do what i did Ask GOd for water...houston no water for two months...i was outside and ask God to please send water because i was worry about the plants, trees, critters and long and behold rained next day and twice this week...
Pete…. Use a pvc pipe to get the roots watered…. “Deep root watering” Hammer in a pvc pipe that reaches the roots and add water through that directly to the roots… use a 1” pipe inside a 1-1/2” pipe …. Hammer them In… then pull the 1” out
Your fruit trees are looking awesome! I look forward to seeing how the Olympia Fig does for you. I hope you guys get rain soon. My father lives near Lufkin, and his place is crunchy-dry right now.
Every so often put a ring of compost on all them fruit trees I love fruit trees ..I live in Houston and I have had so many fruit tree but the freezes we have had killed plenty except my Love pear 🍐 tree Many Blessings to you Pete
For your trees that are almost dead use liquid seaweed once a month to bring them back. My Mum uses it in Australian to bring back trees and plants. You have nothing to lose.
I bought a piece of a fig tree through an organization croon a lady in Tyler. Rooted it and potted it for 2 years. It didn't do well so I planted it this year. It's put on more growth but the heat really stressed it out. Watered it pretty deep daily but it was still showing signs of stress. I'd taken my time mulching but finally added a layer of compost around it Friday and though I wasn't home to water Saturday it still is looking better than it has since the temps rose! I was told the roots are shallow so need extra above ground protection. The jujube sounds good! I may have to give that one a try.
Pruning really helps with fruiting. The bartlets look like should be pruned. Also give some potash and phosphorus. Most people over do the nitrogen and force more growth vs fruiting
Hi Pete The Anna & Golden Dorsett apples only require around 300 chill hours even a bit less. They are tropical varieties. Thanks for the video. From Ash Queensland Australia
Your problem with the warren and bartlett pears is that warren requires 600 chill hours and bartlett requires 1500 chill hours while keifer pear only requires 350 chill hours, you will be hard pressed to get more than 600 in most of east TX, so they are ornamentals at best. most Apricots require 600-900 chill hours also
On the trees that do not produce, I noticed all the branches are pointing up. Try to bend the branches down. You can use a coat hanger to bend the branches towards the ground.
One more comment: Same story here with my fruit trees. However, you may want to add fruiting quince and satsuma to your orchard. Yes, the -2F in 2/2021 hurt them. Replanting a satsuma. Quince has fruit now. You should check them out for your orchard!
I do have one satsuma on the side of my house that dies down to the ground every winter then sprouts again from the base. I might move it into the orchard with better soil and see what happens.
I live north east of Springfield MO and the rain has shut off. We had a itty bitty rain today which was nothing. And now next week it will be hotter than ever! I came from Florida and we would go through the no rain for almost 6 months, I was hoping her was different but we got most of the rain earlier. The garden is suffering so have to water which isn't as good as rain. My peach and apple trees are producing fruit but I will have to water them tomorrow.
We probably got two to three inches of rain Friday. I’m working in Port Arthur and they probably got ten inches from Thursday till Friday night. I’ve had decent luck with plums , nectarines and peaches. Biggest problem for me was squirrels eating green fruit . A lot of people grow Brown Turkey figs here ? Think that’s the name . Had an apple that was developed in Israel for heat . Set fruit but fire blight or something killed it within days . Good luck on the rain . Forecast for next week shows promise. Have a good one
For table grapes, I'm growing seedless Concord and Thomcord grapes. If you like them, try them out. Just a note, if you're going to buy seedless varieties, make sure you don't plant grapes with seeds close to them or your seedless variety will also have seeds. I'm also trying my luck with muscadine grapes.
The Warren tree is one you plant for your grandkids…it will produce beautiful pears, but it will take years for it to come on. They are supposedly the best pear to grow in our area. Just gotta be patient.
Really enjoyed the video. I live in central texas and my peach tree didn't take much damage from the cold weather these past two years, but this year I have 0 fruit on the tree, its a self pollinating variety and I know we had enough chill hours but the late frost we got killed off all my fruit buds. Try Victoria Red Grapes, they are a Texas SuperStar from Texas A&M!!!
