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Tree Care Videos (California)

Chuck Ingels is a master teacher on schoolyard-scale orchards. In this 2-hour segment he goes through the basics of fruit tree care. Below the videos we have outlines that break down the subjects so you can skip to the sections you need.

Basics of how trees grow:

  • 0:40 Roots – how they grow
  • 4:30 Chilling Requirement
  • 6:40 Sunlight Requirement
  • 7:00 Pollenization
  • 10:15 Soil Requirements
  • 12:20 Parts of the Tree
  • 17:50 Planting the Tree
  • 26:00 Post-Planting Care
  • 29:30 Water and Irrigation
  • 34:05 Fertilization
  • 36:00 Pruning

Note: on Pruning: We recommend an open center, kept very short. This is a little different then the "fruit bush" described in that the cuts are made with a little more choice involved.

  • 0:45 Pruning "fruit bushes" cont.
  • 9:45 Espalier
  • 13:30 Managing an overgrown mature tree
  • 22:55 Fruit Thinning
  • 27:55 Common Problems with fruiting
  • 29:18 Budding and Grafting
  • 37:10 Citrus Trees
  • 42:00 Pest Management – Codding Moth
  • 45:27 Borers
  • 48:00 FireBlight
  • 52:50 ShotHole Disease
  • 53:30 Peach Leaf Curl
  • 56:45 Brown Rot

2 Comments

  1. Actually Chuck Ingels is a Farm Advisor and Interim County Director of the University of California Cooperative Extension service in Sacramento, California.

    He specializes in tree crops, grapes and strawberries, environmental horticulture, and Master Gardeners/urban horticulture. Areas of research and extension focus include IPM, evaluation of sustainable products and practices, water conservation and deficit irrigation, home orchards and vineyards, sustainable landscaping, alternative turfgrass species, and tree training, pruning, and grafting.

    I know this about him because he is one of my Master Gardener teachers.

  2. I haven’t actually finished watching at the video and I will surely continue to watch this after my comment. I am just so glad to have seen this post and just wanted to thank Michael Flynn for making this. This means a lot to me because I love planting trees, flowers and root crops as well. It is just so nice to harvest in your own garden. It is so fulfilling and I am also very concerned with our environment. I always encourage children to plant trees and flowers in their surroundings.

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