We Clone Fruit Trees For FREE ~ Here's How
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Today I'm going to show you all how we plant fruit trees
for free. Before we get started, if you guys enjoy videos about gardening,
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up. We are going to be talking about this bag
of aluminum foil on our peach tree. Now I did this with two of our trees
and this process is called air layering and I'm going to show you all how to do
it. So within this aluminum foil bag is roots from this branch
on our peach tree. So I'm going to show you guys how we do this completely for
free. Obviously the aluminum foil costs money
but you probably already have that and
soil you're going to need but you probably already have that too
especially if you're a gardener. So this is pretty much a free project.
To start this project all you need to do is scrape that bark off of your tree
wherever you're going to put the air layer. You'll want to do
about I would say six to eight inches worth of the bark scraped off
and then you're going to put soil around that open wound on your tree.
Now I'm going to list the best mediums to use
for air layering but I just used plain old soil
and it worked. Then you're going to place plastic wrap
or just aluminum foil around that ball of soil
and let it sit there for six to eight weeks and what's going to happen
is this. As you can see there's only a couple little roots here but that should
be enough to get your little tree started. All we
have to do now is take our pruning shears and prune
below where we started that air layer cut
at a diagonal like a 45 degree angle
and there you have it a little baby tree and that is not hard to do y'all.
It barely took any labor it's just a waiting game and what you're going to do
now is really easy either plant this in a pot
or in the ground whichever you prefer. Obviously if it's a bad time of the
year to be planting trees then I would plant this in a
pot until it is a good time to plant trees in your area
but if it's an optimal time to plant trees in your area when you do this
then I would say that you could go ahead and plant this straight in the ground.
So just keep an make sure that it keeps developing roots
and if you are a non-organic gardener you can also put rooting hormone on
before you cover it in soil and that's another option then I'll make this
process go a little bit quicker. With it having not
too many roots on it I wouldn't be surprised that when I plant it if it
drops its leaves because it's too many leaves for it to
handle with that little amount of roots but it may not and even if it just does
if it doesn't have a lot of roots on it and it drops its leaves
it will probably still be fine it'll just take time for it to put on some new
leaves. Just take care of it like you would any
other tree and again don't plant it in the ground if it's not an optimal time
in your area to be planting trees and you can do this with pretty much
any fruit tree and there are some trees that
are better than others and I'll list the best trees to air layer
on screen. Thanks y'all for watching! Make sure to
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