Finally got around the "winter" pruning of my espaliered apple and pear trees. Here's the summer pruning video: ua-cam.com/video/EHl2qdMgl00/v-deo.html
how interesting and i see in the ground that you have the culantro green leafs and that is good for the puertoriquen dish... how nice and how long do it take to see apples?
The summer pruning video is the best explanation I have seen on creating fruiting spurs. This video is the best on creating fruiting spurs and clipping back not fruiting suckers you call them . I didnt realize that by clipping the suckers made fruiting spurs just below the snip . This video the branching can easily be seen with the small green budding on your short stems probably under overcast skys which evenly lights the tree . No horrible backlighting and heavy cast shadows like the many institutional videos on winter pruning. Those institution video depend on a photographer . And they concentrate on the narrator ,oblivious of the subject at hand . These camera in one hand and pruner in the other hand are far superior to having a separate photographer although IV Organics channel pulls it off very well the institutional video has a photographer completely clueless of the subject How did I get on this subject,? Excellent explanatio/demostration and unable to Express my admiration w/o going into a rant
Hi Mike, my name is Cheng from #graftingtactick, in Australia. your video is such a great material to learn, as I just started my espalier journey with my apple and pear tree, the pruning techniques, the how to look after your espalier tree. I'd like to say thank you so much for this wonderful beautiful art of espalier fruit tree. Also love to follow and watch your videos. Be safe and blessed 🌱🌿🍃☘👏👏
After watching this terrific video I went outside and saw my fruit trees in an entirely new way. I saw the different structures so clearly, differences between the structure of a water sprout and a fruiting spur, directional buds, etc., and now at last I can prune my trees with a sense of confidence I never had before this video, Mike. You are a fabulous teacher and I thank you! I have high hopes that this season will be beautiful as well as bountiful!
I loved your video. I found out with a prune tree how clever the ants are to farm aphids in the tree. I remember reading that Vaseline smeared around the base of the trunk would keep them from doing this. Thank you!
Man, is there anything more fun than snipping away at trees? Good info. I'm been trying to pin down what triggers fruit spur growth for years, and this is definitely helpful
Glad you learned something from it. You should definitely check out the summer pruning video because that's what encourages those fruit spurs: ua-cam.com/video/EHl2qdMgl00/v-deo.html
An espalier plum ,? I would like to see that . My attempts at espalier a santa rosa plum and a contender peach . Both trees have a stepped leader . In both cases the first cordon didn't produce two opposing lateral branches the South lateral grew outward creating a horizontal stem then the first vertical shoot closest to the leader from the ground developed into a steep riser and headed for the stratosphere . . That was the contender peach. The santa rosa plum didn't grow the first two years so this year I ignored it letting vines grow all over it in late August I removed the vines .and holy Mackeral one cordon didnt develop at all. the other lateral made a lopsided horizontal steep and the central leader took off skyward the most wrongest shaped tree I could imagine. It increases its volumn 3 or 400 percent in one growing season . I fertilized it with urine only . For all you Urine buffs out their
@@robertbrawley5048 don't give up. It seems it's finally established. Prune and train till you get the side shoots you want then let the horizon shoot grow. Winter and Summer pruning should be for shape and roots. I'm not an expert but mine are really doing well. This will be their third year and I'm hoping for fruit.
Hey mike I’m so excited 😆 I got the black Madeira kk also the i258 end a New Jersey fig that was found here in New Jersey the name is lyndhurts fig not many people know about this fig I got all this figs from big bills in pa his really good guy also great prices mike great video like always stay well thanks 🙏 for the video 👏👏
get the neem oil on that pear tree mike right away. boy, do you work fast even in high speed. did you do it all in one afternoon? bet you soaked your wrist afterward? you explained your style very well and i agree with cutting back at reasonable intervals especially the inward growth. spring is popping up all over here in the hudson valley. have a great weekend man. later, carmine p.
Glad to hear it's warming up over there for ya. My wife picked up some neem oil, now I just need to apply it. I did all the pruning in one afternoon but it really feels like a relaxing time and not work cause I just love pruning for some strange reason.
