How to Prune Your Arborvitaes Like a Pro!
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- Опубліковано 29 вер 2024
- Arborvitaes are beautiful and make wonderful living fences, however they can become untamed and wild in a matter of a couple years resulting in unhealthy, misshapen trees that are falling over and are truly an eye sore. this video will help you prune your arborvitaes to look so pretty your neighbors will all think you are a professional.
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Thank you for this information! I have several arborvitaes (Emerald and Forever Goldie), and pine-type trees (little and big). I lost the top of a little pine tree and an Emerald in the heat of the summer, last year, but the bottom of both have a lot of new growth. Now I know that they will get a new top.
7:30 in and he still hasn't shown how to prune the goddamn tree...
Should have read this comment before wasting 8 minutes of my life.
@@huckfinnmedia7266 Yes, such a waste of oxygen, this guy.
Millennials love to hear themselves talking.
Izzy Thomas 😂😂
flap his gums too much go get a tissue blow your nose and get to the point
Maybe prune the video too. 😂🗣✂️
Lol. Thank God somebody posted on when the actual video starts. Otherwise I would have been really really pissed.
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All vid was needed. SOME of us wanted all the info
@@brokenbutterfly3178 I wish I had found that comment. For the first 4-5 minutes, I was like wtf!
@@al4377 Not him.
He needed to hurry to get back to PronHub.
I have a row of 16" arborvitae that are losing their leader from what appears to be overwatering. Do you have any recommendation on what to do? I'm shocked they've been overwatered because it's very dry here with days reaching well over 100.
How about a video on propagating them from the cuttings ? Have a great day =)
Hi, good video. Learned a lot. How many branches do you have to cut on one tree?
Thanks for this informative video.
I have 5 Emerald Arborvitaes, like you I use them as a fence because fence is not allowed to go pass the front of the house. They are about 10 years old and getting too tall, do you know how to cut the height down? thank you.
What about a Dwarf ARBORVITAE don't know much about them it's called a dwarf I would assume it would be growing very little and not to it would have reached a certain height and that maxes out I assume tried to find info on it anyways you can trim it as your video shows I assume you could trim the top as well to control the height as well as the with if need be trimming? I look forward to replies and advice about this could it be used for in the garden the rear of the garden.
Mary and Joseph prune the tree already
Wait until they get 8-12 ft. high and branches are 1- 1 1/2" thick along with the main stalks being 4'' in diameter. Do not buy this type of Arb it looks like what some call an American Arb, or pyramidal Arb. There are some darker in color and grow more tightly where the branches as the Arb grows won't fall away from the shrub when snow falls and freezes on it. I live in PA about 40 miles north of Philly and I'm in zone 5. Don't do what the experts tell you...plant no closer than 3 ft. I was told 32". It will take longer to achieve privacy as far as height but not as long as you think because when planted so close they rob each other of the nutrients in the soil no matter what type of Arb your talking.
These Arbs I'm looking at in this video are cheaper but now 28 yrs later, I would never plant them again. I have a fence line with 31 of these Arbs in it...big mistake and planting @ 32" caused slower growing and the overall health of the plant...needed to fertilize more than I should have.
ever bonsai arborvaties MIgardener? scored a 4 footer for 5$ off the sale rake
The information you want to know is between the 7 and 8 minute mark.
Did I really watch a 10 min video to see him prune 1 branch.....
I’ve got a bunch of questions! I have a fence of green giant arborvitae and every winter some get brown tips to them that don’t recover in summer. Someone told me it’s called flagging from the cold wind. Any ideas? Also because they are not pines one would not want to use miracid fertilizer,is that true. Your friend Marc from west falls ny
It is exactly from the cold wind. The burn can be prevented by taking burlap and wrapping them. Some are hardier than others.
7:35
Mine are about 60 years old. 16’ high and a huge wall of privacy, wind and noise barrier. I haven’t trimmed in 20+ years except on the inside to be able to walk to the front door. Love them!!!
My question is two fold. What do we do when they get too big to prune? And also what’s your spacing in trees for the live fence?
Way too much info-we just want to see the purning. Moving along...
This is completely wrong pruning unless you are looking for an arborvitae that is very short, more or less the height they are now. The way you are pruning here will allow the main steam to grow and bottom will never fill out properly making the tree look awkward. I have arborvitaes that I planted 7 years ago, never pruned them and they look great, snow falls right off. The pruning you are doing should not be done until the are the height you want them to be.
He’ll probably want to keep this height. If he leaves the alone and lets them go, he’ll have the power company trimming them for him. They don’t like it when trees grow into their power lines.
Dude, thank you and all, but this could have been about 1 minute. Cut to the chase.
give us an update on the progress of how big your living fence has grown ;)
you talked 10 min to show 1 cut, nice :D
Too much gab, not enough demenstration.
I hope you regrow the pieces you cut off. I’m learning how to grow cuttings.
Very helpful video! Now I will prune mine with confidence. Thank you!
I have a line of Giant Arborvitaes and they are at about 9' now and i would like for them to stop growing high, can I trim each their tips before they grow taller and they have large trunks that won't look nice after cutting?
