Check out my comprehensive Fig Fertilizing Series for an updated, in-depth fertilizing routine all season: ruclips.net/p/PL1gY7BoYBGIFNbJEUdApbh_E57uNBLG2j
This is a two way street. Thank you for giving us viewers your invalueable knowledge and helping us to learn and avoid the pitfalls and mistakes we gardeners can make. You are truly a blessing to all of us
For years I tried to get my figs to produce - no luck. I tried everything - cutting back hard, regular fertilizer, talking to them...and we're not talking about an exotic fig - 2 Brown Turkeys and one Chicago Hardy - nothing really worked. This year I followed your fertilizing regimen and all the trees are covered in figs. THANK YOU so much for your great advice!
I'm happy to see new, young, growers taking such an interest in my favorite hobby! I can remember the day when it was quite lonely out there being a fig enthusiast. It's a sight for sore eyes to see all of the excitement and enthusiasm being generated today, and the abundance of information now being made available to new hobbyist! Good job! Lou Monti's Figs.
Lou Monti's Figs thank you! I think we have always been out there, but now the internet has allowed us to find each other. Sometimes, social media can actually be good and heathy 🙂
Wow! Excellent information, I’m on board. Thank you for sharing your knowledge and showing the proof. I’m 70 years old and have planted a garden every year of my life since the age of 8 (I didn’t have a choice when I was little, we were very poor so dad made sure we had vegetables to eat and me and my brother were the laborers). But I must tell you, you have taught an old dog some new tricks, who says you can’t teach an old dog new tricks? I wish I could share some of my memories about how I grew up in the garden, some are kinda funny and some, not so much. Thank you sir. Subscribed 👍
Dude your hard work and quality content is paying off!! It’s unbelievable how much you’ve grown over the past few weeks. I’m so so excited for you. You deserve it all 👏🏻👏🏻👍🏻
Thank you, that means a lot to me. The past few weeks have been great. There are so many supportive people out there. Thanks for being one of the original subs!!
I've been fertilizing my indoor fig tree all wrong! I rescued it from a nursery 3 years ago. It was sitting in water, unable to drain, and the roots were mildewy and stunk. I washed & treated the roots with hydrogen peroxide, repotted it in potting mix spritzed with hydrogen peroxide & filtered water, and watched it struggle for 3 years. I wasn't getting fruit. Recently, it was inundated with spider mites. I put it in the tub, dusted it with food grade diatomaceous earth, treated the soil with diatomaceous earth, and let it sit 24 hrs. I washed it in the shower. It started losing what few leaves it had. The mites came back, so I repeated the DE treatment. It started producing new leaves quickly, and after watching your videos on how to care for fig trees, I properly fertilized her last week, and I'm actually seeing little nubs appear above her big, beautiful leaves! I think I may be getting fruits! Now I know to give her more phosphorus to help her along. Thank you so much for caring enough to make these videos. And my fig tree thanks you, too! ❤
That's great to hear! Fig trees are extremely heavy feeders, especially when in containers. They need a lot of regular feedings. I have a whole series dedicated to it based on the season here: ruclips.net/p/PL1gY7BoYBGIFNbJEUdApbh_E57uNBLG2j For the mites, I recommend two things: 1. Blow the tree off with a hose. High pressure water blows the mites off. This is an underrated way to get rid of them. They are very weak, and you can blow most of them off simply by doing this. 2. Use sulfur powder. It kills spider mites. I have wettable sulfur powder linked in my Amazon Storefront in the video description if you can't find any locally. Just DO NOT combine it with any oils. Mixing anything oil-based with the sulfur powder will burn it, so if you've used any oil-based sprays recently, you cannot use sulfur powder. If you use the sulfur powder, you won't be able to use any oil-based sprays for at least 30 days.
What a heartfelt intro message. Your channel is helpful to many. Wishing you continued success. 💚 Now, to my original point lol. Thanks for this info and especially the detail that 5 gallon buckets are actually equivalent to much larger nursery containers! (I can't find the fig video you mentioned that in so I'm dropping my gratitude here) Foolishly, I took for granted that "5 gallons is 5 gallons." This detail alone is so helpful. Thanks for the other info as well.
Hi Millennial Gardner, is it possible for you to add your formulas into the video description? You do a wonderful job of describing your process I end up mixed up on what to combine in what proportions when. Thanks...
Thanks for the education, I've been killing figs left and right for years and have done so much better this year thanks to your channel! Planting in ground and using containers with great success.
You are one of my favorite fig expert!! I like that you are kind of perfectionist in doing your videos!! They are very informative, since I’m a beginner in growing figs!! 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
I’m glad to hear you enjoy the videos! I am no expert, though. I am only about a year and a half into figs and still have a lot to learn. I’m doing my best to document the successes. I am happy to help anywhere I can, and I hope I can motivate others to grow their own food.
@@TheMillennialGardener I've been growing figs with my dad for almost 60 years now and have always had in ground trees until a few years ago when we aquired a few container trees and have found them so much easier to raise.... however I didn't realize how much you can prune them back and still get so many fruits...my question is where do you find all the different varieties ? We are very limited here and I only see brown turkey and an occasional Chicago Hardy...
This was very helpful information!! Thank you so much. You have given me the confidence I needed to add to my love of gardening. I did not understand fully the Fertilizing aspect of gardening... in other words I was lost and now you have opened my eyes🧐 Thank you! Keep up the good work.
Omgosh I can’t thank you enough! I couldn’t figure out why my fig tree wasn’t producing ! I thought all purpose miracle grow was enough - thank you thank you !!!
Gr82bspoiled you’re welcome. I truly despise AP MiracleGro. It is so poorly formulated for fruits and vegetables. It is for growing shrubbery. I believe it is sabotaging countless gardeners.
The Millennial Gardener it’s true- I thought there was something genetically wrong with my tree- before I saw you I almost tossed my tree out! Whew! I just bought the miracle grow tomato feed- we’ll see how it goes - cross your fingers lol!
Gr82bspoiled good luck! For an added boost, you may want to get bone meal and an organic 5-5-5 fertilizer. MiracleGro doesn’t contain calcium. You really want to also supplement with an organic fertilizer. MiracleGro is more like a super vitamin, whereas slow release organic fertilizers are like real food. This isn’t a perfect comparison, but for best results, use both. Bone meal is one of my “secret weapons.” Often overlooked. A little goes A LONG WAY. Do not overuse. It can mess with soil pH. A light dusting is all you need.
I am new to this fig plant care, keep getting yellow leaves. Your video is very informative n great help as I was not aware of that the fertilizer n miracle grow can be used at the same time n every 7 n 14 days. I have saved your video, thank you.
One thing I would suggest trying is Kelp foliar spray, it's been absolutely a game changer for my garden! It's amazing how much better plants absorb nutrients through their foliage!
You're most welcome. I love how the way your share your knowledge in growing and caring for FIG PLANTS. I can understand well how you explain step by step . THANKS so much . More power and GOD BLESS. STAY SAFE and STAY HEALTHY .
i actually live in Wilmington NC and am enjoying your videos so very much… I want to continue watching….I feel like since we live in the same area you can give me great advice! Thank you!!
You are a real pleasure to listen too! Brains, brawn and beauty! And a gardener! And you didn’t call your garden your yard! In Europe we don’t call a garden a yard! We think a yard is something you have in a farm!
@@juliancoulden1753 thank you! Although I certainly disagree with the beauty! I don't appear on camera much because I don't want to scare you guys away :) When I'm done with my yard, the entire thing will be a garden!
