Tissue Culture Figs

General Fruit Growing
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So it appears tissue culture figs grow like spiders instead of like I tree. I’m not expecting much larger diameter “branches” than maybe a little larger than pencil sized. Hopefully it will get better next year. I suspose I could prune to single branch but then I wouldn’t have any to root this winter.

What’s the right thing to do?

  1. leave it be and root cutting during dormancy?
  2. prune and train to single branch?
  3. ???

Growing in 1 1/2 cuft pot.

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Thanks

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So someone else please please chime in if I’m remembering incorrectly, but I think rooting a cutting fixes the weird tissue culture growth.

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You are correct. Tissue Culture figs grow tons of branches and can take years to produce fruit. If you simply take cuttings or based on the picture that OP posted an air layer it will fix those “issues”

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How to avoid unknowingly buying tissue culture figs? Do some major online sellers deal only in TC?