Our figs are over 5 years old, over 6 feet tall, full and beautiful - but we have never gotten a fig off of either of them. They get full sun, were covered to be protected from frost, get plenty of water, get chicken manure for fertilizer, etc. I'd love to send you a picture of them and see what you'd suggest we need to do. We want figs so badly!!!
N is Nitrogen, P is for PHOSPHORUS, and K is for POTASSIUM. I think the video author meant to say phosphorus because they also mention using bone meal which helps add phosphorus to the soil.
I live in Hawaii and the researchers at the tropical agriculture department of our university demonstrated that the quantity and quality of figs are improved in our climate. I rooted a 2" bud that I doubted would even grow but within 3 months it grew to be 14" with at least ten figs. Now, it has been about six months and the tree is approximately 24" and it is loaded with figs. So, I would wonder if it may be the climate that is the biggest factor.
A family friend who lives in Hawaii said nothing grows there except palm trees and pineapples due to the soil. Do you have a similar experience or know what he was referring to?
Thanks for the advice. I've had a Brown Turkish Fig tree for ~7 years and had been wondering why I rarely get more than 3-7 tiny figs a year from it. Next step is to figure out how to make it branch out.
I grow my fig tree's for both fruit and foliage. The leaves can be dried and made into lovely tea. As well as tinctures and extracts, medicinally beneficial and very tasty too 😉
Many good pointers! I'm guilty of underfeeding, which I realized in your other video "The fig I choose above all" So glad I have what I need to remedy that! Thanks!!
Thanks for your helpful video. Today I bought a bone meal fertilizer but not sure when to use it, some of my fig trees have a little fruit already. I don t want them to soak some chemical.
I live in New York, planted cuttings straight into the ground and its produces excellent figs after three years, winter time i put hay around base to protect roots from freezing and then i trim back fig trees n wrap black plastic around fig tree leaving little opening at top to vent excess heat, so far everything is fine.
Thank you from North Wales where it's pretty cold ! Just got 2 on the way to me as I type, thanks for all the tips . God bless you and yours and your plants :)
I'm thinking to move my fig trees into a good size cardboard box that is caged with chicken wire . The reason is . I'd like to place the boxes on the ground where our ducks were roaming all winter when they were out of thier housing . The cardboard can absorb all excess watering. Some roots could penetrate the cardboard. It's easier for them to stretch . And the cardboard can soak in some of the Nutrients from the soil where the ducks spent thier winter days. Also I believe it's easier to move the tree from a cardboard box into thier winter container to go into a cold room I have for them in the basement?
@@nabillayoun3973 Well hey I have just got my 2 little trees about 8 inches high or so. it sound's like a good plan for sure, but would the water and any rain wash the soil away over time I wander Nabil ? God bless you Sir :)) I love it when I find fellow believers in the Lord who created all these things :))
How about some figs like celeste... in my second year she grew like mad and looked healthy but only two figs as she dropped most of them. I did some research and from what I can tell Celeste when young is known to do that? Is there something I can do to avoid that in this years cuttings next year?
I have many varieties of fig trees which produce figs early, easy, and are prolific. Four of my inground 'white' fig trees are extremely vigorous and grow every year to LARGE heights, but don't produce many figs. The tree that these cuttings came from always had loads of figs. I do not fertilize them, but only prune them in winter. I have tried NOT doing an 'extreme' prune one year, then doing a more extreme prune for a couple of years. Hardly any production. The tree is unaffected by me attempting to keep it a manageable size. All four trees get lots of sun and in Zone 8 (Southeast US), they grow like I fertilize them daily! Any ideas? If I pinch them, they seem to product a few figs, but nothing like my other potted fig trees.
Try adding bone meal or any a fertilizer that is low in Nitrogen and high in Phosphorus. Sounds like your soil is rich in Nitrogen and low in Phosphorus.
Most definitely your fig bushes need like 🍅 fertilizer (fast feed for potted) or 10-10-10 inground. Start feeding end of February. 1/2 cup of fertilizer and 1/2 cup of slow granule lime (fast lime will kill it). Do it every 2 weeks. Stop feeding by mid October. Stay 2 to 3 inches away from trunk. Figs loves full SUN no shadowed areas. Plant will not produce figs in shadow areas. Give plenty of water but don't drown it in water. 👍🏻
I planted a fig “bush” about 30 years ago. I stopped pruning and neglected it. Of course it grew into a massive tree. It continues to fruit but always at the top that’s unreachable to me but the birds love it. My question is I’d like to cut it way back it to a manageable size without killing it. Any suggestions would be appreciated.
