In The Philippines, they don't have greenhouses to shelter from rain and propagate new trees. Every year I trim the trees, I grow the cuttings and keep the extra trees in pots. Anytime I need a new tree in the ground, the backup is already in a pot, ready to be planted.
Uncle, if you have another fig class, can you go more indepth into cloning the fig tree. Perhaps more detail on how you do it, time of year, type of soil, indoors or outdoors, if you use rooting hormone, do you put them in a bag or box to preserve humidity?
Our Figs are doing great thanks for the plants! Varieties include: Black Madeira, I-258, strawberry verte, Preto, yellow longneck, black ischia, LSA purple. All added this year & fruiting! Almost ready to pinch in 5 gal. Plan is 3 in 1 graft on black Mission root stock. Used your Top pot soil with Dr. Earth fertilizer & a sprinkle of rock dust. Compost tea sporadically. Still haven’t figured if a 7 in 1 is worthwhile. Would definitely be silly yet fun. Also have Pakistan mulberry pushing 15 feet lignifying. Whenever I visit Fullerton arboretum my fingers turn purple.
Thank you for sharing your knowledge. Our dragon fruit plants are so happy after talking to you about long term potting soil. Gary's Best Top Pot is awesome!
I have an LSU Purple, several brown turkeys and a violette de Bordeaux, all in pots. I plan to building very large planters to permanently plant them in. However, they have multiple trunks. How do I make them single trunk tree? Just choose the strongest and straightest one and cut off the rest? I am in 8a, slight 8b in TX. Can be, at times, humid here but definitely hot. Thank you for you answer and the videos.
Thanks for all your information friend. I'm learning all I can to have my own fruit trees as I get older. I believe a diet full of fruit and tree nuts are a way to get to know the Lord shortly.
I like your video, very informative. I would like to have a Little miss figgy tree in my backyard. You haven’t yet mentioned about this variety, so far half way through the video .
There are hundreds of good fig cultivars. Little Miss Figgy is fine, however it is one of many cultivars that are being propagated through tissue culture. Tissue culture does some great things like eliminating (at least for the moment) fig viruses, however we have noticed that the plants often behave like seedlings and may not produce fruit for many years. The sources that offer Little Miss Figgy aren't fig specialists and we get plants with lots of tiny branches with few or no fruit on them. Most of the fig cultivars we offer we grow ourselves from stem cuttings and production generally begins within the year.
@@GarysBestGardening Btw Home Depot had few Little miss figgy plants in 1 gallon pots. I bought one and the plant has a fruit. I don’t know if I should grow this tree.
Bro You DON’T know how the fig wasps pollenates at all…the male wasp hatches first and with its very large P “so it can reach” it impregnates the female while she’s still in the egg then the male “with his large jaws” cuts a small tunnel out of the male fig for the female to escape “with both fertile eggs and tree pollen” then she goes to the first fig the wind takes her to and travels into the core chamber of the unripe fruits “tarring her wings with the effort” and if it’s a male tree the camper fig will be a home for the wasp eggs if it’s a female fig then it’s pollenated by the pollen covered female wasp and then she dies being dissolved completely….to help produce ripe fruit and to give her life for the next fig tree generation this symbiotic relationship has probably gone on for millions of year
Bro calm down with your formicophilia, no one but you cares about the bugs "very large P" get out of here with that. Your statement makes virtually no sense either
I’m pretty sure he is talking about edible figs for human consumption. Usually goats are the only animals that will eat the Capri Fig that you mentioned…hence the name Goat Fig.🐐
"...and then she dies being dissolved completely"... Sound like a movie script :) Why would the wasp die? She could get out the same way she got in. Why would a fig tree want to kill it's pollinator ? Other trees don't kill honeybees that pollinate them.
@@imamGlistecom it’s just how it works the wasps wings are so damaged and it’s body after pushing it’s self through the eye of the fig as well as it being full of parasites that give it only so much time to live and pass on
@@lagunahillsnurserygardence1530 all figs that aren’t self fertile have at least one dead wasp because it has to be pollinated “there’s no other way” unless you’re growing a fig tree with a recessive gene that requires two copies “like albinism” that cause self fertility but the goat fig you’re talking about is the male Capri fig that houses the actual colony of fig wasps and is how the species continues assuming that female picks the right fig “from the wasps perspective the unripe figs look the same”
In The Philippines, they don't have greenhouses to shelter from rain and propagate new trees. Every year I trim the trees, I grow the cuttings and keep the extra trees in pots. Anytime I need a new tree in the ground, the backup is already in a pot, ready to be planted.
