Just to clarify, breba trees in my yard are not grown in full shade. They still get 7+ hours of sunlight a day during the spring and summer. Breba producers will still do far better in full sun than not, but for my yard I had to prioritize location based on the shade issues.
Ha ha I got a shout out. Don't get too down on your trees not producing well this year as you got hit with late frost frying your brebas and the extra stress for your trees recovering diverts energy away from breba. I had some trees with similar outcomes. My barbillone has zero breba but other varieties have lots. I wanted to add that even in ground springtime fluctuations can cause drop then again just before ripening there will be a second drop. My granthams where loaded first thing and half dropped during the first abortion but still a large crop on the trees. Last year second abortion dropped all but a handful but that was in a big heat wave so fingers crossed this year. Also pinching your tips before bud break can reduce the amount of drop on first abortion but will remove any chance of main crop ripening unless of the earliest varieties
Hi, so this is a mystery. I h 0:05 ave a supposed cold tolerant fig I bought from Lowe's. The first year, no figs, all the stems died during winter, I thought it was dead, but the next year, it grew like crazy from a stump, and we had multiple fig crops, 5 to 7 at a time, off of new stems. They tasted wonderful.l!! So this year, I kept my fig tree in a green house, about a small 3 gallon clay pot , and it grew vigorously in the winter after solstice , but It seems more leggy, but grew more new branches, and has produced about 20 figs this year to date, none ripe, slow to rippen.. I'm in Missouri, and it's hot and dry, so I water the plant every day, and it's full sun, 90°F+, full sun but doesn't get full afternoon sun, shaded by then. But now I'm considering shade, at least for the pot/roots due to your video. Many fruits, but seem slow to ripen. Very long stems, with a large number of leaves and fruit at the ends of each long stem. I'll try to find out what the genus of it is. Thanks! Dave
Hi, so this is in store bought cheap potting soil. I do fertilize with simple vegetable fertilizer. I think it is 4-5-4 Pennington rejuvenate fertilizer. The plant takes forever to ripen, but the fruit is delicious!!
@@HiDave0016 hi Dave. I can only make assumptions based off what you said. I’m far from Missouri and we have way different climates. I would assume you have leggy growth for a couple reasons: The pot is too small , it’s not getting enough light, it’s got FMV, or it needs fertilizer. I have some trees that just naturally grow leggy no matter what. Sometimes that related to what I assume to be FMV. Time and fertilizer usually allows the trees to grow out of it, but it takes time. Good luck!
I live in Port Coquitlam BC and im just trying out fig trees, and my tiny 1 year old fig tree I bought from the garden store this winter, I up potted it in the spring and im about to harvest its first braba in about a day or 2 im really letting it get nice and its on my balcony where it does not get the best sun since I have massive trees in my backyard. Is early because I had it indoors early in spring and did not take it out untill early June, its even just starting to form double bumps which was surprising since its still really young, I have many other varieties im trying out but so far this one has been doing the best, my celeste and LSU purple had a ton of winter damage from late which set them far back, also ive heard you can plant fig trees close together and still have good success if you prune them, ive heard a fig grower Ross Raddie who has a chanel and he planted his fig trees only 2 feet apart which he i thought was crazy but hes having success.
@@evanborge494 sounds like you’re starting out the right way. Giving them an early start is a good way to get a jump on things. I’m only planting the trees this close together out of necessity. I don’t think it’s a good idea long term for me because it’ll be too much maintenance and our trees tend to get big over time without much dieback usually.
My Stella dropped all breba also, but has tiny figlets that sometimes will ripen in time. My DK is absolutely loaded, but is also probably 25 years old and, therefore, very stable. Others doing great so far this year in Salem, OR are my Atreano, Olympian, and Souadi. My surprise of the year so far is my one year old Red Lebanese Bekka Valley. No breba, but biggest main crop figlets yet this year. I've not gotten Smith breba yet either in the pot.
That’s great to hear Eric. I up potted a souadi this year to a 15 gallon. Very productive for a small tree. RLBV and the other Etna trees are so reliable. Great choices for us. Have you joined the PNW figs group on Facebook yet? If not you should.
I'm in Seattle. My dessert King has 5 or 6 breba (first time). I have about 10 other various varieties...I don't see figs developing on any of them yet. All my figs are in pots. Our weather has mostly been cold this year so far.
Ya. That cold snap in the spring really set things back. One of these years maybe I’ll get some good breba production. So far it’s been one to a handful on most of the trees.
sounds like your shady portion of the day is typically in the morning and then sunny in theafternoon? Do you have any growing that get sun early and shade late afternoon? I have some breba fig trees that get late afternoon shade and have had a rough time with them and am wondering if that's why.
My 5 year in-ground Stella, which are commonly sold her in Portland, had 17 breba and dropped every. single. one. Very upset about that. Last year it ripened one and it was delicious but I think the tree has to go, it just doesn't hold.
