Alright Fig lovers, this is Ross the Fig Boss. Today's video we're looking here at the potted fig trees on the patio, and I want to show you guys the amazing production that we have this year. The trees look fantastic, and now that they're on the patio, they're not in the commercial greenhouse, it's so much easier to look at these trees and observe them, and show you guys on camera just how amazing the main crop fruits and the production is this year. We talked a lot about in other videos how do we actually get the main crop to form? How do we get the fruits and really more fruits to form on our fig tree? We'll talk a little bit about that in this video, but what's even more exciting to me after I, when I bring you guys along and show you some of these trees? I'm also expecting to have more main crop and more production as the season progresses, because the greenhouse, and we talked about this, one of the critical factors in a greenhouse is maintaining a temperature, right? You don't want things to get too warm in a greenhouse. You can definitely overheat a fig tree, and so when the temperatures in the soil get above about 95 or around 95 degrees Fahrenheit, fig trees enter what's kind of like a summer dormancy. They just kind of stall, they stop growing, they'll continue fruiting and developing their fruits, but the trees recognize how warm it is, and it just kind of gets very difficult, metabolically, for them to operate. So they enjoy actually cooler temperatures, especially in favorable conditions, that's a favorable condition towards growth. And so now that I move them out of the greenhouse, we're out here in the open, and in the Philadelphia area, and at the time of filming, we're only at the end of May, and so what this means is, historically in my yard, it doesn't really get blisteringly hot until about July. We're here today, and it's been roughly in the 70s, low 80s. Until we get to like the 90s, and the air temperatures, and even in like the high 80s, and consistently, and within nighttime temperatures are around 60, these trees will just continue to grow until that point. And every leaf that we form on our figs should correspond to a new fruit. So typically, what I'm trying to make the point of is that every leaf we produce should also be a whole other fruit. So more leaves, more fruit. Assuming we have the light, we've met the light requirement, the sunlight requirement that every tree needs to produce those fruit buds. So that's amazing. We already have great production as it is, and it's only going to get better, because again, we have about roughly five or six weeks left of these trees actually continuing to grow, and we've already achieved what is about a whole months head start because of that greenhouse. So let me take you guys now through and show you guys some of the fruit set that we have here on the fig trees. And again, we've talked a lot about this in the past, about the reasons for this. Why are the figs actually setting on the branches? These are very easily reproducible results. Nothing I'm doing here is in any way special. Nothing I'm doing here is unexplained. There's no real fig mystery here. All of this is really coming down to the light. It's really about that sunlight. And how do we maximize sunlight is through the form. And that's why we've done so many videos talking about training fig trees, especially young ones. We've done so many videos now on staking fig trees. We've talked a lot about, you know, using limb spreaders. I've just been kind of beating the topic to death here with you guys. But I just know how important it is. You know, I realize that again, if you want to see success like this, that's what you have to do. You have to give them somehow, give them more sunlight, while also giving them making sure you have a healthy tree, right? Worrying about that fig mosaic virus, having a healthy tree to start if you have a lot of fig mosaic virus, maybe you want to consider a technique like rejuvenation perning, obviously feeding them properly, watering them properly, overall having good soil and good soil health. All these things add up. And once you get that sunlight requirement that every variety has, once you meet that, you're in. Again, there's nothing here that's not reproducible. And the beauty of this whole thing, guys, is that these figs are only going to continue to produce more ferment this season. As we said, every leaf that is formed on these trees should correspond to a new fruit, assuming that sunlight requirement is met. This is an interesting fig here called Aishia Black from UC Davis. That's a mid-late season fig that we're having a little bit of trouble there focusing the camera. But that fig, because it does produce rather late, I love to see the fact that they're so far ahead in their development compared to some of these other figs. And the reason for that is because we just got that one in the greenhouse earlier than some of these other trees that we're looking at right here. Here's another fig. In fact, this one here, we actually pinch the top off of, try to get the camera there to show you that. You can see at the top that we removed the apical bud there, the growth tip, and now it's forming figs, and it's forming new branches. I mainly topped these, though, to control the form, to get the form in a way that's not going to encourage too much dominance from one branch and not enough dominance from another branch. And the nice little bonus there is that we did induce the fruits probably at a slightly earlier date, maybe by a couple of weeks. So it's really awesome to see here, guys. You can tell very passionate about these figs, and I'm so excited for this growing season. It's just every tree down the row. There isn't really one tree that isn't fruiting, and there isn't one tree that doesn't have what I would expect to be great production for its individual trees given circumstances. So I thank you guys here for watching this one. If you enjoyed the video, please hit that subscribe button. We'll see you for the next one. All right, check out the blog. Hit that like button. Take care, guys.