Here are a few pictures taken this morning after I was walking through my garden admiring and watering some of my trees.  Looks like I will have Jujubes soon!  I think I have 5 different varieties of Jujubes.



Here is one of my 6 Black Jack fig trees getting larger.


Here is one huge leaf off that same tree...Black Jack..


Here is one of my Peter's Honey....one of the best tasting figs I grow.




Here is the leaf of my Peter's Honey...


Looking forward to a good year!  Enjoy!

Great looking trees . Thanks for sharing Dennis! I can't wait for my PH Breba to ripen. I only have six figs to look forward to but six is six more than none so I ll take it!

Nice, Dennis. My Blackjack and Peter's Honey both have many brebas getting fat. Glad to hear your opinion on the PH, these will be my 1st.

Hi Dennis, your Peter honey looks very similar to my kadota ......is it the same fig? Do you have both to compare...... I have a very small ph probably won't get figs till next year....those trees look very nice..

Peter's Honey and Kadota are not the same. And yes, have them both including Exce!, White Texas Everbearing, Votata, and other yellow figs. Peter's Honey takes a few years to develop but they are worth the wait!

Looks good Dennis!

hi Dennis those look great ....!

  are you saying   that  most of theses yellow figs are about the same or the same cultivator ?

I have a small Excel . I am trying to choose the best 5 or six cultivators to grow just in pots here in zone 5 ..

dennis perhaps you will read my post on this and comment .thanks`

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Looks great Dennis! Very inspiring of what we have to look forward too and those leaves are HUGE in that last pic! The Peter's Honey are calling your name, any week now.

Quick question please, are those pots with the orange funnels all SIPS or are you watering deeper so the roots reach downward? I have a few dupes about the same size and was contemplating testing that method. Thank you. 

Nope Austin, I'm not saying that.  All I am saying is I have those figs too.  Peter's Honey does taste like honey though.

Vince you are correct!  Those pots with funnels are  SIPs.  Every weekend, I make a batch of liquid fertilizer and walk around feeding my trees.  I try to give each SIP their own funnel.  I use to cover my SIPs with black plastic wrap.  I stopped doing that.  Today, I just lay a sheet of weed guard around the tree and cover with mini pine nuggets.  That plastic is such a pain.  If they get rain, then "O Well".

Hi Dennis, I've actually been wondering about how people may control how much water a potted fig gets. I know this is really important when some figs are ripening to avoid splitting...are you saying you give your trees their weekly dose of fish emulsion and then prevent the soil from being rained on using black plastic? How does one determine how much to water a fig, while the figlets are growing? We have had tons of rain here, but I'm just starting to see the beginning of figlets and my trees are still growing (so I just let them get all the rain since they drain well anyways). I've been feeding fish emulsion every week, too.

Hey DJ,
Is Peter's Honey to Honey figs what Smith is to Louisiana Heirloom Figs?
If so, I am going on record to ask for a layer.

Hi Jenny---The only control I may do is moving the plant to a spot where it may get no rain at all....like a greenhouse or under a canopy. If we get days of rain, then I will wait a day or 2 and then give it the liquid fertilzer.  Too much rain/water can make some figs suck water and split.  Well, I'm tryin to avoid that this year.  Bunswick is another excellent rich tasting fig that I love!  I got a couple of them that will be living in my GH too.

Hey JD, to answer your question----YES! My orchard tree gets raided yearly by possums and raccoons. I tried covering them with bags but they can smell the honey from the eye when they are ripe.  Since I got rid of my coons, the possums came out.  But I did get some figs from it last year.  They are amazing dried!!!!  This year, I'm placing my 4 Peter's Honey and 4 Black Jacks inside my new greenhouse and sealing it up at night with bird netting and traps.

As for liquid fertilizer----I was several, Floralicious Plus, Big Boom, Fish Emulson, Plant Stimulator, Swamp Tea, Vitamino, and a few others that I can't remember at the moment.  That Floralicious Plus is by far the best though!  THAT stuff made my tiny Black Ischia put on 18 inches of growth and 11 figs!  And in previous years, it did nothing!  And it only takes 1 teaspoon per 5 gallons of water!  Go figure!  It's super concentrated and works!  It's also what I gave my White Italian that would not let go of its pot.  The stuff just works!

Oh, I forgot!  Will do JD!  I got about 6 or 7 Peter's Honey trees.  But remember they are not hardy.

I just started using That Floralicious Plus... ...smells good! right Dennis !

Austin, I messed up and got some on my hands last year.  I had flies chasing me for hours!  Whatever you do.....don't get it on your hands!!!!

i used  rubber gloves

I love Peter's Honey. Mine does very well in my hoop house all summer. The temps reach well over 100 degrees and it loves it. The figs do indeed taste like honey!

John, I do recommend keeping it.  Whenever, I find a good fig that taste crazy good, I try to get more of them.  Seven years ago, I got my first Peter's Honey and it dropped its figs that year.  The next year I repotted it to a 10 gallon pot and it only produced small little marble size figs that had no taste.  The next year, I planted it in my orchard and boy it took off and grew like made and made some large figs. That year the coons got them and almost broke my tree in half.  The fifth year, I bought 2 more and planted them in large pots.  The next year was 2010.  It was one of the hottest summer in the past years and all of my 3 PH fruited and gave me a lot of figs to eat.  So, I don't know how old your tree is but mine in my climate too a few year before they really started giving me excellent tasting fruit.

Susan, I'm glad you said that because I'm planning on placing my trees inside my large greenhouse.  My plan is to keep the temps around 95 and only placing those the really love the heat inside.  Smith, Black Jack, Salem White, Black Maderia, Strawberry and Verte will be in there too! 

Thanks Dennis I'll give it some more time....My tree is going on its second summer, but it has been a really slow grower .........I have been pushing it with fertilizer.

Dennis,

Those look great! I have a couple two or three year old Peter's Honey I grew from cuttings that were a gift from a friend here in Atlanta. I have a few figs on them now. PH were the first fresh figs I ever tasted and started this addiction. ;)

His trees were very large and productive but he had to cut them back last year after the historic, cold winter in 2014. He says they are coming back. I hope they do.

Nice pictures Dennis, and Wow those monstrous leaves. Here are some pictures my figging trees. Alma, Ventura, VdB, RdB, BT, Red Lenanese Bekka, Black Jack. Some of the trees came from Forum members and I am really happy about how they are pushing the figlets. My first year with home grown figs. Really excited.

 
  
   
  
 

   

Looks amazing Mohan!  Wow!

Hi Dennis, I got back from 2 week long vacation and found some one had picked most of the unripe figs from the plants on my driveway. I lost many of my BT, Jack Black and a few RedLebanese-Bekka. But fortunately the plants in my yard are safe excepts critters found their way to a few ripening figs. I was lucky to have a few BT and Red Lebanese spared and I got to taste them last couple days. I should say I am impressed, especially these are my firs home grown figs. Brown Turkey is not discussed more on the forum, but I liked my BT for their balance between sweetness, flavor and texture.

Looking forward to our fig gathering.

Here are some pics.