How To Prune Young Fruit Trees - Peach, Apple, Fig and more
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- Опубликовано: 10 фев 2022
- In this video I will demonstrate and explain how I'm pruning my backyard fruit trees one year after planting them. I be pruning peach, nectiplum, aprium, apple, fig and more. I'll also show some examples of last years pruning and the results of those pruning cuts.
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I appreciate your interest in pruning. I have a few pointers. When you use pruning shears, the blade should be closest to the portion you are going to retain so that you have a nice smooth cut that heals well. Many of your cuts have the anvil towards the portion, you are retaining,thereby crushing the vulnerable branch collar or the tissue at the end of the heading cut. if you want your tree to live a long time, it’s important not to cut off more than 20% of the live vegetation per year. They can of course survive when you remove more than that, but it is stressful to them because their food supply has been greatly reduced as the leaves provide the food for the tree. When the tree is able, it will produce a lot of water sprouts, some call them suckers, in order to replace that lost food supply. This fast replacement growth is subsequently weak. Trees with few or no dormant buds under the bark are unable to replace enough of this food source and are stressed and often subsequently die early. Peach trees, for example have an average lifespan of only nine years due to the lack of dormant buds to make up for over pruning. apple trees fare better due to having many water sprout sites. Heading cuts should only be used as a last resort to completely removing a branch or a leader.Heading cuts can be valuable in training young Wood. When trees are over pruned they are stressed and stressed trees invite insect infestation. The strongest tree form is the one that nature developed for trees over millennia, that is as a strong central leader. If you go to the forest, my teacher, you will see that most trees grow with one strong central leader. Most of the pruning that I do is to make up for the fact that the tree is not in the forest, and I try to mitigate the problems that causes. Heading cuts heal very slowly, which allows rot to get in and carbohydrates to dissipate from the trees reserves which are stored inside the wood. Most homeowners would do well to plant true dwarf trees, rather than semi dwarf or standard trees. True dwarf trees need extremely limited pruning and begin to produce well within 3 to 4 years. Go to the forest grasshopper for she is a good teacher!
I need to ask that how long we can save these sticks to propagate later ? and what will be the best way to store them ?
You inspired me to plant a mini orchard for my family. In January, we planted 2 figs, a 4 in 1 apple, a fruit salad (apricot, plum, peach, nectarine), a pear, a donut peach, and a mango. I did my 1st pruning cuts just yesterday and I don’t think I would have had the confidence to do so if I had not seen your summer pruning video. Watching this video today is like looking into the future. I hope my trees grow as well as yours and look forward to all your future videos.
That’s so awesome David! Happy gardening!
That's great to hear! What zone are you in?
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Better than lawn mowing. Keep going with your fruit trees.
Fruit trees are amazing. I'm in lower Alabama. I grew up with'em, so as kids we'd just pick a snack--satsumas, figs, blackberries, & banana trees(they took over the yard, just spread all over, my mom dug them up by roots, drug them to the burn pile & even after burning them they just kept growing with bananas ready to eat). Now, like 15yrs later, those bananas just won't stop growing (even as she uses the burn pile)!!!--- so many grew outta the burn pile my brother in law used them to line his fence & I'm going to try to pull up about 6, to share with my neighbor.
Your videos are, by far, are the best series I have ever seen. As commented by others, your before and after, cause and effect, approach is an extremely effective learning tool! In addition, I have never seen any pruning video where the presenter had a more consistent (and accurate) use of terms (heading, thinning, tipping)! Thank you for all your work! One suggestion for future videos. Try and work in the filming of how you use iso-propyl alcohol spray on your pruning shears as you move from tree to tree. It would be a good reminder to all of us for preventing disease transfer in the orchard! Keep up the exceptional work!
Thank you so much! Ive mentioned cleaning my pruners that way in a few of my pruning videos, but you're right, I should Include that information in each pruning video
Kyle, I'm a Master Gardener and on tons of gardening sites. I post your vids very often due to your way of demonstrating and natural talking style. Many people are afraid of making that first cut.
Thank you so much! I appreciate your experience based feedback and your support. Happy gardening!
