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I am in East Alabama. Purchased a Myers lemon tree. I am growing it in a pot. I cover it in winter when weather is below 20 degrees. Today I noticed it has blooms. What can I do to keep it living and producing fruit?
Pretty much all of the damage is in western NC. I'm in the Piedmont region in NC and we didn't get any damage here. The coast didn't get any damage either because the hurricane didn't go that way.
As a licensed therapist, I just had to send big kudos to you for this video! You are so right that re-connecting with dirt, music, creativity, and beauty can correct much of the imbalance we are experiencing as a nation. Thank you for sharing your story. Your knowledge and delivery style about gardening and life are so unique and very much appreciated.
Your videos changed my life for the better! They kickstarted my passion for persimmon trees and fruit trees in general! Thank you so much! Your videos are appreciated more than you know ! 😊
Your videos about fruit trees changed my life. I was fishing one day and found some pawpaw trees. I had to google what they were and after i found out i went on youtube and watched your video on them. Then youtube recommended me one of your citrus videos. Since i live in eastern nc that made me buy a satsuma which was my first ever fruit tree. Then i went down the permaculture rabbit hole and now i have about an acre food forest of all different fruit trees and chickens. I appreciate all your videos and the information you've shared
Everything you said is so true, starting your own garden is truly healing! We've been adding more and more to our food forest the last few years, and we love figs too! Thanks for being an inspiration! Give a cookie to Dale!
Anthony, it’s amazing how our lives intersect. I was born, raised and went to school in the Philly suburbs. My wife and I left Pennsylvania in 2018 to seek a better quality of life and better health in Georgia. We are now moving to the North Carolina Piedmont to start our homestead. Thank you so much for this channel.! We have learned so much from you and your adventures. We feel like we have a giant head start to our learning curve.
Thank you for sharing regarding your seasonal effective disorder. I also suffer. It means a lot that you share this, not enough people do. I love watching your channel. From one gardener to another, keep growing. I will have to buy some more fruit trees now.
I thought that everyone was weird for saying that gardening helped their moods. Then I started doing it and I have never felt more personally fulfilled and connected to the earth. It sounds so corny but it was so profound. Everyone was right! It really improved my well being and I feel happier than I ever have.
I totally feel this video in my core. I turned to my garden, trees and houseplants in covid. I work in healthcare and it gave me grounding and i got grow lights that were the same spectrum and sad lights. I have 5 citrus trees that vacation out doors in the spring, summer and fall and come in winter in 6a
I started with two peach trees, two persimmon trees and two apple trees three. I now have four peach trees, four persimmon, three apple trees, four pear trees, two nectarine trees and six fig trees. All of different varieties. It has been a great stress reliever and I have learned so much from your channel. Thank you! Edit - I'm in the works to purchase 3 or 4 pawpaw trees too.
What a good description of SAD, and so true. I was in NJ with the same misery. I decided to move to Florida, even tho I had never been there. It had to be better than where I was. And it was. Your citrus is so inspiring, I decided to try too, and I have some beautiful satsuma trees now, thanks to you.
Great video! I loved hearing how you got into growing these fruit trees! Our winters here in the UK, although not as cold as in Pennsylvania where you used to live, are incredibly long and dark due to our latitude. So I can definitely relate to your experience. I want to thank you for all of your zone-pushing videos, especially with citrus and avocados as it has inspired me to do the same here. Now there’s always something to look at in the garden no matter what the season 🙌
It just takes one plant to change everything! My gateway plant was the Morning Glory's I planted at my 1st rental with dirt. 15 years later, I finally own my own dirt and I've happily begun my food forest journey. 🌳🍓🌲🍇🌳🍅🌲
Oh my gosh, absolutely great video and yes because of you I have fig trees and I have an orchard now because I had watched your videos for so many years.. Of course I have Ruby red grapefruits, apple trees, lemons, limes, avocados, oranges, pears, raspberries, blueberries… yeah total joy
I have an obsession with adding new fruit and nut trees as well as berry bushes. I love your channel. I’m actually growing 4 varieties of Mexican advocados in South Carolina. So far so good.
I'm so glad you found your niche. Awesome. I'm so happy you are safe from the bad weather. Looks like there are a few more on the way. I'll be praying 4 U. I've learned so much from you. Fantastic teacher as well as gardener. Dale is the best baby. I have a 5.5lb YorkiePoo who loves going to Lowe's, Walmart garden center & taking Sunday rides. God bless you & yours. ❤
Thank you for this fantastic video. You channel has indeed been an inspiration to me and this past winter I planted my first ever fig, persimmon, and citrus tree (Bearss Lime). It has brought such a smile to my face seeing over 30 figs take shape and start to riper on the tree, at a time of year when I would otherwise bemoan the shortening daylight hours. I hope that more people see your passion for gardening and decide to undertake the challenge and see all of it's benefits. I'm so glad that I found the gardening community on RUclips.
Great video. I’ve been messing around with figs for years up in New Bern but your videos on citrus sparked an interest in that as well. I now have 6 in-ground citrus trees going on my 3rd winter with a few of them. They’ve been a real joy and, as you say, something to look forward to in the winter. I’ve also planted 5 persimmons this year. Looking forward to seeing them grow and produce fruit. Thanks for your videos, they have been an inspiration to me.
I never even knew much of anything about fig trees before watching and listening to you. Now somehow I have 8 fig trees(your top 10 video has helped me immensely)! Can’t wait to get some figs next year and thank you for helping me find a new hobby :)
This video is definitely in the top three you have ever made. Only lately have I started noticing the literary element to your talks. Like most people I've never thought I could grow these fruit trees. At one time we were zone 6A and through the decades we've moved to 7B. Going to try a fig or persimmon. I can grow it in containers beside the pool and bring it in if it gets too cool to a room with a wall of glass. It would be nice if people had your passion about anything!
