I plant figs everywhere I can in parks, empty lots, all through neighborhood. I gave away 40 plants last year hopefully over 200 this year. I have a philosophy that figs are to be gifted/passsed-down/inherited. But I do sell higher end varieties, need some revenue to continue sharing figs with the world.
South Mississippi here. I planted a small Chicago Hardy about three months ago. It’s loaded with green figs, but I’m having a constant battle with the rust fungus.
For the wet deep south the Smith fig is the best, you should try that one, south Mississippi is zone 8b/9a so cold should not be an issue. And the Chicago isn't the best tasting fig anyhow, so just go for more varieties adapted to humid and wet climates.
I notice that all your figs are like multi-stemmed shrubs rather than single stemmed trees as we are used to in Europe. Is that a specific US variety thing or are you cutting them to make them grow like that? If so am interested to know what is the reason - does it make more fruit?
more fruit and it's not typically intentional. Typically we get a hard winter that kills the fig tree down to the roots but it comes back in spring with multiple stems and we enjoy the increased production/ cutting wood to multiply it.
In our planting zone of zone 6/7 figs suffer winter dieback to the roots. So we have to grow varieties that can produce new growth and fruit that ripens before winter. The bush form is simply a result of winter dieback here. 😀
Lovely trees. What amazes me is how different the leaves' morphology is from those of the fig trees' leaves I had in Shreveport, LA. Of course, that is zone 8.
Yep, his figs look like okra. My Louisiana trees have rounded leaves with a few round tips. I`m planting a dozen trees this year and 50 from cuttings next year. Maybe, just maybe, some will survive the stupidity of people after I`m gone. I`ve seen so many amazing sources of food bulldozed and cut down in this state by people like my nephew. If there`s anything useful that can be needlessly destroyed or thrown away him and my sister will get it eventually. They will brainstorm new things to throw away and bulldoze for absolutely no reason. They got furious when I wouldn`t waste money bulldozing my yard when I moved to this lot.
Thanks for taking the time to make this video you got some great verities bro… What’s your favorite tasting fig so far?… or top three tasty figs so far?… 😊
That's a tough one because we are now at about 128 varieties... But I would have to say Unknown Ashbury Black because of how cold hardy it is, how vigorous of a grower it is in cold climates, and because it tastes amazing. Thank you so much for the great question. Happy growing!
I got 4 Celeste figs from a nursery but the plants have triangle/heart shaped leaves with jagged edges and long fingered leaves on different branches on the same tree. The leaf stems have a pinkish tint. No fruit this year. Tiny fig nubs began forming then vanished a few times.
We will in the not so distant future. We are currently breeding our own varieties that we will be making available to the public. I love figs and pawpaws so much. It doesn't get any better!
Nice video, just came across your channel-subscribed. Lots of figs! Strange, I’ve read a lot about don’t plant figs near your foundation but being in PA outside of Philly everyone I know plants their figs near their house-haven’t heard about anyone having any issues.
No issues for colder climate growers. In warmer climates they do become trees, but in colder climates they’ll never get bigger than tall bushes. The extra warmth from the house is good for them.
You mention desert king being a potted fig but it looked like you had it in ground. It's actually the most popular fig here to plant in the ground because it has such a good breba crop and is cold hardy. I don't see any reason to have it in a pot. It's one of the few I planted in ground. We usually plant later varieties or less cold hardy varieties in pots so we can move them around to extend the season and protect from the weather. The Nero600 was my most productive this year.
Figs usually die back to the ground here every year, so we will not get the breba crop unless it is kept in a pot. When we say “cold climate” or “cold hardy” we’re generally referring to climates that are too cold for breba crops.
@@PlantFanatics I live in zone 6b and I have a desert king growing in the ground for about 4 years now. We have it growing on the south side of our house and it has never died back at all. It gets a good breba crop every since the very first year we planted it. I was surprised to hear that you had to keep it in a pot to get a crop. I am looking to add more varieties after our success with the desert king fig and am having fun learning about them on your channel and website.
@@jwrightgardening did you plant 2 fig trees for added pollination? when I bought mine I didn't see anywhere (or even on the nursery label) that it needs a pollinator or a 2nd tree nearby! so I am wondering how your tree is situated. I planted mine last year and got no fruit.
@@marym4186 No, you don't need a pollinator for desert king fig. If you are in a climate like mine, short mild summers and winters that are cold but not cold enough to cause die back (our lowest is 10°F), with these cold hardy figs, you might only see fruit in the spring growing on the previous year's growth. This is called the breba crop. In warmer areas, people will get a breba crop in the spring and then a main crop later in the summer or fall. But your climate has to be hot enough long enough for that main crop to happen.
More people should use musa basjoo leaves instead of throwing them away. They're great for cooking and the smell is just as good as tropical banana leaf. I see a lot more people grow them here in New Jersey. Such ashamed everyone just throw them away at the end of the season.
