Greetings,

I was just forwarded a link to this forum this morning and have been reading for a couple hours.  I have a few fig trees given to me by my mother, she thinks they are brown turkeys.  I am in zone 6b southeastern MA and winter my trees indoors in a sunny west facing window.  My trees have begun to leaf out and this year they are also covered with fruit.  I won't be ready to set them out for another 10 weeks or so and I'm wondering if I should begin feeding them in an attempt to get some fruit ripened before they go outside.  Any feedback would be appreciated...

Cheers,
Ron

If you can provide the light they need it's fine to fertilize.  It wouldn't be my goal to get fruit before placing outside, though.

good amount of sunlight and fertilizer till the figs start swelling. after the figs start swelling, stop fertilizing the tree.

First crop is the breba and usually inferior to the later season main crop and even more so being plant is indoors.

Is there enough heat in your house to ripen figs? If you have them under extra light I'd fertilize, but if not I'd pick the figs off as without the right length of light and enough heat I don't think it's worth the energy your trees are using.