Naeem,
What do you use to fertilize your figs?
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My only fertilizer is Osmocote Plus two full scope for five gallons per pot at the begging of the season which is right now.
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Thatâs whatâs what I use, too, but mine are in 15 gal pots.
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Did you apply 6 scopes per pot ?
Honestly, I could not remember but I guesstimated the amount based on the instruction on the label.
I am giving little more what is recommended due to our short growing season and it is working for me. Second thing is give them most sunny spot in your yard.
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This is my first time seeing that much Breba Crop. Without any protection all winter no die back at all. I am worrying these Breba will delay main crop. Anyone with experience please share some thoughts.
Hardy Chicago
Carini ( Nice Green Fig )
Improved Celeste , Carini , Salem Dark
Salem Dark , Hardy Chicago.
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Yes breba will delay main crop. But it is only a concern in a cool climate like mine.
Where you live, it wonât matter especially with these varieties that are quite early anyway.
Out here breba is often the only crop. So I am starting the experiment of removing main crop to get a bigger breba.
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I wouldnât worry about breba delaying your main crop like what Ramv said. Most of your varieties arenât known for producing an enormous breba crop, so they wonât take up too many resources. Focus instead on correct fertilization, branch thinning, and tip plucking at the right time to enhance your main crop. With that said, Hardy Chicago and other Mt Etna figs donât have particularly good tasting breba, but a fig is a fig, especially when we havenât had fresh ones since last fall.
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I would remove the brebas, I kept them a couple of years ago and they were very lousy⌠If you really want to try them, I suggest you keep them on one tree only and compare main crop timing for the trees without breba to the one with breba.
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Carini could have good brebas. I have had lots of brebas on trees I protected, they usually drop at some point though. Maybe I will remove some earlier this year and see if it affects main crop at all.
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Thanks everyone for your input. I will keep Breba on some branches and remove from the weak one.
Since number of branches are way more then what I want.
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I agree. Carini has quite tasty breba.
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I just have one fig that i buried enough that the branches were covered with soil. Seems to have worked fine.
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Mine look amazing in this 80 degree weather. Hoping for an early harvest this year.
These breba are already about as large as the main crop.
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Carini Breba are getting bigger and I believe in next 30 to 45 days will be ready to pick.
Never had ripped breba that early.
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Please loan me a few degrees.
Here in Port Orchard Washington
itâs not hit even 60 degrees at 11 AM.
another cold summer.
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I can not believe that a fig can grow that much in 10 days. Never seen that much growth at least on my figs. Post your in ground figs pictures if you can to see growth.
Picture was taken today 05-04-21 same tree . ( Salem Dark )
05-04-21
Picture was taken 04-24-21 same tree ( Salem Dark )
04-24-21
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AMAZING !! Wow, what an excellent personal effort in fig research.
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