My current fig tree doesn’t yield much fruit. I will watch your video over and over to get it going better next year. I’ll prune it now in the winter and follow your regime close to spring. Love your earthly tone when explaining the fertilizer mix. Thanks!!
Last summer, I made an in-depth tutorial on fig fertilizing. This may be of some interest to you: ruclips.net/p/PL1gY7BoYBGIFNbJEUdApbh_E57uNBLG2j Figs are voracious feeders, so more food will help, especially if they're in containers.
Hi MG! Thanks so much. I appreciate not only this video on fertilizing but a previous one as well on planting fig trees in a large container. Next I’ll be watching the video on pruning and propagating because this knowledge will insure my chances of a healthy tree that I can hopefully increase my trees and share with friends and family. I really enjoy the way you present your information. It’s easy to take notes. 🌱 From CA 🏖 take care.
I think as climate change is becoming more and more dangerous people are trying hard to do their part with gardening to become self-sufficient and take CO2 out of the atmosphere. I know that's one of the reasons I've been gardening and figs are a great thing to grow yourself since they aren't generally available in grocery stores and when they are they're crazy expensive! Plus figs are SUPER easy to grow (from my limited experience). I've watched most of your videos on figs and hope you do more gardening videos! They're very informative!
Devin Jones thanks for the kind words. Everyone who gardens has their own reasons for gardening, but I hope more people get onboard. It has become a lost art. I think we all benefit from understanding where food comes from. It doesn’t come from plastic packages in the grocery stores.
Thanks for watching. If you want to go deeper down the rabbit hole, consider watching my new series on in-depth fig fertilizing: ruclips.net/video/8uw5ngYW44Q/видео.html
You're videos have really given me the confidence and education to get out there and grow some fig trees! It blows my mind that this information is available for us for FREE. God bless you!
I'm so happy to hear that! The joy in doing this is knowing that it's motivating others to grow things they otherwise wouldn't. Figs are a joy to grow! Thank you for watching.
Hello from Malaysia. Thank you for this video. I only have one Jordan variety fig tree in a 3 gallon non- woven bag. A healthy tree with only 2 fruits but one dropped last week. Tomorrow will try to apply the fertilizer method based on what I have which is Jobes tomatoes fertilizer and liquid fish fertilizer (local made). My apartment is currently with less sun but with heat.
Take a look at Master Blend. I love its fertilizes. I used it a very long time ago when I was playing with hydroponics. I'd forgotten about it until this past summer and started using it again. When my water crusting stopped my hydroponics, I started putting my tomatoes in pots, and bottom feeding them in a pan under the pot. Really worked well. I continuously fed them just like the hydro way. Before the Master Blend this past summer I was using a Jack's 10-20-30 bloom booster on the tomatoes and peppers. That really worked well. Unbelievable how much difference in the flowering. Haven't used the Master blend long enough, being the end of the growing season this time, to be able to say if I loke it as much as Jack's 10-20-30. Look at the MB and let me know what you think of it. I read a lot of good reviews, for tomatoes, but I wouldn't think it would be as good as Jack's for the fruiting because of the higher K and lower P. Love your presentation in your videos. Real easy to understand and learn from. Thanks
WONDERFUL ! Maybe now I can have RIPE Chicago figs next year ! I just met a retired couple, garden gurus . . . DARN IT, who are moving this fall and taking a fantastic garden of Eden with them to a small farm ! They told me to feed half strength every watering til established, then feed recommended strength of the MG 24-8-16 once then water only each week. The next week double strength then water only alternating every other week. Just what most of my established flowering baskets, pots, some of my in-grounds, ect. needed. May threw July it was "Holy Prolific Posies" Grandma ! Must remember to start tapering off for fall. (And the success rate for propagating and grafting plants of all kinds in their little green house, especially cuttings of roses, with old world methods is down right scary ! )
Great vid! I'm a new subscriber. I found you via the fig series. I have three inground figs. One from last year and two this year. Thank you for all the advice!
@@TheMillennialGardener I have two brown turkey (one last year and one this year) The one planted this year has brown spots? I don't know what my other new one is....lost the tag. I had no idea there were so many varieties. These are from big box. I'm excited to try some new varieties. Do you post recipes?
Kim Anderson are they little brown dots all over the leaves? I don’t do recipes. I’ve only ever done that once. I’m more into instructional videos, but intend on taste testing as many varieties as I can.
Kim Anderson that sounds like fig rust. You can take care of that with a copper based fungicide. Either purchase yourself a bottle of liquid copper concentrate and mix your own (I get the Southern AG liquid copper concentrate off Amazon), or get a pre-mixed copper-based fungicide. Just make sure you spray at night near sunset. Strong sun can burn the leaves. A few treatments should remove the rust. You may need to cycle it every couple weeks because it tends to come back.
Thank you. My varieties are from all over. Most are from Figbid. Others are from Lowe’s and Home Depot, Off The Beaten Path Nursery, Willsfigs, Burpee.com and trades on Ourfigs forum. Other potential sources are Just Fruits and Exotics, Bayflora and Figaholics.
Thanks for sharing! Just started planting figs for about 11 mos. now, been wondering why my 3-4mos figs it doesn't have much leaves & my older ones which are around 11mos. & not bushy, now I learned about fertilizing figs from you, maybe all it needs is fertilizing!
Hello 👋 from Hamburg, Lohbrügge.. Germany 🇩🇪.. I recently got one Brown Turkey and Napolitana Fig Plant's 🌿.. Hoping to learn more from your Experience.. .. I'm also successfully growing Doughnut 🍩 peach 🍑, Dwarf Hybrid regular Peach, Sunburst and Kordia cherry 🍒, Jonagold and Idared Apples, Red Currant plus Willi Conference Pears and Hybrid German 🇩🇪 Damson Plums(Hanna).. I like to add Description of my Fruit Tree's in Detail for enthusiastic growers... 😉 I use Lizetan(Neem Seed Extract) from Bayer and Bayer to prevent Insect and various common infestation.. It's effective to some extent and safe for pollinating Bee's.. But for Peach 🍑 Leaf 🍃 Curl(Fungus).. I generally use Copper Spray.. I have no experience with Figs at all and I'm glad to have subscribed to your Channel..
Inderneil Bose Roy Chowdhury welcome and thank you so much for subscribing! The best advice I can give you for figs is to fertilize them slowly and regularly, and give them heat. I know most climates in Germany are cool, so you may need to help add heat. If you can keep them against a brick wall or use a stone mulch to collect heat around the base, that can help add heat. My black tarp collects a lot of heat and I am convinced is helping give me the super growth I’m having.
@@TheMillennialGardener Yes you're right.. The summer in my area arrived late..So all my cherry 🍒 and peach 🍑 flowers 🌸 withered out due to frost😂.. Last year I've harvested in abundance because arrival of warm temperature in mid April began early... But this year was late.. So I got only apple's and Damson Plums.. Thanks for the advice.. I will follow as you've instructed..By the way I'm growing my fruits in Containers in an Apartment Porch.. 🤣 All the best.. ☺
@@TheMillennialGardener Thank You very much.. And by the way my Wife is N. Y. born and raised American of Puerto Rican Lineage and she have had no Success in growing 5 different grafted varieties of Cherry 🍒 in an container at our home in Long Island.. 🤣 Well! I assume Patience, Proper Caring and Time is virtue in any aesthetic aspect of existence..
