How To Determine If You're Going To Have An Apricot Crop This Year
Host Gary L. Heilig Horticulture Educator (retire) Michigan State University Extension Gary talks about checking flowers on his apricot tree to determnine if they have set fruit or been damaged by cold weather. This applies to any temperate fruits such as apple, pear, peach, plums, etc.
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Corrective Pruning On A Damaged Apricot Tree 2022
Year 2 of training and corrective pruning on an apricot damaged by too much ice.
Your host Gary L. Heilig, Michigan State University Extension (retired)
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How To Growing Peaches On A Wet Site
Interested in growing peach trees or other stone fruits like nectarines, cherries, and plums, but your soil is too wet? Gary Heilig Horticulture Educator (retired) for Michigan State University Extension will discuss how to overcome the problem.
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Apriums Plumcots Apriplums and Whatever
What is the difference between
Apriums, Apriplums, Pluots and Plumcots Preachcot and Pluerry?
What other interspecific hybrids are there?
Where they can be grown
What do they look and taste like?
Gary L. Heilig, Horticulture Educator (retired) for Michigan State University Extension provides an explanation.
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How to Prune A Damaged Apricot Trees
While trying to protect my apricot tree from a freeze event
See video: Apricot Devastation: https://youtu.be/9YTig0TJkHI
Too much water was applied resulting in major broken branches.
This video is about the corrective pruning to encourage new growth and help the tree to look better in the landscape.
Host: Gary L.. Heilig, Horticulture Educator, Michigan State University Extension.
Tools used:
KLEZHI Professional Cordless Electric Pruning Shears:
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How to Prune & Train a Young Apricot Tree Part 3
L. Heilig retired Michigan State University Horticulture Educator discusses 3rd year training (pruning) of an apricot tree
During the 3rd year, you can see that most of the growth is at the top of the tree. Our goal this year is to prune the major branches by removing upward and downward growing wood, dead branches, crossing branches, suckers at the base of the plant, and by making bench cuts to continue to encourage outward growth.
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Apricot Tree Devastation
What can go wrong while trying to protect an apricot tree during a spring freeze
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How and When to Fertilize Fruit Trees
Gary L. Heilig, retired MSU Extension Horticulture Educator how to fertilize fruit trees and the options available. Topic included:
How to determine if fertilizer is needed.
Fertilizing with granular fertilizers, stakes, and Ross Root Feeder.
When to fertilize.
How much to use
Recommended levels of nutrients in the soil
Evaluating annual growth
Comparative costs
Evaluating your fertilization program.
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How To Prune A Mature Dwarf Apple Tree
Description A step by step pruning of a mature dwarf apple tree.
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How to Control Sooty Blotch & Flyspeck
Description:
There are many problems the can result in ugly apples. Gary Heilig
retired Horticulture Educator for Michigan State University discusses sooty blotch and fly speck and how to deal with it.
Topics include:
Explanation of the difference between sooty blotch and fly speck.
How does it affect eating quality
How does it affect appearance.
When the infection takes place.
When the symptoms show up.
Treatment options: cultural, chemical, organic.
Can the disease be physically removed?
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Ice Devastated My Apricot Tree & It's My Fault
What can go wrong while trying to protect an apricot tree during a spring freeze.
Instructor:
Gary L. Heilig
Horticulture Educator (retired)
Michigan State University Extension
Music credit: I Am a Man Who Will Fight for Your Honor by Chris Zabriskie is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/...)
Source: http://chriszabriskie.com/honor/
Artist: http://chriszabriskie.com/ /
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How To Train A Young Apricot Tree Year 2
Description: Year 2 of training an apricot tree. I am in the process of establishing the frame work that will support the crop. Hosted by Gary L. Heilig
retired Horticulture Educator for Michigan State University Extension.
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Spraying Fruit Trees (Petal Fall)
Description: Gary Heilig retired Horticulture Educator for Michigan State University Extension discusses the management of early apple orchard insects.
This spray generally contains both a disease prevention material (fungicide) and an insect prevention or eradication product (insecticide)
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How to Train a Young Apricot Tree Year 1
Description: Year 2 of training an apricot trees. I am in the process of establishing the frame work that will support the crop. Hosted by Gary L. Heilig, retired Horticulture Educator for Michigan State University Extension.
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Managing Fireblight and Scab in Your Backyard Orchard
Description How to protect fruit trees from early season diseases.
Instructor: Gary L. Heilig Horticulture Educator for MSU Extension (retired).
Topics included:
What is fireblight and scab
How to identify scab and fireblight
Conditions that encourage the diseases.
How to prevent spreading fireblight (sanitation)
Why control scab
Where does it come from.
Management options
How mowing can help decrease scab infections
Control products.
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It's Spring Time to Apply Dormant Oils?
Applying dormant oils annually and you don't know why? This video will clear that up for you.
Your Host: Gary L. Heilig
Michgian State University Horticulture Educator (retired)
specializing in fruit and vegetable production
34 Years experience
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