I got a situation ON THE TOP TIER "CORDON" is stunted but a vertical leader has grown 4inches off the center trunk i neglected last season and that vertical off shoot will now be my center leader. Its about 1/2 inch thick at the base rising like 3 feet (probably less ) with two nice symmetrical branch to form a third cordon. I intend to prop up that off center leader with a stout branch taken from the same tree, a Kieffer pear and graft the bottom to the trunk near the ground and the top to the 2ed cordon sort as a bridge graft to support the cordon that the off center leader is growing from. My espalier's are free standing trees If it doesn't work, the grafted brace or if the off center leader bears too much weight on to the middle cordon , like you suggest I can remove the off center leader, end of 2021 or 2022 maybe by then my stunted center leader will have formed a new vertical branch to train for a third tier
Thank you for your video Mike very informative. You have an ant problem I have a terrible beetle 🪲 problem . I have 3 trees 3 years and no apples due to beetles . If you have any idea or anyone else would be wonderful. Thank you 😊
My apples and pear espalier are in their first spring/summer after planting them in late winter. The first tier is growing well. Its now mid summer. I have some branch growth coming off the two laterals and some off the central leader. Should I be summer pruning in the first year on my first laterals? Is mid summer too late for that? I have one pear which has produced a few laterals off the central leader at a tier two height. Should I train those or is it best to cut the central leader back in winter to start the next tier from fresh? Thanks
I hope you get rid of the ants. Let the chickens in the orchard to eat the ants. Through out your yard. Put those babies to work! I wish I had chickens first to rid of the ants and then plant vegetables. Looks good Mike! Hugs to the whole family!
You comment just sent my mind on a whole new path! We've never let the chickens into the orchard area but now I'm thinking of all kinds of ways to get the chickens in there. Thanks, Camelia!
@@MikeKincaid79 it's hard to say. They seem really happy trying to eat the siding off the goat Barn. And anything else I don't want them to. Very much pain in the rear. and lately not wanting to go the barn at night. You are smart not having goats anymore. Haha
I dont remember seeing this video. This is the perfect time to demonstrate your pruning. I can easily see the fruiting buds. Wether its called click pruning or not , you cut back the the water sprout pretty close to their origin to produce fruit spurs the following year I have to put this video on my "watch later list"
I have a shiro plum that I neglected last season . Wild grape vines took controll of the training and contorted one scaffold branch which grew by leaps and bounds in a contorted direction . Growing out from the tree in a vase pattern then into the center of the tree forming a great right angle curve . Obviously it needs to be cutback three feet to continue the vase shape and I will probably do so next dormant season but it's so magnificent that I decided to keep it like it is this growing season. I transplanted it in early April and I don't want to shock it any more than necessary . It about 4 years old and has never fruited . I transplanted three time in 4 years
Anytime you want to keep insects from climbing up the tree you can wrap the base abput 4 inches or so with plastic tape and apply tree tanglefoot. It stops anything dead in its tracks from climbing..its thick like caramel.. and it doesnt hurt the tree...make sure theres no gaps so the insects cant climb under...hope it helps...
Mike for ants 🐜 put vinegar around the tree in the ground around the trunk of trees ants don’t like the smell of vinegar get a spray bottle doit 3 times a week you will see the results
Hey Mike, thanks for another informative video on fruit growing; I'm thinking of getting a couple pear trees this spring to grow in containers (probably 55 gallons barrels); is there any updated video on your pear crop for 2019? John in Victoria
No pear crop for us in 2019, not sure why other than that they are young trees trying to establish. The apples had so much fruit that they were sagging down by inches.
mIke, i live in Massaschusetts. it's mid-Sep and i have 3 espaliered trees that had great fruit this year!!! and now i watch this video and the summer pruning video. I have LOTS of water sprouts in my trees. is it too late to prune? wait until winter? or just wait until early july next year at this point
I'd wait until winter at this point. I've been changing how I prune and just skipping the summer pruning the past few years. Still getting lots of fruit and it allows the tree to put on a stronger trunk and roots due to all the growth through the summer. I'll probably prune mine way back this winter.
