My 2 favorite fruit trees 🌳❤️
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- Опубліковано 11 жов 2024
- I love these 2 fruit trees, they are definitely my favorites, no contest! I share at least 7 reasons why you should plant these 2 fruit trees and the (very few) issues you may have with them. Happy gardening!
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You're right! Awesome video 😊
Thanks for watching! 😊
"If your fig tree ever dies back to the ground [...] you can expect it to might grow up to five feet tall the very next year." My Chicago Hardy died back to the ground last winter (its first winter outdoors). It grew back to seven feet, and I'm enjoying several (smallish) figs each day, probably until frost. I'll have to take measures to protect it a bit better this winter once it has gone dormant.
Mulberries are something I haven't considered, though it sounds like I should.
Whoaa 😲 that's a lot of growth in one year! Glad you got to enjoy figs this year, but also surprised that the Chicago Hardy died back. To my knowledge, they are one of the most hardy of fig varieties.
@@FaewoodAcres Temps got to -10F at one point (which is unusually cold for this area--Northwest Arkansas), and a lot of the growth was still tender when frost arrived and the tree went dormant. I'll be protecting the new wood this year, and hopefully the tree will be better established and can manage with less protection in future years. The fast growth is probably helped by the long summer heat. A lot of UA-camrs growing figs that I see are in more coastal areas, but here in the middle of the continent temperatures are more extreme for both heat and cold. Spring and fall are very short.
Do you know how you'll protect them? I'm planning a video for Fall about protecting against extreme cold. Covers, lights, and mulch mainly.
@@FaewoodAcres Current plan (which you're welcome to suggest a change to--I'm a newbie) is to keep about a half dozen of the "medium" stems, pruning both the really tall and really low stems back to the base, then before temps start dropping into the low 20's regularly bend them to the ground, cover with woodchips to several inches. The ground never really freezes to any depth here, even though air temps can get quite cold for a few days at a time. I'm considering dry woodchips first, a sheet of plastic, then additional chips--not sure if the plants will benefit from minimizing contact with moisture. I'll uncover around the end of March (average last frost is mid-April).
Sounds like a plan!
Personally I'd be wary of the plastic causing fungus problems, more of a problem for other trees though, and I'd be ok with just piling on the wood chips. The main enemy is the frost staying on your plant, and the chips should help that.
Best of luck 🍀
Nurseries sell like 3-4 generic fig tree varieties. While if you buy from Third party or places like figbid, you have limitless varieties. The only good fig nurseries sell here is violet des Bordeaux and celeste and they are not good strains of them. The one i bough from someone local produces fruit from every single node and is my best tasting fig so far. Nothing comes close to it. Same for smith taste like strawberry cake syrup. Love my chicago hardy because the skin has a special peachy taste that no other fig skin has, ussualy tasteless. The ones from nurseries have been pretty mediocre. Nurseries mainly sell tissue culture figs to get rid of the FMV virus that every single fig suffers but overcomes it easily
I agree figbid will give you SO many choices. That was the fig community I referred to. I encourage local nurseries as an alternative to the big box stores, which usually just sell "common fig", or maybe "little miss figgy" probably just because it sounds cool.