All right everybody this is Ross the fig boss in today's video we are going to talk about pinching fig trees once again if you guys enjoy this content please hit that subscribe button or actually go over to our blog we have all kinds of fig related information there figboss.com I think you guys will really enjoy it so today's video what's as I said is about pinching fig trees but this one's going to be quite different than any of the other pinching videos I've done in the past and we've actually done if you can believe it hours worth of video on pinching fig trees it's a really important topic because you know really it's in its purest sense is you can boil it down to you know you're going to remove the apical bud you're going to do some pruning on the fig tree during the growing season by removing the apical bud of pinching off the top pinching off that growth point with our thumbs our fingers pruning shears whatever we are then able to time the crop of our ripe fruits and by timing the crop of our fruits is a lot of what we talk about here on this channel because you know if you can ripen your fruits at the warmest and the driest time of the year you're going to have the best quality fruits and you're going to be thanking me you're going to say Ross thank you for giving me the insight to then use this technique to actually ripen my fruits let's say out of monsoon season for people in southern Florida for people like myself that are trying to ripen fruits as early as we can to avoid the cold fall weather and often rainy cold fall weather so we're trying to avoid the cold we're trying to avoid the rain other people let's say in the United Kingdom or the Pacific Northwest you guys might very much so benefit from doing some pinching to not necessarily ripen main crop but actually to help your braiba production this video is really not going to cover the actual technique of performing pinching if you guys want to see that how it's really properly done to do it the right way I would go back and look at our other videos on this topic we have a whole playlist that I think I've created over the over the years now with all the videos that we've talked about with this topic it's so so important I think it really has so many applications that it would be really a close-minded of somebody to say that well you know it's just not a technique that we're going to perform in my climate it's only for people in shorter season climates because what we normally do is we put out this video every year around this time of the year it's May 22nd this is when we really start doing this technique here in my location and by this time a lot of people in southern climates California warmer long season climates that really have had a much longer season a much longer spring than I have already are seeing fruits on their trees and they are very skeptical of why someone would even need to do this at this point but I'll tell you right now there's something called rivers perning which I'm going to cover with you guys where it's mentioned actually in Ponds' book if you're interested this is really the fig bible it's called fig trees of the Beleric Islands monster at Ponds in Spain is really the fig expert of all fig experts and in his book he has a section here 6.2.3 called rivers perning which covers really pinching it says here this consists this perning consists of pinching one-third of the immature terminal buds of the fruit bearing shoots thereby activating the growth and ripening of the autumn figs it is done shortly before the beginning of summer all right so let's pretend we're in a climate with a very long season and this branch here actually has fruits on it maybe instead of having only six leaves or so it's got about 10 or 12 and we have fruits all up and down the branch we then decide we're going to take off this apical bud we're going to break this off with our thumb and then what's going to happen is we're going to potentially speed up the ripening of this branch or the fruits along the branch potentially even fruits along the rest of the tree who knows and then we're actually going to see any fruit formation that hasn't actually already occurred and we're also going to see with the addition of some fertilizer some additional water very particularly got to pay attention to that water we're then going to start to see new branches form and new growth points form we may see about two or three so this will probably leaf out here the higher points on the tree we'll have maybe a new branch coming out this way a new one going out this way and then a new one going out there and all those new branches in time we will then of course start to see more fruits new fruits that right from the later in the season in the fall in the autumn to extend the harvest and then actually get ourselves not just an extension of our harvest but really to time the crop around potential climatic events thank you so if your normal fig season occurs let's say between August and September this technique of doing the pinching let's say in mid-June is going to time your crop to then ripen sometime in let's say October or November these fruits that are currently existing on these branches because a lot of you guys by June even myself will see fruits along these branches by June 15 so those are going to ripen at you know sometime in the summer but what we're going to actually benefit by is by resuming the growth on these trees after we pinch by giving it food and water as I mentioned and then that new growth is going to come out and produce more figs so that second crop you're going to get a second main crop of figs essentially that's then going to ripen later in the fall in the autumn and you know I think it's actually a brilliant way to increase your production but also extend your harvest and time your crop so that let's say here's a really good example of people in I don't know Southern Florida you guys have a monsoon season so you may ripen all your fruits before the monsoon season or after the monsoon season if you're trying to get ripe figs during the monsoon season it's a total waste of time you're totally just going to be very frustrated and aggravated with figs so if you can pinch your fig trees at the right time to induce these new branches to then really essentially double your production to then ripen them in the autumn after the monsoon season you're going to be way better off I mean you're going to be so much happier with that knowledge than than not you know depending on where you guys live you're going to have to fiddle with that date maybe you want to pinch now maybe you want to pinch mid-June figure out 90 days from that date I'm sorry it's not going to be 90 days it's going to be longer than 90 days because you have to wait for these new shoots to grow and then the fruits will form on those new shoots so you're looking at probably 120 days maybe a little bit longer so June 1st 120 days after that is July 1st August 1st September 1st that puts you at October 15th so as I said you're then able to time your next crop to then ripen in in October and November I mean October 15th is really when the first fruits are ripen but actually you're going to see a lot of them ripen throughout October and well into November because you know the average fig tree puts out per crop you know it's a 30 to 60 day window yeah I mean that's that's I mean so so much money is I've just gave you guys so much knowledge just from that one little tidbit you got to hit the subscribe button at this point I mean what the heck right