Here in Southern Cali there are fig trees everywhere. I buy my trees from a local grower but I could start a serious cutting garden from a short walk around the neighborhood as just about everyone is growing at least one type of fig. Looks like the most prolific ones are the brown turkey and black mission types.
Wow! These are all excellent resources for anyone interested in growing figs. I’m getting on board buying more varieties. I like the short time to fruiting so one can experience a ripe fig in a short time period. Really can’t do that with many other types of fruit. Thanks for the informative video!
You’re welcome. I’m glad the resources were helpful. What you mentioned is exactly why my channel was so heavily fig-related in the beginning. While figs are genuinely my favorite fruit, the fact that they can fruit from a bare cutting within 7 months is why I accumulated them so quickly. They’re my fruit trees I eat while the rest of my fruit trees are trying to mature. They are truly amazing.
Fantastic. Thank you very much. While I don’t have much room left to grow, I sure like the thought of harvesting figs in June or alternatively, in November. I need to research it. More figs the better. Be safe and well.
I live in San Antonio, TX, and have bought fig rooted cuttings many times from Fruitwood nursery from California and Richters Herbs from Canada. They both have good selections at very reasonable prices.
Thank you for doing this video! It answers a big question I had for you. My online shopping experiences from nursery's has not been a good one. I ordered 2 brown turkeys, 2 Celeste, and 2 black missions from one nursery. This year the 2 brown turkeys produced large green fruit which the nursery identified as green ischia which they don't carry and had no idea how I got them. The black missions haven't fruited yet. I also bought 2 black jacks and 2 peters honey from another online nursery and the black jacks produced green fruit and the nursery identified them as conadria. The 2 peter's honey seem to be peters honey. It's nice to know that there are some reliable vendors out there.
I got all my cuttings from figaholics in January of 2021... Now they are starting to fruit and I am excited! I got CDD Blanc, grise, and noir among several others. Can't wait to try them. Also very glad I found your channel for all the great advice on growing figs and citrus!
@@tinykitchenbigflavor7142 I can report they were all delicious but the prize for most beautiful and tastiest IMO goes to LSU Purple. I’m not sure my CDD Blanc was accurately labeled since in the end it was more maroon colored… but the inside was definitely jammy and very good. I just preferred the slightly more tangy, refreshing flavor the the LSU Purple
WOW Millennial, I never knew there are, so many different type of figs :-). Tucson long summer season get to eat figs till now and more are coming. Thank you, so much and I got the Info, where to get one more tree to my garden before it become a Figs jungle.
Thank you so much for this video providing all these amazing sources. I was very late planting my fig trees because of a shoulder injury but I am confident that next year will provide some success. Your energy and passion is very inspiring and your content is always helpful. Thanks again and Happy Holiday!!!
I'm glad to hear the videos are helpful! Best of luck with your trees next year. Fig trees grow and fruit quickly, so you should have a nice little harvest as long as they get 8+ hours of sun and you feed them well.
Excellent. Some of these guys are licensed commercial nurseries and can provide phytosanitary certificates, meaning they can legally pass through Customs!
Steve Grant How did your 10 cutting's from Will's Figs do? Do you recommend that company? I was thinking about ordering next time the ordering page opens back up.
INCREDIBLY HELPFUL!! THANK YOU!! You have Helped me SOOOOOO Much on So Many Different plants. We moved to SWFL from Fay, NC long time ago but my experience growing in NC absolutely helps me relating to your advice from your gardens. Thank You Again !! Keep up the Great Videos
I was counting on getting mine from you 😂 I've had good luck on ebay and bought some that came from Albania, Portugal, etc... all arrived in great shape and rooted well 👍
I'm very wary about those sales. They are almost always not the varieties you pay for. You will want to scrutinize the fruits very closely against websites like Fig Database and Fig Varieties. I think you'll find almost all those international sales are scams, unfortunately. I will have cuttings in January, and I guarantee you'll get what you see in my videos.
@@SG-yk4jy yes, I offer cuttings every January and February. I post a formal video when I kick off the sale. If you are subscribed, you’ll be notified.
I feel like your quest for the ultimate fig collection is like my quest for the ultimate rubus collection lol. Watching your vids really makes me want to get into figs as well.
I'm actually skipping buying cuttings this year since I have 42 fig seedlings to raise. I have so many seedlings that I need to deal with that I have to take a year off from new cuttings 😂
That’s not a bad problem to have. I hope to do some breeding next season and have some seedlings to plant myself. Maybe you can create your own unique variety
Great follow up video! One place I’m certain that will ship to Hawaii is Figaholics. You can be sure I will be monitoring Harvey’s website often till I get the date of his sale.
