Welcome to the channel everyone! This channel is a journey to the backyard! Each season brings new projects, ideas, and mistakes to learn from! Mike, an amateur film maker, novice gardener, new to homeownership and fresh to permaculture. This is the story of the Homestead.. Twiggs Homestead!
Thank you! Once the compost is complete, the heating process will stop. Even if the compost is not 100% complete before use, it will not heat in thin application. It is the mass of a pile that retains and generates heat.
The lenticels of the cutting are where root primordia form, which is the beginning stages of root formation. When you get to this stage as in the video seeing all those bumps you must put it in soil or else it will rot and die. Timing when to get it in the soil is the key for it to grow into a fig tree.
I’m sure you could. I’ve successfully propagated in many ways including water, spray, sand, soil, woodchips. It’s really just a matter of care and ensuring you keep a consistent temp and climate around the cutting.
This is a somewhat older video, in this video these were Rhode Island Red hens. They were great! Highly recommended. We now have a mixed flock of Austrolorps, olive eggers and copper marans. All three types are wonderful. You can go wrong if you keep your hens healthy and happy!
Yea it’s not cheap. I recently got a bigger version of it because I like it so much. It’s more or less just aeroponics. Watch some RU-vid videos on aeroponic gardening and you’ll see all kinds of different ways to go about it, homemade and professional. I might make a video on making a homemade version out of a large plastic bin in the future.
It should! I found each variety propagates a little differently from one another. I do love the green wood aeroponic method. Seems to be the most reliable for me but I’ll keep trying every method I come across. It’s a lot of fun
I was just recently making some cuttings and left the leaves in the wheel barrel unintentionally. They dried out in the hot summer sun over a few days and when I revisited, I was shocked at the wonderful aroma they had. Maybe I’ll try to make some herbal tea from them.
Thanks! I unplugged the mats during the heat wave but it was too much for them. Some rooted I think I got 20% or so. Not the turnout I’d like though. I have a new batch going now!
@@twiggshomestead6497 When I was rooting in my garage, I was getting close to 100% success when the temps were 77-94°. But once it got to the 95-104 range my success rate went down to about 40%. So now I just root them indoors where I know it's 77-80 all them time. I really want to build that air cloner though. Does the water constantly spray or does it turn on and off? Also do you have to keep the leaves wet? I know those green cuttings with leaves can dry out really fast.
@@FC2ESWSthe hydroponic cloner is the way to go. It’s so freaking easy and just about 100% success. You don’t need to change the water, takes about 2-3 weeks, and you don’t need to keep leaves wet or humid. The best part of it is that once they root, they don’t need any special care for hardening off or transitioning from humidity done to ambient. They transplant super easy and can go right into the full sun. I recommend just buying it from Amazon. It’s $100
@@FC2ESWS I actually have an experiment going right now in the cloner. It’s been about 2-3 weeks and unfortunately they look like they’ve failed. I’m going to try another batch but to be honest, I have a hard time with hardwood cuttings rooting. My success rate is like 30%. It’s definitely a learning curve but I’ll keep trying and keep making videos on my failures until they are successes lol
I live vicariously through your honeybee videos because I know I will never do it myself. I like how you care about your bees and don't take everything from them just because you could.
Thank you for that! I’m happy I can give you the experience without any risk of stings. These bees are very calm too, there was at no point a sting or attempted sting. They are my friends! :D
Africanized bees are in my area in central Louisiana and I`m having issues with old car accident injuries and arthritis so I decided not to get a hive until I get more advice. I saw a small wild hive of Africanized bees attack a guy and really hurt him fast but I warned him before he harassed them. They didn`t come after me and another guy though but we weren`t the one who aggravated them intentionally. I used to have all the equipment, suit and 4 hives years ago but never needed to wear the suit to harvest a frame of honey but I knew very little and mites and moths infested them after a few years and killed them. There are certain people bees don`t like it seems for whatever reasons. My dad couldn`t go near them.
