So nice, you posted twice :toothy10: :toothy10:
Lol Manics!
I am pretty chuffed! but the double post was me getting used to a smart phone!
Twelve years and 20 feet high, not a single fig ever. What are you doing to make it fruit? I have heard that containing the roots is supposed to help, but I shall need a big container.
I must have done something right then for once lol.I have 2 fig trees planted in large tubs and they both get fruit on them so maybe thats the way to grow them in the uk when we dont always get Summers as good as this ones been so far.I have them against a South facing wall and fleece them in the Winter.
Brilliant PL!
My tree is full of fruit but I don't think any is ripe yet, I'll have
a look this morning.
ACE - my tree is about 9 years old, massive, and is just planted in the
ground without any root restriction. More fruit every year than anyone
could possibly eat.
Quote from: ACE on August 26, 2013, 07:13:43
Twelve years and 20 feet high, not a single fig ever. What are you doing to make it fruit? I have heard that containing the roots is supposed to help, but I shall need a big container.
Just inherited it from an Italian :toothy10:
Sadly both have got a fungal disease so will have to be treated, but the figs are fantastic. Good to do so well in West Yorks too budgiebreeder!
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Just inherited it from an Italian :toothy10:
Sadly both have got a fungal disease so will have to be treated, but the figs are fantastic. Good to do so well in West Yorks too budgiebreeder!
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Just read this as both the fig and the Italian have a fungal disease :toothy10: :toothy10:
We have 2 brown turkey that always fruit, both in containers. If we can get to the fruit before the red ants and wasps they're lovely :happy7:
LOL, not sure about that!!!!
and I do not want to find out!
Quote from: Squash64 on August 26, 2013, 08:45:43
ACE - my tree is about 9 years old, massive, and is just planted in the
ground without any root restriction. More fruit every year than anyone
could possibly eat.
Sounds a bit like Na na na nana. :tongue3: But if you have that many make me a figgy pudden , you could deliver it to the ferry in the micra (spit)
I'm trying to figure out why a friend in our same town gets piles of figs from her huge tree which is in the ground and too big to cover, yet my small brown turkey trees in the ground die back in winter even when covered. My only successful one is in a pot that goes in the garage. And brown turkey is supposed to be very hardy.
Quote from: Squash64 on August 26, 2013, 08:45:43
Brilliant PL!
My tree is full of fruit but I don't think any is ripe yet, I'll have
a look this morning.
ACE - my tree is about 9 years old, massive, and is just planted in the
ground without any root restriction. More fruit every year than anyone
could possibly eat.
Mine is quite the opposite, in that I followed the advice I read and created a yard-square hole lined with multiple-layers of broken tiles before planting it.
It is planted hard against the house wall. Right in the rain-shadow area so it only really gets wet, other than when I feed it, on a screaming Southerner while our prevailing wind is Westward.
Needless to say, it fruits and fruits and fruits. I had the first, a small one , yesterday. Here they come!
Quote from: Nigel B on August 31, 2013, 16:25:57
Quote from: Squash64 on August 26, 2013, 08:45:43
Brilliant PL!
My tree is full of fruit but I don't think any is ripe yet, I'll have
a look this morning.
ACE - my tree is about 9 years old, massive, and is just planted in the
ground without any root restriction. More fruit every year than anyone
could possibly eat.
Mine is quite the opposite, in that I followed the advice I read and created a yard-square hole lined with multiple-layers of broken tiles before planting it.
It is planted hard against the house wall. Right in the rain-shadow area so it only really gets wet, other than when I feed it, on a screaming Southerner while our prevailing wind is Westward.
Needless to say, it fruits and fruits and fruits. I had the first, a small one , yesterday. Here they come!
Our temps can swing down to -23C which means I may be expecting too much of ours unless it gets a better blanketing. I'd like to get away from hauling heavy pots into storage.
We picked about 20 Brown Turkey today to give tastes to NGS Open Day visitors.... you are expecting too much Grannie Annie -15C is about the limit... last year we lost about 1/3rd of our top growth to the cold...
Quote from: saddad on September 01, 2013, 21:33:34
We picked about 20 Brown Turkey today to give tastes to NGS Open Day visitors.... you are expecting too much Grannie Annie -15C is about the limit... last year we lost about 1/3rd of our top growth to the cold...
