- So I'm here with Mr Bill.
We're at the Memphis Botanic Gardens and we're gonna prune some figs.
- What's left of some figs.
- What's left of some figs.
- We've already had an abnormally warm spring.
- [Chris] Yes we have.
- Before Spring got here, in fact.
And figs, which are a tender plant, had started to put out.
Normally they would not have produced any fresh leaves until at least May, and some
of them in June.
So we've had an unusual growth.
We also had four days of cold weather, extremely cold for this time of year, last week.
And so on our fig trees we have what only a few days ago were nice green new growth,
as far as the fig is concerned.
Now we have two things here, as far as taking care of the figs.
If you prune too early, which we're not going to prune too early for this year because of
the give and take of the weather, these have died back and this time we don't know to what
extent.
Because each one of these leaf nodes, which is just a little lump right on the side of
the tree, is a potential for a bud.
These budded out and then got hit with 34 degrees weather and being a very tender plant
it just curled up and died on us, and dried out in a few days.
Now, if some of the figs have not put out at all, do not be concerned if yours doesn't.
In fact, the one that hasn't put out yet may be in better shape than the one that did and
then got frozen back.
But there again, that's not for the home owner to worry about because even if we had to say
this tree is not going to bear for the year and why are we even fooling with it, you can
take a saw, four, five inches off the ground, take the whole thing out, and before the season's
over, if you treated it properly, it will be anywhere from six to eight feet tall.
- Alright Mr Bill, we're gonna let you have at it.
We're gonna let you start pruning this fig tree for us.
- Well, first thing we need to look at on this tree, we want a good sturdy branch to
support the bulk of the tree.
When you look at this, it had, at one time, a single trunk.
Now, from the old trunk dying out, the two, four, six, eight, 10, 12, about 14 small ones.
Now you don't want that.
So you select.
This is one of the sturdier ones.
That's a sturdy one down at the base.
But those others are laying on the ground.
That's what they're gonna do when they mature.
They get up here and run out like these little bunchy ones here.
As they grow the weight'll get to 'em, they're down at the ground anyway, and it'll pull
it to the ground and pop the stump out.
- [Chris] I gotcha.
- So you wanna pick out two, three, maybe four and take out all the immature ones around
it.
These leaf nodes right here are pointing all different directions.
If you cut it in here where the leaf nodes are thick you're gonna get a burst of little
limbs in there.
Very desirable for a small tree.
And you want limbs with leaf nodes for making fruit, not a long spindly plant like this
one has got.
Alright, if you wanna have figs to eat but you don't have a huge amount of space then
you might want to come in here about head height and do your cutting.
The problem is, if you do your cutting too soon as some of us have done, because I had
to, I was shaping my tree for visual effect as well as bearing fruit.
But by pruning it back early this is a fairly hollow stem right here.
If you get a little moisture in here and then the frost hits it, it will just explode the
limb, occasionally, if it's extreme.
So we've got six leaders here.
I would take two more out.
Most gardeners do not prune as much as needed to be pruned.
They're always afraid they're going to ruin the plant, whether it's a fig plant, any of
the fruits that cluster on there.
You're doing yourself a disfavor if you don't thin 'em out.
The ones who are here to Memphis Botanic Gardens, when we had an orchard here, we had a rule
of five inches apart on prune.
People get very upset when you tell them that, but you'll have more poundage of fruit if
you've properly pruned it than if you just let it stay there.
Also, when you make a cut this severe, pick out where you want the replacement limb to
come.
You've got a marker there already on the plant where the leaf node's gonna come out, so that
one, if cut off here, is gonna go this direction.
And if you can get several leaf nodes in here on a cut like that, then you come up with
a lot more fruiting because this is gonna throw a cluster of new growth.
- [Chris] Gotcha.
- If you wanna root you some plants from this, five new leaf nodes from your trimming.
At least two leaf nodes, I prefer three, below soil level, two above, so that you've got
a place for the first green limbs to come out.
So that's just the basic way.
That one doesn't need to be in here at all.
It's running parallel to the ground, not upright.
- There you go.
- Okay, so started coming around.
One more cut.
And now we have, we gotta take that one out.
Some one who needs a plant, you pick it up, there are not any roots on that one so we
can take the whole thing out.
And that is basically the shape, a basic shape.
- Basic shape.
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