It's a mixed blessing. My hot weather is REALLY oppressive. It's one of those "be careful what you wish for" kind of things. By the time October rolls around, believe me, you are sick and tired of the heat and want it to end. But here we are on December 8 and I can't wait to have it back. I'd rather sweat any day over freezing in a cold, dead garden with a sun low in the sky.
oops..I got cut off. Anyway, after suffering from nearly 2 years of being deprived of green, leafy vegetables due to the pandemic, I vowed that I will start a vegetable garden when it is safe to go out again. My property is filled with non-edible plants: 50 rosebushes, 2 hibiscus bushes, 10 piotted ferns, monstera deliciosa which never bore any fruit for the last 12 years., a few orchids, tuberoses, star jasmines, Hedera ivy, lantana, and a Eureka lemon tree. A month ago, I started a vegetable garden with sweet potatoes, garlic. onions, green onions, ginger, broccoli, pineapple, and was gifted with a potted fig tree by a friend. As luck would have it, I came across your channel and I am grateful for the fig propagation episode. I have since transferred my fig tree to a bigger container and started a fertilization regimen in accordance with your advice. Thanks for all the helpful info that you unselfishly share with your readers. I
unafilliated x 1-2 times a day. Always in the morning, and if it is very sunny in the afternoon, sometimes in the evening as well. It has been 90+ and sunny almost every day here since mid-May, so you have to water here a lot more than most places.
chrty pdrns figs are very tough and vigorous. I’ve never had an issue transplanting figs, but you shouldn’t transplant until you have a big root mass. I expect in most cases your fig will bounce back, but I recommend using Alaska Fish Fertilizer while transplanting. I use it every time and I never have transplant shock.
@@TheMillennialGardener exactly the response I needed thank you. Subscribed today. I planted 2 figs and 6 peach trees in July (i know, i know) the struggle has been real.
I'm so glad I found your channel. I was just about to repot a fig that I got end of season last year. But now, I'm rethinking how I'll repot it and how I'll grow it. Thank you so much for your videos!
I have a long list 😂 I should have cuttings this winter. I won’t have a ton because my trees are still young, but I will announce when they’re available.
I totally agree with you about the All-Purpose Miracle Gro fertilizer labelling being EXTREMELY misleading. I wish Miracle Gro Tomato had less nitrogen, more like a 5-20-20, however I still use it. I also like their Bloom Booster 15-30-15, although I like to dilute it a bit more than the instructions recommend so I don't over do it.
LucasGrowsBest I’ve found the best way to do it is to have all 3 in-hand. All Purpose for the first fertilizing of the season to get the leaves growing, move to Tomato for balance, hit it with Bloom Booster at fruiting time. It has worked for me. But if you only stock one, I think Tomato is their best product.
you're welcome and thank you for the info you give us so freely.Your figs look awesome, your methods are obviously tried and true. With so many others on you tube, I will be following yours. I believe you are zone 8b? If so, perfect because thats our zone here too. So, what I will be doing in Dec/Jan is the 1st root pruning and 1st pruning of the 3 yr old wood. I want to take cuttings, wish I could do it earlier so I can get those trees into the outdoors in spring. So, is it a huge risk to cut anything off before its 100% dormant?
Wüste Gobi welcome! Thanks for the kind words. Figs are great because they practically take care of themselves if they’re planted in ground. Is it an in ground tree?
Yes, and it is carrying lots of figs this year. I only cut 3 big stems and let it grow otherwise. The chickens walk underneath and sit on the lower branches sometimes and poop of course a lot - so I think that doesn’t harm?
Wüste Gobi absolutely not! That chicken poop is gold for that tree. If you’re getting tons of figs, you probably don’t need to do anything. We kill our trees with too much love. If it is growing and giving you lots of figs, it sounds like you know what you’re doing and doing it well!
Wow! I learned a lot. I wrote down everything you said, and am going to follow your instructions in spring 2020. Thank You 🍀 Your fig trees look amazing. I live in Ohio, my season is shorter and cooler. But I'm still excited, and can't wait. Thanks for helping me. 💖
Thank you for your figs video. Learned a lot from them. Just started to plant figs 2 months ago and I bought 1 fig tree which is 4+ months old have 2 figs and a lot of potential figlets from the nodes. The tree is growing healthily with new big leaves but all those bumps just not turning into figlets.
Check the nodes for 2 bumps - if there is only one bump, that is a leaf node. You must have 2 for one to be a figlet. If you have two bumps, you can encourage the second to form into a figlet faster by pinching the green growth, but it will affect the shape of the tree. I made a video earlier this year that may help you: ruclips.net/video/xjLeIr5Wo4Q/видео.html Just be aware that any figlet that forms this late in the season will probably not have enough time to mature into a ripe fruit unless you live in south/central Florida, California, southern Texas or Louisiana. We are quickly running out of growing season, and a new figlet takes 75-90 days to ripen on average.
@@TheMillennialGardener Thanks for prompt reply. I live in Asia and is hot through out the year thus I put my figs in shade with only 4 to 5 hours of direct morning sun a day. I did watch the pinching video before this fertilizer video. As you mentioned, it would affect the shape of the tree. I will look for more fertlizer in higher P & K to induce the 2nd bumps to turn to figlet. ^^
Elizabeth Yeoh great idea. I didn’t realize your year was a never-ending growing season. If that’s the case and you don’t see frosts and freezes, be aware a fig needs to drop its leaves every year. It is a deciduous tree. If it is in a climate that doesn’t see frosts and freezes, and is tropical so it doesn’t get short winter days that makes its leaves drop, it may not drop its leaves naturally, and then it may not fruit for you the next year. You’ll have to manually defoliate it during your “winter”. Since you’re in the northern hemisphere, you will need to manually remove all its leaves in January to “reset” it so it breaks new buds and starts the cycle again.
Love your vids! So much good info compared to a few others. I'd like to all why the fig trees are in buckets? I'd like more fig trees but running out of space. Buckets would be great. I'm in Washington state zone 6b. Keep up the good work!
I did all this in one year’s time. Most of my trees are 6-9 months old. That’s how quickly they grow. You can easily start a collection like mine over the late fall and winter when cuttings become available.
Organic fertilizers are *generally* better for growing in earth because they help feed the soil, but they're fairly useless in containers because they require breakdown from the native soil microbiome. Trying to be purely organic in a container garden confuses me, because container gardening is a very unnatural way of gardening. Trying to force your plant into a very unnatural environment, then demand that it performs like it should in the Garden of Eden doesn't really work. It's all about using the right tool for the right job, and for container gardening, soluble synthetics rule and provide the best results. There's a huge difference between using a tablespoon of Miracle Gro in your containers in your backyard, and flooding thousands of acres of monocropped farmlands with hundreds of pounds of fertilizer week after week, and it's sad so many conflate the two. They're not the same beast.
I have 5 fig trees. 1 Chicago Hardy, and the other 4 are unknown. They are cuttings from a friend’s fathers tree, which is known to be a good producer. I plan on planting 3 of them in-ground next week, and giving the other 2 away to people I know who want figs.
I have many fig trees in my yard. I never fertilise, and never give water to my trees. In fact watering will ruin the fruits texture and taste. I get so many fruits, more than I can consume. I live in a semi-tropical region.
I enjoy your programs very much ...the one thing i wonder about is how do you get your fig trees to grow fruit all along the main stem and in seeming clusters....my trees put out fruit here and there sparce....
Dude if only I could show you my grand parents fig tree they had in the Azores. Back in the 70s Id use to climb and play in it. It was massive, cool low long branches. Loaded with fruit!