@@MikeKincaid79 ok. I love that answer. Last question. Does it matter if it's December, Feb, Mar, April? Leaves will drop by late october. we won't get budding and blossoms until early may. just don't know if it matters if they are compeltely dormant. In your video, you were pruning after buddding had started. thanks again. this is awesome information and super helpful.
But Mike if I'm doing summer pruning am I not cutting off developing apples? If the spring flowers of my fruit trees were pollinated there is developing fruit on the branches so what am I cutting off in my summer prunings?
@ the 1:42 time mark . The lower cordon almost perfect symmetry of the opposing branches the branch on the right I see you pulled down yet the crotch angles appears it set naturally at a right angle . And the crotch angle of the left looks like it wasnt pulld down . One instruction I got from a video on Tall spindles apple growing is that if the tree trainer will remove the buds ( on a newly planted nursery tree 5 feet tall ) at the terminal end except for the very top bud then the buds lower than the ones the tree trainer rubbed off will crotch at a wider crotch angle. Did you manipulate this tree to achieve such nice crotch angles on purpose other than pulling the cordon branches down to the wire?
The new rage of grafting uses blind drill hole grafting. That seem like a good way to achieve 90° crotch angles for decorative espaliar training One youtube instructor drill a blind hole into the central leader then counter sinks the smaller dia. Deep hole to fit the diameter of the scion wood into, so the counter sink proportion is the true grafting hole to match the cambrian to cambrian layers together
Hi Mike, I missed my winter heading of the leader on my apple espalier for the second tier. This is a 2 year old tree an established first lateral. Looking to grow 3 laterals eventually. Do I wait 'till next winter to make this heading cut, so I can grow the 2nd lateral branches? I am wondering if making a heading cut in summer will only produce fruiting spurs and not laterals for next year? Thanks
I'll bet if you cut it now, you'd get at least a few nice branches that can be used for laterals. I doubt they'd all be fruit spurs, especially if the tree is younger.
I'm living in MN ( zone 4 B ). I got some Asian pear trees. I watched a lot of clips about pruning . I'm confusing about that. What's different between summer pruning and winter pruning ? which one for more fruit and which one for shape. I have some Asian pear. Central leader or vase which shape is the best for them ?
@@MikeKincaid79 thanks - and how do you know where to cut on branches in order to stimulate their production? Thanks for your help - I'm needing to work on a client's espalier pear* tree next week. While I love pruning and am familiar with most pruning techniques, fruit trees are something I haven't had much experience with. :)
m living in MN ( zone 4 B ). I got some Asian pear trees. I watched a lot of clips about pruning . I'm confusing about that. What's different between summer pruning and winter pruning ? which one for more fruit and which one for shape
@@MikeKincaid79 thank you! Great channel! We are thinking of running Espalier trees around the perimeter of a permaculture food forest fence, and add some raised beds in the middle for annual vegetables
They are 2 different things. You can have a bare root, grafted tree. I think you're asking about rooting cuttings from a specific variety and growing them on their own roots. It's usually best to graft onto a solid root stock for disease resistance and hardiness in a broad range of soils.
@@MikeKincaid79 Thank you for your response. In terms of doing the espalier, is there any difference between using a grafted or bare root tree? Does it matter?
Do you remember me saying in your previous espalier video me criticizing that your cordoned structure was not perfect. You were demonstrating on a pear I'm all about perfection as I continue with failure But in this video the apple . The first tier of opposing branches . Near perfect. Because wide crotch angle and the branches are very close together on the vertical axis. That's all for now . I will be viewing this video multi times and at those times I will further comment
@@MikeKincaid79 ants r feeding with the aphids poo which is rich in sugars. they live in a symbiosis,ants acting like bodyguards to protect their source of food!!!
Try some sugar or honey near the truck of that tree 5 inches away, and the ants will leave it alone, hopefully! if not just put some Vaseline around the truck, and spray the ones that you have on the tree with some water/air pomp and problem solved.
Hi, Mike! Am I late to prune roses. It was frizzing cold till today, I look and seen new small buds, so I can decide without you. I have those roses for 6 years blooming all summer till late fall. Now they have some branches very tick. Should I cut some now. Roses bushes are about 8' high. every year I shorten them for 1/3 of each. You can see on facebook.com/mia.defleur Last year roses bloomed in few series, they had periods short they didn't flower.
