Welcome to the channel everyone! This channel is a journey to the backyard! Each season brings new projects, ideas, and mistakes to learn from! Mike, an amateur film maker, novice gardener, new to homeownership and fresh to permaculture. This is the story of the Homestead.. Twiggs Homestead!
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I need some fig cuttings
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Can live without the stupid music
Thanks for the comment! You’re a gem. Good luck out there!
I live vicariously through your honeybee videos because I know I will never do it myself. I like how you care about your bees and don't take everything from them just because you could.
Thank you for that! I’m happy I can give you the experience without any risk of stings. These bees are very calm too, there was at no point a sting or attempted sting. They are my friends! :D
Africanized bees are in my area in central Louisiana and I`m having issues with old car accident injuries and arthritis so I decided not to get a hive until I get more advice. I saw a small wild hive of Africanized bees attack a guy and really hurt him fast but I warned him before he harassed them. They didn`t come after me and another guy though but we weren`t the one who aggravated them intentionally. I used to have all the equipment, suit and 4 hives years ago but never needed to wear the suit to harvest a frame of honey but I knew very little and mites and moths infested them after a few years and killed them. There are certain people bees don`t like it seems for whatever reasons. My dad couldn`t go near them.
Have you considered trying some water soluble cloning solution in the mister? I know in other plant species which heavily use these for propagation they like to add something like Hormex B1, which has a mild rooting hormone which dissolves in the water and constantly mists back on the cutting. Some also like Extreme Gardening Azos which can also mix with water, Clonex makes a diluted liquid seed starting fertilizer which some swear by, though it contains no rooting hormone. Some also like liquid seaweed which helps as a weak rooting hormone but also a light fertilizer to feed the plant as it roots. You really have a lot of options to boost your speed/success rate with a mister. I personally would recommend the Hormex b1, it's not cheap but it's mix rate is 5ml per gallon so it lasts a bit, use that for the first few weeks until you see the white root bumps develop than change the mix to a diluted feed like very diluted mix unless you go with liquid seaweed or the clonex seedling fertilizer.
Awesome suggestions thank you for sharing! I have considered it but I honestly never tried. I might give it a go. So far just water gives me 100% success over a period of 3-4 weeks so there is not a major need for it however, if adding hormone can speed that up to 1-2 weeks it will be worth every penny! I will place an order for Hormex B1 and give it a try. maybe ill make a video doing a round with it and a round without it. It might take me 6-8 weeks to make that video but it could be worth the while.
Get some inner tubes.
Good thinking! Might have saved me
How much do you sale your fig trees for
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Great video Twig thanks for uploading I really did enjoy that.. Only one thing You did forget to mention though was how obsessive composting can become LOL
Omg you’re telling me! I’ve been making compost for years now. I love making it almost more than I love using it
Hello thank you for the video. I'm interested in buying your cuttings. How do l go about ordering some? I'm in Connecticut.
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Thanks for pointing me to your video. I took cuttings in the Fall and rooted them in cups in my basement over winter, put a sandwich bag over each cup and clipped it on fir humidity and had a heat mat under them and grow lights. To my surprise they all grew! This summer I am trying the air layering, hope I have success. I scraped the branch but I didn't cut the bark.
That’s awesome! Yeah I go dormant myself in the winter and relax lol. The basement on bottom heat sounds like a great idea because they like to root when the bottom is warmer than the air above. Air layering is a good solid bet. They always seem to root. Sometimes I will bend a branch down to the ground, place a brick on to hold it down and cover with woodchips or soil. Seems to work better because of consistent moisture in the ground.
I always have more trouble with hardwood cuttings over softwood cuttings. I lost a bunch of mulberry cuttings because of the heat wave as well
Yea it was hot! Stinks because I think this experiment would have been a real success. I’m going to give this laying down method 1 more try inside my shed with the heat mat plugged into a thermostat.
Have you ever done air layering? I am trying it for the first time this summer, just bought some pods from Amazon and put them on a couple days ago. Hope it works!
Yea I did! I bought the same junky pods lol I made a video last summer on that. It worked for me very well!
@@twiggshomestead6497 After getting mine set up I saw someone use sandwich baggies and he said it worked best. Maybe next time I'll try that.