Looking at your unknown Asbury black just starting to grow in 7B How far back will you prune this in the winter to start the new season the following year now the top is up over the gutter? Or do you let it die back and come back from new growth from the ground the following year? Also where are you located
You are doing so well. How many years have you been growing figs? They all look beautiful. Are you going to move to the new farm? You'll be able to grow year-round in Alabama, right? Or did you tell me Arkansas? I'm glad to see you back here👍
We’re in northwest arkansas. On the line of zone 6 and 7 so no year round growing for us. Our farm is in cane hill Arkansas which is a little warmer but not by much. We’ll be doing a lot of our future content at our farm once it’s built up. Still a lot of work to do out there.
Here in central Louisiana we can typically grow at least something in the garden all year. But each year for the past decade winters and spring are getting colder. So I`ve been trying to adapt. Gonna need greenhouses I think.
Your trees are very vigorous, you must be doing something right! is your Texas ever bearing fig tree the white variety or the regular amber one, i am about to plant the one they call White Texas ever bearing and am trying to find out if it is cold hardy for my zone 7b-8a Thanks, Great video, awesome plants!
Thanks a lot for the infos! I’m in zone 4 in Canada and I’m not sure of the pruning method. Do I cut to leave one trunk or I let it grow as you do ? Your method seem to work very good leaving the suckers. Thanks :)
Beautiful trees. Here in zone 6b/7a I'm not getting much ripening, so next year I am trying technique of heavily pruning and removing most shoots in order to ripen, and using less or no fertilizer. Expect trees to be 1/3 the size of yours. I guess if you are attempting to maximize cuttings having lots of green growth makes sense.
@@marym4186 started with Chicago Hardy per usual, and the tree that has mostly full sun produced enough to keep me interested the second year in ground (I think a three year fig). Not heavily, but maybe 20 figs. I just did a scrape test on the bark of the main stem that was too large to bend down easily, and was surprised to see green even though temps dropped below 10 F lows for a week or so, but gradually this year. I expected to lose this stem, and likely still will, but who knows. Last year also bought Improved Celeste, Alpine George, Dr. Gowaty, and Florea as 1 gallon pots from One Green World in Oregon -- these each produced a little still in containers, but I couldn't tell you how well they will fare here yet. This winter kept them in pots and will put them in the ground soon -- just pulled them out of storage today.
Thanks for the update. Looking for certain varieties if you can get them. Verdino del Nord ( figoin ). Campaniere. Black Celeste. Appreciate the work you do.
I'm in Tennessee I have a variety of figs I've been growing figs for over 40 years this is the first year the rabbits destroyed a lot of my figs chewing the bark off and eating others have you had this problem? Also I got a cutting from a lady here who grows fruit trees she had a fig tree that was 10 years old that had fruit the size of tennis balls she did not know the variety the leaves look like a brown turkey do you have any idea how I can find out what the variety is
Hi, I am new to all of this but I love figs and didn't know that there were so many. I am in 9A and I want to get 2 or 3 types of figs to grow. When should I buy and grow them in the ground? I like sweet and meaty (full of the fruit inside)
It depends on your hardiness zone. A ton of figs will survive the winter but you want some that will ripen earlier in the season if you live in a northern planting zone. Texas Everbearing and violet de bordeaux are a couple of my favorite
In many fruit trees, yes. With Figs there’s not really any benefit. They are such vigorous growers that a few fruit on the plant won’t affect it. Great question!! What figs are you growing?
We recently moved onto a five acre property in Ashland, Ohio. We inherited peaches, apples, hazelnut, blueberries, blackberries, and mulberries but we want to greatly expand what we're growing. Your channel is an amazing resource and I'm sure we'll be growing half of everything soon. 😁 I'll definitely be trying out fig and a few of the berries. I'll be stalking the local farmers markets this year trying to find some samples so that we're not spending a lot of time growing things that we don't like to eat.
New to figs. My zine just improved to 5a. I’m willing to bring plants indoors and push my zone by modifying conditions. Can you recommend best tasting figs for me?
Green muchurinska is supposed to be a cold hardy delicious Adriatic type. Worth trying. Does your mulching 10 inches technique preserve some of the wood? I would have thought with a good 8 inches of live fig stump you’d get shoots coming out of the wood and that they’d fruit a little earlier than something that has to regrow from beneath the soil linr
That’s a Breba crop. In cold planting zones where winter dieback occurs we don’t get the early Breba crop. We only get a main crop. If the top of your fig tree survives the winter where you live, then you’re not in the cold climates I’m talking about.
Oh, oops, I was trying to reply to a question someone had asked me in a different comment thread so that's why my comment seems out of place. In my colder climate, we don't get any die back on cold hardy figs but we also only get the breba crops on some figs, if we get any figs at all- our summers are too cold and short.
We absolutely will be. Go to TheAmericanFigCompany.com and sign up with your email so you get notified first. We also have a free ebook on how to grow figs in-ground in cold climates. We hope you'll check it out. Thank you so much for the comment and support! Happy growing!
It’s a cultivar called Musa basjoo. It can withstand temps down to zone 5. While it does fruit (though they are seedy) we don’t have a long enough growing season to ripen them.
Really like your channel. Which variety of fig would you recommend for zone 8, high desert of SE Arizona? Clay with sandy alluvial soil. Would love a fast growing, large fruiting, good tasting fig. Its winter now and our average overnight lows are around 30F. In summer it gets into the low 100's. Thanks!
