It's great to see all those plants are growing either from seeds or cuttings. I grow mine from cuttings and seeds as well for my 5 acre land here in the California desert.
Wonderful! I look forward to checking out your videos. I’ll forward them to a friend of mine who is setting up food forests in a similar climate. Alex 💚🌿
Lovely tour through your nursery. I love that you've put all the names in your video as well. As a non-native English speaker it's often difficult to understand the name of a tree or shrub, then spending a lot of time trying to find it (or not finding it at all). cheers 😆
U have a green thumb! Awesome video showing yr setup, method of propagation and heaps of ideas for collecting plants and seeds. I am inspired and learning a lot from u!
My husband and I are always looking forward to watch your videos Alex. I am always turning green with envy how many more food producing trees can grow where you are. And watching this video, I am in awe how successful is your nursery.
I always appreciate your beautiful words of encouragement! And thank you for your latest video too.. wonderful to see your property so lush and green with the swales - and the size of your trees! Oh I can’t wait! Alex 💚🌿
I want to express my gratitude for your videos, which have proven to be incredibly beneficial while living in Somalia. Your content is not only informative but also highly practical, offering actionable insights that can be immediately implemented. Many of the concepts you discuss on your videos resonate with what I was already practicing, such as seed collection and the creative use of recycled plastic bags. Thanks🥰
Thank you so much for your heartfelt message, it brought tears to my eyes! This is wonderful what you are doing, keep up the great work. I’d love to know what you are growing in Somalia. My very best wishes to you, Alex 💚🌿
I've just found your channel Alex, and am highly impressed with the work you are doing. I'm interested in where you found this sturdy, i expensive greenhouse as you have inspired me to start propagating too, but it gets hot and is very windy here.
If you didn't know, you can trigger pineapples to flower/fruit by dropping a few mm diam rock of calcium carbide (used to be used in mining lamps) in the center of the rosette. Best to do in the morning after a rain. The calcium carbide reacts with the water to make acetylene gas, which is close enough to ethylene to interact with the same hormone triggers for flowering. I grow mine in a greenhouse in a temperate area of the US and got something like 13 out of 14 plants to flower - note it's best to spread out this if growing for your own use. When doing this, the size of the fruit is generally proportional to the size of the plant, so let them get well established first. Also, while all the types will grow and eventually get large enough to produce fruit, the ones that grow fastest and thus fruit soonest are the suckers from the mother plant. Indeed, it's not strictly necessary to remove the child suckers from the mother plant, if the suckers put out their own roots. There are also suckers that can form just under the fruit, and I believe you get better fruit if you remove those. And I believe those are the ones that are the slowest to reach a mature size. In the beginning, you'll want to save every one, but I managed to turn one into 20 ready to fruit (and double that with suckers still on the mother) in about 2 years, so it won't take long before you'll not want to bother with anything but suckers off the mother plant.
@@dreamsofgreen I grow mine in pots, so maybe growing them in the ground you won't have an issue. I don't know how frost sensitive they are, though. I figure I ought to mention that dates are pretty much all hand pollinated, so you're not likely to get fruit from them. Also, there are boys and girls, so you have to have one of each. I think they're lovely, and have grown them in the past (mine grew sssslllloooowwwwllllyyyy), so didn't care, but if you're thinking of growing them for fruit you might want to keep this in mind. I'm quite jealous of what you have and what you're doing. My land is all in a frost pocket, so my orchard regularly gets late frosts and freezes, so I rarely get any crops. Plus, many of the plants I like are tropical (hence the greenhouse), and you can grow those on your doorstep ;-)
Hi Alex, I’ve got a tiny nursery in my yard (rainforest propagation). If you can find old polystyrene boxes, with a few holes in the bottom they make great containers for tubestock - I’ve only got one but everything in there copes well if I’m a bit late with watering.
