We bought our 3 1/2 acre Home in 2017, located in Flomaton, Alabama, and have been working hard to transform it into a functioning homestead. We also enjoy other activities such as Camping, Hiking, and DIY build's.
Randall is a retired Navy vet of 20 years, (IT/RM). Mechelle has worked as an account executive for several television networks.
We invite you to pull up a chair and join along on our adventure.
Flomaton Famous
P.O. Box 1114
Flomaton, Al. 36441
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Damn tuff list man. I might get the book and try it, but shiiiiiiiit its gon be ruff!
RED ALERT! I'm in trouble... BIG TIME! If I don't make it.... I just want to let you all know I love you dearly... Yikes..... July 11th, 2024 - DuckQwacker
When and where is this event? Is it yearly?
I think that we did almost your exact AC config. I got the idea from a KZreadr that used the 3” sewer hose and bayonets flanges. We too had freeze issue. Are your hose 3”? I considered a in line booster fan just like you have. A few buds trying help me figure out the ice issue convinced me my airflow was lacking and pushed me to add a 4” supply, I assume you did not want to widen the holes in the finished camper body? I ran 4” pvc duct under the cabin a popped it up with a periscope looking pipe. It still took some tinkering as the return is still only a 3”. I tried two 3” returns to make use of the existing holes flanges and hoses but it was still freezing up. The answer for me was to leave one of the 3 inch hoses off and allow the AC to suck in the outside air. It now gets done to about 62 and is enough to make the entire camper sweat. I did not know about running the wires through the duck hoses, but I did a very similar option. I too, took the manual control knobs out of the unit itself and put them in a 4 x 4 junction box with the knobs through a blank face plate. I ran the wires inside the wall during construction And out the bottom where I connected them to a DIY Anderson power pole, quick disconnect. I think after our long July trip, I will make the painful decision to widen the original 3 inch holes to 4 inch holes and be done with it. I really appreciate your fix and the way you have demonstrated it for others to follow. I hope to see you out in the wild somewhere , so I can see the rest of your rig.
Hey Joel, I’ve seen people try a bunch of different things to keep it from icing. I suggest you buy the relay timer and wire it up. I’ve not had one single issue since I did it. A friend also discovered that his a/c unit has an eco mode and pretty much does the same thing as the timer. As far as the Tearjerkers’s event. Just check their calendar on the tearjerkers website. Hope to see you in the wild also
Thank you for such clear instructional video!
Thank you!
I’ve gotta get this book.
I tried one of those tools from Amazon this spring and it didn't take. I think next spring I'll try bark grafting.
Problem with Figs- many just don't care for them. I love them, Only one in my family.
Just found ya channel. My woodland mill will be here Wednesday. we are just a few hours north of ya above Montgomery. Good ideas for us to set up our mill.
Hi Randall, Love all you are growing in your orchard. I have 8 spots left to fill in my Fig Orchard. I live in south Ga. If I keep them watered, is it too late to plant fig trees now in this summer heat?
Just keep them watered. They will be just fine
@@FlomatonFamous Great! So now I wanted to ask if you have a Saint Rita and others I could purchase. If so, do you have an email address I could contact you to discuss. Thanks.
Best tlud video yet, imma bout to build one here in Florida thnx man 👍
Awesome! Thanks!
Way too much sugar….
Preserves and jelly is so different,,,
I bought the red one. Not yet used. Thanks for sharing.
Hope you enjoy it!
Could you please make fig preserves, grandma style?
I think it's an awesome request. Yes, I'll make some in a few weeks.
I wanna help u make 1000 a day please
I really like the grafted apple tree to be able to get all those different apples in one plant
Do you find growing your pears in the columnar shape reduces fruit output? I'm spreading my branches this year to see if it alters the fruit output by changing the apical dominance.
Changing to horizonal branches does produce more fruit.
I'd like to get some clippings from him.
Email him
Beautiful Potting Bench! I plan to build this..I am a 71 yr young woman who works with wood. Your design actually will work best for me. would you be able to at least list the wood sizes you used? and pencil stetch a simple diagram? Is the bench 4'x 24"? What is the height? The slide doors, are they 1x3's , & what is the slide doors measurement 24" sq? Last, how long is the timber for the roof? I would greatly appreciate some imput to help me. I already have the 2x4's for the legs and framing, just need what I mentioned above. Please let me know
Thanks for the tour. You've done a great job, Randall, on the orchard. I can't wait to see it in the next few years as the trees mature. My Saint Gabriel died on me. i got to get another one. i got a Saint Rita a couple of months ago, and i hope to get to try next year so i can see why Michelle likes it so much
Thank you! Rita doesn't disappoint.
So awesome!!! So where did you get that shell apple or however you say it, from ?
I got mine from The Wildlife Group nursery in Auburn. I have a few small trees for sale if you are local.
