Hi. Very interesting vid never knew about the conker floating technique. Every day is a school day. I have grown many trees when I was part of the conservation team Horse Chestnuts is a new thing so glad I found your vid. Nice to see all the roots loose and not pot bound if they they are bit of teasing helps them on their way. Teasing is loosening the roots if anybody watching does not know about it. Never knew about the soap I will pop onto that vid next. Brilliant keep up the good work.
Thank you I have 3 horse chestnut trees growing in garden. When we bought our farm we had no idea what these pretty trees were called. I had no idea I could use them to make soap. I will watch that video as well.
We planted one of these on my daughters first day of school. So lucky its grown. Weve moved to a bigger pot today. We will move to our local lake in a year or so where we can watch it grow and mark her educational career. Weve said its her knowledge tree
So I also planted a few horse chestnuts and the oldest ones are about five years old, but I would like to plant more trees. I would like to plant as many different trees as possible, I will also soon collect and plant sweet chestnut , as there are a few of them in our castle park, since I also work there, I will collect a few sweet chestnuts and various flower seeds when I have time Then plant them again soon so that you can harvest the seeds again 👍🏽. I now have my own little forest in my garden and I'm proud of it 😎.
Thank you for your video . I have 6 saplings for the first time of trying and really felt great when they first came out the soil to say hello after a long winter.
It is without doubt my favourite tree , probably coz of the fond childhood memories linked to it.😊. And thats why I grow a few dozen EVERY year to plant back out in the countryside. Beauties!😍. Be safe y'all.
Very clear and straightforward. Others complicate the whole process. Thank you for the tips, especially leaving it to do its thing through the winter. We gathered about 100 more conkers the other day and none of them floated (another nice tip - if it sinks plant it). Sorting out flower pots for tomorrow. Thank you again.🙂👍🌳🌳🌳🌳🌰 PS Hope all's well with you and new born.
my hubby brought me those weird things! all I knew it came from a tree in one of his client's yard I did some research and found out horse chestnut it was looked around for info on how to grow and germinate them your video is the only one that made sense it is the way they would grow in the forest no need to put them in the fridge or do complicated stuff to them so thank you so much for taking the time to explain about this wonderful tree! have a great day will be planting mine today.
In the world of growing plants everything is made so over complicated people forget these things was managing just fine without being put in our fridge 🤣 Nature is just fine without us making things over complicated. In everything we do on our channel we believe we stride to take things back to simplicity so we can all enjoy it easily 😁
I travel a lot and usually take some seeds home with my. Two years ago I got some shestnuts in Northern California and they are growing in Ireland now.
My neighbour has a tree in his front yard. The squirrels do a great job of propigating them. I am forever pulling chestnut saplings from my gardens, flower pots, eavestroughs...
Hi. Hey can you guys do something similar about the English Chestnut & maybe also talk about the American Chestnut ? I grew up with conkers; have a 152 year old tree planted by my great great Grandmother that needs some surgery... cheers. G.
We have Horse chestnuts everywhere in Sweden. Not in the wild, but in literally every city they are very common. They're not naturally occurring here either, and therefore shouldn't be planted in the wild. Since they might compete with native trees that are also in decline. They are such pretty trees though. And very big!
Hi Family. Loved the drone footage and hearing about the tree. I did not know they were endangered. We will def give this a go and plant our own tree. So fascinating about the ones that float and also the leaves to clean your hands too. Stella you lool beautiful. Super excited for Bruce being home. Are you having Bruce at home or the hospital? Its gonna be so fab the kids seeing this tree grow and then the tree living for 300 years. Thanks for sharing your wisdom! 🥰
Nice vid guys. I like to see different ways of approaching things. Myself, I leave the conkers on top of the dirt of an empty vege box, then loosely cover them with straw. After the spring thaw, I sort through the conkers and allocate the growing ones to their own pots, again burying just the root and leaving the seed on top, covered in about an inch of straw. I generally keep them in their pots for 2 years prior to planting, and since we have horses and goats, I cage them until they are tall enough to survive the critters. Keep up the good work!
I just discovered your videos and can't wait to watch more. I'm home educating and often go foraging with my youngest and then make stuff with what we've found. Last week we found acorns and have planted 3 in the hope one grows, now we are going to find some conkers and do the same 😊
Awesome super pleased you've found us 😁 we homeschool too mixing it with foraging is such a special education mixing outdoors hikes with learning about nature and then making things 🙂
I didn't know they were in decline!! I've got aload of conkers atm... I'm going to contact my local park and see if I'm allowed to go plant some!! (Also might plant some sneaky ones in other green spaces!)
