought I’d let you know 😊❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤I would make it my border flower what’s up tucker❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
I've got a young William's Pride and a Liberty apple as well as a few others inlcuding a Sweet Sixteen which I believe is a parent of Honeycrisp. I like to plant apple varieities that are not available at grocery stores or local fruit stands. My trees are starting to produce better now and it's been worth the wait. I have to battle the plum curculio as well. I'm in Canada and couldn't find the Surround here so I've been placing zip lock bags around each apple just after petal drop so it blocks the plum curculio and the other bugs that leave worm holes and such. (My trees are espaliered so it's not that cumbersome to carry out the bagging). The apple grows inside the bag all season without any other interference from me and I don't have to spray with anything. I call them my zip lock trees. I noticed Surround is available here now so I may give that a try. Does it prevent apple maggot and coddling moth as well?
We have late spring frosts that threaten fruit blossoms. Maybe next year as it will be 3 years. There was too much rain this year to bother spraying anything.
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Timestamps
00:00 Intro
00:10 How You Can Get Apple Production Consistently
00:41 Which Trees are Best to Plant
01:07 How to Plant a Bare Root Tree
01:52 A Mistake You Can Not Afford to Make When Planting Trees
02:23 How to Plant a Potted Tree
03:00 Important Techniques to Give Young Trees a Healthy Start
04:25 Tuck Protecting the Garden
04:53 The Importance of Properly Pruning Young Trees
05:53 The Ideal Shape for Growing Apple Trees
06:21 The Importance of Proper Branch Angles for Apple Trees
07:03 How to Train Branch Angles to the Ideal Angle for Produciton
07:36 Pruning and Training an Old Tree Vs. a Young Tree
08:50 How to Get Fruit on Trees as Fast as Possible
09:58 How to Get Good Pollination for Apples
10:19 How to Protect Apple Trees from Pests and Disease
11:59 The Magic Powder I use to Protect Apple Fruit from Pests
14:43 A Simple Way to Reduce Pests and Disease in an Orchard
15:12 The Best Varieties of Apples to Grow
16:11 How to Know When Apples are Ripe
17:20 Here’s Why Everyone Should Be Growing Apple Trees
18:00 After 12+ Years of Growing Apples Here is What’s Important
19:16 Final Thoughts
Do Golden delicious grow there?
Why doesn't spraying your trees with the clay hinder the plants' ability to photosynthesis?
One lesson I learned about growing fruit trees is to start with varieties that have good disease resistance. While it isn't an absolute, disease resistance eases the burden of applying fungicides .Three years ago I planted a variety called "Pristine" and this year the first harvest from that tree was spectacular and the fruit was free of scab. As James said, picking up and disposing of fallen fruit is a must , as is removing any spoiled fruit that hangs on the tree. Also, rake up and dispose of the leaves in the fall as they will harbor fungal spores that otherwise will re-infect the tree in spring.
When planting any grafted tree, MAKE SURE !!! you plant the tree with the graft union toward the North, above the soil line, away from the strong Southern summer sunlight, UV rays, and potentially UV and heat burning the graft. This saves the graft union, making it strong and healthy.
The graft union goes all the way around how can it point north?
@@MrWildplum There is no true total graft union going all the way around (per se). You will see the major bump, knot, or burl in the grafted bark.
The graft scion will be a young branch that is cut into a long "tongue" or chisel shape with the cambium having its long cambium "V" attached to its mother wood "V" shape.
There is the cleft graft.
Most times the graft stump is larger than the 2 conventional smaller grafts. This is an older graft stump, and you are attaching smaller and younger scions into the tree. You have a horizontal flat cut across the graft stump. You cut a slice (hatchet or knife) across the entire diameter of the stump, opening up the cleft, some 1 -- 1 1/2 inches in cleft and cambium. You put in 2 grafts (scions), with their cambium-to-cambium connections on each side of the cleft attempting graft. In the end of this, most times the lesser graft will be cut off, and the greater graft will remain. As such, you will see a large knot of graft stump heartwood on the lesser cut area sticking out. This will be the healed bump, knot, or burl of the graft stump with the scion. This faces NORTH. Additional waxing, painting, or tree tar is applied over the entire successful graft and greaft stump cut porton of cambium and heartwood, keeping it dry, clean, away from bacteria and bugs.
