Why Your Fruit Trees are Growing Slow (And 4 EASY Steps To Fix It!)
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- Опубликовано: 8 фев 2025
- Today I share the four steps you need to take right now to speed up fruit tree growth! If you want make fruit trees fruit fast, this is how.
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"How fast do fruit trees bear?" I get that question moderately often, and the answer is "it varies!" Some trees fruit faster than others, depending on species, climate, location, etc., However - if you follow the steps in this video, it will make fruit trees bear fruit much faster, no matter what type they are.
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Water using a 5 gallon bucket with a very small seep hole, it should take several hours to empty. Do that once a week no matter how wet or dry. I've hardly lost a tree with this method...
Same here!
Great advice. Thanks
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Yes, that is a good idea as well. You can also put a dilute fertilizer in the water so nutrients are trickling into the root zone with the water.
@@davidthegood I've actually done that. I forgot to mention that...Great minds think alike...
I bought your books last week and I can’t tell you how much I appreciate your straightforward way of delivering information. I hadn’t heard of you and I was stoked to learn you have a RUclips channel. I’m really enjoying the content.
Thank you very much, Nikki.
Mulch makes all the difference for many fruit trees. Especially bananas. I made the mistake of thinking half a bag of black cow manure in the planting hole of my bananas was enough to get fruit because I giving fertilizer. Wrong they were weak bananas. They want lots of mulch all year long. Now finally after many buckets of rotting leaves and grass they are looking very healthy.
Good to know @JanelleH I never mulched my bananas and they kept dying back, sprouting babies and dying again.
Yeah, bananas are notorious for being very heavy feeders. It's why I have shied away from growing them. Plus, I wouldn't know what to do with so many bananas at one time. Easier to just buy them at the store-they are cheap enough-and focus on fruit not readily available.
Spread some wood ashes around them and water frequently.
I planted my bananas 4ft. From my duck "pond" (concrete mixing pan) they seem to really enjoy it there
You can also dig a 2" PVC pipe down into the root area and pour water directly into that also.
I just bought a few apple trees and I needed this boost of confidence to set them up for success. Thanks for sharing! 💚🌱
Thank you for the tips!
this was great info david my plum trees are 3 years old and have not grown at all.i got the grass part down but i do slack off on the water part.ill try better this year.
I have a 15 year old plum tree that my father in law neglected. This is the 3rd year that I've pruned/mulched/fed and watered heavily 2-3 times a week during the growing seasons. We have tons of fruit this year.
Oh my goodness you have helped me realize all the reasons why my trees are not doing good. Thank you so much for your wisdom.
You're the sole content creator who recommended a wheel how. I bought a cheap metal one on Amazon and it is a true game changer.
Nope, he's not the only one. There's one channel in particular who simply cannot shut up about wheel hoes and wheel planters... because selling them is a big part of their business. ;) They also recommend drip tape (and all the accessories that go with it) for EVERYTHING, for the same reason.
I have nothing against either wheel hoes or drip tape, it's just sort of amusing that that certain channel makes it sound like you MUST have them or you're doomed :p
@@dogslobbergardens6606 Hoss! Their stuff is great, though, and it's a solid business.
@@dogslobbergardens6606 I don't like drip tape, though.
I don’t bother with drip tape ever since David introduced me to Steve Solomons water wise gardening
@@davidthegood I might try drip tape if it was free LOL.
But it really seems like a rabbithole of buying a lot of new pumps and timers etc and fiddling with it a lot. Then at the end of the season or after a couple years, digging it all out and replacing it... Blech. I try to avoid that sort of thing whenever possible.
Also drip fertigation is very specifcally designed for use only with synthetic fertilizers - organics tend to clog the system up badly, even the manus will tell you that - and I prefer to use homemade organic fertilizers anyway.
Thank you for the inspiring lesson. I’m glad we are a month or two behind you here. It gives me a chance to learn your lessons and change my ways! 🌱
The sound of that grass tearing was amazingly gratifying.
