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Hi I'm Tricia and I'm here with Phil Purcell from Dave Wilson nursery and
today's the day we're getting our giant shipment of bareroot trees from your company.
Yes. so can you just tell us briefly how long does it take for your staff to get
all these trees ready to come over here. So from the time we start digging the
trees, getting them out of the field, into a grading barn, graded, rebundled and
tagged, it takes about two hours and then from there we go ahead and we put them into
our heeling beds. So they stay in the healing beds until they can get loaded
on the truck. Exactly. So these trees right here were actually dug last week. Out of
the ground for about two hours, put back in the healing beds, we got them out
yesterday, some actually we had to do a little bit this morning and got them right
up to you. So, you know, they never dry out and you guys put them right into the bins so
that's exactly what to happen.
Hey everybody I'm Tom Spellman with Dave Wilson nursery. It's a mid fall day
here at the nursery and I'm here with some of the representatives from
Peaceful Valley Farm Supply today. We're touring them through the nursery and showing
them the process of growing our trees. So we're going to start out here in a
brand-new block of Cherry rootstock that was just planted. This is Mazzard
rootstock we use it as standard cherry rootstock so we're gonna grow full-size
cherry trees on this rootstock. Some of the things we're really proud of here at
Dave Wilson nursery are our procedures, our cleanliness, the fact that
we're growing everything non GMO. We use no genetically modified products at all
and all of our nursery stock is cared for for a year, two years, three years,
whatever it takes to grow that finished product.
At Dave Wilson nursery we've been producing quality nursery stock in the
California San Joaquin Valley for over 75 years. I can't see we're completely
organic but we're conscientious and eco-friendly. We supply one into your
bareroot trees to the nursery industry, commercial agriculture and good
customers like Peaceful Valley. We deal with many organic growers both certified
and backyard style. We grow clean trees with no bacteria no diseases and no
Viroids. To grow organic fruit from our trees it's all a matter of how you
handle your trees in the future use your best recommended organic methodology.
If you're a certified grower, check with your local certifying agency for their particular
requirements. Future certification of our trees can be obtained within one to
three years of planting. What we'll do now is will go over to another block
that's just been budded and show the next process in propagation. This is our
two year cherry block here. These are Mazzard rootstock that have been in the
ground for a full season about 1 month ago, about mid-October these were budded
in the field. And you can see the buding tape down low on the trunks where the
buds been inserted. The buds all face the northwest direction so that they'll have
full opportunity to grow out and have a fair amount of sun during the day when
they when they start to push in the spring.
Watching the harvest day at Dave Wilson Nursery is fascinating. It's done
mechanically, but once the trees are dug out of the ground each trees handled by
a human.
The trees are harvested and then they're inspected carefully sorted, bundled, tagged, washed and
the roots are kept wet ensure total viability. Dave Wilson Nursery grows
millions of trees each year.
The trees are heeled in while they await delivery.
Once they arrive here at Peaceful Valley our whole team works together to receive them
and store them in large bins protected with moist wood shavings, we use pine shavings.Your order will then be pulled, packaged, and
shipped to your door. So Phil these trees are looking really good. What can you
tell us about the the harvest this year? So this year, our trees, because of the
extended kinda, mild fall that we have, really sized up.
So what your customers going to notice is that these trees they're getting are going to be extremely robust, well branched.
It's something that we're happy with,
but it's farming so we can never control how big or how small these
trees get, but these, this year they are a really good caliper size trees. Do you think
with the bigger caliper that they'll fruit earlier? Well not necessarily but they
have a very good branch system to them, so that gives them a really good
start.
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