It would be great to see an update on your nursery at this time of year. Maybe take us on a relaxing walk on a path you take daily?🤗 I'm sure you're very busy but it would be so lovely (especially for some of us who are living in flats atm) to see how you and your food forest are doing. It is so inspiring reading your book. Thank you!
Wow! Your place is like a dream! One day ❤ lol to the 50 cats comment! I try to tell people and they roll thier eyes, but more cats helps so much! I routinely feed 5 who stick around. I can see rabbits at night but none eat my garden. I see birds all day long and none eat my berries. Cats 😁
I am new to the channel, so this is blowing my mind! I just ordered 25 hazlenut seedlings from Virginia forestry, I am very excited about this channel, to get advice on how to best care for them, they'll be here march 15th. I can see this is the right place for advice on the subject!
Akiva, I know you're extremely busy this time of year, but it would be lovely to see a tour of your farm with the autumn colours, whenever you can find a couple of minutes (or an hour 😅😊🤗).
I'm interested in the class. I currently work part time at a nursery focusing mainly on apples but I would love to learn more about propagation from seed. I'm in south western Michigan. I think our climate zones match so your techniques most likely apply to my environment here. I always look forward to your videos. Found you through the edible acres channel. Thanks!
Are you gonna do another course? I would be very interested, because you really seem like a well of knowledge, and I already learned so much just from your videos. Keep on going! :)
Sorry I missed this! I used your method of using a paint agitator to get seeds from an heirloom pear tree in my yard. The thing has to be almost 100 years old and it pumped out the fruit this year. None of my other fruit trees did anything. I busted sod but have yet to prep the bed. I was thinking about starting the seeds this fall and letting them over-winter.
Is there a reason you plant the mulberries by seed rather than propagate from cuttings? Do you later graft onto the mulberries or are the quite true to type? and what way would you recommend to extract the seeds from the mulberry fruits for planting?
Wow, this is so awesome. I would love to do something similar but the problem is that I would need to irrigate because of the long, dry and hot summers where I live.
Do you know if the air prune beds negatively effect the taproot after they are transplanted into the ground? Thanks. Love the work you're doing. Truly inspiring.
Tap roots are a seedling condition that trees outgrow once established. Air pruning eliminates the tap root and creates a fibrous root system that makes transplanting easier on the tree and the grower. Trees don't have to have a tap root, its just a survival mechanism to survive drought the first couple seasons during establishment.
and lastly... is there a way of doing a partial course, ie. do all the online theory/class, and not receive the seeds and cuttings because not in the US...?
Akiva putting a link in the video is a bit of a rigmarole there's some form you have to fill out to prove that the the website you're linking to is your own. But anyway you should get the link into the description and maybe even just add a comment directly to the video yourself with the link in it and then pin it so it's always the first comment anybody sees. Have you thought about maybe offering the class with none of this shipped material for those of us who were outside of the US?
Thanks. Someone asked me about the class outside the U.S., I will give it some more thought and come up with a plan for that at some point in the near future. Thanks for the prompt.
Here is the link for Abundant Propagation www.twisted-tree.net/abundant-propagation/abundant-propagation Turns out its a lot of work to embed a link into a youtube video
It would be great to see an update on your nursery at this time of year. Maybe take us on a relaxing walk on a path you take daily?🤗
I'm sure you're very busy but it would be so lovely (especially for some of us who are living in flats atm) to see how you and your food forest are doing. It is so inspiring reading your book. Thank you!
Wow! Your place is like a dream! One day ❤ lol to the 50 cats comment! I try to tell people and they roll thier eyes, but more cats helps so much! I routinely feed 5 who stick around. I can see rabbits at night but none eat my garden. I see birds all day long and none eat my berries. Cats 😁
I am new to the channel, so this is blowing my mind! I just ordered 25 hazlenut seedlings from Virginia forestry, I am very excited about this channel, to get advice on how to best care for them, they'll be here march 15th. I can see this is the right place for advice on the subject!
