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I'm Cameron. My family of 7 (plus a dog, cat, and chickens) and I are located in Southern California (USDA grow zone 9b). We've fallen in love with gardening and fruit trees over the past several years and have begun sharing our passion, experience, as well as our successes and failures here on The Busy Gardener channel. Our main goal is to the mystery out of growing fruit trees and other DIY home related projects. Thanks for watching!
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Thanks for the tips. Question, is the feeding schedule months for USA?
Our pear tree is affected, should we cut it way down?
Jujube roots ARE VERY INVASIVE and need a barrier to contain its roots just like Running bamboo. Most are grafted on wild seedlings, which are very thorny and invasive.
Mango and avocado trees are the easiest. In south Florida just stick them into the ground. If you do it early in the year the daily summer rainstorms mean no need to even water.
Instead of cutting the bottom to a point, simply drive a screw in the end so that about 3/4 - 1 inch sticks out. Holds the support into the ground really well.
Thanks for the tips! But I still don't dare to prune the dying/dead leaves off my Boston Fern that I'm keeping indoors in the hopes that they might wake up. I put some fertilizer in before watching your video. Should I re-pot? I see some new shoots of stems peeping out of the soil. What do you think?
Will the fruit taste differently on the non variegated wood?
What kind of avocado is best for nprth Florida (just south of Jacksonville)? South Florida varieties or the more cold hardy Mexico/California ones? I know what grew in Palm Beach County where I just moved from.
This is an amazing Video on Pomegranates harvesting but I would like to mention that the membrane and Skins when dried make wonderful Tea and has more antioxidants than the fruit itself which is kinda crazy lol I learned this a couple weeks ago from my Korean Grandmother who is 87 Y/O and is healthier than me at 20😂 She grows all her fruit and vegetables and never gets sick.
Soooo many antioxidants in pomegranates. I wouldn't be surprised if the skins are brimming with them as well!
What is the most invasive pollinator June Bugs ants? How about root grubs? Could grubs be the problem for fire blight? Great video. Not growing pears is not an option 😂
I think it's just honey bees (or any other pollinator) carrying the pathogen from bloom to bloom. Grubs aren't likely the problem or vector for disease
So.... Did it work?
So-so. The PVC gave way in the wind and bend and snapped. Switching to inexpensive metal conduit did the trick!
@@TheBusyGardener I assume that means the concept as a whole worked and kept the birds away.
What is the best way to protect the avocado trees in the cold weather? Where we live, the typical winter weather is around 35° at night, but can drop as low as 15° sometimes. Thank you!
Oof, 15 degrees is REALLY low for most avocado. I'd treat this like I do my citrus and wrap with frost fabric, around those little incandescent Christmas lights for gentle heating.
@@TheBusyGardener Thank you!
Edible?
Incredibly edible. So tasty, especially frozen and blended with a little milk. Like ice cream!
I have a flavor king pluot, but still no fruit hopefully next year
It can take a couple/few years to begin fruiting. Flavor king requires a compatible pollinator like Santa Rosa plum in order to fruit reliably.
what is the name of the tool? I cannot find it in any store
You seem to be doing at lot of heading cuts (also called tipping cuts) where I would not. What about doing reduction cuts at these points? Your heading cuts will give lots of water sprouts, and they are not usually productive or good for the shape of the tree.
Most concise and helpful video on an intimidating garden chore. Excellent!
Thanks. I feel scared to cut the tree. I feel like I'm gonna kill it. I've only been growing my citrus and fruit trees in containers but since my local nursery isn't really selling dwarf varieties anymore I need to learn to do this and probably thinking to put some in ground in my front yard. I'm wondering though do I need to cut to knee height ? Will it still be okay to cut at waist height ?
What about blueberrys
I don't trellis blueberries!
I have a question, I lived for many years in a tropical island, where avocados fall off the trees and they root and grow a plant which turns to a tree, Great, So why do people tend to cut off the avocado plant when they grow it from seed ?? I’m confuse?
Birds get half of my elderberries every year. I've got diverters coming from Amazon
Just lost ALL of my blackberries and raspberries this year to birds mostly taken when they were still red and unripe (blackberries), though strangely they don't seem to take the Japanese wineberries we also grow a lot (possibly the prickly stems of the bushes). I particularly like the scary eyed balloons which look to me as if they might work and could be easily suspended over by blackberries which grow in lines on wires. You didn't say (sorrry if I missed it) which method was most effective though I got the impressive it might have been the balloons. I am certainly going to try this if I can purchase them in Europe.
Great video
How are your groupings doing? Any regrets about doing the close multi plant holes?
