All figs trees grow like weeds and require very little maintenance or water once established. They're also extremely easy to propagate. You can clip branch from this year's growth and put it in a pot of soil and it will root in about 2-3 weeks. Fig is a perfect tree for learning how to air layer too. Use a clear plastic bottle around a branch and you can watch the progress! Don't worry about the leaves. The difference between the leaves in your vid are due to the age difference of your clones. Your new tree with the thicker leaves was an air layered branch from a more established tree that was already fruiting when it was removed. It could also be due to when each different variety is set to fruit in the season, ie early-season, mid-season, late-season, etc
eYeKeepsitReal how large of a container would you recommend for figs ? Also how often do you recommend watering trees ? Only when the leaves droop ? Thanks !
That rough weathered leaf on the Kadota is due to full sun exposure, maturity and nutrients. I read on the Figs4Fun forum that 1.5T per gallon of soil dosage of Iron-Tone or Ironite and along with your monthly feed regimen will help develop your leaves to that hardiness.
I am new to gardening. My first tree was a pear tree I put in groud last year and it flourishes beautiful! I recently bought a fiddle leaf I am growing in a pot and I put my kadota fig tree in the garden bed in my front yard. I'm excited to see how she flourishes. I speak to them everyday and pray for a bountiful harvest that they may have fruit in abundance.....Praise Yahuah!
Thank you for this helpful video. I appreciate how you described the leaf texture of the kadota. I found a fig tree on my walk,took cuttings and noticed the leaves were also coarse texture almost like sand paper,the greenish yellow sweet as sugar. This was a very helpful video. I guess I have a kadota cutting,I'm pleased😊 Thank you for sharing👍👍🤗
Awesome! I'll try to find that variety. We're somewhat new food-growers (living in Mesa), ready to dive into fruit trees. I'm asking for fig and pomegranate trees for my September birthday. I hope they'll do well!
Beautiful trees,wish you would tell the names of them,especially the tall one by your fence your leaving for the birds to finish off. I would love to have a fig tree that tall and healthy. Thanks for sharing👍🤗
here's my questions.. 1.what was the tiny black spot under the leaf because i also have that..looks like an insects 2. why the leaf are different from one another even when they're from the same var?
I bought a Kadota Fig and a Tiger Fig at Lowes a few years ago. My Kadota fig tree looks a lot different than yours (I'm in northern San Diego, California). My roughly 4-year old in-ground Kadota fig tree is a lot shorter than your in-ground fig tree, and the figs on my tree are quite a bit bigger and yellower than yours. Maybe they are just more ripe. However, I like the taste of the Tiger Fig better than the Kadota, although I would say that the Kadota is more vigorous. I also have a Black Mission Fig, Desert King, and Chicago Hardy fig, which come to think of it all taste better than the Kadota. The Kadota is by far the biggest and most productive of these other figs though, which is nice. And, I believe I read somewhere that Kadota is the type of fig that Fig Newtons used to be made out of.
I'm just a beginner and I have a Kadota and Chicago Winter Hardy so far. I live in NJ zone 7 and both have died completely back to the ground so last year I dug up the Kadota and overwintered it in my garage. If the Chicago is tastier I may move that one to the garage this winter too.
Yes to the yellower color indicating more ripeness. The ones on this tree here aren't ready yet, and that's why they're so green. Also want to note that the flavor of Kadotas will improve and sweeten up more in the more hot/dry/desert-like climates. That's where they're commercially grown, in California's central Valley. It's really not at its best in milder summer climates, or climates that get summer rains.
All figs trees grow like weeds and require very little maintenance or water once established. They're also extremely easy to propagate. You can clip branch from this year's growth and put it in a pot of soil and it will root in about 2-3 weeks. Fig is a perfect tree for learning how to air layer too. Use a clear plastic bottle around a branch and you can watch the progress!
Don't worry about the leaves. The difference between the leaves in your vid are due to the age difference of your clones. Your new tree with the thicker leaves was an air layered branch from a more established tree that was already fruiting when it was removed. It could also be due to when each different variety is set to fruit in the season, ie early-season, mid-season, late-season, etc
eYeKeepsitReal how large of a container would you recommend for figs ? Also how often do you recommend watering trees ? Only when the leaves droop ? Thanks !