To continue- It appears very healthy but bears little fruit. I have not regularly applied fertilizer since it lives in compost enriched soil It is in bush form and has 8 stems at the base. I am preparing to wrap it for the winter since it’s leaves have fallen and there have been a few near freezing temps. My questions: Should I prune it down to 3 or 4 main stems as suggested in your video? Now before wrapping or after unwrapping in the spring? Should I also prune it down to waist height as well ? Should I remove all the one yr wood now Since I’m not interested in the bee a crop. I do pla to fertilize in the spring and summer with plant tone and bone meal as suggested I also plant to pinch the tips in the spring since there is never enough ripening time for the figs. Thanks so much for any helpful suggestions!
When you say it bears little fruit, does that mean that it sets a lot of fruit but they don't ripen in time, or that it doesn't put on very many figlets at all to begin with?
@@fernfried4714 I have three recommendations because figs need three things in tremendous quantities: sunshine, heat duration and nutrients (fertilizer). 1. Make sure your fig tree gets at least 8 hours of unfiltered, direct sunlight a day during the summer. More than 8 is better (I give mine 12). Anything less than 6 will be a big problem. Give it the sunniest spot you have. 2. Limit the number of trunks and branches the tree has. Figs need a lot of food, water and energy from the sun, so the more you split up that energy in terms of trunks, the slower it'll be to fruit. If you limit it to 1 or 2 trunks, it will end its "vigor phase" sooner and put energy into fruiting faster. I don't like bush-form figs unless they're well-managed and kept smaller because they're usually later to fruit, and if you have a shorter growing season, it can be a problem. 3. Fertilize, fertilize, fertilize! Figs can grow from total dieback to 8 feet in a summer. They're the most vigorous fruit trees out there. Feed them per my playlist: ruclips.net/p/PL1gY7BoYBGIFNbJEUdApbh_E57uNBLG2j
Rice water& seamoss water has blessed my figs and pathos plants. I mist it also with aloe Vera and tyme 💦 water. I use these herbs in my very own natural hair and it has flourished so I tried them on my plants and they are happy, growing and healthy
thank you for explaining the NPK situation you did a very good job of it.I understand it much better now .and my you have some very exotic figs did you start them yourself? this is the best video I've ever seen on figs,thank you for it.
Virginia Tracy thank you. Most of the figs I started from cuttings. I have even more this year. I added around a dozen and a half new varieties. I’m up to 40 trees, now.
Thanks. It was done by a local company. Two guys put the whole thing up in 2 days, but my neighbors already did a portion of theirs, so I only had to connect the two sides. Still, it was close to 280 feet of fence in 2 days!
Thank you so much for the amazing videos like always and I believe that this chanel is just what any body need to undrestand the best way to grow some fruits , about undrestanding the way how it works and nicely, wery well explained and my god bless you and thank you so much again.
Good video, I watched some others and I like your style, straight to the point, good at explaining things with out unnecessary hype or annoying back ground music or repeating yourself over and over, like also that you answer questions people ask, just subscribed, good luck and thanks for sharing your knowledge
Nicolo DiCara thank you so much for watching and subscribing. I get concerned that some of these videos are too long. 21 minutes is a lot to ask of someone’s time. I am glad to hear you don’t find it overbearing or repetitive.
Pretty nice tips, and I bet they are pretty similar (if not the same) for tomatoes. I like to start off with a fertilizer that is high in phosphorus because it gets the roots established, and I supplement nitrogen with compost in the planting hole and side dressing. Then I use a low nitrogen, high phosphorus and high potassium fertilizer.
Correct. I fertilize my figs just like I fertilize my tomatoes, peppers, eggplant, squash, cucumbers, etc. All those "vegetables" are actually fruiting annuals. A tomato plant and pepper plant is just an annual fruit tree. If I'm eating the fruit of a plant, be it an annual or a perennial tree, I fertilize them the same. It is the leafy greens and root vegetables I treat differently since they aren't "fruiting." The leafy greens get higher nitrogen, the fruiting trees and vegetables get higher phosphorous, and the roots get slower, balanced feed.
Check out my comprehensive Fig Fertilizing Series for an updated, in-depth fertilizing routine all season: ruclips.net/p/PL1gY7BoYBGIFNbJEUdApbh_E57uNBLG2j
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This is a two way street. Thank you for giving us viewers your invalueable knowledge and helping us to learn and avoid the pitfalls and mistakes we gardeners can make. You are truly a blessing to all of us
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For years I tried to get my figs to produce - no luck. I tried everything - cutting back hard, regular fertilizer, talking to them...and we're not talking about an exotic fig - 2 Brown Turkeys and one Chicago Hardy - nothing really worked. This year I followed your fertilizing regimen and all the trees are covered in figs. THANK YOU so much for your great advice!
WOOHOO!! That makes me so happy to hear that. It's stories like this that makes me love making these videos. Thanks for watching.
I'm happy to see new, young, growers taking such an interest in my favorite hobby! I can remember the day when it was quite lonely out there being a fig enthusiast. It's a sight for sore eyes to see all of the excitement and enthusiasm being generated today, and the abundance of information now being made available to new hobbyist! Good job! Lou Monti's Figs.
Lou Monti's Figs thank you! I think we have always been out there, but now the internet has allowed us to find each other. Sometimes, social media can actually be good and heathy 🙂
Wow! Excellent information, I’m on board. Thank you for sharing your knowledge and showing the proof. I’m 70 years old and have planted a garden every year of my life since the age of 8 (I didn’t have a choice when I was little, we were very poor so dad made sure we had vegetables to eat and me and my brother were the laborers). But I must tell you, you have taught an old dog some new tricks, who says you can’t teach an old dog new tricks? I wish I could share some of my memories about how I grew up in the garden, some are kinda funny and some, not so much. Thank you sir. Subscribed 👍
Robert Langley thank you for the kind words and your subscribership. I really appreciate it!
I wish you could too, I bet your a legend gardener.. 🌱🌿☀️💚
I couldn't have said it better!! Ditto from me.
I love other channels, but I may have learned more in one episode on yours then many of the rest. Keep up the great work.
Frostydawg24 thank you! I really appreciate it. Glad you enjoyed it.
100% agree
kzev thank you!
For those short of time, his (very helpful) fertilizer summary and regimen starts around 6:00 minutes in.
Dude your hard work and quality content is paying off!! It’s unbelievable how much you’ve grown over the past few weeks. I’m so so excited for you. You deserve it all 👏🏻👏🏻👍🏻
Thank you, that means a lot to me. The past few weeks have been great. There are so many supportive people out there. Thanks for being one of the original subs!!
Excellent Video! I have two Kadota Fig Trees still in their containers, harvested the first ripe fig today! So happy I found your channel!
I'm glad you enjoyed it! Thank you for watching. Congrats on your first fig. I hope there are thousands more.
He is very knowledgeable and brutally honest.
I've been fertilizing my indoor fig tree all wrong! I rescued it from a nursery 3 years ago. It was sitting in water, unable to drain, and the roots were mildewy and stunk. I washed & treated the roots with hydrogen peroxide, repotted it in potting mix spritzed with hydrogen peroxide & filtered water, and watched it struggle for 3 years. I wasn't getting fruit. Recently, it was inundated with spider mites. I put it in the tub, dusted it with food grade diatomaceous earth, treated the soil with diatomaceous earth, and let it sit 24 hrs. I washed it in the shower. It started losing what few leaves it had. The mites came back, so I repeated the DE treatment. It started producing new leaves quickly, and after watching your videos on how to care for fig trees, I properly fertilized her last week, and I'm actually seeing little nubs appear above her big, beautiful leaves! I think I may be getting fruits! Now I know to give her more phosphorus to help her along. Thank you so much for caring enough to make these videos. And my fig tree thanks you, too! ❤
That's great to hear! Fig trees are extremely heavy feeders, especially when in containers. They need a lot of regular feedings. I have a whole series dedicated to it based on the season here: ruclips.net/p/PL1gY7BoYBGIFNbJEUdApbh_E57uNBLG2j
For the mites, I recommend two things:
1. Blow the tree off with a hose. High pressure water blows the mites off. This is an underrated way to get rid of them. They are very weak, and you can blow most of them off simply by doing this.
