Crusader's fig

Think I'll get fruit this year?

  • Keep dreaming Francis

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  • Maybe a little nub of a bud that does nothing, NARF!

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  • Maybe one or two, snarf snarf

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  • That baby bush is gon be bustin with bussen blooms son!

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  • Dilligaf. I'm just here because toilet time is lonely without you.

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cannabiscrusader

cannabiscrusader

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Hey gang. That sounded old and white.

Here's some old white guy music for everyone bongsmilie



This is the third or fourth season for this fig tree. It's not even supposed to survive up here, but it comes back every year.

Here she is right after the snow melted.
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Here she is today

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Usually, growth is just starting around now, but as you can see, it's doing pretty well already. I mulch it heavily in the fall with some 4-4-4 dry amendments.
 
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Phytoplankton

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I kinda doubt you’ll get much if it’s dying back in winter. I don’t know where you’re located, I’m in Northern Ca and figs grow reasonably well here. We don’t get too much frost.
 
cannabiscrusader

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Phytoplankton said:
I kinda doubt you’ll get much if it’s dying back in winter. I don’t know where you’re located, I’m in Northern Ca and figs grow reasonably well here. We don’t get too much frost.
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I'm in upstate ny in the adirondack park. It was -15 for 3 weeks in February I think. I'm still going to try as long as it keeps coming back. Maybe I'll put a little green house over it this winter. Or tarp it.
 
MAD.SCIENTIST

MAD.SCIENTIST

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From what I understand, Fig needs to grow up against a wall to grow strong. Same with Kiwi.
I bought a fig sapling for my mother and father years ago and although it does grow figs, the figs don't seem to mature properly and drop off and die.
It is of course in a pot which is far from ideal.
I would put a fence section up next to the fig tree/bush for it to grow up.
Maybe next year or the year after you will start getting figs.
The figs grow somewhat one year and the next year they swell and ripen. It's weird.
And the weirder thing about figs is that it is a type of wasp that allows the figs to grow.
A very strange plant/tree.
It's like how oak apples come from a certain type of wasp interfering with the oak tree that creates oak apples.
I don't understand it, but it happens. The interaction between plants and insects.
 
cannabiscrusader

cannabiscrusader

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MAD.SCIENTIST said:
From what I understand, Fig needs to grow up against a wall to grow strong. Same with Kiwi.
I bought a fig sapling for my mother and father years ago and although it does grow figs, the figs don't seem to mature properly and drop off and die.
It is of course in a pot which is far from ideal.
I would put a fence section up next to the fig tree/bush for it to grow up.
Maybe next year or the year after you will start getting figs.
The figs grow somewhat one year and the next year they swell and ripen. It's weird.
And the weirder thing about figs is that it is a type of wasp that allows the figs to grow.
A very strange plant/tree.
It's like how oak apples come from a certain type of wasp interfering with the oak tree that creates oak apples.
I don't understand it, but it happens. The interaction between plants and insects.
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The fig is an inverted flower, not a fruit. It has a tiny opening at the bottom to let a female wasp in. It's so tight that the wasp often looses it's wings and legs trying to get in. The wasp lays eggs in the fig and the dies. The eggs hatch and the males mate with the females and then the males burrow a hole from the inside out fir the females to escape from, then die. The females escape full of fertilized eggs and ready to find a new fig. Kind of like a virus
 
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Phytoplankton

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MAD.SCIENTIST said:
From what I understand, Fig needs to grow up against a wall to grow strong. Same with Kiwi.
I bought a fig sapling for my mother and father years ago and although it does grow figs, the figs don't seem to mature properly and drop off and die.
It is of course in a pot which is far from ideal.
I would put a fence section up next to the fig tree/bush for it to grow up.
Maybe next year or the year after you will start getting figs.
The figs grow somewhat one year and the next year they swell and ripen. It's weird.
And the weirder thing about figs is that it is a type of wasp that allows the figs to grow.
A very strange plant/tree.
It's like how oak apples come from a certain type of wasp interfering with the oak tree that creates oak apples.
I don't understand it, but it happens. The interaction between plants and insects.
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The wasp is the pollinator, though there are some wasps that have a larval stage that eats the fig from the inside out, but not the pollinator wasp. If you really want weird pollination biology look at orchids, most are pollinated by a single species of insect and many orchids have bizarre ways of enticing, trapping and fooling insects.
 
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