50+ Apple Seedlings Blooming!, Fruit Tree Under-stories, Tree Collards & Homestead Projects

good morning I thought I would just walk around the homestead a little bit and look at some projects mostly trees and stuff like that I don't have time for to do much else in terms of making videos right now I don't know we're gonna look at whatever we run across let's just go go go go go all right here's the pear tree that I was training up in another video so let's take a look at the shoots we have growing here I notched this one right here I notched that one right there so these are the ones that I want to grow that one this way this one that way this one that way and this one that way and then the rest of these are basically you know they're extras and the extra ones are also to help feed the trees so that the tree has leaves that can gather energy and feed the tree and grow the stem thicker like if I just reduce this to you know four shoots and one shoot at the top it's collecting less energy and it can build less you know it can it can gather less carbon and grow less wood so then it's going to wind up being more spindle and wispy what I'll do is I'll keep coming and checking and like let's say okay with this one you know this this one that I want to grow looks less vigorous than this one here so if this is rapidly outgrowing this and this just doesn't seem to want to grow I may intervene and pinch this back or even take it out to you know funnel more energy into that shoot so that's the kind of thing I should do through the rest of the season what I have to do today is get a cage around this any morning I'm gonna come out here and the deer will have munch is you know everything that can reach I'm kind of lucky that hasn't happened yet and this tree was really struggling for years it's been here for over 10 years I think the graft I put on it would never grow it could just didn't want to grow I don't know if it was incompatible or what but the roots were they're slowly getting established anyway but the thing never grew more than about three and a half feet tall the graft died and then the root stock started to take off and I was like okay well you know that grew like twelve or fourteen inches in one year so there's something there like there's a root system here I can exploit just kind of trimmed off all the lower branches I mulch this I threw some fertilizer on it I came out here and peed on it like I don't know 40 times or something like that all around this area then it went nuts and I watered it a couple times last summer and so all this growth from that point where you see it's not painted anymore that's all one year's growth right there so with this mulch era does this should do real well this year I think especially if I managed to get in here and water it a couple times you think I can get this fence over that tree without damaging it it seems unlikely doesn't it but it saved me having to open the open the fence up I think I'm gonna make it Wow if the fence was rigid oh here we go maybe I don't want to break any of these shoots I did it so this is an experiment with fruit tree understory so that I started about maybe eight or ten years ago I'm guessing I'm gonna try not to go on like a rant here but there's a lot of like what I would call cookie cutter permaculture and a lot of techniques and ideas are basically developed in areas where there there is a rainfall during the growing season and here we have no rainfall during the growing season so competition for water and competition for water means competition for nutrients because if there's no water the plants can't get the nutrients this is a major driving factor in this environment if I let weeds grow all around the trees you know up into June they're gonna take a lot of stuff out of the soil and there's only so much water to go around right there's not just like an endless supply of water that's coming up you know up from the subsoil or anything like that so the idea that I had and it was inspired by this plant right here which is narcissus which is the the small daffodils that are really smelly you know they have like a really really strong scent I just noticed that those would grow really vigorously and thickly and then they would die early in the season my idea was to make what I call a dying mulch so I plant these bulbs under the tree they grow really vigorously and since they have a bulb they can push a lot of early growth faster than like something that has to grow from seeds seed drops in it starts this root system it gets a few small leaves and it's just gathering resources and it's growing a bigger root system while the bulb already has this big energy storage unit there and it can just rapidly push a lot of growth so if you look in here you can see that there's almost no weeds growing in here if there were perennial weeds in here like reeds a girl from the roots same roots every year this could end up being more of a problem and I think that's maybe the Achilles heel of this this system or one of them but as you can see now that this is well-established and that took a while it really is out competing almost all the weeds there's just a few pale spindly weeds like down in here this won't actually just sit there and grow until all the water is gone which most perennial weeds well like like a lot of people would say oh why don't you