Hi Alex, thanks for the great tour and your videos. I thoroughly enjoy watching them and even though I don't have a property, I grew up on a farm in Queensland with clay soils as well. I would love to see a follow up video of all the plants you have propagated in your previous videos, to see strike rates, progress, time frames etc so people can see and know what to expect in real time, if that makes sense. Keep up the great work though! 😁👍🌿
Thanks so much for watching and this is a great suggestion. I’ll have to keep this in mind for next time as I’ve already traded many of the seeds/cuttings as I already had so many.. I had to make space in my nursery and still have hundreds of them waiting to be planted and potted up. I really should start selling more of them! Thanks again, Alex 💚🌿
Thank you for your info Alex. Wonderful knowledge to know all those tree names. My wife and daughter are planting seeds in trays in preparation for our move to the country.
Oh this is fantastic Pat! What a great use of time while you are planning your move. You’ll be able to hit the ground running and I’m just so excited for you! Best wishes, Alex 💚🌿
Thanks so much Martin! Yes, you have already grown so many amazing fruit trees on your farm. Have you propagated olives? This is next on my list! Alex 💚🌿
@@dreamsofgreen I have propagated a few olive trees from cuttings but the deer mowed them down to very short plants. I would love to see how you do it.
@@SuerteDelMolinoFarm Yes I’ve had some in for 3 years now of all different varieties. I must go check them to see if we’ll get any fruit for the first time this summer. I was hoping to wait to see which fruited and take cuttings from those.. because we have humid summers here not all olive varieties like this climate. And I’m hoping yours will cope with the heavy prune!
I love your videos! and your shade house I am also trying to set up a nursery in the south of Portugal - extremely hot temps during the summer months! Looking forward to seeing more videos that I can apply to the Mediterranean climate! Good luck and have fun!
Thanks so much Cecil! Wishing you all the best with your nursery set up. I’ve just sowed some Jaboticaba, lychee, black sapote, Brazilian cherry and tamarind. All seed I collected from fallen fruit on the ground! Hope you find some great trees in your local area and wishing you much joy and success with your propagating. Alex 💚🌿
Thank you for another amazing and informative video Alex! You really are the Queen of Propagation! Even propagating medjool dates, amazing 🤩 I’m going to start with some seeds today. Get my hoop house in order, set up properly, then propagate some seeds. I’m still anxious about when we’ll get some decent rain, but I want to be ready when we do 😃👍🏼🌱
Thanks so much Sharon! I probably won’t end up with edible dates as they need weeks (or months?) of temperatures over 40 degrees but I’ll put some in where it’s really dry and see what happens. Worth a shot! I love the palms and want them as a feature anyway.. Have fun getting your nursery set up! Alex 🪴💚🌿
@@dreamsofgreen it’s done and I’m underway! Starting small with just a few bush lemons and of course some Tephrosia and Pigeon Pea. I’m soaking the Popcorn Senna seeds overnight to sow tomorrow 😃🥳🎉 Woo hoo so excited! Thanks again for your inspiration and support 🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽
Yay! That’s wonderful Claudia! Look forward to hearing about the trees you’re growing 😊 And as for the dates, I think they should be fine as they can cope with mild frosts. But time will tell! Happy propagating Claudia, Alex 🪴💚🌿
Hey Alex, Awesome videos love watching them. I think I'm at the point you were years ago. I find I am surrounded by alot of materialistic things and views and find i am only happy in the garden even if it is hard work at least a plant can show you there appreciation for the blood, sweat and tears you put in. Quick question can you remember where you ordered your poly tunnel from?