I knew you grew all these trees, but I really enjoyed the presentation in this video. We have one Fuyu Persimmon ripening on tree (2nd year) right now!
To be honest, I always thought that you had grown up in agriculture and maybe even studied it. The way you talk about things, using the technical terms, getting the horticultural aspects correctly gave me that impression. So total kudos to your tutelage and knowledge in this area. I can see that you have put an effort into learning. I love your set up too, it's beautiful. I also suffer from MDD, GAD, and C-PTSD. Getting back into gardening/horticulture after all of these years (about 25 years) has really helped me mentally. I am disabled and it's difficult to build any garden, but I have tried to over the last two years. All from a never gardened backyard. It's been very difficult for me. I also don't have the funds to build how I want to, so I have to take short cuts. Because bending is painful, I built tables out of pallets and put my containers on them. I use weed block anywhere I want to put a table so I do not have to worry about mowing. I am still working on placing wires all over the area so I can use shade cloth, make my own little greenhouse with plastic, and make a 'desert' area for my plants that prefer less water. (Florida tries to drown everything a couple times a year.) But the hardest part has been going from my zone 5 (in Nebraska's forgiving fertile soil) that I knew how to garden everything, to zone 9 in sand. I do plant some things in the ground, but it's a bit of a pain in the butt. But I am working on it. I'm going to conquer this! Every year is like a college football team. You have to work hard and you have to adjust your methods and how you plan on working it with what you got. My plan this year worked fantastically until recently when we got some winds. Some of the tree limbs I was using for trellises snapped under the weight of my fruiting tomatoes! So for the last two days I've been repairing it and I'll have to invest in some decent poles of some sort for the next year. (Or fatter limbs LOL) Thank you for your information and positive attitude. I know it can be hard to put on a happy face sometimes. I fill my winters with plans for the next year and building! I'm sure you do too. When you get down, think of all the help you are doing for someone like me. You are appreciated!
I ❤your videos. This year my landlord would not let me plant a garden, so I have a few things in pots. All I crave is a yard of my own to grow in. Do you grow paw-paw? I love it. And a fig tree is my dreams!
@themillennialgardener, thank you for making many people find their purpose through your videos. They are becoming encyclopedias of knowledge for people who have passion for gardening but no dependable resources to follow up on the passion. Your highly researched, detail oriented videos make us powerful knowing the in and out of things and even being able to articulate them to others. I cannot believe myself that i learned so much about citrus from your videos that I confidenly talk about grafted vs rootstock and if its trifoliate etc. never thought i could get so technical about it. Thanks so much! I planted owari, browns select, pineapple guava on ground in zone 8a (cumming, ga) in august this year and looking forward to re-watch your videos on cold protection and apply them. Thanks so much for inspiring us and being there. I rewatch your videos multiple times to sink up all the knowledge you are imparting here. Majorly regarding fruit trees!
The pain you went through brought to the world the millennial gardener. I have no idea what i would have been doing in my garden if it were not for you keeping our spirits high all through the year in the garden!!!❤
@@TheMillennialGardener the thorns are for real! My container Meyer lemon has much smaller thorns than the in ground one. But the plant is also much smaller. This is my 4th year with it. All I do is put 4.5 poly greenhouse panels around it for winter. I tape them into a rectangular box with a lid that opens to vent. Works like a charm. I also put a portable greenhouse like that over my pomegranate tree, bc technically it shouldn’t be uncovered past zone 8
Great video, thank you. I've been building a food forest here in FL10A for the past several years, I hear you on the therapy aspect it can provide. It has had the same effect on myself as a person. I just recently started to add fruit trees to the mix, several were mentioned here in this video. Was nice to see I'm on the right path.
❤️ I’m trying to create a small corner of my homeland in PA and I source all northern varieties of fruits and berries I grew up with while living in Ukraine and partly in Caucasus Mountains in Georgia - sweet tart cherries, persimmons, haskaps, serviceberries, sea buckthorns, lingonberries, bilberries, alpine strawberries, etc. it’s an urge that’s impossible to ignore:) Btw to heal your winter sickness with its freezes and snow you should try ice skating and skiing/snowboarding and in no time you’ll be chasing winter all over the world 😁 And thank you for unlocking my hidden love for figs - many years ago in Georgia I saw a few huge green fig fruits in a random garden, an owner was outside and suggested me to take them all because it wasn’t the main crop and they didn’t care for it - omg, what did I try then… that was out of this world - fresh juicy tender flavorful magic, nothing like overly sweet heavy and dry fruits we had in the stores. I didn’t even know it was breba crop, I knew no cultivars, I kept this secret to myself because I was sure no one would understand my enthusiasm 😅 I’m gathering my fig collection now - I study all cold hardy short season rain and humidity resistant varieties of figs, I have no space left and I grow them all in containers 😅 And this is you who triggered my exploration of fig trees here in the US 🤗
You should try growing moringa trees. Grow them like bushes, maybe something to grow in your next property. They grow really fast, you harvest the leaves for teas or dried, ground up for added vitamins in your drinks. They can’t handle frost so harvesting all the leaves before first frost is important. This tree is important for me because we are trying to grow foods that cover all our nutritional needs.
I am half italian, and i can relate 100%...i was in VT, with SAD...NOW, im down in jax FL, meyer lemon and duncan grapefruit were my first successes, then mulberry, prickly pear, HONEYBELL...now starting figs, sugarplum, valencia, murcott tang, one avocado, and muscodines! Great vid, will start looking around for a persimmon...I am basically finished, no more space, lol!!
FUJU. Supposed to be big and sweet. Cold hardy. Self-fertile. Highly recommended by someone here on YT. Can’t recall who though. I found one last spring. Can’t wait.
This was a very inspiring video. Got my husband onboard with moving our trailers to the north side of the house so we can plant citrus on the southern side. I am SO EXCITED!!! And I'm in a 7b... so this is going to be interesting!