My fig tree had a lot of figs but were very small and they did not mature, Now it's having beautiful leaves. It is now October in California. Will it have more figs? Can I trim it now? It is over 7 ft. Tall in a pot. Help. I fertilized them this year.
Lol noooo this is footage from last year but the purpose of this video is just to explain the top 10 reasons why people can't get figs on their fig trees.
I'm in California, the weather here is hot 🥵 95°114° the highest, right now we are on the 100° i bought two fig trees, they are already giving fruit, there small about 3 ft tall. When should I prune the tree? Thank you
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Figs don't ripen in linear growth pattern. After the set they grow until a certain size and then stop until the final ripening phase when they will grow again quickly, turn color and soften.
We bought property last year with a fig tree. It has multiple branches coming out of the ground (shoots?). It produced no fruit last year nor this year. It looks healthy with big green leaves, but no fruit. Curious about these multiple trunks?
It sounds like you have too much nitrogen and not enough phosphorus in your soil. I would buy a fertilizer that is high in phosphorus if you want to stay organic something like bone meal would work. I would also trim off many of those extra branches that are coming out from the ground they are robbing the trees power to put out fruit and instead it's focused on putting out branches. The other thing I would do is pinch off the tops of whatever branches you leave on which will give the tree a signal to stop growing for a little while and focus on something else. Watch my video on why you're not getting any figs on your tree it should also give you other ideas. ua-cam.com/video/MVCBXv1uskM/v-deo.html
No, figs do NOT have decomposed wasps in them, especially if they are grown outside of zone 9/10 *which is the commercial fig grower's area. A few years ago there was some article circulating on social media that got everybody up in arms that made a lot of false claims about "dead wasps in figs" and it kind of went viral in gardening communities, but it is simply not true. However that article keeps getting forwarded and posted all over, and it will not die. So frustrating.
@@RKfigs I’m not sure. I inherited it. I’m in nj 7a and our winters don’t bother it. I took some of the advice in your videos today and pruned so fingers crissed
I purchased two small fig trees in 2020. Last year each tree produced two figs each. They are Chicago Hardy fig trees and I'm in zone 7a. This year the trees came back and getting taller and bushy. What's the best fertilizer for them. They are in 10 gallon containers.
My favorite fig quit producing once I began nitrogen fertilizing. A 10 year mystery solved once I stopped the nitrogen but took a year to use it out of the soil. It also lost its winter hardiness during those pampered nitrogen rich years. Now she is back in production.
90% of my cuttings produced figs the first year. Usually around a dozen or more. Most ripened. Only a few of the long season varieties didn't ripen because they were started too late. All my second-year trees produced figs. It's all in how you feed the soil not the tree.
Health of the cutting and the tree it came from is the most important part of selecting cuttings. I put out 31 cuttings from my new Galaxy and Pink Lady apple trees plus one from a questionable Ox Heart plum and an excellent Heart of Georgia peach tree. The apple scions and peach tree scions rooted well. The plum was iffy at best. They were all rooted in the same medium and same root e Han Dr. they were all watered at the same interval. The apples and peach tree scions rooted well. They plum not so well. Each variety had about 8 rootings, but the apples may have had more than the other two by a slight margin.
Thank you . I live in California and this my first fig tree. The first year I thought it was dead but, it was not and I was able to revive it. Now it is beautiful and in a pot, but no fruit. So now I know I have to wait another year or two. Thank you again for sharing your knowledge.
Our figs are over 5 years old, over 6 feet tall, full and beautiful - but we have never gotten a fig off of either of them. They get full sun, were covered to be protected from frost, get plenty of water, get chicken manure for fertilizer, etc. I'd love to send you a picture of them and see what you'd suggest we need to do. We want figs so badly!!!
Perhaps they are root bound. Mine were.
N is Nitrogen, P is for PHOSPHORUS, and K is for POTASSIUM. I think the video author meant to say phosphorus because they also mention using bone meal which helps add phosphorus to the soil.
I live in Hawaii and the researchers at the tropical agriculture department of our university demonstrated that the quantity and quality of figs are improved in our climate. I rooted a 2" bud that I doubted would even grow but within 3 months it grew to be 14" with at least ten figs. Now, it has been about six months and the tree is approximately 24" and it is loaded with figs. So, I would wonder if it may be the climate that is the biggest factor.
