Pruning & Training Young Hazelnut Trees | How I decided on Heading, Leader, Terminal & Thinning Cuts
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- Опубліковано 13 бер 2021
- Lessons learnt pruning young hazelnut trees to help establish the right tree scaffolding structure to bear nuts. The video includes many examples of pruning a selection of newly planted trees and trees planted one year ago. The objective is to encourage the trees to establish an open goblet framework to develop nut growth on.
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Would love to see an update on how your Hazelnuts are presently doing!
Hello. I am just editing a video, so an update is coming soon!
All the best.
When your trees need pruning with decent thickness of branches take the cut branches, chip them, dry the chips and you can sell them in baggies for barbequing and meat smokers. Hazel is a favorite wood used for smoking food as it produces a strong, fragrant smoke.
Most alcohols have a high rate of evaporation which carries heat away from your hand.
Great idea alcohol holster. I will have to make myself one. Then I can take a swig at each tree I trim. LOL!
Ha. Very good.
@@GubbFarm Seriously though it is a good idea.
Good idea with the holster; I would never have thought of it, but it makes all kinds of sense.
BTW, the reason your hands get so cold is that the alcohol is much more volatile than water, and evaporates much faster. I get much the same effect from hand sanitizer.
Great video; looking forward to next week!
Hi Bob. After I recorded that video, I was chatting with a man who has suspected blight on one of his hazel trees in a different part of the country. A sample has been sent to a Government lab for testing. It re-enforces the need to disinfect frequently to reduce disease spread. Hope all is well.
Thanks I really enjoyed this video and learned what I was hoping to learn!
Glad you enjoyed it!
fascinating what a challenge you have with over a Thousand trees. The wreaths are a great idea. I subbed your channel and will be watching.
Hello Johnny. Thanks for subscribing. The hazelnuts are the first phase of planting and I'm currently looking at shrubs, herbs, mushrooms and cover crops. As I'm going down the organic route, I want a lot of biodiversity to protect and feed the plants, while also producing cash crops, so it will be interesting to see how well it works out. All the best.
The squirrels will love you for that
looking good just need a bit of warmer weather, hopefully this coming week will see some growth
Hello Fiatman. I am looking forward to seeing the trees covered in foliage. Spring is in the air again today. It would be good to get a couple of dry weeks to get the ground dried out and kick off the growth. Fingers crossed.
alcohol makes fingers cold quickly because of the physical properties of alcohol.
It has low evaporation energy.
This makes it evaporate quickly.
During evaporation, it takes heat from the surface - and hence it cools the surface.
Thank you Andrey. I now have a new cunning way to avoiding getting cold hands when working with alcohol... all will be revealed soon. The tension.. you could cut it with a knife.... well maybe not. I plan to take the camera with me when out pruning next weekend and will provide an update then. All the best.
That's how you make a video
That is very kind anantagaura.
All the best.
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Thank you!
I can give you a bit of insight as to the cold hands--alcohol evaporates rapidly, which cools the skin just like sweat does but faster and more aggressively.
Very interesting Joshua. Thanks. I hope all is well.
I've been working on an orchard that has 2 adolescent HazelNut trees, which suckers had always been removed so they did not grow as a bush but rather a mix of central leader to goblet structure. I have been pruning it towards the latter formation.
I read HazelNut trees need a lot of sun. However, one of them, which is more isolated from the other trees, has drier, almost burnt, leaves in the Summer.
So I have 3 questions:
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For a zone that gets freezing in the Winter but also too hot in the Summer: What is it better?: Goblet or Bush formation?
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I was wondering if it'd be wise to let the suckers come up and surround the central plant in order to help with moisture…
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Has anyone ever tried the brutting technique? I can't find any video about it…
What are the tubes on the trunk. I just got some trees. Do I need. The tubes? Why such a large tree stake?
Very instructive video as always Dary. Will the hazels produce suckers over time or will they remain single stemmed?
Thanks Liam. The hazels will produce suckers and you have to keep them cut back to keep them single stem, or layer them to propagate the trees and then cut. I am currently setting up a experiment using the Willow to create a rooting and growth compound to try and propagate the hazel from sucker cuttings. Hopefully that will be the next video (just waiting for some other plants to turn up). I hope all is well with you.
nice hazelnut orchard! i hope to grow at least 5 to 10 but how did all of your hazelnut trees end up as single stem? did you cut the 2nd sprouts? if so, why?
Very useful video, do you have any issues with deer browsing?