Satsumas like Owari and Brown's Select grow very well in 8a with a little protection. I think you can have success growing Brown's Select, which is on the earlier side. A kumquat could also do pretty well. They're very tough plants. Really hardy citrus like Yuzu are *definitely* growable in 7b.
@@jeas4980Probably best in the spring, April or May. Gives it maximum time to get established before the winter. You said zone 7b, what kind of zone 7b? More southern or northern? Just curious 😊
I live just outside Philadelphia like you did, the winters here can be very cold, cloudy, and dark. I have 3 citrus trees I keep in my garage keeps me going. I wish I could get my brown’s select in the ground
Figs and persimmons are my favorite also. Citrus would be a lot of trouble to grow here. I’m still waiting for my pawpaw and feijoa to produce. My pawpaws had blooms for the first time this year and a tornado broke all my 6’ to 8’ tall trees. They have to start over from ground up. I’ll never plant pawpaw again here. It’s too hot and dry in my Texas sand and rock. I water them more than anything I have and they still struggle with scorched leaves. We’re still in the 90s and I’m a just 30 minute drive from Oklahoma so it’s not south Texas.
I discovered in spring last year after moving to this rural central Louisiana lot that there was no topsoil. Gravel and hard red clay are under the grass. So with physical problems from spinal injuries & a brain injury with chronic pain I`ve had to haul in forest debris and sandy dirt from a wash nearby with my garden wagon and add all my grass clippings and cardboard to create soil. I almost gave up because to have a garden or even dig a hole here seemed impossible. To plant a fig tree requires hundreds of pounds of material from the forest. I now have 6 fig trees in the ground & 4 Dwarf Everbearing Mulberry plus 2 of a plant I saw on your channel...Pineapple Guava. Each day/night I set a goal to haul a little bit more dirt, rotting wood or leaves and if I can`t because of weather I study and make plans and look for more ideas.
Suggestion: add loquat trees to your garden. They bloom in the winter; beautiful clusters of little white flowers. I grow them for the fruits and for hummingbirds. They don’t need to migrate (our winter is mild; warmer than your location). The food is there ready for them and they can rest in the tree in the same time. Loquat leaves are a kind of herbs in Chinese Traditional Medicine.
Thanks for sharing, I am learning the same thing. I'm trying to do an indoor salad bar lol, zone 5/6 in Utah, I have a spare room and I'm going to try some romaine, cucumbers, dwarf maters, snap peas, radish, cucumbers, I must admit this is getting out of control 😂😂😂
Kudos brother. I don't know a lot about the climate of North Carolina but I just took my daughter's up there last winter to see snow lol. We're in the Florida panhandle and I think we're in the same grow zone however it doesn't snow here. We just changed from 8b to 9a this past spring. I have figs and citrus planted. I haven't heard figs broke down the way you put it. I'm used to hearing about them as a honey, berry, or sugar fig regardless of color. They were my first fruit trees as well. Also life changing. Mulberry trees are one of my life changing trees. I grew up in Indiana and had mulberries and cherry trees in our yard growing up. The birds got most of the cherries but they couldn't ever get all the mulberries. Once I realized I could still grow them here it was on. They're my favorite. Gardening in Florida is soooo much different than Indiana it's ridiculous. My yard is sand and I have to utilize cover crops and bring in compost every year or so. So I know your plight and have learned a thing or two from your channel. But I still struggle with citrus. So assuming you get snow and still get it done is impressive. However this year has been my best year. I just have to keep the water and fertilizer coming but I get fruit. I also have what we call Japanese persimmons not Asian but the Fuyu variety. They're so good.I love persimmon pudding but it takes so many native wild persimmons to get enough pulp that Fuyu's were a game changer. Love your channel. Keep it going
Always love to hear you stories. I got a fig and it gave me quarter size figs. Can't rember the name of. Hopfully they will get bigger. It is harty to -10. But I will bring it in along with my Myer lemon and my orange and my lemon that is both yellow and pink. I live in 8a (?). Love the Dale Dog!!!!
I have an avocado pit with a stem of about a foot tall with several leaves on the end. I like a challenge so I am going to try and get this pit to grow into a bush or tree or whatever it wants to. I also started a lemon seed and have a plant about 8" tall. I made a mistake and put it out with some of the other plants because the green house was too hot and a moth or other varmint ate the leaves. I am attempting to coax it to thrive. Love your videos and they are inspiring, informational and entertaining. Thank you.
i would also like to enjoy ur passion. when can we buy the new strain of fig tree u created? the one that needs no other tree to grow figs. my mother had SAD. light is ur friend. once i heard of light therapy i put 100 watt lightbulbs wherever i had lights in the house. no more SAD. i stopped saving pennies and saved my sanity instead.
You talked about pushing zones. I live near Winchester, VA (not far from WV) at about 700' elevation. I always wanted to grow a live oak as I hate how dead all the trees look in the winter. I found a cultivar of live Oaks that are native to Oklahoma. I now have two beautiful live Oaks growing hundreds of miles from the closest naturally growing Live Oaks along coastal Virginia.
You have a ton of fig trees, what do you do to preserve the fruit? You are the reason we will be planting our first fig tree this weekend! I'm excited to know how you preserve them.
I’d love to try persimmons. I’m in PA. My yard isn’t fenced in and I’m afraid they will cause a deer problem (more than I already have). Deer don’t touch my figs. But I’ve heard that deer can actually get territorial over persimmons.
