I used aspirin to spray fig rust and it worked well.

That sounds interesting. How many aspirins to the gallon?

I used non-coated aspirin 325 mg per LITER. Grind into fine powder. It won't dissolve completely. Good luck.

Thanks! I will give it a try. I am in Southwest Louisiana,and rust is always a problem here this time of year.

Let me know how it turns out. I tried this when I was in Thailand. The infected leaves died off and the new one came up clean and stayed that way until the next heavy rain. So, it's not a cure but a way to control it if you don't want to use fungicides.

I am always happy to come across people who don't want to use fungicides. This morning I am not so sure even about powdered aspirin. Amphibians have very permeable skin. I was checking my figs this morning to pick off the most rusted leaves after searching online again about how to deal with a lot of rust, and here is what gave me a much better answer to my own problem than I could ever get online.

After seeing little guy (juvenile Hyla cinerea or green tree frog identified by the white lateral stripe), I agree more than ever with what a writer from Pensacola says here: "It is also nature way of getting the tree into dormancy. We do not really have a Fall season instead we just flop back and forth from Summer to Winter to Summer to Winter back and forth till Winter wins. We can have highs in the eighties and two days later have three days of freezing or near to it. If our trees were not tricked into dormancy by the defoliation we would loose a lot more wood on our trees especially the tender ones. I may have am issue with late bearing figs and rust but most of ours are through before the rust takes the leaves."--http://www.figs4funforum.websitetoolbox.com/post/show_single_post?pid=1278863759&postcount=12