Tree’s look fantastic. Love the background too. I’ve found when the days are getting shorter the branches will harden off. By the second week of October , usually.😊

Hi Chris, great tour of your figs! I really appreciate your comments on varieties to keep or cull. You gave rave review on one of your trees, you called it "The Beast" but I didn't catch the name. Can you recall? Sure hope I already have it, it sounded great! Thanks for your much-needed Local Knowledge of fig varieties that work in PNW!

Do you hold off on watering them just before they ripen also?

Thumbnail is a picture of a very young Sasha and Jake. Jake was my boy and I miss him every day. 😢

I was hoping you'd show me how to graft.. Not a fan of Paw Paws.. those grow wild here but nobody eats them.. to me it's a texture thing. And the really short shelf life, I swear, you can pick one today and by morning it will just be so over ripe it's kinda gross.. it's probably like a novelty there... But the grafts look nicely done, that's what I want to learn... Here you have to have more than one if you want fruit.. and I think you have to plant them close together.. people that have 2 and place them on opposite sides of the property don't get fruit every year either.. but I'm no expert, I don't even eat them..

My Desert King just started, picked my first 8/8. Elevation about 750' in Portland - it looks like your place is high, too. Wonder why yours came on so much earlier. Did you say that your Desert King had a breba, and I missed it? The only Breba I've had in abundance is from Negroni in a pot in a little solarium. Got a few Brown Turkeys one year, otherwise, my expectations are low. Glad for the dry weather, if it rains, my figs get ruined by fruit flies. Looking good for the Olympia in the next few days.

Appreciate your commitment to this long-term experiment! Thanks for continuing to share updates, looking forward to learning which varieties have the best breba in future years

That sage is really pretty, I've never seen it before..

Thumbnail is a Breba called I376. (Italian 376)

Great results with those grafts, Chris! Pawpaws are one of those fruits I’m excited to try growing here. I already have 2 in-ground which I grafted and planted last year and I have a bunch more that I’ve managed to graft as well. Those are in pots at the moment as I have limited space to plant in-ground.

It looked like a very tasty fig! Not one I’m familiar with.

Great grafting success Chris! Strangely, my PA Golden is quite self fertile. It has 70 fruit that will be ripening in a few weeks. I only plan to eat at most 10-15 though out of concern about the neurotoxicity of annonacin. Do you have any reservations about eating pawpaws?

Thanks! Do you remove the main crop figs that don't ripen?

I have some zaffiro cuttings in the mail right now because I simply couldn't resist the unique descriptions. Seeing that this is a breba crop showing such promise, I'm wondering how you'd compare the two. Is it worth growing both in our PNW climate?

nice! do you sell them or allow for a U-pick?

Hello Mr. Figs, I recently found your channel and your place and orchard are absolutely beautiful. I live in Eugene and have a 2-3yr old fig I inherited when I bought my house. Its got a few young fruits on it for the first time I was curious if there was a means that I could send you some photos of it and illicit some pruning advice? I’ve kind of bounced around from channel to channel and can’t seem to find a straight answer. Let me know what you think, thank you! - Joe in Eugene

Are you still having success with it in ground? I'm in 6b and thinking about putting the LSU Tiger in ground

Chris, Do you have any trees to sell.... local pickup?

Vincenzo is like my white whale, eveytime I get close to getting a cutting, the trade falls through. It's been at the top of my list for quite some time, fun fact, you posted this on my bday 😊

Is the tree cold hardy in Willamette Valley area? Have you had any die-back in your area? What is the lowest temperature that it tolerates for you without any die-back?

Those figs look great Chris! it's not a variety I've come across over here unless it goes by another name as well.

I've been following you, or stalking you since most of those trees were waking up on your deck.. you have to do more tasting videos.. the varieties you have are hard to get in rural Ga.. we have such a small fig community, that most haven't even heard of some of your varieties.. please do more tasting videos.. someone appreciates it 🙏🙏🙏. I put 5 in ground and I had to fence mine like you.. I can't tell you how grateful I am for that tip.. I live in 5 acres, In the country, key word Country.. my property adjoins hundreds of other acres, there's NO way I can fence that in. Until watching you, , giving every tree it's own lil fence never dawned on me.. and it's easier than it looks, it comes in a roll.. just measure it out, clit it and and it rolls itself into shape.

That looks awesome..

Dang those look sooooo good!