That's definitely chilly for a fig. Figs actually go dormant in the winter so there would be no need for a greenhouse. You could simply let the first few frosts hit them and then move them to a sheltered location. No light will be necessary once they are in their dormant state. And they grow quite well in containers I might add. Good luck to you!
I think this next year i will try some figs in the ground but this zone 4a presents a few challenges with regular -20 and colder. I haven't always had luck with hardy varieties of plants even when heavily mulched. Out of the figs that you've grown what ones would you try up here?
Sweet Diana, Brown Turkey, Texas Everbearing, Chicago Hardy, or Unknown Ashbury Black. Go to our website and we should have all of those available. I hope this helps you out! TheAmericanFigCompany.com
in Nova Scotia zone 5-6 but very bitter wind conditions & deep frozen snow, I have 3 Chicago Hardy Figs that have some figs on them swelling up nicely. just bought then this year in 9 inch pots. Will be keeping them in an unheated solarium so that they freeze but don't get beaten up by the heavy rain, snow, wind that goes on for months. In your area, this type might be what you want.
My figs were hard and not edible could you advise me on what to do so I will be able to eat figs this year. I am new to growing figs. Thank you very much. Ruby
Pretty much all fig varieties can survive zone 7 winters, but not all will produce fruit in the shorter growing seasons. Winter dieback also affects receiving crops from certain varieties. A cold hardy variety is one that will push out figs after winter dieback and within a shortened growing season. Thank you so much for checking out the video!!! Happy growing!!!
Really any of them. They are a Mediterranean plant so they take drought pretty well. Obviously a good serving of mulch is recommended. Check out TheAmericanFigCompany.com for plants and cuttings. Thanks so much for taking the time to watch the video! Happy growing!
Just found your channel, love the information and to the point. I live in zone 5b and have figs in pot to bring in, but would much rather plant in ground, as I did in zone 7. Two figs are unknown varieties I picked up at a plant sale, so need to stay in pots and one is Chicago Hardy fig. I have seen conflicting information on zone 5 hardiness for Chicago hardy fig, so have not put in ground. Is there a hardy fig for zone 5. I would love to add a few to small orchard I planted.
I always suggest adding a thick layer of mulch over your fig roots over the winter for added protection, but Chicago Hardy, Sweet Diana, Brown Turkey, and Texas Everbearing will be your best bet. Go to our website and sign up with your email because I'm about to have a bunch of cold hardy fig cuttings available. It makes for a fun winter project, and its a cheaper way of getting fig trees.
Dude your epic love what you have going at your house. Where do you live I live in Maine at the bottom of the state. I have a little miss figgy and a Celeste do you think they would dye back to the ground and come back each year
Just saw this comment! Haha, Maines a little bit away from where I’m at. Do you know what growing zone you’re in? That will help me to know which figs are best for your area.
There are many. Check out our website: TheAmericanFigCompany.com 1.) Unknown Ashbury Black 2.) Longue D’Aout 3.) Texas Everbearing 4.) Red Italian 5.) Boston Unknown #12 This of course is just a few out of many. I hope this helps. 😀
As of right now we do not ship outside of the US. However, that is something we are definitely working on for the future. There are many hurdles to jump to make that happen. Thank you so much for your amazing support. It means the world to us here. Happy growing!!
Zone 4 is most likely going to be too cold to grow figs in the ground, even with the proper cold weather growing precautions. Figs grow quite wonderfully in pots as well, so that may be something you look into doing where you live. Thank you so much for watching. Happy growing!
Hi Dano! We actually went through an incredibly long drought that stressed the trees out, and we therefore had a pretty substantial leaf drop occur. It doesn't happen here in Northwest Arkansas much, but out weather this past year has been quite difficult to deal with. Hopefully it will be better next year. However, the trees are happy and healthy besides that. Lots of figs this year. Thank you so much for the comment!
@@PlantFanatics thats crazy. Here in canada im growing 15 varieties and had a very similer extreemly hot dry summer. We hit 43 celsius multiple times. The tress did not do good. Just moved this year and transplanted them in the spring. Horrible year for growing
Aku baru menemukan chanel kamu,aku suka dan senang dengan informasinya tentang buah ara,aku baru 4 bulan menanam buah ara,dan sudah ada 100 varian,tapi aku ingin menambahnya lagi,terutama varian yang dari luar negaraku
A Walk Through The Best Cold Hardy Figs in this realm would be a better title. Earth is not a planet. Gravity is not a force. Air/gas takes the shape of its container. In the globe "model" there is no container. You can not have gas pressure without a container. Our air would escape into the vacuum of space. But it doesnt. Space has to be fake. We breathe, we have gaspressure, we must have containment. Gas expands freely in all directions. Thats gas law. Gas particles doesnt stop. It doesnt change direction unless it collides with something.
There are many things about this post that disturb me. This might not be the best video for debating some of the most basic concepts in physics. Since it's here, my best advice is to dig a little deeper. If we can't grasp the basic realities of physics, it's probably best not to delve further. I suspect there might be drug use involved, but I can't be certain. Either way, I wouldn't recommend building a rocket ship based on those ideas as your foundational principles.
