November 20, 2024 Orchard Update, Plans For Annual Fig Cutting Sale

[@barryjanis]

Mr. Harvey, you have provided immense pleasure to so many fruit tree lovers. You have shared a world of knowledge through your hundreds of videos. Great teachers like you are few and far between. Thanks for all the cuttings . Please enjoy your retirement .We will all miss you !

[@meb3153]

Hey Harvey & friends! You are amazing!

[@daniello9697]

Thank you so much for this video! I wish I saw this before I moved homes and had to leave behind my beautiful fig tree.

[@2AngelsFigs]

Thanks Harvey! I can't believe that your trees are ahead of mine in going dormant. It's been a weird weather year. I can't wait for your sale and really appreciate the update.

[@juldo7053]

Thank you Harvey. You guys have happy holidays and a great vacation

[@chato9b]

Wow thanks for that knowledge about cold tolerance varieties at the end of the video . Harvey blessing to you and your family for the holidays . Can’t wait for the fig cutting sale 2025 .

[@AnnMDaniels]

Thanks for the update!

[@reaux5351]

Thank you sir for for the update. You guys have happy holidays and a great vacation!

[@FigLifedotcom]

Thanks for the update Harvey! Have a good Thanksgiving!

[@heatherlaw6162]

So excited can’t wait for the sale end of January.

[@HD-jr4qu]

Thanks for the update video. Glad there will be another sale

[@kevin6856]

Im so glad your bird repellent got dormant as well😂 thanks for the video

[@bennielamb8911]

We grow in USDA 7A. I saw about four different cold hardy varieties on your website. Do you know which one is the most cold-hearty by chance? Hopefully one that also has a redder pulp

[@MubarakVKabeez]

When will you start offering worldwide postal services for fig cuttings? I’m from India, where we have a limited variety of figs available, and I’m eager to explore more.

[@Figaholics]

We will not offer such a service but maybe someone who buys our farm may decide to do so. We are trying to find ways to work less, not more, and doing international shipping, dealing with customs regulations, etc. creates a lot more work when we are already working as hard as we possibly can. However, we do have some international customers who have continued to order from us and use a mail forwarding service located in the U.S. as their shipping address. They don't discuss this with us but we notice this because of the international phone numbers showing up on their payments. I assume it works okay for them. We only need to follow U.S. laws and regulations with these transactions so no additional work is involved for us.

[@justafig]

Harvey, Here in the east, mine have been dormant for a few weeks now. What chestnuts do you grow? I have a few real American Chestnut seedlings that i started from seeds this past season. Happy Thanksgiving

[@Figaholics]

We grow a few different named Italian marroni types which appear to be synonyms.

[@jesusflores7323]

dang Harvey, did you upgrade your camera? LOOKS GOOD

[@bigbadra]

Can I ask what spacing you use for your fig orchard? I was thinking of doing 15ft spacing between trees, with 20ft spacing between rows. I don't have any experience with figs though, so I'm not sure what the best practice is.

[@Figaholics]

16 feet between trees in each row and 20 feet between rows. In our climates, I probably wish I had used 20 x 24 as spacing is pretty tight now after 12 years or so.

[@spyiispy]

Thank you, friend! I lost my Tashkent and Grosse Monstrueux cutting last year (from you). If you are taking suggestions on trees to offer 😉

[@Figaholics]

We no longer propagate fig trees for sale and focus our efforts on fig cuttings. That is as much work as we can handle.

[@razvaniancu5123]

I love in Sacramento also, can I buy some cuttings from in person?

[@Figaholics]

Only on our website when we have our fig cutting sale.

[@DaliaCastello]

When do you sell you fig starts?

[@Figaholics]

We no longer sell fig trees and focus our efforts on selling dormant fig cuttings and we wholesale fruit locally.

[@Memyselfandionyoutube]

How many fig trees do you have on your farm?

[@Figaholics]

We have approximately 420 fig trees, 400 varieties.

[@rocket2811]

Did I hear right! You selling the farm?

[@Figaholics]

We began efforts to sell our farm in December 2023 so that both my wife and I (in our late 60s) can retire and spend more time traveling, particularly to Madeira, Portugal where we purchased a second home which is located across the street from where my grandmother grew up. Our farm consists of figs grown for fruit and cuttings, chestnuts, yangmei (Myrica rubra) and some ground rented out and planted to alfalfa. We have enjoyed great success and it is time to let someone else continue what we have begun.

[@heathergoltz1292]

@@Figaholics Wishing you and your wife a wonderful retirement! Well deserved!

[@GreenJustin8]

Sell it to the FigBoss :)

[@DanielCallahan-qu4pj]

Thanks for the update!