Uncle, if you have another fig class, can you go more indepth into cloning the fig tree. Perhaps more detail on how you do it, time of year, type of soil, indoors or outdoors, if you use rooting hormone, do you put them in a bag or box to preserve humidity?
I have two mulberry trees arriving today, how perfect!
Our Figs are doing great thanks for the plants! Varieties include: Black Madeira, I-258, strawberry verte, Preto, yellow longneck, black ischia, LSA purple. All added this year & fruiting! Almost ready to pinch in 5 gal. Plan is 3 in 1 graft on black Mission root stock. Used your Top pot soil with Dr. Earth fertilizer & a sprinkle of rock dust. Compost tea sporadically. Still haven’t figured if a 7 in 1 is worthwhile. Would definitely be silly yet fun. Also have Pakistan mulberry pushing 15 feet lignifying. Whenever I visit Fullerton arboretum my fingers turn purple.
Thank you for sharing your knowledge. Our dragon fruit plants are so happy after talking to you about long term potting soil. Gary's Best Top Pot is awesome!
I’ll have to buy some
Great lesson Gary we have some exciting thing to share this next winter with LHN
I have an LSU Purple, several brown turkeys and a violette de Bordeaux, all in pots. I plan to building very large planters to permanently plant them in. However, they have multiple trunks. How do I make them single trunk tree? Just choose the strongest and straightest one and cut off the rest? I am in 8a, slight 8b in TX. Can be, at times, humid here but definitely hot. Thank you for you answer and the videos.
Thanks for all your information friend. I'm learning all I can to have my own fruit trees as I get older. I believe a diet full of fruit and tree nuts are a way to get to know the Lord shortly.
I like your video, very informative. I would like to have a Little miss figgy tree in my backyard. You haven’t yet mentioned about this variety, so far half way through the video .
There are hundreds of good fig cultivars. Little Miss Figgy is fine, however it is one of many cultivars that are being propagated through tissue culture. Tissue culture does some great things like eliminating (at least for the moment) fig viruses, however we have noticed that the plants often behave like seedlings and may not produce fruit for many years. The sources that offer Little Miss Figgy aren't fig specialists and we get plants with lots of tiny branches with few or no fruit on them. Most of the fig cultivars we offer we grow ourselves from stem cuttings and production generally begins within the year.
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Thank you. I hope you have a dwarf variety. I will stop by at your nursery soon.
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Btw Home Depot had few Little miss figgy plants in 1 gallon pots. I bought one and the plant has a fruit. I don’t know if I should grow this tree.
Bro You DON’T know how the fig wasps pollenates at all…the male wasp hatches first and with its very large P “so it can reach” it impregnates the female while she’s still in the egg then the male “with his large jaws” cuts a small tunnel out of the male fig for the female to escape “with both fertile eggs and tree pollen” then she goes to the first fig the wind takes her to and travels into the core chamber of the unripe fruits “tarring her wings with the effort” and if it’s a male tree the camper fig will be a home for the wasp eggs if it’s a female fig then it’s pollenated by the pollen covered female wasp and then she dies being dissolved completely….to help produce ripe fruit and to give her life for the next fig tree generation this symbiotic relationship has probably gone on for millions of year
Bro calm down with your formicophilia, no one but you cares about the bugs "very large P" get out of here with that. Your statement makes virtually no sense either
I’m pretty sure he is talking about edible figs for human consumption. Usually goats are the only animals that will eat the Capri Fig that you mentioned…hence the name Goat Fig.🐐
"...and then she dies being dissolved completely"... Sound like a movie script :) Why would the wasp die? She could get out the same way she got in. Why would a fig tree want to kill it's pollinator ? Other trees don't kill honeybees that pollinate them.
@@imamGlistecom it’s just how it works the wasps wings are so damaged and it’s body after pushing it’s self through the eye of the fig as well as it being full of parasites that give it only so much time to live and pass on
@@lagunahillsnurserygardence1530 all figs that aren’t self fertile have at least one dead wasp because it has to be pollinated “there’s no other way” unless you’re growing a fig tree with a recessive gene that requires two copies “like albinism” that cause self fertility but the goat fig you’re talking about is the male Capri fig that houses the actual colony of fig wasps and is how the species continues assuming that female picks the right fig “from the wasps perspective the unripe figs look the same”