Great info, I always learn something new from you and enjoy your presentation; like a woman's skirt, long enough to cover the subject, but short enough to be interesting!
Great video! Caveat for CA residents. Most of these vendors will not ship to you, or if they do, it will be at your own risk if item gets confiscated. On Figbid, you have to read the vendor's description on shipping. Just make sure to confirm with the seller whether they ship to CA before you place a bid or buy.
I believe it isn’t a problem to ship fig cuttings to California. The problem is trees, because California has import restrictions on soil. Cuttings will not contain soil.
@@TheMillennialGardener good point MG. Though I ordered cuttings from Greece and got it confiscated. Sigh... That's why I next used a vendor who is licensed to sell to CA. Don't know how that works, but I got my plants to come thru fine. Now that I got some starters, I can wait for Harvey 😀
Yes I have bought cuttings from figbid. Majority ( 75 % )where good viable cuttings with nice buds. Some ( 25% ) cuttings where not good. Make shure the cuttings you are getting are fresh with decent buds to increase your chances for rooting.
Figbid is a great place to buy cuttings, but it's always best be particular about the seller and find sellers with a lot of reputable reviews or that stipulate minimum size and node requirements.
I had the same experience. NOTE:ALWAYS take a picture of the cuttings as soon as you get them and open the package. I had a dealer that was questioning my purchase and he sent me three "Dead Cuttings" and I took a picture, then when I saw they were dried out I cut into the bottom end and showed it was dead cambium layer, and the guy refunded my money. We eventually worked it our, but the guy in charge of figbid sent me an email because I gave such a poor rating! It was my first "BAD DEAL," so eventually I "fixed" my rating score.
Great video! Have you ever used One Green World? They have over 55 fig varieties of live trees! I have used them for years, they have an exhaustive nursery catalog. They are West Coast based, in Oregon.
I have not used OGW. I've tried, but they go out of stock so quickly that they never have stock for what I'm looking for. They have a huge selection, but so much is out of stock, unfortunately. If they were restocked, I wouldn't hesitate to buy from them.
Can I pre-order your favorites? I love your detailed videos. I am a newbie to fig cuttings. I learn a lot from your videos. I don't have much luck with cuttings.
I do not really have a way to take pre-orders. We just got our first 2 freezes this week, so my trees will be falling into dormancy soon. I always announce to my subscribers when it's time to order and how to do it, so as long as you're subscribed, you'll receive a notification in January.
Thanks a bunch for this video as I have been thinking and doing limited searching for fig-plants/or/cuttings. Must say was having a bit of info overload and a bit confused, to say the least. Now you have made the decision-making process much easier. As I have mentioned before I live in the RTP area and all your recommendations are is directly applicable to my fledgling "edible garden" in the making. However, I will wait until I get your offerings as I don't trust many of those I have no experience with especially with plants. Happy Thanksgiving from Rama, NC
I have the same concens as you but I noticed Figaholics states on their site "we generally do not sell cuttings of varieties unless we've picked fruit from our trees to validate the variety name." I plan to buy there for this reason.
I live in the Wilmington area too. I have a small, young, Olympian fig tree. Next fall it will probably be ready f[or some cuttings if you are interested in a trade.
I actually do have an Olympian fig tree already. I will have cuttings available in January, and I always make sure to let everyone know with an official announcement video when the time comes.
Shipping prices are set by the seller, not Figbid. I ship flat rate, and a flat rate mailer is usually around $10 or so, so it is what it is. You have to ship these Priority USPS so they don't get destroyed in transit. It's predominantly an auction website, so if someone outbids, they're going to be the rightful winner. Sometimes prices are high, but sometimes prices go so absurdly low it's ridiculous. I once had 2 Col de Dame Blanc cuttings go for $6. Fair is fair.
Yes, prices can be high there. But no other place has more variety at any given time. I was dying to get started in July. I got rooted cuttings on figbid. These were 12-16" plants with 1 to 3 fruit on them already. Some were even pruned already. Pricey compared to just cuttings, yes, but compared to 7 years ago when I could only read about them and dream... they were a bargain.
Figbid is a good site but the prices are definitely getting out of control and it's getting ridiculous. There setting reserves up to high and the prices of the kk black Madera has gone from a total cost with shipping of around $80 dollars 9 months ago not people are putting them with a high reserve to get around $150. And cutting on a average of 4 went from with shipping total cost 14 to 15 dollars to up to $25 to $40. There are a few reputable seller's left who give fair prices but you defiantly have to look and may have to wait awhile untile u see one come up for sale.
