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Posted on 6/27/24 at 6:23 am to Night Vision
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Folks have some huckleberry bushes but they aren't putting out anything like that.
Now that you mention it, there are a lot of huckleberry bushes up at the Cheaha state park. I should drive up there and see how they are doing this year. Just out of curiosity. I won't bother picking any.
Posted on 6/27/24 at 8:03 am to auggie
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I have to wonder what is so unique about this year?
We've been here several years and it has never been anything like this.
Same type thing is happening with my Celeste fig tree. I noticed it filled out with lots more leafing than normal earlier this year and I've been picking over 100 figs a day for the past several days so far with no end in sight.
This is going to be the biggest harvest I've had in years. I've already put up several pints of preserves, eaten more than my share of fresh figs, dehydrated a bunch and gave some to the wife to bring to work to share.
Posted on 6/27/24 at 8:28 am to gumbo2176
I would like to have a couple of fig bushes here.
Posted on 6/27/24 at 9:26 am to auggie
Folks have turkey fig trees. Not doing much yet. Pears, muscadines and a few blackberries are on deck.
Posted on 6/27/24 at 9:37 am to auggie
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I would like to have a couple of fig bushes here.
If you are in Alabama like your profile says, it should be no problem growing figs.
The tree I have was pretty large when I bought my house in 92 and it bore some decent fruit yearly. In 05 when Katrina hit and flooded my area with 4 1/2 ft. of water that stayed for a few weeks before subsiding, I thought I lost the tree, but it did survive.
Then on top of that, 10 years later it came down with some sort of rot that basically killed off all the large trunks that I eventually took out with my chain saw.
New growth started from the base of the tree and it looked healthy, so I let it grow to see what would happen, and that is what has formed the tree I now have. It is no more than about 9 ft. tall with a canopy that is a good 10 or so feet round.
Posted on 6/27/24 at 11:35 am to gumbo2176
The past two years of hard extended freezes have done a number on my fig tree. I'm in north AL and have a cold hardy variety, I'm almost positive it is Alma. It has some new growth with more figs than I expected this year, but a lot of the old growth didn't make it.
We had temps down in the single digits and days of not getting above freezing the past two Winters, and it just hasn't recovered. The same tree got froze out several years ago, probably early 2010s and took a few years to completely bounce back. It is a huge tree and there is no good way to protect it from freeze.
I'll eventually start a couple new trees, but this one is in the absolute best spot I have for a fig tree.
ETA: And the horde of cicadas earlier this year didn't help it.
We had temps down in the single digits and days of not getting above freezing the past two Winters, and it just hasn't recovered. The same tree got froze out several years ago, probably early 2010s and took a few years to completely bounce back. It is a huge tree and there is no good way to protect it from freeze.
I'll eventually start a couple new trees, but this one is in the absolute best spot I have for a fig tree.
ETA: And the horde of cicadas earlier this year didn't help it.
This post was edited on 6/27/24 at 11:36 am
Posted on 6/27/24 at 3:00 pm to auggie
I have 2 small bushes that produced a few. My neighbor has 2 mature bushes that are absolutely loaded with big berries that have excellent taste and texture.
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