plant comfrey under your trees well because they just suck the water endlessly like they will just keep taking every drop of resource they can get out of the soil until there's not enough and then they start to wilt it well well they'll just sit there all summer just trying to survive so they're offering competition with the tree throughout the entire season but these are on like a internal timer basically like you know if it's a real wet year they might go a little bit longer but you can see they're already winding down and sometimes by about May 15th they're just flat and brown and they're not taking anything else but not only are they not taking anything but they're leaving this you know I mean those get a lot skinnier and smaller but they leave this big mat of vegetation I've out competed the weeds and I've dropped a dying mulch on top of the soil that's actually gonna shield this soil from the Sun and that's the idea I have two plants that have performed well for this one is the narcissus and it's only some varieties of narcissus and the only one that's performed really well is the Chinese sacred lily this is this should be a whole video and I just haven't got around to doing it yet and then the other one is what are called naked ladies amaryllis belladonna is the Latin name unless they changed it which they like to do just to confuse us and because it's job security for botanist those are the only two that have really performed well and I would say of those two that the naked ladies are a better performer they also die a little bit later like about two to three weeks later I'm at the point now where I've done the preliminary work and I think the next steps are I have spent some time looking for other plants to try but I think looking harder for more plants and kind of reaching out to other plant nerds and trying to find you know plants that will do this well but the other one is planting like more more of a trial system like is someone in a Mediterranean climate like this which by the way the whole point of this is that it suits a certain growing situation most places you know east of the Rockies it rains in the summer it just doesn't do that out here in the West so anyone who lives in a Mediterranean climate could try this but you know I think a situation where there's an orchard that's fairly homogeneous right so if you plant a block of trees they're all gonna do roughly about the same but then maybe every other one or in blocks do this and see how they perform over you know about ten years or so or longer of course to see real results we're really looking it's a long term investment you know but again I think the Achilles heel is going to be well there's two things one is if you get perennial weeds in here that are gonna you know grow they have the energy in their roots too you know they're not growing from a seed so they're gonna be able to poke their heads up here above and grow and I just haven't experienced that yet but I think it's just a matter of time and the other one is that since this stuff's growing pretty close to the trunk there it provides cover for rodents so if voles want to move in here and eat might the bark off the tree trunks that could be a problem you might need to leave 18 inches around the trunk or something like that with no bulbs in it or you put in a metal collar it's neat though I'm actually very encouraged and I'm I'm pretty much ready for Phase two if I can pull that off this is similar except in this one I just put I think it's all daffodils so it's all different varieties of daffodils and most of them just don't perform as well it's that particular one which not only grows very vigorously it grows big thick wide leaves it grows them or and it dies earlier than the rest of them so that's why it works this is my early Franken tree this is Carrie Pippin which I'm not that impressed with really overall just kind of given up on getting really into that variety I think it's okay and I think it's it's potentially really valuable for breeding I just have better stuff here so this branch I'm gonna graft over this year I'll probably leave like one or two things of Kerry Pepin on it you know one or two branches maybe that one over there but the rest I'm putting Centennial and trailmen which are too early crabs trailmen I've had and it's excellent centennial I thought I had but it ended up being a mislabeled trailmen I got Centennial scions this year from Chris home annex and he dropped by with a cooler full of plant material gave me a ton of apple science he's like a serious you know high-level fruit collector definitely on another level than I am and he really hooked me up it was cool to hang out with him he also breeds tree collards so we'll go look at my tree Collard and I can tell you about that these are all crosses so everywhere we walk around and you see red tags like this are cross-pollination that I made this year and this is trailmen again it's an early season I've seen it ripen here in July very high quality crab if anything it's lacking in acidity and tannin and it's very sweet it's very polite it's got a really nice flavor that the crabs get maybe it's malty it's that that whatever the thing that Wixon has it has some of that they think there's just a lot of potential with this variety people grow it in very cold areas someone I just heard from someone in