Channel: Food Farmer Earth

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Description: From the archives: Ed Gowans shows us how to grow a pear inside a bottle. Slightly Edited Transcript: The issue is how to get the bottle on there without upsetting the angle of the branch too much. The first step is to find something. And let's see which one do we want to start with. Next, so I kind of like, go okay I guess I could, I could probably put the bottle this way and tie it up in here. I was buying bottles and the guy that I was buying bottles as I've got pear trees and he says, what are you doing? I said well, I'm putting them in bottles and he says, well, how do you do that and I said well you take off all these pairs and leave the king. [He says} I could never do that. I couldn't. I want every last pair. {Ed} But there's plenty of pears for me so. So I'm just ripping off the leaves and stuff in here It’s kind of rotten in the glass. Anyway, The king is usually the biggest one. I don't know if they talk about ‘King’ as a piece of fruit but they talk about a king bloom and the king bloom is the one that some reason gets pretty much all the nourishment and it's usually bigger than the rest. You know, it's like out of those two, it's this one. I don't know. I mean, the good thing is, these {beginning pears} are gonna have to go. Sorry guys. As I choose one, I kind of cut these guys off. That's kind of my parent that will end up this parent bottle right there. Let me grab a bottle. So I just kind of do a test run in here. Now see there, there's still quite a bit of room but another week or so that guy won't get in there. So it's basically, I'm going to do a test run here just to see I don't want her to go all the way to the bottom of the bottle, well this is gonna work out fine. You know because basically if I place this guy in here. Something like that. He'll be in the bottle. So, I've conveniently already tied this guy up, but you can you can loosen these, they're just basically little slip knots. You can loosen it off of here and do your tying. So we wanted it somewhere up in here. And just wrap it a couple times on here, if you wrap it around twice. That thing is not going to move at all. Slip this guy back over, cinch it down a little bit. You can still kind of change the direction of the bottle. Actually, I'd like to get like this one to be kind of maybe this is a little wires a little bit longer, but I can go in and change that. There we go. So maybe we can make it a little bit shorter by running around this knot. Okay. And then the last thing I do is kind of secure the wire to the branch. Usually, if I have a little piece of this plastic, I just use this to to tie him up. It looks like. This thing is slipping a little bit. Okay, I should probably get another. Let me go around this branch one more time. Just so it binds on that branch a little bit. There wasn't enough to bind on the branch. There's vinyl around this wire so it creates a little friction with the branch. And so once you. Once you have it wrapped a couple times. It's not going to. It's not going to move. Yeah. Like if the wind blows these things, this wire will pretty much stay, it should stay in place. So that's basically going to keep, wrap this around a couple more times just to keep it there. Maybe put another little knot in it. This stuff's pretty stretchy. This is just that regular planting tape. It's basically there for the season. You know, I probably would harvest that. I don't know, beginning of September probably before the other ones on the tree, maybe, maybe a little bit in the middle of September. Usually, the parents will fall off, you know, off the branch. That's the second step of this, getting them to relieve them from their their own branch. So that's the basics. That's the process. See {them} in three months. Follow us: ... twitter twitter.com/cookingupastory Facebook facebook.com/cookingupastory Pinterest pinterest.com/foodfarmerearth Website RSS Feed cookingupastory.com/feed Cooking Up a Story channel on YouTube youtube.com/cookingupastory