Hey Pete, great video. Chill hours should be taken with a grain of salt, as with anything else in gardening and farming. Your granny smith and gala trees are doing okay, but that's all they'll ever do because they aren't from here. I'm experiencing the same thing over here, but I don't want my trees to just be okay, I want them to thrive. You'd stand a better chance playing around with King David, Arkansas Black, or any other southern heirloom variety (there are TONS.) Before anyone replies to tell me APPLES NEED CHILL HOURS OMG... Just search on youtube for apples growing in hot climates. They're growing them in the tropics. If you want healthy, vigorous, disease resistant seedlings or some scions for apples that will do well here, please don't hesitate to hit me up. Take care!
Some pear and some apples take 7years to produce I have a Persian pear it took seven years and now I get it hundred pounds or more in Pears ..but I do fight with the squirrels 😂
My Sam Houston & Florida King peach trees were untouched by the February Freeze here in zone 9b. I was able to get a few kings this year but hopefully year 3 will be bountiful. I have 14 inches of well drained soil above the December-water-table, my trees are mounded on more than 10 inches of leaf-mold over Sandy-loam with a ph of 5. My orchard has way more obvious stormwater-drainage & cold-air-drainage than yours. I'd suggest you don't dig holes & plant your replacement trees mounded, the roots will fan out like an umbrella. Having a flat garden allows the coldest air to pass by the plant's crown instead of going around your mound. The ag extension website has illustrations to cold-air-drainage.
We have tons of wild blackberries in April and May but I did buy some thornless ones when we first moved here but they later died. I'll look into to the prime ark thanks.
We have a weird mature apple tree on the property. It'll bear fruits 1 year and none the next. We are trying to "clone" the tree to create more apple trees - hopefully, will alternate the fruit bearing years allowing us to get apples every year. 😄
Thank you for your great videos. Sugar cane and Black Sea Jujubes are wonderful here in Austin, Sajo persimmons is a heavy producer but needs water based on what happened this year, Parfianka pomegranate and figs do also well. There's no such a thing as a hardy fig if left unprotected. They will dieback from a harsh winter. I left all three varieties of Col de Dame figs unprotected in ground after they got established and they keep coming back and produce fruit. I just added some mulberry varieties to my trees this year and will see how they do. Where in East Texas are you?
@@clivemossmoon3611 it took many years. My mom grew it from a seed. She actually thought it was a lemon tree shop how. She grew it in a large pot, but one day she planted it next to a creek that runs through the property, after a couple of years dad came in and told her that the tree produced a lemon and handed her a grapefruit. The tree is now taller than the house and we need an extension ladder and still can’t reach the top.
Here in South Montgomery County 100 was the daily high and we got .003 " of rain for the month of June, just awful. We didn't get a drop out of that tropical system either some rain in Katy but the majority in Beaumont and Port Arthur to the extent where it caused flooding, go figure. I wish I could say July will be better but it does not look that way. Have a good 4th of July.
Yes to hold moisture around the roots but they naturally sprout new plants from the roots. There's not a whole lot you can do but cut them when they come up or cut them deeper down so you get some roots with it and replant them somewhere else for a new tree.
I had a lemon tree in a pot which I put in my garage and did in okay and later planted in my orchard and two tangerine trees on the one side of my house that died down to the base and then re sprouted again.
people do not forget to put water outside in different points for the critters, birds, bees, snakes, larger animals...they are suffering as well and they are part of the ecosystem.
@@rondavis2791 no that is not a problem if you change the water every two days but if one is lazy then yes you will have issues with mosquitos..i prefer mosquitos than let the other critters/animals die from lack of water - have you been thirsty for a least two days and can not drink anything even buzz??? now imagine them without water for weeks at the time...it is a very painful dead..
@@lolitabonita08 ah that's true makes sense. I just figure the animals know where to go to get water. Mother nature's been doing her thing long before we got here and she'll be doing it long after we're gone 😉.