There is the V graft.
Much like the cleft graft, but the size of a single young graft scion diameter closely matches the young graft stump diameter. This is totally done when both trees are young. You want to have a near-same diameter of tree-to-tree cambium-to-cambium entire contact around the entire surface. You are attempting the entire cambium diagonal areas of the graft stump and graft scion to completely merge. You can't just put a blunt stick against a blunt stick and have a graft. That is why the cleft or V graft must have the graft scion heartwood "tongue" pierces down into the receptive cut of the graft stump heartwood, providing a base of support, and eventually holding both pieces firmly grafted and growing further annual growth wood rings together.
The other is inlay grafting.
This method uses multiple smaller and younger graft scion tongues, ... with no hatchet/knife cut "V" across the ikder graft stump horizontal cut top. A small knife is inserted between the wood and cambium loosening up the bark. Smaller graft scions with chisel tips are put into the loosened cambium. Think of putting a WW II torture bamboo
needle under your fingernail. The graft stump is the cambium and bark (fingernail) and the heartwood (finger). You can put multiple smaller grafts into the entire perimeter of the stump cambium. One then takes the eventual best grafter to remain, while cutting out the lesser grafts. This leaves you again with a large portion of the graft stump appearing. This overgrows with a knot or burl forming on the graft union.
As grafting also involves waxing and wrapping, or just wrapping, the graft merge point, with some later tree tar (of the ancients healing and protective barrier against water, molds, mildews, fungus, or boring insect attack, this will be that dark portion of the graft area. Look for the graft stump top, and keep it to the NORTH.
Other methods like whip, tongue, splice, or bud grafting are used upwards on the tree's smaller branches. We are discussing the graft stump with the scion at the ground planting level.
There are side-grafts, in which you vertically slice open the cambium bark, and then insert the same graft scion slid into the bark, but kept in an upward diagonal graft. The graft stump is not cut off. This technique is used for the many fruit variety of trees with multiple apples, or multiple cherries, or plums, etc. Each scion will then grow its true species. Such other UA-camr has his FrankenApple trees with up to 50+ varieties inserted onto a main apple tree.
@@TooMuchDramaInTheMilkyWay Words from the ancestor's commonsense knowledge ... passed down ... but forgotten by the majority of modern over-educated, UN-educated academic botanists, biologists, agriculturists, with more destructive pharmacological corporate profit motives. AND DON'T FORGET THE TREE TAR FOR CUTTING LOCATIONS, ... and household whitte interior latex paint and paint up the "legs" of the trees and up and outward on the lower branches of the "skirts" (female terminology for ... female fruiting trees and their dressings). Painting dark colored bark trees (plums, prunes, cherry, ..._ stops them from overheating, over-aspirating and dehydrating themselves into wilting, ... and sunburn of the cambium. The ancestors painted up all their fruit and nut trees, both for bark and cranny sealings against molds, mildews, fungus, rain water penetration, wood rot, dry rot, insect buryings, ... We need to return to this 1:1 ration of water and latex paint and slap on the brushes or farmer's sprayers and get our trees back to health, healing, safety, and proper disinfection and sanitary conditions.
Great tip!
Thank you for this bit of information.
Thank you for sharing your knowledge on growing apple trees. We’ve learned a lot and truly appreciate it!😊
❤ Tuck. We lost our two dogs this year. We really enjoy Tuck.
I'm so sorry for your loss. Losing them is so heartbreaking.
😢❤
Tuck is such an adorable fluffnugget❤❤❤
Your passion for your plants & beautiful food forests is so amazing to see. I feel what you're feeling every time I walk through my outdoor gardens. 🪴 So many beautiful homegrown blessings. I wish more people understood how important all of this is. Your spirit makes me smile. Keep up the incredible work, James. 🙂
Do this type of video for PEAR & PEACH TREES, PLEASE.
thanks for the info on apple trees i had 3 trees that was from the big box store . for years my husband and i tried to get apples i watched a few of your videos and last year we decided to cut two of the trees down they just would produce at all or the apples was inedible so i when ordered from the nursery you suggested i order the liberty and Williams pride and i couldn't believe it the liberty is growing good but the Williams pride flowered and gave us 1 apple from the first year i was surprised my husband and i baby that apple and i tell you that was the best tastings apple i ever had thank you and tuck for all your info not only with apples but all fruits and veg i was dumb again and got one cherry tree from the nursery you suggested and another from the BIG BOX STORE my dumbness was buying from the store the tree from the nursery is doing fine the other one died i will always get my trees and other fruit from the nursery thank again
i garden in the Caribbean and this video reminds me of growing and picking mangoes
Please please please do figs and in depth of peaches too!