We are actually going to be back in stock with our cuttings starting on Monday October 11th. If you haven't already, you may consider signing up for our emails on the website. We will keep you updated on the release of new varieties and their availability. Thank you so much for the kind words! Happy growing!
I love your videos on cold-weather fruit trees my wife and I are going to order pretty much everything you say if you ever get an opportunity to DM me if you have a particular fig that’s the biggest and best that we grow in Rapid City South Dakota please let me know I’ll buy it from you
Hey Hailey!! Thanks for the comment! None of our trees were purchased through a big box store, but instead have been purchased from extremely respected experts in the fig community. Identifying fig trees simply by their leaf shapes is not a good practice. The fruit is a much better way of identifying figs. Unfortunately a lot of people do assume that figs can be known by simply looking at the leaves or shape of a tree, and this can easily mix up varieties.
Fair enough, but when leaf patterns are very blatantly different at that maturity it raises red flags. The fig community is what brought this mix up to the attention of many. Did you read the post about it on OurFigs? Agristarts distributed them under the wrong name. I can assure you that if that was White Marseilles you would of seen fruit by now, and it wouldn't have deeply lobbed leaves.
I think you’r a newbie in figs ! The first fig tree is male fig tree this is why you dont get any edible fruit out of it so do not propegate and sell that to others that will be only waste of time for your customers .
Your proficiency in orthography is evidently deficient, particularly in the accurate spelling of 'propagate', and your syntactic structures are lamentably subpar.
I plant figs everywhere I can in parks, empty lots, all through neighborhood. I gave away 40 plants last year hopefully over 200 this year. I have a philosophy that figs are to be gifted/passsed-down/inherited. But I do sell higher end varieties, need some revenue to continue sharing figs with the world.
Might be good to engrave the variety name on the trunk if possible for future finders to see.
That's awesome!
I like your idea of planting these in public domains.
I'm in eastern Indiana. Not any fig trees here and nowhere to find
That’s really good I like how you plant them in public areas
Guerilla gardening on the neighbors adjoining woods. I love it!
Beautiful fig trees. Thanks for sharing.
Thanks for watching! 😀
Love the guerilla gardening!
South Mississippi here. I planted a small Chicago Hardy about three months ago. It’s loaded with green figs, but I’m having a constant battle with the rust fungus.
Buy some chewable aspirin and crush it up and mix with water and sprat on leaves... that will destroy rust.
For the wet deep south the Smith fig is the best, you should try that one, south Mississippi is zone 8b/9a so cold should not be an issue. And the Chicago isn't the best tasting fig anyhow, so just go for more varieties adapted to humid and wet climates.
GOOD TO SEE THE VARIOUS SIZES OF YOUR FIG TREES!
I notice that all your figs are like multi-stemmed shrubs rather than single stemmed trees as we are used to in Europe. Is that a specific US variety thing or are you cutting them to make them grow like that? If so am interested to know what is the reason - does it make more fruit?
more fruit and it's not typically intentional. Typically we get a hard winter that kills the fig tree down to the roots but it comes back in spring with multiple stems and we enjoy the increased production/ cutting wood to multiply it.
In our planting zone of zone 6/7 figs suffer winter dieback to the roots. So we have to grow varieties that can produce new growth and fruit that ripens before winter. The bush form is simply a result of winter dieback here. 😀
Lovely trees. What amazes me is how different the leaves' morphology is from those of the fig trees' leaves I had in Shreveport, LA. Of course, that is zone 8.
The growth of a fig tree grown in colder zones is definitely different. Figs are amazing. 😀
Yep, his figs look like okra. My Louisiana trees have rounded leaves with a few round tips. I`m planting a dozen trees this year and 50 from cuttings next year. Maybe, just maybe, some will survive the stupidity of people after I`m gone. I`ve seen so many amazing sources of food bulldozed and cut down in this state by people like my nephew. If there`s anything useful that can be needlessly destroyed or thrown away him and my sister will get it eventually. They will brainstorm new things to throw away and bulldoze for absolutely no reason. They got furious when I wouldn`t waste money bulldozing my yard when I moved to this lot.
Thanks for taking the time to make this video you got some great verities bro… What’s your favorite tasting fig so far?… or top three tasty figs so far?… 😊
That's a tough one because we are now at about 128 varieties... But I would have to say Unknown Ashbury Black because of how cold hardy it is, how vigorous of a grower it is in cold climates, and because it tastes amazing. Thank you so much for the great question. Happy growing!
I got 4 Celeste figs from a nursery but the plants have triangle/heart shaped leaves with jagged edges and long fingered leaves on different branches on the same tree. The leaf stems have a pinkish tint. No fruit this year. Tiny fig nubs began forming then vanished a few times.
Wow. Happy to see another Fig Lover. I have so many now, but they are awesome. I was wondering do you sell pawpaws as well
We will in the not so distant future. We are currently breeding our own varieties that we will be making available to the public. I love figs and pawpaws so much. It doesn't get any better!
I laughed at the “typically”
Nice video, just came across your channel-subscribed.
Lots of figs! Strange, I’ve read a lot about don’t plant figs near your foundation but being in PA outside of Philly everyone I know plants their figs near their house-haven’t heard about anyone having any issues.