I'm not sure why you said "So much for climate change." You do know that is exactly what you are experiencing, right? Climate change is abmormal & extreme weather conditions including but not limited to hot dry, flooding, tornado, snow...
What's "abnormal" is the denial of manipulated data. What's "abnormal" is ignoring the history of weather. What's "abnormal" is one sided "science". What's "abnormal" is watching the those who have the dias and talk the loudest ignore their own "science" . There's much more, but when it's one sided and dramatic...well humans react... usually in fear and the end of the world is near. How many times was half the population going to die in the last 50 years, or the great floods and lost continents, or....or... or....?
do what i did Ask GOd for water...houston no water for two months...i was outside and ask God to please send water because i was worry about the plants, trees, critters and long and behold rained next day and twice this week...
We also have a super drought here in the Ozarks, northern Arkansas along with terrible high miserable heat. No rain for several weeks now.
Pete…. Use a pvc pipe to get the roots watered…. “Deep root watering”
Hammer in a pvc pipe that reaches the roots and add water through that directly to the roots… use a 1” pipe inside a 1-1/2” pipe …. Hammer them
In… then pull the 1” out
I’m in East Texas, too. Hurtin with you regarding the drought and garden.
Asian pear trees are great in houston areas!
Your fruit trees are looking awesome! I look forward to seeing how the Olympia Fig does for you.
I hope you guys get rain soon. My father lives near Lufkin, and his place is crunchy-dry right now.
Thanks, I hope this Olympia fig does well too. I'm been longing to sink my teeth in to a fresh fig for years now.
Texas a&m has some good info on grapes. I just bought me some so fingers crossed.
Every so often put a ring of compost on all them fruit trees
I love fruit trees ..I live in Houston and I have had so many fruit tree but the freezes we have had killed plenty except my Love pear 🍐 tree
Many Blessings to you Pete
For your trees that are almost dead use liquid seaweed once a month to bring them back. My Mum uses it in Australian to bring back trees and plants. You have nothing to lose.
I bought a piece of a fig tree through an organization croon a lady in Tyler. Rooted it and potted it for 2 years. It didn't do well so I planted it this year. It's put on more growth but the heat really stressed it out. Watered it pretty deep daily but it was still showing signs of stress. I'd taken my time mulching but finally added a layer of compost around it Friday and though I wasn't home to water Saturday it still is looking better than it has since the temps rose! I was told the roots are shallow so need extra above ground protection.
The jujube sounds good! I may have to give that one a try.
Pruning really helps with fruiting. The bartlets look like should be pruned. Also give some potash and phosphorus. Most people over do the nitrogen and force more growth vs fruiting
Thank you,💖 🌺🦋.
Your garden looks great. Thanks for sharing
If you have a non-self pollinating tree, you can graft a scion of the pollination type tree to the top of that tree and it will self pollenating
Hi Pete
The Anna & Golden Dorsett apples only require around 300 chill hours even a bit less. They are tropical varieties. Thanks for the video. From Ash Queensland Australia
Thanks for the info!
Your problem with the warren and bartlett pears is that warren requires 600 chill hours and bartlett requires 1500 chill hours while keifer pear only requires 350 chill hours, you will be hard pressed to get more than 600 in most of east TX, so they are ornamentals at best. most Apricots require 600-900 chill hours also
I have a friend who has been gardening for 55 years and he keeps reminding me it is experimenting not gardening 😊
On the trees that do not produce, I noticed all the branches are pointing up. Try to bend the branches down.
You can use a coat hanger to bend the branches towards the ground.
One more comment: Same story here with my fruit trees. However, you may want to add fruiting quince and satsuma to your orchard. Yes, the -2F in 2/2021 hurt them. Replanting a satsuma. Quince has fruit now. You should check them out for your orchard!
I do have one satsuma on the side of my house that dies down to the ground every winter then sprouts again from the base. I might move it into the orchard with better soil and see what happens.
At least you're getting a forecast of rain percentage. I'm an hour SE of Dallas and all my forecast calls for are hot sunny days (up to 104).