Thank you for sharing your info! We love you and Tuck
We have our apple trees ordered for spring…can’t wait! Thanks James and Tuck!! ❤❤
I might have gone overboard this spring...I planted 4 apple, 3 plums,,2 peaches,2 pear, 2 cherry,, and 1 persimmons...everything still looks good and healthy so hopefully in a few years I will be harvesting my own fruits..❤ ya Tuck...
We are so lucky to learn from you, James.. I had no idea the angle of the branches was so important.
I wish I had a fraction of your positivity and enthusiasm, fr.
James, you inspire me. I loved your videos on growing things in pots.
Thank you for the great tips on growing good apples. ❤
I don’t comment on videos unless they’re incredible, and this one is SO great, thank you so much for such a great video!! New subscriber and can’t wait to watch more!!!!
Important for me is to choose varieties and rootstocks that are disease and pest resistant - saves a lot of work trying to keep your tree healthy.
There are rootstocks that are well suited to specific soil as well - I have a lot of heavy clay and the MM106 and M116 do very well and are both drought and wet tolerant
Love you Tuck. Stay cool and drink lots of water. Stay healthy. ❤❤❤
Do love seeing Tuck. I wish my dog love vegetables like Tuck!❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
❤❤❤❤❤ what a cutie Tuck is!
❤❤❤❤ for Tuck love seeing the little guy and love all the great information you gave us today ❤
❤️❤️❤️for Tuck. Thank you, James!
My Number One fruits! Could you do a tutorial about growing apple into a pot? Thanks for your wonderfull video! Apples for life and forever!
❤❤❤❤❤❤❤ seven lucky, loving hearts for Tuck.😊
Your apple tree are absolutely stunning! 😍✨🍎
❤❤❤❤aw! There’s the Boss! Love Tuck!! ❤❤❤
Great video and Tuck is as usual the king of your garden.
He sure is !!❤
Thank JP and Tuck, great tips ! Believe it or not I have 9 Granny Smith trees growing in north Georgia. I started them from seed after peeling apples for my dehydrated apple stock I noticed some of the seeds were actually sprouting! I followed instructions on how to put seed in fridge for stratification then plant in soil uses cocoir like you said JP😊 I tried 15 seeds and 9 survived they are now about 7-9 ft. Healthy and we babied them during the cicadas 😅 omstarz!! They are in second year . Any advice welcome. Love this channel thanks so much for all you do you are a Blessing to all who follow you !
ya I'm a kid I'm on my grandmother's laptop but I've been trying to grow apples so thank you
Good job TUCK ❤
this video has a lot of info about growing apple trees could you do the same with other fruit trees
❤❤❤❤❤ love Tuck!
Great info! This coupled with your other pruning video has give me new energy to retry growing fruit trees as I've failed in the past. ♥♥♥♥♥ For the handsome guardian. Thank you!!
Hi James, I'm your neighbor about 50 miles south on the eastern shore. I'm continually amazed by how great your fruit harvests look. This year I must not have done the kaolin clay early or frequently enough, but the biggest problem was the bees and various hornets eating the fruit before they became edible. So almost all apples went to my neighbor's pigs! Learned the hard way to not plant Fuji, Braeburn, or Gala -- they are super susceptible to fire blight -- the only one left is the Fuji and I've decided to wait and see if he can outgrow the damage rather than prune and prune 'til there's nothing left but a weirdly mis-shaped tree. Planted and waiting for the disease-resistant varieties to grow (Sundance, Dayton, Enterprise, and William's Pride), and in the meantime need to find out a way to keep the bees from taking all the fruit! If you or your viewers have any ideas I'd be most grateful. Thank you so much!