Saskatchewan I know a guy in Alaska that grows it it's extremely Hardy and so I've put a bunch of different stuff on to it like right now I'm just trying to get a bunch of new genes into the trailmen line and then you know we can go from there so this is Wixon cross with Rubaiyat this is one of my seedlings that's Wixon Rubaiyat this one is Pendragon this is the first year I've used Pendragon Pendragon is a red fleshed out well I think it's from Wales it's got very red leaves and blossoms and everything but I've never had the fruit but I figured just throw some red flesh genes into this Friday Williams pride again red flesh and scab resistance because terribly gets scab we badly pink parfait more red flush jeans chestnut crab and excellent you know crabapple also early so there's a potential right there just in this cross here for a great very sweet very high quality early crabapple as I think I did several of those and of course Wixon that's a no-brainer Wixon and traveling together no-brainer and I know there's other people that have made that cross like the guy now I know in Alaska a square peg man so I could just go around and talk about crosses all the time but let me just do this one so this is Witek Pippin it's spelled wit wick but Nigel Deacon says it's pronounced widok I put all other late hanging apples on here because it's a light hanging apple it's not as late as some of them but it's definitely late enough to work with so I put lady Williams Alan's everlasting poem listen L pink parfait Apple Lou says you know one of my crosses between grenadine and lady Williams on my attempt to start mixing up those late hanging Apple jeans and just just start getting mixes of those together to you know use in the future for more crosses wit wick bitten is an excellent Apple so we could get something really good because most of those varieties I put on there are really good eating apples to you already but then there's also the potential to recross so this is grenadine and you can see it has quite a bit of red trait expression in the in the blossoms I mean compared to everything else in here except you can see back in there that's Ruby OTT which is related to it and there's Christmas pink back there which is also related and they all have these like distinctively pink blossoms and most apples don't really have that they'll just have a little bit of pink blush like this one right here but there's a there's a definite difference there so here's the nectarine that I grafted in a video I did two videos one was me just grafting a nectarine which I think ended up dying so what happened is I did three and these are all seeds that I planted with their wild bitter almond seeds I planted those in place and then I chipped grafted them late in the summer one of them just died like it just the bud dried out and didn't make it and another one I killed by accident I think I I hit it with my fingernail or something and killed it but one of them lived and that's this one you know it grew like two inches and then it stopped but now it's it's raring to go so this shoot right here will end up being the new tree I kind of want to leave one of these still but I'm gonna pull pull one of them out so I could replant this as a root stock somewhere I just don't really need it and then with this one I don't have my Clippers with me which is weird I should always have them this time here in my back pocket but I'm just gonna reduce this to like couple of shoots and let that grow for a little while maybe through the entire season even I'm not really worried about competition because this is on a pit eight-foot wide three foot deep pit full of all kinds of yummy garbage and charcoal so this tree is gonna do really well here and the reason I put this here in this really nice you know heavily amended pit is because Mark Albert says this is his best fruit tree but in terms of productivity and reliability and quality are all things combined he's just really into this variety so this is a plant called yerba monza and it grows in the southwest I don't know what its total range is but I think it's basically the southwest in Mexico it grows in wet areas this is my spring overflow so I planted some here and in a couple of different areas on the property where there's a little bit more water extremely valuable medicinal or considered so in areas it grows I mean every area has these plants you know these medicinal plants that are considered like the highest level of value for instance like ginseng would be one of those and this is this is one of those plants and this was sent to you invite my awesome friend Bethany who went out in the rain and dug me some roots and shipped him to me because she's awesome and you can see this is a spring overflow so there's certain plants that like to grow around that horsetail is one here's some mint that somebody planted this is a native mint it's like a spearmint most years I'll come out and gather some of this and dry it for the year because it doesn't keep very well so you should you know gather it every year this is a monkey flower and it's not blooming yet but it's getting close I can see this is going to be a flower but right and this has real pretty little yellow flowers but it likes to grow in watery areas like this while we're up here and just grab a drink of water - YUM this is an apple that just