Fruit Trees Part 1, homesteading, food storage, peak oil

[lamarjlp914]

Have you ever considered using the left over fruit and waste for biomass and biofuel?

[mtoliveoil]

can you grow from seed, will they fruit and taste good?

[themelclub]

After re-reading your first post, if the trees were full sized ones, I think you will just have to wait & see what happens?...I think it will take a few years(maybe 5?) for your trees to get up to production size...?...I think if you already have had a little apple, then that is a good sign?..Good luck on your apple orchard & post when you start to get apples...I think that will help others & to give them some hope! :)

[Gunnarsguns]

I have had good luck with blueberries,rasberries and grapes in my area of southern wv. Stone fruits grow well but are under so much disease pressure it is hard to do well with them.You can turn those fruits into ready to can juice with a Finnish..... mehu lisa steam juicer. It makes grape juice comparable to welches

[wheelori814]

were one of those trees a pawpaw?

[SurvivalReport]

No pawpaws, sorry.

[SPCkeith]

crap wish i saw this earlier. I'mn in TN went to a local place and got some red delicious trees come to find out they may not grow.

[SurvivalReport]

They will likely grow, just might not PRODUCE apples. The Red delicious apple trees we put in here in the mid 90's grew, just never produced a single apple due to the lack of chill hours.

[SPCkeith]

damnit so what is a chill hour? is it like how cold it gets for how long? plus its got little apples on it now.

[SurvivalReport]

Number of hours below 40 degrees IIRC. Depends on where you are in TN, check with your local extension service as to your chill hours for your area. If it's got apples on it, it may produce fine in your area. Big difference from TN to FloriGaBama where we are :) Good luck.

[SPCkeith]

so about how many chill hours do you want?

[SurvivalReport]

Depends on the variety of the tree. Some apples like we plant here are "low chill hours" specifically for warmer climates.

[SPCkeith]

ok thanks for your time and wisdom I appreciate it. seeya round

[themelclub]

@SPCkeith There are apple trees that grow in the South & that will produce apples, you just have to plant the right variety...When we lived in Southern California, I planted a variety called: Beverly Hills Apple...it had huge apples on it, the first year..they were green & they were delicious!...Hope this will help?

[SPCkeith]

@themelclub yeah i found some apple trees at a nursery last fall not sure the variety. but the trees have be in for about 9 months now and i have seen one tiny apple. about what time of year do the apples form? i have plums galore in mid june but not sure when the apples are in season. oh and the trees have put on about 2 feet in the 9 months

[themelclub]

@SPCkeith If I can remember it, they came on in the fall?...it has been a while..But, the tree was grafted so that it didn't need a cross-pollinator, I believe?...Look up some gardening sites, such as Stark Bros....That might help you, also...They always have good trees.You might need a pollinator?..

[SPCkeith]

@themelclub i have 3 trees they are about 10 feet apart, don't know if thats close enough but i didn't want them to get crowded

[SurvivalReport]

@SPCkeith Typically you won't see fruit for a couple of years. Most nurseries sell a 2 to 3 year old "whip". Occasionally you'll find a potted tree that's slightly older. If your seeing a little apple now everything is fine. Pick it off and let the tree focus on growing the first few years. This is why they are a long term option. One of the first things you should do when you establish your retreat- put in your fruit trees and dig your pond(s) as they take the longest to get established.

[mandenicol]

How do I get more information about chill hours in our own areas?

[SurvivalReport]

Local extension agent, maps that are in every gardening book, online.

[roughneck10000]

My pear trees died last year right after I planted them. =(

[SurvivalReport]

Sorry to hear that. Lack of water? Bad soil? Any ideas what happened?

[roughneck10000]

To be honest I have no clue. I'm trying the garden agian this year and will research which time of year is best to plant trees included.

[SurvivalReport]

Bare root or potted? Potted you can plant pretty much whenever- weather permitting. Bare root you will need to plant within certain times. Dig an extra big hole, do NOT put fertilizer in the hole with the tree, water heavily after planting to help settle soil.

[roughneck10000]

I planted out in the yard I used the same pot soil and broke it up to loosen it first before planting. I did put fertilizer though so that is where I might of gone wrong. The soil here is really clay. I think I'm going to raised beds to plant my garden this year mixed with alot of dirt.

[mike238383]

hi great video , what about fig trees please more info

[crewlla]

do pears grow well in 3b zone? how about grapes do they grow well in 3b zone?

[SurvivalReport]

I'm afraid that's not my zone so I can't say for sure. Check with a local real deal nursery- i.e, not the guy at Lowes- they will know and probably have varieties that produce in your area. Good luck!

[pdsavage]

you should get chickens or some other small farm animal to clean up the fruit waste.

free range chickens just for meat proubly woundnt cost nothing but the cost of some cheap fryers and they would clean up bugs and fruit.

[SurvivalReport]

I think I say at some point that we take the bad fruit and give it to the rabbits and chickens??

[limegreendream67]

do not give chickens citrus fruits, it will kill them.

[UsernameofBoang]

Wow! 300 jars from only 2 trees? I've really underestimated how much produce plants can make. Back in the Philippines, we had the biggest guava tree in town because it grew besides a septic tank. It had fruits the size of baseballs which grew all year long. My granny made a few jars of jam but imagine how many jars that tree could have made. I want to start planting fruit trees once I have a property of my own. Thank you for the inspiration.

[SpaceMan131326]

don't lie, trees produce no matter where they are as long as you have Bee and other insects, I live up north and fruit grows any where,

[SurvivalReport]

Gotta feel sorry for folks with COMPREHENSION issues.... To the point that they act like rude buttheads anyways. So the red delicous apple trees that we have that have grown like crazy but in over 10 years have not PRODUCED a single fruit because they do not get the "chill hours" needed, these must just be a fluke of nature huh? Key words in your very rude comments "I live up north"- more CHILL HOURS up there buddy boy. Suggest you do some research instead of wasting time being a jerk. :)

[tramonte]

Probably, he lives in a apartment and never saw a fruit tree. Or any other trees.

Hey SpaceMan, did you miss the biology classes?

[Learnthebush]

Spaceman, i live North as well, and guess what, when its ICE 7 months of the year fruit trees dont do so well nor do they in the fall and early spring, all that frost and frozen ground in the spring, with only a few months of time to grow, your fruit will be small, if it survives, Apples might grow, crab apples will, but i dont think much else will do well

[yec1JF]

Great point about the wally world manager not knowing the right varieties.

I also have had the best luck with pears as far as not needing as much maintenance though nothing beats a great tasting peach. What variety are your pears.

For anyone else in zone 6A I would really recommend the pear variety Kiefer. It produces every year & is very hardy. Our Moonglow died last year because hard late freeze.

[KARStarla]

Where in the south are you, which state? I'm in south carolina, just planted a cameo... and.. I forget the other and two plums, now I'm nevervous lol. What kind of apple trees did you plant? I live in clay, our land is so bad its wouldnt perk so we needed a double sepic system in order for the first owner to build, ugh... I felt so stuck. Got lots of land but mostly forest and on clay and its so expensive to build the raised beds with as many as we would need

[SurvivalReport]

We are in southern half of Georgia. More sand than clay here (close to Florida). Raised beds aren't necessary and can be a detriment in drought conditions. We started out with a bunch of raised beds, now only have a handful most of which are full of herbs- echinacea, chamomile, etc.

[SurvivalReport]

Thanks Stuck9! Good luck with the new trees.

[stuck9]

just put in 2 new truit trees and 4 blueberry bushs. the main reason is for survival living if things go bad. good videos really like them

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