 Greetings friends survival doc here today. I'm going to plant four fruit trees Now if you haven't planted your fruit trees yet, what are you waiting for? It's November the 10th you plant during the dormant season. This is the time to be planting the fruit trees It takes generally two three years before you receive fruit from your fruit trees Our hyperinflation is right around the corner. If you plant a tree now I guarantee you we're going to be in hyperinflation by the time you start getting fruit from that tree So quit procrastinating and get out and plant your trees now And if you've already planted some fruit trees get out and plant some more. Okay. These are the trees that I'm planting today. I have a couple of small plum trees I'm going to plant a new apricot tree because my apricot tree just died from an insect a boar killed it and I'm going to be planting a Stanley prune plum tree the first one. I'm going to plant is a Stanley prune plum now I Recommend you plant if your space is limited you plant dwarf or semi dwarf trees That way they don't take up as much space and you can plant more trees All right dwarf trees will always be grafted and you can see here. This is where they grafted it This is the rootstock and this is the prune tree right here and it's grafted right here You want to make sure that you you plant the tree with the soil level about right here about two or three inches below This graph mark if you plant it too high what will happen is this part of the tree will start putting roots into the ground And you'll end up without a drawer dwarf and it'll grow to the Full-size tree, which is what this part wants to grow So you want the soil level about right here All right, you can notice that my four trees are in a bucket of water Before you plant you want to soak the roots in water for at least two to four hours up to about six or eight hours No longer than overnight Over here I have my hole as they say you want a Ten dollar hole for a five dollar tree you want to make sure that you dig your hole deep enough My hole is about two feet deep make sure it's wide enough To make so the soil be real loose and the roots can get off to a real good start What I have over here is the soil that I dug out of the hole now I'm going to mix that soil with what I have over here what I have here is rabbit manure directly from my rabbit hutches and then here I have a bag of topsoil and What I'm going to do is I'm going to mix some of this topsoil with the Soil that came out of the hole and with some of this rabbit manure make a good rich mixture and I'm going to put The topsoil in the bottom of the hole you want your best soil in the bottom Loosen it up really well so that their roots can get off the real good start You notice my soil is quite dry I'm gonna have to do a lot of watering and keep this Tree water for the next couple of weeks Now if you don't have rabbit manure you can also just mix a tree starter fertilizer in with your Use a little board or a stick to put across the ground to show me exactly where the soil level is going to be When I plant this tree Again, I want the soil level about right here. So I'm going to plant it to where the Where it comes up to right here with this Graph portion about two inches above the ground as you can see I've got about a foot and a half of hole to fill before even reach the roots and that's good Cuz I want to put this Really rich Topsoil and rabbit manure in the bottom mix it in with some of the Soil that I dug out of the hole and that way the ground to be nice and soft and rich Fertile and the roots can get off to a really good start as you can see I filled my hole almost full Now I'm gonna put my tree in you want to make sure that the roots are spread out Have as much room as possible to grow check my soil level which is going to be right here Okay, again. Here's the graph Want that two or three inches above the ground? So I'm actually going to need to pull this up to about right here and Later after I get this all in here. I can Check this again, and if I need to I can pull this up while it's still very loose pull this up It's critical that you get this two or three inches where this graph is That you get this two or three inches So that right there would be perfect Now what I'm going to do first Before I filled the hole in completely as I'm going to pour a lot of water in here and Just soak this hole really good and that will Get the air bubbles out Allow it to settle a little bit then I'll pack it down with my foot pull this up a little bit if I need to to get it at the right height and Then I'll finish filling in the soil again and Check the depth again and pull it up a little bit if I need to You know this I put my best top soil in the bottom of the hole and at the top. I'm filling in more with this So that I dug out of the hole And while the soil is still loose if you need to pull it up a little bit to make sure that that notches two or Three inches above the ground. That's fine I'm going to let this water soak in Then I'm going to finish filling the hole and Then I'm going to water it some more and over the next Few days and weeks I'm going to Need to water this several times because unless we get some rain Because soil is really dry today Okay, I have planted my tree on the side of a hill on a slope So I want to make sure that the tree grows up and down so I'll need to tilt it toward the sky if Necessary as the twig is bent so grows the tree As you notice, I haven't quite filled the hole yet That's because I'm going to water it some more a little later on after this is soaked through and I'll keep checking the Level to make sure that the graft is two or three inches above the ground Then I'll fill this in completely now in the wintertime rabbits like to chew on the bark of fruit trees, so I'll put wrap something around this to protect it and Just want to make sure you don't wrap it too tight and that you don't leave it on there too long because it will squeeze Tree also this little piece of plastic here that goes around the tree If you forget to take this off this can also squeeze the tree as it grows So I just took it off just hanging it on the twig Right here for now I'll also probably put a little fence around it too to keep people from bumping into or to keep deer from Knocking it over because at this point Trees very delicate has to be taken care of carefully Here's my next hole I'm going to plant a little Plum tree in here. You can see how big the hole is compared to my little tree and Again, that sucked so I can really loosen the soil up here put some good fertile Soil and fertilizer in here to give the plant a really good start now I dug my holes before I received my trays I ordered my trays from a Stark brothers nursery located in Louisiana, Missouri and When they're good they ship the trees when it's time to plant them no matter when you order of them and Before they when they ship them they send you an email and let you know They're shipped so that you can be prepared for them And so you really want your hose dug before you bring your trees home Because when you get your tree you want to be able to put it right in the ground immediately you just want unpack the tree soak it in water for a couple hours and Get it right in the ground and to do that you want to make sure that your hole is dug ideally before you receive your plant Okay for my plum tree if you'll notice it needs some pruning and When you first plant your trees you generally want to do some heavy pruning and I'll cut back all these branches here Because you want all the energy to go into establishing the root system at first. Here's the tag Here's the way to put it on there. You want to remove this tag so it doesn't choke Your tree as it grows You can just remove it and tie it on with a little piece of twine or I'll just usually put it on a little branch here for starters This is a Plum It's not grafted. So the depth is not as critical. I'll plant it About where they look like where it looks like they had the soil when they grill it Which will probably about about right here So to sit in the hole about like this says survival dock Reminding you to be prepared or be prepared to be fleeced