A wise guy saw a comment where I mentioned planting fruit trees as a food supply and he said, "Ha ha...now you can sit back and watch your trees slowly grow for 10 or 20 years before producing any food." I replied, "Have you ever PLANTED figs, mulberries, blueberries, or Asian persimmon trees in Louisiana?" A fig tree can grow 15 or 20 feet in two years. So can mulberries. Figs and the persimmons might not produce until year two but after that they usually go crazy. Blackberries usually produce in year two but they have some that make berries from this year`s canes now. I pruned all of the ones in my 100ft patch here repeatedly last year and fertilized them. Gonna be awesome this year! I just ordered a 3 gallon glass wine making kit too. Use Champagne yeast and add a few cups of sugar per gallon and the wine will be 18 to 20 percent alcohol! And it will be ready to drink in one week unless you want to age it. But blackberry wine is already so delicious that I can`t wait.
Hello @baneverything5580 thank you for watching and commenting! That is a great point that you made. Yes, fig and mulberry trees definitely grow that quickly here in Phoenix too. That is great that you also have blueberries and Asian persimmons that grow quick in Louisiana. It is definitely possible to get food quickly depending on what is planted and where it is planted. The blackberry wine sounds amazing! I haven't put any blackberries in The Green Yard yet but I really want to.
@@thegreenyardaz One of my Brown Turkey cuttings planted this year is already an almost 8 feet wide bush loaded with figs. I have another in a pot but I`m thinking of putting a third variety where I had planned to plant it. I have four Celeste too I planted this year but they didn`t fruit. I think they were tissue culture trees so it will be next year.
Sounds like the Olympian variety...a mutant strain of English Brown Turkey. I see a lot of fig obsessives claiming the Brown Turkey is terrible but my trees produce huge, delicious, extremely sweet fruits. Plus they`re cold hardy and massive producers and very rapid growers. I`ve never seen a fruit tree grow so fast and produce so much in its first season.
Hello @tlnelson7598, thank you for watching and commenting! That is very interesting to hear that it tastes like peach. I got this tree as a mystery fig and am pretty sure it is a Brown Turkey but could be another variety. The figs themselves are delicious and are very sweet in flavor.
Hello @baneverything5580, thank you for watching and commenting! That is very interesting information about a mutant strain of English Brown Turkey. I did get this tree as a mystery fig but it looks like a Brown Turkey to me. It has very delicious fruit and I agree that it is a massive producer that grows extremely quickly.
Hey man, I just bought a brown turkey from a Lowes, im also out here in the low valley.. What would you recommend for watering? I havent put it in the gorund yet as I'm trying to break up the caliche with elemental sulfur applications.. So i transpotted it into a 10 gallon fabric pot and it seems like its doing just OKAY, if i dont water it in the earily morning the leaves sag, Im brand new to growing anything outdoors here in the desert, some feedback would be highly appreciated thanks bro!.
Hello @haze9601 thank you for watching and commenting! There are a lot of factors that go into how much water a tree needs including it's age, the soil type it's planted into, etc. Since it is in a fabric pot (grow bag), from my experience, I would water it two to three times a week. I would also make sure it has shade after 11am. I feel that this will help it survive until you are able to put it in the ground. I have several plants that I had to place in pots/grow bags and they are doing well with bi-weekly water and afternoon shade. I hope this helps and I hope you're able to harvest some figs soon! Let me know if you have any other questions.
Hello, thank you for watching and commenting! That is so true, they will not turn from a green fig into a yellow fig if picked off the tree. I have found though, from personal experience, that if they have ripened but are still hard, I can pick them before the birds get to them and they will soften and become sweet.
Hello @FC2ESWS, thank you for watching and commenting! I feel that these figs taste pretty good. I will say that they are bland if they are not completely ripe. It can sometimes be a fight with the birds to get the ripe figs, but when I can they are very sweet and flavorful. Let me know if you have any other questions.
Brown Turkey is one of the fastest growing figs I`ve ever seen and the fruits are large, abundant and one of the sweetest I`ve seen. You can graft other varieties on its branches. I guess if you`re stuck with only growing in pots then you`d want to choose something more delicious but this variety is very delicious to me. They`re cold hardy too but if they do freeze back and the roots are mulched and insulated and you lose the branches the tree will rapidly grow back and produce figs that same year. I protect my trees if we have a few very hard freezes. It isn`t hard to cover a tree with a couple of layers and put warm lights or a closed cooler full of very hot water under the covering and monitor the temps with a wireless sensor. I refuse to allow my best trees to freeze.
Hello, thank you for watching and commenting! Usually I harvest figs in the summer, June to July and then again in the fall, October to November. This year I have lots of figs on the tree but none of them are ready for a fall harvest. I'm guessing it's because of our extreme summer this year.
@@thegreenyardaz awesome this is helpful. My VDB fig has been doing the same thing. I've got a few this fall (and they've been small) but most are still in the tree not ripening.