@jcg jcg you are correct I ordered a smith that was about 30 they charged 26 for shipping ..I just sent a cast iron pan back to a store via warranty and that weighed 15 is and they charged 20 for shipping..people are charging high prices for shipping to make extra profit.
@@king_tony215 Yeah there getting out of control sometimes u have to wait day's if not weeks for something fair in price to come to market. The price gouging is getting out of control on figbid.
Wow I didn't not realize it was such a competitive sport. 🤣 I'll continue to watch. I checked all your sources with no luck. I'll watch for your video for your sale in January.
@@TheMillennialGardener I did check. I'm wanting White Madeira #1. Seems to be a very popular verity. I'll keep trying. Thanks for sharing these websites.
If you're like me and don't have a lot of patience buy a fig tree, cuttings take forever, 2 months to root then they shoot out a few leaves and then they stay like that for 3 or 4 months.
The cuttings I place in pots in January are literally 8 feet tall by September and I'm harvesting fruit off most of them by Labor Day. Cuttings grow extremely quickly. If you are finding they are stalling, it's likely due to a lack of fertilizer. Feed them more and more often and they'll push through it. A cutting you start in January will be larger than a tree you'll buy in April. I'd actually argue cuttings are faster. They just need a lot of food, and many folks underfeed them. Figs are heavy, heavy, heavy feeders.
I sa appreciate you for taking the time to put out this video. I started following you on IG so I could DM to ask if you did cutting and Walla this morning I saw this video and I live it. I will be purchasing cutting from you, I'm zone 7 not too far from where you're at which is awesome because of all the fig types you've spoken about u can grow where I at. Currently I have the celest, gold turkey, and olympian fig trees!!! I'm upses with figs! I purchased my fig tree at lowe's at the time I had no idea or knew anything about figs, it was one of those knockoff plants and it was sick 😫 I had no idea it was, after three years of moving the tree and much research I finally need up with a healthy hceleat try she is my Pride and joy!!! I have become a subscriber because I find your videos easy to follow and tons of useful information. Thank you for the time you devoted to making this information available to us all
How do you use all of your fig harvests? How many pounds per year do you typically harvest. Really cool content and fantastic idea to put it all in one video.
I’ve never measured my harvests. I lose most of my figs to our heavy summer rains, so I probably only get to harvest 1/3 of the crop. It is a big reason why I need so many trees. The losses greatly outnumber what I can harvest.
Have you considered using rain cloth? I get similar issues with my black and raspberry plants(though not as bad as you mention) and heavy summer rain here in TN. I am considering using rain cloth for next years season.
I've gotten cuttings from HarveyC, WillsC, and Off the Beaten Path. But I've never had any great luck rooting, so I just buy trees from Bass now (Trees of Joy). Ha.
Rooting is a challenge. The best investment for you will be a seedling heat mat and a thermostat. The thermostatically controlled heat mat is a GAME CHANGER. Keep it on exactly 77F for best results. I've had best luck rooting cuttings in screened pine bark fines, but this year, I'm going to experiment with vermiculite. Vermiculite was a GODSEND for my fig seed germination experiment, so why not use it for cuttings?
@@TheMillennialGardener It drives me absolutely nuts that I can't find pine bark fines locally. Resorting to using an orchid bark blend is pretty expensive, but my house plants absolutely love it (blended with a normal potting mix + a little extra perlite). When I get my trees in the ground I'll experiment a bit more with rooting cuttings. Thanks for the tips :)
Cutting season is in the fall to early winter, depending on climate. You won’t find fresh cuttings in the spring, since cuttings are taken from previous season’s wood during dormancy.
Hey my name is Sam Andriano I have watched all your videos and shared your videos with friends and family. Please keep up the great job producing great content and my question is I have been trying to locate a Saigo Persimmons and a Nikita’s Gift Persimmons is there any way of getting it shipped to Ontario if so please send me information on it thank you very much and keep up the amazing work
Ho and good morning Millennial, Adam from Tucson AZ please keep me in mind when you got one of your B. Nigra Rimada cutting you got. I love to have one and I will pay when ever you tell me. As i was saying I can only have one more fig in my garden before it will turn in to Amazon jungle of figs :-) thank man cheers and great day for you. And of course Dale.
Unfortunately, I do not have BNR. I have Bordissot Blanca-Negra. While I did successfully graft a BNR last year, I had an accident where I ran into the plant by mistake and snapped the graft off. A sad day.
@@conniedavidson1807 all fig trees are easy to grow. Now, if you’re talking about ripening fruits, that depends on your climate. The most “dependable” figs I have are probably Celeste, Olympian, Negra d’Agde, Smith, Ronde de Bordeaux...they always ripen some good figs.
