Air Prune Box Update 2024
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- Опубликовано: 12 июн 2024
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I had over 100 northern red oak acorns in 2 air prune boxes that were decimated by squirrels and birds this spring. The bigger 1 inch hardware cloth is cheaper but too big. Pests can easily get in. I recommend getting the ¼ inch or ½ inch sturdy hardware cloth as Edible Acres is using in this video. Don't cheap out and get the bigger, flimsy ones.
I built some this year, so i have several black walnuts, a black cherry, many white mulberry, and a couple honey locust sprouted!
Thanks for the update. Mine worked well, even without snow cover (unusual winter). I covered & surrounded them with old hay square bales.
Just made 5 beds yesterday 💪🏻
Every time I see a new video from EdibleAcres I am filled with excitement. Thanks for sharing :)
Awesome! You have totally found the most efficient and effective methods to germinate these future food forests! You have inspired me to start a nursery of my own!
❤ I've done it, following his lead.
I forget, did Juan have gardening skills before starting to help you years ago? He must have crazy-good skills now :)
I’m scaling up my air prune system this year from around 40feet square to over 200 feet with your system being the inspiration for all of it. Much love from KY.
Where in KY, I'm in Berea
@@movingforward4623 I live about 20 minutes outside of Frankfort.
@@movingforward4623 sounds like we are close.
this is awesome
Glad ya think so!
Just finished my first one! Thank you and please don’t stop your content! I appreciate all the info you pass on, and a shoutout to Juan as well.
Never even heard of this air prune idea
This is such a brilliant strategy bound to be greatly successful and bring exponential abundance in your landscape. Excited to see where this project goes.
The thumbnail makes it look like Juan's legs are gone. "Good lord, Juan! I TOLD you not to stand inside the new air-prune prototype!"
New to me . . . but very interesting. The only species here that might be desirable to propagate is Jujube Z. I have a grove and this promises to be a good fruiting year.
I love that Juan talked about the seedlings and said 'someone like this'. I do that too. These are living beings and assigning them personhood is a revolutionary act!
If you are interested in this kind of thing, look up Monica Gagliano. She is a plant researcher that has shown plants can anticipate things and learn! She also talks about how one of the Greek philosophers just made a blatant statement that plants are not 'beings' and we've just incorporated that into all western cultures! I will try to find the talk where she goes into this and edit this post.
Edit: I found the talk. It's called "Science Gossip - Woodland Rumours & Thinking Trees (full presentation)" and VERY MUCH worth your time. It talks about how Aristotle assigned basically 'everything except for plants are sensitive. Plants can't perceive. They are insensitive.'. And we've been going off of that assumption ever since!
Thanks for the tips on the cages!
Pretty impressive!
Have you considered making a dibbler type tool using a few/several rows of dowel rod sections to help with planting & spacing? I have made them for garden beds in various spacings from 2 in on center - 2 ft on center. They look like weird broad forks. I find spacing each plant fussy & it drives me nuts. The spacer let's me target planting or dropping seed more easily so I can get on with it. The more precise spacing allows me to weed faster from a standing position as this bending over crap must stop.
Crafting a smaller version with tighter spacing using smaller diameter doll rods might make the job of planting out the boxes go faster.
Neat idea and something to consider for sure!
I'll definitely trade you for some nanking cherry when they're ready!
I also need to redo my air pruning lid so I'll give your new upgrade a shot
I planted some chestnut, persimmon and paw paw seedlings back in March from you. And they are all doing amazing! Could you tell me how you get the hardware cloth so straight. I buy the rolls and they want to curl. Thank you.
I work with a lot of hardware cloth, and the main trick to straightening it is similar to what works for most curved wires. You gently bend or flex it the other direction, about half again beyond straight, making sure you don't go so far the other direction that it ends up curved the other way. In the case of taking some off a tight roll, I just roll it the opposite way as I unroll it. It takes a bit of experimentation and some fiddling with it to get it very close to flat, but the system is about as simple and effective as I can imagine.
In some cases I've also used my knees to push in an area that's bowing out, while holding the rest with my hands. I've also handled some very long and tall rolls (8' x 150') by rolling the whole roll out on the ground with the outside face from the roll facing up, then carefully walking around on it to settle it into a fairly flat panel overall.
Do you feed them periodically through the summer, maybe with compost tea? You mention watering at the end, I’d love to hear more about how much watering they require.
If we get average rains we don't water much at all... No compost tea or feeding since the boxes themselvs are filled with really nice and rich media...
Hi Sean. I realized after receiving my hazelnut seeds, I need to make airprune boxes. Can I use milk crates to improvise? Are mine Jefferson hazelnuts also?
You can absolutely use milk crates in a pinch. I've done so myself here. I ran out of hardware cloth, so I wrapped them in over-lapped chicken wire to keep the critters out, since squirrels will absolutely chew through the unprotected crate. I lost a crate of black walnuts when I didn't wrap them. Good luck!
@@robb5984 thank you Rob B. Should i put wire at the bottom to keep the soil in?
@@SG-vu4qy I put chicken wire around the bottom (on the outside) just to keep the critters out. I used a couple of inches of wood chips in the bottom of the crate, which does a good job of keeping the soil from falling through. I also cut up an old pair of jeans to line the inside sides of the crate to help keep soil in.
It ends up sort of like a rigid/armored grow bag, but it holds several quarts of black walnut seed securely.
The seeds we are offering are from nice wild American source plants. Quite hardy and some should make nice sized nuts some day!
Milk crates are reasonable if y0ou have low rodent pressure
I thought walnuts excret a chemical to prohibit competition wouldn't your hazel nuts be affected?
Some stuff has juglone resistance. In the wild I see lots of stuff near walnut trees. Hazel are a tough plant, wouldn't be the least bit surprised if they can handle it. Don't remember whether I saw them specifically.
Black Walnuts can be tough but English Walnut are pretty gentle
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