❤❤❤For Tuck.
I planted 2 apples, 2 pears and 2 peaches this past spring. This video helps me a great deal. TYSVM ❤❤❤
Tuck is King ❤
Yes he is !🤸♂️
Great video. I have 2 old apple trees and planted 2 new ones. This video will help alot thanks for all the great videos
❤❤❤❤❤ love the boss . Just so you know I tried to plant apple trees but they died after getting tall. I live in the west indies and it's very hot . Thanks for all your advice. I also tried strawberry but because of the heat they are dying. I am so sad not getting to enjoy the fruit of my labor.
For me, this is this has been one of your best presentations❤❤❤❤❤
Good luck 🍀 ❤
Thank you so much! I grew up on an apple farm and thought I knew about apple trees but you just taught me a lot I didn’t know.
My young apple tree has some white like dust on the leaves. What can I do for it. Thank you.
Wow, condensed apple master class! Thanks! I really appreciate all of the knowledge and experience you've gained with trial and error over the last 12 years. I will be using this information for sure! ❤❤❤❤ for Tuck
Great video. I am looking into varieties that will work in my area. The tree I have hasn’t done well. I love how your trees are dwarf and produce so well. Thank you. ❤️for Tuck. 😊
Thanks for sharing these tips. I don't have any apple trees but someday if I do this information could be helpful. 💚💚💚💚 for Tuck doing a great job keeping an eye on the garden!
Your instructions on how to grow apples are wonderful, I appreciate what you have instructed and I hope this will be spread so that many people will know and thank you. Apples are very nutritious and have anti-aging energy for the body.❤
Good morning my friend while these apples look so delicious and healthy. Thank you for sharing with us. Enjoy your family. God bless.🙏😋🍎🍏💕🌍
Great tips, James! Have you tried Silken apples before? Not sure how hard it is to grow, but it’s a Canadian cultivar and we only ever get to eat them during apple picking season from our local orchards. It ripens together with Gala and Mac apples. It’s not available in grocery stores because it bruises quick, doesn’t really affect the texture and taste but the grocery store customers wouldn’t want bruises. So the only way is to wait every September. If you like Honeycrisp, you will definitely be amazed by the Silken, our family call it “the apple picker’s apple” because it’s so crunchy and sweet like a typical good apple, but it has that juiciness and aftertaste of a pear and it’s our only reason to go for apple picking because all other apples are almost available in the grocery stores. I wanted to grow it someday once we move out to a house with a bigger garden space, but if you do plant it, it would be such a valuable reference for us 😆
I JUST planted my first 2 apple trees! Indiana! Green delicious and Fujii, this is very informational! Thank you!
Great video and packed full of information.
Thanks sir for this informative video.
Love that guardian of the garden! ❤❤❤❤❤
❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤ Bought my gala and liberty apple trees today
I love the clay idea, James. Thanks. I'm in zone 5b upstate NY. I'm growing golden delicious and one called "crunch a bunch" from Gurney(Not crazy about that tree). The next trees I plant will be better. Will you please talk about protecting young trees from deer? We had to put cages around our trees for the first three years. How do you protect your young trees from deer?
The deer ate the leaves off my young apple trees. I looked up scents that deer don't like, and made a concoction of oil mixed with cinnamon, clove, lavender, and tea tree essential oils, put that on some cardboard (like from a cheerios box) and hung the cardboard pieces from the trees like Christmas decorations. After that either the deer stopped coming round or just laid off because they didn't like the scent. Deer also don't like dog hair, so if you have some, you could try putting that on your trees.
Excellent content, James and Tuck!
I just planted 2 more apple trees in my backyard. I planted a liberty and a Fuji tree. Cant wait.
Thank you JP , this is a legends video. Just a ton of helpful wisdom! May God bless your life. ✌🏻
Always an excellent presentation and fantastic tips.... Thank you, Brother!
I am too scared to cut my apple tree but, I know I have to do it.
I've got a dwarf apple tree Pink Lady, Red Fuji, Anna
Excellent info! Thanks James and Tuck 💜
This is so interesting! I love apples and have always wanted to grow my own in the backyard. However, I didn't know what all went into it. Think I will have to keep buying them till I have the time to devote to it.