Love this Mike! Have you looked at Amdro for your ant issue? I plan on using it myself this summer as I have some aphid harvesting ants in one of my apple trees. Heres an Amazon link: www.amazon.com/AMDRO-Block-Home-Perimeter-Granules/dp/B000QDEQ7E
Thanks for the link, John. I need to do something because the ants are always a problem around here in the spring. We live on property so there are always a few 3 foot tall ant piles cropping up around here every year.
The good thing about Amdro is they say it’ll kill any ant in the county as they’ll forage and bring it back to the colony and wipe out the whole colony.
So I have a question for you. You said I can do better but you didn't say how. I think you can do better too, lol. It would be helpful if you told me what you didn't like about it.
Finally got around the "winter" pruning of my espaliered apple and pear trees. Here's the summer pruning video: ua-cam.com/video/EHl2qdMgl00/v-deo.html
how interesting and i see in the ground that you have the culantro green leafs and that is good for the puertoriquen dish... how nice and how long do it take to see apples?
@@lurodriguez3183 We should see apples this year! The trees have been in the ground for 2 years.
@@MikeKincaid79 oh i would love to see there first time can y ou log it to see when they are ready to pick off the tree..?
The summer pruning video is the best explanation I have seen on creating fruiting spurs. This video is the best on creating fruiting spurs and clipping back not fruiting suckers you call them . I didnt realize that by clipping the suckers made fruiting spurs just below the snip . This video the branching can easily be seen with the small green budding on your short stems probably under overcast skys which evenly lights the tree . No horrible backlighting and heavy cast shadows like the many institutional videos on winter pruning. Those institution video depend on a photographer . And they concentrate on the narrator ,oblivious of the subject at hand . These camera in one hand and pruner in the other hand are far superior to having a separate photographer although IV Organics channel pulls it off very well the institutional video has a photographer completely clueless of the subject
How did I get on this subject,? Excellent explanatio/demostration and unable to Express my admiration w/o going into a rant
Hi Mike, my name is Cheng from #graftingtactick, in Australia.
your video is such a great material to learn, as I just started my espalier journey with my apple and pear tree, the pruning techniques, the how to look after your espalier tree. I'd like to say thank you so much for this wonderful beautiful art of espalier fruit tree. Also love to follow and watch your videos. Be safe and blessed 🌱🌿🍃☘👏👏
After watching this terrific video I went outside and saw my fruit trees in an entirely new way. I saw the different structures so clearly, differences between the structure of a water sprout and a fruiting spur, directional buds, etc., and now at last I can prune my trees with a sense of confidence I never had before this video, Mike. You are a fabulous teacher and I thank you! I have high hopes that this season will be beautiful as well as bountiful!
Thanks so much for all the positivity here, Chris! Glad you've learned from the video. Have fun in your orchard!
Yep I'm gonna do that with my trees, your the best 😊😊😁😁🤗🤗
Just planted some new fruit in the new orchard and this is the best way to go for us since we’re in our 70’s. You have given me a load of ammo! ❣️👍🏻
Ready, aim, fire! Good for you guys. Have fun and enjoy your summer!
Thank you so much Mike. We bought our first espalierd Apple early this Spring. Your video helped me a bunch in pruning it.
Awesome, glad to help!
Wow, so beautiful espalier fruit trees 🌿🌲☘🌴🍃
They are soooo beautiful when pruned nicely and flowering in the spring!
I loved your video. I found out with a prune tree how clever the ants are to farm aphids in the tree. I remember reading that Vaseline smeared around the base of the trunk would keep them from doing this. Thank you!
Thanks for reminding me, I need to prune my trees!
Man, is there anything more fun than snipping away at trees? Good info. I'm been trying to pin down what triggers fruit spur growth for years, and this is definitely helpful
Glad you learned something from it. You should definitely check out the summer pruning video because that's what encourages those fruit spurs: ua-cam.com/video/EHl2qdMgl00/v-deo.html
I love watching these videos I have learned a lot thank you.