VERY interested in how the Black Locust turned out! 👀👂
Akiva, I know you're extremely busy this time of year, but it would be lovely to see a tour of your farm with the autumn colours, whenever you can find a couple of minutes (or an hour 😅😊🤗).
Looking awesome. I planted some of your chestnuts and they are doing well with no care, my sun even ran over them with a mower and they came back up.
I'm interested in the class. I currently work part time at a nursery focusing mainly on apples but I would love to learn more about propagation from seed. I'm in south western Michigan. I think our climate zones match so your techniques most likely apply to my environment here. I always look forward to your videos. Found you through the edible acres channel. Thanks!
Are you gonna do another course? I would be very interested, because you really seem like a well of knowledge, and I already learned so much just from your videos. Keep on going! :)
Sorry I missed this! I used your method of using a paint agitator to get seeds from an heirloom pear tree in my yard. The thing has to be almost 100 years old and it pumped out the fruit this year. None of my other fruit trees did anything. I busted sod but have yet to prep the bed. I was thinking about starting the seeds this fall and letting them over-winter.
SOunds good. Just rake them lightly into the soil and cover with a light mulch.
Love this, very innovative. Do you have any plum propagation methods by any chance ?
I grow plums from seed and grafting. Stone fruits from seed need cold stratification
Akiva, I HATE my honey locusts. They attack with their huge thorns. I'm going to try the black locusts.
Is there a reason you plant the mulberries by seed rather than propagate from cuttings? Do you later graft onto the mulberries or are the quite true to type? and what way would you recommend to extract the seeds from the mulberry fruits for planting?
These blue jays are really after my nuts. The struggle is real
Awesome. Really inspiring, this is what I want to do! :)
Wow, this is so awesome. I would love to do something similar but the problem is that I would need to irrigate because of the long, dry and hot summers where I live.
why dont you like growing trees in pots?
Very Inspiring, Thankyou
Would there be a possibility of receiving seeds or cuttings of that Black Locust strain?
Not right now, maybe next year. I just have regular black locust seeds now
Do you know if the air prune beds negatively effect the taproot after they are transplanted into the ground? Thanks. Love the work you're doing. Truly inspiring.
Tap roots are a seedling condition that trees outgrow once established. Air pruning eliminates the tap root and creates a fibrous root system that makes transplanting easier on the tree and the grower. Trees don't have to have a tap root, its just a survival mechanism to survive drought the first couple seasons during establishment.
@@akivasilver-twistedtreefar3930 Awesome. Thank you. I didn't know that.
and lastly... is there a way of doing a partial course, ie. do all the online theory/class, and not receive the seeds and cuttings because not in the US...?
Do you ever has issues with Deer? I planted some sugar maple seedlings and deer munched on them within a week!!
Yes, I protect everything I want to grow from deer
Nice!!
what's your propagation medium? just dirt and some woody mulch?
Wherever I can, powerline companies, arborists. I also buy loads of sawdust from the sawmill down the road.
Woops, I replied to a different comment by accident. I mostly just use soil. It is well amended with compost
What Chestnut seeds do you have ? And disease resistant America Chestnut s. ?
hybrid chestnuts of japanese x american x chinese
Twisted Tree Farm do you sell nuts ?
Yes, in October. I started selling seeds on the website www.twisted-tree.net
Have you ever propagated Osage Orange Trees?
yes, lots of times by seed
Twisted Tree Farm thanks. Going to give it a try.
Akiva putting a link in the video is a bit of a rigmarole there's some form you have to fill out to prove that the the website you're linking to is your own. But anyway you should get the link into the description and maybe even just add a comment directly to the video yourself with the link in it and then pin it so it's always the first comment anybody sees. Have you thought about maybe offering the class with none of this shipped material for those of us who were outside of the US?
Thanks. Someone asked me about the class outside the U.S., I will give it some more thought and come up with a plan for that at some point in the near future. Thanks for the prompt.
Here is the link for Abundant Propagation www.twisted-tree.net/abundant-propagation/abundant-propagation Turns out its a lot of work to embed a link into a youtube video