You said some fairly critical information just now that might seem underrated to a bunch of folks; but they surely sparked some brilliant concepts to me.
Thanks, some folks just need the right delivery to understand some things.
Thanks for all the videos on grafting and fruit trees! They are so helpful. We are going to attempt some grafting this week. And I love your gardening books! I keep loaning them to friends and forgetting who I loaned them too so I guess I better buy some more copies!
You're the best, Nancy.
You just answered all my questions in one shot,ty
Looking forward to seeing you at the Homesteading Life Conference 2022!
David, thank you for the awesome fruit seed sprouting advice. My apple and pear seedlings are doing great, and I started some figs from my fig tree clippings. Love your books too!
JR Bourne!!! Glad to see you keeping busy!
Calcium is one of the top nutrients to help increase trunk diameter.
Trees also prefer fungally dominated soils, bark or leaf mulch. Basically forest floor litter is ideal mulch. Fall foliar nitrogen help improve spring vigour.
I'm not much of a gardener, but I will take this advice to heart.
I'ma buy a garden plot now. Later!
Psalm 1 -Great reference! I’m so glad God gave us plants on the Third day!
Thanks for sharing your wisdom with all of us brother David. 😊🌎✨
I grow fruit trees right in lawn and for several with rosemary around them. For the lawn I put a dirt berm around to accumulate water. In a desert, the plants help to retain ground moisture, essential with an average summer humidity of 10%.
Thank you David Psalm 1 -- exactly --Ray Delbury Sussex County NJ PS -- This past week I (we) grafted our fruit trees (for the first time) Looking forward to see what happens 😃
I never saw people growing trees with grass up to the trunk, until I moved to The Panhandle...
Had a couple complaints over spraying out tree wells to enhance the dripline and exchange of gases.
Taking a poly pipe and pounding it 3 feet down on the dripline is perfect for deep root feeding.
I'm a fan of MaxSea products..
Spraying out? With what?
@@grantperkins368 glyphosate
I love your quick text recap at the end of your videos
Thank you.
Thank you for your advice in this video. I am going to plant a lemon "tree" started from seed 18 months ago.I will give it plenty of mulch area and 10-10-10 lightly sprinkled and keep the ground moist ,noe wet , during the growing season.I am in in Central Florida zone 9 , Deltona.Florida.
Love these videos sir. Thank you for adding scripture into your videos!
Very helpful video. I have this problem with my Fuji apple tree. Competiting weeds and I was not fertilizing enough. So now I’m using granular and liquid fertilizer.
Still waiting on that "may your thumbs always be green" T-shirt! You rock! 👌
Excellent stuff, thanks! I’m doing that with mine now.
Thank you so much for being so clear, understandable and to the point. This was well thought out!
This is good to hear. We have some land and have given areas to several people to plant trees. I have babied mine right from the beginning (last year around about this time). I was criticised for giving mine water every day but they have grown way more than the others and have a huge amount of flowers. But the other still think they are right and can't understand why my trees are larger and more mature than theirs. Anyway after listening to this I feel validated! Good tips.
You did well. Trust your eyes. Thank you.
@@davidthegood thanks David :)
First year they sleep. 2nd year they creep. 3rd they leap. I hope that mulch was charged. Mulch will absorb nitrogen before slowly releasing it over time. My fruit trees grow slower because of vigorous root stock that grows a huge amount of roots. A dwarf root stock will fruit sooner because they have a way smaller root system.
ThankYou David now is the time to up our grow game. Perhaps a huger desire for food if and when world changes. Give away, trade, sell, preserve for future. Bring on the food!
Thank you!!! 🙏
My poor fruit trees say thank you too. 😔
Verry Helpful ,So Ive got some grass too get rid off , Makes sense,Im new too all this cheers
Great information as usual David. Loved the skit at the end for the Compost your Enemies shirt. 😂 - Rick
Very good report I see a lot of people mulching around trees.
My favourite scripture verse! Thanks bro! Great video!
