Building A Fig Tree Fruit Source

[@Anamericanhomestead]

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[@rebelstudio2720]

I have one. I only got to have one to eat from it a year ago.

[@rebelstudio2720]

Mine is 3 years old.

[@beadsapp808]

I love all your videos. They have helped me out so very much. I now have 8 figs trees but they just don't produce the way we would like. So thank you for the info I will try it out. I now have 80 fruit trees and tons and tons of Blackberries thanks to your other videos... It is so so nice to have people out there willing to share good info to help others.. think you so very much and God bless you and your family.. Stay awesome

[@southtexassue6666]

I have grown awesome figs down here on the Gulf coast ! They’re so delicious canned whole in a light syrup, with a lemon slice in the top of the jar. Wonderful breakfast over cottage cheese or mashed up on a bagel with cream cheese! Shalom brother .

[@williamvillar2519]

I love figs as well and so does my grandson, which is why I began planting fruit trees and shrubs, vines, etc in the first place. My goal now is to have at least one of every fig I can find and plant. Propagating them from cuttings is super easy and how I got my first fig trees, from cuttings of an over 50 year old fig tree that belonged to my wife's grandparents.

[@farleyschmackums]

I’ve been propagating figs from cuttings for many years. All different varieties, and what I found is, when propagated from cuttings, the more robust a cutting the quicker it grows into a substantially sizable tree. This past March, I put several cuttings in the ground. Literally just hammered them into the ground in March and let them fend for themselves. No watering, no care at all lol. One of those cuttings grew into a tree of 5 foot tall, multi branched and had figs on it by summertime! That cutting in particular was about 14 inches long and an inch and a half diameter. Figs are great fruit trees!

[@thatguychris5654]

This is my first year having a fig tree. Planted the 6 inch twig like I do all my fruit trees: - Biochar and terracotta balls in bottom of hole with splash of "yellow nitrogen water" - Then a small layer of finished compost. - I plant the tree into that but about 1 inch above grade. - Cover a 3 foot radius circle around tree with 2 inches of leaf mold and a tad of sponge wood. - Top of with another inch or so of fresh leaf litter as a mulch. This creates the fungus rich soil trees need for a robust root system. Seemed to work on the fig planted this spring. Grew to 6 foot, 4 stalks coming out of base, and desperately trying to fruit before the first frost (soon) with loaded down branches. Hope this variety is as hardy as they claim 🤞

[@wordwalkermomma4]

I divided the roots and shared with daughters, and YES, they put on the fastest growth... but also, small cuttings dipped in rooting hormone will sprout roots quickly, for gifts, or if you want an orchard full.😁

[@homesteadgamer1257]

Where I live, there are a few full-sized fig trees from the previous owners. Last year, I was able to get enough to dehydrate I think 4 or 5 quarts. I've used some for my rabbits as snacks during the winter or once when we couldn't get feed from the feed store. I need to go harvest more, actually. Figs are one of my favorite foods.

[@popuphomesteadlivingoffgri8606]

I have been a gardener for a long time but I have not mastered figs yet, I found out this year that they die to the ground each winter but that's okay. I'm going to try again. Nice humanure setup, it give me ideas for ours. Great video

[@JSGenesisDesigns]

i designed and built an aquaponics system , grew a garden indoors in mn all winter with it and raised tilapia with it, symbiotic system, when i cleaned the filters out i would save buckets of the fish dung water, dried it out and used it in the outdoor plants, phenomenal fertilizer

[@wildervibes]

Id love to see your system! I’m into aquaponics as well. I’m definitely an amateur but have a decent system going!

[@thedailybreadhomestead]

That fish emulsion is awesome stuff. When I used it on my last garden I had tomato plants that were over 10 feet tall and loaded with fruit. My okra grew to over 8 feet tall and were also loaded. Peppers loved it also. I did the same. I just poured about a half cup in a 5 gallon bucket and filled it with water and gave all the plants a drink about every two weeks. You can get it in a quart or by the gallon at your local big box hardware store. Thanks Zack.

[@trishapomeroy9251]

I'm pretty sure it's too cold here for figs, BUT I can say, I also use that fish fertilizer, and it is fabulous. VERY stinky, but effective. Also, I really like your humanure compost bin set up. Very nice and tidy.

[@dansmith3507]

They do well in pots. They stay smaller but you get quite a few figs from a potted fig. Cut it back and place it inside for the winter and it should do fine

[@trishapomeroy9251]

@@dansmith3507 very cool! I'll have to look into that. Thanks!

[@JAKE-yf9gl]

How often do you fertilize with the fish fertilize in your garden?

[@DebraGorsline]

Lol! I just had to dig one out because it was growing so fast and lifting the fence with its root system. I kept cutting it back and in one year it grew from 5' to 20'. It was a brown turkey fig. I loved that tree. It was only in the ground for 6 years. It was the size of a pencil when I planted it. Dang small back yard!

[@homesteadgamer1257]

Oh no! Were you able to move it away from your fence so you could keep it?

[@Anamericanhomestead]

Yeah, you could have replanted all those pieces you cut out and they would have taken off just fine.

[@DebraGorsline]

@@homesteadgamer1257 Unfortunately the roots don't grow in a ball. They were growing a span of about 20'. The diameter of some of the roots were about 6'. We had to use a chainsaw to cut them out. Now I have one growing in a pot.

[@DebraGorsline]

@@Anamericanhomestead Agreed. After watching the rapid growth, I decided to grow one in a large planter instead. They do propagate unintentionally. I discovered this when I composed the pieces. LOL. My back yard if full of other noninvasive trees like columnar apples and other dwarf fruit and bushes. The back garden is only about 2,000 square feet.

[@homesteadgamer1257]

@@DebraGorsline Oh that's so sad. I hope the one you have in a pot grows well and gives you lots of fruit. They're such pretty trees, too.

[@4chomestead680]

Fish fertilizer is my favorite fertilizer!! I use that on my garden every three weeks. It makes healthy plants which are pest resistant. I finally have rabbits again just for feeding dogs and poop for the garden. I am going to try propagating some figs this year. You’ve inspired me! Thanks Zac!

[@petethesquatchie]

Zac! Great minds think alike! Love my figs and have been trying to decide on direction for propagation. Was gonna try the air layering first and then cut root off main tree. I've bought the fish food before but never thought to use on figs and I think I have a bottle somewhere. My figs are the following and have 2 to 4 of each. Black mission, Brown turkey, Tiger, Pete's honey & Desert kings. I'm excited now!!

[@bkdoerge9039]

As far as propagating figs , have you tried layering ? It easier and faster than cuttings but you don't 'shock' the main plant. Just another method that I have found to be very effective without having to worry about keeping cuttings watered or your mother plant going into shock. Love the show !! You offer an encyclopedia of knowledge easy for all to understand. Keep up the great work !!! God bless❤

[@DanlowMusic]

I watched some Air Layering videos recently. I am going to do that with my Fuji Apple tree. I need to take 4 limbs off, I might as well do the chili dog method and grow 4 new ones.

[@elizabethloger1326]

Bunny Honey definitely elevated my garden. Ok I will look at root ball prop. Ive been just rooting cuttings but, yea the figs usually are eaten before I get them inside😏 Thank you

[@markvandeusen438]

I beleive you're correct. Rabbit manure is the best fertilizer.

[@FinicumHardy]

I’m probably an hour east of you and all our figs die back to the ground every year, last year all our figs were ruined by an early frost before they were ripe, hopefully this year we will have harvest before the winter starts

[@DebraGorsline]

You must be in 6b. Sorry about your figs.

[@maryjane-vx4dd]

​@@DebraGorslineI'm in zone 5b. I planted a Chicago fig in my high tunnel. Hope it will produce

[@FinicumHardy]

@@DebraGorsline we're supposed to be 7b here

[@kellyd4221]

Thanks Zack! I pull suckers from my figs every year and give the trees(once I see they made it) to neighbors. I never thought about canning figs. GREAT IDEA! I get many! I use dead fish 😊

[@MynewTennesseeHome]

I bought a Mary Lane fig last fall. I planted it out this spring and just today found my first fig. I'm trying laying over and weighing down a couple long branches to see if they'll root. We'll see how hardy it is next spring.

[@osiyopeaceosiyopeace4807]

You can also take a cutting from any fig tree and sit it in a windowsill. I cut mine during the fall and let it sit in the windowsill over the winter in rain water and I planted it it the spring and fertilize it and by the second year you have a beautiful fig tree!

[@shermdog6969]

I have one fig tree. It absolutely covered in figs and is only 5ft. But what i do once a week during the summer is piss on it first thing in the morning then water it. We're in NM and have to water every day but boy does it put on figs.

[@johnfessenden3771]

I have multiple fruit trees , berries, and more… my fig produces!

[@Thefightfortruth]

I have a fig in a pot and bring it in the garage in winter. I would love to plant in the ground, but I am afraid to lose it in the winter here in S. Dakota.

[@FosterFarmsOk]

our brown turkey has been making some great ones this year. It and my others got burned to the ground this past winter but recovered nicely.

[@mrsp7793]

Bought my first fig this year (mid summer). I'm in Ohio so going to wait to put it in the ground in the spring so I can get it bigger.

[@SdW.8]

This is amazing info! Please give a look into making your own fish emulsion. It's easy, cheap and only smelly for a little bit. I love this technique because I have been fishing since I was little and figured out a use for the carcasses when I was a teen. Great way to close another loop. Much love from the Midwest US 💖

[@SdW.8]

PS Fishing the salmon runs in the Midwest is a great spot to collect large amounts of carcasses. The cleaning stations are a good mine.