I second that, Im new to figs, recently retired, but started my collection last year.. Do you watch The Millennium Gardner?? We are in the same zone, or basically similar climates, he has amazing growth, and fruit set on 100% of his trees, he didn't prune this year and his trees had hundreds of breba's.. practically overnight THEY ALL DROPPED, Just like in Georgia? Chris at Oregon Figs always preaches to me, CLIMATE SPECIFIC.. and he's absolutely right.. our climate is main crop only, but, I do envy that Pacific NW climate.. end of their season is so PERFECT for ripening figs.. Spend your time on trees that fruit!! We're not doing this to waste our time, fertilizer, and money on trees that don't fruit.. totally agree,
@@Loftinart Might entirely depend on amount of heat/sunlight and age.. I have a few stella in ground in full sun north of eugene and they've done well last two years. They took about 4 years in the ground to produce anything other than a later main crop tho
@@Loftinart Yea location is key, and this year's a bit of a wash on breba for the most part because of the spring. Only thing I got a real breba off of so far was a petite aubique of all things
I'm sure temperature swings and variety play the biggest role in fruit reliability but I wonder if soil type is a factor in reliability and quality as well when planted in ground
Breba's don't do well in Georgia at all, they all fall off.😢. What kind of buckets are those BLUE ones?? You have a lot of them, and I've never seen them? I like the sturdy handles. Much srurdie than the paint buckets?
I got them on Amazon. Somebody posted about them somewhere and I think it was a wrong price by the seller. It was less than $50 for a stack of 6 of those at the time. They’re food grade plastic, so really nice. I drilled drain holes out the bottom and use them for the trees I shuffle in and out of the greenhouse. They work great but I’m wondering how long they’ll last with the trees needing to be root pruned. I’m guessing I’ll have to do that every year on those. They’re only 10g
@@Loftinart the paint buckets at Lowe's and Home Depot are only 5g, so you get twice as long, their not under grower, or garden pots? How did you find them on Amazon??
Just to clarify, breba trees in my yard are not grown in full shade. They still get 7+ hours of sunlight a day during the spring and summer. Breba producers will still do far better in full sun than not, but for my yard I had to prioritize location based on the shade issues.
Ha ha I got a shout out. Don't get too down on your trees not producing well this year as you got hit with late frost frying your brebas and the extra stress for your trees recovering diverts energy away from breba. I had some trees with similar outcomes. My barbillone has zero breba but other varieties have lots. I wanted to add that even in ground springtime fluctuations can cause drop then again just before ripening there will be a second drop. My granthams where loaded first thing and half dropped during the first abortion but still a large crop on the trees. Last year second abortion dropped all but a handful but that was in a big heat wave so fingers crossed this year. Also pinching your tips before bud break can reduce the amount of drop on first abortion but will remove any chance of main crop ripening unless of the earliest varieties
Thanks for the info Byron! You’ve been at this a lot longer than me and I appreciate your help with all of it.
I love your dog, every time you come out, that's your faithful lil companion ❤️ it is a beautiful dog..
Thank you! We love our dogs like crazy.
@@Loftinart the dog is how I found your channel, I always stop scrolling when I see a dog. I saw a dog and fig trees, my 2 favorite hobbies...
So I can’t wait till you put together a list of figs for the north west
@@natemurphy4367 I’m working on it. 😉
Hi, so this is a mystery. I h 0:05 ave a supposed cold tolerant fig I bought from Lowe's. The first year, no figs, all the stems died during winter, I thought it was dead, but the next year, it grew like crazy from a stump, and we had multiple fig crops, 5 to 7 at a time, off of new stems.
They tasted wonderful.l!!
So this year, I kept my fig tree in a green house, about a small 3 gallon clay pot , and it grew vigorously in the winter after solstice , but It seems more leggy, but grew more new branches, and has produced about 20 figs this year to date, none ripe, slow to rippen.. I'm in Missouri, and it's hot and dry, so I water the plant every day, and it's full sun, 90°F+, full sun but doesn't get full afternoon sun, shaded by then.
But now I'm considering shade, at least for the pot/roots due to your video.
Many fruits, but seem slow to ripen.
Very long stems, with a large number of leaves and fruit at the ends of each long stem.
I'll try to find out what the genus of it is.
Thanks!
Dave
Hi, so this is in store bought cheap potting soil.
I do fertilize with simple vegetable fertilizer. I think it is 4-5-4 Pennington rejuvenate fertilizer.
The plant takes forever to ripen, but the fruit is delicious!!
@@HiDave0016 hi Dave. I can only make assumptions based off what you said. I’m far from Missouri and we have way different climates. I would assume you have leggy growth for a couple reasons:
The pot is too small , it’s not getting enough light, it’s got FMV, or it needs fertilizer.
I have some trees that just naturally grow leggy no matter what. Sometimes that related to what I assume to be FMV. Time and fertilizer usually allows the trees to grow out of it, but it takes time.