Fab video I'm going to try this this year!! 🤩 Just a thought, that old wife's tale about spiders not liking conkers... Is that because of the soap? Just a thought 🤔
Great video but can you do one where you show us how to grow an Elm tree from seed if you haven't already because literally I don't there is one tree more endangered in the UK than the Elm.
Thanks for the info, I have couple of wild horse chestnut tree on a street I live thats next to the road and I wanna see if I can grow a bunch of them. It in canada
Last year I planted a lot of conkers and acorns. Most of them I just threw around where I wanted them to grow instead of planting thme properly. A few horse chestnuts and oaks still came up(I'll see if them make it to grow bigger in the coming years). I haven't found any viable acorns yet though, so this far this year I've only planted conkers(all in the ground this time). Very much looking forwards to spring to see if any of them come up.
Couple of questions. Isn't there a certain way to put the nuts in the ground to start them? 2. How come you don't spread the roots when planting your baby? Chestnut tree that is. And, 3 can you use sheep chicken or cow poop?
Lovely video - doing more conker picking tomorrow. I did not know these were inedible- are they different to chestnuts what we eat? My american friends say they have chestnut trees but not conker trees - is there a difference? Be interested to see the height of the sapling now 😍🙌
Horse chestnuts as I know it are slightly toxic through to toxic for humans. N American deer love them though. In my state they are called 'Buckeyes' and are actually our state tree. (Ohio) . Other species of chestnuts are edible and will visually look different. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chestnut Have a great day! :)
Hey guys, just watched the vid as I was curious on how to do this. Found about 30 conkers last week from a tree in out town. One question? When planting the conker in the post, does the shine shiny side face upwards and the white / brown patch face downwards?
I have a question. I travel a lot and usually if the season is right I take home some seeds, usually chestnut or acorns or what ever will grow outdoors in the uk and Ireland. Thing is this time with covid ive been separated from my latest haul by the Coronavirus. They're about 8 months old and a bit shrivelled up (chestnut) but the rest look ok (Acorns and Hazle) do you think it worth spending time on the Chestnuts?
Hiya Hugo, we reckon it's always worth a try when it comes to growing. If you can pop them in some soil now then come spring you will see from the shoots if it has worked ✌️❤️
@@homeiswhereourheartis well, your optimism knows no bounds. Here's what I found when I got back to my garage today. No idea why they are just sprouting now. ua-cam.com/video/-wWCSb9twSM/v-deo.html
We've moved since this video but we'll definitely do an update on it when we pass it again in the near future. As it goes a few days after this video we visited it & wildlife had dug it up so we replanted it again in the same spot. Fingers crossed its still growing strong 😁
The issue with this tree in Western Europe is that there's a little insect planting their babies in the leaves that eat the leaves from the inside. The leaves become brownish. First the bottom leaves in June. There is no predator for this insect. I think that's why this tree is naturally on decline. It has nice flowers. It's also a lot of work to dispose of the horse chestnuts. Personally I would plant a tree that gives nuts which you can eat. Though it takes many years before they start giving fruit.
A very nice video, well done. But i wish you teased out the roots and put your foot on the soil when the tree was planted to firm it in. Im not finding fault just saying for other viewers. Well done hope baby`s flying it.
In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. 2He was with God in the beginning. 3Through him all things were made; without him nothing was made that has been made. (John 1:1-3)
Where I live (Denmark) all the horse chestnut trees are under attack from a moth. The caterpillars bury through the leaves year after year, completely destroying the trees. The moths have no natural enemies so they just go about their business killing all the horse chestnut trees. It's extremely sad.
I'll try answer your question. The reason the conkers float is because they are too dry. They become dry when the have been on the ground for too long. i.e. not fresh. Floating means too dry which means not fresh.
it needs to be said that conker trees arent native to England and their timber isn't considered useful. they are purely decorative and not appreciated by our wildlife so grow 1 for conkers by all means but dont plant a forrest of them! Their leaves also smother anything that tries to grow under them :( Great video though, I admire your passion!
I planted several conkers 17 years ago ..a few of them are big trees now
I’ll be planting some more this year
The world really does need more people like you to do this. Too many trees are being lost. We all need to plant more. It all helps every one of us.
