Interested to see if that peach is alive this spring. I bought 4 bare roots from them in March 2024. Planted them when still dormant. They all looked great in the fall. Got for $12 each when on sale. Can't beat that price if they actually grow.

Nice what does the wax do on the ends

Looks like you caught the fig sickness! You're a brave man using only paint labels on your figs 😉. When I've done that, invariably I"ll forget to check it every now and then. After a few rainy weeks, my paint is gone. Now I only use metal plant tags. So far so good.

I heard about this evert a few days ago. So, I did a google search & YOUR video showed up! Thank you! Hopefully, I can get there this year.

I use green flagging tape to tie off my bags and it doubles as a label. Ive been looking for a strawberry type fig. Where did you get yours? Great video. Thank you. 😀🌱🐢

What medium are you using in the 1 gallon pots when you up pot the figs from the cups ?

really enjoy these informational videos. These and the muscadines.

Double click equals, over torqued.

This video just popped up on my feed...don't know why it took so long?? But good to see where most of my vines and trees come from. Hard to believe they run their operation out of that modest size building.

I saw a little cameo from the stunt double 😅. That big limb proved to be tough. Just curious, why didn’t you pull it with the tractor? Hope y’all have a great year!

ok you need to find you a go-cart frame with wheel an with or without motor. Mount it to the body then hanging it with some small chain and hooks.😀 A good little find for the shop

misleading. this is changing the bulb, not the entire 'headlight'

Wow, that was a large production, great job. God bless!

Not a brown person in sight....how disappointing 😑

It was a great time for our family!

The grafted trees are doing great. I love the leaves on blueberries too in the fall. Can’t wait to see how the camping area turns out. Looks like y’all have been busy buddy.

This was really awesome! Thank you so much for coming and for sharing this with others. Just one tiny correction... Ooltewah Nursery is actually the venue. They are super gracious to allow all of us crazy fig people to invade their property and I thank them for that. We are looking forward to the next one on Sept. 13th, 2025, so mark your calendar.

Is Fry similar in taste to Early Fry and Late Fry or is it worth planting a Fry. I have Both Early and Late Fry and I also have a Hall Carlos and Scuppernong in the Bronze.

Thank you for making this video, what was the variety of the last one that you ate?

what a great presentation thank you so much

Figs are so important to history in Chattanooga. I got an education about figs, and the importance of fig trees in North Chatt from Pete Baubel, the urban garden guy.

Great video.I have 40 vines 9 Varieties. I grew up on black muscadines. My neighbor gave me a 1 yr old vine that was supposed to be a Late Fry from his vineyard. I planted the vine and this year it produced a ton of muscadines. The only problem is that it is a self fertile Black muscadine.🙂 Tight bunched dry scar with a strong sweet traditional muscadine flavor and is the earliest ripening muscadine i have ever seen. I was eating muscadines before the end of July. Would have any Idea what this vine could be? What is the earliest self fertile black muscadine that you know of?

This is awesome! I had no idea fig communities are so well represented throughout the country. I just joined mine in Maryland (DMV) this year and everyone is so passionate yet approachable.

I just got 5 muscadines from Ison's sent here to East Texas, I'm excited!

Northland is a half-high Northern Highbush variety. Patriot is an early Northern Highbush. Both grow best with extend3d frozen winters.

They are hard to buy which is my biggest blocker. If you need to wait years for ripening you want to plant right.

Pawpaw tastes wonderful. My wife made pawpaw bread.

Grew up in Indiana, had them growing in the woods

It's so good for you. I wonder if o can grow them in Oklahoma? Where oh where can i find these?

Native papaw trees grow wild all over my western Kentucky property, but I'm not a fan of the taste and consistency of the fruit. But then again lots of people like wild native persimmons. Not a fan of those either.

You can see why people went nuts over my pawpaw seedlings at the '23 event!! We've been lucky to buy some cultivar fruit from Zen the past 3 years in combination with our wild foraging to scratch the itch! We look forward to them every year and are excited to have raised 4-5 seedlings large enough to graft now. There are many varying taste ranges and textures we've experienced already so keep trying more varieties!

It was good of Zen to bring those.

You were not very clear about where those fuel return lines go

How much water does this tree get is it on an irrigation system? Thanks!

Yellow Tennessee Scuppernongs..... I have only one fruit I love! Muscadine grape, scuppernongs in particular. No fruit on Earth I've ever had even comes close in flavor. My moms father would take me picking berrys alot, yes lots of type. The varietal of purple muscadine that's yellow grows all over Tennessee valleys wild. Funny parties even with kudzu muscadines are still there. Properly was important after American chestnut was eliminated....

Matt & Shane podcast. Shanes Darlene grapes were the pick of the litter this year!

ya your next fig get together you should take them a few muscadines. Always like watching y'alls two videos. Keep it up

Awesome

Those are two happy fellas

Thanks

Wish I could have made it. Was going to try to go this year to learn some more things about dogs. Just started really getting into figs this year in the Upstate of SC

I liked your video, and I like Isons Nursery. If you are going to buy from a nursery it's one of the better ones. I added Black Ruby this year to my orchard in Statesboro, GA, borderline Hardiness Zone 8b / 9a. I graft my own fruit trees. If a person is going to grow more than one or two fruit trees, I recommend grafting your own. First it's a heck of a lot cheeper than buying nursery material. Second, at least with plums, you have the option of using better rootstocks for the deep south than the peach rootstock nurseries use. For plums I now exclusively use chickasaw plum (Prunus angustifolia) cultivars (not wild-type) for rootstock. Chickasaw cultivars are just as resistant to pests as the wild type but make much bigger trees and therefore make a large trunk and root system capable of supporting a 15 to 20 ft Asian type plum cultivar. The second advantage to chickasaw rootstock over peach is that an Asian type plum grafted onto chickasaw has the potential to live 60 years or more. A peach rootstock usually starts declining at 10 years and gives up the ghost at about 15 years. Your tree will live a lot longer if you gradually build up the soil around it by spreading a light potting soil around the base of the trunk every year until the graft is covered. The scion will root as the peach rootstock begins to decline from old age. Your tree will live much longer and be much healthier on its own root than on that peach rootstock.

Still looking for the picoAg soy soap that he was using. No luck yet. I wonder if any soy soap will work

I can't quite make out what the host is saying about soap application and ambrosia beetle?

This was a super experience. Thankful we could learn so much.

Job well done. I missed the fig tour this year because I came late.

It was good to meet you Matt.

6:33 Regarding the question "why attend events like FIg A Rama" - for me this was my first time attending, and I also attended the Frolic event in Chattanooga. I had some idea of what to expect from watching last year's videos, and my main purpose was to meet like-minded growers who share the same passion as me, and hopefully make some new friends (which I did). What an amazing community! The second reason was to share knowledge - both giving and receiving. Additionally, I wanted to see and learn about how an orchard is laid out - as I aspire to someday acquire a sizable farm to have my own orchard. The third reason (since I am fairly new to fig growing) was getting to taste different varieties - wow, the flavors! The bonus of course was getting to swap fig trees, and take home a few new varieties - very cool! The last part was a surprise bonus tour of a greenhouse to end the day. It was nice meeting you Matt, and thank you very much for capturing this entire event!

I wonder what kind of soy soap he used. I need to see what all it will control. I've planted 4 figs this year. Two turkeys, desert king and an unknown. Thanks for sharing.