Hi Martin I’m so sorry I missed your comment! That’s lovely to know you’ve gone through the same journey. And yes, the garden is definitely my happy place. As for the tunnel it’s a 6mx3m and I think you can still order them from Always Direct although I’ll think they are also on eBay. Just make sure it’s a strong galvanised frame and not the flimsy green powder coated metal as trust me, the first puff of wind and they break. All the best, Alex 💚🌿
Super inspiring. Im currently nursing tiny feijoa babies from seed. Where did you get your trays from? Polystyrene boxes used to be easy to get from fruit and vege shops
Oh wonderful! Yes I propagated so many feijoas from seed, they’ve all been traded or planted now. What a tough and delicious little fruit tree! I’d love to do some more. The black trays were throw aways from a nursery that was closing down. Not sure if you could find some on FB marketplace perhaps? Perhaps if you contact a landscaping company they probably have stacks of pots and trays that would otherwise be thrown out? And yes the polystyrene I’m not so sure.. Good luck and thanks so much for watching! Alex 💚🌿
Amazing video so inspirational. ✨ I was curious about the trees that you saw from seeds. How do you make sure that the seeds are true to type? I didn’t hear you mention about grafting, etc. I would love to hear more about that🌿
Thanks so much for watching! Yes you’re right, I haven’t grafted yet as I wanted super hardy seedling fruit trees for my food forest whilst I’m getting established as I don’t have irrigation. The mangoes, mulberries, bush lemons, guavas and Malabar chestnuts should all grow true to type whereas there may be some variation with things like the custard apples, avocados and persimmons (but I love experimenting and have planted so many that it doesn’t bother me if some aren’t any good). But in future once my food forest is more established and I’ve got more cover I’m looking forward to getting into some grafting! I’ve got a home orchard where I’ve purchased some grafted trees and so down the track I can use these for grafting material. Hope this helps explain things a bit better! Alex 💚🌿
We are in south east QLD and I have built a poly carb greenhouse but I think it may be too hot in summer. How do your plants cope with the NSW winter in your shade house? We went with poly carbonate because we wanted to grow exotics like mangostene and achacharu in pots so we could protect the from the mild frost we get over winter.
This is a great question. I put the plastic cover on in winter, but I found it must have the option to roll up both ends completely as well as many side windows to allow heat to escape on a warm day. Then I take the plastic off in Spring and replace with a large piece of shade cloth that I secure with clips. In your case if the polycarbonate is fixed, just make sure there’s really good cross ventilation for summer and you could put some shade cloth over the top of the polycarbonate in summer. I also have mulberry trees next to the polytunnel that I can easily prune to size that will let in winter sun but provide shade in summer. My plants seem to be coping okay in the shade house in winter but also I’m not growing tropicals like you are.. it’s definitely making a difference now all our gardens are getting established to moderate extreme temperatures. Best wishes, Alex 💚🌿
You can buy a simple polytunnel kit online that just clicks together (make sure it’s strong galvanised steel and not the flimsy green powder coated material though) and use some 50% shade cloth. This worked out cheaper and simpler than trying to build it from scratch with rio, polypipe etc.. Hope this helps.. 🪴🪴🪴
@ sure, check out always direct website 6mx3m greenhouse. Postage is a couple of hundred because it’s very heavy and greenhouse is a couple of hundred. Purchased several years ago, not sure of the price today but hopefully this gives you an idea 💚
It's great to see all those plants are growing either from seeds or cuttings. I grow mine from cuttings and seeds as well for my 5 acre land here in the California desert.
Wonderful! I look forward to checking out your videos. I’ll forward them to a friend of mine who is setting up food forests in a similar climate. Alex 💚🌿
@@dreamsofgreen Oh, I appreciate you 🙏
Lovely tour through your nursery. I love that you've put all the names in your video as well. As a non-native English speaker it's often difficult to understand the name of a tree or shrub, then spending a lot of time trying to find it (or not finding it at all). cheers 😆
Thanks for your lovely comment Anton! Glad you liked the subtitles. I think it helps with my accent too! Best wishes, Alex 💚🌿
You can also split the pineapple top into quarters before potting and they will put up suckers & fruit heaps quicker
Love this! Great tip. I’ll have to try this next time. Alex 💚🌿
U have a green thumb! Awesome video showing yr setup, method of propagation and heaps of ideas for collecting plants and seeds. I am inspired and learning a lot from u!
Oh that’s wonderful!! Thank you so much and hope you find some great seeds to start your collection! Happy planting, Alex 💚🌿
My husband and I are always looking forward to watch your videos Alex. I am always turning green with envy how many more food producing trees can grow where you are. And watching this video, I am in awe how successful is your nursery.