Do you wrap yours, Sadad, or bury it? Last year I rooted some branch trimmings and planted them in different places in the yard hoping for some magical microclimate. For insurance I kept the one in the pot in the garage. It wasn't even a record cold winter for us, but the outdoor ones (3) were brown to the ground. Now, of course, they have regrown to about 4 feet and very full which means they'll be tricky to cover. I wonder if upping the soil minerals would help. There was an article about how an application of rock dust saved citrus trees in Florida (untreated ones froze.) Has anyone heard of that working with figs? Or am I grasping at straws, my favorite occupation.
I think Saddad is saying -15 is the limit for figs, rather than the temperature he experiences GrannieAnnie. Derby is the balmy south of Derbyshire :toothy10:
(Of course he'll come on now and post some horrendous low temp! BTW the thought of -23 sends shivers down my spine brrr.......)
Quote from: pumpkinlover on September 02, 2013, 07:48:38
I think Saddad is saying -15 is the limit for figs, rather than the temperature he experiences GrannieAnnie. Derby is the balmy south of Derbyshire :toothy10:
(Of course he'll come on now and post some horrendous low temp! BTW the thought of -23 sends shivers down my spine brrr.......)
BUt, but, but...our friend who lives in town, meaning 10 minutes from us, has an outdoor tree that is LOADED with figs. Granted we are at a very slightly higher elevation meaning our azaleas open maybe a week later than theirs, but still, I don't understand why mine are a total failure.
Town is probably the factor... a bit of heat island effect from nearby walls can make a lot of difference...
I just found an experiment done by a man in Iceland who has had some success creating microclimates for his seedlings to get earlier crops. I might try the sand/black plastic around a fig this year. Maybe it would help some of you as well. http://www.permies.com/t/22575/permaculture/Ways-warming-soil-temperature-creating (http://www.permies.com/t/22575/permaculture/Ways-warming-soil-temperature-creating)
Hope you find something that works... another 10 yesterday... and at least 4 today.. had a peak while I was doing some watering nearby... :wave:
Hurray! My two trees have at long last started to ripen here in East Sussex, and judging by the numbers of green fruit all over them it is going to be a bumper year. They are 13 yr old Brown Turkey cuttings from a former garden - one is planted in a corner made by 2 walls of the house, no root constriction but also no water or encouragement, and the other is at the top of a bank where I expect it has a huge root run and more water. Both behave the same.
Has anyone tried drying figs if they have more than they can eat in the time? I am thinking of halving them and putting them in a fan oven at the lowest possible heat. I have done this with tomatoes and apple rings, and it works like a proper dehydrator.
In case anyone noticed that this thread was locked! It was me being clumsy on a phone duhhh!
My first too. Needed steps to reach them.
Tim - it was lovely to see you posting again after such a long gap. Welcome back :wave:
I planted a 'Jordan' fig tree in a 50cm dia. x 40cm deep pot in the Spring. It has put on lovely growth, but no fruit. I think I was told it was two years old when I bought it so how long must I wait for it to produce fruit?
Lidl has figs at 24p each right now!
Tricia
Lovely to see you posting again Tim, but be careful on those steps...
I can't imagine having too many figs, a big site with 120 plot holders always willing to share a fresh fig! :wave:
Quote from: saddad on September 04, 2013, 09:18:11
Hope you find something that works... another 10 yesterday... and at least 4 today.. had a peak while I was doing some watering nearby... :wave:
Gonna hafta stop readin' your posts, Sadad. Drooling down my shirt every time.
Quote from: artichoke on September 04, 2013, 12:38:34
Hurray! My two trees have at long last started to ripen here in East Sussex, and judging by the numbers of green fruit all over them it is going to be a bumper year. They are 13 yr old Brown Turkey cuttings from a former garden - one is planted in a corner made by 2 walls of the house, no root constriction but also no water or encouragement, and the other is at the top of a bank where I expect it has a huge root run and more water. Both behave the same.
Has anyone tried drying figs if they have more than they can eat in the time? I am thinking of halving them and putting them in a fan oven at the lowest possible heat. I have done this with tomatoes and apple rings, and it works like a proper dehydrator.
