Questions tagged [figs]
Common name for Ficus a genus of woody trees, shrubs, vines, epiphytes, and hemiepiphytes.
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What is the proper way to prune a Fig Tree?
I have a fig tree that is 5-10 years old. Currently I just remove the dead branches. What is the proper technique for fig pruning?
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Why aren't my fruit/nut trees flowering?
I live in zone 8/9 in northern FL and I have the following fruit/nut trees:
2 Pecans
2 Meyor Lemons
2 Peach trees (uncertain of variety)
1 Black Mission fig
Most of the trees have been planted for ...
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Encouraging fig or similar into canopy: what to do with site of severed limbs?
This is a fig tree which has been pruned with a chainsaw down low and with normal secateurs up high. Down the bottom on the left you can see the nodule where a limb about 13cm (5 inches) in diameter ...
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How do I tell if a Green Fig is ripe?
There is a Kadota (I think) fig tree in our yard - the fruit is massive, slightly squishy, and the holes at the bottom of the figs are starting to open and they're starting to pale.
How do I tell if ...
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Is this an ant colony on this fig tree?
Just noticed this on a fig tree and these are everywhere. It's not just on the leaves but on the stems as well.
Is this an ant colony on this fig tree, Or something else?
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What's wrong with this fig?
I have a fig tree in a pot in my balcony.
Recently it has lost a couple of leaves and they all display the same features: yellowish color on the front side of the leaf, and tiny small white dots on ...
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Fig fruit fell off before ripe
I've gotten 3 fig trees and I had a question. I have a Celeste that's planted in the ground, a Brown Turkey that's in a pot, and a Kadota that I received yesterday that's bare root. I'm in SC clay ...
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Why did my fig tree stop making fruit?
Six years ago I planted a fig tree that was given to me. I was told it was a "dwarf" fig but there has never been anything dwarf about it. Within a couple of years of planting the tree it began ...
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How do I care for a young fig tree?
I received a foot long rooted cutting of a fig tree that is hardy in zones 7-11. I have it in a clay base soil in the ground. It currently has two small leaves. I am completely ignorant of how to care ...
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Fig tree - white holes & bald spots
I’ve searched for fig tree ailments (and there are many!) but can’t find a match for my problem. Can anyone help? Many of the leaves look like this - the leaf bulk has been eaten away and there is ...
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What to do with fig cutting in water?
About 8 weeks ago I stuck a couple cut fig branches in a glass of water in a sunny space. As of today, one of the cuttings has sprouted a couple of leaves out the side of the branch, but I don't see ...
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What's this green stuff on my soil?
I dumped my french press on this potted fig tree a few times, perhaps that was a mistake. Today I noticed this this green stuff on top of the soil. What is this?
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Is this fig tree disease or just malnourished?
My folks in Berkeley, CA (San Francisco Bay Area) showed me their young fig tree the other day to see if I could figure out what was wrong with it, but I wasn't certain. I searched here (during title ...
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Can you grow a fig tree in full shade?
About 3 weeks ago I propagated a cutting from a fig tree in water. It is growing roots and almost ready to plant.
I have a nice spot for it but it will (at best) receive 1-2 hours of direct morning ...
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Will a cutting from a wild fig tree grow more quickly in water or soil?
I intend to grow a wild Fig tree (Indian) from a cutting I broke off the foot path. Will it sprout roots faster in water or should I pot it and hope? The Pipal cutting has both root buds and branch ...
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How do I take care of a Port Jackson fig bonsai?
A few years ago (4ish, I think) my girlfriend at the time brought me a small bonsai, a Port Jackson Fig (if I remember right!).
I have managed to keep it going so far. At this point, it is more a "...
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Why are the leaves of my fig trees drying and falling off?
I have several fig trees. Some of them seem to be contracting some sort of illness - leaves dry and fall off completely.
This does not seem to weather or water related. Watering them does not help ...
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Why doesn't my fig tree produce fruit?
I have a fig tree but it hasn't had any fruits on it yet. I don't know which variety it is, I got it when it was only a few inches high. It's planted on a West facing wall of my bungalow, but like I ...
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Zone 6b edible Ficus (Fig) hardiness/overwintering
Two years ago I purchased and grew a wonderfully beautiful brown turkey fig tree in south Toronto, Canada. Alas, it died as I overwintered in in an unheated garage which I thought might be sufficient....
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Why do the leaves on my black fig tree have white patches?
I bought a fig tree from a local DIY store. It has started developing these white patches. Does anybody know what they indicate?
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Why are my fig leaves yellowing?
I planted this fig tree a couple of months ago and although at first the leaves looked good, the new ones have been increasingly more yellowed. I'm not sure what I could be doing wrong, I water it ...
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When should I prune my Fig Tree?
I've been told I should prune my fig tree before the end of the Summer (Northern Hemisphere) so that it can recover before winter. I'm in Ireland.
Is it late enough in the summer by July?
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Why are my figs dry inside and not ripening?
I have this several year old fig tree, should be coming up on 6-7 years. It's about 18 feet tall perhaps, and for the last several years it has produced figs. They get tender on the skin but when I ...
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Should I trim the leaves off my fig cuttings?
I have a Black Mission fig tree that's getting removed soon, and in order to (after a fashion) rescue it, I've taken some cuttings from it using the instructions I found here. The cuttings I've taken ...
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Good or bad fertiliser?