I always appreciate your beautiful words of encouragement! And thank you for your latest video too.. wonderful to see your property so lush and green with the swales - and the size of your trees! Oh I can’t wait! Alex 💚🌿
Wonderful selfless service!!
It’s such a joy! Alex 💚🌿
I want to express my gratitude for your videos, which have proven to be incredibly beneficial while living in Somalia. Your content is not only informative but also highly practical, offering actionable insights that can be immediately implemented. Many of the concepts you discuss on your videos resonate with what I was already practicing, such as seed collection and the creative use of recycled plastic bags. Thanks🥰
Thank you so much for your heartfelt message, it brought tears to my eyes! This is wonderful what you are doing, keep up the great work. I’d love to know what you are growing in Somalia. My very best wishes to you, Alex 💚🌿
I've just found your channel Alex, and am highly impressed with the work you are doing. I'm interested in where you found this sturdy, i expensive greenhouse as you have inspired me to start propagating too, but it gets hot and is very windy here.
If you didn't know, you can trigger pineapples to flower/fruit by dropping a few mm diam rock of calcium carbide (used to be used in mining lamps) in the center of the rosette. Best to do in the morning after a rain. The calcium carbide reacts with the water to make acetylene gas, which is close enough to ethylene to interact with the same hormone triggers for flowering. I grow mine in a greenhouse in a temperate area of the US and got something like 13 out of 14 plants to flower - note it's best to spread out this if growing for your own use. When doing this, the size of the fruit is generally proportional to the size of the plant, so let them get well established first.
Also, while all the types will grow and eventually get large enough to produce fruit, the ones that grow fastest and thus fruit soonest are the suckers from the mother plant. Indeed, it's not strictly necessary to remove the child suckers from the mother plant, if the suckers put out their own roots. There are also suckers that can form just under the fruit, and I believe you get better fruit if you remove those. And I believe those are the ones that are the slowest to reach a mature size. In the beginning, you'll want to save every one, but I managed to turn one into 20 ready to fruit (and double that with suckers still on the mother) in about 2 years, so it won't take long before you'll not want to bother with anything but suckers off the mother plant.
Wow! Amazing information, I didn’t know this! Thanks so much for sharing, really appreciate it. Kindest regards, Alex 🍍💚🌿
@@dreamsofgreen I grow mine in pots, so maybe growing them in the ground you won't have an issue. I don't know how frost sensitive they are, though.
I figure I ought to mention that dates are pretty much all hand pollinated, so you're not likely to get fruit from them. Also, there are boys and girls, so you have to have one of each. I think they're lovely, and have grown them in the past (mine grew sssslllloooowwwwllllyyyy), so didn't care, but if you're thinking of growing them for fruit you might want to keep this in mind.
I'm quite jealous of what you have and what you're doing. My land is all in a frost pocket, so my orchard regularly gets late frosts and freezes, so I rarely get any crops. Plus, many of the plants I like are tropical (hence the greenhouse), and you can grow those on your doorstep ;-)
Hi Alex, I’ve got a tiny nursery in my yard (rainforest propagation). If you can find old polystyrene boxes, with a few holes in the bottom they make great containers for tubestock - I’ve only got one but everything in there copes well if I’m a bit late with watering.
Oh wonderful! That’s fantastic! And love the suggestion, I’ll keep an eye out for some polystyrene boxes from now on! Best wishes, Alex 💚🌿
As they say, the fridge is mine. A game the community plays.
So much going on there Alex!
You have any space left in your backyard for some mango trees?! I think I’m running out of room! 🥭💚🌿
Great job learning so much with your videos Alex 🙌🙌🙏🙏
Thanks Ben!! Much appreciated 💚🌿
Fantastic job i hope i can grow half as many plants
Thanks so much Richard and I’m sure you can! I love how it’s possible to grow so much in such a tiny space. Wishing you all the best, Alex 💚🌿
Love this! Love your videos. Thanks!