@@urbanfarmstead Kyle, I'm waiting for your 2nd year summer pruning vid. Also would you kindly include for new pruning folks, how to tell where the fruit will grow? So a little about spurs, tip bearing, and pruning a fig (when and how) since they fruit on new wood. Thanks I think that would really help folks.
I’m growing Many fruit trees and have always only pruned in late winter. After reading a book about how to keep fruit trees small by pruning in mid June I’ve learned that winter pruning causes more growth and summer pruning controls the size. Thanks for a good video.
Thank you! Yes, definitely important to summer prune for size control.
You really do have the best fruit tree pruning videos. This helps me a lot.
Thank you! I appreciate your feedback and I’m glad you find them helpful
I wish this video existed a year ago when we started pruning our fig and peach trees. Makes me realize how wrong we were.
Both of those trees, especially the figs, are quite forgiving so perhaps you can still improve them now.
Such a great video! The then and now editing is a huge help to see just how they grew based on the cuts you made. Extremely helpful for conceptualizing what you’re teaching here. We just put in a mini orchard and really appreciate this. Thank you!
Thanks! I’m glad you found it so helpful
Your confidence with the cuts is fantastic!
Oh thank you! Ive been doing this for about 15 years, so its getting easier
It's so helpful to see the progression of the pruning over time. Thanks!
Thanks! I’m happy to share
🙏best pruning video. The best 🙏
So nice of you
I'm so grateful for then and now. I have huge out of control small orchard here that I didn't know I could safely approach in the summer. Will use these guidelines and keep following. Probably the most informative and concise source I've found yet. Much love for this channel ♡
I love the style of your videos. So informative and helpful. I too liked the flashbacks to earlier videos to help visualize. Thanks for your time!
Thank you! I appreciate your feedback
Thank you for putting in the time and effort to show the progression over time in a single video! Huge like! 👍👍👍
You’re welcome
Honestly, I’ve watched many fruit tree pruning videos but yours are super helpful. Thank you!
Thank you! I’m glad you’re finding them so helpful
Got my nectaplum today!! I have planted 15 trees into my orchard i am so excited thanks for your videos they are very helpful!
That’s rad! I think you’re going to love the nectaplum. I’m glad you’re finding the videos helpful
My trees have all been planted and we are getting ready to go into autumn so I wanted to prune them before winter hits. I'm so glad I found your videos because now I have the confidence and the fear is less when it comes to cutting back my fruit trees.
Thank you for a another great video. I really like how you showed the past pruning done on all these trees so we can see the growth over time. Like the way how you explained in detail what and which branches to prune. Learned a lot and give me more confidence to prune my year old fruit trees. Thank you.
Thank you! I’m glad you’re learning a lot and I appreciate you taking the time to share your feedback!
I can not wait to see the pruning when the trees are mature! Keep up the good videos
You are the reason we’re trying out small fruit trees on our suburban lot in Colorado! Thanks and I hope to see more videos soon!
Great info, Kyle! Just about to do this with our dwarf peaches. We may actually get some fruit for the first time this year. Cheers to living in a place where February and a t-shirt can coexist. 🤣
Thanks! That’s awesome! Yes, cheers the that! 😂
Thanks so much for taking the time to do this…. I planted 13 trees today and I still have more to plant….. you’ve helped me out tremendously!
That’s awesome! You’re very welcome
Watching this video gave me the confidence to cut my trees😊
I love that! As someone who knows what it’s like to feel that intimidation of pruning fruit trees, that’s exactly why I make these videos
Been looking forward to this update! Love watching the young fruit trees grow.
Thank you
Just found this series, and man oh man it is incredible! So helpful and I feel confident to be able to start a small fruit tree grove now
Thank you! I’m glad you found it helpful
This was fantastic. This series has helped out tremendously. I started my backyard orchard last year and a lot of videos talk about these concepts, but this was the first that really resonated with me. Thanks!
Thank you! That’s awesome, and I appreciate your feedback
I had the courage to prune our young peach and nectarine trees after watching 5+ videos from your channel. Thank you Kyle!
Great series. Thanks for taking the time to include prior clips so it’s easy to follow over time. Well done!
Thank you! I’m happy to share!
Can't wait for my tree deliveries this spring. You are one amazing pruner and farmer. Thanks for all your wisdom and great teaching methods.
