hey welcome everybody this is Rick here and we're just hanging out here on a hot floor today and I thought I would take the day off today and work on some of my fruit trees and if you ever wanted to have fruit trees in your yard but didn't want to pay the high cost of buying fruit trees I'm going to show you how to do it for nothing as you can see here have a Chinese plum tree right here it's doing really good and we have some fig trees and here's mulberry tree another mulberry tree a big tree mulberry mulberry fig and a couple more mulberries well the cool thing about this is these were all started from cuttings and today I'm going to show you how to do that so you can just about take any fruit tree and make some of your own alright let's get started the things that you'll need is first of all you'll need a greenhouse now what I do is I like Hawaiian Punch from the dollar store and I drink a lot of this so I thought these would make excellent greenhouses and they do we're starting root trees what you need first is a couple of these containers here you can tear off the label or or not it doesn't really matter okay you'll need some kind of a hammer some clippers and a knife okay what I did today now I'm not sure if these are going to procreate but they should is I went by a friend of Mines house today and he had an old-growth pear tree and what I did was I cut off some limbs and I stuck him in this five gallon bucket with a old tomato Travis stuck down in it because I got these this morning and I really didn't have time to work on them till this afternoon and so I put them in this bucket of water so they wouldn't get dehydrated but that's the key is to not let these Fork get too hydrated before you have a chance to make them root what you want to do is get some selective limbs now if you look at this limb here you can see it's old growth usually like you'll have a different colored bark compared to what this is over here but this is Sparrow to the new growth okay now sometimes the old growth to do better sometimes a new growth to do better it just depends on the tree so it's best when you go to get some cuttings from a friend's house as get you know a little bit of everything all right anyway let's go say first thing you want to do is take one of your limbs that you got and you want to take them and you want to cut these limbs off if you're like so you don't want to cut the whole nut off you just want to cut it flush like so as you want to make sure these little nodes stay in time there's a pair okay see it's all empty now take a jug and take the end of your into your piece stick it in there like so and see about where it's going to sit in there should be about there that's going to be your first cutting right there that's going yep just right now take this one here and use it as a measuring stick and it's about right right there I'll take the next one now this is where the we can get this here this is where the knife comes in handy stick the knife up here take your hammer cuts it off so it gives you a huge a nice clean cut there and that's what you want just continue this up here like so hold it flat alright so now get all your pieces together now now that you have all your pieces cut hmm take your jug here drop them in supposedly with the nodes pointing up fine I'm going to do about five more and I'll get back to you okay so we've got all the cuttings cut to figure in the jugs I've got about eight in this one and maybe eight or nine and this one and what you want to do now is put some water in that's about enough right there okay now take your caps which caps on them now every couple of days you want to come around and just loosen up this cap but the air for the air will build up inside these just turn your cap on there light out now take your cuttings and put them in a spot where they're not going to get a lot of sunlight but they want to get you know in a shaded area now and about I would say ten days to two weeks it really depends on the the tree you know so what you want to do next you'll start to see a little white hairs coming out on the trunks of the cuttings sometimes it's not white hair sometimes it's just like little white beads okay so you can see that the cuttings that I put in the jugs and they're all steamed up like they should be but if you notice if you can see I'll take them out in a second you see the little white hairy things coming out all over them that means they ready to go in the dirt that's a mulberry tree by the way and it's coming along alright so what do you do this up here cortisol the cutting out of the jug and you can see see the seeds of white spots on these that's a good indication that one's going to root nice for you here's another one all these two got it so they're ready to go in the dirt you don't require any root toner and jasprit he's happy about it I said what we do just take them over here and this dirt was pretty loose so we're just going to start right about here we're going to push that down in there out there so put a little bit up right there and there's the other one take that down up out there there's a bud right there like it might come out so we're going to leave what's right about there seems like these gnarly ones ones it's got all these little bumps and whatnot they seem to do the best as far as look like and it's going to route you just push it down in the dirt okay I'm getting there yes for you are you supervisor your supervisor I could say I haven't added any root toner to these or anything so and just keep going around I said not all these are going to survive but if half of them do that's great so all we have to do now is just wait big trees here or really loving are really coming along nicely these things are really taking off this is probably the best one usually in about two weeks you'll start to see fresh growth coming out on these like you see these big trees here are doing some of them didn't make it I see like this one here and this one here and this one here or even this one here it's not showing anything but this one here is blooming and this one here is blooming so make sure you do plenty of them because I can say all of them is not going to make it but some will and you can see some other trees over here it's doing the same thing there's three of them in here that's actually rooting and there's also there's two in here that didn't make it why is that I don't know these are the big trees that I showed you earlier in the video I'll be putting those ones I got out of a jug into the big pot now this is this is a month approximately one month and so I put those sticks in the big pot this big pot over here and you can see these are I had almost 99% of these that that actually rooted so this bunch definitely did really well I'm really proud of these and I still got a few in here there's a couple down there that didn't make it I think there's two left and here that didn't make it but knock say about 99% of them made it so see you can grow fruit trees from cuttings yeah incredible another tip that I didn't mention before is have a real good drainage soil and also I fed these with a little bit of Miracle Grow to help them along seems to make them root a little bit better actually I put the miracle Grove and here why they were in here and that helped them come along yeah since these sets have such big stalks on them now you know you figure what two years you probably have fruit of some sort I'm guessing you know because my god look at the stock on that one yeah so so what you want to do now is you probably want to leave these in these pots here for about six months and let them get root bound okay and then then you can plant them find them in the area that you want now I say I do these and I give them away to friends and whatnot because they're so kind to me but I really like doing these I think it's amazing thing mmm look at those beautiful FIGS you tell when they're right because you just barely touch them in man they're just yummy mmm no one can't get enough figs hmm polis how these things are good hmm what a nice treat before I go down to the river the deer oh look there's one these loved ones a deer coming here at night I need them up I don't buy all these things are good but it is a huge fig tree I love it