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Fairmount Figs
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Добавлен 17 авг 2020
We are a licensed nursery in PA, passionate about all things figs. This channel is for sharing information that we've learned during our adventures in growing figs from 2019, including best practices for raising figs in zone 7A along with tastings of some of our many varieties.
We do regularly sell cuttings and rooted cuttings/airlayered fig plants on FigBid when in season so keep an eye out for current listings under JoePAFig. We also maintain a Facebook page, Fairmount Figs, which contains some of the same content as well as additional information.
We welcome sharing of the information provided, but do ask that if shared or used that proper credit is given to Fairmount Figs, and particularly if any images of figs, leaves or trees are used that it is clearly mentioned that they have been grown in Pennsylvania at Fairmount Figs and belong to Fairmount Figs.
We do regularly sell cuttings and rooted cuttings/airlayered fig plants on FigBid when in season so keep an eye out for current listings under JoePAFig. We also maintain a Facebook page, Fairmount Figs, which contains some of the same content as well as additional information.
We welcome sharing of the information provided, but do ask that if shared or used that proper credit is given to Fairmount Figs, and particularly if any images of figs, leaves or trees are used that it is clearly mentioned that they have been grown in Pennsylvania at Fairmount Figs and belong to Fairmount Figs.
Borda Barraquer Main Crop Fig Tasting
Borda Barraquer, my favorite fig, a large dark blueberry colored Pons variety with a deep red interior. A slightly later than mid season ripener, about 95 days, but this is the very best berry jam year after year. Beautiful both inside and out. Enjoy!
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Madeira Island Black Main Crop Fig Tasting
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Madeira Island Black falls into the Black Madeira type category, so the fruit is the typical slightly squat shaped, dark exterior with a deep red, juicy and syrupy interior. Ripens late, typically in the 100 day range from fruit set in zone 7A. It's a delicious fig, but is subject to splitting in wet weather and when temperatures vary drastically from day to night.
Ruby Rose Main Crop Fig Tasting
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Ruby Rose is a California seedling that will form smaller sized purple figs with a red interior. Frequently the interior will be amber or a mix of amber to red. It is common but benefits greatly from caprification.
Calderona Main Crop Fig Tasting
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Calderona is a Spanish cultivar from Monserrat Pons, with a dark bluish to purple exterior and a red interior. The name literally means cauldron and it is so named because the shape of the fig resembles a cauldron. It's a super berry fig, ripening in about 90 days from fruit set here in Zone 7A.
Nuestra Senora del Carmen Main Crop Fig Tasting
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Delicious but late variety. Super dark berry, NSDC is a purple-black fig with a deep red interior. Ripening time is about 90 days, but it has a tendency to set fruit late, causing harvesting to push into October here in Zone 7A.
Paratjal Rimada Main Crop Fig Tasting
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Nice lightly striped Pons variety, which is a delicious deep berry, red interior and green/light green striped exterior. Can be difficult to ripen without splitting in humid environments and areas where day and night temperatures vary greatly.
White Madeira #1 Main Crop Fig Tasting
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One of our favorite Adriatic figs, White Madeira #1. A medium sized delicious thick berry red interior with a green exterior. Enjoy!
Storing Potted Figs for Winter
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When the weather gets cold it's time for the season to end and for putting away the fig trees until next season.
Black Greek Marius Main Crop Fig Tasting
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Black Greek (Marius) is an excellent Mt Etna type fig with a wonderful berry flavor, one of our very dependable varieties. Great in the northeast. Dark exterior and red interior.
LSU Red Main Crop Fig Tasting
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LSU Red is a great variety for humid locations. It has a closed eye, ripens into a brownish red exterior with an amber to light red interior. Ripens in about 70 days from fruit set in zone 7A, producing a honey sweet fig. If it is left to hang, it further dries down to give brown sugar/caramel like flavor.
Fig Wine Progress
Просмотров 142 месяца назад
Fig wine making is in full swing, here's a glimpse of what I've got cooking for this season. We will be working with three different yeasts as well as oaking some of the wine.
Making Fig Leaf Tea
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Fig leaf tea has health benefits and tastes great. It's a nice way to utilize more from your fig plants during the season than simply harvesting the fruit. Enjoy a nice hot cup of tea.