2. Use sulfur powder. It kills spider mites. I have wettable sulfur powder linked in my Amazon Storefront in the video description if you can't find any locally. Just DO NOT combine it with any oils. Mixing anything oil-based with the sulfur powder will burn it, so if you've used any oil-based sprays recently, you cannot use sulfur powder. If you use the sulfur powder, you won't be able to use any oil-based sprays for at least 30 days.
Moi j’aurais fait une bouture un figuier pouces vite depuis le temps que tu galère tu mangerais des figues cette année.
What a heartfelt intro message. Your channel is helpful to many. Wishing you continued success. 💚 Now, to my original point lol. Thanks for this info and especially the detail that 5 gallon buckets are actually equivalent to much larger nursery containers! (I can't find the fig video you mentioned that in so I'm dropping my gratitude here) Foolishly, I took for granted that "5 gallons is 5 gallons." This detail alone is so helpful. Thanks for the other info as well.
Your channel will grow more and more, I'm certain of it! - you have great content that is comprehensive and quality. Thank you!
Planting On Point thank you! I really appreciate it.
Thank you. You are a very easy to understand teacher.
larieta fort thank you so much!
Finally, someone explained what each number on a fertilizer container does. Thank You so much!!!
You're welcome. It's critical to understand the numbers! I'm glad I could help.
A Millennial teaching a Baby Boomer something. The wonderful world of gardening. Thanks again...
Hi Millennial Gardner, is it possible for you to add your formulas into the video description? You do a wonderful job of describing your process I end up mixed up on what to combine in what proportions when. Thanks...
Thanks for the education, I've been killing figs left and right for years and have done so much better this year thanks to your channel! Planting in ground and using containers with great success.
Mike Ash wow, that makes me feel great. I’m beyond thrilled that I could help. Thanks for watching and continued success!
You are one of my favorite fig expert!! I like that you are kind of perfectionist in doing your videos!! They are very informative, since I’m a beginner in growing figs!! 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
I’m glad to hear you enjoy the videos! I am no expert, though. I am only about a year and a half into figs and still have a lot to learn. I’m doing my best to document the successes. I am happy to help anywhere I can, and I hope I can motivate others to grow their own food.
@@TheMillennialGardener I've been growing figs with my dad for almost 60 years now and have always had in ground trees until a few years ago when we aquired a few container trees and have found them so much easier to raise.... however I didn't realize how much you can prune them back and still get so many fruits...my question is where do you find all the different varieties ?
We are very limited here and I only see brown turkey and an occasional Chicago Hardy...
Dude. So up tight. You’ve come a long way.
This was very helpful information!! Thank you so much. You have given me the confidence I needed to add to my love of gardening. I did not understand fully the Fertilizing aspect of gardening... in other words I was lost and now you have opened my eyes🧐 Thank you! Keep up the good work.
Omgosh I can’t thank you enough! I couldn’t figure out why my fig tree wasn’t producing ! I thought all purpose miracle grow was enough - thank you thank you !!!
Gr82bspoiled you’re welcome. I truly despise AP MiracleGro. It is so poorly formulated for fruits and vegetables. It is for growing shrubbery. I believe it is sabotaging countless gardeners.
The Millennial Gardener it’s true- I thought there was something genetically wrong with my tree- before I saw you I almost tossed my tree out! Whew! I just bought the miracle grow tomato feed- we’ll see how it goes - cross your fingers lol!
Gr82bspoiled good luck! For an added boost, you may want to get bone meal and an organic 5-5-5 fertilizer. MiracleGro doesn’t contain calcium. You really want to also supplement with an organic fertilizer. MiracleGro is more like a super vitamin, whereas slow release organic fertilizers are like real food. This isn’t a perfect comparison, but for best results, use both. Bone meal is one of my “secret weapons.” Often overlooked. A little goes A LONG WAY. Do not overuse. It can mess with soil pH. A light dusting is all you need.
The Millennial Gardener -
I’ll definitely take heed on your advise ... again- can’t thank you enough! 😉🌻
Gr82bspoiled you’re welcome.
Brilliant video. Looking for just some info on my new fig trees and learned so much more. Thank you.
I am new to this fig plant care, keep getting yellow leaves. Your video is very informative n great help as I was not aware of that the fertilizer n miracle grow can be used at the same time n every 7 n 14 days. I have saved your video, thank you.
Ty for your kind appreciation...
Best video I ever saw on the explanation of fertilizer and their numbers I finally get it Thank you so much.
Thanks for watching! You may enjoy the more detailed series I put together last year: ruclips.net/p/PL1gY7BoYBGIFNbJEUdApbh_E57uNBLG2j
One thing I would suggest trying is Kelp foliar spray, it's been absolutely a game changer for my garden! It's amazing how much better plants absorb nutrients through their foliage!
Do use it straight or water it down? How often do you spray? Is
Maxicrop Liquid Seaweed okay?
You're most welcome. I love how the way your share your knowledge in growing and caring for FIG PLANTS. I can understand well how you explain step by step . THANKS so much . More power and GOD BLESS. STAY SAFE and STAY HEALTHY .
I think you've got it bad for figs! I'm starting to get drawn into the fig world too. I started with 1 and that was all it took.
Sherie Panarello you’re right, I do. There are so many things I like. Figs, tomatoes, bananas, citrus...they’re all so much fun.
i actually live in Wilmington NC and am enjoying your videos so very much… I want to continue watching….I feel like since we live in the same area you can give me great advice! Thank you!!
Such a helpful video and the presenter is so articulate and knowledgeable. A real pleasure to watch and listen to
Julian Coulden thank you so much! I really appreciate that. I’m glad you enjoyed it.
You are a real pleasure to listen too! Brains, brawn and beauty! And a gardener! And you didn’t call your garden your yard! In Europe we don’t call a garden a yard! We think a yard is something you have in a farm!
@@juliancoulden1753 thank you! Although I certainly disagree with the beauty! I don't appear on camera much because I don't want to scare you guys away :) When I'm done with my yard, the entire thing will be a garden!
Ha ha! The content won’t scare people away, that’s sure! And you won’t either!
Julian Coulden well thanks, I appreciate it 😅
My current fig tree doesn’t yield much fruit. I will watch your video over and over to get it going better next year. I’ll prune it now in the winter and follow your regime close to spring. Love your earthly tone when explaining the fertilizer mix. Thanks!!
Last summer, I made an in-depth tutorial on fig fertilizing. This may be of some interest to you: ruclips.net/p/PL1gY7BoYBGIFNbJEUdApbh_E57uNBLG2j
Figs are voracious feeders, so more food will help, especially if they're in containers.
Wondering how your fig tree is this year?
Very nice of you to share your proven information which I learned ALOT. THANK YOU.
You’re welcome! I’m glad you enjoyed it.
Hi MG! Thanks so much. I appreciate not only this video on fertilizing but a previous one as well on planting fig trees in a large container. Next I’ll be watching the video on pruning and propagating because this knowledge will insure my chances of a healthy tree that I can hopefully increase my trees and share with friends and family. I really enjoy the way you present your information. It’s easy to take notes. 🌱
From CA 🏖 take care.