Am in South Jersey Vineland! Nice work I'ma try that amazon buy.
Sweet! I’m in central, Princeton area.
Excellent video
Thank you very much!
I measured temps in my totes on heat mats and they seemed to often get too hot. I ended up elevating the tote so it wasn’t directly on the heat. I may look into the cloner. Are the roots any weaker when up potting? Do you have a link for the cloner?
@@larawines4875 Hi Lara! Yea I’m going to try this laying in sand method one more time inside my shed with a thermometer power regulator so the temps get no warmer than 89°F. I don’t have a link for the cloner readily available. Pause the video on the frame where I show the box and check Amazon. I think I originally got it from Amazon a few years back. Thanks for commenting!
I had zero success laying cuttings in Sand.
I'm sold
Get after it!
Does the pile have to be in the sun ? My pile is in the shade almost all the time
Negative. It can be anywhere. It’s all the same underneath where the magic is happening!
antibiotic?
I’ve always loved the look of this knife but I worry about the concave in the blade.
They didn’t rot because the microbial flora both fungal and bacterial did not have the nuteisnts to properly grow
A big branch from one of my favorite trees broke after a storm yesterday so I'll try this out. I actually removed all the leaves, hopefully it still works.
I love that sound. Could listen to it all day.
Sorry, but that intro music was nauseating and so unnecessary.
Don’t apologize! Music is one of those things that plays to everyone’s ear differently. This is an older video, in my newer videos, I no longer use music. Some people like it others don’t.
Hi I'm Tela, I live in Middle Georgia, I saw your channel last year and guess what? IT WORKS!!! Being new to figs, I purchased trees, thinned them and now I have 2 of each.. I bought 8 varieties, and now I have copies of each... Think about it.. makes total sense, in the summer, it's EASY, the heat is there. All we have to do is let the figs loving the heat so it's job ❤.. Most order expensive cuttings in the winter, and struggle with heat mats and greenhouses, your just doing it on the plants natural time to root. ❤
Exactly! Glad it worked for you! I do this every year now.
@@twiggshomestead6497 I'm learning so much following you, you're not using huge words trying to be an expert, you're just showing an easy simple way, and the proof is right there... I do have a question ❓. Why don't you cover your air layers in tin foil ? I'm going to do my first one this year and why does everyone use Reynolds wrap and you don't?
I've had good success growing figs in fine bark mix, or commonly sold as soil conditioner. I have to fertilize manually but I don't mind, I've come to grow everything in this mix and honestly it's borderline impossible to over water this kinda mix. After a season or two it breaks down into some decent compost, I dump it out on a tarp (tomatoes, green bean, and potato plants) to add some more bark mix but it's worked very well for me, and stuff is only $2.50 for 2 cubic feet here locally at Lowes.
Great information! Thanks for the comment. I might do a side by side video using this method and medium. Might be my new method!
Dip the cut tips in wax and they will survive even better. You don't want them to dry out and the wax prevents this without harming the cutting.
It’s a good idea for cooler temperature propagation. I’ve done this in the past but found that in the greenhouse, it gets a bit too warm for wax and it ends up melting and dripping. I’m planning to try using my own bees wax this fall/ winter when propagating indoors
@@twiggshomestead6497 I use the left over wax from a Sensy Wax Melt scent and I have mine in a greenhouse too. Never had the wax melt off. I just dip the cut off tips. Nothing else, and quit doing the :"wrap the stem" a long time ago. Bees wax has a lower melting point so I think it will definitely drip under heat. Good luck.
@@JohnDeWeese-lq4pf Good information, stay tuned for future fig videos! Ill give you a shout-out if I do go with the wax. Thanks!
This is the best youtube video about composting I've found. THANK YOU! I actually don't feel overwhelmed now and look forward to starting mine with pallets.
Amazing! Thank you for letting me know! I enjoyed making this one. Anyone can do it!
Great video--very informative. Good enough that I feel like I could now manage a compost pile, something I have never known how to do before. thank you; Fred
Great! You got this! Good luck lmk if you have any questions :)
Thumbs up for the gold star. 😊 Now out to the coop and pig pen.....
⭐️ Thank you for watching! Good luck!
