Burning Down Pine Trees for Fig Trees

Join us on a fiery adventure as we burn down pine trees to make way for our beloved fig trees! Watch as we make significant improvements to our fig tree orchard expansion in South Georgia. Don't miss out on the excitement - subscribe now!
CHAPTERS:
0:15: 🌳 Transformation of pine tree area to fig tree orchard and deer behavior explained.
2:30: 🔥 Controlled burning of pine trees to clear green vegetation and promote growth of fig trees.
4:35: 🌲 Land preparation for future tree planting, addressing challenges and solutions.
6:54: 🌿 Overview of fig tree varieties waking up in the Orchard.
9:20: 🌱 Pruning young fig trees leads to increased branching and fig production.
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[@alph8654]

I grew up in Ky. and loved fig newton cookies as a kid. At the age of 38 i lived a few months in Florida. I had some fresh figs !! Oh my were they good !!!!!!!!!!!! May the good Lord bless you in your fig tree growing and selling !!!

[@donnastormer9652]

Travis, you probably know all of that Ash from the burn is going to be fabulous fertilizer! A simple recipe of well composted manure and wood ash one time at the beginning of the season in the spring for figs is all they need! That simple recipe will shock you how much growth your figs will put on!

[@WhatWeDoChannel]

Thanks for this! That burning looks like fun!! The figs give me a sort of Biblical vibe that I like!

[@Detour4it]

Yeah, man! FIG NATION! 🎉

[@lauras5312]

you can harvest the charcoal and mix it with chicken manure to make cheep biochar. lol

[@williamcobb1408]

Thanks for answering the questions I had on those early figs.

[@charleselertii6187]

Wow. Pretty cool expansion there with your fig tree enterprise Travis! Wonder if the fig revenues this year could provide a means to re-invest into some infrastructure with another greenhouse. Have a green house for the figs, and one for the garden so you won't be jammed up for space during seed starting time. Cheers. Chuck in Jensen Beach FL.

[@LazyDogFarm]

I'm hoping to add another greenhouse this summer. We'll see ...

[@FlomatonFamous]

Looking good!

[@mkc0005]

Glad to hear the figs don’t all leaf out at the same time. I have a Brown Turkey that is several years old and fully leafed out. The LSU Gold and Violet de Bordeaux that I bought from you last summer haven’t shown any action this spring at all. We’ve been getting some temps in the 80’s here in S TX but dropped into the high 20’s a couple of days in late January. I was afraid I might have lost those 2 but won’t worry for a couple more weeks.

[@joeyl.rowland4153]

I have a Brown Turkey my mom planted probably 20 years ago and it was near death with only one leaf, I dug it up and moved it to the opposite side in full sun. I have been giving it a half shovel of fresh chicken manure about once a week for 2 1/2 months and it is growing a lot. Three feet tall and it has 40 or 50 leaves. It gets water everyday. Now temperatures are rising it seems to have really accelerated the growth. Maybe just maybe I will get at least one fig this year.

[@matthewmcclendon5308]

I’m in north Texas with an LSU gold and it’s got leaves growing. I did cover it for the below 20 days

[@DesertRose808]

Yeah some of them are a bit lazy lol

[@matthewmcclendon5308]

I got a conadria from you last spring and it grew pretty massive compared to the others I got. It has 15-20 of those little figs growing as well as a bunch of leaves

[@LazyDogFarm]

Conadria is one of the fastest-growing varieties I've seen. Good to hear yours is following suit.

[@texasgardenerrobert8341]

I’m beginning think your fond of a fig. Anyway. What’s with the cross at 4:07? Looks like it was carved out of one of them stumps.

[@LazyDogFarm]

That was a nice little surprise left by the guys cutting down the trees. A couple of them had moved down here to enter a drug recovery program. They shared their stories with me and it was great to hear they were back on the right track.

[@DianaYount-fi4ui]

How are you going to get around the roots? We have pine trees and the roots go everywhere.

[@LazyDogFarm]

We just plant between the stumps. That's what we did with our existing orchard that used to be pine trees.

[@allenmorrill7534]

I’m clearing about half an acre of pine/oak mix and to plant a food forest of several different trees. Are you worried about all the nutrients from the burned being concentrated in one area poisoning the soil? Or have you looked into it?

[@LazyDogFarm]

No I'm not. Our current veggie garden had several piles of trees burned on it.

[@erichughes3896]

Will you have more I258 figs to add to your website? I was not quick enough to order one.

[@LazyDogFarm]

Yes we'll have more added in another month or so.

[@MynewTennesseeHome]

Looks like a fire and mound by the Smith fig. Do you have problems with them?

[@LazyDogFarm]

We do in the winter months. But usually once we start cutting grass 1-2x a week, they move.

[@James-ib2kp]

👍🏿

[@pondholloworchards]

What kind of grass are you going to plant back for your living rows

[@LazyDogFarm]

Probably centipede

[@justinarnold7725]

Look like you making biochar

[@user-qr6ep1rc4s]

Travis I’ve a got I think it’s a Brown Turkey Fig tree that’s about 25’ tall x 25’ wide.Would it benefit the tree health wise to prune it?

[@LazyDogFarm]

I think it would.

[@user-qr6ep1rc4s]

@@LazyDogFarm ok thanks

[@KimH-ic6ne]

I saw that ant pile by your fig tree… how do you control your ant population. I live in MS and we are overrun with fire ants. We’ve been using diatomaceous earth to try and thin them out but they just move 2 feet over and begin multiplying again? 😏

[@LazyDogFarm]

They usually move once we start cutting grass again.

[@KimH-ic6ne]

@@LazyDogFarm you think they moved all the way to MS?! lol j/k. We have a pond and honey bees and need an organic solution … I’ll keep searching🙂

[@jayharrod8647]

​@KimH-ic6ne you will NEVER conquer fire ants with an organic solution. Sometimes you have to break out the nasty stuff!!

[@marysurbanchickengarden]

Men love to burn, my ex burned our dry weeds every year on an acre we didn't use for anything. He actually let the fire get away from him one year and set our son's car on 🔥. Yep that young man was upset with his dad 😅 Figs must be good business for you to invest so much into growing so many, or you're OCD on figs 😂

[@billsprinkle9146]

Hey Trav get that tick off your chin.