Yes I have a big problem with deer browsing the trees. They are my nemeses. I shall now politely refrain from a long string of expletives that rather appropriately convey my sentiment on the matter.
Very helpful video. Thanks. Are you growing for nut production and are these regular hazel trees or cultivars (cobs or filberts)? I have a small hazel woodland planted about 7 years ago but never pruned. I assume pruning is to improve nut production, right?
Hello. I am growing the trees for nut production. The trees where propagated by layering and planted as bare root stock.
The initial pruning is used to set the height of the scaffolding branches and there after shape the tree to help establish an open goblet framework to maximise yields. Opening up the centre of the tree lets more light in and improves airflow, which results in more flowers and therefore nut yield.
It is also common practice to brutt the trees again during the summer as apparently the stress leads to higher nut production.
Is there a reason you didn't root any of the material from these pruning cuts?
Hi Peter. Hazelnut trees are very hard to propagate from cuttings. Typically it is done via layering around the base of the tree and splitting the root, or developing roots on branches by burying a branch. I've made a few half hearted attempts to propagate them, but no success yet. All the best.
Is there a mechanic machine for tractor tho thinning small tres buds which grows every season?
Hello. I don't know if there is such a machine. I would not be surprised if there was! All the best.
I would like to see how they turn out using the central leader method. I have 2200 hazelnut trees that I pruned open center. You get lots straight watersprouts for wreaths the year after heavy pruning.
Hello Ross. Where are you based? If you have any tips on pruning, I would love to hear them. All the best.
@@GubbFarm my farm is in southwestern Ontario Canada. We are close to Lake Erie where it gets quite windy, so my plans are to keep the trees from getting too tall. I was taught by an experienced orchard grower, Afghanistan refugee who came to Canada.
I notice your ground is pretty wet you can see rushes or reeds ,our field is semi marsh land and I have planted our cobnuts in to a mound of soil to get them out of the wet. What variety of hazel are you growing here?
Hello Rose. Good to hear from you. The lower bottoms are very wet but so far it looks like the trees are surviving being half drowned most of the year around.
That is an interesting idea creating a mound of soil.
I have planted a mix of hazel including Cosford, Webb's, Nottinghams, Halls Giants, EMOA1 and Red Zeller. So far Cosfords appear to be doing the best.
Keep in touch and let me know how your trees evolve. All the best.
@@GubbFarm Im totally new to farming but have planted 3 acres of elderberries all in mounds over past 3 years, its been a ton of work with me mainly doing it. We are on the somerset levels Uk, very low ground, lots of reeds. I have also planted around 30 hazel mainly cosford and kentish cob a few pearsom prolific
Great video and lots of info thanks, I watched this (ua-cam.com/video/KUXYd4wwIeY/v-deo.html) that has an interesting different approach, I have no idea which is better, I guess it comes down to context re harvest methods and machinery but though it was worth putting here, (not in English but press the little [CC] icon in the bottom right). There is just so little info about what to do for best results, congrats for having a go and I hope your efforts create a bountiful return in the not so distant future.
Thanks for that. I'm currently pruning the hazel trees and find myself cutting less and shaping more. I will take the camera with me and do a video on it soon.
All the best.
Would them trimmings root? Or is it too early?
Hi. I have heard about root trimming but I have not used that technique yet. There was probably root loss during transplanting already. I must look into this to learn more. Thank you.
@@GubbFarm I think they were asking if you could root the cuttings. I'm sure you could but you would still need the root stock if you have any kind of dwarfing root stock on the current trees. Otherwise, you would end up with full size hazelnut trees.
You are right Steve and my apologies Mr Shambles. I was on strong painkillers yesterday, so wasn't at my best. I will explain why in the next video.
I did try to root hazel cuttings by putting them into the ground after pruning last year, but none of them took.
What we are currently trying, as I type this, is creating a rooting hormone from Willow to try and get some late planting of Blackcurrants from cuttings established. As part of that, I am going to take some wild hazel cuttings and see if I can use a rooting compound to get them established in a jar.
If it works, it might be an easier way than layering hazel to propagate them... but time will tell.
@@GubbFarm Dary, I wonder if you could propagate/root the Hazelnuts using the same technique I use in my propagating roses video. Might be worth a try on a few of the cutting you have.
@@GubbFarm haha don't worry ,I was taking blackcurrant cuttings today,they root real easy ,I have had great success just sticking them in the ground and also just putting them in plain water and letting them root in a northish facing window ,I thought about the willow but I didn't bother ,look forward to next video 👍🏻