sprouted up here you know some bird dropped a seed and I guess since it was near the spring you know it survived and I think i grafted something onto it but I can't actually remember but I'm just kind of training it this year like this is gonna be one of the main branches this is one of them all trained up high so the deer can't reach them and then there's another Apple here down again by the spring overflow that's I think i grafted that to something whatever it's fruiting this year I'll find out what it is I basically just can't keep up with the amount of biomass I have so people will be like oh you know why don't you burn it the charcoal this way and you know you'll get more charcoal and stuff I just can't even keep up burning the very simplest methods so I basically yarded all this stuff up and there's more up in the woods with the plan of building two identical piles like is the identical as possible and then lighting one from the top and one from the bottom to compare how they burn both for my you know knowledge and to show how much less smoke you get when you light from the top the timing is that I have to get them built let them dry a little bit and then still have time to burn before the wet season is over which is not going to be that long so realistically this may not happen this year which is it's kind of bad because this is a fire hazard to have all this stuff just laying out here if we get a wildfire and it comes through and catches this it's just going to throw more Sparks and this is you know near the forest and everything here's a couple of olive trees and it looks like they're about to flower pretty quick here so you know they're old enough that I might start getting some significant fruit I definitely had some some fruit lately this is no gelareh Billy J which was some kind of promising table variety I did a lot of research on which varieties to grow you know and these are old enough now that I think I can uncover them let the deer eat them a little bit it'll just cause them to grow up you know above the deer basically the only thing I'm really worried about is whether the deer the box the trees with their antlers so much that they cause you know really serious damage but I think we can take this off now cut some of this off but kind of spread these branches out with branch sputters so check out the bloom on those apple trees these are my inter stem trees and I'm replacing two that got killed by bears one that just died from sunburn and boars and wasn't productive anyway it was Newton Pippin which Newton that just doesn't do well here even though it's a great Apple that's my garden there is no garden basically I have some tree collards and some kale from last winter so probably not gonna have a garden this year or very little I might buy a couple tomato plants in just so I have something I just don't have the energy I don't have I canyon rarely work a full day anymore so this is interesting this is Reuben at which I used as a parent a couple of times in fact I have some blooming this year some offspring of this but it just hasn't performed that well here I mean it gets really really high grades favorite lists and all that but it just has not performed that well here so I'm gonna graft over it and you know graft it to different varieties it's still a good foundation tree but anyway what's interesting is how red these flowers are you know these are as pink as some of the red flesh varieties like the adder type varieties so I wonder if it has any of those red flesh genes lurking in there I forget what the parents of Reuben are I'm thinking it's orange Pitman and Golden Delicious but I can't remember for sure so that one this one which is carry Pippin I'm grafting over these two different varieties you know I'm probably going to use them to test new varieties that I get like I have a bag full of signs I need a place to graft so hopefully later today I'll be you know working on these this one I did a charcoal pit and so I get all this food waste every week and I throw buckets of it in there throw in some charcoal throw in some dirt and just layer it up like that so that's going to be another one would be interested to see how that performs and then this one was broken by bears I probably will just replace it because once it they start suckering like this it's just you just can't control it I think I'm better off just digging that out and starting with a new tree and the one thing I would say with the inner stem tree is the only real problem I've had with him is suckering which can be very bad but apparently you can prevent it by planting all the way up to the inter stem to the dwarf interest them and burying the intra stem just a little bit so in other words if the inter stem roots it's somehow suppresses the suckering lower and I believe I observed that in the latest inter stems I put in the very last ones I think I planted those deeper this one suckering a little but not too bad but some of them like this and that one are just suckering really really bad so if you do inter stem trees I highly recommend burying the inter stem just a little bit in the soil and later today I need to come back to this Wixon branch I did a video on this and I'm pollinating that with just the mixes of pollens so there's probably going to be up to you know over 20 different parents pollinating this one branch and