I like how each one has its own pile of snow - lol!
Excellent communication skill. Explaining background story (the why & what) helps viewer trust creator is not a NutJob. Lol
I learned a lot and now understand the reasons I need to follow instructions.
Magnificently informative video easy to follow.
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"Arborvitis" would be a tree inflammation. Please man.
I have 10-15 year old 15-25 foot arborvitae that I've never pruned and nothing like you say has ever happened. They look perfect.
You talk way too much to explain something that can be said in 60 seconds or less.
Would this apply to Taylor Juniper also? I would actually like them to be more dense like in the stock photos. My Taylors seem sparse and whispy. Maybe bc they're still young. 🤷🏼♀️
1. It is not necessary to prune arborvitae, certainly not ALL of them
2. Your first tree is dying due to lack of WATER. You need to water the heck out of emerald green arborvitae, for at least the first 3 years
3. I planted 35 arborvitae in September 2016 and today-less than 3 years later-they have more than doubled in size.
4. You need to feed them 2x/yr and water, at least 2-3 times a week for 3 years. It is nearly impossible to over water arborvitae.
5. Your arborvitae do not look happy or healthy. I get that it’s winter, but still, they should look a lot better than this. They are EVERGREENS, after all.
6. Why do you keep saying they look beautiful? You shouldn’t be making videos about things you know nothing about.
7. You are spreading misinformation.
8. 👎
hello. i have my arborvitae for 2 years already, and they have massively grown for that period. i put minerals twice a year, and water regularly. but the problem is some of them are not straight, its like they continue to grow sideways and they look kinda sad. what could be the problem? to me it seems like the the upper part of the tree is too weak and it just go sideways.
Vlatko.R Are they all growing in the same direction ? If you have shady spots on your property, lots of trees, shrubs, and even grasses will purposely grow toward the direction of where the sun is strongest.
Now this I agree with!
Thanks for doing this video. We got hit with a nasty ice storm which made most of the branches to get top heavy. I thought they would just bounce back but no. Now I have a better understanding about how these trees grow. I am heading out to get them back in line. Once again thanks for the great tree lesson 🎄
Hi! I’m curious as to whether or not you wrapped your arborvitae with burlap to protect them from wind burn during the winter? I can’t tell if this is evening sun setting or morning sun rising.... keep an eye out for windburn if these are on the West. It will show a similar look to that leader that died on you... mites also display similar symptoms. Just curious! Thanks for posting!
The biggest mistake I see people make with Arborvitaes is to just let it grow indefinitely
without ever pruning them. Then one day they decide they are wayyy too large and decide to
prune 10 feet off. At that point the branches are so thick they are hard to prune without a
chainsaw. If you let them grow to 20+ feet, they become much more vulnerable to a
windstorm because longer branches act as a lever to break the leaders at their base. Our neighbor
lost his entire 20'+ tree because it was in an area of his back yard that began getting water runoff
from recently cemented neighboring yards and the combination of rain & wind brought the entire
tree down by the roots. At a time when our weather is becoming more violent, it is increasingly
important to prune trees and tall bushes like arborvitae. (We are getting a lot more windstorms
in the ten years since we moved here, and they are also more violent.)
I like keeping our arborvitae at about 8-10 feet tall. Anything larger than that is hard for many
homeowners to maintain. We prune them every 2-3 years, to bring them back down to about 8'.
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metro-Philadelphia
Bill Zardus very helpful! Much appreciated.
if It is already growing out and wide is it even possible to make it grow tall. I'm thinking about just ripping it out. So frustrating.
Very long video, couldnt get to the point... nth iv learned
He starts actually doing the pruning around 7:00 if anyone came here because of the, yknow, title of the video
Oh boy... I can see many people butchering a perfectly fine arborvitae. I have some green giants and emerald greens that have never been pruned except for damaged branches to slightly control the width on the green giants. If you buy them from a nursery with a main leader they should be fine as is.
How much can I cut off without killing the tree of they are life 15 years old??? They are in my property and I don't want to kill them but I want a fence. They are taller than my house and have never had any care at all.
Why wouldn't u let them go natural? I see nothing wrong w them young abors.
The branches naturally stay towards the trunk as far i as seen...
I feel like I need an update on these EGA from 2 years ago.
I just wire the leaders to the main stem. No pruning. No bald spot. When it gets too big, I offer it free on Craig's List as a Christmas tree or for someone that wants a bigger tree cheap. As you know, you just can whack it off to make it shorter.
Please clarify the whacking off part.
@@LosBerkos lol
Do they have to be a certain size before pruning? I planted 2 last year and are still smallish, but have several leaders on each.
jeez folks with 1k subs can get to the point in under a minute, wtf is ur game?
It’s not a pine tree. Closer to the cedar family. You do want to cut at a 45° angle but not for visual reasons.
Don’t prune your trees.
They are alive.
They don’t like being cut up.
Mines gonna get to grow as big as they like. my northern white cedars are more spread out they don't grow that tight is what I'm saying
Thank you so much for this. I have golden arborvitae and I have never pruned them. I did not know I had to. I will get on that ASAP.
