Wow

[BucksCountyFigs]

Saw this pic online today and I wonder if this is what low cordon trees would look like if we could leave them in the ground for years…

This would be so much easier to winterize and pick from.

Is there any downside to growing them in this form?

 

[superdave336]

I think that’s how commercial farms grow them

 

[SnoopyFiggy]

Wow! How old do yall reckon those are?

 

[julie]

That is neat! Did it say where this was taken?

 

[BucksCountyFigs]

That is neat! Did it say where this was taken?

The post was just posted and someone did ask, but not answered yet.

 

[BucksCountyFigs]

That is neat! Did it say where this was taken?

No, but I wish I knew. It’s incredible.

 

[BucksCountyFigs]

I think that’s how commercial farms grow them

That makes sense if they are solely growing them for fruit production and not really selling cuttings.

 

[goodnessatlanta]

That makes sense if they are solely growing them for fruit production and not really selling cuttings.

They might be selling the cuttings too. It will be a big waste to throw away the branches that they prune every year.

 

[9ah-figlet]

Coastal Figs grows low cordons in Yardley, PA this way and describes his technique here: https://www.coastalfigcompany.com/p...g-japanese-fig-tree-espalier-in-the-northeast

He also sells cuttings on FigBid.

 

[richbbfigs]

I have lots of trouble with ants when my figs get ripe. For me, a single leader for 24" or so gives me any easy way to keep ants off the tree with some tanglefoot. I don't see how you could do that with the trees in the photo. Other than the ant problem, they look fantastic though!

 

[TorontoJoe]

That image was taken at an orchard in Israel.

 

[Schoenie]

That is neat! Did it say where this was taken?

Maybe they do it in other countries too, but I know for sure that this is how it's done at some fig farms in Japan.

 

[Schoenie]

They might be selling the cuttings too. It will be a big waste to throw away the branches that they prune every year.

Often these are productive mono-cultures (but not necessarily with an exquisite taste).
Like getting cuttings from the CA Central Valley: you'd end up with a lot of Calimyrna and Black Mission...

 

[TorontoJoe]

My Bulgarian isn't great but they would appear to be 17 years old

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