Hi. Very interesting vid never knew about the conker floating technique. Every day is a school day. I have grown many trees when I was part of the conservation team Horse Chestnuts is a new thing so glad I found your vid. Nice to see all the roots loose and not pot bound if they they are bit of teasing helps them on their way. Teasing is loosening the roots if anybody watching does not know about it. Never knew about the soap I will pop onto that vid next. Brilliant keep up the good work.
Thanks so much for watching and great tip about teasing the roots out if they get put bound ✌❤
Thank you I have 3 horse chestnut trees growing in garden. When we bought our farm we had no idea what these pretty trees were called. I had no idea I could use them to make soap. I will watch that video as well.
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We planted one of these on my daughters first day of school. So lucky its grown. Weve moved to a bigger pot today. We will move to our local lake in a year or so where we can watch it grow and mark her educational career. Weve said its her knowledge tree
That's a beautiful thing 💚
How is it doing?
Oh boy I would love to plant a chestnut tree. I gotta see if they grow around here.
So I also planted a few horse chestnuts and the oldest ones are about five years old, but I would like to plant more trees. I would like to plant as many different trees as possible, I will also soon collect and plant sweet chestnut , as there are a few of them in our castle park, since I also work there, I will collect a few sweet chestnuts and various flower seeds when I have time Then plant them again soon so that you can harvest the seeds again 👍🏽. I now have my own little forest in my garden and I'm proud of it 😎.
Thank you for your video . I have 6 saplings for the first time of trying and really felt great when they first came out the soil to say hello after a long winter.
It is without doubt my favourite tree , probably coz of the fond childhood memories linked to it.😊. And thats why I grow a few dozen EVERY year to plant back out in the countryside. Beauties!😍. Be safe y'all.
That's awesome nick! My favourite to for the same reasons 😁
Very clear and straightforward. Others complicate the whole process.
Thank you for the tips, especially leaving it to do its thing through the winter.
We gathered about 100 more conkers the other day and none of them floated (another nice tip - if it sinks plant it).
Sorting out flower pots for tomorrow.
Thank you again.🙂👍🌳🌳🌳🌳🌰
PS Hope all's well with you and new born.
We're well he's now 1 already 😁
Congratulations to you both
my hubby brought me those weird things! all I knew it came from a tree in one of his client's yard I did some research and found out horse chestnut it was looked around for info on how to grow and germinate them your video is the only one that made sense
it is the way they would grow in the forest no need to put them in the fridge or do complicated stuff to them so thank you so much for taking the time to explain about this wonderful tree! have a great day will be planting mine today.
In the world of growing plants everything is made so over complicated people forget these things was managing just fine without being put in our fridge 🤣
Nature is just fine without us making things over complicated. In everything we do on our channel we believe we stride to take things back to simplicity so we can all enjoy it easily 😁
I just watched another video and it was so confusing your one was perfect Thankyou.
Congrats on your baby 😊
Please plant more trees to replace the millions that have burned up here on the west coast usa.✌
I travel a lot and usually take some seeds home with my. Two years ago I got some shestnuts in Northern California and they are growing in Ireland now.
My neighbour has a tree in his front yard. The squirrels do a great job of propigating them. I am forever pulling chestnut saplings from my gardens, flower pots, eavestroughs...
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I truely enjoyed this video .. can't wait to grow more of these trees .. I'll grow 3... Supper easy thanks to your video . Thanks
Hi. Hey can you guys do something similar about the English Chestnut & maybe also talk about the American Chestnut ? I grew up with conkers; have a 152 year old tree planted by my great great Grandmother that needs some surgery... cheers. G.
Perfecto! Thanks guys.
We have Horse chestnuts everywhere in Sweden. Not in the wild, but in literally every city they are very common. They're not naturally occurring here either, and therefore shouldn't be planted in the wild. Since they might compete with native trees that are also in decline. They are such pretty trees though. And very big!
The unofficial name for citizens of the capital of Bulgaria Sofia is Chestnuts because there are so many chestnut trees here.
Great video I have a 150-200 year old on my property. I’m going to get the little babies and germinate them over the winter for sure. Thank you
Awesome!
I'm going to grow one, thank you for the information.
Hi Family. Loved the drone footage and hearing about the tree. I did not know they were endangered. We will def give this a go and plant our own tree. So fascinating about the ones that float and also the leaves to clean your hands too. Stella you lool beautiful. Super excited for Bruce being home. Are you having Bruce at home or the hospital? Its gonna be so fab the kids seeing this tree grow and then the tree living for 300 years. Thanks for sharing your wisdom! 🥰
Hi simome I'll get her to reply to you tomorrow 😁
Got about 40 in the Fridge right now. Will pot them in Spring.
