The ONE. One fig.
 

I have a fig tree on borrowed time. It’s maybe on year 5 or 6 of being planted in the ground. It’s tiny. It was in a wine-barrel pot, and it had some more fruit then. Replanted it, and NOTHING! My wife wants me to take it out.

I keep thinking, “next year is the year!”

I just plucked the one fig it had this year. It was huge. Best fig ive ever eaten. Well best half-fig I’ve ever eaten. My wife and I shared the lone fruit.

This will eventually produce a more substantial crop right? Or should I dig it out?



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If you kill the tree that produced the best half-fig she's ever had ...

You decide :D

Hahahaha. Good point.

it is my understanding that fig trees need other fig trees to pollinate and may need manual pollination. Maybe that is the problem. I'm no expert but maybe google the subject. I live in an area where there are a lot of fig trees and so they always seem to be full of fruit.

Might try feeding it next spring....tree food root spikes, punched into the soil around the drip line.

I’m not going to Google how you manually pollinate a fig!

LOL you need to find an old Italian guy who is wearing black wool pants, and a White button down shirt who is gardening and ask him about figs....

I dont think it is this. I have been fertilizing it like it was a marijuana plant...there is bat-poop all up under there.

A neighbor of mine breeds Great Pyrenees for livestock protection. When a female comes into season, he and his wife will say the "fig is ripe".... They only breed their two females once a year or less so keeping the male, Beef away from the ripe figs when they don't want a litter presents a big challenge...

Beef loves him a fig too......

"Save the fig, save the fig."

That is a very fine fig. It would be sad not to do a repeat next year. And with a bit of luck you could have one each ;)

^^^ one could hope.....

Congrats on one tasty fig!

We bought this house 4.5 years ago, and it came with a fig plant in the ground. 3 months after we bought the house, we had a cold snap worse than this area had seen in decades which killed the fig back to the ground. Then we had 2.5 years of severe drought.

You motivated me. We've had good rain this year and the fig looks really healthy. I went out and checked. We also had one tiny little fig. It was very tasty.

It looks like the single tasty fig thing is going around this year!

That's a nice big fig. At least there was enough for you both to have plenty of fruit. Our one fig was probably half that size.

I think your fig tree is a metaphor for life. I just don't know what it is saying. But, it is cool. Don't kill it.

According to Google's AI, pollination is either not required or is a specialized activity that requires special bugs.

That fig is a breba. Its an early fig. It'll produce a larger crop at the end of summer.

You're kinda in a marginal fig area. You're in the NE, right? The old school dago's there would either dig the fig up and bury it in a trench to protect from frost and replant in spring or wrap it with burlap and stuff the burlap with straw. Here in Va they mostly survive but last year was rough, mine died back but is 7 ft now.

Dirty secret-DEF is 100% pure urea nitrogen. Dilute it with like a quarter cup in a gallon of water and feed it to your fig early on. Its like fig steroids. I also spray it on the lawn spring and fall from a tank on my zero turn at 2 cups per 15 gal.

I have a nice old Italian guy who is a patient that has a fig tree, not purple like that one.

Wife likes figs, says the ones off his tree are much better than ours. Guess I should be pruning it

I have a grapefruit tree, she wants pink grapefruit, fine. In the ground 7 or 8 years before fruit that was not 90% rind, little GD golf ball size fruit after you start with a big softball. I was not pleased. 10 years it got a few that were decent. After 15, it was rocking,after 20 I would characterize it as astonishing.

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I have just the opposite problem and it's a messy one. I planted this fig 10 years ago and it produces too much. So prolific my chickens get tired of them and I rake into the yard waste bin every day. Constantly hacking on it too so I can walk and drive the mower under it. These trees seem to want to grow low, right to the ground. Not pleasant stepping on a ripe fig barefooted

Interesting. I'll have to give the urea nitrogen a shot.

Ours is growing between a crepe myrtle and a pecan tree, but still gets good afternoon sun. There was another plant on top of it that I cut back to nothing to give the fig more breathing room.

I don't think they are naturally trees, they have to be trained that way.

I think bush/shrub is the natural growth habit of figs.

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The leaves are big and shades the hen house nicely. I like it but it's a PIA when it's fruiting

I was just in the garden today and noticed our two fig trees are starting to have a few worthy of picking! I'll have to post some pics.

You just described my wife's grandfather perfectly! (Well, except that he would indignantly point out that he was Sicilian and not "Italian".) And yes, he did have a garden in his small back yard that produced, among other things, many wonderful figs.

LOL .... spent years together ... then she eats half of vash's only fig... or he ate half of hers!

And it was awesome .... and very cool too ;)

Don't let Jesus anywhere near barren fig trees.

Growing up we had quite a few fig trees, since my grandfather and father were old Italian guys. Fig trees are very sensitive to trauma, transplanting in particular. Leave it be, give it time. It may take a few seasons to really start to thrive. Feed it with a fertilizer with equal NPK and mulch to keep the soil moist. The old guys used to get horse manure delivered once a year by the yard. Yes, guess who had to shovel.

My wife and I both have brown thumbs but the only thing we've managed not to kill is a fig tree. It's appeared to die a couple times after freezes but then it comes right back. If we could just keep the squirrels from taking a bite of almost every green fig before it ripens we'd have a ton of figs!

We have a large fig orchard/farm a couple of blocks from my work. They cut back the trees to almost nothing and they grow back huge.

The 2 secrets of growing things by Masraum.

1 Let Mother Nature handle it. If she kills it, it's her fault, not yours.
2 If a plant can't handle our cold, heat, rain, or drought, then that's the plant's fault, not yours. Plant things that thrive in our environment. If bad weather kills it, then it just wasn't meant to be.

Plants that are native to our area are likely to handle our heat, cold, rain, and droughts. Or stuff that you see growing EVERYWHERE around here are also good bets.

Don't assume that because they are selling it at Lowes or HD that it grows in our environment.

I live in a pretty forgiving zone and everything seems to do well here but only if I plant it and not my wife.
I've always had vegetable gardens but don't consider myself a serious gardener and certainly not an expert. My wife tries to be a serious gardener and reads up on how to plant everything right (I do not). Funny how some people just have a green thumb and it really pisses my wife off. I've shown her how I plant stuff but too no avail. I made a little joke once in the garden.
They should have sent you to Vietnam
What! Why?
They wouldn't have needed agent orange.
She laughed but probably wanted to cry

I'm pretty sure it's only ~ 32% urea, and the remainder is deionized water. But it's still a good fertilizer.

That's probably correct. I meant the only active ingredient is urea, so its safe to use on plants and lawns.

Sounds like you just need to pee or your fig bush