Fig Talk

:sweat_smile: don’t want to join the fig forums but I was wondering if there’s already a topic on random and everything about figs on here already that I’m missing.

Has anyone ever tried to ripen figs in a greenhouse or grow them year round?

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I started my fig journey at OurFigs and there is an immense amount of information there related to your query. They can definitely be grown year round in a greenhouse.

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There’s a big number of members here at Growing Fruit that have,had or are members of the other site. But I feel like the only person on this forum that has that experience and can answer any of your questions about growing figs year round inside a greenhouse is @fruitnut Steven, he is the Man on this matter.

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I get about 5-6 months of fig harvest in a greenhouse. It would be difficult to fruit them year around. Maybe year around fruit in a tropical environment. But to get best fruit, figs need hot sunny weather with low humidity. Tropical and/or greenhouses aren’t usually low humidity. Greenhouses are high humidity during cool cloudy weather. When heated high humidity. Low humidity only when hot and sunny and sometimes not even then depending on how they’re cooled.

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I don’t see how it would be possible to get year round figs, even if you had a heater, an air conditioner, and a dehydrator, and some huge fans, unless you count dried and frozen figs. Yet once they are dried, or frozen they are no longer the same. Yet a mostly frozen fig that wasn’t frozen for too long can be rather addicting and refreshing, yet still not the same as fresh.

Although it would be a neat experiment to try and see how long they could produce decent enough figs, if doing all the things that I mentioned were done.

It might just be easier, and way less expensive in the long run to have a room inside a house dedicated to growing figs year round, artificial lighting, humidity control, and heating. After all indoors would be closer to what a fig tree needs than a green house, so the environment would need less changing.

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I imagine its probably possible to get year round figs in SWFL (Naples/Fort Myers). Milder winters then us here in CFL combined with drier summers and less humidity. Winters wouldn’t be a problem, even if it was too cold, its so dry and sunny in winter you wouldn’t have to worry about humidity in a greenhouse. The real problem would be how wet is too wet for summer figs? Its less, but still humid in the summer, so that would be the issue.

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Have you used our search function yet? It is a symbol of a looking glass at the top right corner of the page. Click on the looking glass. That’s the search function. Then, type in key word(s). For your purpose, it could be “figs”, “fig problems” ,etc.

There will tons of threads on figs for you to peruse. Please feel free to search and see if some of your questions have been asked and answered already.

FYI, I have been around this forum and Gardenweb, before and after Houzz bought it. Selling fig cuttings, fig plants, etc. are serious money making business. And when money is involved, things can turn ugly and they have.

This forum is created to serve people who enjoy growing all kinds of fruit. However, if any fruit discussion including figs turns ugly, the thread will be closed.

Hope many experienced fig growers will answer fig questions you have.

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I don’t see much discourse on the subject mamuang?

I have searched the fig problems but i might have just missed the greenhouse ones

Go ahead and close it if you want though. I feel like you don’t really like this topic I’ve started

I don’t have a greenhouse but there’s quite a few people that use them to protect their figs in wintertime. And finish ripening in them.
Some people actually bring them into heated garages with supplemental lighting to finish or start them.
And some start late varieties early with great success.

You changed your doggo pic. I loved them both.

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I may not present my message well. I have no intention to close the thread at all. You are new and probably have a lot questions about figs and other fruit.

I have no issue with this thread at all. I just mentioned that some fig discussion can be heated.

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My understanding is that the Common Fig has a slight chill requirement that can be met by winter in the Mediterranean (where it originates) but not easily in the tropics. One of my kids lives in Hawaii and the proprietor of a big nursery there laughed at immigrants from California who think they can grow the same varieties of figs and pomegranates there. “It’s not cold enough” she said. But she did sell my kid a fig that bears fruit.

That doesn’t mean that you couldn’t grow figs indoors year round here. You’d just have to arrange for a brief dormant period. A week at 45-50 F should suffice. Maybe a couple weeks of drought that defoliates the tree? Or you could find a variety with a minimal chill requirement.

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There’s quite a few fig growers on another forum I see from Hawaii that grow many different kinds. I see some in Thailand and Caribbean as well. I’ve also heard figs don’t need chill requirements but idk I prefer to let mine sleep for a couple months and regenerate. I’m sure they have their problems in Hawaii like rust and rkn but I’d love to taste a Hawaiian grown fig and compare the difference with mine.

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Had no idea fig discussions can get like that :rofl:

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I just bought a bunch of cuttings and some are growing faster than anticipated…

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I recently purchased cold hardy rooted fig starts, they grow fast. But I’m interested if I grow them in the ground zone 7a. Wont know unless I try.

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Fortunately, most fig discussion in this forum have been civil. It has gotten testy at times but nothing like what have happened to those figs-only forums/websites.

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I’m pretty melo. If I get testy, just remind me to eat some prunes.

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How about some fig juice? lol

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Or freeze dried figs?

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