Brown Turkey Fig

[saddad]

Doing really well this year, did loose a few bits to the frosts... but fruit swelling well this season...

8)

The yellow flowers in the foreground are Scorzonera for seed...

[saddad]

[saddad]

bump...  :-X

[manicscousers]

ours has some decent sized ones on this year, first proper season, we've only had it 3 years  ::) ;D

[HappyCatz]

Great picture,  :)

I have bought a standard fig this year, what do I have to do to get it to fruit?

[manicscousers]

get it root bound  ;D

[grannyjanny]

When is the best time to prune Brown Turkey figs.

[saddad]

I don't tend to prune it... in any technical sense. I cut off obviously dead bits after the leaves are out and cut off any bits I don't want after they fall. The best trick to get good fruit seems to be to keep the roots constrained and remove any figs at the end of the season after the leaves fall... so that it starts asap in Spring.
;D
On the pruning don't do it when the sap is rising in spring... they bleed a lot..

[HappyCatz]

thanks all for advice, will have to be patient i guess :-\

[delboy]

I have one in the conservatory - do you all reckon it would move to a dustbin with hardcore at the base on the allotment without keeling over?

[saddad]

and drainage holes... it'd love it...  :)

[Barnowl]

Growing against a south facing brick wall makes a big difference.Theoretically this year's fruit grow from the tiny fruits developed at the end of the previous year.(If these are any bigger than a cherry in November you should pick them off - they won't grow properly). But, like Saddad, I've found that it's best to combine this with encouraging the tree to go for the 'all in one season' approach.  

Saddad, it's hard to tell from the photo but I would say that it looks as if your fig, like mine, is getting a tad straggly and would benefit from a bit of a prune  :)

This RHS advice is based on the 'fruit from last autumn's buds' approach - not sure how useful it is.

http://www.rhs.org.uk/advice/profiles0103/fig.asp

[saddad]

It was getting quite pathetic after a decade in a big pot so I let it put on new growth for a couple of years. Some structural reduction is planned to make it more fan like...
The tiny buds from last autumn are about half the size of a little finger nail and make the best figs the following August. Any bigger ones should be removed at leaf fall... in the Eastern Med they can get three crops a year...  :'(

[Barnowl]

The tiny buds from last autumn are about half the size of a little finger nail and make the best figs the following August.

Cherry sized too big then, Saddad?

[saddad]

Yes, those are the ones to take off...  :'(

[GrannieAnnie]

Now that's a happy picture. Makes my mouth water, Sadad.
Our Brown T. probably won't fruit this year- I tried to keep it going in the house all winter and it was fine til it was moved outside in the Spring when it dropped almost all its leaves. Now it has flushed out in lots of leafy branches but I don't see any fruiting buds. Maybe a bumper crop next year? If it survives a winter in the garage. ??? ???

[Kea]

I have one in the conservatory - do you all reckon it would move to a dustbin with hardcore at the base on the allotment without keeling over?

i've just done that with mine except it's in a large plastic tub with hardcore at the bottom, plenty of drainage holes and sunk into the ground in a sheltered spot facing south against a fence. it seems happy so far.

[saddad]

If you have it in a big pot Janet it shouldn't need to come in over winter... have you got a south facing house wall you can keep it against...  :-\

[tim]

Ours is about 3 years old, I think.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v164/photo04/flowers/fig2206.jpg

[Squash64]

Well, I broke the rule about constricting the roots when I planted mine because I didn't know about it.  It was a cutting from my brother-in-law's
tree about 6 years ago and was only about a foot high.  Now it is at least 6 feet high and very very bushy.  It has loads of figs on it now.  It isn't in a sheltered spot and I don't protect it in the winter. I'll take a photo tomorrow when I go over there.

[GrannieAnnie]

If you have it in a big pot Janet it shouldn't need to come in over winter... have you got a south facing house wall you can keep it against...  :-\

Yes, we have a south-facing wall that is now deer-proofed but our temps (zone 7a) can drop to -15 F  and sometimes lower. I just worry about losing it. Other folks around here actually bury them- flattening them against the ground and piling on dirt or wrap them up in layers of something which looks horrible.  Maybe I'll risk it though. :-\