[@bigmomma9371]

So..I started making my own. We catch fish for the freezer and the heads and guts get layered with straw or sawdust in a 5gallon bucket. Also I add a little sorghum in each layer, it seems to speed up the process. Add some water for good measure and set covered in a shady place for a few weeks.

[@poodledaddles1091]

Oh, I have to try dig out some of my fig tree! Thanks for tip and the update! I just watched your propagation video, I noticed that your roots didn’t fit completely in the hole. I have a tip for you to NOT expand the hole but just dig a trench to lay that long root in, it’s a shortcut that might be helpful. Now what is your solution to woodpeckers ( besides bang bang) I am using wire mesh cages I’m pretty sure that will work. Everything is a battle;)

[@mrs8792]

I love white figs, not so crazy about dark figs. I lived on a large lot in Oregon that had 2 enormous brown fig trees. I had 8 turkeys I was growing out for butcher. I would shake the tree every day and the turkeys would gobble them up. I bet I got 100lbs or more off those trees.

[@Kenniii3]

Beautiful trees

[@wolfmanmatt113]

Oh cool , been waiting for this vid - Bought 4 Chicago hearty sprigs in spring kept uppotting until they were 3 ft tall , just planted 3of them 2 weeks ago mulched heavy with rabbit manure planted 1 partial sun 1 in the sun 1 in the shade taking the other in doors for winter , I hope I didn’t plant too late , will see if they live before I plant the last one outside I’m in lake of the ozarks, Would covering them with plastic help in winter?

[@Anamericanhomestead]

I would mulch them heavy around the base. They should be okay.

[@wolfmanmatt113]

@@Anamericanhomestead will do -Thank you

[@bassqueen7134]

I fish a LOT .I also have around 20 aquariums . I keep a spare 2 to 3 as bait well. I have insane amounts of duck weed ,string algea , fish poop . I water my plants with the change water and mulch any unfortunate dead fish or worms that get to hot and go on me . Vegetable scraps and the fish we clean . Got my first fig tree 2 months ago. Only had 3 leaves on it started in a container. It is taller than me and I have trimmed it back twice. You aren't kidding.

[@JohnQMorse]

Dehydrated figs is where it's at. Where totally dried or still gooey. They never last long.

[@paulkvincent6287]

I took a cutting from my Louisiana mother-in-law's fig tree that had rooted from a branch that rested on the ground. It had roots, a stalk about 10 inches high, and 2 leaves. I planted it in my Texas Gulf Coast backyard and hoped for the best. A month later, it had only one leaf, then no leaves. It was just a 10-inch twig in the ground for a year and a half, then the next spring it took of like Jack's bean stalk (straight up over 10 feet tall)!! There were no branches! Baffled by this odd growth, I cut the top off 4 feet above ground. Then came branches, and 3 years later, it was 12 feet tall and 12 feet in diameter and loaded with figs. I really miss that fig tree since moving to NW Arizona. The winters here are too harsh, and the summers are too dry to grow figs like that. The best I can hope for is a bush about 4 feet tall. We have four 50-foot rows of Okra thriving and continuously producing pods. Running out of jars and space for pickled Okra, frozen cut Okra, fried Okra, etc. If only Okra tasted like figs!!

[@soniamarshall9293]

Do you have a video as how to cut the root ball?

[@seekeroftruth9900]

Awesome. Thanx Zach...great ideas. I do rabbit doo, chicken composted doo, weed tea, worm 'black gold' tea, And Super Thrive, which is vitamins as fertilizer, and then I occasionally have my boys pee in the compost pile and stir up with a beer...drunken composting. I also collect rain water and add milk or coffee grounds dep on the plants, I add epsom salt to my toms. And yes I add fish emulsion made on my own after I catch fish. I havent done the prop a root piece from my fig tree, was gna do the branches this fall/winter but I will try to find your fig root ball video. Much thanks from this little momma in KY❤

[@leedavis6354]

😂 here in Maryland we have a couple very invasive species a fish. Whenever we go fishing and we pull one out of the water we take it home and bury it under a plant or a tree works great

[@georgehays4908]

I started growing figs up in Cass County Michigan . We have successfully propagated a few now . We put 2 of our largests outside at the end of summer . I used fish emulsion on other plants , but it did attract Woodchuck , opossums , and other varmints . Too much nitrogen , makes it stay vegetative , and not go into fruiting . Just my 2 cents .

[@rocklickranch2804]

Great tips! I can’t grow Figs in southern Ohio because of the winters. However, I use that exact same fish emulsion fertilizer on my marijuana plants and it is awesome.