@@FlomatonFamous oh ok, I'm in south Mississippi!
@@RainbowWarriorChris I got one from him and it's doing well in Stone County MS.
@@RainbowWarriorChris I recently grafted a couple hundred trees but they aren’t ready to sell yet but I have a few from last years grafting
I see you hit one million congrats and love the grounds you have there -living the dream
Thank you!
This was so much fun and nice to meet face to face, all the cool campers and camper people as well. Like no. 19 and I see my subscription has expired so take care of that too.
I always enjoy hanging out with the group!
Excellent recap and explanations. Hopefully, those local to you are taking notes on specific varieties and the issues you're having with ripening fruit. Way to persevere with new varieties and grafts!
Thank you!
Hello, great video, very beautiful and interesting, thank you for sharing, friendly like, good luck and all the best, have a good positive week🥰🥰🤗🤗🤗🤗
Thank you very much!
Awesome tour Randell and Michelle mine Shelley apple trees are growing really good too!! Robert and I said we hope all is well. Thanks for sharing
Thank you! You too! Miss you guys!
great stuff do you have a link to where you get those pots and trays?
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Thanks for the tour. You got some pears and others I've never heard of. That she'll apple seems to be a good one to grow. I have liberty, which is very disease resistant. Maybe we can trade some scions
Sure we can trade. I'm always open to trading for varieties that I don't have and do well in my area.
Thanks for the tour! And the ncrs info. I have Summer’s contact info because I want to burn and there’s reimbursement for gopher tortoise habitat. I had no idea about high tunnel and irrigation though. I will certainly check into that. Started in March collecting figs and already have 34 varieties, with 6 more on the way. I have up potted them, and plan to put them in ground after dormancy. Do you have open eye varieties? And, if so, do you put organza bags on those? Would love to buy some cuttings from you this winter.
Where are you located? Are you in Escambia county? I'd like to see what varieties you have and maybe we can do some trading. I should have some trees for sale later this year.
Wow those trees have gotten huge! I have a few Bartlett’s in my orchard in Mid Ga, and have been mostly pleasantly surprised. So far they have avoided fireblight and produced nice pears. The leaves do get burnt up in 90+ degree heat though.
Nice!
I agree that Leonte is one of the best pears out there. And I also had fits with fireblight on it and several others, especially Scarlet which died and golden boy which I had to greatly reduce in size. I plan to give most of my pears a heavy summer prune every year after they finish their harvest going forward to keep them small so that I can manage for fireblight better. With pears I've decided that its better to go for quality rather than quantity, especially since they are kind of hard to sell, in comparison to plums anyway.
Hey Marcus, we have talked several times over Facebook. You sent me several varieties of your plums this year. Randall White. I'm in Flomaton, Al. just north of Pensacola.
@@FlomatonFamous Very cool! You should give a review of Shiro on Plums and Other Stone Fruits even if its a negative one. It's good for folks to know what to expect. You might try spraying it down with a mix of Zinc and copper next year to see if that makes any difference with brown rot. It didn't seem to with the one remaining branch I have left of NC McKibben. One thing that I'm especially curious about is when did it bloom relative to your other plum varieties?
It would also be good for you to do a post about Toka for the same reason. People need to know about that thousand hour chilling requirement. But chilling should prevent it from producing if it blooms properly. You could have a sport or a mis-IDed tree. However, vegetatively it looks just like the one in the community orchard I helped stat. That one bloomed without producing plums as well. I'm pretty sure it needs a native plum for pollination. It's supposed to be a strong pollinizer and might be pollenizing Shiro if they bloom together. Shiro is supposed to be a universal pollinizer and pollinize about anything it blooms with. If it blooms with Toka and doesn't pollenize it, speaks to just how strongly theses native hybrids really need wild type for pollination. The more experience I gain with plums the more I think nursery descriptions about universal polinizers and self-fertile varieties are just full of crap. Thanks.
I got NC McKibben from Larry when I went to interview him. How is it for disease resistance for you?
@@FlomatonFamous the tree is bullet proof and every single plum brown rots regardless the weather. I haven't found anything that pollinates it well. Not even Ms Bessie seems to pollinize it. It's great rootstock and that's about it. The few plums that it does make don't even taste that good. For fruit production I rate it zero out of five. For rootstock five out of five.
Your Toka plum would probably produce if it blooms with a wild type American plum. It's a wild type with American plum in its genes, and as a group the hybrids set fruit much better with pollen from the North American parent.
Maybe true, no idea what would bloom at the same time. It was such a late bloomer. I think it's later than Chickasaw.
@@FlomatonFamous It's a hybrid with either Amerian plum (Prunus Americana) or Canada plum (Prunus nigra) hence the high chilling requirement and late bloom time. American plum and Canada plum wild type will tend to want to bloom too late for all the same reasons that Chickasaw plum wild type tends to want to bloom too early. That's what makes hybrid plums hard. Finding a North American plum to bloom with them is the hardest part of the whole thing.
