Fun video, thanks for sharing!!

Thanks for the video Joe.  I showed you my two year old JJ tree from a cutting you gave me two years ago when you visited here earlier this year.  It is nearly as big as your tree, and has been putting out ripe figs here in our cooler climate since July.   Like yours, it's loaded and has been producing really tasty figs on an almost daily basis.

Definitely one of my favorite trees.

Joe: Very nice and healthy tree. Thank you for sharing.

Best,
Tam

Nice.  Thank you for sharing!!!

Thanks everyone.

Dave, I'm glad the Joe's Jersey tree I gave you is doing good.  The Havasu tree you gave me is very healthy and growing strong.  I will probably plant it in the ground in November.  I really like the potting mix you put it in.  What do you use?

Frozen Joe:

Another perfect tour of your fig trees.  You covered all the bases with your description.  Thanks for the very informative video.

The first thing that struck me about "JOE'S JERSEY" is how close the internodal distances are, along the stems of this variety.  The stems are literally packed with leaves!  More leaves = more figs.  That's a good thing. I also like the exceptional vigor, production characteristics, and the fact that it will ripen figs over your extended season.  Another good thing.

I have some questions:

1.  In your long growing season, do you get a breba crop, and do you allow them to develop?

2.  I see...and, I could be wrong...no evidence of any pinching back of the stems.  Did you ever use this pinching technique, perhaps not to force the figs to ripen earlier, but to check all the rampant growth, and to possibly set a crop of fewer, but larger, figs?  I bring this up only as a general question.  It is evident that the results of just allowing the tree to do its 'thing' is good enough, but I was just wondering.  It must be that Arizona air and sun.

Thanks again.


Frank

Wow in its third year? That JJ is huge! Thx for sharing with us Joe.

Hi Frank,

We get brebas in this climate.  This year is the first that I got any brebas on the Joe's Jersey tree.  There were only a few.  I left them to ripen.  They were ok but not great.  Desert King produces a large crop of very good brebas down here.

I don't pinch any of the fig trees.  I let the trees do their thing.  Fig trees are very adaptable and they really seem to benefit from a long growing season.  I don't have a problem with trees growing like crazy and then not producing that much fruit.  I think that is more of a problem in a shorter growing season.  Some of the fig trees definitely go through growth spurts and then catch up with fruit production.  But here in AZ the growing season is long enough that the fruit still has time to ripen.

Trees do grow in a more dense growth habit here.  Lots of leaves spaced closely together.  The sun is so strong here.  I think they grow dense to shade their branches and roots.  Here is a photo from a few years back of the original Joe's Jersey tree in Clifton, NJ.  Notice the difference in growth habit due to the cooler climate and less intense sun.  But even in NJ this variety was still pretty dense in growth habit compared to some other varieties.

Christian,

I should have been more clear in the video.  It is in it's third growing season at this property.  It was started from a cutting in the summer of 2010 and planted in the ground here in the spring of 2011.  I'm very happy with the size it has reached so far.

Absolutely Joe!
Great shape and size.

I am a little jealous of your climate conditions ;-)
For me it's always kind of a inner struggle in summer... I am happy for my figs when it gets hot and I love summer in general, but i am not used to sleep good at high night temps... :-D

Hello, Frozen:

Thanks for the information.  I'm sure your intense, blazing sun, together with the long growing season is very beneficial for fig trees.  I'd kill for your climate!  The photos of the "Joe's Jersey"  growing in Arizona, and in Clifton, NJ are like night and day. Even the leaves look less thick and robust in the NJ photos.  It has to be a sun/climate thing as you mentioned.

Continued good luck with your beautifully grown trees.  It must be nice to know that once your trees settle into your climate, that they can only continue to get better and better.


Frank

Hi Joe,

Wish I could remember what I planted that one in.  I mostly use whatever I can find locally and sometimes add to it a bit so that it will drain quickly and not remain all mushy.   Some mixes prove to be better than others.  Some simply fail.

I bought a very nice rooting mix from a company back east when they offered free shipping on all orders last year.   Might have been that one.  

Sorry I'm not much help.

Dave,

I was curious because the mix in that pot is very good.  No big deal.  I will keep trying different potting mixes until I find one I like.

I have found that adding lots of pearlite to whatever mix I use helps a lot.  Problem is...I have to screen out fines and usually toss about half the bag.   Messy and time consuming.  Fortunately...I am pretty much done with all of that now.

Thanks joe, great videos.

Yup, cool video Joe. I assume rust isnt a problem in your climate? Your leafs look flawless!