A family friend who lives in Hawaii said nothing grows there except palm trees and pineapples due to the soil. Do you have a similar experience or know what he was referring to?
@@adam_1144citrus grows extremely good in Hawaii.
Based on your report then the fig plant doesn’t have to be five years old to produce fruit.
Climate, soil quality, watering....... Many factors.
I live in Raleigh, I am growing fig tree for three years but it doesn’t produce one fruit also,but tree is growing massively.
might be due to too much nitrogen fertiliser
Thanks for the advice. I've had a Brown Turkish Fig tree for ~7 years and had been wondering why I rarely get more than 3-7 tiny figs a year from it. Next step is to figure out how to make it branch out.
I grow my fig tree's for both fruit and foliage. The leaves can be dried and made into lovely tea. As well as tinctures and extracts, medicinally beneficial and very tasty too 😉
Many good pointers! I'm guilty of underfeeding, which I realized in your other video "The fig I choose above all" So glad I have what I need to remedy that! Thanks!!
Thank you for a very well made video
Thanks for your helpful video. Today I bought a bone meal fertilizer but not sure when to use it, some of my fig trees have a little fruit already. I don t want them to soak some chemical.
Love FIGS. IVE TRIED SO MANY TIMES. I DONT LIKE SPENDING 4 or $5 dollars for 2 FIGD. THATS CRAZY 😜
Thanks for the tips. We're on the South Shore of Montréal. Looks like more or less the same wheather.Great help!
I live in New York, planted cuttings straight into the ground and its produces excellent figs after three years, winter time i put hay around base to protect roots from freezing and then i trim back fig trees n wrap black plastic around fig tree leaving little opening at top to vent excess heat, so far everything is fine.
Thank you from North Wales where it's pretty cold ! Just got 2 on the way to me as I type, thanks for all the tips .
God bless you and yours and your plants :)
Thanks for watching cheers!
@@RKfigs And thank you Sir for giving us your knowledge, and sharing your experiences with these beautiful plants :)
I'm thinking to move my fig trees into a good size cardboard box that is caged with chicken wire .
The reason is . I'd like to place the boxes on the ground where our ducks were roaming all winter when they were out of thier housing .
The cardboard can absorb all excess watering. Some roots could penetrate the cardboard. It's easier for them to stretch .
And the cardboard can soak in some of the Nutrients from the soil where the ducks spent thier winter days.
Also I believe it's easier to move the tree from a cardboard box into thier winter container to go into a cold room I have for them in the basement?
@@Pure-Crystal-Fire I like you name . Pure fire of God
@@nabillayoun3973 Well hey I have just got my 2 little trees about 8 inches high or so. it sound's like a good plan for sure, but would the water and any rain wash the soil away over time I wander Nabil ? God bless you Sir :)) I love it when I find fellow believers in the Lord who created all these things :))
The P you are emphasizing for fruit production is Phosphorus. You may want to put a correction in there somewhere.
What about getting a tree from seed? Thank you
How about some figs like celeste... in my second year she grew like mad and looked healthy but only two figs as she dropped most of them. I did some research and from what I can tell Celeste when young is known to do that? Is there something I can do to avoid that in this years cuttings next year?
are figs self-fertile, or do they need a mate of the same variety in order to fruit?
Some figs will ripen without beings polinated but you won't believe what happens!
watch this video ua-cam.com/video/9EF28jftqXc/v-deo.html
Thank you so much
I live in California have a fig years get a bumper crop every year healthy tree yet the figs dry up befor they ripen why???
how are you watering?
good video 👍
I have many varieties of fig trees which produce figs early, easy, and are prolific. Four of my inground 'white' fig trees are extremely vigorous and grow every year to LARGE heights, but don't produce many figs. The tree that these cuttings came from always had loads of figs. I do not fertilize them, but only prune them in winter. I have tried NOT doing an 'extreme' prune one year, then doing a more extreme prune for a couple of years. Hardly any production. The tree is unaffected by me attempting to keep it a manageable size. All four trees get lots of sun and in Zone 8 (Southeast US), they grow like I fertilize them daily! Any ideas? If I pinch them, they seem to product a few figs, but nothing like my other potted fig trees.
Try adding bone meal or any a fertilizer that is low in Nitrogen and high in Phosphorus. Sounds like your soil is rich in Nitrogen and low in Phosphorus.