You are so welcome! Alex 💚🌿
thanks
Hi Alex, thanks for the great tour and your videos. I thoroughly enjoy watching them and even though I don't have a property, I grew up on a farm in Queensland with clay soils as well. I would love to see a follow up video of all the plants you have propagated in your previous videos, to see strike rates, progress, time frames etc so people can see and know what to expect in real time, if that makes sense. Keep up the great work though! 😁👍🌿
Thanks so much for watching and this is a great suggestion. I’ll have to keep this in mind for next time as I’ve already traded many of the seeds/cuttings as I already had so many.. I had to make space in my nursery and still have hundreds of them waiting to be planted and potted up. I really should start selling more of them! Thanks again, Alex 💚🌿
Thank you for your info Alex. Wonderful knowledge to know all those tree names. My wife and daughter are planting seeds in trays in preparation for our move to the country.
Oh this is fantastic Pat! What a great use of time while you are planning your move. You’ll be able to hit the ground running and I’m just so excited for you! Best wishes, Alex 💚🌿
My opinion is that Daley is the best nursery in Australia, pity it’s a bit exy, but that’s life
So impressed❤
Thanks so much! 💚🌿
Valuable as I aim for the same. Well done! Thank you for sharing Alex
Thanks so much Martin! Yes, you have already grown so many amazing fruit trees on your farm. Have you propagated olives? This is next on my list! Alex 💚🌿
@@dreamsofgreen I have propagated a few olive trees from cuttings but the deer mowed them down to very short plants. I would love to see how you do it.
@@SuerteDelMolinoFarm Yes I’ve had some in for 3 years now of all different varieties. I must go check them to see if we’ll get any fruit for the first time this summer. I was hoping to wait to see which fruited and take cuttings from those.. because we have humid summers here not all olive varieties like this climate. And I’m hoping yours will cope with the heavy prune!
I love your videos! and your shade house I am also trying to set up a nursery in the south of Portugal - extremely hot temps during the summer months! Looking forward to seeing more videos that I can apply to the Mediterranean climate! Good luck and have fun!
Thanks so much Cecil! Wishing you all the best with your nursery set up. I’ve just sowed some Jaboticaba, lychee, black sapote, Brazilian cherry and tamarind. All seed I collected from fallen fruit on the ground! Hope you find some great trees in your local area and wishing you much joy and success with your propagating. Alex 💚🌿
Nice setup
Thank you! It’s very basic but it’s worked well for me 🪴🪴🪴
Thank you for another amazing and informative video Alex! You really are the Queen of Propagation! Even propagating medjool dates, amazing 🤩
I’m going to start with some seeds today. Get my hoop house in order, set up properly, then propagate some seeds. I’m still anxious about when we’ll get some decent rain, but I want to be ready when we do 😃👍🏼🌱
Thanks so much Sharon! I probably won’t end up with edible dates as they need weeks (or months?) of temperatures over 40 degrees but I’ll put some in where it’s really dry and see what happens. Worth a shot! I love the palms and want them as a feature anyway.. Have fun getting your nursery set up! Alex 🪴💚🌿
@@dreamsofgreen it’s done and I’m underway! Starting small with just a few bush lemons and of course some Tephrosia and Pigeon Pea. I’m soaking the Popcorn Senna seeds overnight to sow tomorrow 😃🥳🎉 Woo hoo so excited! Thanks again for your inspiration and support 🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽
An absolute pleasure Sharon. So excited for you!! 🌱🪴🌿
Amazing work your editing skills have flow through the room 🎉 just amazing 😊
Wow, thanks so much Latifa! 💚🌿💚
You inspire me to do more propagating of my trees. If you have really cold weather what will you do with date palms if they get really tall?
Yay! That’s wonderful Claudia! Look forward to hearing about the trees you’re growing 😊 And as for the dates, I think they should be fine as they can cope with mild frosts. But time will tell! Happy propagating Claudia, Alex 🪴💚🌿
Hey Alex,
Awesome videos love watching them.
