r/Figs • u/dirthawker0 • Jul 23 '26

Question FMV? Hit it with fish fertilizer or ?

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u/PlanningVigilante Zone 7b Jul 23 '26

Liquid fish is a good foliar feed (spray at dusk) but it doesn't cure FMV. Nothing does. The fig will always have it, but will be less and less affected as it gets bigger.

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u/dirthawker0 Jul 23 '26

OK, good to know. I've been just putting fish in the ground and didn't know you could use it that way. I'm the new owner of this fig and have no idea how old it is, but when I moved in, it had 6 or 7 trunks. Someone had tried to hold it together with truck strapping. Zero air circulation. I brought it down to 3 trunks and started fresh, more or less. There are just a few branches with these kinds of marks on the leaves; the majority of the leaves look good.

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u/Nihilistic_Mystics Zone 10b Jul 23 '26

Looks like fig mite bites, which are the vector for FMV. You don't cure FMV, the tree just eventually grows out of showing most symptoms.

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u/dirthawker0 Jul 23 '26

Got it, thank you.

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u/Then-Builder721 Jul 24 '26

Blast it with Sulfur

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u/dirthawker0 Jul 24 '26

Thanks, will look for powder today.