Thanks for watching, glad you learned something!
Great job! Thanks for walking us through the process. I have 2 - year old espaliered plums, three tiered. Just a few fruit buds but I'll be patient!
They'll get there, and when they do, you'll have more fruit than you can eat!
@@MikeKincaid79 Ha! We have 6 sons!
An espalier plum ,? I would like to see that . My attempts at espalier a santa rosa plum and a contender peach . Both trees have a stepped leader
. In both cases the first cordon didn't produce two opposing lateral branches the South lateral grew outward creating a horizontal stem then the first vertical shoot closest to the leader from the ground developed into a steep riser and headed for the stratosphere . . That was the contender peach. The santa rosa plum didn't grow the first two years so this year I ignored it letting vines grow all over it in late August I removed the vines .and holy Mackeral one cordon didnt develop at all. the other lateral made a lopsided horizontal steep and the central leader took off skyward the most wrongest shaped tree I could imagine. It increases its volumn 3 or 400 percent in one growing season . I fertilized it with urine only . For all you Urine buffs out their
@@robertbrawley5048 don't give up. It seems it's finally established. Prune and train till you get the side shoots you want then let the horizon shoot grow. Winter and Summer pruning should be for shape and roots. I'm not an expert but mine are really doing well. This will be their third year and I'm hoping for fruit.
Totally agree with your approach.
Thanks, Dorothy!
Hey mike I’m so excited 😆 I got the black Madeira kk also the i258 end a New Jersey fig that was found here in New Jersey the name is lyndhurts fig not many people know about this fig I got all this figs from big bills in pa his really good guy also great prices mike great video like always stay well thanks 🙏 for the video 👏👏
I'm excited for you, Carlos. You'll be able to take a ton of cuttings this fall!
Great video Mike, great energy too, thanks sir!
Glad you enjoyed it!
Super helpful. Thank you
You’re welcome. I have a summer pruning video as well and just posted a second winter pruning video a couple weeks ago.
Can you do a video on lilac propagation? Keep up the good video..
Sure, I'll have to put it on the list.
get the neem oil on that pear tree mike right away. boy, do you work fast even in high speed. did you do it all in one afternoon? bet you soaked your wrist afterward? you explained your style very well and i agree with cutting back at reasonable intervals especially the inward growth. spring is popping up all over here in the hudson valley. have a great weekend man. later, carmine p.
Glad to hear it's warming up over there for ya. My wife picked up some neem oil, now I just need to apply it. I did all the pruning in one afternoon but it really feels like a relaxing time and not work cause I just love pruning for some strange reason.
fantastic help every time. thx
Glad to help!
Nice upload. You literally look like Nick Jonas. Happy gardening.
Thanks
Mike, thank you for your video. Do you have a video on how you staked and formed your trees? (T-post, wire, securing etc.)
Unfortunately I didn’t film it but I recently posted another pruning video and a second video explaining how I trained them.
Thank you so much I love it
Happy you enjoyed it!
Hi Mike ,very good video
i think espalier is like working with bonsai and i know how much you enjoy bonsai. cp.
You know, you're right, it is kind of the same. Lots of pruning and shaping to get the desired end result.
You are awesome
I got a situation ON THE TOP TIER "CORDON" is stunted but a vertical leader has grown 4inches off the center trunk i neglected last season and that vertical off shoot will now be my center leader. Its about 1/2 inch thick at the base rising like 3 feet (probably less ) with two nice symmetrical branch to form a third cordon. I intend to prop up that off center leader with a stout branch taken from the same tree, a Kieffer pear and graft the bottom to the trunk near the ground and the top to the 2ed cordon sort as a bridge graft to support the cordon that the off center leader is growing from. My espalier's are free standing trees
If it doesn't work, the grafted brace or if the off center leader bears too much weight on to the middle cordon , like you suggest I can remove the off center leader, end of 2021 or 2022 maybe by then my stunted center leader will have formed a new vertical branch to train for a third tier
Thank you for your video Mike very informative. You have an ant problem I have a terrible beetle 🪲 problem . I have 3 trees 3 years and no apples due to beetles . If you have any idea or anyone else would be wonderful. Thank you 😊
I don't have that problem here but I'll look into it.
