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15 Comments
Great advice!
I love how well you show us the good from the bad. Thanks, Luke!!
Thanks man. I really appreciate you and this video in particular.
Thank you Luke!!! 😮 Saved me a lot of pain!!
Yes Thank you.
I needed this last month.I finally put in a fruit orchard.I'm going to check my trees out tomorrow to see how bad I messed up….lol….Thanks,Luke!
My main concern about buying trees from big box stores or nurseries is the fact that they're all dwarf stock that has been grafted a zillion times. Do the grafted dwarf trees, especially the most common varieties of apples, generally require more care and upkeep than wild apple trees that have grown naturally from seeds, if you're lucky enough to get a wild one with fruit that actually taste good? (Which I think happens more than people think) Do they not have more problems with bugs and diseases? I'm wondering about this because I had two really nice full sized apple trees in my yard that always produced a ton of good tasting fruit reliably every year with no issues and I never had to do anything to them – No spraying, no pruning, no anything! One was about 30-40 feet tall and produced small red apples that were most similar to Rome apples. They would get this black tar stuff on them that I would have to wash off, but other than that, no issues. But unfortunately, a large gust of wind during a storm managed to blow it down about 17 years ago. Before that, it had been there since 1964. I believe it may have grown randomly from seeds, but I'm not 100% sure. The other tree was about 25 feet tall and growing on the side of my house, next to my driveway. It produced sweet green apples that would be all over my driveway every fall. I didn't eat them for years, because I'd always been told they're no good because they're crab apples, but then I tasted one and it tasted perfectly normal. But unfortunately, that tree had to be cut down because it was right on the property line and in danger of falling on the house. I know that one definitely came from a seed because it was not in an area where someone would plant it intentionally. I want to replace these trees, but is there really anything I could buy that will hold up as well as they did and produce as well as they did, with no maintenance, the way they did? Or did I just hit the apple seed DNA lottery with those two? I live in central New Jersey. Also – I have a 18 year old Sekel pear tree from Lowes that just about died from fire blight, but now has a sucker that is trying to grow back. And I have a Comice pear tree also from Lowes, that I planted 4 years ago, that is doing ok, but I feel like it's super vulnerable and it shows some minor signs of disease. If I get something that is not a dwarf, will that help, even if it is still a grafted tree? I have the space. Where can you buy full sized apple trees?
I dont like big box store trees at all from my experience. For example I have two pink lady apple trees, one from home depot that has grown large for years lots of leaves and ive never had a flower on it. And then I also have a pink lady apple although thats from stark brothers nursery. Starks tree is much smaller planted sooner yet it keeps being full of spring flowers and so much fruit set I need to thin it… big box varieties are set up to fail imo. Yet every tree i ever got from stark brothers has grown very quickly and healthy
Went the bare root route from local nurseries.
and…you just spread that bacteria to the pear…
Let me guess… menards? Yeah they sell peach trees and blackberries in zone 3b in mn. And figs too
I have a standard height red plum tree. During winter, I pruned it down to eye level. Then pruned it to a goblet shape. Now it's gone crazy. It completely filled in the middle . It looks like a bush on top of a trunk. Did I pruned at the wrong time?
that 2nd tree you showed as a bad example looks just like a pear tree I bought this winter, wish I could go back and pick a different one 😢
Hi luke very helpful video a must before purchasing any fruit trees ❤
Luke, this doesn't have to do with this video but I want to mention the success I've had with putting vermiculite on carrot seeds instead of cardboard. I put the vermiculite on top of the carrot seeds then cover with a little soil. Keep moist like you would cardboard. The germination rate is around 80%. I didn't mention this with your carrot vid because I'm trying a new location for my carrots and was waiting to see how they would do in germination. They've done great. Tried the vermiculite last year but cutter bugs kept eating them as they germinated. Had to replant 3 times. the ones that survived , were huge.