Figoin Main Crop Fig Tasting
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Figoin fig tasting, head to head with an uncaprified fig vs. caprified fig. Figoin is an Italian variety, producing a very small green fig with a red interior. Figgy and berry sweet, it turns into a deep ruby sweet cherry-berry and acidic flavor bomb when pollinated. Enjoy!
Col de Dame Mutante Main Crop Fig Tasting
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Col de Dame Mutante, a beautiful Spanish variety which is the most intense strawberry flavored fig that I have tasted to date. Pretty striped fig with a deep red interior.
Drago Main Crop Fig Tasting
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Drago fig, a Nikky variety fig tasting. This is a smyrna fig with Peach to apricot overtones. But you need to have the wasp or caprify to enjoy this one.
Bordissot Negra Rimada Main Crop Fig Tasting
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Bordissot Negra Rimada Main Crop Fig Tasting
Red Lebanese Bekaa Valley Main Crop Fig Tasting
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Red Lebanese Bekaa Valley Main Crop Fig Tasting
Green Michurinska Main Crop Fig Tasting
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Green Michurinska Main Crop Fig Tasting
Fig Sap - Hazards of Working with Figs
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Fig Sap - Hazards of Working with Figs
Very cool. Thanks for the demo! Good to know what the next level of figging it up might be, if I ever decide to jump into the deep end of this hobby! It’s gotten me into rooting cuttings and grafting and air layering already…maybe hand pollination will be next. 🤷♀️
Great discussion of that issue! I have never heard anyone else on RUclips explain the role of sunlight in causing this reaction (phyto PHOTO dermatitis!). Nor show us the actual symptom, nor lay out the timeline of suffering through it. Sorry you had to be the Guinea pig, but thanks for the show and tell!
@@margaretmarshall3645 you're welcome.
I have one rooting now-can’t wait. It was a hard choice whether to get this one or CdD Gigante, but it seemed like growers were just a tad more consistently enthusiastic about how well this one produces compared to Gigante. No doubt either one would be a good and tasty choice. I’m in SoCal, so I have a good long season to ripen figs-almost TOO darn long and hot in 2024!
Caprified? So do you grow a Capri fig or two and hand pollinate your figs?
@margaretmarshall3645 yes, I have 2 caprifigs, but only use Saleeb for caprifying because it is my only persistent caprifig.
Fig wine? Have you tasted that yet? How is it?
@@margaretmarshall3645 we made some last year, it's quite good. Still a couple of months before bottling this season's wine.
i love to try this one here in my 7a greenhouse... thanks for sharing
Definitely an interesting one
@@FairmountFigs would you sell a cutting from your tree
@troypriddyFNF this one needs another season of growth before I trim it
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Joe, Would you grow PR in the ground in zone 7a? Or that won’t work due to the season being too short?
Hi! I would not grow it in ground primarily because yes, the season is not reliably long enough, although this year was an exception and also because it has a tendency to split when it gets a lot of water, I can better control the water in the pot (I can cover the soil in the pot if it is going to rain heavily when the tree is in the final stages of ripening)
I just got mine and gonna start it in a tree pot soon. Love all of your beautiful trees.
Thank you, and I hope you have good luck with yours as well.
So what is your OTHER favorite Adriatic fig?
Hi, I like Green Michurinska and Angelito as well. Next year we will fruit White Algiers, looking forward to tasting that one as well, I have high expectations for it.
@@FairmountFigs I haven’t heard of that one before! I’m just hoping 2025 is the year my White Madeira #1 graft takes off and produces well for me. 🤞🤞 It does seem like a lot of fig folk like Green Michurinska, too.
@margaretmarshall3645 both are very tasty.
When is this video from? Looks like it’s still August weather for you! LOVE LOVE YOUR VIDEOS!
Thank you! We're in Eastern Pennsylvania, but we shot some extra tasting videos during the summer to be able to continue to share after ripening season ended. Enjoy!
are you a big fan of figging??
You potted stock definitely looks strong and healthy!
@@TRguy64 thank you!
Looks like you are in a colder zone. I'm in zone 6. I'm really curious about your inground I-258. You do not provide any sort of winter protection? Does it die back to the ground? You get ripe figs from it? Thanks for your videos. I've watched a few of them the past few weeks. I found you after looking for videos about how to hand pollinate and yours came up.
