Okay, here is my other CH.
It has five figlets too
Here is my Verte. it has a few figlets too.
Here is my other Verte. It has a figlet half the way up the trunk. In fact evry fig tree I rooted this year has figs but Sucrette, and it may pop some out yet.
Here’s my tall CH. I might have to get a wider pic of this I thought I had the leaves in it. The leaf on the top right is starting to have the longer lobe in the middle.
The picture shows the leaf better once posted. I’m thinking because of all the fertilizer and how much this one grew that maybe it grew a bunch of wide first set leaves first and might be starting to grow regular ones. What do you think? Maybe it’s not a fig that I even ordered? I’ll get a better picture of this one from the top.
I harvested my first Lebanese Red (Bass) fig. Taste was OK. The tree was just rooted this winter, so I need for the tree to mature more to fairly evaluate taste.
Pretty early for fruit, but it was rooted early so tells us nothing really. Nice to have another fig! I think this one will work well here. I have an unknown producing yellow figs also.
My CH figs are ripening fast. I ate one last week but most of the other figs were still green. 1 week later a bunch of them are ripening and doubled in size. I’ll finally get some decent sized figs. These are bigger than golf balls so the tree is making progress.
I gave in to temptation and planted 4 of them. Since it has only been 9 days since I moved into much larger pots, I was very careful and figured that there wouldn’t have been that much root growth. So, I expected the new potting mix to fall off, but instead everything held together pretty well. In fact, you can see the new roots have extended all the way to the side of the pot, all in just 9 days!
Nero 600M in 1 gal:
Another example, Sumaki in 2-3 gal:
Since I’ve already got a Macool next to the wall, I figured that I would add a couple more. That way, I can use one tarp to protect all of them.
Thanks for sharing. How close do you have those planted together? (I am wondering what I can get away with!)
In the above pic I have them a bit over 3 feet apart I’m not sure what I can get away with either, but I figure that for plants which suffer (or could suffer) significant dieback each year, they won’t get super big.
Here is a pic of my older figs (a year and a few months old). I think that they are 4’ spacing, but will check tomorrow. They were about 4’ tall when I took the picture. It is a SW facing wall, which is parallel to the one in the previous post (about 10’ away, and can just be seen in the background).
Bravo!
Good for you! Next year I’m putting mine in the ground. I put some of my extra Brunswick in the ground a few weeks ago and they immediately put on a good flush of growth. They were in small pots and bagging for more earth! I think in ground is the way to go even if it means digging them up and pruning back for winter. I’ll just keep mine in the ground and see what happens. I figure if I save cuttings and root them I will have back ups.
I’m starting to see ripe figs on everything, some unknowns even. Looks to me many varieties can be grown in zone 6a.
The story of a cold hardy fig growers life. To little…to late …Disregard the ragweed you see by my fig it’s now mulch!
You ought to graft that BT over to HC or something else that is precocious.
I have two hardy Chicago in pots now. Next year will be a better year.
Hello hoosierbanana long time no see. how have you been? I swear I’m seeing more and more familiar faces every time I long in. What’s up ampersand, how you been?
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I’m having a case of fig envy here, I have figs on some trees including HC but they are still small and I’m not super optimistic they will make it. The only good news is some little fig plants that have died back for several winters in a row are finally growing bigger in spite of it. It takes a lot longer for a fig to get going that way…
I’m trying in ground figs this year. What happened is a bunch of unknowns rooted well, and I didn’t want 5 of them, even if they were different. Plus I had extra “found” figs. Most are found figs actually. Anyway I heard you should grow in pots a few years first. i couldn’t wait, and planted rooted cuttings. Since I have grown tropicals, I can push vegetative growth if I need to and did with one of them.
I got it to grow to five feet tall. here it is today. See what happens…Sweet Diana Is the cultivar. (probably Celeste).