No issues for colder climate growers. In warmer climates they do become trees, but in colder climates they’ll never get bigger than tall bushes. The extra warmth from the house is good for them.
You mention desert king being a potted fig but it looked like you had it in ground. It's actually the most popular fig here to plant in the ground because it has such a good breba crop and is cold hardy. I don't see any reason to have it in a pot. It's one of the few I planted in ground. We usually plant later varieties or less cold hardy varieties in pots so we can move them around to extend the season and protect from the weather. The Nero600 was my most productive this year.
Figs usually die back to the ground here every year, so we will not get the breba crop unless it is kept in a pot. When we say “cold climate” or “cold hardy” we’re generally referring to climates that are too cold for breba crops.
@@PlantFanatics ah I didn't know DK would die back to the ground. If that's the case then I see why it should be best in a container.
@@PlantFanatics I live in zone 6b and I have a desert king growing in the ground for about 4 years now. We have it growing on the south side of our house and it has never died back at all. It gets a good breba crop every since the very first year we planted it. I was surprised to hear that you had to keep it in a pot to get a crop.
I am looking to add more varieties after our success with the desert king fig and am having fun learning about them on your channel and website.
@@jwrightgardening did you plant 2 fig trees for added pollination? when I bought mine I didn't see anywhere (or even on the nursery label) that it needs a pollinator or a 2nd tree nearby! so I am wondering how your tree is situated. I planted mine last year and got no fruit.
@@marym4186 No, you don't need a pollinator for desert king fig.
If you are in a climate like mine, short mild summers and winters that are cold but not cold enough to cause die back (our lowest is 10°F), with these cold hardy figs, you might only see fruit in the spring growing on the previous year's growth. This is called the breba crop.
In warmer areas, people will get a breba crop in the spring and then a main crop later in the summer or fall. But your climate has to be hot enough long enough for that main crop to happen.
More people should use musa basjoo leaves instead of throwing them away. They're great for cooking and the smell is just as good as tropical banana leaf. I see a lot more people grow them here in New Jersey. Such ashamed everyone just throw them away at the end of the season.
I agree!!
Looking at your unknown Asbury black just starting to grow in 7B How far back will you prune this in the winter to start the new season the following year now the top is up over the gutter? Or do you let it die back and come back from new growth from the ground the following year? Also where are you located
Thanks for the tip on getting early notice of cuttings, I was able to snag 6 varieties today.
Thanks for the order! 😀
You are doing so well. How many years have you been growing figs?
They all look beautiful.
Are you going to move to the new farm?
You'll be able to grow year-round in Alabama, right? Or did you tell me Arkansas?
I'm glad to see you back here👍
We’re in northwest arkansas. On the line of zone 6 and 7 so no year round growing for us. Our farm is in cane hill Arkansas which is a little warmer but not by much.
We’ll be doing a lot of our future content at our farm once it’s built up. Still a lot of work to do out there.
Here in central Louisiana we can typically grow at least something in the garden all year. But each year for the past decade winters and spring are getting colder. So I`ve been trying to adapt. Gonna need greenhouses I think.
Your trees are very vigorous, you must be doing something right! is your Texas ever bearing fig tree the white variety or the regular amber one, i am about to plant the one they call White Texas ever bearing and am trying to find out if it is cold hardy for my zone 7b-8a Thanks, Great video, awesome plants!
Thanks a lot for the infos! I’m in zone 4 in Canada and I’m not sure of the pruning method. Do I cut to leave one trunk or I let it grow as you do ? Your method seem to work very good leaving the suckers. Thanks :)
Beautiful trees. Here in zone 6b/7a I'm not getting much ripening, so next year I am trying technique of heavily pruning and removing most shoots in order to ripen, and using less or no fertilizer. Expect trees to be 1/3 the size of yours. I guess if you are attempting to maximize cuttings having lots of green growth makes sense.
Absolutely. By cutting the longer shoots with smaller figs you can lessen ripening time. 😀
what type of figs do you have and at what year they started producing? I am the same zone as you and am curious!!
@@marym4186 started with Chicago Hardy per usual, and the tree that has mostly full sun produced enough to keep me interested the second year in ground (I think a three year fig). Not heavily, but maybe 20 figs. I just did a scrape test on the bark of the main stem that was too large to bend down easily, and was surprised to see green even though temps dropped below 10 F lows for a week or so, but gradually this year. I expected to lose this stem, and likely still will, but who knows.
Last year also bought Improved Celeste,
Alpine George, Dr. Gowaty, and
Florea as 1 gallon pots from One Green World in Oregon -- these each produced a little still in containers, but I couldn't tell you how well they will fare here yet. This winter kept them in pots and will put them in the ground soon -- just pulled them out of storage today.
Thanks for the update. Looking for certain varieties if you can get them. Verdino del Nord ( figoin ). Campaniere. Black Celeste.
Appreciate the work you do.
We will definitely take note of those, and thank you so much for the comments!
Glad to see some uploads again. I really enjoy your channel and I’m headed to the website right now to get on that mailing list! Haha
Thanks for the support!
What type of fertilizer do you use for your fig plants?
