Welcome... everyone!

Hi folks!

I'm just getting started on my journey. We recently bought a new home with a good deal of open space, so we had been planning for an orchard and garden. During my research I learned that figs have a lot going for the home hobbyist. Easy to take cuttings and start indoors, container friendly, lots of varieties, and earlier fruits than other species.

I'll be focusing on varieties that will work within the garden system I'm building. I'm building an auto filling wick system inspired by Hoocho on YT for my vegetable garden. I'd ideally like to use the same media for my garden and fig rooting as well as nutrients.

I'm on the border of 8b/9a, haven't been here through a spring yet so I'm going to find out soon. Wish me luck!
 
Figgerlickinggood said:
Well howdy there @FungiNW welcome to the forum. So where you from and what are you growing? ☕️🍰
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I'm in the Puget Sound area, literally on the edge of 8b/9a, everyday I watch what the sun is doing I also used shademaps.com to get an idea of the shade/sun. I used a drone to make a map of my property and plan out the orchard as best I could, while things will certainly change and evolve I have 24 spots for 8' diameter trees with 3' between each. Our orchard will be focused things the family enjoys, apples, cherries, figs, citrus, pears, plums, kiwis (along the fence line), and a few other trees mixed in.

We'll have lots of berries planted in various places around the property, some on the terraced patio area, some on the property line, mostly blueberries, raspberries and gooseberries. Practically all of our vegetable garden will be in soil-less beds that wick. IF, big IF, I can find the time I'll build a hoop house... but as I need to build a deer fence first I don't know if I'll have the bandwidth this year.

I'm growing our greens and most frequently used herbs in my garage in an nft system. Same place will also be where I root figs and other cuttings. I'm going to be running a trial pretty much right away. Half my cuttings will go into 4x9 pots with SSM4, PMHP, or PMHPCC the other half into a DIY aero cloner. All of them will get a 1/8" solution of a roughly 1:2.5:1 that will have some Si, I'll dip the soil-less cuttings in clonex (also DIY, I bought the raw ingredients for the cost of a bottle).

It's a lot going on which is why I don't think I'll get to the hoop house. I have grown quite a bit in soiless mixes, I had garden about half this size that I only needed to spend about an hour a week in with a full day once a month. Another hoop house that was 15'x44' where I had to spend about 20min a day in. So I'm hoping to do about 45-90min a day in the begining and then get that down around 15-30min once it's all set. I'll be leaning on Si (wollanosite in the media, AgSil foilar sprays) and Ascophylum Nodosum to help with pest and desease resistance.

Well, that's the plan anyways, lmao. I'll be asking plety of questions around here :)
 
FungiNW said:
I'm in the Puget Sound area, literally on the edge of 8b/9a, everyday I watch what the sun is doing I also used shademaps.com to get an idea of the shade/sun. I used a drone to make a map of my property and plan out the orchard as best I could, while things will certainly change and evolve I have 24 spots for 8' diameter trees with 3' between each. Our orchard will be focused things the family enjoys, apples, cherries, figs, citrus, pears, plums, kiwis (along the fence line), and a few other trees mixed in.

We'll have lots of berries planted in various places around the property, some on the terraced patio area, some on the property line, mostly blueberries, raspberries and gooseberries. Practically all of our vegetable garden will be in soil-less beds that wick. IF, big IF, I can find the time I'll build a hoop house... but as I need to build a deer fence first I don't know if I'll have the bandwidth this year.

I'm growing our greens and most frequently used herbs in my garage in an nft system. Same place will also be where I root figs and other cuttings. I'm going to be running a trial pretty much right away. Half my cuttings will go into 4x9 pots with SSM4, PMHP, or PMHPCC the other half into a DIY aero cloner. All of them will get a 1/8" solution of a roughly 1:2.5:1 that will have some Si, I'll dip the soil-less cuttings in clonex (also DIY, I bought the raw ingredients for the cost of a bottle).

It's a lot going on which is why I don't think I'll get to the hoop house. I have grown quite a bit in soiless mixes, I had garden about half this size that I only needed to spend about an hour a week in with a full day once a month. Another hoop house that was 15'x44' where I had to spend about 20min a day in. So I'm hoping to do about 45-90min a day in the begining and then get that down around 15-30min once it's all set. I'll be leaning on Si (wollanosite in the media, AgSil foilar sprays) and Ascophylum Nodosum to help with pest and desease resistance.

Well, that's the plan anyways, lmao. I'll be asking plety of questions around here :)
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You sure have a LOT of growing going on. In my little backyard I have 6 inground fig trees, 1 apple tree, 2 Maekawa Jiro persimmon trees, 1Li Jujube tree and 1 Early Elberta peach tree and on nice size garden bed. It’s enough work for my husband and I to do at our age LOL. Here’s a picture of my garden bed from last year just before I planted anything in it.

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