Thanks for sharing your fruit tree tips 🤩!
Aha! Thank you from me and the hazelnuts and chestnuts I planted two years ago that have barely grown in that time. Will attempt to subdue the pasture grass more severely.!
Use care around the hazel drip line if you want more hazels. They propagate by sending out root runners that sprout a few feet from the base of the trees.
Hello from Kajun homestead and breaking , thanks for the info
Thanks for the great tips David!!
QUESTION FOR DAVID: where can I buy well made old fashioned tools to garden with? I believe you mentioned it once in one of your many, many podcasts. A big thank you!
I visit antique stores, garage sales and flea markets. As well as ebay and etsy.
Hoss Tools if you want to order online. They make some good stuff. But it is not cheap.
Thx for all the tips! I live in N. E. Florida and I have planted a lot of Citrus trees in my backyard!
Hi - This video is just what I needed, thank you. And I appreciate the scripture. Will look for your books. I'm trying to understand why grass and "weeds" are bad for a fruit tree, but living mulches (of some kind) are recommended. Can you help me understand this? I have 6 peach trees and am a total beginner so trying to learn Thanks!
Great one
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I planted a nectarine tree last winter and mulched it with used goat bedding.. It took off and fruited heavy...had to remove the fruit because the tree was to small to support the weight of the fruit...
Thank you for the info I guess I'm doing everything right except for the watering we're always in a drought
When I have any trees or large shrubs planted that I'm trying to get through a long hat summertime, I take a gallon of water out to the plant every day and just slowly pour it out. It forces me to check on the plant, take some time to really look at how it's doing and gives me a great excuse to be outside during the pretty times of day - generally mornings and late afternoons when it starts to cool off.
You han also try using a clay pot to help seep the water into the soil - just plant the pot alng the root line and fill it with water every day. Works like the buried clay structures that are so great for growing vegetables in New Mexico and Arizonia, just cheaper and less permananet.
Wonderful David, I have clay soil, but I've been doing the mulch and fertiliser and now after 10 years, I have Mandarins, yay. Thanks
Good work!
Thanks for these great tips! I'll be incorporating them on my new trees. I love your books!
Thank you very much.
Nice video presentation. Thank you.
Thanks David!
As always I have enjoyed another of your videos. Thanks for making it.
Thank you, David - very timely as currently planting bare-root fruit trees (and it's raining - hooray!)
Perfect timing!
Great video, thanks for sharing!
Much Needed info! Thanks for sharing! 🤗💞
Excellent as usual!! We just planted a Santa Rosa plum and will be sure to take your advise.
Very helpful- thank!
Anothher good method to get rid of the grass around the trees is, put cardboard around them and mulch it with woodshavings. 🤷♂
Yes, I do that too. But would rather do it in fall. Now the trees are about to awaken so I want the grass instantly gone.
Thx for this video, and God bless sir.
Good video, thanks. I live on a lot of limestone and was wondering what I can do to give my fruit trees a chance to grow in that kind of soil.
I would try to build up a thick layer of mulch. All the yard waste you can get, stack it up.
I am in the process of removing grass from all my fruit trees. Fertilizing after grass removal. Mulching with all the dead grass. Watering from my koi pond. Bonus, based on your grocery row gardening video: got 2 canna Lillies on clearance from lowes and planted around my plum tree for future chop and drop. Thank you so much. Ordered 4 of your books from Amazon. Giving back. Have 2 questions. How do you feel about spiderwart and pineapple around fruit trees?
Pineapple needs a lot of sun
@@grantperkins368 I have been growing pineapples under my orchid tree for 10 years with great success
@@donnatucker9527 fantastic! Bauhinia? So deciduous?
Thank You David.
thank you. Thank You. THANK YOU!!!! Loved this video!
Thank you.
Thanks for shareing
That's some pretty grass. Very evenly cut, too. I wonder if your neighbor has been using any weed&feed to keep that monoculture a monoculture?
It's one of the things Southerners and people with "pretty lawns" do tend to do, without even thinking about it.
