I don’t think I would prune that one much because the scaffolding looks good then just maintain it to that scaffolding or so, but that’s me. Figs will send a lot of shoots no matter how you cut it though.
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I’d prune at the blue lines so your fig bearing wood is high enough to pick easily. I don’t like really low branches.
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How tall is it? To me it looks like it’s less than 4ft tall to me but that could be an illusion
The 2 taller scaffolds are about 36-40” from the top of the pot.
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Does this look like it was caused by sun damage or does it have something going on? It was the only leaf like, its an older one from when it was rooting in the shade, and they’ve been in mostly full sun for about 2 weeks, and it only gets fuller as the days get longer and the sun higher. We’ve had some particularly harsh sunny days this past week.
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That looks like sun damage to me but i am no expert and have only been growing figs for the last few years
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My Bourjasotte Noire was the last cutting to leaf out, my Bourjasotte Gris is the first to try to flower. I assume I should thin this guy off, but it is exciting seeing my first fig.
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That’s so exciting! Can’t wait for mine, though I’m way behind you. Mine are dormant except the cuttings.
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Nowadays I’ve been pondering what to do with the ~600 different varieties of figs I’ll have leftover from this month’s cutting sales.
The easiest approach for me is to dispose of the trees, recovering whatever soil I can shake loose from the root balls. The empty pots are no problem – I can put them out by the street and they’ll disappear in a few days.
Alternately I could offer them for free pickup, although my past experience with this has been poor. I wouldn’t mind though if someone came by with a large bobtail truck and ported off a significant portion of them.
Any volunteers or other ideas?
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Gorilla plant them around any wild figs and see what nature creates.
Or auction them off. That’s a lot of time and investment into those figs. Plus so many hard to obtain types.
I’d consider hanging onto the containers for future projects.
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Are you just getting rid of the trees altogether?
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@Plants
I need nearly all of them out of here by May 1. 
As for empty pots, I already have at least a case of unused Stuewe 9x15R.
@Melon
I’m keeping all of our persistent Caprifigs plus Females that are advertised to be closed eye figs.
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I checked your offerings. That is a lot of varieties. I am new to figs. Is there a good reference to learn more about these varieties?
Obviously you have to do what makes sense for your business. However have you considered selling mixed bundles of cuttings? It could be random varieties left at the end of the sale or it could be selections based on your knowledge and expertise, i.e. cuttings for container growing in northern zones, cuttings for hot humid inground growers, etc.
I be looking for the “stupid easy cuttings for novice propagators” bundle.
But seriously, all the best for your sale.
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If I saw someone charging $100 for a fig cutting I would offer them for free in a post right next to their ad.
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In my experience, it’s not whether specific cultivars are difficult, but rather: how they were grown, what season they are cut in, if they were freshly cut, and the propagation method is reasonable.
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cut em up and sell bundles of “mystery pack” scion for rooting. maybe?
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@Richard thats not a bad suggestion above. Matt did something similar and it didn’t do bad. Here’s the auction. Large collection of cuttings 150 varieties and over 414 cuttings.
If someone was charging and getting $100 per cutting chances are it’s a rare or hard to obtain cutting. And chances are also that someone selling it spent more than that on a small tree.
If you dropped $250-$2,000 on a small tree or even a cutting and took time and gamble nourishing it to make any scions or air layer a tree would you give away cuttings for free? If so that’s pretty noble of you. It’s a funny market for figs.
I would NEVER pay $200 for a tree, let along a fig tree. And $2000? You’d have to be out of your mind. It’s a freaking fig.
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