Good luck!
I live in Port Coquitlam BC and im just trying out fig trees, and my tiny 1 year old fig tree I bought from the garden store this winter, I up potted it in the spring and im about to harvest its first braba in about a day or 2 im really letting it get nice and its on my balcony where it does not get the best sun since I have massive trees in my backyard. Is early because I had it indoors early in spring and did not take it out untill early June, its even just starting to form double bumps which was surprising since its still really young, I have many other varieties im trying out but so far this one has been doing the best, my celeste and LSU purple had a ton of winter damage from late which set them far back, also ive heard you can plant fig trees close together and still have good success if you prune them, ive heard a fig grower Ross Raddie who has a chanel and he planted his fig trees only 2 feet apart which he i thought was crazy but hes having success.
@@evanborge494 sounds like you’re starting out the right way. Giving them an early start is a good way to get a jump on things.
I’m only planting the trees this close together out of necessity. I don’t think it’s a good idea long term for me because it’ll be too much maintenance and our trees tend to get big over time without much dieback usually.
My Stella dropped all breba also, but has tiny figlets that sometimes will ripen in time. My DK is absolutely loaded, but is also probably 25 years old and, therefore, very stable. Others doing great so far this year in Salem, OR are my Atreano, Olympian, and Souadi. My surprise of the year so far is my one year old Red Lebanese Bekka Valley. No breba, but biggest main crop figlets yet this year. I've not gotten Smith breba yet either in the pot.
That’s great to hear Eric. I up potted a souadi this year to a 15 gallon. Very productive for a small tree. RLBV and the other Etna trees are so reliable. Great choices for us.
Have you joined the PNW figs group on Facebook yet? If not you should.
Stella drops breba. Sets tons then they drop
I'm in Seattle. My dessert King has 5 or 6 breba (first time). I have about 10 other various varieties...I don't see figs developing on any of them yet. All my figs are in pots. Our weather has mostly been cold this year so far.
Ya. That cold snap in the spring really set things back. One of these years maybe I’ll get some good breba production. So far it’s been one to a handful on most of the trees.
Yes I have a few paw paw trees here in Washington I started them from seed year 2
sounds like your shady portion of the day is typically in the morning and then sunny in theafternoon? Do you have any growing that get sun early and shade late afternoon? I have some breba fig trees that get late afternoon shade and have had a rough time with them and am wondering if that's why.
Nah. My backyard is full sun by mid afternoon.
My 5 year in-ground Stella, which are commonly sold her in Portland, had 17 breba and dropped every. single. one. Very upset about that. Last year it ripened one and it was delicious but I think the tree has to go, it just doesn't hold.
I completely agree. Stella has never held breba for me either. I’ve started grafting over it.
I second that, Im new to figs, recently retired, but started my collection last year.. Do you watch The Millennium Gardner?? We are in the same zone, or basically similar climates, he has amazing growth, and fruit set on 100% of his trees, he didn't prune this year and his trees had hundreds of breba's.. practically overnight THEY ALL DROPPED, Just like in Georgia? Chris at Oregon Figs always preaches to me, CLIMATE SPECIFIC.. and he's absolutely right.. our climate is main crop only, but, I do envy that Pacific NW climate.. end of their season is so PERFECT for ripening figs.. Spend your time on trees that fruit!! We're not doing this to waste our time, fertilizer, and money on trees that don't fruit.. totally agree,
@@Loftinart Might entirely depend on amount of heat/sunlight and age.. I have a few stella in ground in full sun north of eugene and they've done well last two years. They took about 4 years in the ground to produce anything other than a later main crop tho
@@PodcastOnTheSpectrum we’ll see. I think this is year 5 for me on that one. No structure around it though. Makes a big difference.
@@Loftinart Yea location is key, and this year's a bit of a wash on breba for the most part because of the spring. Only thing I got a real breba off of so far was a petite aubique of all things
I'm sure temperature swings and variety play the biggest role in fruit reliability but I wonder if soil type is a factor in reliability and quality as well when planted in ground
I wouldn’t doubt it. I have mostly sandy loam and river rock but all my pots are mostly wood based mix.
Breba's don't do well in Georgia at all, they all fall off.😢. What kind of buckets are those BLUE ones?? You have a lot of them, and I've never seen them? I like the sturdy handles. Much srurdie than the paint buckets?
I got them on Amazon. Somebody posted about them somewhere and I think it was a wrong price by the seller. It was less than $50 for a stack of 6 of those at the time. They’re food grade plastic, so really nice. I drilled drain holes out the bottom and use them for the trees I shuffle in and out of the greenhouse. They work great but I’m wondering how long they’ll last with the trees needing to be root pruned. I’m guessing I’ll have to do that every year on those. They’re only 10g
@@Loftinart the paint buckets at Lowe's and Home Depot are only 5g, so you get twice as long, their not under grower, or garden pots? How did you find them on Amazon??