the nut is just to keep bees out my tree Collard selection desn't king still performing these are all tree collards grown from seed and the reason tree colors are cool to me is that they don't flower and seed very often and as you can see a lot of these are flowering and seeding these were actually grown from seed brought from Montenegro by a friend of mine and all of them have gone to flower except to this kind of wispy looking one right here has never flowered and my selection hasn't King so look at that like look how tall and thick and straight it's got big leaves it looks kind of ratty like all the lower leaves because birds love this stuff but you can see everything else has gone to flower in the past and that's the one that still hasn't even this year it didn't I'm very encouraged by that and even more excited fortunately most of the first cuttings I took did not take they just sat there and some of them are added I just put some more cuttings in and I should have you know more cuttings later this season to propagate at the very least hopefully I'll get them to people who will propagate them and we'll distribute cuttings I'm pretty happy with the performance of this system the diagonal cordon so they're just trees planted at an angle on a trellis these are very very poorly maintained in most areas you want to maintain them as a tight column that you doesn't have let very many you know long branches on it but I just haven't kept up with pruning them and taking care of them but even so it actually works pretty good the problem with not taking care of them is that you end up with fruiting wood way towards the outside of the tree and then when you cut it back to like you know rain the menu cut off all this I mean look at this this is just covered in in fruitlets now and if I want to rain this back in and train it the way that it's supposed to be trained you can't just let them grow wild and expect them to do their best so that means I have to come in here and prune stuff back even closer than this if you're not careful you can end up with things where there's not that much fruiting wood in the center here like down close to the trunk where it should be and then you have to cut off the fruiting wood that there is out here it's but this is what it should look like more like all these little Spurs and stuff like that right there it's an easy system to maintain because you can reach everything but you should maintain it and you should print it in the summer at least once and then again in the fall or winter or even three times a year it just depends on how much of a control freak you are and how organized you are these are the new tree Collard seedlings this one in particular is looked very good and there's some other good-looking ones here too I managed to get one peasant king plant right here but it's kind of overgrown by this huge seedling and it was put in much later I should probably dig that plant up and move it now I heard from a couple people who bought this watering can the Haws I forget what it's called professional two and a half gallon maybe it's an awesome camp I have no regrets about buying that can it was a lot cheaper when I bought it often I don't use the rosette it's you know the Rose rather it's somewhere around oh by the way if anyone wants a really good gopher trap this is overall the best gopher trap I've ever used I did get another one to try out like a year or so ago it works sometimes but I find that it's not awesome that these the Gulf inator from I think it's trap line products they're stainless steel super durable and I think I caught the first six Gophers I went after it with these traps which is just a phenomenally good success rate and before that I favored the black hole traps around the black hole traps the old-style they'd serve different purposes and I work in different situations but between those two I think that's a good way to go as I often do I lost a whole bunch of apple seedlings this year to mice and you know I had traps in here but this traps awful it's JT Eaton company do not buy their mousetraps are awful that mice eat the bait out of them all the time and they won't go off but there was a whole row here that got eaten all of these there was a whole row there that got eaten I need to make some wire covers or some some kind of little wire cover box that goes over them because this has happened over and over again for some reason mice like apple seedlings when they first emerge so now I have three traps out in here in some other day on the homestead video I was propagating this contorted San Pedro cactus and they all took I think one of one cutting died and it was like the super small little tip of one but everything else has rooted and most of them look like they're gonna start to grow like this one's definitely growing see how light green it is right there this one's sending up a little bud right there here's this year's hasn't king tree Collard cuttings oh this one has gave fits on it which will spread to the other ones if I could just rub and wash most of them off that'll help the asparagus bed so not only is it gonna be a good apple here very clearly but this or my seedling trial rose and look at all blossoms in there so I went around and counted and I have over fifty apple seedlings blooming this year I probably fruited a little over twenty so far that's