@jamesprigioni thanks for making these videos. I’m active duty in the military, so I move too much to do more than herbs, but once I live in a spot for more than 2-3 years, I’m going to use all the tips from your videos. There is something super motivating about your enthusiasm, keep up the great work and Tuck is a boss!
Love this. We have northern spy, granny Smith, and Honeycrisp started in our yard. We got five Honeycrisp this year very exciting. Thanks for the video. Loved the big bite u took of the apple lol. Give tuck a scruffy from me !
Good knowledge thanks ❤
I got about two dozen apples off my Wickson tree the second year after planting. In addition to being precocious it has what many consider the best flavor of any apple.
Hey James! I'm a new gardener also in NJ! I would love if you could share where you buy your trees from as I'm planning on putting a bunch in the ground next year. Love your videos, and REALLY appreciate all the information I've gathered from watching them all!
Yumm!! I wish I could taste it! Beautiful fruit. 👏👏👏👏👏❤❤❤❤
Now I think we need to get an apple tree for our growing food forest! ❤❤❤❤ As always for Tuck!
Great to see Tucks still around. Yorkie Terriers usually lasts about a dozen yrs old.
Thank you for this video!!
❤❤❤❤❤Tuck, he is the best! Thank you for this true information. James you’re also the best!
Great informative video! Thanks James!
Great tips to grow apples.
You can't beat growing your own food, well done James!!
your videos are so helpful
❤🧡💛💚💙💜🤎 Young King.....Guardian of the Gardens .....Tuck
I’m growing a couple apple trees in Texas and it’s a little bit of a challenge since it’s so freakin hot here but my two trees look good this year.
This saves the graft union, making it strong and healthy.
Very delicious apple fresh from the garden
Great video!
Awesome !!! 🍎🍎🍎 Hey Tuck !!!♥♥♥
all depends on climate zone. Im in zone 10b and only certain types will grow you need more chill hours and we hardly get any here in San Diego
This was a great explanation. I was looking at my fruit trees today. I definitely need to prune them. Should I wait until early spring to prune my trees?
If you don’t live somewhere that it rains like many people out west, then you will have to water for the entire lifespan of the tree. Use a drip irrigation system that goes all the way around the tree. Make sure it is at the edge of the canopy of the tree and continue to move it out wider as the tree grows.
Recommendations of where to order bare roots from?
Extremely valuable video. Thank you, truly.
Thank you so much 🇨🇦
Mille grazie, paisano.
❤❤❤❤ much love to Tuck ❤️❤️❤️🍎🍎🍎🍎 what nursery do you recommend for apple trees I’m so ready to plant a couple squirrels will be my problem tips on them are helpful please keep doing videos I’ve watched all your videos thanks james for all the great information & inspiration I’m addicted 👏🏻🙌🏻 starting out new and inspired 🙌🏻 your amazing 👨🌾
Always a pleasure watching your videos 🍎🍎🍎🍏🍏
Tuck and Apples 💜💜💜
James ,I just found out that bunnies don’t like a flower called the bobble head Allium ,just thought I’d let you know 😊❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤I would make it my border flower what’s up tucker❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
💖's for Tucky boy 🎸.
I will be purchasing Surround Kayolin clay for sure from your site
I've got a young William's Pride and a Liberty apple as well as a few others inlcuding a Sweet Sixteen which I believe is a parent of Honeycrisp. I like to plant apple varieities that are not available at grocery stores or local fruit stands. My trees are starting to produce better now and it's been worth the wait. I have to battle the plum curculio as well. I'm in Canada and couldn't find the Surround here so I've been placing zip lock bags around each apple just after petal drop so it blocks the plum curculio and the other bugs that leave worm holes and such. (My trees are espaliered so it's not that cumbersome to carry out the bagging). The apple grows inside the bag all season without any other interference from me and I don't have to spray with anything. I call them my zip lock trees. I noticed Surround is available here now so I may give that a try. Does it prevent apple maggot and coddling moth as well?
We have late spring frosts that threaten fruit blossoms. Maybe next year as it will be 3 years. There was too much rain this year to bother spraying anything.
I do take these things and apply them.Ty from Ca🤘🏻
thanks for a great clear ideas