That’s great! You are probably right, my tree is only 5 years from a rooted cutting. Hasn’t fully matured.
is it in the ground? mine is probably 8-10 yrs old and has 10-12ft of canopy. There are plenty of figs we can’t reach.
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None of these produced a breba crop. The breba producers like Longue d,Aout produce a bit later.
Violette de Bordeaux, Vern’s brown Turkey and all the Mt Etna types are also getting close now.
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I was gifted a Negronne fig. Anyone have any tips? Mainly about sun location. Can I keep it in a pot? It’s in a 20 gallon grow bag right now. It was gifted as a woody cut back root bound 10 year old tree. It was kinda dropped off on me and I shrugged my shoulders and crammed it into the back corner of my lot by the compost tumblers. Figured I would gift it to somebody. Yet, It actually set 4 delicious fruit on it. Now I care more about it, it was real yummy. Haven’t done figs yet and a feel a problem coming on. They are new to me.
Ditto on a cutting off a green honey fig. I tried a couple from a big old proven tree my client has. Almost as good as the negronne. What have I been missing, figs. Yep said it aloud. It’s rooted and about 3 feet tall now. Also, do I have to do anything special for them to get ready for winter?
Thank you all for your input. 
There is always so much more to learn.
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Mine is in ground. About 5 ft tall and 4 ft wide.
I would think twice about growing walnut in my garden anyway. The leaves give off a chemical that makes it hard for other plants to grow.
John
PDX OR
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Yes, I see why not. here is a good resource on training them using Japanese technique. I am applying this technique to a new desert kid tree in a 8g pot.
I am bringing mine inside in the garage. Or you can try to insulate with CCF pipe insulators.
I don’t think figs really need protecting here? We had a pretty cold couple of winters and even my tiny, freshly rooted plants outside in the ground showed only the slightest damage to growing tips. And I regularly see fig trees that tower over people’s houses around the Seattle area.
In the ground the roots might be ok, I have had a few shoot die due to cold injury on my mature Italian honey tree. I might just bring them inside to protect the shoots.
I grow all kinds of fruit and have one of the largest black walnut trees in the Seattle area in my yard. No issues with juglone.
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Is that a particularly small example of your VdB? Oh, its a main crop not breba. Are main crop fruit much smaller?
Strangest thing is that Vdb seems really small this year. Don’t know why.
Yes, these are all main crop.
That’s really interesting. I’ve seen walnut trees with nothing growing under them, and I’ve heard about juglone messing up plants for years. I wonder if they harm vegies more than fruit trees?
They appear toxic to blueberries, maybe to a few other species. But plums, apples, persimmon, figs, loquats, feijoa + a few more I’m forgetting aren’t bothered at all.
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Great information!
I have not seen it stated this way before.
John S
PDX OR
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Were any of these grown outside in ground with no head start? Sweet Diana looks promising considering we all have a shady corner that we wish a fruit tree would perform in.
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All are grown in ground with no headstart except Sweet Diana which is in a neglected shaded spot in a pot. Not for long though.
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