[@tanisirwin9704]

😂

[@margaretpollard2179]

👍 Thanks!

[@Mel-vu9ss]

I have a fig we got two years ago from the local mennonites. I’m not sure if it is from a cutting or a root ball. Anyway, the tree itself is wonderful but no fruit yet. Since it’s been in the ground two summers and one winter would you say that’s pretty normal?

[@honeysnowhomestead7223]

How long is fertilizer good in the container?

[@sunsetstella8917]

Did the root ball prop per your recommendation and I have 2 fig trees going now. Bible question- do your follow not eating from fruit trees for the first 4 years ? If so do you restart the count for a prop tree or count it the same age as mother plant.

[@twowheelfarm9024]

We make fish fertilizer. It sucks to make but GEEAT to use.

[@deborahembry7292]

If it wasn’t for the bears I would use fish emulsion. Used too, but It is so attractive to the bears. We use duck and chicken manure, but have to add it often

[@cinbob00]

Do they grow in the north ? I would love to can them too?

[@SugarCreekOffGrid]

I put a glug of that fish plant food in my compost tea and BOOM🎉😉

[@casperthefriendlyprepper]

When is the best time of year to do this?

[@claudiepierce1807]

I live in Parks Ar south of Fort Smith . What is the best fig for my area

[@austintrees]

Ross Raddi, or something similar... He's on KZbin, known as the fig boss... He has done a number of videos over the past couple of months about how to prone and how not to prune where you won't affect the fig production for the next year...

[@beefandpork]

Are these Chicago hardy dogs? We’ve been thinking about adding figs and aren’t far away from you, wondering if there are other varieties that can survive the winters that are harsher here.

[@anothersaint9759]

Yummy yumm yumm 😂

[@elsmitro]

Hi, any trouble with deer eating them?

[@DebraGorsline]

No, but possums love them. They would come to snack every night.

[@elsmitro]

We have a large fig secured behind the garden fence. I'd really need to split it but would like to move the whole thing out of the garden. Would deer eat the leaves?

[@Anamericanhomestead]

@@elsmitro Deer and even my sheep leave it alone.

[@leedavis6354]

Eat the deer

[@sc73]

Where is the best place to buy fig trees?

[@wordwalkermomma4]

After trying to transplant for over a decade... I bought 2 from a local nursery, used the method Zac describes and now have 10, (counting ones I’ve shared with family).

[@jakezgab8576]

Which growing zone r u in ?

[@TheSwaffordHomestead]

What variety of fig trees do you have?

[@patriotoftruth-v1w]

Ross the Fig Boss on yt has great info on growing fig trees

[@kennethflynn2469]

What zone are you? Figs don't survive winter here

[@vincevoland7056]

Gotta watch using that stuff if your garden isn't fenced in. I had to put electric fence too. The critters will dig all your plants up looking for a fish.

[@wholefoodslifestyles3603]

My figs never seem to survive the winter.

[@DebraGorsline]

What zone are you in? We are in 8b. Brown turkeys die back in the winter but start to leaf out early May in the Pacific Northwest.

[@angelikac6767]

In 5B , Chicago fig tree will survive 35 below

[@i2sky532]

What variety are you trying?

[@Anamericanhomestead]

Experiment with different fig varieties. Some are pretty cold tolerant. Some are not.

[@wholefoodslifestyles3603]

I'm in zone 5a up here in Maine. I got one of the cold varieties but this is the second time it hasn't made it through winter. I even bring it into my unheated greenhouse in the winter and still no luck (first time I tried I just covered it with burlap and leaf mulch on the bottom). I'm thinking maybe I should try a bigger fig tree. It does beautifully through summer though! ​@@DebraGorsline

[@marieschieler1914]

Mines beautiful and huge. No figs.🙁

[@trishgraham7639]

I have 3 brown turkey fig trees. 2 were crushed from a big fallen oak. They have come back slowly. The 3rd was from a cutting. Full of figs. Then a family of raccoons moved in and wiped it clean overnight ☹️

[@CSheri2]

Great link to pruning your figs and growing in colder climates: How to prune figs in a cool climate for first (breba) crop fig production kzbin.info/www/bejne/iHOTdZKqqrCaqrM

[@kristiecox7350]

Squirrels have robbed my fig tree blind! They are such little thieves. Time for some squirrel stew, I’ll call the migrants!

[@BlahBlah122-b2t]

I'm sure they're thankful for you planting fruit trees in their yard since you moved in.🤣🤣🤣

[@Alle8ia]

I collect human urine and dilute it. Use it once week.

[@ms.sojourner5495]

I appreciate your videos and most advice, but "Humanure"? Ewwww! As the saying goes, "you are what you eat." So, nope, no thank you. I'll just stick to organically produced animal manures and aquatic byproducts.....

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[@Anamericanhomestead]

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