Love your video’s! Just found your channel and have been binge watching. So informative and I really like how you show all your trees. Your wife is a dime piece by the way! Very beautiful, you did good brother!
I really appreciate you showing your greenhouse figs. Gives me a good understanding of what I might expect from some of my more tender varieties if I had a similar setup. Another great video Lou!
Hi, Mike! Sorry for the delay in my response. Mike, I would strongly recommend a greenhouse for your special, long ripening, fig varieties, if that's what you are planning! However, I'd love an opportunity to speak to you in detail about what I have learned over the years. I planned my greenhouse over a long period of time and built it entirely by myself. I have been completely satisfied with my design, and it has been an absolute joy to have. I love spending time in there and often have to force my way out against my will. It's truly a magical place!!!! One very important point that I'd like for you to consider. Fig trees must (absolutely must) be able to obtain a good amount of direct sun (at some point before the harvest) in order to tast their very best. They will still be quite healthy and delicious without being afforded direct sunlight, but if you want to harvest the very best, most exquisite and delectable figs possible, than you should plan the construction of your greenhouse in such a way as to allow easy access of direct sunlight at times. I'm looking forward to our next chat! Best wishes and kind regards!!!! Lou Monti
Hey my friend. I would love to eventually plant some of your collection in my yard. The Malta black seems so special. I love your videos! Keep them coming!
Beautiful couple I love the interactions between you and your lovely wife and for sure your figs are the hormone of happiness 😅😍 keep smiling guys and thank you for sharing the beauty of your garden
Hi I like your video, really enjoyed. I learn a lot from your video, thank you very much for sharing your figs. I live Nothern NJ same zone as you live, You have very good verity figs, can I have some stems of your figs, Thanks
Helllo In Puerto Rico 🇵🇷 Vieques island, I planted many, but have no idea what variety those are. Where are you all at? Please. Enjoyed the video. 👌🏼👏🏼🥰🙋🏻🙏🏼
Lou, thanks for making your videos on all of your fig trees. I have been watching them for a while and truly enjoy them. I have learned so much about growing fig trees from your videos. I live in south Louisiana, Zone 9A, and have just started a small fig orchard. I got some cuttings from "CajunB" who has a huge fig orchard here in my area. My trees are young and not producing too many figs yet, but I am looking forward to the future. This year was the 2nd year for a lot of them and we got hit with a late freeze in March that killed all the new growth, so they all had to start all over growing again and now we are going through one of the worst droughts we have had in many years. I have to water all of my trees, 20 of them, every 2 weeks so that they don't die. Keep up the good work with your videos, it makes me drool every time you eat a good ripe fig.
I did the exact same thing this year. Cajun B, 20 cuttings, drought and excessive heat is taking its toll. Even lost a couple. I’m also in Zone 9A Louisiana. Gonzales area. Lou’s videos are great. He’s so genuine with no agenda. Not trying to sell the latest, greatest renamed fig. Just sharing his knowledge. I did get to taste “ C’est Bon” this week. So much better than the Brown Turkey my grandmother had
I live north of Houma in Bayou Blue. I am doing all that I can to save all of the tress I have planted. Haven't lost any to the heat, but realized to late that they needed to be watered, so probably will not have any figs this year. Hopefully we will get some rain soon so I can stop the watering. @@itsasickness4939
I'm watching your videos! I just started raising figs over the last seven years. I have brown turkey and yellow Italian. Just got some new ones to start, Chicago hardy and some Italian honey. Thanks for what you do and Deborah!
Oh my, what a well deserved feast you're having! Your in ground RDB ripe figs are so shiny and enticing! And that enormous Celeste Tree, OMG!! What a great "Steward of the Land" you are and a blessed Man. Finally, as always, thank you so much for sharing your knowledge!
That’s great, Deb sounds like my wife, no more room for figs haha.. and I only have 40 I feel I have plenty of room still.. always great videos Lou thanks for sharing
Enjoy your content. Just discovered you after doing a search for raising figs. I live here in Japan and a friend in the neighborhood invited me over for coffee the other day. Her husband pulled out a Tupperware from the refrigerator and offered me fresh chilled figs. I have never tasted anything so delicious and succulent as those figs. They have a 20 year old fig tree in their small yard. I have about a quarter of an acre of land in the southern part of Izu Peninsula here here in Japan up on a hill overlooking the ocean. I have cleared the land of trees and 30 years of bamboo and have decided after a lot of thinking to raise figs. So any insights I can get is greatly appreciated. Figs are very expensive here in japan.