They might. It took me a while to get my Dad to stop doing that!
Great content 👍🏼
Mulch!
Excellent video thanks so much for sharing this info 😀
Oh that explains my pear tree thanks I'll be digging up the grass .
thanks mr. goodman
Thank you, Caitlin
Very useful love your content 👌
You can lay carton sheets around the tree and let that grass die as well. And then add mulh on topm would that be better for tree?
Good advice! Thanks!
Is it good to throw fruits and veggies around the trunk of tree for nutrients
Amazing...ty for posting and sharing
Given the tree in that desert of grass, I'm surprised you don't inoculate with fungus. My preferred is Wine Caps in the wood chips.
I gave some of them a mix of leaf mould from the woods. It's a good idea. I have not tried wine caps yet.
You're the best, dude. Thanks so much for making all this info free.
Speaking of mulch, have you had any luck with chip drop?
No, no luck.
Do you have to buy 2 apple trees to get apples on the tree? They said you won't get fruit unless you have two. Thank you for the info.
Useful. Thanks.
Looking forward to the Homesteading Life Conference 2022!!!
Thank you
I instead cut the grass and then cover the grass with severed grass. I hadn't thought of just using a shovel. I've been using a scythe.
Once the tree is mulched and you want to add a second round of fertilizer, do you just put the fertilizer on top of the mulch or dig down a little and apply it?
I just throw it on top and let the rain bring it down.
@@davidthegood same here. I suspect we may "waste" a little that way, but fertilizer is cheap. Especially if you're using homemade weed/compost teas, fetid plant juice and the like, well then it's basically free.
In some situations the mulch can dry out on top and start to shed water, esp coarse wood chips, IIn others it can absorb so much rain that the soil doesn't even get wet underneath it , which is important in the case of newly panted stock, where manual watering is even more essential for healthy development ... It helps them overcome other stresses ... Sunlight, air and water are the basis of it all ...
It was useful. Greetings from costa rica.
So true compost ur enemies
Thank you. That was very helpful.
I just scored 18, 55 gal bags of leaves! And I can go and get more! I just ran out of bags hahaha. So r you back in fl now? Because I was comparing my plant damages to yours from this freeze and my turkey fig is beautiful! I didn't even cover it. Thanks for all the tree advice too because you inspired me to start growing trees in my limited property. I now have an orange, 3 banana, brown turkey fig, a persimmon planted, and 3 dwarf mullberries on the way!
He’s in Alabama I think
Yeah, we are just over the Florida border. It's Zone 8b.
I have three apple trees . This past spring when there where in bloom we has two different late frost . So I coved all three ,took the cover off in morning. Well a moth or so later tow looks like they been sprayed with something and the leaves in spots are dying. I noticed one the little apples have fell off also . I now there’s not been any spray put on them . So what is killing my trees if you know .
Fertilizer question: can you tell us the recipe or tell us where to buy it? -newbie
Thanks!!!
Another tip is to make sure not too plant too deep. Only to the root flare.
Definitely.
Thanks
Found myself holding my breath while you were mixing the fertilizer.... Not even thinking about it.
I know! I do that too.
Live in Arizona sun is jot as hell..I have a apple tree that just hasn't done anything it looks great but just stagnet..what shoukd I do or what am I doing wrong?
I just showed up for the end lol cool video topic have to rewatch it
Love unity family 🙏🌎🙏
I grew a nectarine last year and it was the best fruit.
Then done big got on it and ate every leaf.
Not sure if it survived or not.
Sometimes the bugs strip things late in the year and it doesn't matter much, as they come back with new leaves in the spring.
Good stuff
I bought a Brown Turkey fig tree. It came as a 6 inch seedling. I planted it. It's growing slowly. But should I wait till spring to do anything else? It's still pretty small.
Would it be beneficial to add cardboard or in my case feed bags under the mulch?
Can you use sawdust as mulch?
From one barefooter to another
Watch your toes with that shovel! :) Good advise!