Today the following trees arrived in the mail from Bay Laurel Nursery. I planted all of them between 4 and 6pm in the afternoon.

• Sweet Treat Pluery
• Thornless chester blackberry
• White Mulberry
• Parfianka pomegranate
• Flavorella Plumcot
• Violet de Bordeaux Fig

Metrics:

• Height (inches only): 2'9"

Pulled stakes from:

• 2 grapes in Veggie patch (Princess/Ruby)
• 2 new figs (Violette de Bordeaux/Lattarula)
• Parfianka

Violette 1 day to buds

• The height has changed by 1" over the last 54 days.

Metrics:

• Height (inches only): 2'10"

staked Oscar Mulberry, Summer Delight Aprium, Violette de Bordeaux Fig

Ran drip tape to SW orchard

Metrics:

• Girth (inches only): 1.6"

Covered figs in SW with shade cloth + 2 thornless blackberries

Hose watered each of 7 plants in SW for 30 minutes each

• The height has changed by 1" over the last 157 days.

Metrics:

• Height (inches only): 2'11"

Leaves and branches now coming out from the middle of the tree and looking good.

Removed all shade cloth. Mostly from sub tropical area but also from Aussie Finger lime and from dead blackberries and figs in the SW corner

Still doing well. Looks like it's going to start losing its leaves for winter.

Metrics:

• Leaf Shed Start: ✔

4 emitter head irrigation ring for a total of 2 GPH.

This is the only fig that has not lost its leaves yet. Manually defoliated it today to help it go into dormancy.

Metrics:

• Leaf Shed End: ✔

Sprayed a bunch of trees with Bonide All Seasons Concentrate Pest Control Spray - 212. Mix was just under 3%.

Sprayed with Neem Oil. 2 Fl Oz per gallon. Made a total of 4 gallons for the trees listed on this note.

Metrics:

• First Bud: ✔

• The height has changed by -1.5" over the last 188 days.
• The girth has changed by 0.7" over the last 293 days.

Metrics:

• Height (inches only): 2'9.5"
• Girth (inches only): 2.3"

Sprayed multiple trees with Spinosad. Basically all the figs for the mites that cause Fig Mosaic Virus (FMV) and all of the small citrus for Citrus Leaf Miner. On the sour orange only sprayed the Sweet Lemon / Limetta scions.

Still looking super healthy.

Starting to struggle in the heat. I think this will need shade cloth soon if it's going to survive.

Covered with a shade cloth structure today.

Still alive and prospering under the shade cloth.

Removed shade cloth because (1) looking cramped under there and (2) the forecast is for hot but not extreme hot so I thought that the tree could benefit from some direct sunlight.

First ever fruit growing on this tree. Seems to be late.

Lots of small figs on this tree. Probably around 20 to 30.

Lovely colors on this fruit. Still hard and small and will probably not become ripe this year.

Because it's starting to get cold in the yard I've removed the figs to see if there was any taste in them but there was not. Tiny, dry and not ready yet. That was to be expected.

Metrics:

• Harvest Count: 16

Metrics:

• Leaf Shed End: ✔

Sprayed with copper fungicide and all seasons horticultural oil. Liqui-Cop Copper Fungicide - 1 fluid ounce per gallon of water + Bonide Horticultural Oil - 3.75 fluid ounces per gallon of water.

First bud

Metrics:

• First Bud: ✔

I've been struggling to grow trees in this five-foot narrow corridor between the block wall and fence. I think that the two factors working against me are the quality of the soil, I think that it's fairly heavy clay, and the heat coming off the wall.

This first image is at 8am and the second at 11:30am. The shadow has swung but an overhead shade will work.

Finished the shade cloth project yesterday evening. Images from today at timestamps.

• 6am
• 8am
• 10am
• 12pm
• 2pm
• 4pm
• 6pm
• 6:30pm - a couple of extra segments needed to be attached to the fence.

Figs have started to appear.

This is the healthiest that I've ever seen this tree. I think that the shade cloth is part of the reason. The fruit is now about the size of a marble.

Last night's storm destroyed about half of my shade structure in the Fig Corridor. I'm going to have to work out some way to fix those upright poles to the block wall. For now I've removed the shade cloth and stowed it away so that there isn't further damage before I've fixed it.

A few small fruit on the tree and good healthy growth.

Doing well. Fruit is growing slowly. Needs trimming back to the wall.

Trimmed away from path to keep in its semi-espalier space of 2.5 feet against the wall.

First fruit ever from this tree. Tiny but dark purple (almost black on outside). The people who ate it said that it was delicious.

Metrics:

• Harvest Count: 1
• Harvest Start: ✔

Found a ripe one. Tiny and tasty.