7a in Texas. Last year's freeze made me a little nervous about adding more figs. Depending on this winter, I may decide to order from you in Jan. I love figs and really would like more than one. If I keep watching you I'll wind up with 50.
@the millennial gardener When can I expect fruit once I have successfully rooted a cutting? Thanks for this video! I really enjoy your vids. I’m a Bronx New Yorker living in Florida and your accent reminds me of home.
It depends on the length of your growing season. Here on the southeastern NC coast, cuttings I root in January usually fruit for me in the spring and I'm able to harvest fruit off the trees by September. If you were still in NYC, that probably wouldn't happen in most cases, because the summers aren't warm enough long enough. Now that you're in Florida, you can probably harvest fruit within 7 months assuming you get the cuttings to root in January. BUT, you must fertilize them like crazy and push them hard. Simply feeding them once a month isn't going to cut it. You'll need to feed them per my instructions religiously: ru-vid.com/group/PL1gY7BoYBGIFNbJEUdApbh_E57uNBLG2j
Love your videos..very knowledgeable and informational…..Question I have fig cuttings in clear cups, 6 weeks …I have growth on most with long branches some 8 to 10 inch with small leaves..but the color is very light yellow. Like a lemon …any suggestions.. will be much appreciated
Yes. They need two things: more sunlight, and some fertilizer. If the cuttings are rooting in low light, the growth will be spindly. You'll either need to add grow lights (or get stronger grow lights), or start carrying them outside into the sun (or find a very sunny window). Also, you need soluble fertilizer. Follow my cutting fertilizing guide here: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-ghl5XkLU4d0.html Please make sure you use a soluble fertilizer like MiracleGro. Don't use organic granules, because they need to be broken down by soil biology, which won't happen in tiny cups. You need to use a water soluble feed. I strongly recommend the "synthesized" fertilizers like MiracleGro, because they are immediately available and won't make your house stink like the organics will.
It depends if your fig trees suffer winter damage in your climate. If your winter causes damage to the wood, you must take the cuttings before the damage happens. If the wood is damaged, you cannot take cuttings. If you live in a place where winter damage does not occur, you can take cuttings whenever the trees are dormant.
Thank you. I appreciate the sentiment. However, please be aware that there isn't a significant difference in cold hardiness from fig variety to fig variety. A Chicago Hardy fig tree's wood is no hardier than any other variety. The reason why Chicago Hardy has a reputation for doing well in cold places is because the fruit ripens much more quickly than most fig varieties, so when it dies down completely to its roots for the winter, it tends to grow back quickly and since the fruit ripens so fast, cold climates can still get some fruit off the tree. There are earlier figs than Chicago Hardy, which will do about the same. This video will be a lot of help, because I classify the varieties by earliness: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-hWz_rw59K6g.html That being said, in Zone 5B, you will have much more success in a container than in-ground. If you're okay with bringing the container inside in a garage that stays above freezing, you will have much more success.
As a figbid user you should let people know figbid is getting out of control with there prices some seller's have gone up into ridiculous amount's and some actuions have high reserves!
Thanks for the nice, informative videos, do you ship fig cuttings to spain? Am particularly looking for Olympian, which I failed to find it in europe, or just probebly has a different name. , thank you
Anthony on December 26 2022 I bought a fig cutting ID55P51172p1638610T and it has not done anything so today I took it out of the soil and the hole cutting is hollow from the bottom to about 1/8 from the top. Is there any help you can provide with this? I can try to send you a picture if you like. Thank you Tom Iadarola.
I won’t be able to make sets of all 10, since some of my trees will not have a lot of cuttings. However, I am going to make some packages with my favorites like I-258, Smith, Col de Dame Blanc and Noir since I will have a ton of them.
I purchased a Chicago hardy and a beers black from Stark bro's recently. The Chicago is doing great, but the beers black isn't showing any signs of life. After 3 weeks of no improvement, I did a scratch test. Only green on the whole trunk is right near the base. Any tips on how to save it?? Thank you!!
Hi. Happy Thanksgiving. I was wondering if I should prune my fig tree. I live in NY. This is its 2nd year but its 3rd summer just passed. No figs yet. I did not prune the first year. I brought it inside for winter. It started growing a lot inside in March. I pruned it. Didn't grow in height much but got lots of leaves during this passed summer. Still no figs tho. I brought it inside again for the winter. Should I prune again? Maybe it's the soil? It's in a 9" pot. I'd love your advice. I see you have so many figs and the plant hardly has any leaves. Thanks much.