Exciting! Thank you
You inspired me so much thank you I have inherited a farm I'm looking forward to planting lots of trees
Thank you! I’m glad you’re enjoying my videos
I have been loving these videos (new subscriber)! You are a great teacher and you will single-handedly save our orchard. Thank you!
Perfect explained for a noob like me. Thx my Friend 🤛
Thank you! Glad it was helpful
I was excited to see your update. We watched your prior 2 videos and learned so much! Thank you for sharing this information!
Thank you
Your videos inspired me to plant a variety of stone fruit, fig, and a pomegranate on our small property in Solano County, and also the confidence to actually prune them! Not wanting to "mess them up" is a real issue for newbies and seeing the progress from initial pruning through management pruning and how they impact the long-term structure is super helpful! Thanks!
That’s awesome Clayton! Thanks and happy gardening
Have just watched 3 videos of people who think they can prune and I hate to say because you are a yank, that you are the only one of the 3 that prunes the right way and I'm a fruit grower of many decades and I know how to prune as I learned from the manual. I have just watched old and young prune far to far from the bud which will leave it to die and likely kill the tree as well.
Another amazing video! Thank you for all the info you so generously share with us.
Thanks! I’m happy to share
Hi, thanks for the intructions on pruning. Your method is very clear and that helps for people who don't know much about pruning new trees.
Hi, thanks! I’m glad you enjoyed it
Hi from New Zealand. I have many fruit trees and have just been sort of winging it over the last few years, slowly but slowly i have been understanding fruit trees with alot of shaking my head by the way the trees have turned out!! I have just watched your videos and its the most clearest directions that i have seen on pruning fruit trees, i feel like i now understand the whole process now thank you
Thanks really helpful prune my fruit trees
Most welcome 😊
Great to see an update! Your videos are so helpful, thanks for sharing.
Thanks! I’m happy to share
I am so excited for your next pruning vid! I've learned so much and gained so much confidence from the knowledge you provided! Thank you so much for your help!
I'm so glad!
You are a wonderful teacher, and your videos are some of my favorite!
Wow! Look at those beautiful orange fruits behind your apple tree! Gorgeous!
Thank you so much!
Just watched this whole series and it's so informative! Your editing/videography has also improved very noticeably over the year :) Huge fan, keep it up!
Wow! I have been watching videos after videos trying to get an idea of how to prune a couple young trees I have. This one video of yours is IT! Perfect! Thank you!
I’m so glad you found it helpful
You have the best pruning videos. I have watched several and checked out "How To Grow A Little Fruit Tree" from the library 2 different times, but your videos helped me understand what the heck I'm doing so much faster. Great video shots so we can see, great explanations, love the progression videos, and really everything. Keep the videos of all the things you do coming!
thank you so much! I appreciate your feedback and support
I’ve been in the (slow) process of establishing a sustainable urban homestead on our property over the past four years, beginning with garden plots and only recently adding fruit trees this past spring. That makes me a total fruit tree n00b. I planted my first Wonderful pom, Santa Rosa plum, and Black Jack fig trees, and I’ve watched a LOT of pruning how-to videos. This is by far the most informative and comprehensive video I’ve watched about it. Thank you for your thorough explanations on why and how the pruning methods benefit the growth of the tree. You’ve got a new subscriber!
Thank you. Now I can prune my one and only peach tree. Hope to have a decent harvest come June.
I love all the detail in this video. This is exactly what I needed!
Thanks! Glad you enjoyed it
Great advice and video. I planted 1 peach 2 pairs and 1. Plum , mid summer. I’m new to this and probably did it wrong. Big & deep holes and dark soil from the yard
Your pruning videos are the best & most informative I have seen. Thank you so much.
Thank you so much!
I’m glad you added your location, I started thinking I should prune, but I’m NOT in the same zone as Sacramento haha
Yes, location is quite important with farming and gardening
Great videos!! Thanks for taking us newbies along for the ride. We’ve started with 7 apple, 1 pear (need one more!), a cherry and a plum. Same age as yours so we’re on the same page!!
Awesome! Thank you
Mate I have been watching video after video on how to prune my trees, and you nailed it. Thanks so much for your great content.
Thank you! I’m glad you’re enjoying my videos
Seriously though.. that was really good man.. I'm fired up....
Thank you Ryan!
