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Have three fig tree no fruit

10 years ago

Hi I live in Ky and I have had three figs one is a Chicago hardy fig and the other two are brown turkey figs I have had these for five years they have fruit on them but never make it to get rip and they die back to ground level every winter any help on this please and thanks

Comments (4)

  • 10 years ago

    Are these good choice's for were I live at in southern ky

  • 10 years ago

    Well HC can make fruits even after freezing to the ground... Maybe it is not HC? Otherwise it might not get enough sunlight, should be 8 hrs and more than that is better.

    And it might be allowed to have too many growths each year... in early spring you should select about 3 strong growths and remove all the rest and any more that form later on. That will focus the energy to the figs on those growth rather than let the plant divide its energy between lots of suckers.

  • 10 years ago

    Okay they get plenty of sun light morning and evening so select three good ones then cut all others off the plant they say they grow ten feet x ten feet and I just don't see how they can grow that talk when they freeze back to the crowns each year do you need to wrap them in burlap and plastic to keep them warmer or what I am new to growing these figs I been trying to learn on them

  • 10 years ago
    last modified: 10 years ago

    Your tree might make it OK this winter. When they are less than 2-3 years old they tend to grow very late into the season and that makes them less hardy, often killed to the ground by the first freeze in the fall. And then the past 2 winters have been very cold so your trees did not have much of a chance... They might survive this year though, the lowest temperature here has been 10f so far which damaged some tips but the thicker branches still look fine. I have piled leaves around the trunks so can expect the covered parts to survive even if temps go down below zero. Saving just a few feet of trunk from freezing will make the crop much earlier.

    If you still have some flexible growths that are not damaged you can pin them flat to the ground and cover with leaves, soil, bags of potting mix... Be careful not to split them though, do not bend connected growths in opposite directions or they will come apart like a wishbone. Mice and voles sometimes attack trees that are protected so that is a whole other problem to read about and watch for.