@Caseylawton I'm glad it helped. Yes, this year was a very weird harvesting year for my figs. In 2022, when the video was filmed, we had an amazing summer with lots of storms and rain and it really helped with our 2nd harvest. Let me know if you have any other questions.
Hello @manilaboy659, thank you for watching and commenting! At the time of the video it was about three years old but only two years in this spot. I took it out of the ground at my old house before moving it into The Green Yard. Let me know if you have any other questions.
Hello @mattterry30, thank you for watching and commenting! When I go to harvest these figs they are a medium brown color, definitely not dark brown though. The green figs are still unripe and not quite ready yet.
Hello, thank you for watching and commenting! I’m not sure, as I mentioned in the video I bought it as a mystery fig so even the nursery didn’t know what is was. I looked at a bunch of varieties of figs and brown turkey looks the most similar. The other one I thought it might be was a Kadota but my figs don’t stay that green. Is there a variety you think it might be?
@@thegreenyardaz hi dear, I’m new at figs, but I have 2 brown turkey’s, Chicago Hardy , mission, and one I don’t know what he is. My brown turkey’s have long center leaves about 10 inches. Your figs trees look healthy, I also want to know the name of my mystery fig. There’s so many! Lol
There are three recognized types of Brown Turkey Fig trees...the Southern, the English, and the commercially grown Californian. The Californian is known for bland bad flavor, but this is likely due to it being picked too early for shipping, and maybe because they chose a lower sugar type to propagate to reduce spoilage during storage, shipping, etc. But those in California who grow the trees at home and ripen them properly say it`s a tasty fig, so who knows. The English type is known for hardiness to cold, etc. The Southern type I assume is adapted to hotter, humid, environments and perhaps more rain. I`m not 100% sure. I ordered mine, so I have no idea what to expect, but this will be its 2nd year in zone 8 Louisiana. And I already have rooted cuttings to plant more of it just in case. If it`s not very good I can use it as root stock for grafting experiments, fig jam, preserves or cakes, or as a treat for the birds here. @@thegreenyardaz
Hello @geoph1972, I appreciate you watching and commenting! I agree with you, it was definitely too long, Unfortunately, I can't go into the past and change it so I have worked on making my new video intros 30 seconds or less.
A wise guy saw a comment where I mentioned planting fruit trees as a food supply and he said, "Ha ha...now you can sit back and watch your trees slowly grow for 10 or 20 years before producing any food." I replied, "Have you ever PLANTED figs, mulberries, blueberries, or Asian persimmon trees in Louisiana?" A fig tree can grow 15 or 20 feet in two years. So can mulberries. Figs and the persimmons might not produce until year two but after that they usually go crazy. Blackberries usually produce in year two but they have some that make berries from this year`s canes now. I pruned all of the ones in my 100ft patch here repeatedly last year and fertilized them. Gonna be awesome this year! I just ordered a 3 gallon glass wine making kit too. Use Champagne yeast and add a few cups of sugar per gallon and the wine will be 18 to 20 percent alcohol! And it will be ready to drink in one week unless you want to age it. But blackberry wine is already so delicious that I can`t wait.
Hello @baneverything5580 thank you for watching and commenting! That is a great point that you made. Yes, fig and mulberry trees definitely grow that quickly here in Phoenix too. That is great that you also have blueberries and Asian persimmons that grow quick in Louisiana. It is definitely possible to get food quickly depending on what is planted and where it is planted. The blackberry wine sounds amazing! I haven't put any blackberries in The Green Yard yet but I really want to.
@@thegreenyardaz One of my Brown Turkey cuttings planted this year is already an almost 8 feet wide bush loaded with figs. I have another in a pot but I`m thinking of putting a third variety where I had planned to plant it. I have four Celeste too I planted this year but they didn`t fruit. I think they were tissue culture trees so it will be next year.
My brown turkey taste like a peach. I have several different figs and BT is one of my favorites.
Sounds like the Olympian variety...a mutant strain of English Brown Turkey. I see a lot of fig obsessives claiming the Brown Turkey is terrible but my trees produce huge, delicious, extremely sweet fruits. Plus they`re cold hardy and massive producers and very rapid growers. I`ve never seen a fruit tree grow so fast and produce so much in its first season.
Hello @tlnelson7598, thank you for watching and commenting! That is very interesting to hear that it tastes like peach. I got this tree as a mystery fig and am pretty sure it is a Brown Turkey but could be another variety. The figs themselves are delicious and are very sweet in flavor.
Hello @baneverything5580, thank you for watching and commenting! That is very interesting information about a mutant strain of English Brown Turkey. I did get this tree as a mystery fig but it looks like a Brown Turkey to me. It has very delicious fruit and I agree that it is a massive producer that grows extremely quickly.
Good job brother I love figs tree
Hello @oldyspices, thank you for watching and commenting! I appreciate the kind words! I love figs too, they do great here in the Phoenix area.
Hey man, I just bought a brown turkey from a Lowes, im also out here in the low valley.. What would you recommend for watering? I havent put it in the gorund yet as I'm trying to break up the caliche with elemental sulfur applications.. So i transpotted it into a 10 gallon fabric pot and it seems like its doing just OKAY, if i dont water it in the earily morning the leaves sag, Im brand new to growing anything outdoors here in the desert, some feedback would be highly appreciated thanks bro!.
