Same thing happened to me as to rycooder, after writing post and wanted to upload pictures it didn't give me options to upload pictures.

Would love to see the video but can't find the link. Can you post it in the comments? Thanks

K. Rockwell, here is link to the video

https://youtu.be/xjut2XJv1JE

Cheers

Very very nice video. Very kind to share it. It was nice to learn from. Thank you

Thanks for the link Anna will look later when i have the time.

Did video about 11/12 years back in our yard of fig plants but i stink at doing it and in 1 of them our yorkie was constantly barking which annoyed some folks that commented so cannot blame them .

Much of those figs are long gone including our beloved Romeo now i think would i have to revisit the video to know for sure

We did get another yorkie pup who is now going on 9 and is Romeo the second a small little fella at a little less than 6 pounds and the fig guard dog. ; }

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Martin

I am so glad you joined this thread Martin 🙂

No matter what quality your video is I would love to see it.

Now don't laugh I have a question about your yorkie, did you train him to chase critters ? or where you just joking about guarding fig trees, I bet you killing yourself laughing 🤣

Cheers

Hi Anna ,

our 1st Yorkie named Romeo had no training it just comes naturally to guard the yard same with Butchie the large dog and Luigi the Lhasa mix all are gone with Luigi passing soon after pandemic hit he had a blood disease at around 12 , romeo had cancer at 6 and Butch also cancer at 12 years old. they all guarded the yard when people passed by the fence or Squirrels came in yard along with rabbits. Matter of fact Romeo and Luigi at one time or another would catch the rabbits but was always there to tell them drop and they would.

Butch one day was chasing a squirrel and the darn thing headed for and went under the fence and i saw this coming poor Butch in full stride ran smack into the wood fence we had back then and it briefly knocked him out and scared me but he got up soon and was ok i'll never ever forget that.

I truly miss all 3 and have many fond memories like when Romeo use to tease Butch in the house and Butch would chase him but Romeo was fast and eventually Butch would corner him and bark at him and Romeo would quickly lay down and Butch would just calmly walk away.

Butch took of counter a pork roast one day and ate the whole thing and another occasion wife made Deviled eggs about 6 of them and he at all of them later that eve he passed what i called the silent bombs pew wee

Anyways here is very 1st video i made back in the day and its the old camera i use still today to take the figs pictures

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gNMJ0UVgK6Q

Here is another fig video showing more of plants and some others as well.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qV2eo7LWkTE

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Martin

I was asking about your yorkie Martin, because lots of people are complaining about critters damaging their fig, so I thought you have them trained 😀

Nick on wood ! I dont have chipmunks or squirrels, I do have ever have a raccoon family crossing through our property they don't touch figs, I have a Himalayan Siamece cat he is outdoors cat so I leave food for his in a bowl with cat food the raccoons dont look left or right they know where their goodies are and they march straight on our deck 🤣 then the turn ad go for a drink where hose with bowl of water is, they wash their faces and they march on to the front yard and a crosst the streets. Nice video, I have a feeling that I have seen at last one of them on Figs4fun forum, but Thank you for them I enjoyed them. The one that you talking about that you had it in shade was that Pasteliere ?

Do you have picture of it's fruit and also Black Bethlehem ?

I picked my last partially ripe figs, I will have pictures for next time.

Cheers

Anna

Hi Anna

our dogs just naturally chased everything out of yard.

Here is Black Bethlehem as i recall it was average tasting on personal palate nothing special .

Here is the figs of it.

Click to enlarge the thumbnail pictures.

Black Bethlehem from 2011

Black Bethlehem from 2011

1 just ripe and other dead ripe

Pastiliere below would not ripen enough figs and dropped most but when a ripe fig was eaten it was very good it was hard to burn this plant .

Will say it was a great growing plant.

Here some Pastiliere figs ripe as can be .

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Martin

Martin, great job))

Would you say that the Pastiliere fig was very sweet??

I read that it puts out an early crop. Did they split often too?

Mike somewhat sweet if your looking for sweet and a early crop of figs Ronde De Bordeaux fits that very well. I got rid of it because on personal palate the sweetness was dominating over preferred berry taste.It can split if rained or watered heavily during ripening as many fig do.

Pastiliere i do not recall splitting but here it just constantly dropped most of its figs as for sweetness it was average.

If you want sweet Ronde is the one a fast growing fig plant and very good producer.

Ronde- click thumbnails to enlarge

Martin