I think I'm at the point you were years ago. I find I am surrounded by alot of materialistic things and views and find i am only happy in the garden even if it is hard work at least a plant can show you there appreciation for the blood, sweat and tears you put in.
Quick question can you remember where you ordered your poly tunnel from?
Hi Martin I’m so sorry I missed your comment! That’s lovely to know you’ve gone through the same journey. And yes, the garden is definitely my happy place. As for the tunnel it’s a 6mx3m and I think you can still order them from Always Direct although I’ll think they are also on eBay. Just make sure it’s a strong galvanised frame and not the flimsy green powder coated metal as trust me, the first puff of wind and they break. All the best, Alex 💚🌿
How do you fertilize your plants in the nursery? That could be the subject of a new video. 😃
Great suggestion! 💚🌿
Super inspiring. Im currently nursing tiny feijoa babies from seed. Where did you get your trays from? Polystyrene boxes used to be easy to get from fruit and vege shops
Oh wonderful! Yes I propagated so many feijoas from seed, they’ve all been traded or planted now. What a tough and delicious little fruit tree! I’d love to do some more. The black trays were throw aways from a nursery that was closing down. Not sure if you could find some on FB marketplace perhaps? Perhaps if you contact a landscaping company they probably have stacks of pots and trays that would otherwise be thrown out?
And yes the polystyrene I’m not so sure.. Good luck and thanks so much for watching! Alex 💚🌿
Amazing video so inspirational. ✨ I was curious about the trees that you saw from seeds. How do you make sure that the seeds are true to type? I didn’t hear you mention about grafting, etc. I would love to hear more about that🌿
Thanks so much for watching! Yes you’re right, I haven’t grafted yet as I wanted super hardy seedling fruit trees for my food forest whilst I’m getting established as I don’t have irrigation. The mangoes, mulberries, bush lemons, guavas and Malabar chestnuts should all grow true to type whereas there may be some variation with things like the custard apples, avocados and persimmons (but I love experimenting and have planted so many that it doesn’t bother me if some aren’t any good). But in future once my food forest is more established and I’ve got more cover I’m looking forward to getting into some grafting! I’ve got a home orchard where I’ve purchased some grafted trees and so down the track I can use these for grafting material. Hope this helps explain things a bit better! Alex 💚🌿
We are in south east QLD and I have built a poly carb greenhouse but I think it may be too hot in summer. How do your plants cope with the NSW winter in your shade house?
We went with poly carbonate because we wanted to grow exotics like mangostene and achacharu in pots so we could protect the from the mild frost we get over winter.
This is a great question. I put the plastic cover on in winter, but I found it must have the option to roll up both ends completely as well as many side windows to allow heat to escape on a warm day. Then I take the plastic off in Spring and replace with a large piece of shade cloth that I secure with clips.
In your case if the polycarbonate is fixed, just make sure there’s really good cross ventilation for summer and you could put some shade cloth over the top of the polycarbonate in summer. I also have mulberry trees next to the polytunnel that I can easily prune to size that will let in winter sun but provide shade in summer.
My plants seem to be coping okay in the shade house in winter but also I’m not growing tropicals like you are.. it’s definitely making a difference now all our gardens are getting established to moderate extreme temperatures. Best wishes, Alex 💚🌿
how did you build the shade house itself though
You can buy a simple polytunnel kit online that just clicks together (make sure it’s strong galvanised steel and not the flimsy green powder coated material though) and use some 50% shade cloth. This worked out cheaper and simpler than trying to build it from scratch with rio, polypipe etc.. Hope this helps.. 🪴🪴🪴
@@dreamsofgreen ive been looking at them but they are not cheap. easily going to cost about 5k fro the cheapest. any idea which one you bought?/
@ sure, check out always direct website 6mx3m greenhouse. Postage is a couple of hundred because it’s very heavy and greenhouse is a couple of hundred. Purchased several years ago, not sure of the price today but hopefully this gives you an idea 💚
you gunna need a bigger farm Alex 😂😂😂
Absolutely!!! 🪴🪴🪴🪴
Beware, I found that animals like eating small Date palms