Running a Christmas Tree Farm: A brief overview
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- Опубликовано: 8 дек 2020
- Starting a Christmas tree farm has been a fun, tiring, and rewarding adventure. After several years of running East Fork Christmas tree farms we created this brief overview of many of the annual steps to running the farm. Here in the Pacific Northwest Nobles are the most popular tree. We also carry a good selection of Noordman fir, Grand Fir and Doug fir. Some of the steps include: Planting, fertilizing, weed control, aphid and pest control, cutting handles, shearing and finally harvesting.
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Hi, I enjoy and appreciate your videos on Xmas trees. My wife and I purchased a home with trees on it and have been doing a u cut to just get rid of them over the last few years but now we find ourselves putting 400 trees in the ground this spring to keep it going. Thanks for all the tips!
Thanks for the kind words, and good idea putting more in the ground. It is easier to keep it going than getting it started. Good luck.
Wow! What a video! Seems like the crew is great workers too 😉
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your soil looks amazing! good video
We do have great soil. The county extension agent looked at it and tried to talk us out of Christmas trees said we had great soil and should consider a different crop. Trees are what I love and learned from my Grandpa.
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This is very helpful! We have just planted 1000 trees in VA and look forward to growing our business! Thanks for your helpful tips!
Good luck on the farm. Our farm has been a lot of work but also a blessing and a lot of fun times.
Darn, I’m I’ve Va and would like to start one. Hopefully there’s enough of a market !
I live in Nova Scotia we have 15acres in balsam fir ship to the USA
Love it!! Great video! I'll be binging your stuff now .
Thank you, glad you enjoyed it. More in depth videos on the farm to come this year.
What tree are you trimming at 7:08 marker, love its shape and spacing between branches. Thanks for sharing this video! Always interesting to learn something new.
That is a noble fir. The most popular tree here in the Northwest. Thanks for watching.
Thank you sr!!!
Great video appreciate all the info you shared looking forward to more
Thank you. Seedlings video hopefully done tonight.
Thank you for taking the time to make the videos and pass your learned knowledge on to others! What brand shearing knives do you use and are they serrated or straight edge?
I use an 18 inch handle with an 18 inch blade. Currently using one made by brushking
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Just found you, great video, awesome tips, thanks so much! New subscriber! -Brad
Thanks for the kind words. Glad to have you join us.
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It’s so beautiful 🤩 I wish I had it here I live
I like to walk backwards when spraying, I feel like it keeps safer. Understandably hard to do when there are tree stumps everywhere though.
I’m 20 years old and my dream is to become a police officer and Christmas tree farmer. Our friends have a 45 acre farm that they use helicopters to harvest. I just want a smaller 5 acre lot with some trees so I can enjoy farming. I’m sure it will be a process to get there but I’m exited. Thanks for sharing I’ll definitely be watching this again!
Starting early is good. The hardest part about Christmas tree farming is fighting time and waiting for your first trees to get to harvest. Also you are young enough to keep doing a lot of your own labor if needed for quite some time. Best of luck to you.
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there's a lot more work to Christmas tree farming than people realize
Amen
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have you ever added peat moss or any other nutrient rich soil to the planting to give them a head start?
No for two reasons. One the soil on my farm is really good compared to most tree farms. Not as much of a need. Two: if planting thousands of trees in a day it adds too much work and cost.
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At the 910 mark. What kind of tree and how old was it? When did you plant that tree?
That tree was a noble fir approximately 9 or 10 years old.
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Oh dear - I have a 5-acre lot, all flat sandy soil, was thinking of doing this as a side gig, but no way, lots of equipment to invest in and labor intensive! Great video! I do want to plant some kind of fast growing, shorter, fat trees around the perimeter as a privacy border - any recommendations? SW Wisc, thanks!
I was in this business many decades ago. You do not need all of the equipment shown here (although it is nice). We did all of this work by hand. You don't need shakers, balers, even chainsaws. We started by buying trees from other farmers but we cut and loaded trucks by hand. We started a farm and did the planting and shearing by hand. By 1980 we had three sales lots in Detroit selling many thousands of trees and a farm of 90 acres. We did not have anything more than our hands. We did get a few chainsaws at one point.
How would you deal with overgrown trees? I've inherited my grandparents old neglected tree farm and there's quite a few trees that are 25-30 years old that are massive in size and diameter. Far bigger than anyone would be able to fit in their house haha or in a car/truck. I'm unsure if cutting them down and planting new trees near the trunk is smart or not. The trunks on these trees are thick and roots probably span pretty far out. Should I rent a stump grinder and grind them down or should I attempt to pull these using a tactor? Any ideas what I could do with the trees after they're cut? I was thinking that if I cut them in Nov, I could at least cut them in half and sell the top section as full sized trees.
What variety of tree are they. In this area overgrown nobles have their branches cut off and sold by the pound to wreath makers. Also if the top top 6 to 12 feet look usable try to sell it. We were just at dinner in a friends house. They put up the top 14 feet of a 30 footer. Once down if if you can plant in between stumps that will work. Some varieties of stumps can share root rot after being cut. If you bury the cut stump with an inch of soil it prevents the pathogens from entering the dead stump.
@@FlanaganHomestead I'm not 100% sure on what types of trees were planted. There's definitely some Blue Spruce out there. They're the biggest trees. I'll have to dig through the records to find my dad's old order sheets.
The tops can definitely be used as full sized Christmas trees. They just need a good pruning. I'll have to figure out how to do that during the summer haha.
Good to know about the trunks and root rot. I knew nothing about it. My dad always just left the cut trunks exposed and planted a new tree next to them, but that was for younger trees. These bigger trunks take up too much room. I think I'll have to look into grinding the stumps down as far as I can and then bury them like you suggested.
@@DeathfireD some species you don’t have to worry about root rot. If it wasn’t done previously I doubt you need to do it now. I find it hard to believe there would not be enough good soil in between stumps to plant a new one. Plant directly in middle. Should give enough space.
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Any particular reason for your north-south rows as opposed to east-west?
No my trees would grow just as well East/West as North/south. That is just what worked out best for access on my property
Hi. I'm looking for 2'-3' norway spruce...my supplier is already out for next spring! Any suggestions?
Where are you located?
How do you keep deer from damaging your trees?
I don’t keep deer from damaging my trees. It is very frustrating. My grandpa taught me that you are just going to have to plant some for the deer. I do encourage hunting on my farm. That slows the deer down.
@@FlanaganHomestead would putting up a deer fence be a good thing for a new tree farm?
@@michaeltaylor3289 depends on how severe your deer problem is. Every tree farmer I know has problems with deer damage and none that I know of have put up a fence for deer. The height of the fence would make it quite costly to cover a lot of acreage.
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How the heck does one start a Christams Tree farm? I saw another video where it said for a seed to grow to a tree takes over 10 years. That's a long time to wait to start making a profit. Those 1st 10+ years are gonna be rough.
It is true that it will take years of investment before you get paid back. But once you get to the other side and take care of business you can get paid well. Some varieties of trees you can buy 3 year old bare root seedlings and start selling them 5 to six years later.
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Any pointers on how to wrap them by hand?
By wrap do you mean bailing a tree during harvest
@@FlanaganHomestead yes sir
@@FlanaganHomestead I have an issue with the twine getting tangled up on my hand
@@MrFox64057 we do not bail by hand much. When we have done it, having the tree pulled through a hoop helps. Having smaller spools for twine to come off of is helpful. Hand bailing is a difficult process
@@FlanaganHomestead you're telling me 😅 we don't even use a spool
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