My apples and pear espalier are in their first spring/summer after planting them in late winter. The first tier is growing well. Its now mid summer. I have some branch growth coming off the two laterals and some off the central leader. Should I be summer pruning in the first year on my first laterals? Is mid summer too late for that? I have one pear which has produced a few laterals off the central leader at a tier two height. Should I train those or is it best to cut the central leader back in winter to start the next tier from fresh? Thanks
Happy 420.
I hope you get rid of the ants. Let the chickens in the orchard to eat the ants. Through out your yard. Put those babies to work! I wish I had chickens first to rid of the ants and then plant vegetables.
Looks good Mike! Hugs to the whole family!
You comment just sent my mind on a whole new path! We've never let the chickens into the orchard area but now I'm thinking of all kinds of ways to get the chickens in there. Thanks, Camelia!
You are welcome Mike! You might need to watch them though!
I see you pruned your hair too 😉 looks cool for the anticipated summer! Hugs!
I want to grow some bad but my goats keep killing all my trees. Not cool goats. Thanks for the info on it. Enjoyed the video.
I can imagine that an apple tree is a piece of candy to a goat.
@@MikeKincaid79 it's hard to say. They seem really happy trying to eat the siding off the goat Barn. And anything else I don't want them to. Very much pain in the rear. and lately not wanting to go the barn at night. You are smart not having goats anymore. Haha
Lol, I laughed at the part about eating the siding off the barn. It's so true, those goats will eat anything.
Cute
Which one, the Fuji apple or the Bartlett pear? 😜
I dont remember seeing this video. This is the perfect time to demonstrate your pruning. I can easily see the fruiting buds. Wether its called click pruning or not , you cut back the the water sprout pretty close to their origin to produce fruit spurs the following year
I have to put this video on my "watch later list"
Glad you found it!
I have a shiro plum that I neglected last season . Wild grape vines took controll of the training and contorted one scaffold branch which grew by leaps and bounds in a contorted direction . Growing out from the tree in a vase pattern then into the center of the tree forming a great right angle curve . Obviously it needs to be cutback three feet to continue the vase shape and I will probably do so next dormant season but it's so magnificent that I decided to keep it like it is this growing season. I transplanted it in early April and I don't want to shock it any more than necessary . It about 4 years old and has never fruited . I transplanted three time in 4 years
Anytime you want to keep insects from climbing up the tree you can wrap the base abput 4 inches or so with plastic tape and apply tree tanglefoot. It stops anything dead in its tracks from climbing..its thick like caramel.. and it doesnt hurt the tree...make sure theres no gaps so the insects cant climb under...hope it helps...
I might give that a try, thanks!
No problem.
Mike for ants 🐜 put vinegar around the tree in the ground around the trunk of trees ants don’t like the smell of vinegar get a spray bottle doit 3 times a week you will see the results
Thanks for the tip, I'll have to try it.
So where are all the cuttings from the pruning? I thought the only reason we pruned was to propagate!
Uh Oh, he's paying attention, lol
Check that Bartlett for aphids. They suck the juices of the leaf and leave a sweetness that attract ants.
I'll look, thanks!
Hey Mike, thanks for another informative video on fruit growing; I'm thinking of getting a couple pear trees this spring to grow in containers (probably 55 gallons barrels); is there any updated video on your pear crop for 2019? John in Victoria
No pear crop for us in 2019, not sure why other than that they are young trees trying to establish. The apples had so much fruit that they were sagging down by inches.
@@MikeKincaid79 wow, ok, thanks MIke; hopefully the pears will produce this year
mIke, i live in Massaschusetts. it's mid-Sep and i have 3 espaliered trees that had great fruit this year!!! and now i watch this video and the summer pruning video. I have LOTS of water sprouts in my trees. is it too late to prune? wait until winter? or just wait until early july next year at this point
I'd wait until winter at this point. I've been changing how I prune and just skipping the summer pruning the past few years. Still getting lots of fruit and it allows the tree to put on a stronger trunk and roots due to all the growth through the summer. I'll probably prune mine way back this winter.
