fig trees

[rockriver]

looking for fig tree info.

we have 1 big fig tree. figs just now beginning to get ripe.
i love them.
i'm thinking a natrually produced "sweet" item would sure make things go better if
the shtf.

so i've planted a couple of 4 ft tall fig trees.
i dug hole twice the depth of original container.
this soil isn't very good.
we added a little fertilizer 10-10-10 i believe and a little planting soil to dirt under the roots.
when they were planted last fall.
no added fertilizer but have watered the trees several time as we are in drought here.

any suggestions on brands, or how to plant them, or care of fig trees??

rr

[rockriver]

reply to my own post ....
is that like talking to yourself?
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doing some outdoor work.. it's hot. but everytime i get near the fig tree. i get a reward... of a big ole fig.
guys this is called comfort food in the NOW... and it will sure qualify in the PAW !!

i checked on a small tree we planted last fall
and it's got one fig right at the top. of a 4 ft tree..

so, ya best go get ya a couple or three.

my little lady has been adding some sugar and heat and putting up figs in pint jars.

[rockriver]

that time of year again...
we did nothing to the tree... probably should have pruned it some?
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early spring all fruit trees got a small amount of fertilizer... this 11 foot tall tree. probably got about 3 medium handfuls thrown under the branches.

last friday while mowing i found 1 nearly ripe but good tasting fig.
today, we picked about 2/3 peck. the birds had gotten about the same amount. (eaten a third and leaving the rest)

we have had a lot of rain this spring.
maybe that helps explain the abundance.
maybe God knew we needed a blessing?

the small 4' trees are fuller and greener this year, but no figs this year. they get less sun?

[motesjm]

Figs are my favorite fruit trees. They are super easy propagate from rootings too. Take some of your small lower lying limbs and hold them to the ground. Then throw a enough dirt on the limb where it's touching the ground to hold it down. In 6 months it will have its own root system and you can sever it from the main tree, dig it up and replant it.

My fav is brown turkey. Have fun taking care of the birds with a 22. My dad told me to shoot all of the birds in the fig trees when I was 11 or 12. Didn't tell me what to use and I picked the 410. Didn't have much of a tree left when I was finished.

[rockriver]

lol
mote, that was a goodun.
.410 story.

i'm going to try your limb burying plan.
thanks.

[Wanderer0101]

I've got a brown turkey fig. Don't have to do anything to it other than prune a little bit. Produces tons of figs. Always a battle witht the birds though. We cover it with netting but that's a pain as well. They occasionally get inside the netting which is interesting.

[rockriver]

dragging this thread out of the search files....
last wed... I'm cutting grass... found 2 ripe..
last Thursday found 8 ripe...
Friday Saturday and sunday we are on a trip.
Monday!! yee hah! figs galore... we were very selective and got "two makings!"
I asked the bride.... I need a better description than two makings... how many, how much is a making...
I got a real good answer...
each one of those pans is a making... that's how much a making is..

large plastic pan usually used in the kitchen to assist with dishwashing...

anyhow, folks can I suggest you plant a few fig trees! we planted some new ones a couple of years ago.. they are now producing a handful or two..
but the big old tree... will be giving us gallons and gallons of figs.
sometimes the limbs on fig trees bury themselves in the ground then reemerge.. I've been told you can cut, then dug up that buried limb and start a new tree.... by replanting the cut/buried limb... I haven't tried this, but it sounds reasonable.

[rockriver]

quantity of a "making"
I still don't know...
but after adding sugar and ? then boiling for a long time... a "making" turns into 7 pint jars of some mighty fine fig preserves. yee hah!

[Lowdown3]

There is a really old thread here somewhere that the wife did (Kat) on Fig preserves.

Figs aren't always the most plentiful, but they seem to come in when most other fruit is gone, which is a plus.

Like pears, they seem to have little or no bug problems and I have yet to see a fig get any blight problems like apples can.

We had one that was established about 7 years. It was big. It was also right where we had to put a new septic tank. Wife was sorrowful about losing it. I dug a whole with the backhoe, then dug the fig up and dumped it in there. Admittedly doing a shotty job of moving it. The old fig tree looked like crap on a stick for about a year. It's since regrowing and starting to produce again.