My fertilizer program for this year was:
Feb...Afalfa tea (1cup per 5gls).(stinks!!!)
March: Seagrow plus.
April: Foilage pro(9-3-6).
May/June/JuLy: Foilage pro (9-6-3)/seagrow plus switch
Aug...:Afalfa tea.
I use this on all my young tree's. It works great!! Super large leaves!! 

Oh my goodness. Good for you. Mine are lucky to get the odd sprinkling of nitrogen now and again. (I don't have to worry about lush growth - no frost here.)

For the Afalfa tea I am assuming that the 1 cup per 5 gallons is 1 cup of alfalfa meal per gallons of water? Do you add anything else to the tea like manure/compost or molasses and epsom salts? If this is the case do you use it at full strength or dilute?

Bob,

I am going to have to try your alfalfa cube tea next year. 
Did not have as good of growth as I would have liked on my potted figs.
will have a couple more in ground as of this spring.
How long do you let it "stew" before using?
i will have to look into the seagrow as well.  Does it stink as bad as other fish based fertilizers?

I have all first year trees. I used a quarter to a half of the recommended amount of ap miracle gro once every 2 weeks. Next year I'm gonna change to something with less nitrogen. The miracle gro worked well though. I had a few ft of growth on all trees.

My trees seemed to stunt and stop growing in the 1 gallon pots. I up potted them all to 5 gallon buckets or 3 gallon bags and added Ironite, Bone Meal, Mykos30, Azos and a healthy dose of Indonesian Bat Guano. I'm telling you, these trees went nuts and now all are proper trees. I have had to pinch several because they were just going straight up and not wanting to branch. The only thing I'm adding regularly now is the guano.

I think I only fertilized twice this summer with some MG stuff. Will try to do better next year.

Short-season-NYC/Zone-7b, containerized trees, (18-gallon tubs), modified 5:1:1 growing mix:

"ESPOMA, IRON-TONE"...slow release organic fertilizer.
l cup Granular Limestone, as a top dressing, to counteract fertilizer acidity...early-Spring, mid-Summer, and Sept-Oct.
Tonic: diluted (1 tbs./5-gallon/water) Miracle-Gro 24-8-16....Water trees with this tonic, once per month, until mid-July.

Results: Healthy growth. Lush growth, thick, dark-green, leathery, leaves that seem to resist rust, etc. I also pinch back new growth, leaving only 5-8 leaves. No breba allowed to develop.

Note: When watering my trees I avoid wetting the leaves, especially, on cloudy days, or, in the evening hours. Wet leaves = rust infections.
I also prune trees to allow for extra air circulation, and remove all dried, and dead leaves from around trees.


Frank

My fertilizer program for this year was:
Feb...  plants deep asleep in cold store
March: plants deep asleep in cold store
April: still asleep but waking up
May/June/JuLy: Fertilized some with fish fertilizer 5:1:1
                      Fertilized some with granular fertilizer called "better than bone meal
                      Could not get to fertilize some plants
Aug...: Wanted to fertilize but did not 

So, I blame a bad year for my figs on cooler than normal yeasr here, haphazard fertilization programme and for some old favourite plants on 'no pruning at age 4 and 4+

frank, is one cup lime per tree correct? i've been using a couple tablespoons. am i under doing it?

Susieqz, Yeah you should be putting about a cup per pot if they are very large pots, a bit less for smaller.  A couple tablespoons are not enough to make much of an impact, except for really small trees which I don't bother to treat with lime. If you can find the pics of Beleclaire Nursery and see the amount of lime those guys used you would be stunned. More is usually better.

I've been covering the top with 1 - 2 inches of it.

Micro Life 6-2-4 every 3 months for my in ground plant. Same fert used for my potted plant but fertilized every 1 1/2 to 2 months. The figs seem to really like it! Expecially the in ground plant. Planted it bare root in March and cut it back to 8 inches or so. Its now 6ft by 6ft and I tired to tip the shoots every ft or so through out the year. Potted plant was a little slow due to being a new rooted cutting and I may have alittle to much bark in my mix robbing the N2. I upped the amount and it responded nicely. Got about 3ft of growth on it since Jun.

