Thread: Fruit, Nut, and Vine Grafting, Tree Propagation, Tree Care

After the tree crew left I inspected one of my Topworked Pecan trees, one that had a large top section blow out of the tree in a hurricane year before last. Monitoring tree health keeps you from having to put a fire out. I found something I never had here before. Numerous tips of the limbs where the pecan flowers form split. I looked and almost every tip had split. Low and behold each split tip set pecans so now I have a double crop of pecans set on each limb. I think Ketchn's KABOOM is the word here.

Well growing all those fig trees created a monster. I put the auger on the bobcat and drilled a few holes. 16 to be exact. I'm still working on fixing the property here along with a truck load of other jobs. In one picture the stump grinder shavings were pushed back where the stump was, nothing will grow there, I had to use the backhoe to pull the shavings out of the way so I can backfill the hole with top soil before planting another fig tree in that location.



These next pictures the new trees are mixed in with potted trees. I have more dirt work to do before moving the potted trees out of the way.



Once the dirt work is done and the potted trees are moved new irrigation lines will be needed too. The work from the storm is keeping me loaded up daily. It will end soon but not today.

Looks good. Are you going to try espalier the fig trees along the fence?

Originally Posted by SuperDave336

Looks good. Are you going to try espalier the fig trees along the fence?

No, after living here 33 years someone build 30 or so individual house rental units next to me. My plan is to grow a screen along the fence. I only need about 10ft in height so I will prune the growth to spread but still bush. This is why I am forcing the trees to grow straight up. I will head the tree high enough to make it branch higher than normal. This will speed to screen growth. Also much easier to keep critters from climbing a single trunk fig tree.