Hi everyone, welcome back to Cody's lab. So I've got a few trees right here
it's a cherry tree and a couple of apple trees
now my dad's already got one that's being hauled up there, I'm right behind him
and we're gonna go plant these trees up in the rocks, just like I did a couple of years ago.
Now since those trees did so well we're doing the exact same thing
hopefully we'll eventually get an orchard going up there.
So I've got a bucket of water here, and I've added some of these water storing crystals to the bucket.
That way - they haven't absorbed the water yet, but they will very shortly.
This way the tree will have a source of water that doesn't just drain right past it, make it so that I don't have to water it quite as much.
It's what I did last time and it seemed to work, so there you go. So I'm going to pick this tree up
with the pot, hopefully, we're going to go up there and plant it.
Do I really need the pot? It's just something to carry back down.
Right up there - that's where we're putting this tree, see where the dog is right inside of those bushe.
That looks like a good place for a cherry tree.
I don't know if that repellent stops cicadas.
You've got to get down to dirt, you can't plant them right in the rocks.
The choke cherries come right up through the rocks.
You feel how moist it is down in here?
The rocks act like mulch, hold the moisture down in the ground.
OK,I think I can see the soil
You think the cows will bother the trees here? [No, cows don't like to stand in the rocks]
I don't know why we didn't start planting the trees up here sooner then [Hell of an idea, ain't it]
If we can get them to grow, let's put a whole orchard up here.
The wild choke cherries grow up here, why not some domestic ones?
I wonder if we should start with smaller trees, so you don't have to dig such a big hole! [That might not be a bad idea]
It's not really necessary to have a big tree, because they don't grow any faster anyway
I just filled in my hole! See that? I had an avalanche
Ah, now we're getting into the soil
It's actually some pretty good dirt in the rocks, isn't it? Where'd you go?
[Tell you what you've got to not do] What's that?
[You've got to not plant conifers up here] Why not conifers?
(Cause if you get a fire, it'll burn out here) Oh yeah, the fruit trees won't burn as well, will they?
Yeah, you're into the soil too. Looks like you're going to have a little avalanche here
OK - so you got your tree in already, huh? Right there
You gonna dump those crystals in around it?
I think it might be a better idea to mix them with some dirt
Here's my tree, here's my crystals, and there's the hole I'm putting them in.
OK, that's it. Throw in some of these water crystals
Look at that - it's like a little water reservoir underneath the tree. I'll mix some dirt in with that
You stacking rocks around yours? [Yeah, just pulling them away from the hill]
[Ones that are gonna come down and then move it]
Alright, do you need any more of these crystals or did you put enough in? [No, it's good, I've got plenty]
Alright, I'm just gonna give the rest of these to this tree then.
I'm just gonna stack these rocks around it as mulch
OK, so there's our cherry tree
You got a carrot? [A wild carrot. Probably poisonous]
That's a big one. [I bet you that sucker'd kill you if you ate it]
Probably. I bet a rabbit would have no trouble eating it, though.
Let's see, are the branches hairy? No. Yeah, it's probably a poison carrot.
[That's definitely poisonous. That'd probably turn your gut if you got any of it on you.]
Well, at least I'm not going to try to eat it. [It wouldn't take much of that, you'd be tipping over.]
Right there's where you're planting the apple tree? You got a root.
What do you think, the other one just go right over here next to it? [Yeah]
Here's the apple tree getting watered in.
I'll probably bring it a bucket of water every week for the rest of the summer.
If I do that, this tree ought to thrive.
So I'm back down by the house, and you can see this cherry tree here.
And, you know, I've watered this one probably more than the ones that were up on the hill
and I even put a little cage around it, and it still didn't grow. It died off the first year.
You can see the cows have kind of pushed it over sideways, but it just didn't take off.
But the cherry trees that are up in the rocks, which we'll go look at in a minute, they're still alive.
So something about being up in those rocks seems to really help. Kind of makes sense, too, cause
the wild cherries are growing up there. I can't believe we hadn't thought about putting the trees up there sooner.
You see the apple trees and the other two cherry trees are over there.
Anyway, let's go up there and have a look at them.
Some of you might have remembered the cherry tree that I planted in here about two years ago. Let's see how it's doing.
It had flowers on it earlier this year - there it is. Blends in really well with the chokecherries.
That's chokecherry flowers. It probably won't make any berries, and if it does the birds will eat them.
But the cherry here, it'll probably be the same thing
It's got a little bit of a shrivelled-up cherry going there, there's a couple of little green ones, right up there.
So yeah, the tree is alive, that's probably - it hasn't really actually grown very much
looks like just a ... new growth
it should be making a root system, it'll probably do that for another year or so before it starts to really get going
There it is, the tree's actually alive and I haven't watered it yet this year
I don't think I really need to, now that it's got its roots down in there, that's established
Hopefully it can grow up taller than the chokecherries and get into the sunlight
Maybe in about ten years I'll actually be able to harvest some cherries off it
And I do have another cherry tree planted next to it, it's down here a little ways, through the bushes
It's kind of been growing in here. Let's see, where is it
Right here. So it looks like the top part of it has died
and now it's growing back up from the trunk, you see here
That's all right, it'll grow up eventually.
In fact I think if we go around and plant too many more of these I want to get some smaller trees
they don't need to be this tall when I plant them
Yeah, it's kind of a shame this all died out, but they do that sometimes
I'll just train this branch here, have it grow out
Alright, well, hope you enjoyed it, I'll see you next time