Have tons of inground figs getting hit by a very early freeze. All froze, all are coming back with a lot of new growth.Tons of new growth, keeping me busy pinching them at 3 or 4 feet high. Half of them has fruits on them, a la Tony. Dessert King which only produces breba’s has nothing. Some will be trained low espalier like the Japanese do, very low to the ground and very long. Maybe easier to protect in the winter.
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Perhaps the freeze mentioned was in 2019.
There was an obit in a local paper today where the recently deceased was born in 1836.
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You’ve got fig bushes everywhere! Mine were more fortunate and had very minimal dieback. They will be too tall to easily pick from the ground soon. I did not bother cutting them shorter in hopes of a bigger harvest.
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I edited the title to reflect 2019 freeze.
I made a couple mistakes last fall, one is, I should have stripped all the leaves of like I do with my container tree’s to speed up hardening. Didn’t do it this time. If I don’t pinch my ingrounds they be 8’ tall. Big job coming, thinning them out, already started 3weeks ago.
Yes, thinning out branches is very important to allow more sun to reach the center of the bushes. Too many vigorous shoots results in reduced yields when they shade each other out. I also pinch the tips to stop late season growth. It seems to help with winter damage.
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