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@Richard, when do you stop fertilizing your potted figs? This is my first year with potted figs and I stopped fertilizing 6 weeks ago when it started getting cold out. It’s now warmed up and is 70-80 degrees in the afternoon and not sure if figs are fully dormant or not. Was hoping you could shed light on what you do in your mild climate.
@Mcjuj
There are two schedules.
I have cuttings up to 2 years old in Stuewe mini-tree pots. They are on automated irrigation but not fertigated. I hand-fed them with a hose-end sprayer every 2-3 months. They typically receive a weak dosage of 20-10-20 water-soluble fertilizer.
The remaining figs are in Stuewe 915R and 1020R treepots. They are fertigated year-round (i.e. every watering) with 15-5-10 water-soluble mix at 100 ppm.
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So it sounds like I need to be fertilizing even over winter. They are in 15 gallon pots. I had been using hose end sprayer every 2 weeks, will resume. Thanks
How do you keep your figs in those tree pots for so long?
In less than a month during the growing season, I’ve had to repot my cuttings from them because they were drinking too much water, drying out too fast, and looking like they were getting root bound.
If you cut your dosage significantly. What is the NPK of your water-soluble fertilizer, and the mixing ratio of your hose-end sprayer?
NPK 9%, 3%, 6%
I have the ortho hose end sprayer set at 4 teaspoons/ gallon. I water each pot for 20 seconds. What I can’t remember is whether I diluted the fertilizer before I put it in the sprayer.
What do you guys do for the fig trees in pots over the winter? I have all of mine together and I covered them but I am not sure what else to do since it is my first winter with fig trees, any advice will be nice!!
just water when dry, for me. keep em dark and cold but not too cold.
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They are outdoors year-round here in hardiness zone 10b.
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If it’s a Dial-N-Spray …
Here’s a simple way to gain skills with that instrument. Set the Dial to 1 fl.oz. per gallon, then add 10 fl.oz. of water (marked as 10 oz on canister). Now think about it for a moment: every 1 oz you spray out from the canister will be mixed with 1 gallon of water. So if you were to add 10 teaspoons of fertilizer to that 10 oz of water, then the concentration of the spray will be about 1 teaspoon of fertilizer per 1 gallon of water.
Another thing to consider: If you take the Dial-N-Spray set at 1oz/gal with 10 oz of water and with or without fertilizer, and water your pots as usual, you can figure out how many gallons of fluid you are dispensing to your pots.
Finally, does your liquid 9-3-6 have a dosage chart for converting teaspoons per gallon to ppm? If not, I can compute it if you provide the mass in grams of 1 fl.oz. of 9-3-6.
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@Richard, thank you for taking the time to explain. I will need a moment to digest this.
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Zone 8b
Last year, I just put my potted figs along the side of my house then in full sun when I thought the fear of last frost was over with.
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West Florida Zone 9b
I put all the pots together outside, orient them so as few leaves as possible are touching and keep them well watered (very sunny in winter time with little rain). They usually do not go noticably dormant here, I just had one do a full new flush a couple days ago with little figs and all. If they have too much new growth I put them up against the greenhouse, but that spot is usually reserved for more tender plants.
Zone 8a/7b
How interesting! I had a bad case of fig rust on mine and they all lost their leaves right when it started to get cold. But they still look alive just leafless.
Does anyone know of places I can buy the LSU DC caprifig cuttings or plants or any other persistent capri?
harvey (figaholics) will have a cutting sale sometimes early next year (hes in cali so his dormant season is late. Capri q is a great presistant caprifig with a nice edible crop that he sells but he has several.
Is your interest in limited to caprifying Smyrnas or in breeding?
My main interest is breeding.
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Then we gotta discuss what youre looking to breed. On figfanatics theres a few working toward somethings. One is doing dark berry persistsnt capri to help make more of those dark berry types. Another an adriatic to eork on some early season adriatics.
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