I didn't know there were so many types of figs. Amazing
There are so many! And they all have different flavors. 😀
Your growing zone? Im in zone 8 Tennesse. Any dark fig suggestions?
I'm in Tennessee I have a variety of figs I've been growing figs for over 40 years this is the first year the rabbits destroyed a lot of my figs chewing the bark off and eating others have you had this problem? Also I got a cutting from a lady here who grows fruit trees she had a fig tree that was 10 years old that had fruit the size of tennis balls she did not know the variety the leaves look like a brown turkey do you have any idea how I can find out what the variety is
Sounds like the GE NERI fig tree. It has giant figs.
Hi, I am new to all of this but I love figs and didn't know that there were so many. I am in 9A and I want to get 2 or 3 types of figs to grow. When should I buy and grow them in the ground? I like sweet and meaty (full of the fruit inside)
I live in Connecticut what's a good fog tree to plant and not take in in the winters
It depends on your hardiness zone. A ton of figs will survive the winter but you want some that will ripen earlier in the season if you live in a northern planting zone. Texas Everbearing and violet de bordeaux are a couple of my favorite
When you're growing for the first couple of years, is there a benefit to removing the fruit to allow the figs to put their energy into rooting?
In many fruit trees, yes. With Figs there’s not really any benefit. They are such vigorous growers that a few fruit on the plant won’t affect it. Great question!! What figs are you growing?
We recently moved onto a five acre property in Ashland, Ohio.
We inherited peaches, apples, hazelnut, blueberries, blackberries, and mulberries but we want to greatly expand what we're growing.
Your channel is an amazing resource and I'm sure we'll be growing half of everything soon. 😁
I'll definitely be trying out fig and a few of the berries. I'll be stalking the local farmers markets this year trying to find some samples so that we're not spending a lot of time growing things that we don't like to eat.
I also grow figs in Indonesia, it tastes very sweet, good luck always
New to figs. My zine just improved to 5a. I’m willing to bring plants indoors and push my zone by modifying conditions. Can you recommend best tasting figs for me?
Check out the container fig package on our website. They would be a great option for you. TheAmericanFigCompany.com
What are two good varieties for Northern Ohio?
Hey I’m in the sierra nevadas will the Chicago fig grow here, zone 7b or 8 I thinks 5-10 degrees lowest is -2
Yes. And so will many others! Check out our website. TheAmericanFigCompany.com
Green muchurinska is supposed to be a cold hardy delicious Adriatic type. Worth trying. Does your mulching 10 inches technique preserve some of the wood? I would have thought with a good 8 inches of live fig stump you’d get shoots coming out of the wood and that they’d fruit a little earlier than something that has to regrow from beneath the soil linr
Almost all of the new growth comes from the roots every year. Still get tons of fruit.
Do you protect your in ground fig trees in winter? I live in zone 6, but keep my Chicago Hardy fig trees in pots.
Besides a layer of mulch roughly 4-6 inches thick around the plant, I do zero protection. With the right varieties you don’t need it.
It does not need a pollinator. If you are in a colder climate, you will see figs start growing the spring of the second year on last year's growth.
That’s a Breba crop. In cold planting zones where winter dieback occurs we don’t get the early Breba crop. We only get a main crop. If the top of your fig tree survives the winter where you live, then you’re not in the cold climates I’m talking about.
Oh, oops, I was trying to reply to a question someone had asked me in a different comment thread so that's why my comment seems out of place.
In my colder climate, we don't get any die back on cold hardy figs but we also only get the breba crops on some figs, if we get any figs at all- our summers are too cold and short.
"On The Planet" lol, you mean your backyard.
Thanks for watching the video.
I am new to growing figs. But love eating these. Turkish have been my most favorite. But open to new ones in Texas. Lol
I really hope you’ll be selling cuttings from the Boston next year! I haven’t seen that one and am in zone 5b (north of Boston).
We absolutely will be. Go to TheAmericanFigCompany.com and sign up with your email so you get notified first. We also have a free ebook on how to grow figs in-ground in cold climates. We hope you'll check it out. Thank you so much for the comment and support! Happy growing!
Can Calimyrna Fig grown in South Carolina? Someone said this variety needs fig wasp ( that is only in California?)
I recommend getting a self fertile fig for your area if you want fruit
as far as i understood you said you were in hardiness zone 6-7 and you have banana how ?do you get fruit from it?
It’s a cultivar called Musa basjoo. It can withstand temps down to zone 5. While it does fruit (though they are seedy) we don’t have a long enough growing season to ripen them.
I feel odd that Brunswick is never mentioned in this topic but in South korea (zone6) the only variety surviving korean winter is "Brunswick".
Brunswick is certainly discussed in the trade. I just don’t think it’s people’s favorite when given choices.
Really like your channel. Which variety of fig would you recommend for zone 8, high desert of SE Arizona? Clay with sandy alluvial soil. Would love a fast growing, large fruiting, good tasting fig. Its winter now and our average overnight lows are around 30F. In summer it gets into the low 100's. Thanks!
There’s so many to choose from for your zone! If you don’t have any I would recommend starting with Texas Everbearing. Great tasting fig!