Metrics:

• Harvest Count: 1

Picked three figs. Two were almost ripe and the third hadn't even formed red inside. Overambitious harvesting.

Metrics:

• Harvest Count: 3

Four very tasty (and tiny) figs from this tree today.

Metrics:

• Harvest Count: 4

Still has fruit ripening. Still tiny like marbles.

Metrics:

• Harvest Count: 1
• Harvest End: ✔

Metrics:

• Leaf Shed Start: ✔

None of the remaining figs on here are viable anymore.

Metrics:

• Leaf Shed Start: ✔

More leaf freeze.

Metrics:

• Leaf Shed End: ✔

Spread 50 lbs of Arizona's Best Soil Sulfur at the bases of these trees.

First bud.

Metrics:

• First Bud: ✔

• The height has changed by 1'1.5" over the last 752 days.
• The girth has changed by 1.3" over the last 752 days.

Metrics:

• Height (inches only): 3'11"
• Girth (inches only): 3.5"

Put up shade cloth along the tennis court fence and it looks like it's working. These images taken at 6:30 PM and it looks like they all got a good chunk of shade during the hottest part of the day and the leaves on the figs aren't looking as wilted as before.

Looking healthy. Seems to be handling the sun much better than I expected.

Fruit turning a pink color. Surprised at how well this is handling the heat.

Doing well.

• The height has changed by 3" over the last 249 days.
• The girth has changed by 0.5" over the last 249 days.

Metrics:

• Height (inches only): 4'2"
• Girth (inches only): 4"

Metrics:

• Leaf Shed Start: ✔

Metrics:

• Leaf Shed End: ✔

Monterey Liqui-Cop Copper Fungicide - 1 fluid ounce per gallon of water. Made a total of 4 gallons for these trees.

Metrics:

• First Bud: ✔

Spread 320 pounds of Arizona's Best Ammonium Sulfate around yard. Includes all trees tagged on this note which is about 95% of the trees in the orchard.

New fruit.

Sprayed with Southern Ag Chelated Liquid Iron diluted at the recommended rate of 1 tablespoon with 1 gallon of water.

Sprayed with Southern Ag Chelated Liquid Iron diluted at the recommended rate of 1 tablespoon with 1 gallon of water.

Sprayed with Southern Ag Chelated Liquid Iron diluted at the recommended rate of 1 tablespoon with 1 gallon of water.

Some of these got a very light spray as they'd just been sprayed a couple of days earlier.

Sprayed with Southern Ag Chelated Liquid Iron diluted at the recommended rate of 1 tablespoon with 1 gallon of water.

1 beat up fig that wasn't even ripe. All the other figs are tiny on the tree. This hasn't been a good producer.

Metrics:

• Harvest Count: 1
• Harvest Weight (lbs only): 0.4 oz
• Harvest Start: ✔
• Harvest End: ✔
• Average Weight: 0.4 oz

Metrics:

• Leaf Shed Start: ✔

Metrics:

• Leaf Shed End: ✔

• The height has changed by 4" over the last 442 days.
• The girth has changed by 0.5" over the last 442 days.

Metrics:

• Height (inches only): 4'6"
• Girth (inches only): 4.5"

Metrics:

• First Bud: ✔

A bit sun and heat beaten but holding its own for now.

Sprayed with a mix of Plantonix Neem Oil and Bonide Horticultural and Dormant Spray Oil. Mixed 1 fl oz per gallon of Neem and about 3.5 fl oz for the Bonide. Did half the quantity of each oil to make 4 gallons in total. Also added one-third fl oz of mild dish soap liquid per gallon.

Spread 42 lbs of Monterey's Dr Iron product around the yard under every tree. Product is 55% sulfur and 22% iron.

Put 0.5 fluid ounces of Southern Ag Chelated Liquid Iron in a gallon of water and poured at base.

Metrics:

• First Bud: ✔

Spread Fertizona Furst Class 15-15-15 around the trees today. Used a handful for small trees and up to six handfuls for the larger trees. In total used 100 lbs.

Put 0.5 fluid ounces of Southern Ag Chelated Liquid Iron in a gallon of water and poured at base.

Furious growth. Trimmed back from fence.

Spread Fertizona Furst Class 15-15-15 around all the trees today. Used a total used 200 lbs of which about 25 lbs went on the grass.

Used the Chapin 20 gallon lawn sprayer to spray Southern Ag Chelated Iron at the base of these trees today. Diluted mixture 50/50 with water.

Sprayed with Polymer AG Anti-Stress 550. Made 4 gallons at a 2.5% dilution ratio and used the backpack sprayer. That amount perfectly covered the trees listed in this note. I was using a fairly course spray and I'm wondering if this product would perform better with a fine spray setting.

This is now dead.