That rough weathered leaf on the Kadota is due to full sun exposure, maturity and nutrients. I read on the Figs4Fun forum that 1.5T per gallon of soil dosage of Iron-Tone or Ironite and along with your monthly feed regimen will help develop your leaves to that hardiness.
I am new to gardening. My first tree was a pear tree I put in groud last year and it flourishes beautiful! I recently bought a fiddle leaf I am growing in a pot and I put my kadota fig tree in the garden bed in my front yard. I'm excited to see how she flourishes. I speak to them everyday and pray for a bountiful harvest that they may have fruit in abundance.....Praise Yahuah!
Thank you for this helpful video.
I appreciate how you described the leaf texture of the kadota.
I found a fig tree on my walk,took cuttings and noticed the leaves were also coarse texture almost like sand paper,the greenish yellow sweet as sugar.
This was a very helpful video.
I guess I have a kadota cutting,I'm pleased😊
Thank you for sharing👍👍🤗
i love your fense/trellis... great video
En Argentina tenemos 90 variedades de ficus carica y estas las puedes encontrar en la calle.😊
Awesome! I'll try to find that variety. We're somewhat new food-growers (living in Mesa), ready to dive into fruit trees. I'm asking for fig and pomegranate trees for my September birthday. I hope they'll do well!
“a lot of the plants doo doo” 1:40 😂😂😂🤣😅 💩
Nice looking fig tree!
Beautiful figs, i like it
Can attest to the Kadota, tripled in size since I put it in last year!
Beautiful trees,wish you would tell the names of them,especially the tall one by your fence your leaving for the birds to finish off.
I would love to have a fig tree that tall and healthy.
Thanks for sharing👍🤗
From what I saw in another vid I think it's yellow long neck, I just bought one myself and excited to taste them in a few years!
How do you know when and how much to water these ? Thank you
Funny, the leaves on my Petite Nigra Fig are tough like this. I didn't know if it was normal or what since I'm new to fig growing.
Normal baby normal, baby calm down.
do you do cuttings Exchange?
here's my questions..
1.what was the tiny black spot under the leaf because i also have that..looks like an insects
2. why the leaf are different from one another even when they're from the same var?
Hey jay are you going to top off your trees on your espalier wall
I dont know yet. I thought it would be fun to see how tall i can get it. If i do prune i will air layer them into instant trees!
How does it taste?
looks like your tree was an air layer. that's why the leaves are mature.
Sooooo.....this is the first fig for beginners because of the leaves? How about hardiness? Will this thrive in zone 5b?
Issac Newton figs can go down to 10 degrees
I bought a Kadota Fig and a Tiger Fig at Lowes a few years ago. My Kadota fig tree looks a lot different than yours (I'm in northern San Diego, California). My roughly 4-year old in-ground Kadota fig tree is a lot shorter than your in-ground fig tree, and the figs on my tree are quite a bit bigger and yellower than yours. Maybe they are just more ripe. However, I like the taste of the Tiger Fig better than the Kadota, although I would say that the Kadota is more vigorous. I also have a Black Mission Fig, Desert King, and Chicago Hardy fig, which come to think of it all taste better than the Kadota. The Kadota is by far the biggest and most productive of these other figs though, which is nice. And, I believe I read somewhere that Kadota is the type of fig that Fig Newtons used to be made out of.
I'm just a beginner and I have a Kadota and Chicago Winter Hardy so far. I live in NJ zone 7 and both have died completely back to the ground so last year I dug up the Kadota and overwintered it in my garage. If the Chicago is tastier I may move that one to the garage this winter too.
Yes to the yellower color indicating more ripeness. The ones on this tree here aren't ready yet, and that's why they're so green.
Also want to note that the flavor of Kadotas will improve and sweeten up more in the more hot/dry/desert-like climates. That's where they're commercially grown, in California's central Valley. It's really not at its best in milder summer climates, or climates that get summer rains.