Important TIP about planting Production Fruit Trees in Syntropic Agroforestry Systems

Here's a tree row that copped the full brunt of the torrential rain that we received in Australia a couple of months ago which caused record flooding and particularly in this area here there was a record flood and so the rain was phenomenal and this tree row here copped it really hard because of the runoff from this shoulder. It was the first to catch all of the heavy rain that ran off and it damaged this row quite severely although you can see it's not not down for the count there's a lot more life left in and a lot more to come there's a lot more younger trees coming up but here's an example of something that I really want to share and I talk about a lot is the value of planting seeds for your target crops instead of seedlings so if you plant seeds you go into an accumulation phase you're really paying full honour to the accumulative phase of succession and the whole system grows together but if you put a seedling in a seedling tree in while everything's accumulating it's out of sync and it really has to struggle to to survive and everything has to catch up and you have to artificially sustain it which is fine you've got to put a lot of effort into it though a lot of investment and a lot of energy and nutrients and whatnot but all of this rain killed this avocado naturally it was always going to happen when the uh it's still in its accumulative stage very early succession you know species like uh you know pigeon pea and castor oil are thriving right now it's certainly not the conditions that support higher life requiring avocado so this avocado had to do its best but because of the record amount of rain ridiculous amounts of rain it was probably never going to survive it doesn't matter what you did it probably was never going to survive i've got something to show you you know in this phase of succession we've got some really really healthy plants of course because they're they're adapted and appropriate like castor oil and pigeon pea the eucalypt's going very well the uh the brazilian fern tree is going very well coffee's germinating the blueberries are going well all of the appropriate species are going well there's some volunteer plants that are coming to help got a brush cutter going flat out there in the background but here's what i want to show you here's a seedling avocado it's a very very healthy specimen when a seed germinates of a higher life requiring plant when it's very young it's suited to the conditions in accumulation and it'll wait and slowly grow as everything grows up around it and by the time it gets into a more productive phase of its life everything will be naturally synchronized around it the rest of the macro organism will be at the level that supports that avocado so this is perfect timing and synchronicity this is how it works so you're much better off planting these trees as seeds and if you want specific types of varieties just graft onto them because it's in a nursery it's in a natural nursery so don't try to rush because you'll end up getting it's like the tortoise and the hare and you'll win the race if you if you're patient and work with the system and let the system do the work and don't try and force it