I live in New Jersey zone 6 I bought 2 Chicago hardy fig and planted in my garden not in a pot .Is it ok?
Give it a good helping of mulch and you’ll be fine. I would make it a minimum of 2-3 inches thick. Good luck!!
I wanted to try the one called Chicago hardy fig. But have to wait till I can get a greenhouse set up. We can see negative 20°-30°.
That's definitely chilly for a fig. Figs actually go dormant in the winter so there would be no need for a greenhouse. You could simply let the first few frosts hit them and then move them to a sheltered location. No light will be necessary once they are in their dormant state. And they grow quite well in containers I might add. Good luck to you!
JUST STARTED WATCHING GREAT CHANNEL
I think this next year i will try some figs in the ground but this zone 4a presents a few challenges with regular -20 and colder. I haven't always had luck with hardy varieties of plants even when heavily mulched. Out of the figs that you've grown what ones would you try up here?
Sweet Diana, Brown Turkey, Texas Everbearing, Chicago Hardy, or Unknown Ashbury Black. Go to our website and we should have all of those available. I hope this helps you out! TheAmericanFigCompany.com
@@PlantFanatics I think the texas everbearing, unknown ashbury black and possibly nero 600. Wish me luck and thanks for the info.
in Nova Scotia zone 5-6 but very bitter wind conditions & deep frozen snow, I have 3 Chicago Hardy Figs that have some figs on them swelling up nicely. just bought then this year in 9 inch pots. Will be keeping them in an unheated solarium so that they freeze but don't get beaten up by the heavy rain, snow, wind that goes on for months. In your area, this type might be what you want.
My figs were hard and not edible could you advise me on what to do so I will be able to eat figs this year. I am new to growing figs. Thank you very much. Ruby
When did you try to eat them? They should be pretty soft when they are ripe
could be anything from water stress , poor Nutrition,too much nitrogen or climate
You're zone 6/7 and able to grow that variety of figs?! I thought only hardy figs would grow that cold.
Pretty much all fig varieties can survive zone 7 winters, but not all will produce fruit in the shorter growing seasons. Winter dieback also affects receiving crops from certain varieties. A cold hardy variety is one that will push out figs after winter dieback and within a shortened growing season. Thank you so much for checking out the video!!! Happy growing!!!
Just found your channel while searching for cold hardy fruits. I'm in zone 5, central IL and am looking for some new cold hardy fruits.
I live in Arkansas, hot, humid and periods of no rain. What is a good fig to grow in my area?
Really any of them. They are a Mediterranean plant so they take drought pretty well. Obviously a good serving of mulch is recommended. Check out TheAmericanFigCompany.com for plants and cuttings. Thanks so much for taking the time to watch the video! Happy growing!
Just found your channel, love the information and to the point. I live in zone 5b and have figs in pot to bring in, but would much rather plant in ground, as I did in zone 7. Two figs are unknown varieties I picked up at a plant sale, so need to stay in pots and one is Chicago Hardy fig. I have seen conflicting information on zone 5 hardiness for Chicago hardy fig, so have not put in ground. Is there a hardy fig for zone 5. I would love to add a few to small orchard I planted.
I always suggest adding a thick layer of mulch over your fig roots over the winter for added protection, but Chicago Hardy, Sweet Diana, Brown Turkey, and Texas Everbearing will be your best bet. Go to our website and sign up with your email because I'm about to have a bunch of cold hardy fig cuttings available. It makes for a fun winter project, and its a cheaper way of getting fig trees.
@@PlantFanatics thank you, have plenty of hay and leaves for mulch. I signed up at your website also.
I rooted a few cuttings last year that are supposed to be cold hardy. They're called Teramo. No proof as yet but i went cutting crazy last year.
I have Chicago hardy in the ground in zone 5, no ripe figs yet, but by the second summer they got to 7 feet tall and started a bunch of fruit.
Dude your epic love what you have going at your house. Where do you live I live in Maine at the bottom of the state. I have a little miss figgy and a Celeste do you think they would dye back to the ground and come back each year
Just saw this comment! Haha, Maines a little bit away from where I’m at. Do you know what growing zone you’re in? That will help me to know which figs are best for your area.
If you put thick mulch like deep pine straw around them and wrap the branches they should survive. Celeste is very cold hardy.
Is it too late to buy a fig plant from you? I live in Zone 6a-6b?
No, it’s not. Just make sure to water it thoroughly once planted.
What two varieties would you say are the cold hardiest?
There are many. Check out our website: TheAmericanFigCompany.com
1.) Unknown Ashbury Black
2.) Longue D’Aout
3.) Texas Everbearing
4.) Red Italian
5.) Boston Unknown #12
This of course is just a few out of many. I hope this helps. 😀
Hey Chad! Awesome video! Do you ship outside of the US? To Sweden? I live in zone 6-7 and would be awesome to give figs a try!
As of right now we do not ship outside of the US. However, that is something we are definitely working on for the future. There are many hurdles to jump to make that happen. Thank you so much for your amazing support. It means the world to us here. Happy growing!!
Im in Zone 5. What would be the best varieties to grow in the ground that will actually produce ripe figs? Thank you
chicago hardy but i cannot stress enough that it needs a good heavy mulching to withstand the cold.
