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Figs wilting on fig tree

I don't know what happened ! On Brown Turkey I had a few nice juice and sweet figs and lately I noticed that some smaller once are getting red color to soon and they looked wilted. Then after few days even the larger once looked to some kind off wilted, then the wind come and lots of the heavy once not ripe yet fall off.
I noticed to some symptoms on Italian Honey and White Genoa but the wind did not blow them off and I am not sure but the other trees don't look to have that problem, I thing !
Does anybody know way that happened ? Did I over fertilized ?

2 things come to mind that can be the culprit lack of water and or your plant maybe rootbound.  are they in pots or in ground? if in pots upgrade to a larger size, if in ground I don't know unless you are in a drought.  Good luck and I hope this helps. 

I have been losing a few fig trees, I have them in pots. I added infected dirt last winter. It had RKN (Root Knot Nematodes).  
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RKN is a terrible problem.  I hope you started cuttings and destroyed the trees and soil.

 RKN will make you drop figs also but the tree tends to look sick with few leaves. when in doubt dig up a root if it has bulges or knots like Armando's pic you're screwed. Not so much though if it's in a pot,  take cuttings and reroot them and destroy the soil as dr phil said . If your plant is in the soil and you have RKN it will spread like wildfire with the help of roots from trees like the malus, morus, ficus, and prunus species to name a few who act as host plants for the little bastards. Even veggies are affected by them especially nightshades.   My grandfather's land has them and everything from figs to pecans is affected by them. His land is no good for farming now but once flourished with fruits and veggies. 
There are 3 things you can do to prevent RKN from doing the same thing to your land if it's not infected already.
1 Always check new plants for RKN
2 Never import topsoil on your land
3 wash your pots if they were purchased used 

These is like reading horror book ! It is to late in the evening now I will look in the morning. But if I can't sleep and in the morning I will find no RKN ! you guys don't want to know me !!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Hi Moonlight,
Could be rodent's damage.
Check the dirt for galleries and holes .
Did you or your neighbor spray chems around ? Like for weeding ?

I know that RKN could be anywhere in potted plants, but does anyone know how far north it lurks in soil?

My native soil is a clay soil, probably unlikely to harbor RKN, but my garden has been is heavily amended over the years with a lot of bagged top soil, bagged and homemade compost, leaves and sand to try to loosen it up.  Is there a test for soil for RKN other than looking at roots for those nodes?

Hi everyone, these morning after good night sleep ! I dug out some roots washed and looked at it through magnifying glass  no RKN.
ph tester is at 6 and half, and moisture meter shows is on black side at 8 fig trees are in containers third year I fertilized in spring 14-14-14 slow release fertilizer and started mid May 20-20-20 water soluble once a week and all July 20-20-20 once in two weeks.
I fertilized last time last Monday in July.
Penticton is known for growing apples, peaches, grapes and they do spray.
I live in town, not in orchard area and it is possible that somebody sprayed weed killer but it would affect other trees too.

Thanks Guys.      

glad to hear it's not RKN. weed killer would show up on the leaves and surrounding plants so you can probably rule that out. Have you seen gnats around the pots? the larvae of gnats love to feed on fig tree roots and bark thats under the soil. gnats tend to be worse in pots than in ground but heavily mulched in ground plants can harbor these pest also . if you see gnats water less often, if the top 2 or 3 inches of soil is dry the larvae will die. however watering less can also become a problem if the plant is rootbound. so try to tough it out this year if possible and repot next spring. a 3 year old tree should be in a 20-30 gallon pot minimum and when you reach your desired pot size you should root prune annually or biannually depending on the pot size. Good luck 

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