Talking Fruit Tree Basics with Susan Poizner
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- Опубликовано: 26 авг 2024
- In this episode I talk to arborist, author, youtuber, radiohost & podcaster Susan Poizner about the basics when it comes to planting and growing fruit trees.
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Thanks for inviting me on the podcast!😊
Of course!!
enjoyed this chat!
Great podcast! Keep on doing what you are doing!
Great video, great guest! I can't grow apple trees in my back yard either, they always die. But I have beautiful peach, pluot, and Japanese plums growing in my back yard, thanks to Whiffletree Farm. Great info and a big thanks for the interview!❤
excellent work
Many thanks
Super interesting thank you for this! 🍎
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1o min in and im learning soooooo much
Was listening to this yesterday when I was sorting some fruit bush, and rosemary cuttings. Got some apple rootstock cuttings on as well. I drink tae, listen to shows like this and make dozens of cutting when it's raining this time of year. I'm on an allotment, so plenty of people pruning stuff. It's basically 100s of free plants, if I really wanted.
One thing I would say on the topic of thinning apples. It is to find time to fondle your fruit a week or two after the flowers have dropped, then repeat it every few weeks.
It does a few things. If you only have, say ten, or fewer trees. Clearly you aren't going to be doing this with 100+ trees. Or on larger trees, not on a dwarfing rootstock of some kind. But then, the vast majority of people with backyard gardens/allotments aren't planting large apple trees anyway.
A. It will knock off any fruit about to fall anyway, as a light tussle is normally enough to dislodge them. So zero labour involved V almost any other gardening jobs.
B. Lets you inspect your trees before the leaves really get going. So you can see issues before they are obscured by the foliage.
C. The tree doesn't waste energy on fruit that is waiting for a windy day to be knocked off anyway. You'll very quickly be able to spot those fruit which are getting ready to drop.
D. Reminds you to chill out, and spend a little time with your trees. Most likely, you'll not have to really look at them the rest of the growing season.
E. You will most likely still need to thin some fruit if the tree is young, or it just has a very heavy set of fruit that year. But now you get to through, and do that very quickly. On a lot of young trees, you can just remove entire clusters of fruit right after they are done flowering. You can also make pruning cuts, after enjoying the blossom first. But before the trees fully wake up.
It's what I do, and I have very few issues. Sure, it's more time in the garden, but isn't the point? There aren't too many gardening jobs you can do whilst drinking tae, or a beer. So get whatever you went out there to do sorted, and crack open a beer and go fondle your apple trees for 10 min.
Good idea!
@@maritimegardening4887 Definitely try it out this year.
You'll find yourself getting faster and more ruthless about it. Ruthless, is a bad choice of words. You'll just know to look at them, which are on their way out, or lagging behind the others badly. They will be smaller, and the stem of the fruit won't look as healthy. They should just fall right off if you tap, or tussle them a bit.
If you need to go in later, and actually remove fruit for whatever reason. You'll have trained your eye to spot what's worth keeping, or discarding. By this stage, you have already knocked god knows how many off the tree. So you aren't going to be too stressed about thinning say four apples in a cluster down to one, two or three.
It's like anything else. Once you have done it a few times, it's pretty much second nature then.