I'm ready to plant these out and I'm wondering what has been your experience with the growth of these figs. I am space challenged and have to compromise with less than ideal space requirements. I had to do the same thing when I planted my Citrus trees. As an example my Ponkon and Fremont citrus are very vertical growing where my Xie Shan, Owari and Kimbrough have a spreading weeping growth habit. I'm hoping that some of the southern growers will chime in here as growers in the North may have a difference experience. I still want everyone’s opinion though as wherever you live you can compare it to the rest of your plants as to if it is fast, slow, spreading, upright, tree form, bush form, etc.....

So what are the habits of these?

JH Adriatic
Ronde de Bordeaux
Green Ischia
Petit Negri

AND

I very much want to thank the many members who sent me cuttings this Spring. I have learned a lot on raising rooted cuttings this year and these are the survivors. If I had to pick the survivors, it worked out pretty good as these are very desirable ones. Hopefully as these grow I'll be able to have cuttings to send out.

Many thanks to the contributers!

I don't know the growth habits of those varieties, but I do understand the lack of space.  Others here have suggested grafting different varieties on one tree.  I also know that figs can be espaliered.

One citrus can support several varieties.

Good luck to you!
Suzi

Hey Charles,
you can always prune the trees to any shape you want and make them fit into your space. but from my reading here, ideal spacing is 15 to 20 feet apart, up to 30 feet apart, so most of us do not have that kind of space.
there is some concern with grafting as it may introduce strains of FMV to the scion wood or to the host that they were not accustomed to and create problems that were not manifest in the original prior to grafting.

Grant
z5b

Charles,

As long as you are not growing a breba-only variety and are not afraid to do some severe pruning every Winter, you should be able to grow just about any common-type fig. Left unpruned, you would end up with trees like these. What kind of spacing were you thinking?

RdB and Petite Negri are vigorous upright growers.  You'll have to shape them.

Guess the dog doesn't like figs.

Actually, I think that means he owns it now ; )