Agreed!
I live in zone 4b. Is there a fig tree variety that would grow here?
Zone 4 is most likely going to be too cold to grow figs in the ground, even with the proper cold weather growing precautions. Figs grow quite wonderfully in pots as well, so that may be something you look into doing where you live. Thank you so much for watching. Happy growing!
Doesnt look like white marseilles. Also violette de bordeaux fruiting for you, so that WM is something else.
U have massive leaf spacing in ur trees! Do u fertilize with alot of nitrogen? Of u just have high nitrogen soil?
Hi Dano! We actually went through an incredibly long drought that stressed the trees out, and we therefore had a pretty substantial leaf drop occur. It doesn't happen here in Northwest Arkansas much, but out weather this past year has been quite difficult to deal with. Hopefully it will be better next year. However, the trees are happy and healthy besides that. Lots of figs this year. Thank you so much for the comment!
@@PlantFanatics thats crazy. Here in canada im growing 15 varieties and had a very similer extreemly hot dry summer. We hit 43 celsius multiple times. The tress did not do good. Just moved this year and transplanted them in the spring. Horrible year for growing
great video i love figs and have a very old tree
Thanks! What variety is it?
Holy cow dude ur figs massively tall!
Great videos! What zone are you in?
Thanks! We are in zone 7, right on the line of zone 6.
Aku baru menemukan chanel kamu,aku suka dan senang dengan informasinya tentang buah ara,aku baru 4 bulan menanam buah ara,dan sudah ada 100 varian,tapi aku ingin menambahnya lagi,terutama varian yang dari luar negaraku
Helpful fig info!
Thank you!
A Walk Through The Best Cold Hardy Figs in this realm would be a better title. Earth is not a planet. Gravity is not a force. Air/gas takes the shape of its container. In the globe "model" there is no container. You can not have gas pressure without a container. Our air would escape into the vacuum of space. But it doesnt. Space has to be fake. We breathe, we have gaspressure, we must have containment. Gas expands freely in all directions. Thats gas law. Gas particles doesnt stop. It doesnt change direction unless it collides with something.
There are many things about this post that disturb me. This might not be the best video for debating some of the most basic concepts in physics. Since it's here, my best advice is to dig a little deeper. If we can't grasp the basic realities of physics, it's probably best not to delve further. I suspect there might be drug use involved, but I can't be certain. Either way, I wouldn't recommend building a rocket ship based on those ideas as your foundational principles.
@@PlantFanatics Not a single rebuttal, only ad hominem.... This thing hit your ego where it must have hurt big-time! 😂
The sweet Diana they are a yellow fig
Too bad everything is now sold out !! 😢 great video either way. Thanks for sharing 🙏🏾
We are actually going to be back in stock with our cuttings starting on Monday October 11th. If you haven't already, you may consider signing up for our emails on the website. We will keep you updated on the release of new varieties and their availability. Thank you so much for the kind words! Happy growing!
What zone are you in?
Right on the line of zone 6 and zone 7 here in Northwest Arkansas. Happy growing!
Las mejores de tu jardín serán!😂
I love your videos on cold-weather fruit trees my wife and I are going to order pretty much everything you say if you ever get an opportunity to DM me if you have a particular fig that’s the biggest and best that we grow in Rapid City South Dakota please let me know I’ll buy it from you
We’ll have a lot to choose from this upcoming October
That is Tena not White Marseilles. They are sold improperly from big box stores.
Hey Hailey!! Thanks for the comment! None of our trees were purchased through a big box store, but instead have been purchased from extremely respected experts in the fig community. Identifying fig trees simply by their leaf shapes is not a good practice. The fruit is a much better way of identifying figs. Unfortunately a lot of people do assume that figs can be known by simply looking at the leaves or shape of a tree, and this can easily mix up varieties.
Fair enough, but when leaf patterns are very blatantly different at that maturity it raises red flags. The fig community is what brought this mix up to the attention of many. Did you read the post about it on OurFigs? Agristarts distributed them under the wrong name. I can assure you that if that was White Marseilles you would of seen fruit by now, and it wouldn't have deeply lobbed leaves.
@@AllYourRAw I will certainly look into this further. I appreciate you bringing this to my attention!!
I think you’r a newbie in figs ! The first fig tree is male fig tree this is why you dont get any edible fruit out of it so do not propegate and sell that to others that will be only waste of time for your customers .
Your proficiency in orthography is evidently deficient, particularly in the accurate spelling of 'propagate', and your syntactic structures are lamentably subpar.
Ozgurluk, the white marseilles is a gynodioecious fig. Plant Fanatic, this dude is a troll. Don’t fall for this dude’s clear provocation.
Pinch back and prune so you can get some fruits. Black Madeira is not cold hardy. That will never ripen in your zone.
The microclimate we planted it in is quite a bit warmer than everywhere else. We will see.
Very fertile. Big leaf
I loved your fig tree but I stopped watching at 1:29 because of all the up-talk. I just can't do it.
I suppose by up talk you mean the 5 second plug where I tell people I sell fig trees? 😂😂😂
What state are you in? I'm in zone 7 also im in southeast TN and it never gets below 0 🤔