Fantastic update. Beautiful fig and the flavor profile seems more appealing than DK.

I said 2023 - oops 2024 - darn one take videos 😁

Wow Chris, that's the biggest Desert King I've Ever seen!! I would say "grab me a cutting" but, San Pedro types don't do well here. In fact brebas don't do well here.. but, you told me, their climate specific.. it will never do that well here.. but, how COOL is that just to walk by ... Incredible...

This fig is nothing more than Calderona from the Pons collection.

Beautiful figs! I love the striping on them. I have a Panache, which hasn't produced yet, but hopefully someday 🤞

BEAUTIFUL!!! 😍

OMG, look at the growth in them.. especially my favs. They look so good. If the deer eat my Brown Sugar Crunch I'm gonna cry.. I've been keeping up with that tree since it was little..

I'm starting to think ours is a DK now too. Just picked our first five this morning, and oh man were they delicious. And now I dont think they're even 100% ripe. There was still a bit of darker green around some them, but they were nice and soft, and the osteole was turning colors. And right around our oldest son's birthday, what a easy way to know when we can expect figs here 😂

That's impressive. My DK brebas are still hard (same climate)

That's awesome! If I ever get to buy some land in the UK, I hope to plant some breba producers, let them get huge, and harvest with a ladder.

Wow, beautiful tree! Those DK figs looked incredibly tasty!

I also have a 8 yr old brown turkey fig that’s still 3 ft tall. 🤷🏼‍♀️. I’m an avid gardener. And my figs keep stumping me. They must need more attention than my frost peaches, apples, pears.

Sounds like I need to water more based of your reply to other comments. Just ordered a bloom booster fertilizer today. The problem is the tree is growing in my established apple orchard which I don’t need to water in the summers. So maybe it needs a bit more special treatment than the apples.

Do you have any desert king figs? I’m still trying to get my 7 yr old tree to give me fruit without falling off. Zone 8b on Oregon coast 😊

Wow everyone needs a dk tree like that

I love your updates! Thanks. The albino spider is a type of crab spider.

Just got our first breba off our tree a couple days ago! We are about 20 miles from Salem, not sure what variety we have though. Our neighbors gave us the tree, but didn't have a tag to ID it. Very yummy though! Bright green skin, pink flesh inside. Looks kind of like your DK, but ours has gotten ridiculously bushy this year, despite my aggressive pruning in March. Do you pinch off the tops on yours to help the fruit ripen before our cold and rainy weather rolls in?

We get the leaf rust pretty bad in Louisiana. I put a lot of trees in the ground this year so I hope we don`t get another freeze down to zero with 40 mph winds and below freezing temperatures for a week. But this is becoming more and more common in recent years. I covered my Brown Turkey tree when it got down to about 6 degrees last winter but the tips of the branches were damaged. I`ll be using tarps and 200w mini heaters this winter if I have to. Maybe my new Celeste trees can take the cold? I left all the very low branches on my big Brown Turkey tree and its clone and the Dwarf Mulberries and I can pin them flat against the ground and bury them and cover with leaves and pine straw. I`m getting cuttings from them all to bring inside under lights. I`ve discovered that if you plant a fully leafed-out thriving fig tree cutting in early spring that has been growing under a light that it will thrive in the ground and produce fruits the 1st year.

I lost half of my tiny pea-sized green figs in Louisiana. I couldn`t figure out what was doing it but it kept happening. Then I opened the door and there were 20 birds in my biggest tree WAITING on the figs to ripen and nibbling on every little nub. I wrapped it in a 10 by 25 fine mesh row covering for gardens and ordered another one. I`m buying an automatic propane cannon before next year.

Very exciting, Chris! Your DK tree is loaded! My 2 Brown Turkey breba haven't started to ripen yet, I believe they typically ripen in August here in the UK. I forgot to water one of my potted DK trees and it's dropped all its leaves 😬. No fruit on it yet as it's still a young tree, I'm hoping it might next year 🤞. I'm also hoping I can get some LDA main crop in the greenhouse this year 🤞

nice fig

Great tour of brebas. Interesting, my DK is beginning to ripen here in South UK, despite a much cooler summer (temps rarely above 20C/70F-ish).

Thumbnail is from a tasting I did of the main crop in 2023. The main crop had a delicious peach flavor. 🤯

Nice looking trees. They are loaded!

Fig season!!!

How often you watering them?