Isn't it exciting when your figs trees are showing a bunch of main crop and even some newer plants that never produced as well ?

I enjoy this time of year hand watering and fertilizing all my containers and just taking in the beauty of them.
Several hours goes by quick !


I wish i could slow the hands of time though for i know soon as they start to ripen come mid to late August the season always seems to quickly accelerate and then poof figs are spent,
The sandman will eventually come knocking for them to go to sleep.
Then another season under there limbs.

I hear you, Martin. The silver lining to that dormancy is that those same plants will be all the larger and more productive next year! BOOYA!

All the worry of  winter-killed, dead trees, or, damages from die back are over...the trees are flush with new growth.  The main-crop figs are growing bigger by the minute, and the leaves are emerald green, spotless, and juicy with vigor.  The musky perfume of fig leaves wafts through the morning air. 

It is at this time of year that I reach the zenith, the high point, of my "fig psychosis".  Sometimes, in the cool evenings, after watering my trees, I sit in a lawn chair, and watch the trees, freshly dripping cool water, and I look to see, or, imagine I see,  the changes from day to day.  That branch just added three more figlets...look, this recently pinched terminal, just sprouted two side branches,...and the trees are growing better this year than last.  I'm in my own private world, where I could forget my troubles for a few brief minutes. 

Yes, life is good.  Martin...may you, may we all...continue to love growing our fig trees for years to come.

Happy growing season everybody. 

Frank

May we do it in a little cooler weather. It's approaching 100 degree heat index with saturated air full of humidity and bound to surpass that mark today and come near it again tomorrow for the 3rd day in a row. I'm sitting in my living room sucking up the ac and wanting to go out and pot up figs, but I know better. It'll have to wait a couple more days. The heat will surely push fig development though so another silver lining BOOYAH AGAIN!

I'm glad to know I'm not the only one who thinks staring at a motionless fig tree and savoring the tiny amount of growth progress from yesterday, or even this morning, is high entertainment.

On the other fig forum is a topic ...."Why I Love to Grow Fig Trees" which relates to this thread.  Interesting to read all the thoughts that were/are posted here, and, there.

Thanks for sharing.


**************************************************************
noss...

The unidentified, "Red Italian" should make you very happy.  Plenty of figs, bears young, and, is very vigorous.  I hacked the crap out of my "Red Italian"  trees, earlier this spring so I could get them from the ground and into containers, and they have taken off and put on a tremendous amount of new vegetation, and main-crop figs are popping out all over the branches.  I just gave away a 6 ft. tree to a friend, and even though I had promised him this tree, I still hated to see it go.  It was a twig just a few years ago, and now it's a respectable, fig-bearing tree, with a 1-1/2" diameter trunk.  I still have two trees left.  Can't wait to pick figs from these trees!

Good luck with the fig trees.  May your efforts bear fruit.

Frank

How's Sandie?

i used to love winter. now i can't wait till spring to see fig trees come out of the garage.. can't wait till summer to see them grow and autumn to taste all the figs that the trees will offer.

i'm sure to lot of others who do not grow things, it will look rather strange why i'm looking at the trees everyday.. but it's just facinating how they grow out of soil with nothing but water and sunshine.. well.. with bit of fertilizer.

pete

Can this primal connection with nature, this yearning to grow things, to revel in making things flourish, and yield fruits...can this be what separates us from the other animals?  No other creature that God created cares about growing plants...their interests are in the harvest, and shelter.  Only Humans grow for the sake of growing...for the pleasure of nurturing, and harvesting a bountiful crop.

Frank

Can this primal connection with nature, this yearning to grow things, to revel in making things flourish, and yield fruits...can this be what separates us from the other animals?  No other creature that God created cares about growing plants...their interests are in the harvest, and shelter.  Only Humans grow for the sake of growing...for the pleasure of nurturing, and harvesting a bountiful crop.

Frank

Can this primal connection with nature, this yearning to grow things, to revel in making things flourish, and yield fruits...can this be what separates us from the other animals?  No other creature that God created cares about growing plants...their interests are in the harvest, and shelter.  Only Humans grow for the sake of growing...for the pleasure of nurturing, and harvesting a bountiful crop.

Frank