Last year I've used a fertilizer named AZOMITE and this year I didn't have much fig-crop (it is fall now where I am). Last year, at this time, I had a lot of figs.
Anybody know if this fertilizer has ...
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How should I prune a common fig for best productivity?
Figs have a unique fruiting cycle, fruiting on old wood first, all at once, then on new wood for the rest of the season. What's the best pruning system for these, to maximize production?
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Fig tree mystery worm problem
A friend has a fig tree which seems to be the target of a worm. As far as I can see the leaves and fruit do not have any bite marks or worms/insects inside them, but the fruit born was less this year, ...
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Tool for picking figs which doesn't tear them
Bit of a long shot, but anyway I'm looking for a tool (which I can build) which can pick figs without tearing them. I have a plastic bottle fruit picker of the sort which is often demonstrated on ...
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Zone for planting a Chicago Fig tree outdoors. I am in zone 5
I have 2 Chicago fig trees and I need to know planting, soil type and zone safe to plant outdoors.
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How to prune a fiddle leaf fig tree
I have had this fiddle leaf fig tree (ficus lyrata) for about a year and it has grown a lot of new leaves along three of its branches, but not on any others. In fact, many small, dry leaves have ...
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Is April too late to prune my fig tree?
I have a purple and gold variety fig tree that's been established for about three or four seasons. I had been cutting it all the way back every winter, but this season, I missed my opportunity (for no ...
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What should I do with this Ficus elastica (Rubber fig)?
Something is wrong with my Ficus elastica (Rubber fig).
What is this white hard salt-like thing? It is on the backside of some leaves. I cleaned this with water and cotton and it came off, but it ...
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Why are the figs rotting on my tree?
I have white fig trees in my yard, and this year we are experiencing figs that seem to be waterlogged, and are now turning brown and falling from the tree. Some that have remained on the tree have ...
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Brown turkey fig dormancy time
We picked up a brown turkey fig tree last summer. We plan on keeping it in a large pot rather than in the ground. We have a small space and understand they have a good sized root system. Plus we live ...
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Ficus elastica — Will its leaves uncurl?
I started getting a bit of leaf curl on a rubber fig we bought for our studio a few weeks ago. The soil felt a little damp, so I've slowed down on the watering, but gave the leaves a mist once this ...
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Thousands of tiny white eggs (?) on fig tree leaves - what are they? What to do?
I'm in Long Island and have a fig tree in my yard. I added some top-soil to the base a week or so ago. I don't know if it is related, but yesterday I found that the leaves are infested with what look ...
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Can anyone identify what sort of egg or pupa this is?
Can anyone identify what these little critters might be? We are
Trying to be on the offense for the fig beetles that are sure to return this season and so we began inspecting the tree and the dirt.
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Large fig tree fruit rotting on tree and falling all over the ground
The fig tree has been producing an incredible amount of fruit. Unfortunately all the fruit is rotting before it even falls from the tree. It smells like rancid rotting fruit all the time outside, and ...
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Can a 8ft fig tree be moved?
We have a fig tree whose roots have broken into our concrete cistern. The cistern will be fixed next week. Everyone is telling us that we need to cut down the tree, which we don't like to do at all - ...
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What is this pest attacking a fig tree?
I have a fig tree that is covered in these strange pests. They appear to be live organisms, but they don't move.
What could these be and how can I deal with them?
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Why is the color fading on my variegated rubber plant?
The normal vibrant color is fading from my variegated rubber plant. I've made the mistake of overwatering it in the past, but was about a year ago. Is this a residual hangover from that time? Or is ...
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What's a good way to protect fig trees overwinter?
A friend of mine has a fig plant growing in the ground in Lancaster, PA, USDA hardiness zone 6b, and it needs protection each year through the winter, to prevent burn. What he does for now is wrap the ...
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Fig Tree Roots - Far Northern Edge of Range
So, my official zone is too cold (4B) for even hardy figs, but I have a patch of microclimate on the south side of my house that I would guess could be as much as a full zone higher than the rest of ...
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What type of fig to plant in the Netherlands
I have a garden that I would like to grow a fig tree in, currently it already has a fig, however the fig in question doesn't make a lot of fruit and we would like to get a 2nd one that does make a lot ...
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Fig tree leaf color lighter than usual
Why does the fig tree (about 10x10x10feet in size) leaves have light green spots like this?
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Pruning rooted fig cutting
I rooted a fig cutting back in the spring and now have a 2 foot baby tree with a single leader and no branches. Do I prune the leader during the winter or will the tree branch out on its own next ...
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Brown spot on fiddle leaf fig
I have some brown spots on my fiddle leaf fig.
I have some large patches of brown spot on the big leave.
And some small patches on the new leaves.
May I know what could have caused the problem?
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New fig trees seemed dead; now sprouting from the base. Any special treatment?
We planted two Chicago Hardy fig trees here in DC last fall, but we planted them a bit late, and had an early freeze and a cold winter overall. They were each a single stalk of about 18-24" (45-60 cm) ...
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I have a large fig tree with the figs rotting and falling off
As the title states, all the figs fall off the tree without ever getting ripe. I am a property caretaker and the owners said that this happens every year.
It is a huge tree that is full of massive ...
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what are on my fig tree leaves
Hi I’m in the uk and the leaves of my potted fig tree are shrivelling open and dying. On them are thousands of tiny black dots protected under a clear film. I don’t know what they are and whether to ...
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