I can hardly call myself a hobbyist as my fig of unknown variety produces one or two figs a year! could you tell me which of your figs produces best? I want lots of figs! Also do you fertilize at all? Thanks!

Latterula and Desert King have been the best for me. Negronne needs a longer growing season and can't ripen fruit most years but does make a lot of small figs that can live through the winter in a mild winter and go on to develope the next year. Stella and Brown Turkey both froze to the ground for me last year but the other figs were fine.

Hi
I have two different types of figs in my garden. They produce OK and I do not give them any, any care. My only problem is that something kept eating my figs--even before they ripened. I was so mad!
I don't know what I can help you with but ask anyway.

I have figs of unknown varieties that were taken from cuttings. Actually, they were low growing branches that had already formed roots. If you're not getting cuttings to take root, try looking for branches with roots already growing!

Some sort of wildlife likes to eat the branches, though. It could be rabbits or deer. Mine are growing pretty slowly, and having them eaten down isn't helping.

One variety I've heard does well is Green Ischia, but nobody seems to offer it in the Nurseries. Supposed to be a good cool weather fig.

I have Atreano which I got from One Green World. It has been a reliable producer. I have propagated it both by layering (pinning down a shoot and leaving it until it produces roots) and from cutting started in water until rootlets appear and then transfered to soil in a pot. Sometimes I get two crops and sometimes only one if we have a cool summer or an early heard freeze. jwww

What I've done to save individual figs is to cut newspaper squares and fasten them over the fig to cover, clothes pinning it to the stem or branch. This works for birds, at least.

hemnancy, I'm sad to hear about the Negronne, since I just bought a dwarf one from Territorial. Will the dwarf produce better? If there are fruit should I wrap it up for the winter?

Thanks!