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GROWING FIGS IN POTS
Figman64 grows figs in pots and contributed the following useful information: Growing figs in containers takes a little bit more care. You need to use a good potting soil mix that contains perlite, vermiculite,and peat moss. You must drill 40- 80 1/4" holes in the bottom of the container for proper drainage. Place bark chips on the bottom first to aid in drainage. You must water twice a day during hot weather, and miracle grow once a week when the temp gets over 80 degrees F. until September.
Keep an 1" to 1 1/2 inches of granular limestone on top of the potting soil. When you water, water with a low pressure nozzle so as not to disturb the lime stone.
Nice thing about container figs, you can bring them into a shed or garage in the winter. No need to wrap them. Just need to be watered lightly once a month with no saucers of anykind underneath. Around here, I bring my trees inside around Thanksgiving weekend, and then bring them back out around mother's day. If we do get a warm day inbetween, I can just open the door of the shed, and let the sun get to them. If a frost threatens, I can either bring them back inside, or if the pot is too heavy, such as a whiskey barrel size pot, then you can throw a garbage bag over the tender leaves and branches.
BREBA / MAINCROP / what kind of figs to expect in your region
A Breba is the first crop of the year. It comes in late-spring and early summer, and grows on wood produced last year. If you live in an area where there is little or no wood remaining over winter, then you will not have a Breba crop.
The Main Crop grows on the growth put on the new growth, or the branches grown this year. Cold climate figs have their Breba crop destroyed by spring frosts, so they are relying on the new wood and a warm warm summer to produce a good late, or main crop.
In the Pacific Northwest and in England, the maincrop doesn't have enough hot summer to ripen. Growers in these areas are relying on a good Breba crop.
SO - Getting both crops hinges on...
A. keeping your wood on over the winter and
B. having a long hot summer HOW TO UTILIZE ALL THOSE FIGS ____MarcellaGM says: I eat my fruit fresh off the bush. I also like to stew figs in a little water and suger and eat them with custard or cream. I noticed this year, when I couldn't get to them all, they kind of shriveled on the branches. I figured they were finished. Then a friend came by and began eating them. She thought they tasted great, so I tried one of the shriveled fruits for myself, and she was right. They tasted like the dried figs and they were even sweeter than the fresh.
A. keeping your wood on over the winter and
B. having a long hot summer HOW TO UTILIZE ALL THOSE FIGS ____MarcellaGM says: I eat my fruit fresh off the bush. I also like to stew figs in a little water and suger and eat them with custard or cream. I noticed this year, when I couldn't get to them all, they kind of shriveled on the branches. I figured they were finished. Then a friend came by and began eating them. She thought they tasted great, so I tried one of the shriveled fruits for myself, and she was right. They tasted like the dried figs and they were even sweeter than the fresh.
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