@Scott-hl7om Hi Scott, thanks for watching. I'm on the border of zone 6B and 7A. Yes, most of my in ground figs have dieback. I-258 loses 2/3 of above ground growth. I need a long season like this one to ripen the crop, in most years 10% or less ripen, so the potted one I have does much better. Florea, Improved Celeste and Green Michurinska had virtually no damage last winter.
COl de Dama Blanc fig ?😊
Hi, no that is one variety that I do not have!
Awesome. I love tea and I love coffee but you know we all always seek healthy alternatives. Im busy making date seed coffee. So this is an awesome alternative for tea. I saw in another video, mulberry leaves is also healthy for tea
@musaadfelton3909 thank you!. I'm not too surprised about the mulberry leaves since figs and mulberry are related. How does that tea taste? We also make tea from the flower and flower leaf of the linden tree.
@@FairmountFigs that's awesome to know. I will definitely try that with the flowers. The I like the mulberry tea. It's such a natural flavor compared to bought tea. Adding the mulberries themselves into the tea also gives very nice flavor. And mulberries are very high in anti oxidants
@@musaadfelton3909 Sounds very nice, I'll have to give it a try.
Greetings from malaysia. Thank you for your simple yet great video. I have a fig tree as a gift and it's growing well in my garden. But the leaves are spade like shape unlike yours. Do you know whether I could also make tea out of it like what you just did?
Hi and welcome! Fig leaves come in many shapes. I would say if the variety is a ficus carica, then yes, you can make tea from the leaves. Each variety tastes a bit different, some better than others.
Very interesting video, have subscribed, hope your channel grows!
Thank you!
Omg! I had that this year and I thought it was some crazy spider bite! How helpful! Thanks so much for sharing. I love your channel - amazing collection - what zone are you?
Thank you! We are in zone 7A, on the border of 6B.
I'm surprised more people don't paint their black pots white. I wrap some of mine in aluminum foil in summer.
Right, it is helpful to keep those roots cool!
Is it the same though?
Without actual genetic testing, I can't say. They both ripen at the same time, Cessac a day or 2 earlier this year, similar growth habit, leaves. Both from regions with the wasp, so they could be related, as there are many figs across Europe which have been shared through the ages. It's interesting to speculate.
@@FairmountFigs lol I’m just messing with you bro. And i agree without DNA test it’s hard to say with certainty. There’s is someone in ourfigs who is doin full dna sequencing on some varieties (they already did preto, BM, and cravens craving) maybe they’ll do smith/cessac too. So far the leaves are pretty much identical for me too. Same with Tx-Ba1. Maybe next year I’ll be able to compare the fruit. 🫡
@firstname7769 no worries and yup, Richard was doing dna testing, not sure if he still is, but that is one that I'd love to see, and agreed along with TX BA-1
Very nice orchard, thank you for sharing. Do potted trees get an indoor head start?
No, there are just too many at this point, so in the spring, once we are clear of frost, they all go out at the same time.
An albino fig! How interesting! You should make a video once it is ripe.
Good idea, I'm hoping that the season is long enough for it to ripen
Thank you for the tour. Lovely Orchard! 😍 .. At what age did u put the Green Michurinska in ground? I have a couple & want to plant one inground.
I put GM into the ground at one year, and then protected it heavily for the next 2 years.
This is some serious collection, thank you for sharing, love the inground ones, I am almost there with a similar collection except for Peter's honey. Looking forward to more content. ❤
Thank you!
The Smith-Cessac war continues 😂. Great review. Would love to see a tour of your fig orchard.
@MI-Figs313 lol, right. Great idea, I will shoot a quick tour at some point and post it, thanks for the comment.
Just subscribed for OurFigs link!
Thanks so much, I have subscribed as well!
@@FairmountFigs Thank you very much!
Great video! Is sugar really necessary? I have tried it last year with just distilled water and it worked
Hi, yes, pollination can clearly work with just distilled water, but from the little bit I understand, the pollen needs to germinate, and the sucrose solution provides the energy to kickstart this. Normally, the pollen would get a small amount of sugar from the stigma when it attaches to it.
@@FairmountFigs BTW I don’t know if you remember but you gifted me an I258 four years ago. Thanks again!
@@ramilviax6441 I do! You're welcome! I hope it took and is still growing for you.
Nice and to the point thank you! I use the same system. A big help is having quick release connectors on the hose and all accessories (watering wand, nozzle, ortho sprayer, etc.).
Great point, makes setup and breakdown more efficient.