That’s awesome I feel the same way when it comes to seasonal fruits. But I’m very surprised that you haven’t grown plum trees as there some outstanding tasting plums that would blow you away, try the greengage and toka plums and have you ever tried a moorpark or bleinheim apricot? Those are apparently some of the best tasting stone fruits you could grow! Give them a try my summer was amazing this year as I tasted about 10 different stone fruit varieties 😊
I have a wild persimmon tree on the edge of my yard. They`re really good this year because we got a good rain recently and they`re ripening. I also have a large wild blackberry patch. Try growing indoors to help with your seasonal disorder. I have it too. I get so sad in fall because summer gardening with fruits, berries, cucumbers, tomatoes, melons etc is ending and I have to sit in my camper and freeze all winter and hope the severe thunderstorms don`t happen again in Louisiana. But the storms and tornadoes always happen with cold fronts and warm Gulf air colliding over and over. I have hydro buckets ready to attempt to grow Beit Alpha cucumbers & cherry tomatoes inside this winter. LED lights provide the same heating amount as their wattage plus the light. So why not use them for part of the heating AND grow some food?
I highly recommend you find some cultivars of American persimmons, i think the fruit is much better than asian varieties. Some of your videos inspired me to try growing satsumas in Pennsylvania, I'm starting trifoliate seeds for rootstock and plan on grafting next year!
This video is so inspiring that I now want to try to grow figs in Minnesota. That is zone 4B. Do you have any recommendations for super hardy fig trees that can withstand the harsh winters?
Great video. All your videos are good, very informative. I’m Italian born and raised live in Canada now but all the fruit tree you talk about with exception of avocados are dear to me. I remember as a kid picking persimmons and figs from trees. Pomegranates and prickly pears as well. Try growing those as well. 🇨🇦🇮🇹
Thanks for sharing. Your love for figs made me buy a tree! I have never even had fresh fig before. I bought one at the market to taste, and i thought it was good. I'm in zone 6a, so I went for Chicago hardy for my first try. Watched your fig Playlist. I saw it was not high on your tasty scale, but, I wanted the best chance to get one established. I ordered it, and this "tree" i received is about the size of a #2 pencil, with one leaf 😂😂😂😂. I put it in a 2 gallon pot. And I will see what happens. Do you suggest that I put it in the garage this first winter or let it stay out? I never anticipated it would be so tiny. Now, I'm lost on start to do with it. Also your description of persimmon simultaneously repulsed and intrigue me😮. Maybe my next "Anthony made me do it"
Thanks for these informative and inspirational videos. We're up in Northern California-Zone 9. Been trying to grow a dwarf Meyer Lemon for 3 years, but still no luck.Will not bear fruit yet. In process of transferring to a bigger pot. Any suggestions? Also, we live in farm country - lots of raccoons and possum. Any tricks on keeping them away from fruit trees like figs, etc., once we plant those too?
😂😂 so the only way to get you to shut your gob is to put a fig in it! No wonder your wife lets you grow them!😂 my grandpa used to peg branches to the soil and let them root, dig them up, hey presto, new tree. Good job on the nearly 1 million btw. It is awesome.😊
Did you know you can harvest avocado oil? I saw a video on X. Warm the whole avocado (with peel) over an open flame, turning to heat all sides. Do not cook. (I assume this releases the oil) Cut the avocado in half, remove seed, scoop meat into a sieve over a bowl. Then mash the meat....out comes the clear oil. Eat the meat or make guacamole! I haven't tried it since I just planted my avocados!
I really want to grow figs. Especially the kind that taste like strawberry. I live in Northwest Alabama zone 7b/8a. You are the fig expert! What are the best ones for my area? I enjoy your videos and I also watch Brittany's channel. Thanks!
You're lucky. My neighbor has a massive fig tree. I see tons of fruit each year and the damn squirrels steal most of them. The sad part is the critters take a couple of bites and the rest falls to the ground. Those tree rats have started to dig up my garden. They're going to meet Mr. Pellet soon.
The Avocado Tree you planted in Florida is probably a mistake especially within 100' feet of your other saplings. I have a such a giant avocado tree and this guy drops BIG green hand grenades All Year. It also suddenly drops huge limbs that can crush a car usually during the Hot Dry Summer months. Consider opting for a Dwarf Avocado Tree.
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I am in East Alabama. Purchased a Myers lemon tree. I am growing it in a pot. I cover it in winter when weather is below 20 degrees. Today I noticed it has blooms. What can I do to keep it living and producing fruit?
When I saw all the recent hurricane damage videos, all I could think of was you. I hope all is well with your family and garden.
Pretty much all of the damage is in western NC. I'm in the Piedmont region in NC and we didn't get any damage here. The coast didn't get any damage either because the hurricane didn't go that way.
Glad to hear things are OK there! I enjoy your channel.
Great video. Thank you very much.
@@deathroll69great. I was also thinking of u. I learn a lot from u. I got Japanese sweet potatoes successfully because of ur videos.
What’s ur name?
As a licensed therapist, I just had to send big kudos to you for this video! You are so right that re-connecting with dirt, music, creativity, and beauty can correct much of the imbalance we are experiencing as a nation. Thank you for sharing your story. Your knowledge and delivery style about gardening and life are so unique and very much appreciated.
I appreciate it. Nothing creates anxiety like complications. There is something freeing about living a simple life and tending to our basic needs.
Passionate is the best word I have to describe you. Teaching me about my new hobby is priceless. Thank you so very much
Your videos changed my life for the better! They kickstarted my passion for persimmon trees and fruit trees in general! Thank you so much! Your videos are appreciated more than you know ! 😊
Your videos about fruit trees changed my life. I was fishing one day and found some pawpaw trees. I had to google what they were and after i found out i went on youtube and watched your video on them. Then youtube recommended me one of your citrus videos. Since i live in eastern nc that made me buy a satsuma which was my first ever fruit tree. Then i went down the permaculture rabbit hole and now i have about an acre food forest of all different fruit trees and chickens. I appreciate all your videos and the information you've shared
Everything you said is so true, starting your own garden is truly healing! We've been adding more and more to our food forest the last few years, and we love figs too! Thanks for being an inspiration! Give a cookie to Dale!
Have you tried Ground Cherries?