Have you considered trying some water soluble cloning solution in the mister? I know in other plant species which heavily use these for propagation they like to add something like Hormex B1, which has a mild rooting hormone which dissolves in the water and constantly mists back on the cutting. Some also like Extreme Gardening Azos which can also mix with water, Clonex makes a diluted liquid seed starting fertilizer which some swear by, though it contains no rooting hormone. Some also like liquid seaweed which helps as a weak rooting hormone but also a light fertilizer to feed the plant as it roots. You really have a lot of options to boost your speed/success rate with a mister. I personally would recommend the Hormex b1, it's not cheap but it's mix rate is 5ml per gallon so it lasts a bit, use that for the first few weeks until you see the white root bumps develop than change the mix to a diluted feed like very diluted mix unless you go with liquid seaweed or the clonex seedling fertilizer.
Awesome suggestions thank you for sharing! I have considered it but I honestly never tried. I might give it a go. So far just water gives me 100% success over a period of 3-4 weeks so there is not a major need for it however, if adding hormone can speed that up to 1-2 weeks it will be worth every penny! I will place an order for Hormex B1 and give it a try. maybe ill make a video doing a round with it and a round without it. It might take me 6-8 weeks to make that video but it could be worth the while.
Great video Twig thanks for uploading I really did enjoy that.. Only one thing You did forget to mention though was how obsessive composting can become LOL
Thanks for pointing me to your video. I took cuttings in the Fall and rooted them in cups in my basement over winter, put a sandwich bag over each cup and clipped it on fir humidity and had a heat mat under them and grow lights. To my surprise they all grew! This summer I am trying the air layering, hope I have success. I scraped the branch but I didn't cut the bark.
That’s awesome! Yeah I go dormant myself in the winter and relax lol. The basement on bottom heat sounds like a great idea because they like to root when the bottom is warmer than the air above. Air layering is a good solid bet. They always seem to root. Sometimes I will bend a branch down to the ground, place a brick on to hold it down and cover with woodchips or soil. Seems to work better because of consistent moisture in the ground.
Yea it was hot! Stinks because I think this experiment would have been a real success. I’m going to give this laying down method 1 more try inside my shed with the heat mat plugged into a thermostat.
Have you ever done air layering? I am trying it for the first time this summer, just bought some pods from Amazon and put them on a couple days ago. Hope it works!
I measured temps in my totes on heat mats and they seemed to often get too hot. I ended up elevating the tote so it wasn’t directly on the heat. I may look into the cloner. Are the roots any weaker when up potting? Do you have a link for the cloner?
@@larawines4875 Hi Lara! Yea I’m going to try this laying in sand method one more time inside my shed with a thermometer power regulator so the temps get no warmer than 89°F. I don’t have a link for the cloner readily available. Pause the video on the frame where I show the box and check Amazon. I think I originally got it from Amazon a few years back. Thanks for commenting!
A big branch from one of my favorite trees broke after a storm yesterday so I'll try this out. I actually removed all the leaves, hopefully it still works.
Don’t apologize! Music is one of those things that plays to everyone’s ear differently. This is an older video, in my newer videos, I no longer use music. Some people like it others don’t.
Hi I'm Tela, I live in Middle Georgia, I saw your channel last year and guess what? IT WORKS!!! Being new to figs, I purchased trees, thinned them and now I have 2 of each.. I bought 8 varieties, and now I have copies of each... Think about it.. makes total sense, in the summer, it's EASY, the heat is there. All we have to do is let the figs loving the heat so it's job ❤.. Most order expensive cuttings in the winter, and struggle with heat mats and greenhouses, your just doing it on the plants natural time to root. ❤
@@twiggshomestead6497 I'm learning so much following you, you're not using huge words trying to be an expert, you're just showing an easy simple way, and the proof is right there... I do have a question ❓. Why don't you cover your air layers in tin foil ? I'm going to do my first one this year and why does everyone use Reynolds wrap and you don't?