Hello @haze9601 thank you for watching and commenting! There are a lot of factors that go into how much water a tree needs including it's age, the soil type it's planted into, etc. Since it is in a fabric pot (grow bag), from my experience, I would water it two to three times a week. I would also make sure it has shade after 11am. I feel that this will help it survive until you are able to put it in the ground. I have several plants that I had to place in pots/grow bags and they are doing well with bi-weekly water and afternoon shade. I hope this helps and I hope you're able to harvest some figs soon! Let me know if you have any other questions.
Figs do not ripen any further after they're picked. Best to leave them on the tree until fully ripe.
Hello, thank you for watching and commenting! That is so true, they will not turn from a green fig into a yellow fig if picked off the tree. I have found though, from personal experience, that if they have ripened but are still hard, I can pick them before the birds get to them and they will soften and become sweet.
@@thegreenyardaz interesting. Have you tried tying organza bags on the figs to protect them?
What fertilizer do you use, and how often?
How do these taste? I keep hearing that they are kinda bland?
Hello @FC2ESWS, thank you for watching and commenting! I feel that these figs taste pretty good. I will say that they are bland if they are not completely ripe. It can sometimes be a fight with the birds to get the ripe figs, but when I can they are very sweet and flavorful. Let me know if you have any other questions.
Brown Turkey is one of the fastest growing figs I`ve ever seen and the fruits are large, abundant and one of the sweetest I`ve seen. You can graft other varieties on its branches. I guess if you`re stuck with only growing in pots then you`d want to choose something more delicious but this variety is very delicious to me. They`re cold hardy too but if they do freeze back and the roots are mulched and insulated and you lose the branches the tree will rapidly grow back and produce figs that same year. I protect my trees if we have a few very hard freezes. It isn`t hard to cover a tree with a couple of layers and put warm lights or a closed cooler full of very hot water under the covering and monitor the temps with a wireless sensor. I refuse to allow my best trees to freeze.
What months do you typically harvest your figs?
Hello, thank you for watching and commenting! Usually I harvest figs in the summer, June to July and then again in the fall, October to November. This year I have lots of figs on the tree but none of them are ready for a fall harvest. I'm guessing it's because of our extreme summer this year.
@@thegreenyardaz awesome this is helpful. My VDB fig has been doing the same thing. I've got a few this fall (and they've been small) but most are still in the tree not ripening.
@Caseylawton I'm glad it helped. Yes, this year was a very weird harvesting year for my figs. In 2022, when the video was filmed, we had an amazing summer with lots of storms and rain and it really helped with our 2nd harvest. Let me know if you have any other questions.
how old that tree...
Hello @manilaboy659, thank you for watching and commenting! At the time of the video it was about three years old but only two years in this spot. I took it out of the ground at my old house before moving it into The Green Yard. Let me know if you have any other questions.
I have a brown Mission Fig tree and the figs when ripe are brown, not green.
Hello @mattterry30, thank you for watching and commenting! When I go to harvest these figs they are a medium brown color, definitely not dark brown though. The green figs are still unripe and not quite ready yet.
Brown turkey, are you sure? The leaf size is questionable and pattern
Hello, thank you for watching and commenting! I’m not sure, as I mentioned in the video I bought it as a mystery fig so even the nursery didn’t know what is was. I looked at a bunch of varieties of figs and brown turkey looks the most similar. The other one I thought it might be was a Kadota but my figs don’t stay that green. Is there a variety you think it might be?
@@thegreenyardaz hi dear, I’m new at figs, but I have 2 brown turkey’s, Chicago Hardy , mission, and one I don’t know what he is. My brown turkey’s have long center leaves about 10 inches. Your figs trees look healthy, I also want to know the name of my mystery fig. There’s so many! Lol
There are three recognized types of Brown Turkey Fig trees...the Southern, the English, and the commercially grown Californian. The Californian is known for bland bad flavor, but this is likely due to it being picked too early for shipping, and maybe because they chose a lower sugar type to propagate to reduce spoilage during storage, shipping, etc. But those in California who grow the trees at home and ripen them properly say it`s a tasty fig, so who knows. The English type is known for hardiness to cold, etc. The Southern type I assume is adapted to hotter, humid, environments and perhaps more rain. I`m not 100% sure. I ordered mine, so I have no idea what to expect, but this will be its 2nd year in zone 8 Louisiana. And I already have rooted cuttings to plant more of it just in case. If it`s not very good I can use it as root stock for grafting experiments, fig jam, preserves or cakes, or as a treat for the birds here. @@thegreenyardaz
The 48 second intro of the video is waaaaaaay too long!
Hello @geoph1972, I appreciate you watching and commenting! I agree with you, it was definitely too long, Unfortunately, I can't go into the past and change it so I have worked on making my new video intros 30 seconds or less.
@@thegreenyardaz At least it's a pleasant 30 seconds.