Anthony, it’s amazing how our lives intersect. I was born, raised and went to school in the Philly suburbs. My wife and I left Pennsylvania in 2018 to seek a better quality of life and better health in Georgia. We are now moving to the North Carolina Piedmont to start our homestead. Thank you so much for this channel.! We have learned so much from you and your adventures. We feel like we have a giant head start to our learning curve.
Thank you for sharing regarding your seasonal effective disorder. I also suffer. It means a lot that you share this, not enough people do.
I love watching your channel.
From one gardener to another, keep growing.
I will have to buy some more fruit trees now.
I thought that everyone was weird for saying that gardening helped their moods. Then I started doing it and I have never felt more personally fulfilled and connected to the earth. It sounds so corny but it was so profound. Everyone was right! It really improved my well being and I feel happier than I ever have.
I totally feel this video in my core. I turned to my garden, trees and houseplants in covid. I work in healthcare and it gave me grounding and i got grow lights that were the same spectrum and sad lights. I have 5 citrus trees that vacation out doors in the spring, summer and fall and come in winter in 6a
I started with two peach trees, two persimmon trees and two apple trees three. I now have four peach trees, four persimmon, three apple trees, four pear trees, two nectarine trees and six fig trees. All of different varieties. It has been a great stress reliever and I have learned so much from your channel.
Thank you!
Edit - I'm in the works to purchase 3 or 4 pawpaw trees too.
thanks for all your hard work with these videos brother. definitely got me into gardening and gave me a purpose as well
What a good description of SAD, and so true. I was in NJ with the same misery. I decided to move to Florida, even tho I had never been there. It had to be better than where I was. And it was. Your citrus is so inspiring, I decided to try too, and I have some beautiful satsuma trees now, thanks to you.
Loved this story ❤
Thank you. Glad I could connect.
Dear MG, totally dug you sharing your passion for growing. I can relate. Beautiful. 🖖
Thank you so much! I do appreciate it.
I hope everyone in your area is all right! Your love of that giambo persimmon radiates from you! Going to have to try growing it!
Great video! I loved hearing how you got into growing these fruit trees! Our winters here in the UK, although not as cold as in Pennsylvania where you used to live, are incredibly long and dark due to our latitude. So I can definitely relate to your experience. I want to thank you for all of your zone-pushing videos, especially with citrus and avocados as it has inspired me to do the same here. Now there’s always something to look at in the garden no matter what the season 🙌
It just takes one plant to change everything! My gateway plant was the Morning Glory's I planted at my 1st rental with dirt. 15 years later, I finally own my own dirt and I've happily begun my food forest journey. 🌳🍓🌲🍇🌳🍅🌲
Gonna go out and find that Owari right away! Thank you for the video!
Great to see you, hope you and your family are well and safe
I absolutely understand everything you said.
That makes me very happy 😃
Figs for the win here as well. We are blessed to have LSU just a few miles from the house, So much research on figs there.
Oh my gosh, absolutely great video and yes because of you I have fig trees and I have an orchard now because I had watched your videos for so many years.. Of course I have Ruby red grapefruits, apple trees, lemons, limes, avocados, oranges, pears, raspberries, blueberries… yeah total joy
My grandparents grew figs decades ago - you never forget the taste of a perfectly ripe fig fresh off the tree
Fantastic advice! Thank you for sharing.❤
I have an obsession with adding new fruit and nut trees as well as berry bushes. I love your channel. I’m actually growing 4 varieties of Mexican advocados in South Carolina. So far so good.
Thank you for sharing your motivation to grow fruit trees! I've learned so much from your videos over the years.
That looks amazing!😊
I'm so glad you found your niche. Awesome. I'm so happy you are safe from the bad weather. Looks like there are a few more on the way. I'll be praying 4 U. I've learned so much from you. Fantastic teacher as well as gardener. Dale is the best baby. I have a 5.5lb YorkiePoo who loves going to Lowe's, Walmart garden center & taking Sunday rides. God bless you & yours. ❤
Thank you for this fantastic video. You channel has indeed been an inspiration to me and this past winter I planted my first ever fig, persimmon, and citrus tree (Bearss Lime). It has brought such a smile to my face seeing over 30 figs take shape and start to riper on the tree, at a time of year when I would otherwise bemoan the shortening daylight hours. I hope that more people see your passion for gardening and decide to undertake the challenge and see all of it's benefits. I'm so glad that I found the gardening community on RUclips.
Great video. I’ve been messing around with figs for years up in New Bern but your videos on citrus sparked an interest in that as well. I now have 6 in-ground citrus trees going on my 3rd winter with a few of them. They’ve been a real joy and, as you say, something to look forward to in the winter. I’ve also planted 5 persimmons this year. Looking forward to seeing them grow and produce fruit. Thanks for your videos, they have been an inspiration to me.
Love this video. I'm so happy that you found your joy.
I appreciate it. I hope it can inspire others.
Thanks for your honesty!!!
I never even knew much of anything about fig trees before watching and listening to you. Now somehow I have 8 fig trees(your top 10 video has helped me immensely)! Can’t wait to get some figs next year and thank you for helping me find a new hobby :)
This video is definitely in the top three you have ever made. Only lately have I started noticing the literary element to your talks. Like most people I've never thought I could grow these fruit trees. At one time we were zone 6A and through the decades we've moved to 7B. Going to try a fig or persimmon. I can grow it in containers beside the pool and bring it in if it gets too cool to a room with a wall of glass. It would be nice if people had your passion about anything!
I knew you grew all these trees, but I really enjoyed the presentation in this video. We have one Fuyu Persimmon ripening on tree (2nd year) right now!
Very well said!
To be honest, I always thought that you had grown up in agriculture and maybe even studied it. The way you talk about things, using the technical terms, getting the horticultural aspects correctly gave me that impression. So total kudos to your tutelage and knowledge in this area. I can see that you have put an effort into learning. I love your set up too, it's beautiful.
