Good point. Thanks
I planted a Hardy Chicago twig the size of my pinky finger, and the little think actually grew. It was broken off by deer over the Winter, and I forgot I stuck it in there. It is supposed to survive 7a without die-back. You can have it when I dig it up, if you are interested. I don’t think I should be growing a fig at the base of my Shiro plum, and I already have Hardy Chicago in the back yard. It probably won’t be that big by the end of Summer.
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Wow! I planted a Fig sapling last month.
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thats fantastic, i assume where you live must be humid or fairly warm for the cuttings to root,
ive rooted many fit cuttings but indoor under heat pad.
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It is a common practice here for figs. They don’t always root so out of the five sticks three rooted. This method is easy but they must be inserted into the soil while dormant.
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IT’s WAY BIGGER NOW!
I was outside with no shoes on last night and stepped on a fallen fig. YUCK! We have a love hate relationship. It was this cute medium bush looking tree in my backyard when I bought the house and now it’s something like 30’ wide, 30’ tall and 20’deep. It puts out 400 figs 3 times a year. It’s seriously a monster
I was outside with no shoes on last night and stepped on a fallen fig. YUCK! We have a love hate relationship. It was this cute medium bush looking tree in my backyard when I bought the house and now it’s something like 30’ wide, 30’ tall and 20’deep. It puts out 400 figs 3 times a year. It’s seriously a monster
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These pics are a couple yrs old.
It’s WAY BIGGER now!
Here’s a second pic
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Have you ever made jam Renee? Worst that could happen is you have Christmas gifts 
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I have been walking past this fig almost daily without any noticeable changes. This morning when I went by it looked like it had doubled in size. Does the change indicate that it will soon ripen?
Several more on the bush and it will be interesting to see how many has enough time to ripen.
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Yes. The color is not very green anymore. The birds and other animals know when they are edible before we do, so please protect them now.
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@anon18642480 is right. Once they’re ready to go, it all happens in a short period of time. They expand out of nowhere and ripen a week or so after that, after what seemed like an eternity of just sitting there and doing nothing. I have an unknown that produced 2 figs, and I wanted them to stay on there one more day to be fully ripe. But the birds swooped in and took them.
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Today was my first pick day. I don’t know what a good looking fig looks like but it did taste great. Pinched 20200520.
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What was the color on the outside when you picked it? Aren’t you glad you planted one now?
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The outside was dark with a small crack. Came lose easily. Glad to have the fig bush now, I don’t know how many will have time to ripen but it has several more on the bush.
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I bet you’ll get many more. My figs continue ripening into November even after the first light frosts. I can normally get 90% of the crop to ripen and my climate is less fig friendly than yours.
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Wow! Exciting! I planted a baby fig tree this year.
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My family had a fig tree when i was a child. This thing was huge and it was a mess all the time underneath it. But when the figs were ripe we feasted on them. I have renewed that and planted and started several including
Brown Turkey
Celeste
Col De Dame Gris
Figo Preto
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Based on this thread and other sources I’ve seen it looks like you could get into the fig cutting trading /selling business and have plenty of figs left to spare! I second the preserves making idea. I know I would be very excited to receive homemade preserves for the holidays from my family!
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Oddly enough I didn’t get a single fig from it this year. Before I believe I reported we picked 400 in a DAY! This year it still was big and beautiful, the fruit came as little green nubs but that was it. Very strange. I decided it was something different in the air from everyone being home quarantined, constantly out walking the neighborhood and no cars. All of which would make the bugs and birds behave differently and pollination disrupted from its normal cycle. Hopefully all will me normal next year and we can make as many pies, jams and everything else we want!
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