OMG you have one too. I have a thing for Poms. The fact that ithey should grow great in my area blows my mind. Mine is a little thinner than yours but i just got it this spring. Mine is about to flower. Mine didnt have a variety. I just bought it from etsy.
Wow, those Desert King brebas are huge Karl! The others are doing incredibly well too! Most of the cuttings you sent me that I managed to root are coming along well, I'll probably have to repot some of them soon 👍. Interesting to hear the RDB has been a reliable breba producer for you! I will have to see how mine does outside in the future 🤞
Hi, new subscriber here. I had a quick look through your videos looking for an answer about figs in ireland. I have a good few in pots outside and I'm getting good results, plenty of figs. I have a few different varieties. I want to plant some of them in the ground. I've read everywhere that their roots should be restricted. Have you any experience with unrestricted roots and what were the results? Basically I'm looking for proof and not believing what I read. Especially because the literature is probably based on the uk climate.
@@leighfheritage Hey, that’s a bit of an old wives tale, but with a hint of truth. In my experience, the biggest determining factor, with regard to fruit development, is heat. Most figs, if given adequate heat, will develop fruit regardless of root restriction. That said, there are some stubborn varieties that could do with some root restriction and maybe some pinching. All of the trees that I planted in the ground do not have their roots restricted and they produce abundantly every year.
Is this variety working any better for you now? Meant to be quite a good early. Also was just gonna check, was the BM you have Black madeira kk (I have a plant that came from one of your cuttings, so just wanted to check if you knew which of the strains it was). Thanks!
@@hopeitgrows2892 Hey Conor, got a little better last year but the spot it was growing in wasn’t ideal so I dug it up, so the jury is still out on it. The BM is the KK version as far as I know. I got mine off vinny figs. But I don’t have any other strain to compare it to so who knows!
@@irishfruitandberries9059 OK thanks, yeah probably is kk then. Hmm, well hopefully the campaniere fares a bit better in its new spot, as So many people recommend it, but haven't seen many people grow it here. Cheers
Good garden videos . I have a question about your Pakistan Mulberry. Did all those branches develop on their own or did you Tip ( prune ) the top of top of the tree. Usually when you Tip the top of a young tree, multiple branches will be forced to develop. Or did you just buy that tree with branches already on it ? Thank you.
The problem with some of these exotic fruits being sold here and advertised as producing fruit in an outdoor situation is somewhat misleading. I am in Co Wicklow and I have two gogi berry plants. One outside and one in a tunnel. There isn't much difference between them. The one in the tunnel wakes up a few weeks earlier in the year but neither produce much in the way of fruit . They don't flower until mid a=August so if its a cold autunm I get no fruit at all. I am thinking about getting a pomegranite but after seeing your video I am having second thoughts. Great video, thank you.
I’ve had similar problems with goji berries. I even have a variety from lubera that is supposed to fruit from a young but they have NEVER fruited for me.
I think the red and black are probably the same. I have the black one and it goes red when ripening but only turning black very late in the ripening stage
Very nice to see them flowering, Karl! Those ones do still look a fair bit taller than mine, so looks like I might still have a bit to go yet. I'm hoping I can get it to flower by the end of the season, but who knows, it might take another year lol 😂
I grew these last year. I now have this one planted again and a yellow bantam one. I saved seeds because i paid 3€ for 30 seeds. I now shared seeds with a friend.
I am a gardener from Ukraine. We grow many different delicious mulberries. The berries ripen at the beginning of June and the trees do not need a very long sunny period and complex care. So I don't understand why mulberries don't grow in Ireland? Are there moisture making problems for the trees, so they can’t handle it? Are the berries not sweet because of the lack of sun? Why should you grow in pots?
Great to see it is producing well this year, Karl! I've seen a few people reporting a good crop of theirs this year, so maybe it is weather-related as it has been quite good this month (well except for today and yesterday lol ☔).
You need to thin out the fruit on grape vines pretty hard. You also want to thin vines down to a few productive ones which are health/strong. Likewise, you prob want two main vines running out either side, and run them the full length of the poly. I can't remember the standard spacing for the fruit clusters, but it's something like one per nine " of vine. You'll get two or three forming round the same spot, pick the best, and remove the rest. Same basic idea as with say apples. The plant is going to produce X weight of fruit by partitioning resources between green growth, and fruit. If we didn't thin the apples beyond what they naturally drop in June/July. Then we'd get lots of small apples, and likely more scab as well. If we thin them, then we get fewer large apples. The overall weight of apples won't actually change much. The plants don't care about producing nice fruit for us. They just want to pump out as much seed as they can for the next generation. That's also why some can become biannual, with bumper crops one year, and almost nothing the next. Plum trees are a classic example of that kinda thing. Nothing for a few years between frost, or stormy wet weather. Then the tree is breaking major limbs because the thing's loaded with fruit. That is its big chance to get as many seeds out as it possibly can. Look up Maritime Gardening Why Fruit Trees and Bushes Have Good and Bad Years.
Wee bit of icing sugar mixed with some borax. Ants can't tell them apart, so they will take the borax into the nest and will kill the lot. Won't do your plants any harm, but you can put it in something if you like.
I have a Desert King planted in the ground for 5 years and you ask me how much it has grown, in reality it looks like a bush rather than a small tree, it has had figs but they fall off or dry out, I mean I haven't eaten any. That has happened to me with my Chicago Hardy and Bordisott Rosa, do not grow and produce but the fruit is not achieved Zone 9b
Exactly the same thing happened to my mulberry tree here in Karachi, Pakistan, it dropped all its berries after dense fruiting. My tree is over 20 years old and I’ve noticed that some years this happens while mostly it’s good. But I must confess I don’t give much attention viz a viz fertiliser etc. 🇵🇰❤️🇵🇰
@irishfruitandberries9059 I'm in Newmarket on Fergus but have grown up feasting on Granddad's figs in Croatia .. I would greatly appreciate it if you could save me a mix of your 👌recommended fig cuttings .. regards
