solution for ants: I've heard that they *_hate_* worm castings and will not cross it, so a ring of it at the base should work. solution for winter burn: grow in s/w Florida like me 😁 Very Best Regards, Tom Scott Author ● Speaker ● World's Leading Expert on the Corrupt U.S. Legal System _Our American Injustice System_ _Stack the Legal Odds in Your Favor_
Tks👍 Very informative. I have a fig tree at my parents house for over 30 years and now I know how to take care of it. It’s been growing wild in North Alabama for all those years was transplanted from South Alabama. From my grandfathers house.
Thank you! I have a fig bush on the southeast corner of my property that dies back to the ground every year. My 3 other fig bushes never have this problem. Your explanation of winter burn is eye opening.
Faridpur district of Bangladesh! This is about a fruit tree of the famous Qur'an. There is a big desire. Very tasty, sweet, and medicinal plants will be spread throughout the country. You can cooperate. (ত্বীন ফল বা মিষ্টি ডুমুর চারাগাছ ) Anjeer or figs tree .
Winter burn makes sense I thought the ice on the limbs had done this we have the best of both worlds in the zone I live in. Pruned alot of big limbs this past winter leaving the main trunks in tact,its mid June now the new shoots are already any where from sprouts to 4 feet on a tree with 5 main trunks from 1 rooting 25 years ago to a height of 15 to 18 feet tall. I'll probably take 2 or 3 of the main trunks down to 3 foot and top the new growth, same thing the next year to get hopefully 7 or 8 feet. Just wondering how much area its going to claim the shoots are coming up from roots as well.
But but the ants are the pollinators! Figs are inside out flowers! The sweetest fig is a fig that has had visits thru the little hole in the end. The fig is ripe when it droops and is soft and by that time the ants will have done their work. I always split the fig and if I encounter a ant I blow it off and eat this wonderful brown turkey fig!
I had a cold snap wipe out a ton of bark on my 2nd year brown turkey tree. It had to have most of the dead wood cut back and now has an absurd shape. My other fig tree is bushy and hardy and it’s not producing much fruit yet but what it does produce is harder for the birds to see as the figs are green and blend in with the leaves. When we bought our first home in Sandy Eggo CA years ago we were blessed with two rather exotic mature trees on the lot. One was a loquat tree and the other was the biggest fig tree I have ever seen. I think they were CA Mission figs. There were so many figs on this mighty tree with the massive trunk and boughs that shaded the entire back side of the house that the birds could not possibly eat enough to make a dent. After I had my fill of fresh fig jams and fresh figs, the kids would take the over-ripened fruit still on the tree and have the annual fig fight. They were pretty good shots and would all wind up with huge welt and rashes where the white fig sap would hit them. The tree would shed leaves and winter well and in spring the new growth appeared. The first would appear in early in summer and continue until around Halloween. I did not know how fortunate I was to have this amazing tree, so big I had a hammock in it. I sure wish I had it now. I’m not sure how to trim my crippled tree to grow better. It’s like a cut off trunk that has several long branches sprouting upward from it. There really isn’t any shape to it at all. Thanks so much for the info.
Ants are the ONLY pollinators for figs. Figs are inside out flowers so if you wait untill the fruit is ripe the ant(s) should be on its way to the next. Otherwise split the fig and blow da ant off then eat! Lol. The best place to locate figs is in sunny locations. Eastern NC figs do well if planted on the south and eastern end of a old barn. A bad winter is a challenge to figs here in central va requiring burlap wrapping . I use straw bales to surround the bushes and fill with loose straw. I make water or off on top and north side. Pruning away two year old growth will get new fig producing limbs. It's this years growth that will produce the first crop and while those figs grow and ripen the spring growth will give a second crop. My live of figs cost me half my garden money. I do love figs!!
Besides the used coffee grinds, powdered cinnamon is excellent for repelling ants. Just sprinkle all around the trunk and ants will take off. The cinnamon acts as a fertilizer of sorts. It leaches to the ground and stimulates healthy root growth.
I have a established tree ( I do not know what kind). There is a 3 foot long branch that does not produce figs except for the very end. I would like to cut that back to see if I can get branches coming out closer to the trunk. I that ok?
+Nick Mastrandrea Yes, all varieties of Ficus carica, which is the common fig available in North America, only produce fruit on new growth. So if you cut that branch back by about a foot, it will produce new growth and fruit will sprout from the new wood, assuming the other conditions are right. That pruning should be done in the late winter, early spring, so you should still have time depending on where you live.
so today I discovered that this cute jungle looking tree that shot up from no where on the side of my house is actually a FIG TREE!!! hahah my neighbor came over a couple hours ago to let me know that the rats started getting to the figs, eating half of them, and dropping the rest onto her yard for the ants to finish up half of the tree's branches hangs over her yard. I picked one and it wasn't bad! I'm so excited now! I'm a pastry chef, so now there are so many recipes I can make now!
You should be careful about telling people they can 'cut figs down and get figs off 1st-years growth' and people should be very cautious about heeding such advice. Particularly when you don't say, and most people don't know, the variety of fig in question. Most fig cultivars produce fruit on 2-year old wood, and there are pruning techniques availiable to maintain trees at permanant/predetermined heights.
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So glad I found your channel. I didn't know that you could cut the fig tree back. Mine is very spindly. It lost all its bottom leaves. It less than a year old but produced about a dozen figs. It is a Mission Fig. I was very disappointed that the figs were tasteless. Do you have any idea why that would be? I didn't pick them until they were ready to fall off on their own. Could the problem be too much water?
Hi Figs dontlike too much water. Amounts depends of where you live, soil structure and other environmental factors. If you are watering more then twice a week, its too much.
I don't water very often but we get fair amounts of rain. The soil stays slightly moist most of the time. I use compost, compost tea, horse manure and wood chips.