....Not exactly drying them, because they contain such huge amounts of moisture, but I cut some into quarters and covered them in sugar. Loads of it. Then it went syrupy, so I added more sugar and got more sugary liquid.
By now the smell was quite lovely. Figs getting just a bit fermenty... and sugar.
We ended up baking a couple of figgy-bread loaves with it.
The result was surprisingly like a fig-loaf, only better. It was fantastic!
I just picked twenty-odd figs again this morning. What a problem to have, too many figs :icon_cheers:
Quote from: artichoke on September 04, 2013, 12:38:34
Has anyone tried drying figs if they have more than they can eat in the time? I am thinking of halving them and putting them in a fan oven at the lowest possible heat. I have done this with tomatoes and apple rings, and it works like a proper dehydrator.
Our Cats Protection lady makes fig jam from my surplus figs.
I'm not keen on figs myself so I don't know what the jam tastes like
but I believe it's very popular with her customers.
All this talk of figs - yum yum. We're in Tenerife at the mo & there are loads growing by the roadside. Have seen a few people picking them. Maybe I'll give them a go.
My 3-year-old outdoor Brown Turkey fig fruited for the first time this year. Can't tell you much about the flavour, the pigeons had the lot.
Quote from: Russell on September 06, 2013, 16:30:00
My 3-year-old outdoor Brown Turkey fig fruited for the first time this year. Can't tell you much about the flavour, the pigeons had the lot.
Shame for you sorry!
Another dozen today... having not looked on Friday/Sat :wave:
Sent Mr Pkl up the tree today
A lovely haul!
Only half-a-dozen yesterday, haven't checked today... :wave:
One ripe fig eaten today - and only one more on the baby tree that's ripe, but man it tasted delicious!
I can't believe that these exotic fruits can grow so well in the UK!
And I can't wait to have a tree that makes loads of this divine fruit!
It is hard to beat a fully ripe fresh fig from the tree... :sunny:
Just made 6lb into jam so we "hold on to that feeling"!!
Quote from: pumpkinlover on September 11, 2013, 08:16:29
Just made 6lb into jam so we "hold on to that feeling"!!
salivating here
Another 15 today, but the mice had been at two of them...
Quote from: saddad on September 12, 2013, 22:31:25
Another 15 today, but the mice had been at two of them...
Mice! or birds?
It's hard to believe, but the main attacker here is woodlice. Every damaged fig has woodlice and their frass on it. No bird pecks, no mice. The woodlice climb up the branches of quite large trees. Anyone else seen this?
18 today and no damage... woodlice take a lot of stick, but they only exploit other creatures damage.... :wave:
Fig, feta and smokey bacon flan for tea, hopefully no woodlice too!!
I have believed that: woodlice enter damaged tissue.
All I can say after 14 years is that almost ripe figs show NO damage except woodlouse damage.
Maybe splitting because ripe.......but they do rush in.
Update:Contrary to my previous report, the pigeons missed one. Will it ripen before they spot it? Will it ripen at all in the Arctic gales? Crystal ball required.
I've been giving figs to our Cats Protection lady to make jam with.
She told me that she's had 20lbs of figs so far and we've been eating
and giving them away to friends too.
I think this is the best year we've ever had.
Despite the poor weather still getting a couple a day... not long now though!
Huge bowl of porridge this morning with guess what?
Yup. Just tore the ripest of the figs open and dropped them in the bowl on top of the splodge. Added a sprinkle of sugar, just for the crunch.
Yummy-scrummy.
In my tummy. :glasses9:
Quote from: Russell on September 17, 2013, 01:08:03
Update:Contrary to my previous report, the pigeons missed one. Will it ripen before they spot it? Will it ripen at all in the Arctic gales? Crystal ball required.
Fingers crossed- have you thought of putting a bag over?
(I can't stand figs).
(Ducks for cover).
Enjoy what grows for you.
:wave:
Quote from: Paulh on September 21, 2013, 22:28:59
(I can't stand figs).
(Ducks for cover).
Enjoy what grows for you.
:wave:
Yummy more for us!!! :toothy10:
Got another 8 yesterday, helped along by the warm weather... :sunny:
Still coming... picked another 3 this morning :sunny:
This is insane, I found four today, one had gone too far, one had been almost eaten by the mice, but the other two were wonderful... the leaves are turning now so that must be the end of them... :wave: