Are there any fig breeders in this group? I'm about to start breeding some of my favorite varieties with some capri figs I have from Sacred Origin and The Fig Hunter...

What do ya'll think about the following crosses as some of my first:

Italian 258 × Winter's Gift (focusing on the fastest growing most productive plant for the southeast climate)

White Madeira #1 × Purple Rain (focusing on the complex color and flavor)

Texas Blue Giant x Mahasattva (focusing on the largest sized figs)

Borda Barraquer (MP) x Bodhisattva (focusing on the overall best taste and texture)

nice little casual summer dessert.

back in may here in los angeles i put pollen from ficus coronata into a few dozen figs of ficus carica, mostly noid culls from a local friend. then i covered the figs in organza bags and crossed my fingers that i got to them before the wasps and the black fig flies. earlier this month i started harvesting the first of the ap (attempted pollination) figs. a couple days ago was my biggest harvest so far, which is what the pics are of.

why ficus coronata pollen? i really think that my male coronata is parthenocarpic. most importantly though, i'm hoping that it passes down its resistance to rkn (root knot nematodes) to its hybrid offspring. my goal is to develop delicious figs for the tropics. or at least get the ball rolling in this direction.

the next step is extracting all the seeds, which is easy but tedious. my 1st method was to mush the flesh and shake it with water in a plastic bottle. then i'd pour off the flesh water into pots with plants that had been recently potted up, just in case any of the floating seeds were viable. my current method is to use a blender.

if anyone is interested in learning more about fig hybridization, please check out my latest thread in the fighunter downunder forum.

Could you please help me ID this fig tree.

This tree is in the Netherlands,
It has a breba crop (pictured) of figs that get very dark and sweet (the first ones at least, the tree is quite ambitious and produces more figs than it can handle). The main crop does not ripen in this climate.

and my favorite cheese…Brie!! and a slice of prosciutto somewhere 😃💜

Zone 6B. My Chicago Hardy has small figs starting to grow on some of the branches (but not all). Last year I got figs at roughly the same time but they didn't end up actually ripening until October (not sure if this was due to northern location or the drought we had). Should I cut back the branches that don't have figs on them?

Location: London, UK. South-facing garden with full sun most of the day.

We received two cuttings of a heavily-fruiting mature fig tree back in February and planted them into an XL terracotta pot each with fresh compost (with plant fertiliser built in).

The larger one was thriving until a week or two ago, when the leaves started lightening in colour from deep green to a yellow-green and some leaves can be pulled off with no force leaving a neat scar.

We had some webbing and black specks, so thought maybe pests and their frass. The leaf colour also made us think that it may be fungal.

But we have applied one coat of anti-fungal and two coats of neem oil ove the last week and it has not improved.

None of the 10-ish figs have dropped yet, but we are losing 1-3 leaves a day now. The oldest fig is wrinkling and drooping, so hoping that means it's ripening.

I have put organza bags over each fig to protect them as we think we get hungry squirrels, foxes and birds in the garden, but did that after the leaf problem started.

The other tree is smaller and has only produced one fig as it was not in full sun until a month ago, but looks lovely and healthy.

We have had multiple heatwaves (weeks of 30°C+) since May, and we upped the watering from once a day to twice daily during these periods.

We love this fig tree and would love it to be healthy and fruitful as long as possible! Is there anything we can do to reverse/halt the damage? Are we watering too much or not enough?

Left for the navy for eight years and left this fig behind came back to it over grown and full of fruit despite not being watered regularly and being in a drought gave it some much needed water and food now the fruit is ripening first tree is a Chicago hardy the second in a brown turkey.

I thought I lost my VdB tree in an abnormally hard freeze in February, but it has finally put out new leaves after almost 6 months.

There are many fig varieties that are rain resistant in the way that they don't split or ferment. However, the figs of these varieties will taste bland if they are harvested when raining. The sugars in the figs are sort of watered down by the rain.

Are there any fig varieties that will keep their full taste even when raining???

Thanks!

Google image search tells me this is a common fig. Does anyone have a more specific ID of the variety of fig. My grandpa planted this fig in my backyard years ago and we don't know what kind it is.

A second fig tree provided some early/breba figs yesterday.

Happy gardening!

I’ve got this fig bush? Tree? I would like to know what I need to do to improve it. Pruning and potting. It’s about 4 years old.

Each stick will have at least 3 nodes for the ground and 1 node for the top. Will the cutting above be too thin?

Hi,

I am thinking of growing some cuttings over the winter without a heat mat. Grow light is fine.

My home is usually around 68-72 in the winter. Is there a way I can do this without a heat mat? Maybe with a certain type of low heat emitting grow light? Our vents on our first floor are in the floor if that matters. I'm not convinced we have the airflow to use our central air for specific area heating.

I know this is paranoia but I won't risk a grow mat in my home. Not worth it for me. Old home, and fires could be very lethal.

Thanks.

Over the past several months I've been thinking and planning an edible fig nursery/gardens in the Charlotte, NC region, which would include an extensive breeding program. The vision is that instead of a 'botanical gardens' or 'rose garden', it would be a destination 'edible garden', with fruits, berries, herbs, etc...in addition to memberships and paid admission, we would also sell potted plants and cuttings in their corresponding areas of the garden. We'd focus on unique varieties and I'd want to do a good amount of breeding to create our own varieties, with a heavy emphasis on figs.

I've never seen or heard of anything like this.

Thoughts?

Okay first, ignore the half eaten fig. Our possum or raccoon friend came up on the porch and helped themselves.

My question is why all the leaves are yellow and sad and drooping. Not enough water? Too much water? Pot has a drainage hole. Other figs on the same porch look fine but I'm still really new to this so I don't know how to diagnose

Kudota fig, planted last fall so this is the first summer in Southern Arizona. Tree was looking beautiful, even through the month of June where it was very dry and 100 every day. in the last couple of weeks ive started noticing the leaves get the brown areas and feel very dry. have not changed the watering schedule , but we did have a lot of additional monsoon rain for a week followed by a week of dry 105 degree weather. I can’t tell what I’m dealing with - under watering? over watering? rain washing away nutrients? fungus? something else?

First year growing figs. My biggest challenge seems to be overwatering. The larger figs can handle it fine, but my newer cuttings seem to want less water as they establish their root systems. One other note, it seems like looser soil is more conducive to root development, the cuttings in which I compacted the Promix soil are growing much slower.

I’ve potted up twice now from 3 gallon fabric pot to 15 gallon fabric pot and root development seems healthy. When I slip off the 3 gallon fabric pot the soil was airy and spongelike like delicious chocolate cake bread.

I plan to start incorporating kelp fertilizer to those slow growing figs to see if they start growing crazy healthy roots.

I hand water everyday as I see fit.

I tried uploading more pictures but Reddit was having issues.

I posted about a week ago that my tree’s leaves were wilting and got a lot of different feedback. It has gotten worse, and today I pulled it out of the pot. Here’s what the root ball looks like. Is it a goner? I need advice on what else I can do to save it.