I think as climate change is becoming more and more dangerous people are trying hard to do their part with gardening to become self-sufficient and take CO2 out of the atmosphere. I know that's one of the reasons I've been gardening and figs are a great thing to grow yourself since they aren't generally available in grocery stores and when they are they're crazy expensive! Plus figs are SUPER easy to grow (from my limited experience). I've watched most of your videos on figs and hope you do more gardening videos! They're very informative!
Devin Jones thanks for the kind words. Everyone who gardens has their own reasons for gardening, but I hope more people get onboard. It has become a lost art. I think we all benefit from understanding where food comes from. It doesn’t come from plastic packages in the grocery stores.
First time growing fig in UK too, & im so grateful for all your thorough advice. Hope to enjoy figs inspite of wet climate. Thank you & subscribed!
Thanks for watching and subscribing! I appreciate it.
This is gold! Thank you.
Thanks for watching. If you want to go deeper down the rabbit hole, consider watching my new series on in-depth fig fertilizing: ruclips.net/video/8uw5ngYW44Q/видео.html
You're videos have really given me the confidence and education to get out there and grow some fig trees! It blows my mind that this information is available for us for FREE. God bless you!
I'm so happy to hear that! The joy in doing this is knowing that it's motivating others to grow things they otherwise wouldn't. Figs are a joy to grow! Thank you for watching.
Excellent information, thank you.
Hello from Malaysia. Thank you for this video. I only have one Jordan variety fig tree in a 3 gallon non- woven bag. A healthy tree with only 2 fruits but one dropped last week. Tomorrow will try to apply the fertilizer method based on what I have which is Jobes tomatoes fertilizer and liquid fish fertilizer (local made). My apartment is currently with less sun but with heat.
extremely helpful. Thank you
Take a look at Master Blend. I love its fertilizes. I used it a very long time ago when I was playing with hydroponics. I'd forgotten about it until this past summer and started using it again. When my water crusting stopped my hydroponics, I started putting my tomatoes in pots, and bottom feeding them in a pan under the pot. Really worked well. I continuously fed them just like the hydro way. Before the Master Blend this past summer I was using a Jack's 10-20-30 bloom booster on the tomatoes and peppers. That really worked well. Unbelievable how much difference in the flowering. Haven't used the Master blend long enough, being the end of the growing season this time, to be able to say if I loke it as much as Jack's 10-20-30. Look at the MB and let me know what you think of it. I read a lot of good reviews, for tomatoes, but I wouldn't think it would be as good as Jack's for the fruiting because of the higher K and lower P. Love your presentation in your videos. Real easy to understand and learn from. Thanks
Wow! What an informative video. Thank you for sharing your knowledge.
sugarbomb26 you’re welcome!
Your figs look almost as good as your guns-lol
Alex Landry well now I know you’re kidding 😂
WONDERFUL ! Maybe now I can have RIPE Chicago figs next year !
I just met a retired couple, garden gurus . . . DARN IT, who are moving this fall and taking a fantastic garden of Eden with them to a small farm !
They told me to feed half strength every watering til established, then feed recommended strength of the MG 24-8-16 once then water only each week. The next week double strength then water only alternating every other week. Just what most of my established flowering baskets, pots, some of my in-grounds, ect. needed.
May threw July it was "Holy Prolific Posies" Grandma ! Must remember to start tapering off for fall.
(And the success rate for propagating and grafting plants of all kinds in their little green house, especially cuttings of roses, with old world methods is down right scary ! )
Nice collection and well made video. Keep it up, wishing you all the best.
Canon Lover thank you!
Thank you. This video on making the best use of fertilizers, was quite valuable. Your work is much appreciated.
Thank you so much! I’m glad you enjoyed it.
Great vid! I'm a new subscriber. I found you via the fig series. I have three inground figs. One from last year and two this year. Thank you for all the advice!
Kim Anderson thanks for subscribing! What varieties do you have?
@@TheMillennialGardener I have two brown turkey (one last year and one this year) The one planted this year has brown spots? I don't know what my other new one is....lost the tag. I had no idea there were so many varieties. These are from big box. I'm excited to try some new varieties. Do you post recipes?
Kim Anderson are they little brown dots all over the leaves?
I don’t do recipes. I’ve only ever done that once. I’m more into instructional videos, but intend on taste testing as many varieties as I can.
@@TheMillennialGardener yes
Kim Anderson that sounds like fig rust. You can take care of that with a copper based fungicide. Either purchase yourself a bottle of liquid copper concentrate and mix your own (I get the Southern AG liquid copper concentrate off Amazon), or get a pre-mixed copper-based fungicide. Just make sure you spray at night near sunset. Strong sun can burn the leaves. A few treatments should remove the rust. You may need to cycle it every couple weeks because it tends to come back.
Thank you for teaching me how to use both chemical and natural fertilizers together to get the best results.
Thanks for watching!
Oh my gosh these are all beautiful. Where can I get some of these varieties I’m in VA. Ty
Thank you. My varieties are from all over. Most are from Figbid. Others are from Lowe’s and Home Depot, Off The Beaten Path Nursery, Willsfigs, Burpee.com and trades on Ourfigs forum. Other potential sources are Just Fruits and Exotics, Bayflora and Figaholics.
Thanks for sharing! Just started planting figs for about 11 mos. now, been wondering why my 3-4mos figs it doesn't have much leaves & my older ones which are around 11mos. & not bushy, now I learned about fertilizing figs from you, maybe all it needs is fertilizing!
Hello 👋 from Hamburg, Lohbrügge.. Germany 🇩🇪..
I recently got one Brown Turkey and Napolitana Fig Plant's 🌿.. Hoping to learn more from your Experience.. .. I'm also successfully growing Doughnut 🍩 peach 🍑, Dwarf Hybrid regular Peach, Sunburst and Kordia cherry 🍒, Jonagold and Idared Apples, Red Currant plus Willi
Conference Pears and Hybrid German 🇩🇪 Damson Plums(Hanna).. I like to add Description of my Fruit Tree's in Detail for enthusiastic growers... 😉 I use Lizetan(Neem Seed Extract) from Bayer and Bayer to prevent Insect and various common infestation.. It's effective to some extent and safe for pollinating Bee's.. But for Peach 🍑 Leaf 🍃 Curl(Fungus).. I generally use Copper Spray.. I have no experience with Figs at all and I'm glad to have subscribed to your Channel..
Inderneil Bose Roy Chowdhury welcome and thank you so much for subscribing! The best advice I can give you for figs is to fertilize them slowly and regularly, and give them heat. I know most climates in Germany are cool, so you may need to help add heat. If you can keep them against a brick wall or use a stone mulch to collect heat around the base, that can help add heat. My black tarp collects a lot of heat and I am convinced is helping give me the super growth I’m having.
@@TheMillennialGardener Yes you're right.. The summer in my area arrived late..So all my cherry 🍒 and peach 🍑 flowers 🌸 withered out due to frost😂.. Last year I've harvested in abundance because arrival of warm temperature in mid April began early... But this year was late.. So I got only apple's and Damson Plums.. Thanks for the advice.. I will follow as you've instructed..By the way I'm growing my fruits in Containers in an Apartment Porch.. 🤣
All the best.. ☺
Inderneil Bose Roy Chowdhury good luck!
@@TheMillennialGardener Thank You very much.. And by the way my Wife is N. Y. born and raised American of Puerto Rican Lineage and she have had no Success in growing 5 different grafted varieties of Cherry 🍒 in an container at our home in Long Island.. 🤣 Well! I assume Patience, Proper Caring and Time is virtue in any aesthetic aspect of existence..
I just realized that I have Earl May’s 20 2020 fertilizer. So I’m gonna go ahead and feed my figs with that. Thanks for the vid.
Vi McShannon you’re welcome.
Thank you!
