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LSU Purple Breba and Main Crop Fig Video Review

Another great video! Something to look forward to when looking at my baby tree waiting for it to grow :)

Thanks for posting, I read somewhere, that on fig trees that are in the ground, will provide sweeter figs if you cut back on watering for 2 weeks before they are ripe. Also thanks for the info I have a 2 foot tall LSU Purple doing well.

Thanks David.

Thanks for the tip Armando.  Let us know how your LSU Purple tree does.

nice spreading tree . fruit is special.

Breba and main at the same time, wow strange things can happen!  :-)

And what i realized in your videos, it seems that the trees in a hot dry climate like yours develope thicker and smaller leaves than in a cooler and more humid climate...or am i wrong?

As always, great video Joe. I love your garden, thank you.

Nice video and very good figs
Thanks for sharing

Francisco

Nice video, my Lsu purple is second year in ground and it is starting to spread out a little now. I think it will still be a while before I see any ripen.

Nice video, like you fig guarding dogs!!

Thanks for the comments everyone!

Christian the hot dry climate here does affect the fig trees.  Temps here are above 100F almost everyday from June to September.  The sun is always shining and it feels very hot.  Some of the trees grow with large soft leaves.  But many of them do seem to produce smaller more leathery leaves in this climate.  I also notice that the trees grow dense, with not that much distance between the leaves.  I think these changes are the fig tree's natural response to the climate.  Smaller harder leaves lose less water to transpiration.  A denser growth habit casts more shade on the root zone.

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Thanks for the comments everyone!

Christian the hot dry climate here does affect the fig trees.  Temps here are above 100F almost everyday from June to September.  The sun is always shining and it feels very hot.  Some of the trees grow with large soft leaves.  But many of them do seem to produce smaller more leathery leaves in this climate.  I also notice that the trees grow dense, with not that much distance between the leaves.  I think these changes are the fig tree's natural response to the climate.  Smaller harder leaves lose less water to transpiration.  A denser growth habit casts more shade on the root zone.


Over 100F, 3 month long?!? How do you survive there? ;-)

That phenomenon you mentionend, i could also watch at the south coast of Turkey which i visited in april and november 2013: thick, kind of leathery leaves...but the groth was huge - this years branches, over an inches thick!
I noticed in my climate, when a tree is in a spot where the full sun is only a few hours a day, the leaves can be very thin and huge...in full sun the whole day, much thicker and and not as big. Of course not as extreme like in your case.

Anyway...i like the look a fig gets in your desert climate!

love the videos Joe, may I suggest something, when you take the inside part, make sure you record the seeds in detail by stabilizing your hand and take a slow steady shot at them. 
I love your dogs too, I bet you never get squirrels trying to steal figs from you:)

Another great video!

At what point do you put the organza bags onto the fig? Just curious. ...

Aaron thanks for the camera advice.

Jenn I put the organza bags on when the figs start to turn color and swell up.

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Aaron thanks for the camera advice.

Jenn I put the organza bags on when the figs start to turn color and swell up.


Great, thanks for the info!

Thanks for your video.

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