I also suffer from MDD, GAD, and C-PTSD. Getting back into gardening/horticulture after all of these years (about 25 years) has really helped me mentally. I am disabled and it's difficult to build any garden, but I have tried to over the last two years. All from a never gardened backyard. It's been very difficult for me. I also don't have the funds to build how I want to, so I have to take short cuts. Because bending is painful, I built tables out of pallets and put my containers on them. I use weed block anywhere I want to put a table so I do not have to worry about mowing. I am still working on placing wires all over the area so I can use shade cloth, make my own little greenhouse with plastic, and make a 'desert' area for my plants that prefer less water. (Florida tries to drown everything a couple times a year.) But the hardest part has been going from my zone 5 (in Nebraska's forgiving fertile soil) that I knew how to garden everything, to zone 9 in sand. I do plant some things in the ground, but it's a bit of a pain in the butt. But I am working on it. I'm going to conquer this! Every year is like a college football team. You have to work hard and you have to adjust your methods and how you plan on working it with what you got.
My plan this year worked fantastically until recently when we got some winds. Some of the tree limbs I was using for trellises snapped under the weight of my fruiting tomatoes! So for the last two days I've been repairing it and I'll have to invest in some decent poles of some sort for the next year. (Or fatter limbs LOL) Thank you for your information and positive attitude. I know it can be hard to put on a happy face sometimes. I fill my winters with plans for the next year and building! I'm sure you do too. When you get down, think of all the help you are doing for someone like me. You are appreciated!
I love your story.
I ❤your videos.
This year my landlord would not let me plant a garden, so I have a few things in pots. All I crave is a yard of my own to grow in. Do you grow paw-paw? I love it. And a fig tree is my dreams!
@themillennialgardener, thank you for making many people find their purpose through your videos. They are becoming encyclopedias of knowledge for people who have passion for gardening but no dependable resources to follow up on the passion. Your highly researched, detail oriented videos make us powerful knowing the in and out of things and even being able to articulate them to others. I cannot believe myself that i learned so much about citrus from your videos that I confidenly talk about grafted vs rootstock and if its trifoliate etc. never thought i could get so technical about it. Thanks so much! I planted owari, browns select, pineapple guava on ground in zone 8a (cumming, ga) in august this year and looking forward to re-watch your videos on cold protection and apply them. Thanks so much for inspiring us and being there. I rewatch your videos multiple times to sink up all the knowledge you are imparting here. Majorly regarding fruit trees!
The pain you went through brought to the world the millennial gardener. I have no idea what i would have been doing in my garden if it were not for you keeping our spirits high all through the year in the garden!!!❤
I’m growing wonderful pomegranate and meyer lemons in my backyard in 7a. I love to push my zone :)
A Meyer in 7a is pretty impressive. I'll be curious to hear how it does for you long-term. They are beautiful plants. Just watch the thorns!
@@TheMillennialGardener the thorns are for real! My container Meyer lemon has much smaller thorns than the in ground one. But the plant is also much smaller. This is my 4th year with it. All I do is put 4.5 poly greenhouse panels around it for winter. I tape them into a rectangular box with a lid that opens to vent. Works like a charm. I also put a portable greenhouse like that over my pomegranate tree, bc technically it shouldn’t be uncovered past zone 8
Great video, thank you. I've been building a food forest here in FL10A for the past several years, I hear you on the therapy aspect it can provide. It has had the same effect on myself as a person. I just recently started to add fruit trees to the mix, several were mentioned here in this video. Was nice to see I'm on the right path.
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I’m trying to create a small corner of my homeland in PA and I source all northern varieties of fruits and berries I grew up with while living in Ukraine and partly in Caucasus Mountains in Georgia - sweet tart cherries, persimmons, haskaps, serviceberries, sea buckthorns, lingonberries, bilberries, alpine strawberries, etc. it’s an urge that’s impossible to ignore:)
Btw to heal your winter sickness with its freezes and snow you should try ice skating and skiing/snowboarding and in no time you’ll be chasing winter all over the world 😁
And thank you for unlocking my hidden love for figs - many years ago in Georgia I saw a few huge green fig fruits in a random garden, an owner was outside and suggested me to take them all because it wasn’t the main crop and they didn’t care for it - omg, what did I try then… that was out of this world - fresh juicy tender flavorful magic, nothing like overly sweet heavy and dry fruits we had in the stores. I didn’t even know it was breba crop, I knew no cultivars, I kept this secret to myself because I was sure no one would understand my enthusiasm 😅 I’m gathering my fig collection now - I study all cold hardy short season rain and humidity resistant varieties of figs, I have no space left and I grow them all in containers 😅
And this is you who triggered my exploration of fig trees here in the US 🤗
You should try growing moringa trees. Grow them like bushes, maybe something to grow in your next property. They grow really fast, you harvest the leaves for teas or dried, ground up for added vitamins in your drinks. They can’t handle frost so harvesting all the leaves before first frost is important. This tree is important for me because we are trying to grow foods that cover all our nutritional needs.
Love it!!
Thank you so much for sharing!
I am half italian, and i can relate 100%...i was in VT, with SAD...NOW, im down in jax FL, meyer lemon and duncan grapefruit were my first successes, then mulberry, prickly pear, HONEYBELL...now starting figs, sugarplum, valencia, murcott tang, one avocado, and muscodines! Great vid, will start looking around for a persimmon...I am basically finished, no more space, lol!!
FUJU. Supposed to be big and sweet. Cold hardy. Self-fertile. Highly recommended by someone here on YT. Can’t recall who though. I found one last spring. Can’t wait.
Thank you Anthony. You have encouraged me to try the myer lemon tree in zone 8 GA. Thinking about the cara cara.
