How To Prune Fruit Trees With Paul Gautschi
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- Опубліковано 23 гру 2020
- Y'all have been asking for this one for a really long time now and i finally was able to get it done for you! Now I've recorded a couple pruning videos in the past but I didn't have the gimbal and there was no snow on the ground in the videos... so that said they basically sucked haha. the videos were always shaky and the branches always blended into the wood chips on the ground making it really hard to pick up on camera! Paul wanted to do some pruning today and while I was out with him I was like "hey we should try to make another video with the snow and see if it helps with capturing the branches on camera"... and so thats what we did! I hope this video helps you and you enjoy it! Thanks for watching and God bless!!!
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Thanks for sharing bro. Massive respect and love to Paul the Prophet 🪶
I've watched over 8hrs a day in my beginning plant ventures 4yrs ago watching Paul and hearing his words of wisdom. I've studied and memorized everything he said and thank you for sharing your knowledge. I'm also a man of Christ from the Tribe of Issachar so according to the Testament Of Issachar it's funny how I found the garden first and then the bible next to realize my Forefather Issachar was married to husbandry. I wish this video was longer and look forward to turning deserts into food forests with my farm land lots from your inspiration. Blessings 💚🌱🙏🏽👊🏽
Love your name... I named our church community garden, “Garden of Eatin’” too. Merry Christmas!
Dude your name is OUT OF THIS WORLD. love it.
When you asked what the name of the tree was, my mind laughed at the thought of Paul saying something like, "Fred." LOL
Shared only because it might make you laugh, too.
I feel so bad for Paul watching him walk. No one can say he isn’t determined!
That snow really did work wonders on the video. I'll have to remember that when I go to record pruning my peaches. I probably won't publish them, but is the easiest way to keep a journal.
Love what you’ve done with this video. Paul knows trees and you know trees so a lot was unsaid which the people that don’t know trees could have learned from. I would love if Paul and you had the time if you did a A to Z of orchard tree installation, training into Paul’s form, and then pruning. This I think is the missing piece in all of the videos of Paul’s method at his property. Still a brilliant video cheers!
Paul, from our family👫 to yours, Seasons Greetings. Thank you for pruning tips ! Gonna give those tools a try. Have spent so much on tools that don't last a season hardly. Blessings! Beautiful Happy Healthy Rabbits! Lots of nutrients in the bark! 🐇 🐰 🐇 🐰 🐇
Happy Holidays. Glad to see a short video including Paul. His shorter specific topic videos are great.
My Hart goes out to Paul for he doesn't give up and he keeps sharing his wisdom . I wish Doctors would stop treating the symptom and fix the problem so this man could walk again and start a teaching class on this stuff . The world needs people like him just like we needed Steve Irwin the crocodile hunter . If the people in this world would study people like paul and Steve and stop all the bad thing that they do and learn things that is productive no one would ever go hungry in the world and no animal would ever have to be killed for food ever again . This man is a true pioneer and should be treated as one. Thanks Paul for your service and for your teaching
There is no fix. It's a neurological issue. Likely he had a genetic predisposition that Agent Orange was the environmental trigger for. My dad was poisoned by the US while being forced to be human fodder for empire.
Merry Christmas gents. I guess I should go prune my fruit trees too. Thanks for the info
I learned a lot from this video I have pear trees better about 4 years old I got blooms for the first time this summer 2020 and hoping that is summer coming 2021 I will finally have pears I am having the same experience with my Peach trees here in Indiana I tried to be selectively with the right fruit trees so at least they're not dead but pruning was rocket science to me until today I can't wait to get up in the morning and get at it with the pear trees. It's so simple and I understand now and I'm so excited. Words of wisdom to me were " it's not a science it's art"💖🙌 I really understood that. Also thank you for the knowledge about the rabbits. I have thought about getting two or three this spring for the grandkids and the garden compost. I can't express how grateful that I am I feel the presence of God and lead to such a greater and beautiful understanding and knowledge as I continue to research through your vlogs. I hope to see more winter projects
That’s awesome! We’ll have fun pruning and I hope you get a lot of fruit this summer!
Merry Christmas Nick, Paul, and Carol! God bless you!
Audio is great!! Thanks for doing this Nick!! Love you!! Merry Christmas 🎄🎁
Merry Christmas Nick, Paul and Carol!!!
Merry Christmas guys 🎄 God is so good. I've learned do much from you Paul & Nick ,our little orchard is coming along nicely as I prune it downward it's easier to harvest each year. Thank you😍❄🙏💞
Great idea, the snow really did help the branches to show up better. Merry Christmas to you all & God bless! Thank you for taking the time to share the wisdom and vision granted to you both (and Carol too). Love and prayers from AZ.
Thank you for all of your advice and Merry Christmas!
I pray this finds Paul healed and in no pain. 🙏💕
We love you Paul and thank you Nick for doing what you are doing there in Eden ❤️🥬🍎🌱🍅
Thank you for this! The snow makes it so much easier to see!
Keep it up!
I just love the look of these trees
I would love to know how to prune a tree from the beginning. I planted some fruit trees about 3 feet tall. I'm not sure when to start pruning because they are so young. And then how to start pruning the way Paul does with trees so young. Any videos for that or pointers. I appreciate you posting this video.
