Plant Characteristics | |
Pest Resistance | Very Good |
Disease Resistance | Very Good |
Drought Tolerance | Very Good |
Heat Tolerance | Excellent |
Humidity Tolerance | Good |
Sun Tolerance | Excellent |
Wet Soil Tolerance | Fair |
Shade Tolerance | Poor |
No Spray | Good |
Salt Tolerance | Good |
Fresh for Kids | Excellent |
Deer Resistance | Good |
Thorns | No |
Plant Type | Shrub |
Soil Type | Well Drained |
Edible Type | Fruit |
Self Fertile | Yes |
This information is accurate to the best of our knowledge, comments/opinions are always welcome |
I have an LSU Purple, Two LSU Golds and a BROWN TURKEY . The LSU varieties are in a 5 gallon Home Depot bucket with the bottom cut out and are planted in the groung theu are now two years in the ground and hane grown to about 5 feet and hsve no fruit but look healthy. Also there is an old Celeste on the ptoperty the I pruned back last winter and it is full of smsll figs but they sre not getting larger, it is in the groung and is about 5 feet wide and 4 feet tall. The only star is a brown yurkey that is in about a 25 gallon ceramic pot that is fruit well and have sime large fruit. All tre were mulched the the low cost red mulch when Lowes had the dollar a bag sale in the spring. For some reason that is anout the same time the in ground figs shut down growing. I regolarly fertilise and I water them and dump corree frounds om them weekly, forst one hen the next week the other and so on. The leaves are showing signs of rosr on the brown turkey.
Unlike most plants, figs actually like having their roots constrained.Very good to know. I have been told the same about desert rose.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Juyo_rlFIxw (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Juyo_rlFIxw)
Good video on why Ficus palmata/carica hybrids are the solution for nematode-afflicted soils. And some cultivars like Hava and Digger's Purple Heart are extremely good tasting.
They like Mediterranean (dry ) climate , not humid climate
I'm interested in growing a fig tree in a 20 gal container here in S. FL. I'll be following this thread looking for what variety would be best suited for my climate.
thx
I have 31 varieties of figs here and have 40 total. Just got into collecting rare ones from cuttings in late 2017. I am loaded with figs from 1st. year cuttings as of now and our climate is not as bad as many think if you know what your doing. Fig collecting is an expensive hobby and many you are better off buying as young plants vs. cuttings because they do not start well from cuttings and are best started by air layering. Remember figs like cool roots and are also best potted here do to nematode problems. To protect your pots, nothing beats tin foil. I also use shade cloth overhead!
Both my LSU purple and gold figs are growing one shoot mainly. Just got 4figs from the gold, funny looking as the bottoms are flat. My only source of manure os black cow so I will buy some and pile it on. Celeste full of figs but small, all this rain might help.Sometimes figs will produce right away, I'm always jealous when people report that rooted cuttings produce their first year. I'm entering my third year with two in-ground figs, a VdB and Mission. The VdB cropped lightly last year and produced about a half-dozen breba this year. It has over a dozen main crop figs growing right now, mostly pretty small. When figs fruit, there is an initial burst of growth, then they sit for ~60 days until they finally get to full size, change color, wrinkle up and start to droop. At that point they are ready to eat. As someone mentioned, too much rain/water will make the fruit bland, so avoid that if possible.
I'm interested in growing a fig tree in a 20 gal container here in S. FL. I'll be following this thread looking for what variety would be best suited for my climate.
thx
I'm interested in growing a fig tree in a 20 gal container here in S. FL. I'll be following this thread looking for what variety would be best suited for my climate.
thx
Smith, Jh Adriatic, Violette de Bordeaux, and Emerald Strawberry. Hollier and Tena are also good. I used to grow over 70 varieties of fig and only about 20 are still with me. Those are my best performers so far; I'm still testing a few more.
VdB may require midday shade. Mine wilts like crazy in intense heat and direct sunlight. I remember a few growers in CA thought VdB was better suited to more mild climates.
Italian 258 has a good honey drop at the ostiole but it's really sensitive to ovetwatering and will split a week before it's ripe.
Ronde de Bordeaux ripens in June so you'll likely get to taste fruit before the rains. You must be patient and wait for it to wither slightly and turn jammy to get the full flavor. This applies to all figs but especially RDB.
Brown Turkey, Texas Blue Giant, and all of its other cousins just really have underperformed for me. TBG is only slightly better than BT but they're generally not really respected by many fig enthusiasts, even under ideal growing conditions. Something to think about.