a big jump like this year's a big jump from you know maybe twenty two or twenty five to fifty again always looking for this pink petals like that and I don't think this one has ever fruited yet so that that looks real promising and that's either gonna be gold rush or Wixon from the looks of it I'd say it's a Wixon but yep grenadine Wixon looks like this one actually set some fruit this is uh yeah this is Granny Smith pollinated with grenadine that was pollinated by my ex-girlfriend that used to live here whoo I still really AM not over how long does that take it's been like five six years she wanted to make that cross she wanted to call it granny Dean here's an example of really bad burn ah these are trying to grow roots into the air basically like all these little nubs our potential roots the good side is that you can root these really easily but the bad side is that these are prone to all kinds of problems they can choke off the growth of the tree like you see right here they are a site where boars like beetles often lay their eggs and get grubs in there so it's really problematic like one that that's this bad the fruit just would have to be really really good to bother growing it and you can see on this one it's like there's Burr not all the way up here so it's going to be on all the branches and stuff like that of course if it's just absolutely amazing I'm you know I'll grow it anyway but definitely points off for that here's a new one so this is Ruby OTT and King David he has that one little cluster of flowers that often happens in the first year they flower they'll just produce a little bit so this is another generation the first generation all these big trees every one of them has grenadine as a parent and then the other parents are Wixon Gold Rush golden russet lady Williams yeah not very diverse these trees are the the next year that I did and I think those are 2011 knees of 2013 because I took a year off yes that's correct so let's see what these are this one is Ruby OTT rubra net so again I I'm not crazy about Rubin at here but I think you know it has a lot of good genes so I'm not sure why I used it it just probably was on spur of the moment okay so there's one of those two three yep four yes so there's four cherry Rubinek crosses blooming one two three four and there's more you know for later well if it can get more exciting than that sweet 16 and Ruby OTT oh hell yeah that's what I want to see this must be something else more sweet sixteen Rubaiyat and that's like a bunch of these right here but only it looks like maybe three of them are flowering and then we tried this last year but I'm hoping it's going to be a better make better fruit this year just because it's getting more established and everything and there's more fruit stuff it's Wixon and Rubaiyat so there's two of those two blooming so that's cool and then down here maple and Wixon like here here here here here that one and that one all show the columnar trait of maple you know straight stems without a lot of side branches and really closely spaced buds like a dwarf it's real dwarfish that's definitely transferable and they'll tend to just grow these straight stems without a lot of branches and just you know covered in fruit now this is another Wixon maple cross but obviously it doesn't have it's not expressing the red gene but we could end up with a columnar Wixon like apple which is pretty neat columnar trees are cool for restricted spaces so you can see the difference here like this is the the graft and it has this dwarfish thing we're like the buds are really close together they're like you know 1/4 to 3/8 of an inch and then this is the root stock which is also red fleshed it's benign just regular shoots with big spaces between the buds you know that's something people could intentionally breed for is that columnar trait because there are other ones out there and one I have that grow similar maybe not a full-on columnar tree is Allen's everlasting I did have some pollen of that too this year for sale I did actually make a cross on this because I figured if this fruit turns out to be really good I'll have already you know made another cross onto it we'll have another red flushed apple with Wixon so this tree isn't tagged I'm guessing it's maple Wixon but it could be maple chestnut it could be maple pink parfait maple Rubaiyat who knows but clearly it has the columnar trait as well these are much younger trees and only those couple are blooming so it looks also like the maple may be very precocious like it may just bear in its life and all of these really red ones those are all maple crosses because maple is the one I've used with the most red gene expression you see this gully here look how deep that gully is probably 15-foot deep at the deepest part I'm gonna guess I'm pretty sure that entire gully was formed by runoff from the road by a poor road design like I don't think there was a gully here like maybe a low depression or something like that in the ground that the water kind of gravitated toward I think this happened because the road was poorly designed poorly built or they maintained and then just abandoned and that it basically became a means of gathering water and funneling it down here where there should be no water and created this huge gully all that soil is gone and you you know you just can't put it back