Anything bigger than a pea will be killed by a light frost so won’t be a breba for next year ( unless of course you grow them in a greenhouse or polytunnel ). They will be barely recognisable as figs in October.
Your main crop figs are looking very promising this year, Brett! Hopefully, many of them end up ripening 🤞 My Brown Turkey tree seems to be putting out quite a lot of growth at the moment, I don't think I'll need to prune it this winter though, possibly the following winter, or maybe next spring if I end up grafting another variety onto it.
They are certainly earlier than last year so I’m quite hopeful that I MIGHT get some main crop figs this year IF the weather is favourable in the second half of August and through September into early October 🤞
it's my first year with a dwarf fig tree (I had two whole breba figs :D). It's covered in main crop fruit now though no chance to ripen so I will be removing them soon; really helpful to see what size the embryos should be at this time of year so I don't go and ruin next year's crop. Thanks Bret!
Of course that’s the size you want the embryos to be when the plant starts to go dormant ideally. If they are a centimetre wide say late October those ones probably won’t survive the winter 😁
I don't take mine off until after the tree drops all its leaves for the winter as leaving them on can cause rot to spread from the fruit to the branch.😂😅😂😅❤
@andrewhunter5254 to be honest I don’t always bother to remove them in autumn or winter as I just don’t have time 😂. Although when I made a relevant video I did advise people to remove them 😂. Quite often there aren’t many left by December 😁
Good tips, Brett. I tend to just chop my tree backas much as necessary (in Autumn ) to allow light to get to my other plants, especially the loquats. 😲 If space were not a consideration I could use better pruning techniques to maximisize fruit production for the following year.
Yes to be fair I think most of us just chop them back as necessary but somebody had asked a couple of questions on a very old video about brebas so I thought I’d try and show him on this one and he said it was perfect for his needs 😁
To be honest this wasn’t really a video on breba pruning Andrew, I was just clarifying a couple of things for someone that asked me a few questions yesterday on a very old fig video 😁. A detailed proper video would ideally need to be done when the plant is dormant 😁
@irishfruitandberries9059 I think it’s because I had no brebas so I cut it back which stimulated new growth quicker and actually the weather hasn’t been too bad here for July, no good for tropicals but fine for figs I guess
Thank you so much for the video! Very informative and helpful. The size of the figs that will survive winter is a lot smaller than I expected!
Anything bigger than a pea will be killed by a light frost so won’t be a breba for next year ( unless of course you grow them in a greenhouse or polytunnel ). They will be barely recognisable as figs in October.
Your main crop figs are looking very promising this year, Brett! Hopefully, many of them end up ripening 🤞
My Brown Turkey tree seems to be putting out quite a lot of growth at the moment, I don't think I'll need to prune it this winter though, possibly the following winter, or maybe next spring if I end up grafting another variety onto it.
They are certainly earlier than last year so I’m quite hopeful that I MIGHT get some main crop figs this year IF the weather is favourable in the second half of August and through September into early October 🤞
it's my first year with a dwarf fig tree (I had two whole breba figs :D). It's covered in main crop fruit now though no chance to ripen so I will be removing them soon; really helpful to see what size the embryos should be at this time of year so I don't go and ruin next year's crop. Thanks Bret!
Of course that’s the size you want the embryos to be when the plant starts to go dormant ideally. If they are a centimetre wide say late October those ones probably won’t survive the winter 😁
I don't take mine off until after the tree drops all its leaves for the winter as leaving them on can cause rot to spread from the fruit to the branch.😂😅😂😅❤
@andrewhunter5254 to be honest I don’t always bother to remove them in autumn or winter as I just don’t have time 😂. Although when I made a relevant video I did advise people to remove them 😂. Quite often there aren’t many left by December 😁
Good tips, Brett. I tend to just chop my tree backas much as necessary (in Autumn ) to allow light to get to my other plants, especially the loquats. 😲
If space were not a consideration I could use better pruning techniques to maximisize fruit production for the following year.
Yes to be fair I think most of us just chop them back as necessary but somebody had asked a couple of questions on a very old video about brebas so I thought I’d try and show him on this one and he said it was perfect for his needs 😁
The best video on breba pruning was made by bob Duncan at ( fruit trees and more ) channel . He only has 10 videos but they're top notched. ❤🎉🎉🎉🎉
To be honest this wasn’t really a video on breba pruning Andrew, I was just clarifying a couple of things for someone that asked me a few questions yesterday on a very old fig video 😁. A detailed proper video would ideally need to be done when the plant is dormant 😁
Mains are looking good.
Currently around 2 weeks ahead of last year Karl, of course they slow down a lot in September so we’ll see what happens
@@lyonheart84 strange given how terrible the weather has been this year
@irishfruitandberries9059 I think it’s because I had no brebas so I cut it back which stimulated new growth quicker and actually the weather hasn’t been too bad here for July, no good for tropicals but fine for figs I guess