Grow Fruit Trees FASTER With The "Multi-Year Hole" 🌳

Great video gents. One tip I would love to add here, is to dig a square hole rather than a round one. The reason for this is when you dig a round hole the root system will hit the impacted soil and run around in circles. But if you dig a square hole they will hit a corner and be forced out into the native soil. This allows for a stronger root system, more nutrients available to the tree and also creates a stronger foundation for the tree, especially if in windy areas.

This scales up too. 10' hole, fruit THAT DAY

I have a great secret for growing citrus. we bought our house 15 years ago. After about a year, I planted a Mexican Lime tree behind my garage. Lots of sun available, etc. Thing was sad, almost no fruit ( we got 5 limes or less each year). Then, maybe after 4-5 years, my wife decided she wanted chickens. So, I fenced it off, put the coop back there and let them free range during the day. Of course the hens started crapping all under the tree, and when I watered I washed all the poop under the lime, bananas and lemon tree that look OG to our house (1950) and the trees exploded with growth and fruit. Chicken poop is key to growing in ground trees!!!

I work for tree New Mexico & we do what’s called “muddying it in.” It’s how the forest service plants trees. It’s really great for watering in your tree & getting out air bubbles. Really surprised water was not added to the hole at any point in the refilling of the hole.

I planted a pecan tree 5 years ago. I made the hole twice as wide and twice as deep as the root structure, and made sure I pulled out all the rocks. Next I mixed all the native soil layers from the hole together as thoroughly as possible into a homogenous blend. Then I mixed a large bag of Miracle Grow yellow bag with the native soil mix, and mixed all that together as thoroughly as possible, then tossed it all back in the hole, making sure my tree was centered in the new soil mixture, top to bottom and side to side. It's grown a foot per year in the blazing San Antonio heat. Keep an eye on the leaf color though because it needs constant watering.

It took me until 2:03 to realize you guys are digging a hole with flat shovels. Lol what the heck guys you need a spade or a trenching shovel to dig easy.

Ya know Kev & Jacques, Disney made a whole (no pun intended) movie about the benefits of digging holes on troubled youth 😂. Great video!

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I don't want 20% faster growth, I want 20% increased survival rate.

My biology professor made fun of “ignorant rich people” as he called them who regularly water their trees. Because their trees when any strong gusty thunderstorm comes through are the trees that fall over because the roots remain shallow because they’re being watered from the surface so they have no reason to go down deep which is what keeps them in place during a very windy storm. And if you look and see from this point on, after those violent thunderstorms in other parts of the country, you’ll see that the whole root system is usually localized to the top soil like you’re describing—that’s not what you want usually. You want a tree that’s drought tolerant whose roots will extend deep into the soil and won’t become a hazard to anybody in the future. Question: Do you have any sub irrigation or watering methods for the trees in particular? I’ve been wondering about this for sometime… How, if, and where this irrigation method could and should occur. Also, I don’t know what it’s called, but I’m just describing something that’s in my head so it’s not like I can really look up what I wanna learn about very easily… because that sort of method would give the trees a reason to reach down to get the water and become stronger and more resilient in storms, but eventually I think the tree roots might damage the irrigation system… I really am not sure… I really don’t even know if such an irrigation system specifically for trees exists yet. 😅