Nice instruction. Love how Linda was 'sawing' with the reciprocating saw. Let the tool do the work. 😁

I'm so glad I watched your video Linda as I've unknowingly been pruning mine as a conformed single tree and in doing so it has not done well so far. Thanks for sharing........... Victoria B.C., Canada

Excellent teaching in that video, I completely changed my pruning concept and it made a lot of sense to me. The custom is to prune forming a tree, that is what we normally do when we ignore the growth, thinking and putting logic to it is the most sensible thing, everything made sense to me, I will start doing it in my plantation here in Salinas Victoria and Galeana NL México. .. Thank you infinitely for the contribution from the Seattle team and especially Mrs. Linda

Excellent video!! I appreciate the time you take to bring us such educational videos.

At 400' elevation in Yelm (near Olympia WA), I struggle with the trees dying back to the ground in the winter. With plumbers heat tape & Xmas lights etc, I now have 3 year old wood and I think I'm glad for that because hoping the old wood will be more durable. 12 varieties now, but the Desert King cutting came from a tree (at 700') that's 8 inch in diameter. and quite productive. Her style may produce more fruit, but I consider it messy.

Hey! This was great to see and learn. Iam in port orchard wa. And I have this huge dessert king and have been doing it all wrong! Thanks for sharing this!

I really like your technique. can you post some video on how's this tree did this year? Thanks!

Very helpful video. Love it

Excellent video, thanks

and just for the information. Porte cable saw is the best for our purpose. It can change an angle, light, the battery is perfect! Try it .

I have a 3 yr old desert king in a container, it only has one single breba fig :(. We over wintered it n poly tunnel, and used lots of mulch to protect the sides on container and the top. i think the new shoots that sprouted early spring got frost bittern. Im new to fig growing and need to know how to prune a container desert king and what size pot and how to over winter.I would appreciate any info. It seems that different varieties require different pruning methods.

@spankytag

4 ай бұрын

Same here. I'm keeping my Desert King fig plant in a container in the shade. I've had it for two years and so far I've only gotten one fig from it.

@mssavedin92

4 ай бұрын

I pruned the tree down, scaffold branches and trunk are all at same height now. Also pruned the roots and up potted into a 15 gallon pot. We put this on our south west facing deck, in full sun... When it gets super hot, I usually wrap something around the pot just so root area stays cooler. Cheers, all the best with your tree.@@spankytag

thank you this is very helpful information. Do think this pruning technique would work well for other breba only types?

@BenBSeattle

7 жыл бұрын

2 Angels Mushroom Farm yes absolutely

I enjoyed your tips for pruning. I live in Poulsbo Washington and just getting started in the fig world. I am curious as to what is your soil ingredients for your raised beds. Is it a blend of bark and compost with osmocote sprinkled on top? I am starting out with verdino del nord, celeste, smith, verdone, and Italian honey.

This helped a lot

Question (Hopefully there will be a reply) You prune as a bush, but allow it to grow to 10 + feet. How are you suppose to harvest at that height. Almost all other pruners recommend topping the tree to keep harvest within reach????

merci pour cette video thank you

I just (3 June 2019) planted a Desert King here at my place on Saltspring Island in British Columbia, they're said to be very productive here too. The plant that I bought has a single stem about six feet high, with small branches at the top of about a foot long. There's a single fig on the tree. My question is, how should I prune it to get multiple stems coming up from the base like the tree in the video? Will they just appear by themselves, or do I need to prune to make it happen. Very helpful video - thanks!

@0warami_7oo

4 жыл бұрын

Cut it down to 2ft tall

Do you think DK el do well in panhandle of Florida, zone 9?

So: would the advice here be any different in Eastern Wa., over the Cascades?

I wonder. if you have the space- if it’s best to just let the tree grow. Old trees in Tacoma have hundreds of lbs of fruit. If you don’t mind climbing that is:)

What month do you prune here in the Seattle area?

So how exactly will this help the tree make more Breba, compared to other pruning tactics?

@mofomoco

Жыл бұрын

Shorter growing season there so they focus on the breba crop. Other places have longer hotter summers and may want the main crop more tham breba so they may not want a ton of old wood, instead focusing on fewer old branches dividing the energy so they get more new season growth and bigger main crop.

If I have pruned nearly all of my 1 year old to help shape an overgrown desert King fig tree will I get almost no figs this year? Living in Portland...

@guyforever2000

6 жыл бұрын

Correct, likely not many fig this year - but lots next year.

You mentioned that you started your fig tree from a cutting. Most of us have a grafted Dessert King fig including myself. That being said, I don’t think we should keep any growth coming up from the roots (suckers) because those will be a totally different and most likely non productive variety for our area since root stock is typically different than the plant that was grafted into it. I’m still wondering what the proper way to Prune a grafted fig would be like and still have a large crop of figs on the tree. How should we aim to help a 4 year old tree form more branches from the main branches in order to get more figs?

@carolynmcgown4218

2 жыл бұрын

I am wondering sort of the same thing (wouldn't the suckers be from the root stock?).

@irishfruitandberries9059

2 жыл бұрын

Maybe take a cutting from the desert King and root it

@cheapscotsman

Жыл бұрын

Figs are so easy to propagate from cuttings, why would you graft? I either push a branch into the ground to get it to form roots, or I put buckets with soil around some suckers and I get a new tree.

Does anyone have experience growing Desert King for breba crop in Zone 6 or 7? I'm debating putting one in the ground in zone 6B. I've heard they're extremely cold resistant

@judipeterson5666

3 жыл бұрын

I live at 600' in Zone 6 & have an abundance of Desert Kings this year.

What time of the year to prune? Early spring Feb or March?

@thegooch7206

5 жыл бұрын

Willsters yes, you want to do it before they show signs of waking up.

they should root every single cutting and have about 500 new fig trees!

@BenBSeattle

7 жыл бұрын

Yeah I'm not sure what happened to all those beautiful limbs

So it won't grow any breba on the 2 and 3 year growth, only on last year growth. Correct?

@BenBSeattle

5 жыл бұрын

Yes correct. 2yr old wood

@BenBSeattle

5 жыл бұрын

Yes last yrs growth

So the answer is, to promote more breba, you just allow more suckers? so you prune this like a lilac.

Are you selling your desert king cuttings?

Why do you keep the 3 year old wood on the tree?

@BenBSeattle

7 жыл бұрын

Scott Allen because it also has 1yr old wood

@ThirdLawPair

7 жыл бұрын

Thanks Ben, you have a great channel BTW. Most fig growers make a 10 min video to pick and eat one fig. Your videos are the most concise of any I've found.

how can i contact linda

You need a better blade on that saw(they are disposable and vary quite a lot by brand), I can hand saw faster than that. Try a larger tooth the gullets may be getting packed full of wood bits.

Change the blade. There are wood blades available ....

@justinfiorini3142

5 жыл бұрын

There are pruning blades available. They chew through wood like butter.

@shawnrogers3287

4 жыл бұрын

also noticed the metal or general purpose blade lol

oh maaan why is she moving the wood saw thats sooo.....

Desert King Fig can't fruit in Indonesia, perhaps..

@BenBSeattle

7 жыл бұрын

do you have a DK tree?

i´m even faster with my silky handsaw XD

Use pro-grade loppers and orr a pro-grade manual saw. Come on now…. those are small branches easy to cut.

It's still too tall

wrong pruning

@BenBSeattle

7 жыл бұрын

SumerianTurk this type of pruning is more specific to the seattle area or similar climates

That blade for metal not wood people. Wake up. Should take 5 seconds not 10 min