There are a few full garden tours where he mentions pruning them a little on the first year.
There is a great little book titled: Grow a Little Fruit Tree, that I ordered through our local library.
Basically, if you want to keep a tree small and manageable, prune it around the Summer Solstice. If you want to encourage exponential growth and branching, prune when it's dormant- Winter time.
Merry Christmas! Thank you for sharing!
God bless him.
Merry christmas from Holland
I have not been able to find the scabbard. Could you please post a link? I did order the saw and am waiting for it. Excited!
Hi Nick. Thank you for showing us your work and Paul´s wisdom. Wondering if you could ask Paul to teach us how he prunes diferente trees like plums, cherrys and figs or any other tree he has on his property. Thank you in advance
He actually prune them all the same
Thank you for the tip on what to do with your pruned branches.
I knew rabbits in the wild nibbled branches butbI thought it was only due to lack of other foods available.
So, my branches shooting straight up in my apples can be pruned?
Wish our snow in the Texas panhandle melted. It usually evaporates before it melts into the ground. Blowing dust on the white snow is heartbreaking.
Most apple orchardists seem to promote a central leader. I am drawn to this “outward and downward” style. It would seem to really facilitate picking. Still, in our Southern California mountains the sun is brutal in the summer. I fear that those exposed main branches would be destroyed on the tops from sunburn. From my experience here at over 5000 feet there needs to be leaf cover.
I was told by an orchardist here in CA we can’t prune this way bc our summers are long & hot, the sun would damage the limbs if they were that exposed.
One way is to plant a tree and let it grow lol. If you aren’t overly concerned with aesthetics, height etc. nature grows tree pretty well. I would remove crossing and rubbing branches however. I’ve done this with a few trees myself and they are extremely healthy and large. You will get a much larger and taller tree, it’s good for a yard and creates a good natural habitat. Not the best for easy picking though... more of a habitat restoration with some fruit as a bonus. That will give you shade! Try looking into permaculture food forests
Merry Christmas
Thanks to Nick and Paul for the informative video. Would Paul benefit from using 2 canes when he walks? or perhaps a walker?
Honestly he wouldn’t use one. It’s make him feel old haha. He’s funny like that. He just takes his time and does what he’s got to do so work and feel as normal as possible. One staff is all he needs to get a job done!
Ha never. Paul doesn’t like help, he wants to do what he can to stay able himself.
Amazing
I like how his tree branches bend down like that. I imagine he trained them that way by putting weights on the branches when they were young?
Nope! It’s all simple pruning and training of the branches from the beginning!
He said in another video that the fruit was so heavy, the branches wouldn't stand upright.
I've started pruning my peach trees the way he prunes the apples. The fruit will pull them down. I have branches from my plum and peach trees that are lying on the ground when the fruit comes in. The higher branches have had issues with breaking off from being too heavy on two of my peach trees. It is great to be able to harvest so much while standing or even sitting, instead of climbing a latter.
This cascading is also encouraged by pruning back to a node that faces downward. If it faces upward, that’s where the branch will grow. Happy pruning.
@@garthwunsch no prune to lateral facing nodes and branches. The weight of the fruit bows them down.
Does this method of training trees have sunburn problems? I would imagine int other parts of the country it def would...
I wonder what Paul would say about grafting in to poorly selected varieties of young established trees? I planted a lot of red delicious, honey crisp, and gala trees because I thought I got a deal. They are not good trees for here and I doubt they will ever do well, but they have been in the ground in wood chips for 3 years now and have established roots. I'm curious if there would be benefit to grafting in more disease resistant scions in and slowly eliminate the original tree branches.
How do you get the trees to grow down initially? How do you train them to do that? Is it fruit weight that brought them down?
Those bunnies sure love ya! Are they pets ? Or used on the farm? Love these videos, thank you , blessings 💞
Haha yeah they get so excited to see me in the mornings! These ones are my breeders and are basically pets. They get named and really pampered a lot haha. I breed them for meat though. So I grow out the bunnies on pasture and raise them to feed the dogs and cats.
Common sense is not a common virtue nowadays 😅🤣😂🤣😅🤣😂
Where did Paul get his scabbard or holster that he uses to sheath his pruners and saw blade?
Bishop company is where he got his originally but I got mine a few years back from western rigging since bishop didn’t have em.
Do yall tie down the branches to encourage the curved downward growth or are you just pruning to buds in the direction you want?
I would love to know how Paul keeps the worms out of his apples without spraying. Or does he spray? I have avoided Apple trees because I don't want sprayed fruit.
great job paul as always. ive been told to pick the blossoms off my first year apple and pear trees so they dont fruit. i know this isnt done in nature so what do you think?
Trees also aren’t planted in nature they grow from seed and never get stressed from being dug up and replanted like they would be when you buy a tree and plant it in your orchard. I’d let them do their thing and then thin the fruit off the first year.
@@GrowingBackToEden so ill just thin the fruit to ease the burden on the young branches, or is there a metric for that?
