So glad I found this video, as I do indeed have a young pear tree planted last autumn, and all it's growth is totally vertical! So tomorrow it will certainly find itself being trained as demonstrated. None of the videos I had previously watched on pruning young fruit trees had mentioned the apical ? growth of pear and apple trees. Thank you, much appreciated!
@MySustainabilityJourney6 ай бұрын
Yay, I am so glad you found my video then too 💚 I have to agree with you that it's seems most of the videos on KZfaq either focus of mature or orchard trees and more often than not completely skip the young foundation years. What happen then is pruning become a scary thing because there is so much going on. Imagine you now having to try figure out structural pruning with all those strong vertical branches. It would be so daunting! At least now you can select your strongest ones that are placed in the best position and train those. Pruning is then going to become so easy because all you are doing is focusing on your trained branched and not on everything else. I'm so glad you found this video usefully and I hope you are able to easily apply what you saw to your young pear tree 🌻
@johnplatt48485 ай бұрын
Great video. I was about to prune my orchard but will now train for this first year. Thank you!
@MySustainabilityJourney5 ай бұрын
Thank you so much and I'm so glad it helped you out. I hope this step helps you as much as it has helped me with my trees 🌻
@johnplatt48482 ай бұрын
@@MySustainabilityJourney I was wondering if this training is still beneficial on pear trees that are already open center pruned?
@afrocraft16 ай бұрын
This was actually excellent. Thanks. So you don't top off at knee height, as some backyard orchard promoters in America advise? How tall do you then expect your tree to grow?
@MySustainabilityJourney6 ай бұрын
Thanks so much, glad you enjoyed it 🙏 Yeah, I always see that and it upsets me when everyone defaults to an open center vase shape which is what you would want to achieve by cutting it so low. Apples and pears are incredibly strong vertical growers and I find them fitting into the modified upright style a lot more naturally. I didn't talk too much about style in thus video because it was already long, but u will definitely get one done on styles at its so important. Thanks for taking the time to leave me a comment🌻
@brettiowausa116 күн бұрын
Wonderful video a lot of great information. I knew to planting fruit trees. I would not have known to do this in year two. Just planted two year old Peach, Pear, Plum, Apricot, Cherry trees. Will definitely use the string method next spring. Once that goes a season then I will come back and find your video on pruning. TY so much. Are you coming to us from Australia?
@brettiowausa116 күн бұрын
I am new to planting fruit trees. LOL
@MySustainabilityJourney10 күн бұрын
@@brettiowausa1 that's amazing to hear! We once started off knowing little to nothing and that's exactly why I started this KZfaq channel. Hopefully through my videos I can help fast track your knowledge and confidence in the garden and fruit orchard 🌻
@MySustainabilityJourney10 күн бұрын
@@brettiowausa1 thank you so very much for those kind words and I'm so glad to hear you found the information in this video so informative 💚 I am actually coming to you from the opposite side of Australia, namely South Africa. We share very similar climates and some say very similar accents 😁 It sounds like you have a really lovely collection of fruit trees that will hopefully give you many years of happiness and yummy fruit 🌻
@neliaschmidt26386 ай бұрын
Thank you!!! This was so informative, please do a brief on other trees too, spesifically apricot... planted last year and just left it to grow, but where like you said the pear grew up, the apricot has looonnnngggg droopy branches and I have no Idea how it should be kept.... we planted orange, naartjie, lemon, pomelo, apricot, peach, pear and plum.
@MySustainabilityJourney6 ай бұрын
Thanks for another wonderful comment Nelia 💚 I'll most certainly do that for you! I have done 2 peach tree pruning videos that may interest you. Apricots are pruned the exact same way at peaches so you can apply wht you see here to your apricots, peaches, nectarines and plums. Winter pruning a young peach tree - kzfaq.info/get/bejne/q9mHidmi0Nizo30.html Summer pruning a stone fruit tree - kzfaq.info/get/bejne/q9mHidmi0Nizo30.html I'll definitely get those other videos planned in for you 🌻
@yvonnejackson16966 ай бұрын
Even more helpful info. Thanks
@MySustainabilityJourney6 ай бұрын
Yaaaay, I'm so glad to hear this 💚 hopefully you can now approach your young pear and other fruit trees with confidence 🌻
@sandymurray39976 ай бұрын
Very informative. Thank you
@MySustainabilityJourney6 ай бұрын
It's the greatest of pleasure and it's makes me so happy hearing you found this video so informative 💚🌻
@noszkefarkas4 ай бұрын
Thanks for informative video it helps a lot. What do you think about this method I can use in cold climate? Because there can be meters of snow in winter with us. I'm a little afraid that branches may break under the weight of snow. Whats your opinion? Thank you / Andrea
@MySustainabilityJourney4 ай бұрын
Thanks for taking the time to leave me a comment Andrea 💚 The great thing about this method is that it mimics nature. In summer the branches naturally droop down under the weight of the fruit and in winter the weight of snow also helps to shape trees. It is harder though because the leaves are gone. A good example are conifers, like pines and cedars, that have drooping branches from the winter snow. The greater risk of branches breaking is under the weight of the fruit so training then young would give you the best chance at creating the strongest possible branch positioning and structure 🌻
@noszkefarkas4 ай бұрын
@@MySustainabilityJourney Thanks so much. I will try the method when the snow melts. Keep making more nice and practical videos.
@sandrasstitches6 ай бұрын
Interesting information. Thank you. I want to put a couple of apple trees in, but I’m concerned about how they’d cope with the heat here. We get 40+ degrees for several days in a row, several times, during the summer. Maybe you could address the yard placement in a future video 🌳🍎🍐😊☀
@MySustainabilityJourney6 ай бұрын
Thanks for that great suggestion and for leaving a comment, I'll most certainly take you up on that request 😀 In terms of heat, apples, pears, peaches, apricots, cherries and nuts all grow really well in the Klein Karoo (Little Karoo) here in South Africa and the heat here gets intense! I'm talking mid to high 40s for 3 months. The most important thing is soil moisture and wind. If you have a lot of wind at over 40 degrees then your leaves will burn and if there isn't enough moisture they will also burn. Drip irrigation with lots of mulch would be the best and as the orchard starts to mature it will create it's own humidity and microclimate and adapt to that. What you can do if your trees are very small if put 40% shade cloth over the in the hottest months. You can do 2 years with 40% then the year after 20% and then you can remove it. This is not absolutely necessary but it's an option that will give your trees protection from the heat. I hope this helps you out a little 🌻