Why do I feel as though I should have just left you alone with your figs? 😂
This was a very inspiring video. Got my husband onboard with moving our trailers to the north side of the house so we can plant citrus on the southern side. I am SO EXCITED!!! And I'm in a 7b... so this is going to be interesting!
Satsumas like Owari and Brown's Select grow very well in 8a with a little protection. I think you can have success growing Brown's Select, which is on the earlier side. A kumquat could also do pretty well. They're very tough plants. Really hardy citrus like Yuzu are *definitely* growable in 7b.
@@TheMillennialGardener Thank you for the tips! Now I have research to do on the "when to plant" side of the equation.
@@jeas4980Probably best in the spring, April or May. Gives it maximum time to get established before the winter. You said zone 7b, what kind of zone 7b? More southern or northern? Just curious 😊
I now have hope of life
Great vid and inspiration to try new things!
I live just outside Philadelphia like you did, the winters here can be very cold, cloudy, and dark. I have 3 citrus trees I keep in my garage keeps me going. I wish I could get my brown’s select in the ground
Figs and persimmons are my favorite also. Citrus would be a lot of trouble to grow here. I’m still waiting for my pawpaw and feijoa to produce. My pawpaws had blooms for the first time this year and a tornado broke all my 6’ to 8’ tall trees. They have to start over from ground up. I’ll never plant pawpaw again here. It’s too hot and dry in my Texas sand and rock. I water them more than anything I have and they still struggle with scorched leaves. We’re still in the 90s and I’m a just 30 minute drive from Oklahoma so it’s not south Texas.
Thanks for the videos!
I discovered in spring last year after moving to this rural central Louisiana lot that there was no topsoil. Gravel and hard red clay are under the grass. So with physical problems from spinal injuries & a brain injury with chronic pain I`ve had to haul in forest debris and sandy dirt from a wash nearby with my garden wagon and add all my grass clippings and cardboard to create soil. I almost gave up because to have a garden or even dig a hole here seemed impossible.
To plant a fig tree requires hundreds of pounds of material from the forest. I now have 6 fig trees in the ground & 4 Dwarf Everbearing Mulberry plus 2 of a plant I saw on your channel...Pineapple Guava. Each day/night I set a goal to haul a little bit more dirt, rotting wood or leaves and if I can`t because of weather I study and make plans and look for more ideas.
glad you 'fig"gured it out, lol.
Suggestion: add loquat trees to your garden. They bloom in the winter; beautiful clusters of little white flowers. I grow them for the fruits and for hummingbirds. They don’t need to migrate (our winter is mild; warmer than your location). The food is there ready for them and they can rest in the tree in the same time.
Loquat leaves are a kind of herbs in Chinese Traditional Medicine.
Thank u for your information
You're welcome!
Thanks for sharing, I am learning the same thing. I'm trying to do an indoor salad bar lol, zone 5/6 in Utah, I have a spare room and I'm going to try some romaine, cucumbers, dwarf maters, snap peas, radish, cucumbers, I must admit this is getting out of control 😂😂😂
Man, I wish I could grow avocados and citrus like you in Zone 7a NJ, maybe one day.
Kudos brother. I don't know a lot about the climate of North Carolina but I just took my daughter's up there last winter to see snow lol. We're in the Florida panhandle and I think we're in the same grow zone however it doesn't snow here. We just changed from 8b to 9a this past spring. I have figs and citrus planted. I haven't heard figs broke down the way you put it. I'm used to hearing about them as a honey, berry, or sugar fig regardless of color. They were my first fruit trees as well. Also life changing. Mulberry trees are one of my life changing trees. I grew up in Indiana and had mulberries and cherry trees in our yard growing up. The birds got most of the cherries but they couldn't ever get all the mulberries. Once I realized I could still grow them here it was on. They're my favorite. Gardening in Florida is soooo much different than Indiana it's ridiculous. My yard is sand and I have to utilize cover crops and bring in compost every year or so. So I know your plight and have learned a thing or two from your channel. But I still struggle with citrus. So assuming you get snow and still get it done is impressive. However this year has been my best year. I just have to keep the water and fertilizer coming but I get fruit. I also have what we call Japanese persimmons not Asian but the Fuyu variety. They're so good.I love persimmon pudding but it takes so many native wild persimmons to get enough pulp that Fuyu's were a game changer. Love your channel. Keep it going
Always love to hear you stories. I got a fig and it gave me quarter size figs. Can't rember the name of. Hopfully they will get bigger. It is harty to -10. But I will bring it in along with my Myer lemon and my orange and my lemon that is both yellow and pink. I live in 8a (?). Love the Dale Dog!!!!
I have an avocado pit with a stem of about a foot tall with several leaves on the end. I like a challenge so I am going to try and get this pit to grow into a bush or tree or whatever it wants to. I also started a lemon seed and have a plant about 8" tall. I made a mistake and put it out with some of the other plants because the green house was too hot and a moth or other varmint ate the leaves. I am attempting to coax it to thrive. Love your videos and they are inspiring, informational and entertaining. Thank you.
Dude, I hope you are telling truth!!! If so, I’ll have figs in the next year!!! Sooooo ready for my orchard to do what I planted it to do!!!!
i would also like to enjoy ur passion. when can we buy the new strain of fig tree u created? the one that needs no other tree to grow figs. my mother had SAD. light is ur friend. once i heard of light therapy i put 100 watt lightbulbs wherever i had lights in the house. no more SAD. i stopped saving pennies and saved my sanity instead.
You talked about pushing zones. I live near Winchester, VA (not far from WV) at about 700' elevation. I always wanted to grow a live oak as I hate how dead all the trees look in the winter. I found a cultivar of live Oaks that are native to Oklahoma. I now have two beautiful live Oaks growing hundreds of miles from the closest naturally growing Live Oaks along coastal Virginia.
Amazing!
Thank you!
You have a ton of fig trees, what do you do to preserve the fruit? You are the reason we will be planting our first fig tree this weekend! I'm excited to know how you preserve them.
