This video instructs you how to make an affordable, high quality soil mix for container gardening. Fig trees are featured in this video, but this mix can be used for almost any fruit tree, vegetable, herb, flower or plant you’d like to grow in containers.
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Do you have any experience with Green Sand which is said to have an abundance of minor elements and comes from ground up rock.
Do you know which seller you bought your I-258 from?
I might have missed it. Why did you not use straight potting soil?
It blows my mind how you know all these names of the different types of fig trees! They all look the same to me, Lol Another excellent video! Thank you so much for what you do! 👍❤️
If I use peat in stead of coco coir do I have to add water to it first?
Good video! Great info! Thank you!
I have a young fig tree planted in the garden. Very helpful. Thank you for the advices.
Hello, I see that you use potting mix and coir for your pots. Why don't you use a standard vegetable mix? Do you think the veg mix is to heavy or dense? Don't you find that that mix goes dry quickly? I am going to up pot soon. Thank you and say hi to Dale!
How does this mix do during winter? What do you do with your trees during winter? Just leave them outside and not water or bring them in ? I kept all my plants inside last winter and lost a lot of plants to root rot. I'm trying to find the right mix so I don't lose more plants since I got a Figo preto, i258, and smith this year 🙂
And what happen when rain come to your potting mix, you add few coco coir that hold moisture, are the roots not rotten? Because I often have problems with root rot when the mixture is wet…
Thanks for the tips. I’ve always wanted a fig tree & have decided to grow one in a pot this year.
What is the container soil ingredient proportions?
Does this work for tomatoes? Thanks!
You don't get any problems with deficiency of calcium and magnesium from that coco coir?
I've read that you should buffer it in strong solution of calmag to prevent that(cation exchange sites etc.)
Coco coir is also environmentally friendlier.
How do you protect your fruit trees from flying pest like wasp and hornets?
I took six cuttings from my Chicago Hardy Fig tree and followed your instructions exactly to get them to root. All six were successful, so I gave some away and am not ready to put the rest in larger containers. Thank ou so much for your clear instructions. I also appreciate the fact that you say WHY you do what you do.
Well done video!! Very helpful
I just came back to this because I was thinking that you didnt mention limestone . Could lime be used instead ?
Why do you use coco coir instead of peat moss?
Your yard is huge. I would love that.
Don’t quite understand how this is “Make Your Own Potting Mix” if ingredient #2 is itself a pre-made, store-bought potting mix.
Big fan, but this is an odd choice. The potting mix is likely mostly peat moss and perlite. Which you're adding to peat moss (coco coir). You can just replicate this with peat moss + perlite + compost, no?
THANK YOU FOR THE INFO IT'S VERY HELPFUL.
SOMEDAY I WILL HAVE ME A FIG GARDEN ,AND THAT'S MY BIG DREAM
MY FRIEN.
Low's only have Chicago Harden..
Is this mix good for veggie seeds?
Thanks for the videos on growing fig trees. I have 6 that I bought as rooted cuttings last year and they are living but only about a foot tall and not producing figs. They're outside and getting full sun. I've quickly learned that I don't water or fertilize enough. Also, I have mine in those "earth bags" like you're using for the watermelons. In your opinion, are they ok for figs or not? If they're part of my problem I can certainly remedy that.
They say that woodchips rob nitrogen, but what about when the woodchips have turned to soil, does it not then give it back?
Looking back is there anything that you do different now?