the messed up thing really is that these gullies by cutting way down into the subsoil like that they drain water out of the ground and they lower the water table in the whole area so I have my orchard up here and garden everything like that well this is a means of draining that entire area more than it would otherwise and this causes like you know generalized problems in the area and so this is why you should maintain your roads and possibly think that hey you know when you're not here what's going to happen to your road that you're that you're building or working on so here's Pendragon you can see that it also has a lot of this red trade expression I wouldn't be surprised that this also has even red in the wood yep very much so so this could be an entirely different line from you know the the line that other red flushed apples come from too which is valuable you know to get more different genes this is another tree understory experiment I did with oriental poppies which are a perennial they just form this big mound of vegetation like that and they maybe I was some potential but they died down way too late and they just haven't performed and whatever these purple things are I can't remember purple hyacinth or something they just don't do a very good job at controlling weeds and they die back too late so this big stinking pile of garbage is one of my charcoal tree pets this is ten foot diameter three feet deep and it's ready to plant and I'm planting bite me on here this branch right here is the bite me branch flowered like crazy this year so this is gonna set you know tons and tons of fruit I'm gonna have to thin it really heavily I'm in a graph the new bite me tree put it here and I probably won't grow an entire tree of bite me apples but it's gonna be the base of the tree because it's a very vigorous you can see it's like outgrowing the rest of that tree it's a very vigorous variety I think it'll make a good base I'll just graft other stuff on to it but I'll have you know a good size maybe a full branch or two of bite me because it is really a good eating Apple anyway this pits supposed to be finished but I haven't got the new pit dog yet I'm it's like halfway dug so I keep throwing garbage on top of here I just I get this garbage every week I have to do something with it you know once I get the new pit dug I'll rake all this in clean up all the trash cover this with dirt and charcoal and it'll all be good and all of this was generously donated by spare time gardening and Andrew the manager watches my YouTube channel and he called me up or emailed me and he's like hey I work at sparetime up here they're a big wholesale distributor of garden supplies of all kinds and he's like yeah we have a lot of you know stuff around that at the end of the year broken bags and stuff like that I can use any of it for your Apple breeding project or other projects and I was like oh yeah so I drove up last year and this year and he loaded me up with all kinds of great stuff which is great well there's all kinds of fertilizers planting mediums chicken manure this is crab meal there's you know alfalfa pellets just general fertilizers cool stuff so thank you very much to Mike and andrew sparetime gardening now I just have to get actually get this stuff used up in the ground and all that so this is probably my most successful tree understory experiment this is amaryllis belladonna actually this this one right here is a hybrid between the regular naked lady amaryllis belladonna which is a pink and some African one that's more red so this is like a hot pink a hot pink naked ladies as you can see it's done quite well and it's mothers out almost all the weeds I see a thistle over there in that corner that made it but yeah it's just incredible and when this dies it covers the ground completely like there's no dirt showing so like I said the next phase would be to do some more kind of serious trials so this is kind of cool right here I planted three walnut seeds and they're from a variety called you see 7680 I posted this on Instagram by the way if you don't follow me on Instagram I do a lot of kind of like educational posts and you know I usually most of my content there actually talks about things anyway I planted three of these walnuts because I want to see if I can grow a new variety of walnut you see 7680 is this walnut which huge nuts that are very thin shelled and very easy to crack and really delicious they're extra sweet they're definitely extra tasty and mild with less bitterness so I figured why not just plant three I may just let all three of them grow together you know because the point is really to trial them to see what I get and I have no idea that could take 20 years for a want to grow from seed and bear I have no idea but I did that in another spot to you so I'll have two of those

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Keywords: SkillCult, Steven Edholm, Prepping, Survival, Self Reliance, How To, Homesteading, diagonal cordon, cordon trees, oblique cordon, homesteadlife, Home Orchard, tree training, pear tree, training pear tree, stribling's white nectarine, grafting, apples, heirloom apples, apple trees, tree kale, tree collards, apple breeding, apple seedlings, apples from seed, growing apples from seed, yerba mansa

Id: WXrYZs75KJw

Length: 37min 8sec (2228 seconds)

Published: Wed May 01 2019