This is an update to last years video of the orchard.
http://figs4funforum.websitetoolbox.com/post/Tallahassee-Fig-Orchard-Video-5882632?highlight=tallahassee+orchard

Frank, that was a great presentation of your orchard. I enjoyed it tremendously. You are so right about the Celeste. It is the only one I have in ground and it does
produce mucho figs every year for my jam/preserves or just picking and eating.

Really enjoyed your video.  Thanks.

Frank, thoroughly enjoyed your video . Your trees are fabulous . Thanks for the tour !

Frank,

Nice video. 

Wow, I could watch that video over and over again.  You must have fun in that yard.  Every day in the late summer must be like Christmas.  Just like opening a present you get to find a new ripe fig.

Wonderful grounds you have and many thanks for taking the time and sharing what you do .
Plus 1 for Hardy Chicago !

Great tour!  Pinch that KB!

We want a repeat when there are ripe figs to slice open.

Frank

Congrats. Ideal set up and a great collection.

Impressively healthy trees with outstanding growth.  Denotes good care and great love for your figs

Good luck

Francisco

I love the tour Frank!  I am hoping to do something similar, but I am just starting and have a more challenging climate.  Come on global warming!  I have splotches of fig rust on some of my small plants in a climate less humid than yours.  How do you keep your plants so nice?

Bill

FIVE STARS!

Excellent video Frank.

Now I'm not so concerned that I have two Celeste planted. Even in my young small orchard the two Celeste are outproducing everthing else. I'll be waiting for Tallahassee Fig Orchard Part III.

Absolutely awesome!  Great work!

Frank,
Thanks for posting the video update... I actually watched it from start to finish.

What a luxury to have so much flat land. Very nice orchard - thanks.

Thanks everyone, Your nice comments have encouraged me to make more updates in the future.

Yes, I am very lucky to have this wonderful piece of land. It has provided hours of enjoyment and a degree of sanity you couldn't get in any other way.
Bill, rust is just starting and in a month will have hit all my trees. There's not much we can do. Fortunately, it doesn't affect fig production or vigor of the trees much. It is just past of living in the deep South.

Bob thanks for your suggestion.

I loved your video and it made me dream. I like what you are doing but being a Floridian myself, I started to wonder about nematodes which plague the Southwest (I live in the Ft Myers area). Is your area nematode free? It seems they do not like mulch but what happens when the roots spread?
The Algerian that is not producing, could it be that it needs caprification?
You did a great job and it is an inspiration to fig lovers.
I love it! Congratulations!

Very nice video.....wow, what a collection....keep them coming.

Thanks for sharing Frank...that was a very enjoyable video...I didn't want it to end...    :)

Very nice I hope you do as has already been suggested and do another one when you can show us ripe figs.

goss

very nice place . great tour. cant wait to see another tour when the fruit ripens. thanks for taking the to post.

Very impressive Frank! Wonderful tour, thank you so much for sharing that with us.

Wonderful grounds with awesome planting of a great collection.Looking forward to the video of
'Ripe Figs  on Trees'.
Thank you

Liza

Beautiful orchard, great video.
All your hard work is paying off, Frank!
Lots of baskets full of colorful figs for you.

Thanks for the additional comments. There will definitely be a "Ripe Figs" video soon.<br><br>Sal, I am sure there are nematodes in my soil, but have not been bothered by them. I've had trees die inexplicably, but when I pull them out looking for evidence of rkn I do not find the classic root-knot galls typical of nematode damage. <br>The soil is a reddish in color and not at all sandy, so that helps, I assume.<br><br>WillsC, in Central Florida has used tons of wood chips he's gotten from the local electric company's tree trimmings on his land and has not had nematode issues either. So, there are measures to fight these nasty pests.<br><br>The Algerian (actually Moroccon) specimen could very well require the wasp, but shouldn't it at least form some kind of fig initially regardless of whether it needs pollination or not?<br><br><br><br>

Frank

What types of birds eat your figs?

Bob