A LOT OF INFO MISSING EG, HOW AND WHAT METHODS TO USE.
Let me know what kinds of you info you are looking for, I’d be happy to elaborate or clarify. You can water it right into your containers or beds. You can put this on any plant with roots and it will benefit one way or another. What this is doing is feeding the soil around the plants roots in turn increasing the biological activity at the root zone (rhizosphere) and allowing the plant to trade a wider variety of nutrients at a higher quantity. I hope this helps.
Dan foster youtube channel does softwood fig cutting it good to see various content providers experience . This method is easier than Dan's . I goin to give this method a try
Good luck!!
Super cool. I found this after I plopped a couple green cuttings in water to see what happens!
how are they doing?
They rot easier in overly damp soil vs water because the water is largely anaerobic. So aerobic bacteria grows in the soil but not in the water. That’s my guess. I had a Smith that took forever in water. At the vacuole stage I moved it to a medium like you did. But alas a month later I may have killed it via root rot. 😔
Interesting, I had about an 80% success rate of these cuttings after filming this video. It seemed to do well with this variety. I’m currently filming one on rooting in sand so stay tuned for that. They went in a few days ago, I’ll film the roots with info on how long, etc etc. I have my fingers crossed!
Any update on these?
These did fantastic and actually were either sold, gifted or up potted into larger pots and are still roaming around the homestead here. Thanks for tuning in Lara, your like the Twiggs homestead MVP!
Now that is a compost pile to be proud of.
Sure is! This was all used up and is not being recycled one way or another via my garden beds, chicken run or potted fig trees. I always have a pile going
Thank you so much, I appreciate all the information and demonstrating you shared. I needed this,. I received about 1000lbs of cow manure and 2 bale of straw that's breaking down. I'm getting busy tomorrow.❤❤❤❤
Great! Glad you enjoyed! Good luck!
Not sure this is legit , if you screen shot it before and after it’s the same background same time of day and every plant is the same size, and he’s wearing the same shirt with ear plugs
Lol it’s legit I promise. I’m not here to deceive at all. I always have ear plugs on and the plants don’t grow when no root system. They use their energy to generate roots.
Did you ever sqush one of those eggs in yer pocket like i have & swear you ain't gonna put them in yer pocket anymore but then do it agin!!! lol
Oh I sure have! More than once. Sometimes takes me a few times to learn a good lesson
It cures cancer in people also!!
Looks like it will save you a lot of manpower. Is there a way to make it go straight down? I was just thinking you'll probably want the fenceposts to be straight.
Absolutely! These holes were just for digging in trees. Didn’t matter if they were straight or not but I can tighten the 3pt arms and take some more time lining up with the mark to make it give me a straight hole. Thanks for the comment!
I like that you mentioned it has to have something to burn. Never thought of it that way before.
Thanks! I always try and simplify when learning something new!
Yanks are so careless and could care less. "I forgot about it" Why are you here? Are you lonely? Plant torchery. Just plain dumb.
Yanks figure out new things! Try it some day :)
Great video, how do you clean it? I've Elaine saying that a build up of fil is a huge challenge
I tip it on its side and rinse it out immediately after use. I don’t let the moisture and slime dry. I’ll use my hand and scrub the sides during the rinse.
Go check back or just understand there may have been 2 queens the size of that swarm should have filled that deep wall to wall
it sure did! I did get the queen because all of the bees went to the deep from the tree and now are drawing comb and making a new home in there. How long do you think I should keep them separated from my original hive? Id like to keep them together.
Wow that was both terrifying and cool all at the same time. I'm glad it worked the first time! How much honey are you able to harvest from the hives?
Thank you for this great demonstration. It is very well done. I hope to build one just like it. Will you remove the grass layer before filling with chicken compost?
Thank you!! I’m glad you enjoyed! It’s a clean design and easily replicated! No I did not remove the grass I just piled the compost right in! The grade will die and decompose becoming food for microbes and earth worms!
Thank you for the prompt reply! Much appreciated…
Wow! You are gonna have so much more sun. You are gonna have a lot of wood chips too! Thanks for sharing!
Sure will! Loving it already. Thanks for commenting.
What a difference compairing how they are treating the knives today on the net 🤗🤗
Great point!
Ty for making this video