@@MikeKincaid79 ok. I love that answer. Last question. Does it matter if it's December, Feb, Mar, April? Leaves will drop by late october. we won't get budding and blossoms until early may. just don't know if it matters if they are compeltely dormant. In your video, you were pruning after buddding had started. thanks again. this is awesome information and super helpful.
But Mike if I'm doing summer pruning am I not cutting off developing apples? If the spring flowers of my fruit trees were pollinated there is developing fruit on the branches so what am I cutting off in my summer prunings?
You're only cutting off the suckers in the summer pruning and this will encourage fruit spurs to grow.
i like your videos make a video about urban farming on roofs
I suppose I could climb on top of my house and set up a raised bed, lol.
love the escaplier look when should I start I have a dwarf nectarine tree that I want to do this with
Start this year. It takes time but in a couple years it will look fantastic.
What’s growing behind the espaliers? Looks like tied up vines of some sort?
I’ve got thornless raspberries to one side and grapes further back on the fence.
Useful edible Bonsai
Now that would be cool, Paul! Miniature apples and pears!
@ the 1:42 time mark . The lower cordon almost perfect symmetry of the opposing branches the branch on the right I see you pulled down yet the crotch angles appears it set naturally at a right angle . And the crotch angle of the left looks like it wasnt pulld down .
One instruction I got from a video on Tall spindles apple growing is that if the tree trainer will remove the buds ( on a newly planted nursery tree 5 feet tall ) at the terminal end except for the very top bud then the buds lower than the ones the tree trainer rubbed off will crotch at a wider crotch angle. Did you manipulate this tree to achieve such nice crotch angles on purpose other than pulling the cordon branches down to the wire?
The new rage of grafting uses blind drill hole grafting. That seem like a good way to achieve 90° crotch angles for decorative espaliar training
One youtube instructor drill a blind hole into the central leader then counter sinks the smaller dia. Deep hole to fit the diameter of the scion wood into, so the counter sink proportion is the true grafting hole to match the cambrian to cambrian layers together
Humm. Saw this six months ago. I forgot most of what you demonstrate. Nothing like revisting old friends once again
Hi Mike, I missed my winter heading of the leader on my apple espalier for the second tier. This is a 2 year old tree an established first lateral. Looking to grow 3 laterals eventually. Do I wait 'till next winter to make this heading cut, so I can grow the 2nd lateral branches? I am wondering if making a heading cut in summer will only produce fruiting spurs and not laterals for next year? Thanks
I'll bet if you cut it now, you'd get at least a few nice branches that can be used for laterals. I doubt they'd all be fruit spurs, especially if the tree is younger.
I'm living in MN ( zone 4 B ). I got some Asian pear trees. I watched a lot of clips about pruning .
I'm confusing about that.
What's different between summer pruning and winter pruning ? which one for more fruit and which one for shape.
I have some Asian pear. Central leader or vase which shape is the best for them ?
Summer pruning for function and winter pruning for form.
What if you made a sticky wrap around the trunk to catch the ants. I saw something like that in the Lee Valley catalogue
I've tried tape and it didn't work. The only thing that has worked so far has been to eradicate the and piles nearby.
Can we get a 2020 winter pruning update now please.!
I need to do it soon, maybe now is the time. Thanks for the request.
We will gave to wait a year because if his hand injury about six months after you made your comment
Since in winter you don't see the evidence you see here, how can you tell if the bare branch has fruit spurs vs suckers?
Fruit spurs are short and squatty, with a bunch of ripples along them.
@@MikeKincaid79 thanks - and how do you know where to cut on branches in order to stimulate their production?
Thanks for your help - I'm needing to work on a client's espalier pear* tree next week. While I love pruning and am familiar with most pruning techniques, fruit trees are something I haven't had much experience with. :)
When i see Ants i assume there is an aphid problem? Thanks for the video.
Almost every time around here.
I've heard that wood ash helps deter ants
I've been dumping wood ash around these trees for a few years and still see ants. I sure wish it deterred them.
m living in MN ( zone 4 B ). I got some Asian pear trees. I watched a lot of clips about pruning .