Fig trees should fruit within 6-9 months of rooting from a cutting. If yours is not fruiting yet, you probably have one of two problems (possibly both): 1. Figs need a lot of sun. We're talking 8-10 hours of unfiltered direct sunlight. 2. Figs need a lot of fertilizer. And I mean a lot, especially when they're in containers. I recommend feeding them every 10-14 days. I have a full guide on how to do so here: ru-vid.com/group/PL1gY7BoYBGIFNbJEUdApbh_E57uNBLG2j In short, yes, I would prune the fig. I would choose the *strongest* and *thickest* of the branches to make the main trunk, and prune it to a single trunk tree if you haven't done so already. Don't let it sucker at the base. Let it concentrate all its energy into a single trunk, and then feed it well when your last frost date approaches in the spring. Give it lots of sun and plenty of food, and it should fruit.
@@TheMillennialGardener Thanks much! It gets lots of sun. I haven't fertilized it much, so maybe that's it. Should I prune now or spring? Transplant to a larger pot yet? I'll fertilize in spring like you said and I'll watch the video you posted. Appreciate it. Thanks!
Fig trees are not in danger of survival in Zone 7b. They will likely take winter damage, and in bad seasons may die back to the roots, but they'll come back.
The problem with off the beatin path is 98% of almost everything is out of stock. And when it’s in stock it doesn’t last long. That being said every cutting I bought became a tree….
It’s the nature of fig cuttings. They must all be taken and sold in a very short period of time. You can’t hold stock in them. Even with proper storage, it isn’t ethical to sell them after awhile, because the chances of success drop like a rock. When cutting season rolls around, the buyer must keep track of the sale date and order that evening as quickly as possible. Be sure to have a list ready in advance. That’s how we do it.
I don't really do anything to my trees. I'm in Zone 8a, and fig wood is hardy to Zone 8a. I leave them unprotected all year. The most I ever do is collect my containers and pile them up against the side of the house if I think it's going to be under 20F, which hasn't happened here in a couple winters.
I do not use Facebook. I announce to all of my subscribers when the cuttings are available with a formal video. If you are a subscriber, you will be notified in January when it comes time.
Figs need a long warm season and 8-12 hours of direct, unfiltered sunlight to ripen. If you are having problems ripening the figs, I would guess your trees aren’t getting enough sunshine and too much shade, or your summers aren’t warm enough long enough. It is far too cold in most areas of the US to ripen figs at this point of the year. Once the days get short and temps fall out of the 80’s, ripening slows to a crawl. They need those 12 hour long 85 degree days to ripen well. Anything you can do to add warmth during the spring and speed them up will help you.
Tissue culturing is done in a laboratory, where individual cells are isolated from living tissue and grown into a plant. The upside: tissue culturing will rid the plant of any diseases, whereas spreading by cutting will propagate any diseases of the mother tree. Tissue cultures are virus-free. The downside: they can take longer to grow, and TC figs sucker like crazy. You need to prune them weekly at the base.
I know this video is 2 yrs. Old but do you know if off the beaten path is still in business ? There website says no plants and they don't answer phone.
I'm sure that's because it's not fig tree season. They are located in Pennsylvania. By the time their cuttings root over the winter and the trees get large enough to ship, it's going to be late spring/early summer. Fig cutting sales happen in fall, fig tree sales happen in summer. It's just not the right time of year.
You may want to check to see if any of the websites I provided ship to Europe. It's possible one of the licensed nurseries may. I'm not sure where European countries can source cuttings within Europe or what the restrictions are from country to country. The only source of figs I know in Europe is Vinny Figs. You can try him: vinnyfigs.co.uk/ He should be having his sale soon.
Do you have any Del Sen Jaume Gran cuttings? I hope DSJG but figbid don't send to Korea. Please send cuttings to Korea. Please understand that my English may be rude. I write a comment using English translator. Thank you.
My DSJG didn't grow much at all this year. I don't think I will have any cuttings of it. It is, by far, my smallest tree. After I put it in ground, it didn't grow at all. It just put down roots. This year, I hope it grows.
Tissue culture figs are a little more challenging than rooted cuttings. Rooted cuttings grow very quickly and neatly. Tissue cultures sucker vigorously at the base, and they require weekly pruning to prevent suckering. If you allow them to sucker, you will wind up with a spindly, unattractive plant that fruits later. They are more maintenance, and for that reason, growers who do not pay strong attention to them struggle with tissue culture figs. I’m a huge fan of tissue culture bananas, but TC figs are more difficult.
These are not reliable places to buy figs!!! 9/10ths of the year their websites are functionless! You should make a video on where you can buy figs year round!
