Hi everybody,

FLushing would prob kill them. You are worried for nothing for now as long as you didnt over fertilize.

I am not sure if flushing will do any harm to a potted plant in your kind of warm weather but it may do some good by flushing out salts. You may fertilize after flushing. This way one variable will be gone in thinking what is slowing it down.
I have read many members do flush the pots and then fertilize. Good luck.

I've stopped using MG products and switched to fish/seaweed emulsion. So far, so good, but will know more by the end of the season.

I always water and then in an hour I use some MG at 1/2 strength or less.

I do the same Figluvah -- water them 1st and after an hour fertilize half strength. This year I started somewhat earlier fertilisation at half strength and the new shoots have been impressive. I do not want them to grow too fast but a good spurt pushing out branches. Hence I am cautious in the sense I have to balance growth/stretch, pot size plus room for winterisation. I do flush the pots at least twice in the season when weather is closer to 80*F.

Hi Paully

In your case you can flush any time. It is a bonus for figs if we get a stretch of 80's for more than 5 days per week in July/Aug. At such temp. I need to water my figs twice and water bill goes up. Most times it is just below 80 - comfortable for humans but figs to ripen yummieliciously, its a bonus and the variant that benefit the most from such weather is Desert King. BTW, I got a couple of JH Adriatic figs. Hope no wild critters get them this season.

Well Paully,

Figluvah, glad to hear about the J.H., I've got figs on mine and can hardly wait. In fact I can hardly wait for the first ripe fig off of any one of my trees.
"gene"

Related Question for you guys:  I hadn't started my fertilizer regimen yet, except on a couple of larger trees (24"+).  Many of my trees have very bright yellow-green leaves.  Very healthy, but only a few are dark green.  Is this a sign of low nitrogen in my mix or something?  Or am I worrying about nothing?

Jason,

Here's an article.

http://web.extension.illinois.edu/champaign/homeowners/070828.html

I don't know if it will help but I have Yellow leaves that are stiff and solid looking on a few. New leaves are coming out but are green. No problems evident.

Mine aren't yellow, they're definitely lime green, but they're like ... SUPER ULTRA BRIGHT GREEN!  Almost like ... hell, just look at this picture:

http://figs4funforum.websitetoolbox.com/post?id=5235884

Note that the cherry shrubs to the far left are just a "medium" green.  I have a couple of fig trees from other sources this year (came with their own mix) and they're dark, dark green.  Meanwhile mine are fairly light green.  Even my new cuttings from this year are REALLY dark green.  That's why I suspect I'm lacking nitrogen or something else that makes the leaves green.

Maybe I should start a new thread as to not stomp on Cecil's.

Don't worry about me Jason.......No problem here!

Ok Cause I'm an idiot and stubborn, I ran out into a tornado warning storm and snapped these:

similar, not exact.  i will snap pic tomorrow.

I had the same yellow-green concern. It is the reason why took such an interest in Herman's discussion about limestone and then asked a few questions of my own.

In trying to fix (different from solve) the problem 1) I put up a shade cover; 2) Some days later, I added about a handful of calcitic limestone chips to the one gallon pots and two handfuls (or more) to the larger pots. I simply wanted a layer of limestone that would harden when dry and get peanut butter sticky when watered; and 3) Some days later, I fertilized with Florikan 18-6-8. I followed the application instructions on the bag. Daygrower (Jim) and the folks at Just Fruits and Exotics directed me towards the product. It is *not* an organic product and I cannot tell you how well it works...yet.

Several days later (10 maybe), the trend of increasing yellow-green leaves has ended and clearly the leaves are greening up. Here is my simple observation: the 'green' of the leaves of the potted figs now more closely match the 'green' of the leaves of the figs in the ground. Not sure, but I hope that is a good thing.

I thought this was a watering problem and it well may have been; but I have not change my watering schedule. I did increase watering just this week because of the expected highs in the high 90s recently (96 and 98) and we are expecting highs of 99 (today), 100, 102, and 102 over the next three days.

JD

Here is how they looked then...








It is difficult to tell in this photo, but after adding the shade, limestone, and Florikan; the plants got much better. As of today, here is the best example. Yes, those very yellow "it must be Winter looking" leaves have dropped. The leaves appear to be greener, shiner, and more healthy-looking than they were before; and it isn't just the morning sunlight.

Mine don't have any yellow leafs!

@Cecil, I've had that experience also with about 5% of my trees, they were just extremely slow to get started I think.  There are a couple of my figs that were just stubborn as hell up until (literally) the last week, when I started seeing some node growth.  I have a couple of cuttings started this year which also have one single (not so healthy looking) leaf, like Ischia Black, and they're just not doing anything.  Sitting there. 

@JD, mine aren't nearly that yellow, they're more bright green and with no spots.  See your nice healthy fig tree in the left side of this picture and that's how bright yellow they are:



basically, that's what I have going on.  Some of them *finally* started turning darker green now that I've had them under some shade all day (via lattice). 

It has always been my understanding that the darker green a leaf is, the mor chlorophyl is present, and you can amp up the chlorophyl produced by increasing either nitrogen or phosphorous (I don't remember which).

One of the tree I bought recently had yellow leaves like the JD's pics. Mixed some liquid Iron with water and watered that plant twice in one week and by the second week its leaves turned green. Also new and young leaves will be yellowish they will turn green as they mature. 

satellitehead,

I have not, I may give that a shot on one or two that I have duplicates of.

@Jason. Mine aren't that yellow...anymore. I have a wide range of leaf colors for the potted plants (and I showed the worst) but most are doing well. And once in ground, the leaf color is pretty much uniform. I have a few conjectures but nothing that hasn't been said before about container culture: pot size/color/drainage, watering, media, sunlight, stress, fertilizing, climate, and variety are all factors. Good thing figs just grow even with all this tinkering that I have done over the few weeks.

@Cecil. I went back a looked to see which plants were actively growing, i.e., in a growth spurt. About 4 out of 10 with another 3 out of 10 showing signs. Hopefully, the 1868 CRF treatment will jump start the others