Thank you. The information you have about Shiro makes me inclined to graft over my young tree as well here in SE Georgia. Where are you located?
Always enjoy your orchard tours!! Thanks!
Glad you like them!
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Great Video Randy , nice orchard very organized
Thank you!
Do you have any problems with the root knot nematodes? Just wondering about some of your trees that are growing so Slow?
I have never had a problem with them.
My favorite is the ripe ones that I’m eating at the time
I always say the same thing lol.
Keep sending more videos like this 💯🧠
I need to make another biochar video. Thanks for the comment.
I was watching some college baseball earlier. Thank you for the video.
Maybe next time, thanks for watching!
Enjoyed the video, missed the livestream. Thanks for sharing.
Thanks for coming, thanks for the comment!
Sorry that I missed this, was mowing the front lawn while it was cooler and spaced out the livestream. You go me interested in collecting figs, and I now have over 20 varieties. I've concentrated on closed eye/sealed eye varieties because of our humidity. The Shell apples and fig that I got from you are doing great, but my graft didn't make it. The rootstock(pear) finally put out some branches, so I'll try to graft from one of my other pears later on.
Sorry your graft didn't make it. Yes, you can always graft to it again later, hope to see you when we have our first fig gathering. Maybe next year.
@@FlomatonFamous Are there any fig gatherings coming up? I'm semi-retired and can take off any day I want. lol
Only the Fig-A-Rama in Watkinsville, Ga. and the Fig Frolic in Chattanooga, Tn. I'm going to try to attend both again this year.
@@FlomatonFamous Thanks, I'll look those up.
How do I contact you to set up a tour and to purchase some of your cuttings. Cuttings or rooted cuttings or potted. I know how to grow them all. I live between Bay Minette & Atmore AL so Flomaton isn't that far from me. I'm slow getting my fig orchard going but that is a dream I have and to have a big variety of different figs. All I had for YEARS was the standard brown turkey, while they are delicious, I wanted to expand my horizons to grow DIFFERENT FIGS not normally grown in this area. I generally purchase cuttings (scion cuttings from Fig Hunter) and some varieties on Fig Bid. I was not aware of the different Fig Growers in the area. Anyway, I would like to see what you have & bring my list of what I would like to get (if available) from watching your video today. I also know David the Good and have bought many plants from him.at the Atmore Flea Market when he goes there. He will know me as Bama Grits. I did lose a lot of figs last year with those freezes we had. Most came back from the roots but some never did, (which broke my heart) but that is part of life & gardening. The mature trees suffered great loss from loss of leaves & branches and had to be pruned extensively but have come back, put on new growth and have lots of figs. Maybe I can touch base with you after my June traveling when I know how MY SCHEDULE will be free for a tour/purchases. I will be out of town for most of the rest of June but maybe we can set up a meeting/tour sometime after this month. Sorry for the lengthy reply. I do have a tendency to talk TOO MUCH!! LOL! Have a blessed rest of the day & weekend. Get ready for lots of rain next week Looks like it could be everyday. Hope is is just hit & miss pop up rain. We've had enough already!
After last summer's drought, I'll take all the rain that I can get. lol
Hey! If you want to come and visit and talk figs then be sure to send me an email at [email protected] or reach out to me on the Flomaton Famous Facebook group page. It will proabably be the middle of July before I'm available. Wife is having a hip replacement.
Last years drought is the reason I put in irrigation this year.
@@FlomatonFamous Thank you so much, Mr White!! I just joined your FB Group but will contact you mid/late July to confirm a good time for us to meet up! I really appreciate your time & pray in advance that you're wife does super well in her upcoming surgery & recovery! Be blessed~
Thank you Randy, great video to watch on Saturday morning! Thank you for the heads up on our figs.
You bet!
Very nice orchard !! Lost my connection to the internet this morning. Had to come back and watch. Thanks for the update 👍
Well, thanks for coming back. the video quality didn't turn out very good. Probably re-shoot it and publish it.
Do you have a lot of problems with fig rust? Are there particular varieties that seem to be more immune from the fig rust?
I kinda don't worry about fig rust, we get it every year. We just accept it lol. I haven't monitored and taken notes. I might try to keep notes to see which ones resist it.
My Black Mission(Mission Black?) get it worse than anything else, but they are still living and growing, just lose some leaves.
Where do you find information on getting a NRCS grant for a greenhouse?
www.nrcs.usda.gov/programs-initiatives/eqip-high-tunnel-initiative
yea, down in the hot humid south figs are just going to get rust.
Are you planning on doing a u-pick with uour orchard?
Modified u-pick. More of a private tour along with tasting and tree purchases.
Nice orchard.
Thanks!
Good morning.