Thank you , I learn a lots form your video to take care my fig trees , again thank you
Very informative..Thanks for sharing
Orlando Backyard Gardening thanks!
oh wow!!! figs are my favourite fruit!I love your weed matting!
Thank you for the info. Helps a lot.
Branda SAR you’re welcome!
Love yr video. Will help sooooo many of us. Thank u
@@Lzli2 You're welcome! I'm glad you enjoyed it.
I am very envious of your hot weather. We do get a short period of may be 2 weeks, sometimes a month of high 70's , may go up to 80's for a few days.
It's a mixed blessing. My hot weather is REALLY oppressive. It's one of those "be careful what you wish for" kind of things. By the time October rolls around, believe me, you are sick and tired of the heat and want it to end. But here we are on December 8 and I can't wait to have it back. I'd rather sweat any day over freezing in a cold, dead garden with a sun low in the sky.
Excellent video, thanks for the info
Dimitris T thank you!
Am I glad I came across this article again today! I am a beginner at plant
oops..I got cut off. Anyway, after suffering from nearly 2 years of being deprived of green, leafy vegetables due to the pandemic, I vowed that I will start a vegetable garden when it is safe to go out again. My property is filled with non-edible plants: 50 rosebushes, 2 hibiscus bushes, 10 piotted ferns, monstera deliciosa which never bore any fruit for the last 12 years., a few orchids, tuberoses, star jasmines, Hedera ivy, lantana, and a Eureka lemon tree. A month ago, I started a vegetable garden with sweet potatoes, garlic. onions, green onions, ginger, broccoli, pineapple, and was gifted with a potted fig tree by a friend.
As luck would have it, I came across your channel and I am grateful for the fig propagation episode. I have since transferred my fig tree to a bigger container and started a fertilization regimen in accordance with your advice.
Thanks for all the helpful info that you unselfishly share with your readers. I
I'll be there watching and thanks for sharing.
I leaned a lot from this video. I would like to thank you soooo much for the informations you gave us about fertilizers!
Excllent information
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The Millennial Gardener hello, what if while transferring plant the tap root got damage? will still be alive?
How often do you water your figs?
unafilliated x 1-2 times a day. Always in the morning, and if it is very sunny in the afternoon, sometimes in the evening as well. It has been 90+ and sunny almost every day here since mid-May, so you have to water here a lot more than most places.
chrty pdrns figs are very tough and vigorous. I’ve never had an issue transplanting figs, but you shouldn’t transplant until you have a big root mass. I expect in most cases your fig will bounce back, but I recommend using Alaska Fish Fertilizer while transplanting. I use it every time and I never have transplant shock.
@@TheMillennialGardener exactly the response I needed thank you. Subscribed today. I planted 2 figs and 6 peach trees in July (i know, i know) the struggle has been real.
I'm so glad I found your channel. I was just about to repot a fig that I got end of season last year. But now, I'm rethinking how I'll repot it and how I'll grow it. Thank you so much for your videos!
Thanks for watching!
Feel free to shoot me any rooted cuttings you want to get rid of bud
I have a long list 😂 I should have cuttings this winter. I won’t have a ton because my trees are still young, but I will announce when they’re available.
@@TheMillennialGardener awesome man I'm always up for new cuttings esp citrus or fruit
The best explanation of fertilizer I have heard. Thank you so much for this!
Jean Parsons thanks for watching! I’m glad you found it helpful.
No, THANK YOU!! Your videos are perfect! Very thorough! Love it!! 👍❤️
I totally agree with you about the All-Purpose Miracle Gro fertilizer labelling being EXTREMELY misleading. I wish Miracle Gro Tomato had less nitrogen, more like a 5-20-20, however I still use it. I also like their Bloom Booster 15-30-15, although I like to dilute it a bit more than the instructions recommend so I don't over do it.
LucasGrowsBest I’ve found the best way to do it is to have all 3 in-hand. All Purpose for the first fertilizing of the season to get the leaves growing, move to Tomato for balance, hit it with Bloom Booster at fruiting time. It has worked for me. But if you only stock one, I think Tomato is their best product.
THIS WAS SO EDUCATIONAL RIGHT IN TIME BEFORE REPOTTING MY FIG, thank you
You're welcome! Thanks for watching.
This is my second year with figs. My in ground girls are about 3 feet tall. Just starting to push leaves. CANT WAIT!
you're welcome and thank you for the info you give us so freely.Your figs look awesome, your methods are obviously tried and true. With so many others on you tube, I will be following yours. I believe you are zone 8b? If so, perfect because thats our zone here too. So, what I will be doing in Dec/Jan is the 1st root pruning and 1st pruning of the 3 yr old wood. I want to take cuttings, wish I could do it earlier so I can get those trees into the outdoors in spring. So, is it a huge risk to cut anything off before its 100% dormant?
You are one of my favorite fig expert🥰🥰🥰
I know this is old but really crazy seeing how much a fig grows that fast from a cutting.
Greetings from 🇩🇪 Germany. I have a lovely Fig tree and no idea how to look after it so I‘m glad I found your channel.
Wüste Gobi welcome! Thanks for the kind words. Figs are great because they practically take care of themselves if they’re planted in ground. Is it an in ground tree?
Yes, and it is carrying lots of figs this year. I only cut 3 big stems and let it grow otherwise. The chickens walk underneath and sit on the lower branches sometimes and poop of course a lot - so I think that doesn’t harm?
Wüste Gobi absolutely not! That chicken poop is gold for that tree. If you’re getting tons of figs, you probably don’t need to do anything. We kill our trees with too much love. If it is growing and giving you lots of figs, it sounds like you know what you’re doing and doing it well!
Wow! I learned a lot. I wrote down everything you said, and am going to follow your instructions in spring 2020. Thank You 🍀 Your fig trees look amazing. I live in Ohio, my season is shorter and cooler. But I'm still excited, and can't wait. Thanks for helping me. 💖
You're welcome! I'm so glad I could help. Good luck!
Hi thanks for sharing such vital information I will surely follow the instructions.
Thank you for your figs video. Learned a lot from them. Just started to plant figs 2 months ago and I bought 1 fig tree which is 4+ months old have 2 figs and a lot of potential figlets from the nodes. The tree is growing healthily with new big leaves but all those bumps just not turning into figlets.
Check the nodes for 2 bumps - if there is only one bump, that is a leaf node. You must have 2 for one to be a figlet. If you have two bumps, you can encourage the second to form into a figlet faster by pinching the green growth, but it will affect the shape of the tree. I made a video earlier this year that may help you:
ruclips.net/video/xjLeIr5Wo4Q/видео.html
Just be aware that any figlet that forms this late in the season will probably not have enough time to mature into a ripe fruit unless you live in south/central Florida, California, southern Texas or Louisiana. We are quickly running out of growing season, and a new figlet takes 75-90 days to ripen on average.
@@TheMillennialGardener Thanks for prompt reply. I live in Asia and is hot through out the year thus I put my figs in shade with only 4 to 5 hours of direct morning sun a day. I did watch the pinching video before this fertilizer video. As you mentioned, it would affect the shape of the tree. I will look for more fertlizer in higher P & K to induce the 2nd bumps to turn to figlet. ^^
Elizabeth Yeoh great idea. I didn’t realize your year was a never-ending growing season. If that’s the case and you don’t see frosts and freezes, be aware a fig needs to drop its leaves every year. It is a deciduous tree. If it is in a climate that doesn’t see frosts and freezes, and is tropical so it doesn’t get short winter days that makes its leaves drop, it may not drop its leaves naturally, and then it may not fruit for you the next year. You’ll have to manually defoliate it during your “winter”. Since you’re in the northern hemisphere, you will need to manually remove all its leaves in January to “reset” it so it breaks new buds and starts the cycle again.