Most definitely your fig bushes need like 🍅 fertilizer (fast feed for potted) or 10-10-10 inground. Start feeding end of February. 1/2 cup of fertilizer and 1/2 cup of slow granule lime (fast lime will kill it). Do it every 2 weeks. Stop feeding by mid October. Stay 2 to 3 inches away from trunk. Figs loves full SUN no shadowed areas. Plant will not produce figs in shadow areas. Give plenty of water but don't drown it in water. 👍🏻
I know little about figs but I've grown one from seed from a supermarket fruit, it's doing quite well in my workshop!, how do i proceed from here?.
I think you need to watch this ua-cam.com/video/NXoqHMhiWSU/v-deo.html
Please tell me why my figs are falling off !! My tree is loaded but now the fruit is falling off! Thank you
It can happen for variety of reasons:
- immaturity
- lack of needs or stress
- variety and crop needs wasp pollination
Please explain why you have the little nets over the figs.
Keeps bugs from eating the fruit
I just subscibed !
Hahahaha. I only had one beautiful plump fig on my 2 year old Brown Turkey this year.
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"P" is phosphorus. "K" is potassium
I came here many months later to say the same thing.
I planted a fig “bush” about 30 years ago. I stopped pruning and neglected it. Of course it grew into a massive tree. It continues to fruit but always at the top that’s unreachable to me but the birds love it. My question is I’d like to cut it way back it to a manageable size without killing it. Any suggestions would be appreciated.
yes. you could saw it almost to the ground and it would come back!
@@kimiwafflesI don't ever remember killing a fig tree even after severe cutbacks.
just cut it about 3/4ths of the way down. you'll get more growth if u go a little lower
My fig tree had a lot of figs but were very small and they did not mature, Now it's having beautiful leaves. It is now October in California. Will it have more figs? Can I trim it now? It is over 7 ft. Tall in a pot. Help. I fertilized them this year.
It could be a caprifig
Thank you from 🇮🇱🇮🇱
you already got this much growth as of March 27?
Lol noooo this is footage from last year but the purpose of this video is just to explain the top 10 reasons why people can't get figs on their fig trees.
I'm in California, the weather here is hot 🥵 95°114° the highest, right now we are on the 100° i bought two fig trees, they are already giving fruit, there small about 3 ft tall. When should I prune the tree? Thank you
In the late fall or during the winter
100 digrees is cold we get 122 digrees you guys are so spoiled
I meant to also say i live in Arkansas if that helps ty
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Why would an inground fig tree produce fruit but the fruit never gets ripe before the cold weather starts?
A short season for example of you live in a climate like mine, another reason is it could beat variety that requires more time to ripen.
How long can u plant your grafted fig tree
FIg trees live for hundreds of years
I have never seen any blossoms on fig trees so how do fig trees get pollinated?
That is a fantastic question and the answer is so interesting and fascinating. full explanation in this video ua-cam.com/video/9EF28jftqXc/v-deo.html
What are those bags called you are putting on the figs
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Getting dizzy watching this. Mind you, I do play videos at 1.5 speed.
My figs are growing only on the trunk of the tree and not ripening
Figs don't ripen in linear growth pattern. After the set they grow until a certain size and then stop until the final ripening phase when they will grow again quickly, turn color and soften.
We bought property last year with a fig tree. It has multiple branches coming out of the ground (shoots?). It produced no fruit last year nor this year. It looks healthy with big green leaves, but no fruit. Curious about these multiple trunks?
Where are you located?
@@RKfigs North central Arkansas
It sounds like you have too much nitrogen and not enough phosphorus in your soil. I would buy a fertilizer that is high in phosphorus if you want to stay organic something like bone meal would work. I would also trim off many of those extra branches that are coming out from the ground they are robbing the trees power to put out fruit and instead it's focused on putting out branches. The other thing I would do is pinch off the tops of whatever branches you leave on which will give the tree a signal to stop growing for a little while and focus on something else.
Watch my video on why you're not getting any figs on your tree it should also give you other ideas. ua-cam.com/video/MVCBXv1uskM/v-deo.html
@@RKfigs Thank you!
where do you geothermal cheese cloth baggies to cover the fruit? and why? do all fig fruits have a decomposed wasp in it?
the bags look like jewelry or party favor bags from the craft store.
They prevent the birds and ants from getting them as they finish to ripen
No, figs do NOT have decomposed wasps in them, especially if they are grown outside of zone 9/10 *which is the commercial fig grower's area.