Feeling freshly out there
Found 2 today. Both sunk. 😁
Blessings
Lovely drone footage, I miss the smell of Yorkshire autumn
Ah it's fresh and crisp now 🙂
@@homeiswhereourheartis but my hiking is the most amazing and no stress of lockdowns 😂
Nice vid guys. I like to see different ways of approaching things.
Myself, I leave the conkers on top of the dirt of an empty vege box, then loosely cover them with straw.
After the spring thaw, I sort through the conkers and allocate the growing ones to their own pots, again burying just the root and leaving the seed on top, covered in about an inch of straw.
I generally keep them in their pots for 2 years prior to planting, and since we have horses and goats, I cage them until they are tall enough to survive the critters.
Keep up the good work!
Lovely and relaxing view and settings! ❤
Collected some conkers yesterday, I'm going to plant one too, thanks for the growing tips!
Awesome! Super pleased to hear 😁
Nice job, everyone. I just collected some horse chestnut seeds close to where I live in NJ. Thank you, and congratulations on your new baby!
Thank you, he's a toddler now 😁
I just discovered your videos and can't wait to watch more. I'm home educating and often go foraging with my youngest and then make stuff with what we've found. Last week we found acorns and have planted 3 in the hope one grows, now we are going to find some conkers and do the same 😊
Awesome super pleased you've found us 😁 we homeschool too mixing it with foraging is such a special education mixing outdoors hikes with learning about nature and then making things 🙂
It is editable and delicious 😊
Thanks I will
great guide thanks
Thanks for watching 🙂
i love this and will defenitaly be doing the same.
How have I only just found this channel. Keep doing your thing guys your work is great !👍🏻
Cheers!
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I didn't know they were in decline!! I've got aload of conkers atm... I'm going to contact my local park and see if I'm allowed to go plant some!! (Also might plant some sneaky ones in other green spaces!)
The sneaky ones are the best 😁
Just found this video..........so watchable and such a nice couple.....hope all goes well with the baby!
Glad you enjoyed our video & thank you 😁
Fab video I'm going to try this this year!! 🤩 Just a thought, that old wife's tale about spiders not liking conkers... Is that because of the soap? Just a thought 🤔
Lovely video with lovely people 😍
Lovely to read your nice comments 😁
Good to see you guys! I will have to see if they would grow in Florida 🌱
I have two in my garden, one of my many trees 🌳
Awesome 😁
Iv done that with all the conkers that iur deceased scwirel left us. 3 have grown well and we will be planting then this year. Hope they help.
Every tree helps 😁
I stole some of these from Toronto Zoo. Just grabbed a couple off the branches and now I will plant some in a park.
Really interesting information about these trees and planting. Great footage. 👍
you can use a fridge to stratify them if the winters are not cold enough.
Thank you Your good souls.
Thank you for your kind comment Rebecca 💚
Dane, Stella have you checked up the the horse chestnut tree 🌴 you planted 3 years ago. 🙏🏴
Great video but can you do one where you show us how to grow an Elm tree from seed if you haven't already because literally I don't there is one tree more endangered in the UK than the Elm.
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Hi I love you guys, thank you for your amazing videos x x
Thank you for joining us and your nice comment 😁
Awesome tutorial
Love the drone footage Heart Mammals
Hi I don't know if you guys will see this. Do you sell the seedlings/saplings? Would love some tips on doing so.
Thanks for the info, I have couple of wild horse chestnut tree on a street I live thats next to the road and I wanna see if I can grow a bunch of them. It in canada
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Love watching your video guys. Im trying to think of a place, with a gap, that needs filling with a conker tree . Peace n love. 🥰
I collected 40 today.. just doing my research
Hope our video helped 😁
0:53 Love this moment
They was giant 🤣
I've planted 11 conkers
Excellent! 300 years per tree worth of good times for the future generations because of your good efforts 😁
Congratulations to the baby by the way😅
A little late finding this video but 🤷♀️
He's 2 now 😁
Last year I planted a lot of conkers and acorns. Most of them I just threw around where I wanted them to grow instead of planting thme properly. A few horse chestnuts and oaks still came up(I'll see if them make it to grow bigger in the coming years). I haven't found any viable acorns yet though, so this far this year I've only planted conkers(all in the ground this time). Very much looking forwards to spring to see if any of them come up.