Well you don't "have" to, but it would certainly be highly recommended.
It looks lik your neighbors accross the street and to the right are also on a corner lot and have a fence.
Well... first day of spring is tomorrow... tomorrow night there is another nor’easter (forth nor’easter this month) and we’re getting 8 inches of snow. That is spring in Massachusetts for you
Tony's Gardening I'm in Minnesota and we have -30 degree weather into March and 100+ degrees in summer so plants just hate us. More snow is coming for us too.
I wish this was just normal Spring weather in the Northern hemisphere, but it's not.
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Tony's Gardening Same here I’m in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and cough same type of weather
Tony's Gardening I
Is there a way to increase the vertical growth more than horizontal growth? so if I want the tree to grow taller more, not wider
Better choice would be a mixed shrub border instead of a row of the same plant.
Yikes, so much talking and only one trimming example..
I'm in Indiana when is the last date to prune emerald green arborvitae in the spring.
What kind of Arborvitaes are they? Emerald greens or Green Giants?
I'm not trimming mine unless it's to make cuttings from the white cedars
Good advice. I do this on a case by case basis. However In areas with minimal snow I like the multiple leaders when 3-5 arborvitae are clustered together. Looks like many spires and a nice look
No need to prune. Show me those bad arborvitaes.
Not really sure what you mean by a 45 degree angle. Could not see the cut you made
10 minute video to show us ONE cut. Dude, you just wasted my time.
Nice video I have 50 of them on my property I love them for a fence and simply for decor also every snow fall I shake them to stop the damage and in the spring after the growing season I top them all the same at 6 feet and they look great I know it’s a lots of work but it worth it I keep mine like a flat top it seem to work for me
I didn't manage to propagate Thuja like that
Does anyone know if I can cut the top so that I keep control of their height?
what a waste of time
I just planted 32 emerald green this 1st week of June in Michigan- they are about 5 feet tall they do need to be pruned but since I've just planted them should we wait until next spring?
Not so much a how-to video, more a how-to-talk-about video
Two minutes of your video was pruning...
Prune the video A whole lot of talk but gets nowhere
Can you do another video on how you are doing with your arbors
How close can these be planted to a foundation?
As much as I hate to, I’m going to have to be the bearer of bad news. If you’ll review your video, then stop it at about 6.50 on, then look directly above your trees, what do you see? Looks like bad news to me. Thuja arborvitae and power lines are definitely not compatible with each other. If I may make a suggestion, I would suggest going ahead and trimming them to height hedge you’ll want to maintain them at. If they get much taller before topping, you run the risk of possibly killling them.
These are emerald greens - top out at 14 foot max
Just wondering what they look like now
At 8:10 it would have been better to cut from below.
These varieties don't do well in eastern Nova Scotia. They remain nice for a few years then they become unsightly. These modern hybrids reduce their ability to withstand adverse conditions. My parents have some beautiful cedars that are over 40 years old. These varieties are no longer available,,,,,,,sadly.
I’d planted Emerald over one hundred of them
Too bad you don't live closer to us 😊
Great vid. have a natural fence of about 15 and they are now about 9 feet and joining together. I'll need to do some maintenance on them as I notice a lot of dead spots inside. Most are in full sun all day fortunately. This was very helpful.
Can we see the living fence now?
They are also cheap to replace if one does die.
I'm so lost. I have arborvitae that are 20-30' tall, and have been neglected for decades. I'm pruning the dead stuff out and it looks like I'm gonna have to have them naked for the first 3-5'??? They look like a multi-trunked pine tree. I just don't know WHAT to do.
Don’t prune your trees.
Let them grow.
@@magacop5180 Let them grow so no one will ever be able to get in the driveway? They've GOT to be trimmed back.
Are those green giants or emerald greens?
Get to the point already. It's at 8:30.
This guy is annoying......I'm out
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Thank you for all the good information! You’re great.
Any advice on keeping them from getting too tall? I’ve seen so me really really tall ones, and I’d like to keep mine from getting too tall-and they’re probably as tall as I’d like them to be now.
You can prune the top to keep them a certain height. Just don't prune off more than 8-10 inches at a time then give them a few months to recover.
Good lord just get to the point.
Did that gap ever filled up?
Don't do this
Did you prune in the winter ?
You talk to much about nothing.
Wow, I never knew! I'm so glad we never bought any when we thought about doing it. Thanks for sharing your knowledge. :-)
I planted panicle hydrangeas as hedges along the side of the property, just need to prune and fertilize, preferred, not required. A lot more beautiful and less to worry
I just planted 6footer"s I'm starting to see brown patches does that mean thier dieing or just in shock???please help.
They probably need water... Arborvitae require a lot of water as they have shallow roots.
I just did a bush trimming video (check it out on my channel). I like'd yours better tho. Great job.
Today I learned... Thank you! I have some of those trees I put in last year and I'll be sure to take your advice.
Are those giants ?
Enjoy the pruning.
Is this a talking show?