We only got about two minutes of rain out of that system. Not enough to do anything 🙁
I live north east of Springfield MO and the rain has shut off. We had a itty bitty rain today which was nothing. And now next week it will be hotter than ever! I came from Florida and we would go through the no rain for almost 6 months, I was hoping her was different but we got most of the rain earlier. The garden is suffering so have to water which isn't as good as rain. My peach and apple trees are producing fruit but I will have to water them tomorrow.
We probably got two to three inches of rain Friday. I’m working in Port Arthur and they probably got ten inches from Thursday till Friday night. I’ve had decent luck with plums , nectarines and peaches. Biggest problem for me was squirrels eating green fruit . A lot of people grow Brown Turkey figs here ? Think that’s the name . Had an apple that was developed in Israel for heat . Set fruit but fire blight or something killed it within days . Good luck on the rain . Forecast for next week shows promise. Have a good one
For table grapes, I'm growing seedless Concord and Thomcord grapes. If you like them, try them out. Just a note, if you're going to buy seedless varieties, make sure you don't plant grapes with seeds close to them or your seedless variety will also have seeds. I'm also trying my luck with muscadine grapes.
The Warren tree is one you plant for your grandkids…it will produce beautiful pears, but it will take years for it to come on. They are supposedly the best pear to grow in our area. Just gotta be patient.
Really enjoyed the video. I live in central texas and my peach tree didn't take much damage from the cold weather these past two years, but this year I have 0 fruit on the tree, its a self pollinating variety and I know we had enough chill hours but the late frost we got killed off all my fruit buds. Try Victoria Red Grapes, they are a Texas SuperStar from Texas A&M!!!
Thanks for your info!
Thank you for the information! Appreciate ya.
Very interesting.
Yes, it's been a rough year.
Hey Pete, great video. Chill hours should be taken with a grain of salt, as with anything else in gardening and farming. Your granny smith and gala trees are doing okay, but that's all they'll ever do because they aren't from here. I'm experiencing the same thing over here, but I don't want my trees to just be okay, I want them to thrive. You'd stand a better chance playing around with King David, Arkansas Black, or any other southern heirloom variety (there are TONS.) Before anyone replies to tell me APPLES NEED CHILL HOURS OMG... Just search on youtube for apples growing in hot climates. They're growing them in the tropics. If you want healthy, vigorous, disease resistant seedlings or some scions for apples that will do well here, please don't hesitate to hit me up. Take care!
Thanks... very informative
Some pear and some apples take 7years to produce I have a Persian pear it took seven years and now I get it hundred pounds or more in Pears ..but I do fight with the squirrels 😂
My Sam Houston & Florida King peach trees were untouched by the February Freeze here in zone 9b. I was able to get a few kings this year but hopefully year 3 will be bountiful. I have 14 inches of well drained soil above the December-water-table, my trees are mounded on more than 10 inches of leaf-mold over Sandy-loam with a ph of 5. My orchard has way more obvious stormwater-drainage & cold-air-drainage than yours.
I'd suggest you don't dig holes & plant your replacement trees mounded, the roots will fan out like an umbrella. Having a flat garden allows the coldest air to pass by the plant's crown instead of going around your mound. The ag extension website has illustrations to cold-air-drainage.
Thanks for the orchard update, where do you get your fruit trees in east Texas ?
I got most of them from Bob Wells nursery out of Mineola TX. Bobwellsnursery.com
Do you grow blackberries ? We are in East Texas as well and have excellent results try the Prime Ark thornless variety
We have tons of wild blackberries in April and May but I did buy some thornless ones when we first moved here but they later died. I'll look into to the prime ark thanks.
We have a weird mature apple tree on the property. It'll bear fruits 1 year and none the next. We are trying to "clone" the tree to create more apple trees - hopefully, will alternate the fruit bearing years allowing us to get apples every year. 😄
Sounds like the tree needs a certain type of apple tree to pollinate with. Try planting some other varieties near by. This might help.