Tami, you should check out Micro Life fert since your in the area. From what I understand its only distributed and made here locally in the Houston area. Its got the Guano in it, all the Endo and Ecto Mycorrhizal, iron, trace minerals and lots of other good stuff. What I like about it is its a slow release so its not such a pain in the butt to keep up with and the plants love it. Lake Hardware in Angleton carries it. Thats the closest place to you that I could find.

thanks for the info,  frank n tami. i'll change what i do in spring. might add some now too, just for fun.

I believe Micro Life is actually manufactured in Freeport, 5 miles away. I did look into it but I prefer doing the guano seperate and if I need to for whatever reason I can sprinkle on a little extra.

Same as always.

seagrow plus is made by Nitron.com. I buy it by the gallon for around $30.00 and it last 2 years for me.Foilage pro i buy that from The Landscaper store through Amazon.This stuff last along time too(32 fl,oz)
One cup of alfalfa for 5 gls of water steeped for 4 days or more.Gregg Seagrow does smell for a few hours.
There are so many different fertilizers so you can try different combo,s, there is no end to it. I am sticking with what works for me.I might not have as many tree's but they are looking good and productive.

In ground Brown Turkey/Texas Everbearing.........Four Lbs of Bone Meal, Four lbs of Blood Meal, 4 Lbs of Rock Dust and 4 lbs of Worm Casting.  Fig Trees are 5 years old in ground.  They are grown bush style here in Columbus Ohio.  They both have about 400 figs on them each.

IMO, successful (productive).
I'm still in the process of simplifying the feeding schedule to match my vegetable garden, which is never fed with Miracle Grow.


Potted in modified 5-1-1 mix in 5 gallon bucket 2 year old plants
1st feeding in spring (May).
1 cup Espoma Garden-tone (Balanced Organic fertilizer with Micro nutrients and Mychorrizhae).
1 cup Preplant Mix (Dolemite Limestone-Epsom Salt-Boron, 80-4-1 ratio). The 5-1-1 mix already contains 2 cups of Limestone from last season.
Water with 1 tbs/ 1 Gallon Miracle Grow General Purpose Fertilizer (24-8-16).
(2 tablespoons Ironite will be added next season due to visibly healthier looking test plants this year)

Monthly Feedings (June, July).
1/2 Cup Espoma Garden-Tone.
Water with 1 tbs/ 1 Gallon Miracle Grow General Purpose Fertilizer (24-8-16).


In Ground Tree, approx. 4ft x 4ft canopy (Bush) one feeding in spring.
2 cups Espoma Garden-tone (Balanced Organic fertilizer with Micro nutrients and Mychorrizhae).
2 cups Preplant Mix (Dolemite Limestone-Epsom Salt-Boron, 80-4-1 ratio).
Water with 1 tbs/ 1 Gallon Miracle Grow General Purpose Fertilizer (24-8-16).
2 inches homemade compost, and 2-4 inches pine mulch.

Note:
a. 1 Year old plants are treated differently and given weekly feedings of Miracle grow fertilizer @ 1 Tablespoon/ 1-1/2 gallon of water, all potted plants are watered daily.
b. The Miracle Grow fertilizer can be eliminated if the Espoma application is increased (I've used Espoma alone for more than a decade to replace the Mittlieder "weekly feed"and the Earth Box fertilizer... see attached images).

<edit> c. Cost... Espoma 40lb bag - $25.00, Preplant mix  40 lb. - $7.00, Ironite 20lb bag - $13.00, Miracle Grow general purpose fertilizer 5 lbs - $10.00. The cost for this seasons fertilizer for forty (40) 5 gallon containers less than $20.00

it was good, but my other program stank.. lime was a big problem, followed by things out of my control like rain and temp.

My soil analizes : 6.8 ph and my fertilizer dollars about $ 60.00 per year.

In the ground tree's get nothing but hardwood leaves in the fall as a mulch.They don't mind.