00:00all right welcome back to grow the earth and today we'll be talking about the importance of fertilizer
00:05for your plants and your trees now this is only going to apply to plants flowers trees that are
00:14not annuals meaning that they are something that continues to grow throughout the year
00:19and comes back next year and you don't have to replant it because right now in the south
00:28right here we're right below uh houston here in texas along the texas gulf coast and i'm pretty
00:34sure that our winter is done with uh i looked at the forecast and everything for the next two weeks
00:39out is showing me highs in the 70s lows in the 40s and 50s and that's going to be that's
00:47our spring
00:47weather so we don't get a gradual warm-up down here we pretty much go straight from winter to
00:54spring to to summer within about a month and a half so we don't get that gradual warm-up to
01:00where
01:00we get to do everything everything's kind of rushed so we can get that done before our spring and our
01:05summer sets in so we have gone through and we have trimmed all of our trees and trimmed all of
01:11our
01:11plants back that we need to trim back to make them look to be productive this year but since we
01:17have
01:18trimmed those things back and we've removed a lot of we basically damaged these trees and damaged these
01:26plants because they've lost that material and now they're trying to have to heal we need to give these
01:33guys some fertilizer all right so here in this and i've moved this to a different container because i
01:40want to lug around a 40 pound bag of fertilizer this is plant tone an organic fertilizer you know uh
01:49we
01:50can tell it's organic by the way it smells if you've used organic fertilizers you know
01:55and this is what we're going to put on our plants this is a uh eight four five i believe
02:03it is
02:04and it is going to be perfect it's going to be a balanced fertilizer it's going to be nice and
02:09natural for
02:09it and it's not going to hurt anything and it's going to give them the nitrogen and give them
02:15everything they need to bud out and bloom out in the spring to give us a nice harvest of fruit
02:22so one of the things that we need to talk about before we put our fertilizer down is if we
02:26have any
02:27kind of a mulch or especially you guys at north who may put some leaves around we want to get
02:33that
02:34stuff out of the way this particular tree i've had been kind of experimenting with putting my banana
02:41fronds around it as a mulch and i need to get that out of the way before i put that
02:46fertilizer in because
02:47i want that stuff to get down into the ground into the roots so that that tree can use it
02:53so for this
02:55plant here which is a relatively new transplant we just transplanted this uh from a pot into the ground
03:02uh earlier this year and we're going to give each one of these about a half a cup of fertilizer
03:09now
03:10we don't want to put this half a cup fertilizer right here in this area okay because that's not
03:18where the roots are at the roots of this plant are this tree are way out here and that is
03:26where we want
03:26to put that half a cup of fertilizer so that those small feeder roots that are going to be on
03:36the
03:36outskirts of that root ball are going to pick that up now of course naturally some of this is going
03:41to
03:41wash towards the base and now i've got this more established apple tree here and we want to give this
03:49guy a lot a little more fertilizer than we would with that smaller one so we're going to give him
03:55a full cup
03:57and again around the outside
04:02of their their roots you know try and keep it away from that base but again out here but we're
04:10going
04:10to give him more fertilizer because this guy is going to need more fertilizer because it is going to set
04:17flowers and fruit with probably within the next month and we want to give it everything it needs so
04:22they can fruit out now that's going to pretty much hold true for all your apples your pears your
04:27nectarines and all that kind of stuff is if they're a an established plant which this one's been in the
04:33ground for two or three years we want to give them about a cup of fertilizer and if they're a
04:37smaller
04:38tree that hasn't been established we want to give them about a half a cup and we're going to continue
04:46that on and that's going to pretty much hold true except for when you get into some other varieties
04:51these are fig trees these guys are very very heavy feeders so for these fig trees that again i've
05:01already cut these back so we're going to get some nice we're going to have to have a lot of
05:05new growth
05:06on these on these fig trees because that is where a fig tree sets its fruit it sets its fruit
05:13on new green
05:14wood so all this older brown wood is nothing but a support structure for what is going to come out
05:22and
05:22grow out this year and set fruit so again because this guy is a heavy feeder we want to put
05:30that fertilizer
05:31fertilizer on the outside of where its roots are going to be and again that's going to hold true
05:39for any tree any plant you don't need it up against the base you need it out where its roots
05:45are at
05:46so we've got you know about a dozen or so trees and here and plants here uh these pineapples behind
05:54me
05:55we're going to give them about a good half a cup because they're inside of a pot
05:59and actually the ones in the pots are probably a little more dependent on that that fertilizer because
06:08the only access to fertilizer or nutrients they have is inside of that pot so if we don't put it
06:15in there it doesn't have it these ones that are in the ground like this they're going to have a
06:20little
06:20more access you know they can send roots down they can get into the the native soil and get those
06:26nutrients and get that those other things it needs but that plant that is in that pot has no access
06:33to
06:33any of that and we've got to make sure that we fertilize those guys really well to keep them going
06:40and to keep them doing what they're supposed to do guys i appreciate you for joining me on this little
06:44video here it is something that you know i've had to learn over the years as to when to fertilize
06:52these plants how much to fertilize them how much to fertilize my trees how little to fertilize my
06:57trees when to do it and i'm trying to pass that knowledge on so if you've got some friends who
07:03have got fruit trees and they've been struggling because their plants are not blooming out their
07:09plants are not putting on leaves they're not growing well they're not getting good harvest
07:14plants make sure that they they uh they're fertilizing it enough to help that tree or that plant get
07:22everything it needs so it has what it needs to grow after all that share that with them comment like
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07:34have a
07:34great day
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