Fruit Trees Part 3, homesteading, survivalist, peak oil, economic collapse
Robert Henry of the Survival Report brings you the third part of a series of videos on starting out with fruit trees. He includes tips on buying the right types of trees for your area, how to care for them, irrigation solutions as well as information on diseases and treatments. With the ever growing possibility of an economic collapse or depression and with food shortages currently being a daily news item, now more than ever it’s important to works towards some level of self-sufficiency with your food supply. Long term storage of foods is very important but also is the ability to produce food and preserve it. www.survivalreport.net
17 Responses to Fruit Trees Part 3, homesteading, survivalist, peak oil, economic collapse
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also in my experience a great idea is not to waste your apples that fall on the ground they make some of the best apple sauce
renagade12
July 21, 2012 at 10:27 pm
A great apple tree for survivalists are liberty apple trees, they crop very good every year, they a blight and disease resistant and very high is sugar… just a something to look into 🙂
renagade12
July 21, 2012 at 11:00 pm
I am also hoping that the neighbor behind me wouldn’t be as prepared as I am and abandon there space but I’m not counting on it
weasel1821
July 21, 2012 at 11:36 pm
didn’t work for me! high sugar content tree that would provide calories.dwarf varieties would be an obvious pick as I wouldn’t want to advertise a food source that extended above a 7 foot wooden fence
weasel1821
July 21, 2012 at 11:41 pm
I have 3 trees in mind correct me if I’m wrong but I would like to have an avocado tree first…because the fruit remains on the tree for along time and only ripens after you pick it…I would choose this tree obviously for fat content. second would be a lime tree for vitamin C…sailors took limes with them to prevent scurvy so it sounds like a good idea to me. The third “for my area in south texas” would be peach. that’s if a “fruit cocktail tree that produces peaches,nectarines,and plums
weasel1821
July 22, 2012 at 12:29 am
many of those tribes were locked into war and even cannibalism until the crop was introduced…just something to think about
weasel1821
July 22, 2012 at 12:56 am
Then click on 5 great survival plants! The taro plant has brought many tribes out of starvation if you watch Andrew Zimmern, or Anthony bourdain who visit tribes from all over the world you will see that those people utilize taro
weasel1821
July 22, 2012 at 1:55 am
they wont let me post the website so let me try to post it in a way that is postable w w w . survival food plants . com
weasel1821
July 22, 2012 at 1:56 am
Taro…the food that sustains tribes all over the world!
weasel1821
July 22, 2012 at 2:38 am
hi man, great video series… i have a question if you don’t mind? .. i live in British Columbia Canada, and i have purchased 2 apple trees a liberty apple, and a rosy glow apple… they are blooming away and i can see some apples appearing… since purchased them last year and they are 3 years oldish.. should i thin them?? also i have an Italian plum tree and a grafted Asian pear tree the same question for them as well….. please let me know 🙂
stay safe
Vaughn
renagade12
July 22, 2012 at 3:34 am
coffee can with a V notch screwed to long stick,about 5 cents
louis12346
July 22, 2012 at 3:51 am
LOL, no not to my knowledge. They are “grafted” trees. As to whether or not they will produce more. SOME- not all- of the “suckers” that have grown up have produced fruit- SOME not all. I know a pastor that grow fruit trees from seed, but most people graft.
SurvivalReport
July 22, 2012 at 4:08 am
hey are hybrid trees genetically modified? i always thought they were, please if you can help me know how to buy fertile trees that could have fruit that can reproduce more friuit trees, thank you! i already have a bunch of “standard” fruit trees as the site called them, thank you!
boxa888
July 22, 2012 at 4:32 am
1. I’ve had better luck with semi-dwarf and they seem more hardy to me. Most of my dwarf trees didn’t last.
2. Any of my trees we can harvest with nothing more than a ladder, but of course you can prune ANY tree to make it how you want it.
3. Sometimes nature and/or the trees “thin” on their own. We rarely have to do it. Thinning for “quality” is different than thinning for survival purposes too 😉
Thanks
SurvivalReport
July 22, 2012 at 5:26 am
Robert, I have nursery men in my family and we watched your video which has a small lack of information so far. 1)use as many dwarf trees as possible 2)prune them back to manageable size so youre not needing commercial tools to harvest and 3) thin your fruits so that the best ones are exquisite. If you thin out 50% the tree can focus on higher quality. They also make netting to keep birds off your fruit and the rest can be “recycled” like you mentioned to pigs, rabbits and chickens
hybridracers
July 22, 2012 at 6:06 am
You can get a harvest basket for about $6. I use one on the end of an extension pole to get the higher up stuff.
kyrsyan
July 22, 2012 at 6:47 am
Another thing about having more than you need is being able to barter your stuff. Also during economic crises is that those FEMA camps outside the major citys are for the city slickers to keep them out of the country because it is the country folk that grow the food and we cant have refugees over running the farms. We will be growing not just for ourselves but our neighbors. It is good to have a alliance with you neighbors for emergency preparedness.
dsarti1
July 22, 2012 at 6:55 am