5 years ago, I began a journey to breed fig trees and develop new fig varieties in my backyard. I started with a UCR 271-1 Saleeb caprifig tree, and 2 years later, I harvested fig pollen. I carefully chose female fig mother trees of the best quality and crossed them to develop fertile seed. Now, the fig tree breeding program is bearing fruit…literally! I created 10 brand new fig trees, and the results are mindblowing!
I am growing 42 fig tree seedlings in total as part of the fig breeding experiment. After 3 full years, one third of the seed grown fig trees are producing fruit. This video shares the new fig tree varieties and taste tests them to document the results. It’s shocking the quality of fruit these seedling fig trees are producing.
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
0:00 Breeding Fig Trees Introduction
0:54 How Long Do Seed Grown Fig Trees Take To Fruit?
2:18 Breeding Parthenocarpic Fig Trees
5:02 My New Fruiting Fig Trees
7:02 Fig Taste Test #1
8:04 Fig Taste Test #2
9:30 A Shocking New Development!
10:54 Mother VS Daughter Fig Trees
12:31 Fig Taste Test #3
13:05 Fig Taste Test #4
13:46 Fig Taste Test #5
14:27 Fig Taste Test #6
16:18 But Wait, There Is More!
17:27 The Fig Breeding Lie
20:29 Adventures With Dale
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22 Comments
If you enjoyed this video, please "Like" it and share it to help spread it! Thanks for watching 😀TIMESTAMPS for convenience:
0:00 Breeding Fig Trees Introduction
0:54 How Long Do Seed Grown Fig Trees Take To Fruit?
2:18 Breeding Parthenocarpic Fig Trees
5:02 My New Fruiting Fig Trees
7:02 Fig Taste Test #1
8:04 Fig Taste Test #2
9:30 A Shocking New Development!
10:54 Mother VS Daughter Fig Trees
12:31 Fig Taste Test #3
13:05 Fig Taste Test #4
13:46 Fig Taste Test #5
14:27 Fig Taste Test #6
16:18 But Wait, There Is More!
17:27 The Fig Breeding Lie
20:29 Adventures With Dale
So exciting! Are you leaving any trees outside to increase cold tolerance!? May I buy seeds? 🙂 such fun! Thank you for the info .. parthenocarpy!!! What a word!!!
Your knowledge of gardening is truly mind-blowing to me. Amazing work!
Congratulations! And yay to your fig creativity!
Very tasty 🤤
It would be interesting to see if the new hybrids are more cold tolerant.
Thanks for your experimental efforts.
Wow, I didn't know that's why you have so many fig trees. I grew-up with fig trees around me and had no idea they were so finicky to grow them in your climate. Do you think you could grow fig trees in your FL property? It rains a lot over there. I'll check out your earlier video. The yellow bus is still Dale's best toy. LOL. He definitely is joy to watch👍 Thanks for sharing your video.
Are you sure you are a gardener and not a scientist? Careful or you'll make yourself famous. Amazing work!
If you had to pick one persimmon tree to have in it yard, what would it be? I'm trying to decide which one to add this year. I have a fuyu already growing. Zone 8a Virginia Beach
takeaway from this video for us common folk….there is a fig community? 😂
Love your videos; hate the wife beater shirts,
Amazing video!! Love this kind of content with experimentation and new discoveries!
Great video! Question for ya. I'm in Charleston SC 9a, hot and rainy here also. I had to cut down my brown turkey fig last year and I LOVE figs. What's your top suggestions for a fig that will do well here and is that sweet tasty kinda fig that produces a lot. Happy for a few suggestions bc our local nursery can get almost anything. I watched your top fig video but wanted something in that category if you have time to write back. Much appreciated also!!! I want to plant a few also. Thank you!!!!
Congratulations and what a knowledgeable video on figs. I’ve been collecting seeds from my gardens and wildflowers and love growing things from those seeds. I would think that the fig world is going to thank you for all your hard work.
Since lockdown i collected over 72 fig varieties. Back when i had literally so much time to take care of them. Then i got busy, neglected them. Lost about 68 of the varieties due to not being watered. And in my hot country if you dont water for a week things die. Now i just have 4 plants. Luckily my favourite fig is still alive and i propagated it so now i can have 2 of them. Hoping to get 1-2 more varieties. I just want 5-6 fig trees now. No time for 80 potted trees to water anymore.
I've had my dwarf fig tree for a couple years now and it produces fruits but they don't get that big and they end up shriveling up i think it could be a pollination issue but im not completely sure if it is any suggestions on how to stop them from shriveling? They are in containers but are watered regularly every day, since it's Phoenix and it's still in the 100s
Shade cloth: any advice on when to remove them? In Leland, NC.. looking like it will be cloudy and lower temps for the next couple weeks, thinking about taking them off tonight. (tomatoes, squash, etc..)
Dude that is awesome!! Hard work pays off.
Dale's so sweet <3
Don’t throw them away… give them away to your subscribers
Woww! Congrats on your success! I appreciate the update! I have been waiting for so long! 😄 I can’t wait to see what will happen on the future! What an awesome experiment! 🙂
Keep cross breading those 1 year maturing trees!