Hi i have bought a nice size RDB in February. Its in ground growing very fast. It is 4 foot wide with many branches and very full. I live in south louisiana. It get much sun. Very heathy
When will it start fruiting. Does it suppose to have breb. No signs of figglet's. Leaves are mosly hand size

I would be very surprised if you didn't get any figs this year. Mine had figs 2 years from a cutting and was not as large as yours sounds.

Tyler

When does it produce

In my collection it is one of the first to produce a main crop.  That is one of the advantages of this fig up north.  It will occasionally produce brebas but isn't known to be a major breba producer.

Thanks for the information guys. Should i have anything yet. I fertilized it in February i wonder if that could effect fruit. Growing really nicely though. When i get home i will take a pic

Hi Richard,
I'm not sure when you should expect fruit there in Southern LA, but here it produces fruit early.  Main crop (it produces figs on the new growth) primarily, and up here I get ripe fruit by August, with small figlets forming in late May / early June.  (But this is zone 5, and my trees are just making their first leaves now).  It's a fairly prolific producer for me.  So if yours is really RDB, on a tree that size I'd think you'd have unripe figs there already.  Regarding your question about fertilizer:  if you gave it fertilizer with too much nitrogen, that can suppress production of fruit.  It produces wonderful top growth (leaves and stems), but has been known to suppress production of figs.  Fertilizer in itself isn't bad... just if it's too heavily weighted toward nitrogen.  (The first of the three numbers in a fertilizer designation is for nitrogen, e.g. 5 - 10 - 5).  Good luck with your tree.

Mike   central NY state, zone 5a

I have over 100 brebas on my RdB. My tree is in a bush form with over 50 branches. This is the 1st time it is giving me
that many brebas. Usually 20 plus. But this year winter and spring have been warm. My tree is 6 yrs or older -- and I have
always pinch it after 5 or 6 leaves. I get a good main crop and it is 2nd earliest after Florea. RdB is an excellent fig. That said
about RdB brebas, I am not out of woods yet as night/morning temp can drop to 0*C and the brebas will abort. Tonight temp
is expected to be 7*C(about 40*F). Daytime now is 17*C(about 64*F).

  My RDB produced a couple of figs in its second year. It sits in a pot. The figs were late last fall. No sign of Brebas.
It is a very promising variety on all fronts.

 

Hi Rich, my tree is going on its third summer....last year it produce about 75 figs and they started ripening the first week of August......For me it is an excellent variety and a very aggressive grower.....I have mine in a pot....

I would try pinching some of the branches.

What does this pinching mean? Yha ks everyone for the help. My tree is only two foot tall but really wide around say four foot. Is this how they grow? Too many branchs to count but alot. But there is so many buds tips because of all the branchs.

Hi Paully22,
RDB is unifera ... see http://www.fig-baud.com/cataloguefiguiers/catrondedebordeaux.html
They could be main crops figs if the tree is a bit mixed up from the weather.
Ronde de Bordeaux is known to make few brebas and drop most of them, but the onset of the maincrop is follows quickly .

I like it if the tree gets mixed up. My focus is a good breba season as I have little time during late Sept & Oct. Also
with too many fruits ripening at that time, it's an issue dealing with fruit flies. My other older RdB grown in pot culture
has very few brebas in the green house. I wish my in-ground RdB had given me more brebas going by the sheer volume
of branching. Anyway I am not out of the woods yet as tonight temp is going to be 6*C with daytime temp forecast to be
21*C. Currently the brebas are about penny size.

Pinching sounds like a good idea. You can send the cuts to me for proper disposal. :-) That's a variety I'm very interested in.

FYI...if you used a heavy nitrogen fertilizer, it may be contributing to your tree not wanting to fruit.  Nitrogen promotes lots of green leaves and growth, but not fruiting.  You may want to try adding a heavy dose of Potassium and Phosphorous to offset some of the Nitrogen and try to stimulate fruiting.

Noss. Weed and fed might have created a genetically modified fig tre. Figzillia lol. I will wa5ch my nitogen un use some potassium and magnesium and see what happens. When i first started this post i had no figs. On a few branchs i am seei g very tiny specs in the fig sattle area. So keeping a eye on it thanks everyone for your valuable replys. Richie from louisiana zone 8