Best videos on pruning that I have watched, I have started my own orchard and your videos have been an inspiration and my guide. Thank you so much, I look forward to many more to come. I am watching all the way from South Africa 🇿🇦 .
Thank you so much! many more to come!
Love seeing the progress. Can’t wait to see summer video! I’m just a bit east from you and I planted a fruit salad 5-1, 4-1 apple and 6-1 espalier in January and they just broke dormancy
Thanks! Nice!
Awesome Time Lapsed video, showing all season triming techniques. Thank you
I wasn't brave enough to cut that much off my trees until I saw this👍
Well I’m glad it’s given you the confidence!
Great video with lots of helpful info, Kyle! Thank you! ☺️ I am looking forward to seeing everything you will do this upcoming growing season. Also: your video production is just awesome, spot-on filming and the quality is superb 👏🏻
Awesome! Thank you! much more to come. I really appreciate your feedback
Very well educational video. I feel more confident when pruning trees now. Thank you.
I’m so glad you found it helpful
Great video I'm starting to prune some young trees now and was totally lost. You are a great instructor. Subscribed
thank you so much!
I like the sound of the cutting. It's ASMR 😅
Absolutely wonderful pruning videos! I have already learned so very much to improve my small orchard. Fighting a bit of fungal disease on my nectarine and peach. Will watch your video on spraying the copper solution. Lost two cherry trees last year here in zone 9a. Summer was a scorcher as you know. Any tips for dealing with heat & disease management is always welcome! Thank you so very much for your help! 🙏🙏🙏
Thank you. Deep irrigation before heatwaves is important
Lots & lots of cuts! 17:34
Not for the faint of heart. 19:40 But - Thanks for the dated and time lapsed video showing the past pruning sessions and very detailed explanations. It is good to see the growth in one season. I am gathering courage to do some pruning.
Thank you!!! Your video was so helpful for my husband and I, this is our first time pruning our fruit trees, very nervous, yet your video made it simple and easy to do. Glad your located in Central Valley as are we, Modesto! Also we too have a backyard orchard, Love it!
Glad it was helpful!
I learnd alot I have a 90 tree appel orchard with this good advice my trees are growing good I have drip irregation and a 5000L tank that I use for fertalizer greetings from Namibia.
That is awesome!
This is the one top shop I need for my backyard orchard. Subscribed!
Wonderful video! Thank you for taking the time to explain each process I learned a great deal.
Your welcome! I’m glad you enjoyed it!
I haven’t seen a new post in ages and I’ve been waiting for a fruit tree update.
Your video is so educational. I am 30 years old and have been farming nearly 2,000 acres in the central valley for 10 years now and can literally count the number of farmers who have the knowledge of pruning you describe. Keep up the amazing work I definitely learned something new!!
im pretty sure mulch like that kills the trees...should live the soil clear from mulch in like 2 feet circle around plant...
Thank you! I really appreciate your experience based feedback!
Thank you. I am so happy to find out how to prune my green fig. It’s huge and has way too many branches.
Great! You’re very welcome
Thank you . Planted mine with yours. Thanks for the follow up.
Awesome! You’re welcome
Great video. I'm new to pruning so it PAINS me to see such nice growth cut off but I understand it will promote more fruit production in the long run.
Thank you. Yes it’s all for the best.
Greetings from the LooseNatural farm in Andalusia Spain
hi
Just found you as we're working on a small orchard garden in our backyard here in the north of Aotearoa New Zealand. A new experience so I've been looking for helpful tips. So many You-tubers (especially in the U.S. if I may respectfully say so, though not so much in the gardening section, I hasten to add), are so busy promoting themselves with show-biz style presentation and whizz-bang shouty histrionics, that it is such a pleasure to find your low key, practical and down to earth and detailed explanations of what is needed and why. Easy to listen to and a tremendous help. Many thanks and best wishes from the bottom of the world.
Thank you for that feedback! I’m glad you found the video helpful and enjoyable. Best of luck with your orchard!
This was so helpful...Loved your inserts with editing:) Thank you:)
It took 7 years before I got fruit .I have semi dwarf apple trees, the tree coming out of the ground about 3-4 dia. We have 24 inches of snow more coming next week.
