Easy Pruning & Heavy Fruiting: Growing a Fruiting Wall UFO-style

Grow a huge crop of cherries, apples or other fruits by planting a fruiting wall using the Upright Fruiting Offshoot (UFO) system that commercial growers are using around the world. In this video, Matthew Whiting, an extension specialist from Washington State University explains how to create a fruiting wall system. This is a 6-minute excerpt from an hour-long interview about growing fruiting walls on The Urban Forestry Radio Show and with fruit tree care educator Susan Poizner, #orchardpeople #fruittreecare #fruittrees

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To download Pacific Northwest Extension Publication 667 to learn more about fruiting walls
https://www.canr.msu.edu/uploads/reso...

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For more podcasts on fruit tree pruning check the content below:

EASY GROW Fruit Trees and PRUNING with Harold Thornbro & Susan Poizner
🎤 https://share.transistor.fm/s/14567cd5
🎥    • EASY TO GROW Fruit Trees and PRUNING ...  
🌐 https://podcast.orchardpeople.com/epi...

Fruit Tree Pruning Techniques with Tom Spellman
🎤 https://share.transistor.fm/s/bc5000c1
🎥    • How to PRUNE Fruit Trees and Roses wi...  
🌐 https://podcast.orchardpeople.com/epi...

How to Grow a Fruiting Wall
🎤 https://share.transistor.fm/s/6e2971b7
🎥    • Easy Pruning & Heavy Fruiting: Growin...  
🌐 https://podcast.orchardpeople.com/epi...

Espalier Fruit Trees for Small Gardens
🎤 https://share.transistor.fm/s/38169834
🎥    • Espalier for Beginners: Growing Fruit...  
🌐 https://podcast.orchardpeople.com/epi...

How to Prune Old Fruit Trees
🎤 https://share.transistor.fm/s/57cab599
🎥    • OLD APPLE TREE PRUNING with Orchard E...  
🌐 https://podcast.orchardpeople.com/epi...

Maintaining Your Fruit Tree Pruning Tools
🎤 https://share.transistor.fm/s/617747ab
🎥   • Sharpening Tree Pruning Tools 🪚🌳 🧰 wi...  
🌐 https://podcast.orchardpeople.com/epi...


CHAPTERS
00:00 What is a fruiting wall
00:16 Fruiting walls vs conventional cherry trees
01:14 Examples of fruiting walls
01:28 How to start a fruiting wall
02:26 Fruiting wall trellises and planting
02:56 Training fruiting walls in year 1
03:39 Training fruiting walls in year 2
04:23 Training fruiting walls in year 3
04:44 Pruning fruiting walls in year 3 and beyond

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