Thread: Picked a bowl of figs today.

Here are just a few of the ones I picked today. The variety is Cajun Gold, they are sugar sweet and juicy as all get up. If you look closely at the eye of the fig you can see a drop of honey in it. The honey seals the eye and won't let any bugs in.
"gene"

All of those figs look good. Wife and I almost bought a fig tree this year but alas I would not let go of the money yet. I know that next year I can afford to buy them. Looking forward to having my own tree.

Well my poor lil storm battered tree now we have a 2 gal zip lock full and started another one. usually we small batch 1 bag full but the cucs are still making so it looks like a batch of relish before we do the figs.

Boar Buster, just get a branch off of someone elses tree, turn over a shovel of soil kind of soften it up. water the puddin out of it a lil miricle grow or shovel of compost or what ever ya got. mix it up make a lil mound and water it again. poke a branch in the ground around a foot deep leave plenty branch sticking up the more the merrier and it should have leaves. Just let it sit there till next spring if it sprouts ya got ya tree nothing to loose. If it dont by then maybe you can aford a store bought one. Believe me brother I know how it is to be poor cause I am now. But us Cajuns know some country boy tricks.

I didnt know you could propagate figs. I need to trim mine Looks like a fig orchard in a few years.

The best time to propagate figs from cuttings is in the Spring just as the buds are breaking. Breaking a branch and sticking it in the ground where you want it to grow works just fine. To insure you get a tree you might stick 2 or 3 cuttings in the same place to increase you chances. You can always dig out the ones you don't need and give them to a friend.
"gene"

Yea, What PawPaw said.