Thank you for your video. The best video I have seen. I actually don’t have any questions.
thank you
Definitely the best pruning video on the Internet. Thanks to you before I made any cuts I watched many videos on RUclips and none had me feeling more confident to do my cuts than yours. My mini orchard consists of 8 trees. And some of them are 4-5 years old and some are 2-3 and 1.5 years old.... Here in 9b Arizona I'm trying my best and thanks to you and your knowledge I appreciate you
Thank you! Im so happy to hear that! this is exactly why I'm making these videos!
Definitely appreciate it. They're going to be waking up here shortly. Can't wait to see how they do this year. Thanks once again
I like your lawn! Thanks for this video, very useful
Great video for a great fruit yard. I like your pruning rule by cutting the leading branch of the trees and giving them a bowl shape. After loaded with fruits they will turn in a umbrella shape. I love your garden, looks great with different fruit trees. You are lucky living in California, nice weather. I saw oranges, figs etc in your garden but I didn't see the grape vine which do really well in your area.
Thank you. Yeah, no grapes yet
Nice job, learned lots, thank you
Glad it was helpful!
It's always a good day when you drop a video! Thanks
Thank you. I appreciate that!
You make purning look easy😀👍🏼
Thank you! Once you do it a couple times it’s easy
Excellent job beautiful plants.thank for ur advice
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Definitely worth the way I’ve been waiting for this videooooooooo!!!!!!!!!!!!! 🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰
Thank you so much!
I love this series!
Thank you so much!
Very interesting explanation.
Thanks Brother!
Thank you
These videos are super helpful!
Thanks!
Well done video! This is so helpful and reassuring. Thank you!
Thanks! I’m so glad!
Your instructions are awesome, have a plum tree, gave me 5, lol list 9. Will try this pruning after I pick. My hubby is going to get a heart attack. 😅
Amazing content! Thank you for sharing!
Thanks!
You are an artist! Brilliant vid and great host!
Thank you
Man. I can’t tell you how much you’ve helped me. I have a new 23 fruit tree orchard and I always get confused. You really broke it down. I know I can do it now!!!
Thank you! I love that!
What kind of fruit trees do you have
Helpful and inspiring. Thanks a lot
Thanks! You’re very welcome
Great video. Didn't know your from Sacramento as well. Now you give me a great idea of what exactly can grow here in the valley.
Thank you. Great!
You could be a career RUclipsr. I don’t know what it is but you’ve got it 🙌
Thank you! I’m already a career firefighter which I love so I continue doing that for now but I’ll also enjoy creating videos for RUclips on the side. I appreciate your support!
@@urbanfarmstead Right On Kyle!
You're a legend. Thanks for the perfect video as usual.
haha, thanks
Watching your video I stopped being afraid of my fruit trees. I pruned my lifr away and even lemons and quinces which had never flowered are beginning to get loaded. Thank you.
Awesome video mate 👍 well done
Thank you!
Thanks for this very informative video which takes a lot of the mystery out of pruning fruit trees. I'll bookmark it to watch again and also take a look at some of your other content. The Pink Lady Apple was bred in my home state, Western Australia, in a small town in our south-west named Manjimup (Man Jim Up) The Pink Lady is apparently self polinating but is supposed to get a higher yield if it's cross pollinated by another apple variety. Both the parent apples for Pink Lady are also grown here also with the Golden Delicious, pale green to yellow, being a much nicer eating apple in my opinion than the Lady Williams, red apple, which tends to be a bit floury. The winter in the south-west tends to be much cooler than the area around Perth and so the apples are subjected to a lot more chill hours and so tend to grow better in that area which was once our major apple growing and exporting region. We live in Perth but also have a property in Bridgetown which is 20mins away from Manjimup and I'd say we have similar climates to Sacramento except we do get some very high summer temps around 107F and last year we had 6 days of record high temperatures 104F or over - it was a relief for my garden when that finally ended. We usually have to buy fruit trees for Perth that don't need the amount of chill hours as they don't tend to do so well in our growing conditions unless you live in the hills areas that receive more chill hours. You might enjoy this short clip about the Pink Lady Apple www.bing.com/videos/search?q=pink+lady+apples+history&docid=603484102427703564&mid=687CAB517A995B00BEFF687CAB517A995B00BEFF&view=detail&FORM=VIRE