I have the same issue Mike - the figs are ultra small for some reason and it had sufficient sun, heat, water and fertilizer. It's an a large pot, and last year I had a few decent sized figs, this year - marbles. I think it's a chicago or some type - whatever HD sells in mass. What fig would you recommend that produces huge figs? I can move it into an unheated GH over the winter where the day temps are high and the night temps fall to freezing, but only for a short while. I've overwintered tropicals this way and they were fine. Thoughts?

Bill, looks like not too many here know.)

Guess we will find out ourselves buddy. I will snap a shot of my tree and you too.

5 inches of rain later should make them grow bigger along with fertilizer I will spread down before all that rain) NO SUN though again.

I never had such a sunless summer as this one. June was great and then after that all down hill. I couple days here and there of 90's but to be followed by days of clouds. Just a real crazy unstable summer. It is already getting darker earlier and feeling like fall(

I wish these would ripen like apples and our native fruit does knowing the end of season brings on ripeness.

Let's keep our fingers crossed.

Funny, mines is a Chicago Hardy too that did not have only had one breba fruit that ripened back at the end of June. All this fruit is from onset at the end of June.

I also have lots in pots the same as you. Seems like the fruit just stopped growing which I don't get. I am thinking a few more days of HOT sun in the sunny spot will help.

I have a Brown Turkey from Home Depot that I purchased several years ago. It would put out tons of figs but they never ripened for the first couple years.

Last year I had several figs ripen out of about 100. But this year has been phenomenal!

The only difference this year is that I fertilized it in the Spring with Dr Earths Fruit tree fertilizer and made sure to deeply water it at least once a week.

In addition, I followed some advice that said to pinch off the ends of each branch to refocus the fig tree's energy on making and ripening fruit instead of aimlessly growing bushy with only leaf growth.

I started pinching off the tips of all the branches back in July and I did this about once a week on all the branches. This defenitely is one of the main reasons my figs are ripening this year.

I started pinching before figlets even began to form.

My Brown Turkey produces large sized figs. I recall in the early Spring, it produced only 1 Breba fig. But it was as huge as a tennis ball! And it ripened beautifully and tasted amazingly sweet!

For my BT, the figs transform from about golf size, to nearly double in size before they ripen. I have been harvesting at least 2 a day off the bush for several weeks. They seem to ripen several at a time and for the past week, I've been able to remove at least 4-5 each day!

Bill. I thought I had it bad, my goodness buddy!!! Are you ok? It was one strange storm that affected everyone around you to here. It flooded rivers near by and downed trees in my area but I am ok. It was nuts. 6 inches of rain in just a few hours. I am sure my fig tree got a pretty good drink and I wish I had laid down fertilizer before it did. Ugh Very glad you are ok. Mine are the size of marbles. I hope they ripen before the end of the month Bill(

Brkln, is that tree planted in ground??? Where do you live? What zone> That is so lucky of you. Very nice and just enjoy!!!!

Mike

Here are the pics of mine I took this morning. I pray they ripen. Do many and such a long wait to get them to be what they are today ! I did the trimming method a month ago so keeping my fingers crossed By looking at my uncles hand, they are all about 1 and 1/2 inch in diameter. I can only hope.. &0's to almost 80 for the next ten days.

The tree again

I'm OK Mike, thanks. Just a lot of clean up in the yard. There was a deluge that washed through my GH that I noticed afterwards. It took out a number of plants, washed all the soil out of the pots, but I've already repotted them. They should be fine. It was one hell of a lot of water in just a few hours. Fortunately the damage was minimal outside (just lost all my fencing and a lot of debris in the yard) and the sump pump kept up inside, so I have no complaints.

Mike, mine is planted in the ground. I live in Brooklyn, NY, zone 7b. Whats your zone?

I have also noticed that figs love high heat and lots of sun. So that may have been one of the reasons why your plant hasn't flourished as much.

In my zone, we have had a very hot, stormy and sunny summer all in one.

Yesterdays rain total in my area was 9 inches!! So much rain in a short period of time.

My zone is 6a, it's next to my name. I can grow Chicago Hardy as you can tell very well with covered insulation but I am thinking if I protect it even a Brown Turkey? I am always pushing the limits on my plants into zones that other wise would only grow way further south. I usually have success.

That is a lot of rain. Just nuts while the west fries and the south freezes. Not normal to me.

Duh! Forgot to check next to your name. 🤣

I hear you on trying to grow plants outside their zones. I think that as long as they can be protected from the cold or brought indoors when the temps drop, you can grow them successfully.

Yeah the weather is getting more extreme all around. We have been getting more heat waves and flash floods have become a usual occurence lately.

The weather has also been inconsistent, too. Sometimes there is a warm stretch in the winter and cold dreary days in the summer.

Hi everyone!

Would you believe still no change in the size of the fruit?

What is up with that? I am even getting a milder September than usual and still stalled. I am afraid I will loose them all. I could cry(

I did the cutting of the tip off thing, took off useless branches and fed like crazy.

Could be that your plant hasn't established itself yet. Some fig plants take up to 5 years to start producing consistently.

Mike - Tough for a man to admit, but yeah, my figs are the size of marbles too! 🤣

They don't seem to grow. One looked like it was ripened, although maybe 3/4 inch in diameter. I couldn't help myself and tried it. MISTAKE! it did not taste good at all!!!

Brkin, it its established. But I am thinking it was the lack of hot sunshine the whole month of July which might of set it back, Bill's too.

Last summer I had just about all of them ripen, well over a couple hundred but back then it was sunny and hot almost every day for about 3 months and we got an early start to spring.

I just pray they will ripen with a nice warm September which I doubt since they are not growing at all and the nights are longer getting cooler. If this happens next year, I will just rip it right from the ground. Not worth it(

Bill, funny you should say that, I did the same thing. Tasted terrible. I should of waited longer. Mines are about the same size too. I guess they can't say we lost our marbles if they should all die. lol

Glad your storm damage wasn't any worse.

NH had plenty of hot sun as well as quite regular rain (wettest July on record since the mid1800s), but my season just isn’t long enough for figs. so I have serious fig envy.