That's awesome 😁
Don't think iv seen a single acorn this year
@@homeiswhereourheartis I've only found ones that are clearly rotten already. So might be a bad year for acorns unfortunately.
Always get landowners permission 😉😉😉
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Couple of questions. Isn't there a certain way to put the nuts in the ground to start them? 2. How come you don't spread the roots when planting your baby? Chestnut tree that is. And, 3 can you use sheep chicken or cow poop?
Lovely video - doing more conker picking tomorrow. I did not know these were inedible- are they different to chestnuts what we eat? My american friends say they have chestnut trees but not conker trees - is there a difference? Be interested to see the height of the sapling now 😍🙌
Horse chestnuts as I know it are slightly toxic through to toxic for humans. N American deer love them though. In my state they are called 'Buckeyes' and are actually our state tree. (Ohio) . Other species of chestnuts are edible and will visually look different. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chestnut Have a great day! :)
Should I try to grow a bigger ones or a smaller ones?
Edit: I used some store bought compost but should I put old fruits in there as well?
Hey guys, just watched the vid as I was curious on how to do this. Found about 30 conkers last week from a tree in out town. One question?
When planting the conker in the post, does the shine shiny side face upwards and the white / brown patch face downwards?
Anyway will do dude.
May the force be with you ✌️😁
How large or old does the "Mother""tree need to be to produce viable seeds, I mean conkers?! My tree is about 10 years young, maybe 15.
I have a question. I travel a lot and usually if the season is right I take home some seeds, usually chestnut or acorns or what ever will grow outdoors in the uk and Ireland. Thing is this time with covid ive been separated from my latest haul by the Coronavirus. They're about 8 months old and a bit shrivelled up (chestnut) but the rest look ok (Acorns and Hazle) do you think it worth spending time on the Chestnuts?
Hiya Hugo, we reckon it's always worth a try when it comes to growing. If you can pop them in some soil now then come spring you will see from the shoots if it has worked ✌️❤️
@@homeiswhereourheartis I'll post a little video you might be interested in.
@@homeiswhereourheartis well, your optimism knows no bounds.
Here's what I found when I got back to my garage today.
No idea why they are just sprouting now.
ua-cam.com/video/-wWCSb9twSM/v-deo.html
Please can we get an update on the tree you planted - did it survive the year?
We've moved since this video but we'll definitely do an update on it when we pass it again in the near future.
As it goes a few days after this video we visited it & wildlife had dug it up so we replanted it again in the same spot. Fingers crossed its still growing strong 😁
The issue with this tree in Western Europe is that there's a little insect planting their babies in the leaves that eat the leaves from the inside. The leaves become brownish. First the bottom leaves in June. There is no predator for this insect. I think that's why this tree is naturally on decline.
It has nice flowers.
It's also a lot of work to dispose of the horse chestnuts.
Personally I would plant a tree that gives nuts which you can eat. Though it takes many years before they start giving fruit.
they are already quite commonly cultivated these days.
Hi, how is the tree now?
A very nice video, well done. But i wish you teased out the roots and put your foot on the soil when the tree was planted to firm it in. Im not finding fault just saying for other viewers. Well done hope baby`s flying it.
You didn't show what side is up in the pot.
Or does it not matter??
Great, your chestnut will grow with your baby.
He's almost 2 now 😁
How big is the tree now
Not sure we moved away from there but will visit it soon 😁
I have planted 50 in my garden. Now they are all young trees, who wants them?
You'll have to plant them in people's gardens at night ✌️🤣
In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. 2He was with God in the beginning. 3Through him all things were made; without him nothing was made that has been made. (John 1:1-3)
Where I live (Denmark) all the horse chestnut trees are under attack from a moth. The caterpillars bury through the leaves year after year, completely destroying the trees. The moths have no natural enemies so they just go about their business killing all the horse chestnut trees. It's extremely sad.
Anyway to remember what floats is bad.?... I keep forgetting what floats is good or bad..
I'll try answer your question.
The reason the conkers float is because they are too dry. They become dry when the have been on the ground for too long. i.e. not fresh.
Floating means too dry which means not fresh.
Sweet children, and castan
it needs to be said that conker trees arent native to England and their timber isn't considered useful. they are purely decorative and not appreciated by our wildlife so grow 1 for conkers by all means but dont plant a forrest of them!
Their leaves also smother anything that tries to grow under them :(
Great video though, I admire your passion!
Cheers!