Hi Lou! These are three wonderful cultivars anyone would be proud to have. I love looking at each stage of growth until perfect ripeness, which is so important to know! Thanks for caring and sharing!!
Like watching your videos greatly. I am so jealous of your fig trees, they look so healthy. I live in deep south Louisiana and all of my trees have lost their leaves because of fig rust problems we have down here with all of the heat and humidity. I have 21 different trees planted at this time. They are all young and just started producing some figs this year. Watching your methods, all of them were planted "high and dry". We do have a lot of rain in our area, which causes problems. Keep making the videos and teaching us to grow better. Thanks.
Hi Lou! I love watching your videos and learned a lot about growing fig trees. I got several varieties of figs, but Italian 258 and I would love to add one in my collection. If you plan doing some cutting or pruning of your Italian 258, please share me a few. Thanks in advance.
@andielliott7721 you are quite welcome. I would never kill the snake unless it was very venomous and returned to my property after I released it. Still, even then, I'd probably take it far away to a very remote place. Thanks for watching! Stay tuned, Andie.I will post a short video soon telling the rest of the snake story. Lou Monti
Hi Lou, do you feel grass can compete/smother a young fig cutting? I planted a Nixon peace cutting after it just started to root, and it’s pretty much kept the same two leaves all summer with no growth.
Lou I have to respectfully disagree about inground VS containers. My container figs are tastier, larger figs, more productive and fruit sooner. Maybe because I mix my own soil from scratch I can add everything the tree needs and control the ph much easier than inground. I can monitor moister with the drip irrigation and know how much water each tree gets and shut the the water off to a tree as the figs are ripening. Flavor comes from the minerals and biology in the soil as long as I add those the figs should have flavor. If they are growing in bark or composted forest products they are not going to have the flavor of an inground tree. If one is not going to keep them happy they need to go inground. Yes you can get more harvest with less effort with trees inground over time but sometimes it can be hard to manage there size. Plus one may not have the space. if one is growing in containers they need to understand soil and have regular irrigation.
@matthewking2209 Hi Mathew! Everyone is entitled to an opinion on my channel. I'm very happy that you feel as though you've achieved so many satisfying results from your container grown fig trees. Keep up the good work and enjoy, enjoy, enjoy!!!!! Lou Monti
Great video do you give away fig cuttings at the end of the growing season I live in zone 9a high desert California and would love to post how your verity grow out here
@GrigoryZhuk Hi there! Well, yes and no! I gave my Nordland to a friend. He still has it planted in the ground, and I'm able to taste a few fruits of that variety every year. Northland is a large and tasty fig, but it is prone to cracking and splitting in significant rain. Planting high and dry and holding back a bit on watering Pryor to fruilt harvest helps considerably. Thanks for watching! Lou Mont