@@THand141Homestead for the first year I’d take off every that fruits. After that just use your judgment and feel out the tree. It all depends on so many variables. If you think the branches are weak then thin more off it, if they look stronger leave a few.
Oh how cool, apple tree branches are a natural dewormer for rabbits!? Is that for only rabbits?
Can you feed rabbits any kind of tree clippings? I have live oaks, loquats, persimmons and figs. Can I use them? Or is there any tree thats poisonous to rabbits? Why not feed them fig clippings?
Well no animal eats fig leaves or branches in nature. The sap is latex in its natural and purest state. So it’s basically poisonous to them. I wouldn’t sees citrus clippings either as well as any other evergreen. I personally just would not ever do it. And for more than one reason that I can’t seem to figure out how to explain lol, sorry... you can feed oak but in small amounts. It’s a bit more potent than apple. And is say the same for persimmon As well
Do you have any other channels Nick or do this kind of stuff on any other social platforms?
Yeah I do, Check the description.
Thanks you guys for taking the time to make them for us very helpful and insightful, greatly appreciated.
What do you keep all the rabbits for please ? Fertliser?
I breed them for meat. And yes manure is definitely a bonus lol
Why do you put a graft on a tree?
I have a question. It seems like the main branches of those fruit trees keep getting longer and longer. At some point will the main branches become too long? According to the laws of leverage, they can’t keep getting longer when it’s only supported by one trunk. Is there a need to prune those big long branches at some point?
Every year your bring them back some. The big trees in the orchard are 40 years old and haven’t had problems with said last of leverage. Yes some bigger branches get taken out when they get in the way but all branches get long at some point. The tree isn’t like a building or something created my man. It was designed in a way that it can adapt and grow and strengthen itself as needed to sustain its health and vigor.
How do you start shaping and pruning a new tree into the way you have the apple trees on the orchard? I want to plant a couple of apple trees in my yard this year but I don’t understand how to the the whimsical look that so functional in these trees.
you have to train them with string and weights or string and pegs to pin branches out into the ground to whichever shape you desire.
garlic in the orchard?
Nick,
I remember hearing the brand and model of Paul's preferred Japanese razor saw for pruning. I can't find my notes.
What is the brand and model of the saw?
I think I have always used the same Felco pruners.
Thanks So Much.
Walter
There are links in the description
@@GrowingBackToEden THX I was not sure if it was the Regular or fine tooth.
I had already ordered this one: Samurai Shallenge GSM-330-MH (33cm) Heavy Duty Straight Hand Saw + Carrying Case Made in Japan Very Fine 3mm Tooth.
Works like a charm. I find myself not reaching for my snips as much.
Blessing to you Paul, Carol and all the critters.
Walter
where does Paul get his new trees? additionally, on average how old are the trees in his orchard?
Trees range from 2-42 years old. Some were even brought in as mature trees so they could be much older. Average is probably 25+ most of the trees he orders comes from burnt ridge nursery in onalaska
Winds from the hurricane shook my satsuma (orange) trees rather harshly this year... They need trimming, would you recommend waiting until next year and give the trees time to heal from all the shaking?
If it broke a bunch of branches then that might be a good idea. If not then go ahead and prune them but do like a quarter of the tree vs a third.
@@GrowingBackToEden Thank you! Yes many branches are broken... I will trim or remove only those branches. Thanks again, I appreciate you!
@@OhItsJustMe2 you bet!
we just bought 20 acres , The soil is like clay . will this method help us grow a large healthy Garden ? Help me please in Idaho !
This entire property is clay and rock. It’s soil like yours that the method was founded on.
oh good was worried cause I have lived in Idaho my whole life and i have never seen anything like this. Thank you !
@@GrowingBackToEden
Does anyone know if he uses standard, semi dwarf or dwarf rootstocks for his trees????
Semi dwarf and dwarf
why all the rabbits?
Did you say Tova? When did you take this video??? Did they get another choco lab and name her Tova? WTAF?!
Yup there’s been three of em... the original, then a puppy that was taken down chicken coop and got run over... that was sad and shouldn’t have ever happened, and then this one that we got from the pound like a year or year and a half ago.
@@GrowingBackToEden WTAF!? Who took the puppy down there and why? There needs to be more protections for animals. I hope no one gives my parents anymore animals. They abused their kids so why would anyone think animals would be safe with them.
A rabbit chewed my baby fig down so it must be good for them.
Figs are high in latex, deer won’t even eat them. I honestly don’t think fig tree leaves or branches are a good thing to feed them.
This reminds me of what we in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints call “the allegory of the olive tree.”
Have you tried feeding this guy 1-2kg of meat per day? Beef/Salmon/Chicken I know he tried all kinds of nonsense to fix his legs, but how about eating something good instead of apples?
Fuck, he can't walk anymore.
I’d say he’s still walking... it’s harder for him but he’s doing it!
@@GrowingBackToEden so when did you take this video cuz you just said, "Tova" and Tova is dead. Sadly. I miss that baby girl. She was the best bed bud.
@@honeybeebugg1 this was just from two months ago.
@@GrowingBackToEden well the chocolate lab threw me but now that I've read the story... You should be keeping the animals safe.