I’m eastTX TO 👍👍😍
Thank you for your great videos. Sugar cane and Black Sea Jujubes are wonderful here in Austin, Sajo persimmons is a heavy producer but needs water based on what happened this year, Parfianka pomegranate and figs do also well. There's no such a thing as a hardy fig if left unprotected. They will dieback from a harsh winter. I left all three varieties of Col de Dame figs unprotected in ground after they got established and they keep coming back and produce fruit. I just added some mulberry varieties to my trees this year and will see how they do. Where in East Texas are you?
No videos for the last two weeks ? I have been missing your uploads . Guess it's been just too hot ...Thanks ...
My dad’s grapefruit tree in Cleveland, Texas does amazing every year. Well over 200
Hi. Do you know what kind of grapefruit your dad has?
Horse pucky! How does he do it?
@@Bootsy4 I don't know the specific name, but I know they are the reddest grapefruits I have ever seen.
@@clivemossmoon3611 it took many years. My mom grew it from a seed. She actually thought it was a lemon tree shop how. She grew it in a large pot, but one day she planted it next to a creek that runs through the property, after a couple of years dad came in and told her that the tree produced a lemon and handed her a grapefruit. The tree is now taller than the house and we need an extension ladder and still can’t reach the top.
Also the soil is rich sandy soil, the tree has a great root system
Thank you, Pete. I learned a few things from your video. I'm sending you some good rain karma!
Thank you 👍
Here in South Montgomery County 100 was the daily high and we got .003 " of rain for the month of June, just awful. We didn't get a drop out of that tropical system either some rain in Katy but the majority in Beaumont and Port Arthur to the extent where it caused flooding, go figure. I wish I could say July will be better but it does not look that way. Have a good 4th of July.
Hey big guy put those figs in pots
I’m east TX TO 👍👍😍
You should try jujube honey if you don’t know it. It’s one of the best honeys I’ve tasted.
Apricots could probably pollinate the plum trees considering there's hybrids of apricot and plum trees (pluot, aprium, etc.).
Yore the boss, still love your hat, man
Do you think the Ellen White Method has worked better for you than more conventional planting methods or not?
Thx for sharing! Are any of the trees ones that you used the Ellen White method on ?
Yes most are, our weather and my choice of trees were not the best.
Any of those trees the Ellen white method
Some of them are.
Would it help to mulch the Jujube tree?
Yes to hold moisture around the roots but they naturally sprout new plants from the roots. There's not a whole lot you can do but cut them when they come up or cut them deeper down so you get some roots with it and replant them somewhere else for a new tree.
How low did your temp get for a week? Did that lemon tree survive a week of between 0F-32F? Should be dead.
I had a lemon tree in a pot which I put in my garage and did in okay and later planted in my orchard and two tangerine trees on the one side of my house that died down to the base and then re sprouted again.
people do not forget to put water outside in different points for the critters, birds, bees, snakes, larger animals...they are suffering as well and they are part of the ecosystem.
Yes don't forget the mosquitos either
@@rondavis2791 no that is not a problem if you change the water every two days but if one is lazy then yes you will have issues with mosquitos..i prefer mosquitos than let the other critters/animals die from lack of water - have you been thirsty for a least two days and can not drink anything even buzz??? now imagine them without water for weeks at the time...it is a very painful dead..
@@lolitabonita08 ah that's true makes sense. I just figure the animals know where to go to get water. Mother nature's been doing her thing long before we got here and she'll be doing it long after we're gone 😉.
I'm not sure why you said "So much for climate change." You do know that is exactly what you are experiencing, right? Climate change is abmormal & extreme weather conditions including but not limited to hot dry, flooding, tornado, snow...
Yes, we have weather cycles on our planet. The sun is the biggest influence on our weather and we cannot control the sun.
What's "abnormal" is the denial of manipulated data. What's "abnormal" is ignoring the history of weather. What's "abnormal" is one sided "science". What's "abnormal" is watching the those who have the dias and talk the loudest ignore their own "science" . There's much more, but when it's one sided and dramatic...well humans react... usually in fear and the end of the world is near. How many times was half the population going to die in the last 50 years, or the great floods and lost continents, or....or... or....?
Boring!