Thread: Fruit, Nut, and Vine Grafting, Tree Propagation, Tree Care

I bought several fig trees from a local grower last year that really have not shown any growth this year yet. A couple of feet on a few was the best performance. I have checked the dirt PH, fertilizer content, and even added them to the automatic watering system but it didn't seem to help. So I moved them so the afternoon sun didn't shine on them anymore but they get very good morning sun & some midday sun. I also added pelletized lime & crushed oyster shells to the dirt and started boosting the nitrogen content in the soil with Miracle-Gro yellow box. The Miracle-Gro addition was when things started improving. I waited between changes for a response from each tree but nothing.




Smith Fig


Hardy Sicilian


Violette De Bordeaux

The vigor is increasing daily so if your fig trees in pots are stalling on new growth give the yellow box Miracle-Gro a try. It's hard to capture the color variance between mid growth and new growth especially with the morning sun on the trees but you get the idea.

One of the new figs is finally ripening. These figs stay brite green for the most part with a strawberry sweet tasting inside. They really blow up in size when the ripening begins. When I cut one of these figs I will post a picture to this post.



You can see in the second photo the size of the figs when developed but not ripening. The smaller figs are the size of a green LSU Purple, Smith, or Celeste. Boy do they blow up when ripening. This is also a very slow growing fig so great for pots. Birds kinda leave them alone too due to their brite green color.

Looks good. What size pots are most of your figs ending up in? I've started up potting from 3 gallon nursery pots to 5 gallon buckets from Lowes. Probably should have just skipped the 3 gallon size and gone straight to the buckets. No figs for me yet.

I just checked some of the pots numbers and most are in a #15 which when I look it up says a 14.9-15 gallon pot. I do not think they are a full 15 gallons but size can be deceptive. I don't have them full by any means, about 3/4 full.

So some of our members have citrus trees on their property. If you have Citrus trees you have seen the big green caterpillars that munch down the tree leaves. I'm posting this so you know what Moth lays the eggs and what the eggs look like. The videos below show the Swallowtail Moth laying eggs on my new Artic Frost Satsuma trees. No worries, I walk my trees every morning checking for eggs. If you find one there is more, just look for them. Anyway video 3 is very short showing the eggs only. I will post pictures of the eggs below the video. I hope this helps our Citrus Tree owning Members.

I haven’t noticed the moth or eggs on my young satsuma tree yet. Now I know what to be on the lookout for. Took pictures just yesterday so I could study it better. I have suckers I need to remove. Graft is a little hard to see but I think I have it figured out now. Thanks for sharing.

Bottom right fig is Green Ischia. We did some tasting and the fig trees in partial shade are not as sweet as the ones in full sun. Citrus will do the same thing. Trees need sunlight to make the sugars. Bottom left is a LSU Gold, it got ate before I could reach my phone to get a picture.

Your figs look good. Is the LSU Gold one of your favorites? Sadly, I don’t have much full sun areas.