Is seaweed good for your fig trees and how do you use it?

Maybe if you wrap the figs in it the birds will leave them alone.  If you want to use it as fertilizer you have to rinse it in fresh water then compost it.

rinse and compost as Bob says, seaweed is a wonderful fertilizer

Seaweed is amazing, it has hormones, minerals etc etc. Its also very good for roots. There's liquid seaweed fertilizers available if you dont want to make your own seaweed tea or compost. It's also very good to foliar feed, spraying on the underside of the leaves.

I add kelp meal, azomite, and dolomite lime when mixing my potting soil.

You could also wrap the seaweed around the bird and eat it with the figs. :)

Yum, that is beautiful stuff - I'd eat it! My seaweed is mostly eelgrass ( long and stringy) from the local beach. I've been using it for 12 years in my garden with great results. I like that it takes several years to break down and mix it with well aged horse manure/hay/wood chips from a local stable and a bit of sand, then perlite around the baby roots of new trees with great results. For older trees I mix more compost and leaf mulch in. I fill up the pickup in fall and let the winter rains rinse it for me. Seaweed has been used in places like Ireland for hundreds of years. I suspect any seaweed is good for adding nitrogen, mico nutrients and "fiber".

I use kelp meal on my figs starting around august with no other fertilizer once a week for a couple applications maybe up to 3-4 times to boost potassium in the trees to harden them off for winter, weather or not that works for everyone I don't know, it has worked ok for me.

1King, all the DK fed on your fertilser is like growing on steriods. Looks like I need to go and pick a
 truck load of seaweed this Fall -- of course I need info on where to go.

Paully there is a liquid seaweed fertilizer you can buy - it's 0-0-1 by Neptune . 

Good to hear Paully22 ! I like collecting in the fall because there seems to be more on the beach near the access places. Next time you are in the neighborhood drop in and I'll give you a hand with a wheelbarow! I checked with the feds and was told it is legal for personal use. Boundary Bay near Vancouver produces HUGE amounts of the stuff every year so I don't feel too bad about taking a bit from the local marine ecosystem.... 

I have heard of folks on the Island (Vancouver) piling up several feet of kelp when it has been washed onto their gardens in the fall and it will rot down to nothing by the spring.  I have only heard of this and never witnessed it myself or tried it but if it works as well as they say then it may be worth looking into what the proper procedure is.

i am going to try to make/prepare the perfect soil mix for my newly fig tree which I'm going to plant it next year.

This is what i will put:

1) cow and horse manure ( the only available to me)

2) Organic and freshly made compost ( fruit peels, eggshells, peanut shells...)

3) dry leaf & grass from my lawn

4) grinded coffee

5) fresh seaweed

6) worm casting & a hand full of worms

7) Epsom salt

8) fish elmusion

9) sand

10) rock dust

11) Azomite

I know I'm missing some other stuff which I cannot remember right now, any other suggestions?

I hope I don't kill it lol

anyone know the right balance mix from all these above?

I like the kelp meal/humic acid mix. I use that with fresh worm castings, azomite, yucca powder, fish emulsion, and rock phosphate. Plants seem to love it, also add some mycogrow which seems to really work well (I have clear containers so can see the nice fungi colonies around the roots of some of the plants.