Nice story
I’d love to try persimmons. I’m in PA. My yard isn’t fenced in and I’m afraid they will cause a deer problem (more than I already have). Deer don’t touch my figs. But I’ve heard that deer can actually get territorial over persimmons.
Great info.
Glad it was helpful!
That’s awesome I feel the same way when it comes to seasonal fruits. But I’m very surprised that you haven’t grown plum trees as there some outstanding tasting plums that would blow you away, try the greengage and toka plums and have you ever tried a moorpark or bleinheim apricot? Those are apparently some of the best tasting stone fruits you could grow! Give them a try my summer was amazing this year as I tasted about 10 different stone fruit varieties 😊
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I have a wild persimmon tree on the edge of my yard. They`re really good this year because we got a good rain recently and they`re ripening. I also have a large wild blackberry patch. Try growing indoors to help with your seasonal disorder. I have it too. I get so sad in fall because summer gardening with fruits, berries, cucumbers, tomatoes, melons etc is ending and I have to sit in my camper and freeze all winter and hope the severe thunderstorms don`t happen again in Louisiana.
But the storms and tornadoes always happen with cold fronts and warm Gulf air colliding over and over. I have hydro buckets ready to attempt to grow Beit Alpha cucumbers & cherry tomatoes inside this winter. LED lights provide the same heating amount as their wattage plus the light. So why not use them for part of the heating AND grow some food?
I highly recommend you find some cultivars of American persimmons, i think the fruit is much better than asian varieties. Some of your videos inspired me to try growing satsumas in Pennsylvania, I'm starting trifoliate seeds for rootstock and plan on grafting next year!
I love figs!
Thank you for the great video. Any chance you will start selling some of your fig cuttings? I would love to buy some from you!
This video is so inspiring that I now want to try to grow figs in Minnesota. That is zone 4B. Do you have any recommendations for super hardy fig trees that can withstand the harsh winters?
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Great video. All your videos are good, very informative. I’m Italian born and raised live in Canada now but all the fruit tree you talk about with exception of avocados are dear to me. I remember as a kid picking persimmons and figs from trees. Pomegranates and prickly pears as well. Try growing those as well. 🇨🇦🇮🇹
Thanks for sharing. Your love for figs made me buy a tree! I have never even had fresh fig before. I bought one at the market to taste, and i thought it was good. I'm in zone 6a, so I went for Chicago hardy for my first try. Watched your fig Playlist. I saw it was not high on your tasty scale, but, I wanted the best chance to get one established. I ordered it, and this "tree" i received is about the size of a #2 pencil, with one leaf 😂😂😂😂. I put it in a 2 gallon pot. And I will see what happens. Do you suggest that I put it in the garage this first winter or let it stay out? I never anticipated it would be so tiny. Now, I'm lost on start to do with it. Also your description of persimmon simultaneously repulsed and intrigue me😮. Maybe my next "Anthony made me do it"
My job has 15 very mature fig trees!the fight to collect ripened fruit is intense 😂😂😂😂
Where do you work? Heaven? It sounds like it 😂
Thanks for these informative and inspirational videos. We're up in Northern California-Zone 9. Been trying to grow a dwarf Meyer Lemon for 3 years, but still no luck.Will not bear fruit yet. In process of transferring to a bigger pot. Any suggestions? Also, we live in farm country - lots of raccoons and possum. Any tricks on keeping them away from fruit trees like figs, etc., once we plant those too?
😂😂 so the only way to get you to shut your gob is to put a fig in it! No wonder your wife lets you grow them!😂 my grandpa used to peg branches to the soil and let them root, dig them up, hey presto, new tree. Good job on the nearly 1 million btw. It is awesome.😊
Did you know you can harvest avocado oil? I saw a video on X. Warm the whole avocado (with peel) over an open flame, turning to heat all sides. Do not cook. (I assume this releases the oil) Cut the avocado in half, remove seed, scoop meat into a sieve over a bowl. Then mash the meat....out comes the clear oil. Eat the meat or make guacamole! I haven't tried it since I just planted my avocados!
I really want to grow figs. Especially the kind that taste like strawberry. I live in Northwest Alabama zone 7b/8a. You are the fig expert! What are the best ones for my area? I enjoy your videos and I also watch Brittany's channel. Thanks!
You're lucky. My neighbor has a massive fig tree. I see tons of fruit each year and the damn squirrels steal most of them. The sad part is the critters take a couple of bites and the rest falls to the ground. Those tree rats have started to dig up my garden. They're going to meet Mr. Pellet soon.
Shake n Bake squirrel is Amazing!
I think you can beter get middle eastern perimons because they also hardy against cold but have bigger orange color fruits
The Avocado Tree you planted in Florida is probably a mistake especially within 100' feet of your other saplings. I have a such a giant avocado tree and this guy drops BIG green hand grenades All Year. It also suddenly drops huge limbs that can crush a car usually during the Hot Dry Summer months. Consider opting for a Dwarf Avocado Tree.
im assuming its a better idea to grow grafted figs than from seed?
and persimmons too
pawpaw! what happened to those you planted?
Can fig cuttings in pots survive in an unheated greenhouse if they are wrapped in frost cloth for winter? Zone 8a NC Piedmont. Thanks
Where can I get some fig tree cuttings? I’d also love to grow a big variety of fruit trees. Im in North Carolina as well.
I have a video dedicated to that here: ruclips.net/video/bpZq5Dk2WWM/видео.htmlsi=3a_QCwXI7Ib4L3VF
My persimmons have been very susceptible to late frost damage.
How do you keep squirrels from eating all of your ripe figs?
Where do you purchase your persimmon, fig and avocado trees?
See this video: ruclips.net/video/xFf-m-Q1438/видео.htmlsi=O5Wb5RnB30NeRHxc&t=834
Do you have a video to prune a lemon tree dwarf?