I have been nominated to be the fig picker for an eldery neighbor with a 20+ year old Celeste tree that is very tall. I can barely reach all the figs standing on top an 8 foot ladder. But the thing I find interesting is within the abundance of figs is the variety of shapes and sizes of the figs. The figs up really high are usually smaller but very sweet. The figs in the canopy that get the best sunlight are big. But this year unlike the last couple years I have noticed quite a few figs that seem like a double fig in one. Have you ever noticed a variety of shapes and sizes of figs in your larger fig trees? You have a gorgeous orchard! :)
Wonderful video and historic footage. You need to appease Debbie , prune your trees smaller, sneak another one in and get cuttings to Mike Kincaid to distribute your collection.
Ciao Lou, congrats on pastiliere! Did you use a different "special" potting mix and fertilizer or did you use the same one which you mentioned in an video on your potting mix. I'm asking because to me it somehow sounded like an extra test, which you did on that variety. And what did your son say, did he eat the ones off the Pastiliere tree that weren't there any more? I enjoy your Videos very much. It's almost like eating all of those delicious looking figs myself. Greetings from Württemberg
Hi, Joe! The potting mix was (is) essentially the same as shown in my videos. I no longer experiment much when it comes to my prepared potting mix for fig trees. I've been very satisfied with my results and, honestly, do not feel any need to vary much from what has worked very well for me in the past. With the Pastiliere, I mixed the same formula in my wheel barrel, making sure that I had plenty of home composted material, well rotted horse manure, aged top soil, an organic garden soil, a good potting mix, crushed oyster shells, iron, volcanic minerals, plenty of lime, Epsom salt, some perlite, and a good three month, slow dissolving, fertilizer! Oh, and I threw in the kitchen sink, too!!! Hahaha! My son liked the figs and so did I. Although it seems promising, it's far too soon to give a comprehensive opinion on this cultivar. Of course, I will move it to ground when it is ready. Thanks for watching, and good luck, Lou Monti
Wow, that was one heck of an introduction to my channel! Thanks so much Lou. I really enjoy our talks back and forth as well. You're a great guy and I so enjoy watching your channel. Your fig videos always get me fired up and inspired! By the way, I'd be absolutely honored to have your Ronde de Bordeaux. OK, back to the video.
Hi Lou, really enjoyed your video for a newbie like me. You commented about putting them in higher ground if you can, does that matter to location like where I am in the Portland area where it hardly rains in the summer time?
I am not familiar with your climate. However, given what you've told me, I would be inclined to think that it doesn't matter quite as much. Still, given the experiences that I have had with growing fig over the years, still, it certainly wouldn't hurt to plant high and dry if such a place is available. Regards from, Lou Monti
Please please, sell us some cuttings of your premium tested and proven varieties when prune them this winter. I’m in zone 8A North Texas. Would that be even a remotes possibility!?
Stay tuned, and thanks for subscribing. As odd as it may seem, I have absolutely no interest in profiting from my channel! I am not a person of great means, but my objective (from the beginning and still), has always been to educate the general public and to convey my experiences and knowledge to those interested in growing figs and other fruits, berries, and vegetables! Because of my dedicated followers and the enormous interest they have in purchasing my cuttings, I've promised to eventually provide my subscribers with an opportunity to purchase cuttings taken directly from my varieties shown in my posted videos. It will bring me a great deal of pleasure to know that many of my long acquired varieties and highly valued cultivars are safely growing out there in the greater fig community and that they will continue to bring pleasure and joy to fig enthusiasts long into the future! I still haven't completed my mission to educate and to convey all of my experiences to the interested fig growers and general gardeners out there in the greater world of this wonderful hobby. Eventually, I promise to keep my promise to my subscribers! Best regards from Lou Monti
Hi there! Yes, I like Alma very much. It had been winter hardy in my zone (7-A), tastes very good, and I'd very prolific. It is slightly later than most of my varieties, but only slightly, and I have no problem harvesting most of the figs by the end of August and the rest by the first week or two of September. Regards from, Lou Monti
They are a little different from one another. It's a matter of personal preference, as far as taste is concerned. VDB is very rich and tasty when properly ripened. As for all of the other differences, please refer to some of my previous videos. Thanks for watching! Lou Monti