@@TheMillennialGardener Noted and thanks a heap!
Love your vids! So much good info compared to a few others. I'd like to all why the fig trees are in buckets? I'd like more fig trees but running out of space. Buckets would be great. I'm in Washington state zone 6b. Keep up the good work!
I’m so envious to your collection. I want to emulate your collection when I grow up!
I did all this in one year’s time. Most of my trees are 6-9 months old. That’s how quickly they grow. You can easily start a collection like mine over the late fall and winter when cuttings become available.
Nice to see you are not a purist demanding only organic fertilizers. I also use both, since they both have a place in growing crops!
Organic fertilizers are *generally* better for growing in earth because they help feed the soil, but they're fairly useless in containers because they require breakdown from the native soil microbiome. Trying to be purely organic in a container garden confuses me, because container gardening is a very unnatural way of gardening. Trying to force your plant into a very unnatural environment, then demand that it performs like it should in the Garden of Eden doesn't really work. It's all about using the right tool for the right job, and for container gardening, soluble synthetics rule and provide the best results. There's a huge difference between using a tablespoon of Miracle Gro in your containers in your backyard, and flooding thousands of acres of monocropped farmlands with hundreds of pounds of fertilizer week after week, and it's sad so many conflate the two. They're not the same beast.
I found your video very informative. I am ready to see more of your videos. Thanks. The fig beginner.
Awesome! Thank you for the great information. I've always been confused with the N P K labeling. This helps a bunch.
I have 5 fig trees. 1 Chicago Hardy, and the other 4 are unknown. They are cuttings from a friend’s fathers tree, which is known to be a good producer. I plan on planting 3 of them in-ground next week, and giving the other 2 away to people I know who want figs.
I have many fig trees in my yard. I never fertilise, and never give water to my trees. In fact watering will ruin the fruits texture and taste. I get so many fruits, more than I can consume. I live in a semi-tropical region.
I enjoy your programs very much ...the one thing i wonder about is how do you get your fig trees to grow fruit all along the main stem and in seeming clusters....my trees put out fruit here and there sparce....
Dude if only I could show you my grand parents fig tree they had in the Azores. Back in the 70s Id use to climb and play in it. It was massive, cool low long branches. Loaded with fruit!
Very appreciative of the information. Now maybe I can get my fertilizing right. Many thanks.
Thanks for watching!
Hello from South Texas. Bought a celestial and turkey figs. Thank you for the info.
Best of luck! Thanks for watching!
Very informative Mr. John from Perth in Western Australia, Australia.
Glad it was helpful! Thanks for watching!
Learned so much from your videos!
I have a mature in ground Chicago Hardy fig (zone 7a)
To continue-
It appears very healthy but bears little fruit. I have not regularly applied fertilizer since it lives in compost enriched soil
It is in bush form and has 8 stems at the base. I am preparing to wrap it for the winter since it’s leaves have fallen and there have been a few near freezing temps. My questions:
Should I prune it down to 3 or 4 main stems as suggested in your video?
Now before wrapping or after unwrapping in the spring?
Should I also prune it down to waist height as well ?
Should I remove all the one yr wood now
Since I’m not interested in the bee a crop.
I do pla to fertilize in the spring and summer with plant tone and bone meal as suggested
I also plant to pinch the tips in the spring since there is never enough ripening time for the figs.
Thanks so much for any helpful suggestions!
When you say it bears little fruit, does that mean that it sets a lot of fruit but they don't ripen in time, or that it doesn't put on very many figlets at all to begin with?
@@TheMillennialGardener it doesn’t put out many figlets at all.
@@fernfried4714 I have three recommendations because figs need three things in tremendous quantities: sunshine, heat duration and nutrients (fertilizer).
1. Make sure your fig tree gets at least 8 hours of unfiltered, direct sunlight a day during the summer. More than 8 is better (I give mine 12). Anything less than 6 will be a big problem. Give it the sunniest spot you have.
2. Limit the number of trunks and branches the tree has. Figs need a lot of food, water and energy from the sun, so the more you split up that energy in terms of trunks, the slower it'll be to fruit. If you limit it to 1 or 2 trunks, it will end its "vigor phase" sooner and put energy into fruiting faster. I don't like bush-form figs unless they're well-managed and kept smaller because they're usually later to fruit, and if you have a shorter growing season, it can be a problem.
3. Fertilize, fertilize, fertilize! Figs can grow from total dieback to 8 feet in a summer. They're the most vigorous fruit trees out there. Feed them per my playlist: ruclips.net/p/PL1gY7BoYBGIFNbJEUdApbh_E57uNBLG2j
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Do you think I should do this pruning now, or in the spring?
Do you think wrapping it over the winter is beneficial?
Rice water& seamoss water has blessed my figs and pathos plants. I mist it also with aloe Vera and tyme 💦 water. I use these herbs in my very own natural hair and it has flourished so I tried them on my plants and they are happy, growing and healthy
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The figs are lookin' good! 👍🏻
Holden Beck thanks!
Thanks so much for this feeding advise. Appreciate you always.
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Best video so far, packed with good info.
Thank you! I'm glad you enjoyed it.
Love the fig thank you
You're welcome!
thank you for explaining the NPK situation you did a very good job of it.I understand it much better now .and my you have some very exotic figs did you start them yourself? this is the best video I've ever seen on figs,thank you for it.
Virginia Tracy thank you. Most of the figs I started from cuttings. I have even more this year. I added around a dozen and a half new varieties. I’m up to 40 trees, now.
Not sure if anyone has mentioned your fence, I don't feel like going through comments, but that fence looks really good!
Thanks. It was done by a local company. Two guys put the whole thing up in 2 days, but my neighbors already did a portion of theirs, so I only had to connect the two sides. Still, it was close to 280 feet of fence in 2 days!
Thank you so much for the amazing videos like always and I believe that this chanel is just what any body need to undrestand the best way to grow some fruits , about undrestanding the way how it works and nicely, wery well explained and my god bless you and thank you so much again.
I appreciate that! Thank you so much and thanks for watching!
Great video! Do you take your potted figs inside or shelter them over the winter?
Thanks!
What kind of soil do you use in the containers for the figs?
I learn a lot from just watching your videos as you explain in depth. Thank you
Good video, I watched some others and I like your style, straight to the point, good at explaining things with out unnecessary hype or annoying back ground music or repeating yourself over and over, like also that you answer questions people ask, just subscribed, good luck and thanks for sharing your knowledge
Nicolo DiCara thank you so much for watching and subscribing. I get concerned that some of these videos are too long. 21 minutes is a lot to ask of someone’s time. I am glad to hear you don’t find it overbearing or repetitive.
Pretty nice tips, and I bet they are pretty similar (if not the same) for tomatoes. I like to start off with a fertilizer that is high in phosphorus because it gets the roots established, and I supplement nitrogen with compost in the planting hole and side dressing. Then I use a low nitrogen, high phosphorus and high potassium fertilizer.
Correct. I fertilize my figs just like I fertilize my tomatoes, peppers, eggplant, squash, cucumbers, etc. All those "vegetables" are actually fruiting annuals. A tomato plant and pepper plant is just an annual fruit tree. If I'm eating the fruit of a plant, be it an annual or a perennial tree, I fertilize them the same. It is the leafy greens and root vegetables I treat differently since they aren't "fruiting." The leafy greens get higher nitrogen, the fruiting trees and vegetables get higher phosphorous, and the roots get slower, balanced feed.