This is all fine and dandy but for the Northern Zones these would not be the easiest fruit trees for beginners. :)
I just noticed today I had many split fruits. I water my tree twice a week and in the same way as previous years. I am unable to understand what has changed and caused this.
Aloha hugs 🤗 from Hawaii if you give this a heart 10 10 20 my Passion Fruit loves Left over Rice ,I cut back my Passion fruit because the fruit could not get Sun a bug was trying to get it ant so we are Boric acid for ands Epsom Salt now Im making cutting for others I love Yellow best, GBY videos
I live in Florida and I have an avocado tree that I have been growing for a couple of years now. It bolted and got really tall and only had leaves towards the top. I read that if you cut the top off and place a small cup on top, it will force new growth in other places on the plant. Fast forward from about 3 weeks ago when I made the cut it now has new growth on the tree n spots it never has before. I seen someone a few neighborhoods over have a huge avocado tree in their yard. I didn’t see a second one. It had more fruit on it than I’m sure those people could eat. I never seen an avocado tree in person with fruit on it. It’s was honestly amazing to see. I’m hoping I won’t need to get another plant to get mine to start putting off fruit. I don’t even know what type I have since I have a plant lady in my neighborhood that sell seedlings for dirt cheap and I got from her and never really checked. I’m sure I can ask her assuming she would know but that seems like such a process to have to do. 😅
So I live in Florida and have citrus canker and greening here. Have lost all my citrus over the last 10 years. Mango trees fortunately have done well
1 cherry left on 3 trees. July 7, 2024 Cowiche Washington
Awesome thanks!!
You should have seen my face when he decapitated it!!! 😮
I love plain avocado on toast with butter and salt. Or plain with salt.
I live in northern NJ, in a wooded area. This was my first spring that I grew beautiful tulips that the birds decimated. I also started four rose bushes this year and now that they are finally blooming, the birds are pecking away at those too. If the woodsy creatures aren't eating my flowers and vegetables, the birds are pecking at all the petals. It's very frustrating!
That’s incredible 😮🎉
Dude full respect to you for still going along with this experiment with little to no positive examples. I would love to see an update.
How about spraying the young fruits with an insecticidal soap. Something that can be easily washed off after harvest?
Hi what type of passion fruit tree is this please?
It's a "Frederick"!
Excellent video…Our lot is 5550sq Ft with 1700 sq Ft house. We have around 25 fruit trees some dwarf and some not so much. You confirmed what my plan was in keeping my trees to the height I want..We live in zone 10A.
I live in La Grande, Oregon (6B zone) where temps range from -16F to 100F. I want so badly to grow avocados. It looks like I would have to grow them in a grow bag sitting on a dolly so I could roll them into a greenhouse as needed to avoid extreme temps and too much sun. Maybe next year.
Cat birds are eating all of my Raspberries and Blackberries.
Robins are the only birds that eat fruit, no other birds do, bluejays, cardinals, sparrows don’t do any damage.
That won’t work for me. I’m in the townhouse with seven others and we have body corporate gardens. That would just make the place look trashy.
Can not hear because of music
Best tutorial, I'm a newbie fruit and berry small-time gardener in the cold part of Canada and so intimated about pruning my fruit trees, NOT anymore after watching you. Thanks. I'm a new subscriber.
Thanks for the video. I have some questions. The first is: Is simultaneous cross-pollination more efficient between two different verieties of avocado trees in the same field? Or can it also be done efficiently between trees of the same verieties? Which one is better? . Second: If it were better for simultaneous cross-pollination between two different verieties of avocado trees, which veriety would you prefer as the veriety that blooms simultaneously as a male and the Haas veriety as a female? Third: If we have a field with 100 trees totally, what is the appropriate number of male trees that correspond to the appropriate number of female trees or rather what is the ratio between them? What is the optimal distribution map for the distribution of those 100 trees in the field? Thank you very much in advance.
Good questions. I'll answer what I can! You'll get the greatest amount of fruit set if you've got a mix of A-type and B-type flowers. It's true that in SoCal, you can plant a single A-type and get fruit because of how their flowers will function. But having both types should give a 25% higher yield than planting one type alone. I'd also plant multiple cultivars (multiple a-type and multiple different B-types) for greatest production and variety. I'm not sure or proportions of how many B-type you should plant to ensure solid pollination, but I imagine planting them in blocks of 1 b-type to every 4 a-types should be sufficient if they're close enough for the bees to make the jump. Good luck!
Cockatoos took most of the mandarines in about 3 minutes
Persimmon. But you'll share your fruit with the squirrels and rats.
Crepe Myrtle
Paul Gautschi--Back to Eden--piles his up against the trunks and his orchard is gorgeous.