Hi Everyone,

Prefacing this with I looked through a bunch of previous posts about Fig Rust and a whole bunch of other diagnose my leaf postings, but I am not sure the posts I looked at are exactly what's going on with my tree. I attached an OK picture, I will attach another tomorrow when the sun is out. 

The leaf is green, but it appears to have a round spot that is slightly away from the edge of the leaf.

It has been raining here in Philadelphia (Zone 7a) for most of the last two weeks, in addition to being very hot and humid. The tree against a southern wall getting sun most of the day, and is in a planter that seems to drain well, I added a layer of stone in the bottom of the pot for additional drainage.

Even though the pot drains well, every time I check the soil it is wet (not over watered) because of the massive amount of rain we've received.

I have had the tree for approximately a month an a half, it is a Paradiso (Genova). This is our first fig tree, and we're trying to learn as much as we can. I hope there isn't something going on we can't fix!

Mary

It does not look like rust, but some other fungi probably. The spot is just a little too big to be rust. Just get a pair of scissors and cut that lobe off the leaf.

Welcome to the forum.

with ton of rain last few weeks and what seems like most of this yr, some of my trees are already getting fungal attack that's usually reserved for late fall. if that's what's going on with your, i wouldn't worry too much about it. couldn't tell from the pix what's going on.

Mary,
Welcome to the forum community.
I'm with Brent. I usually remove small rust infected leaves from plants that I purchase. I cant tell from the pictures, but I would cut off the lobe and spray with a fungicide. I've used Copper and recently Neem Oil. I prefer to stay ahead of the problem to keep it from spreading. Dispose of any infected leaves in the garbage, do not compost, it may only spread it. This is a post from a Topic I started last year on Leaf Rust. The pictured Ischia leaves were sprayed at the first signs of rust, and had minimal damage, due to early intervention.

God Luck.

Welcome Mary ! 

dang it.. forgot to say welcome. i'm the forum drunk.

Thanks for the help everyone. I panicked after looking at a lot of pictures of what could be wrong. Yeah, it def looks like a fungus. Interestingly I unknowingly purchased a pesticide from the local greenhouse that has Neem Oil in it, it was just that when it started raining I couldn't ever find time between storms to get out there and spray! We've had 3 good days sans rain and I cut the damaged leaves and sprayed. I will keep up the spraying. 

I am so protective of this little tree. My niece named him, "Figbrizio." She's never had a fresh fig so I am trying to learn all I can to keep it alive.

When I bought my house, there was a "stump" out back that we dug up without asking neighbors what it was. Unfortunately it WAS a fig tree the original owners brought from Italy. I am sick that we didn't ask, and dug it. Who knows, it could have grown again. The current fig tree was supposed to be a replacement, but once I learned more about inner city soil, I'd like to get it tested before the tree goes in the ground. I don't want to plant it in contaminated soil. For now, it lives in a planter next to the south wall of my concrete jungle.

Thank you for all of your help. I hope to contribute more as I learn, and it seems like I picked the right place to learn from the best!

Pete- great song! Drunk, huh. Have one for me- today's been a looong day! LOL

Mary

As expected, bugs and their fungus hangers-on soured the rest of my brebas.