A few years ago there was some article circulating on social media that got everybody up in arms that made a lot of false claims about "dead wasps in figs" and it kind of went viral in gardening communities, but it is simply not true. However that article keeps getting forwarded and posted all over, and it will not die. So frustrating.
I’ve had my fig for 5 years and no figs. I threatened to take a flame thrower to it this year if it doesn’t fruit.
Well what kind of a fig tree is it?
@@RKfigs I’m not sure. I inherited it. I’m in nj 7a and our winters don’t bother it. I took some of the advice in your videos today and pruned so fingers crissed
Have you tried pinching?
Is it better to grow fig trees in buckets if yes should i dig them up and put them in buckets, iplanted them in the spring of this year, is it to late
If you have healthy soil and warm environment there’s no need to remove it.
I purchased two small fig trees in 2020. Last year each tree produced two figs each. They are Chicago Hardy fig trees and I'm in zone 7a. This year the trees came back and getting taller and bushy. What's the best fertilizer for them. They are in 10 gallon containers.
Follow this video for great success ua-cam.com/video/9s1RPW4UfIc/v-deo.html
This is not fig growing. Flower pots.
In the Mediterranean region you may get up to 300 kg from a single adult tree (15-20 years).
I wish I had Mediterranean weather 😢
The 10 reasons start at 1:43
You mention ten reasons but not variety. In zone 5 you need to grow cold hardy varieties.
My favorite fig quit producing once I began nitrogen fertilizing. A 10 year mystery solved once I stopped the nitrogen but took a year to use it out of the soil. It also lost its winter hardiness during those pampered nitrogen rich years. Now she is back in production.
I'm glad to hear about your success. Too much nitrogen can be harmful. 👍
@@justafig White Marseille, the real one from the Thomas Jefferson Garden fig tree's cutting
You have to switch to Bloom fertilizer depending on the season, do not forget that figs are inverted flowers.
I think you need potassium for fruit, nitrogen is for leaves and phosphorous is for roots, if I'm remembering that right lol
Peter's Professional Liquid STEM is something to look into.
Three year old Black Mission and all I have gotten is frustration!
90% of my cuttings produced figs the first year. Usually around a dozen or more. Most ripened. Only a few of the long season varieties didn't ripen because they were started too late. All my second-year trees produced figs. It's all in how you feed the soil not the tree.
That's fantastic. It sounds like you're in a warm region of the world.
@@RKfigs if you call Pennsylvania warm
Can you please explain to me what do u use ? How often you water it ?
I live in zone 9 Ocala fl
Health of the cutting and the tree it came from is the most important part of selecting cuttings. I put out 31 cuttings from my new Galaxy and Pink Lady apple trees plus one from a questionable Ox Heart plum and an excellent Heart of Georgia peach tree. The apple scions and peach tree scions rooted well. The plum was iffy at best. They were all rooted in the same medium and same root e Han Dr. they were all watered at the same interval. The apples and peach tree scions rooted well. They plum not so well. Each variety had about 8 rootings, but the apples may have had more than the other two by a slight margin.
Thank you . I live in California and this my first fig tree. The first year I thought it was dead but, it was not and I was able to revive it. Now it is beautiful and in a pot, but no fruit. So now I know I have to wait another year or two. Thank you again for sharing your knowledge.
Thanks for this informative video and it was very helpful.
Hoping you see this even though it's been over a year but is that a Loquat tree at the very beginning of the video?
I am in Hong Kong. Thank for your video. I got the fig cutting and ut grow healthy. However, it have no fig and now I know I need waiting. Thanks
P in NPK is not potassium
I'm in Québec North of Montreal👍... I noticed you keep yours in 5gal buckets for inside winter isolation
yes, watch my winterization video ua-cam.com/video/97R9_gPUnr8/v-deo.html
Thank you so much
I am in SA I need fig tree how can I buy one
I live in pennsylvania. What would be a good fig tree to start with here ? Can I plant it in the soil ?
How are you setting up your buckets?
Hole size?
Mediumm
Bottom liner?
Medium?
Mulch/cover?
Watering frequency?
Tha ks in advance
Bobby. Zone 8B
Great information 👍👍👍
I'm glad you enjoyed it 👍
Can I buy purple figs to plants pls.
Great information thank you 😊
Can your figs grow in the Caribbean namely the bahamas
Yes they're are people growing then in Florida
Great tips thanks. What growing medium do you use please?
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Great video
Thank you for your nice comment 👍
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