I only pinch the figs to encourage branching, they seem to fruit fine on their own. Some tall leaders I want to branch and form a scaffold is all I pinch.
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Unfortunately pinching doesnāt seem to be working too well on my VdB. Itās in the ground and growing like mad, so it doesnāt want to listen to my encouragement. Iām air-layering a sucker and Iāll pot that up if/when it succeeds. Hopefully itāll give me figs next year. I have a couple more candidate branches that need to be removed, Iāll figure out which ones to remove next weekend and start air-layering them too.
Itās the first week of August and Iāve been pinching fig growth tips every five new leaves. Should I continue doing this? When should I stop pinching? Thanks.
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Amusingly enough, I have about a dozen figs on my VdB forming, but none from the trunk that I was pinching. I do have some nice branching on that trunk now.
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Figs probably take around 3 months to ripen. So if your first day of frost is more than 90 days from now then your figs should ripen in time before frost.if not then donāt pinch them until Spring.
Tony
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OK, thanks, sounds like I should stop pinching August 1 each year as first frost is around Nov. 1.
I have read about removing- in August- all small figs that have no chance of ripening. Do you do this?
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I took a few pots that are loaded with green figs into my sunroom to ripen and I removed the figs on the rest of the pots and let them go dormant in my tornado shelter.
Tony
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