How to plant a potted tree from start to finish: https://bit.ly/3quLMHH Cameron from The Busy Gardener and I run down the pros and cons of buying bare root trees vs. potted trees. It’s an interplay between availability, budget, and time. If you have more time and less budget, bare root trees are a fantastic option, but can get broken in shipment and are available in a small time window. Potted trees are more expensive and bulky, but are available year-round and can give you a head start on growing.
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0:00 – Intro
0:52 – Bare Root Tree Benefits
2:32 – Bare Root Tree Downsides
4:27 – Potted Tree Benefits
5:59 – Potted Tree Downsides
7:47 – How to Decide?
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Great collaboration!
at my local home depot they have fruit trees in contaniers all ready rooted and they are only 26$ there are apples, plums, peaches, pears, and lemons and everything but the lemon trees are in a 3 gallon pot and are about 5.5 ft tall. I live in Georgia.
I live in zone 2b. What would you suggest for growing fruit trees? I've always been told that I can't grow fruit trees here. But I really want to try.
Bare root trees are less likely to have pests. Leaves and soil are both major vectors for pests.
What if you put a bare root tree in a pot?
I love this video I just have one more question. If you're a container gardener should you repot every plant you buy. I have a blueberry bush that's already started to produce flowers and fruit
Great fucking lesson so glad I saw this.
I don’t know about California but in Ohio our land grant university has research stations that you can buy different types of trees from at very reasonable prices
I’m just so excited you have this “epic homestead “ space now! Your content just keeps getting better! Thanks so much for all the work you do to teach❣️
I'm starting an orchard and I appreciate your pros and cons. My decision makers were availability and cost. If the nursery offer bare and potted I went bare. The other thing is were I ordered my potted ones the trees are bigger and older. The bare root ones are only about 1 1/2 ft. so not very old and I'll need to wait longer for fruit.
Would you please discuss the pros and cons of limbless apple trees for gardeners with small yards and espalier fruit trees (some having multiple varieties of say apples)?
Very helpful!
I have two questions:
1) do you stake those guys and for how long?
2) Very early on in the season you can sometimes buy last years leftovers at (don’t hate me) big box stores. They’ll be dormant and entirely pot bound. They’ll also often be the same price or cheaper than bare root trees. If you can find a small one and you feel confident pruning roots, this might be an option if you want the flexibility of potted trees and the cost of bare roots, and you can sometimes save more of the root system than you’d get with a bare root tree.
So the question is, is this stupid? I tried it with a peach last year and it didn’t immediately wither and die so I tried it again this year with some flowering trees.. thoughts?
Great framing with that circle behind you! Lol, yes I'm here for the plants
Nice vid, thanks!
Awesome video! Thanks guys!
HI Kevin, can you do a video on miniature peach trees? I would love to keep one in a pot. Thank you!
Thanks for the video! I would love to see more about Jujube trees. I've heard they can be better to keep in very large pots instead of putting them in the ground because of their roots. I'd love to know what you think.
Potted plants also can survive in those containers indefinitely! I have a 10+ year old pomegranate still giving me fruits every year depending on how well I fertilize.
So it is predictable to get the few varieties from nurseries, or take a risk from mail with branches busted off.
I am not a bare root fan, it seems like they need to be "babied" more than just buying a tree
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Tip: do not grow avocado trees in an area you will spend a lot of time in. Atleast in Brazil, they grow super big, with extremely heavy fruit, which are always falling during avocado season. You need a helmet.
Always helpful videos! Somewhat unrelated question, I keep seeing these beautiful moon gate trellises in your newer videos and wondering if you would be willing to share where you got them from.
What about taking a potted tree and removing all the soil, root washing it and planting it bare root? My friend insists this is the only way to properly plant a tree and avoid strangled roots. Kinda seems like extra work.
Thank you for the fantastic info. I have a question related to backyard orchard culture as mentioned by Busy Gardener. To keep the tree to a manageable size it os recommended to cut the main tree branch 18 inches high. Can I cut a one-year old potted tree from a nursery to 18” (knee high)? Or is the bareroot tree the only option for this style?