I'm confusing about that.
What's different between summer pruning and winter pruning ? which one for more fruit and which one for shape
Summer pruning for more fruit spur growth and winter pruning for shape.
@@MikeKincaid79 Thank you
ants= other pests = symbiotic relationship with aphids and/or scale. did you find other critters?
aphids, lol
Can you Espalier along a 6’ tall 2”x4” welded wire fence?
Yes, you're only limited by your imagination when it comes to the art of espalier. The sky is the limit!
@@MikeKincaid79 thank you! Great channel! We are thinking of running Espalier trees around the perimeter of a permaculture food forest fence, and add some raised beds in the middle for annual vegetables
Put used coffee grounds at the base of the pear trees to keep the ants away, they hate it.
Thanks, I'll give it a try
How do you recognize water sprouts ?
Long shoots that grow straight up.
Is it best to use bare root as opposed to grafted tree?
They are 2 different things. You can have a bare root, grafted tree. I think you're asking about rooting cuttings from a specific variety and growing them on their own roots. It's usually best to graft onto a solid root stock for disease resistance and hardiness in a broad range of soils.
@@MikeKincaid79 Thank you for your response. In terms of doing the espalier, is there any difference between using a grafted or bare root tree? Does it matter?
How are the pears doing. Can you do an update?
Yes, I'll get a video up soon.
Do you remember me saying in your previous espalier video me criticizing that your cordoned structure was not perfect. You were demonstrating on a pear I'm all about perfection as I continue with failure
But in this video the apple . The first tier of opposing branches . Near perfect. Because wide crotch angle and the branches are very close together on the vertical axis. That's all for now . I will be viewing this video multi times and at those times I will further comment
Thanks for the critique, Bob.
Yes Mike do note WIDE OPEN CROTCH!
I just learned if you plant peppermint under your fruit trees the ants will stay away!
Thanks, I'm looking into it!
Man you are fast
haha, super fast!
presence of ants indicate aphids
Or is it the other way around? Chicken or the egg, lol
@@MikeKincaid79 ants r feeding with the aphids poo which is rich in sugars. they live in a symbiosis,ants acting like bodyguards to protect their source of food!!!
Try some sugar or honey near the truck of that tree 5 inches away, and the ants will leave it alone, hopefully! if not just put some Vaseline around the truck, and spray the ones that you have on the tree with some water/air pomp and problem solved.
I like the Vaseline idea.
@@MikeKincaid79 someone to thank for it ua-cam.com/video/iic-aHGhUb4/v-deo.html
Hi, Mike! Am I late to prune roses. It was frizzing cold till today, I look and seen new small buds, so I can decide without you. I have those roses for 6 years blooming all summer till late fall. Now they have some branches very tick. Should I cut some now. Roses bushes are about 8' high. every year I shorten them for 1/3 of each.
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Last year roses bloomed in few series, they had periods short they didn't flower.
I'm headed out to prune mine in the next couple days.
THANK YOU!
Mike,BORAX POWDER for ants
Thank you, I'll look into it!
Time is money get it right from an early stage.
Very true
Coffee grounds and diatomaceous earth will take care of the ants on the pear trees.
I'll try the coffee grounds. I get ants bad around here in the spring.
Spread diatomaceous earth at the base to deal with ants.
Never tried it but will definitely look into it.
Love this Mike! Have you looked at Amdro for your ant issue? I plan on using it myself this summer as I have some aphid harvesting ants in one of my apple trees.
Heres an Amazon link: www.amazon.com/AMDRO-Block-Home-Perimeter-Granules/dp/B000QDEQ7E
Thanks for the link, John. I need to do something because the ants are always a problem around here in the spring. We live on property so there are always a few 3 foot tall ant piles cropping up around here every year.
The good thing about Amdro is they say it’ll kill any ant in the county as they’ll forage and bring it back to the colony and wipe out the whole colony.
i liked nearly all your videos but not this pruning sry bro, you can do better
So I have a question for you. You said I can do better but you didn't say how. I think you can do better too, lol. It would be helpful if you told me what you didn't like about it.