Hi Pals,

I bought over 10 fig tricks Feb this year and found that the leaves grew were wired....After that I cut all wired leaves and healthy leaves come out.

Recently, there are spider mites found after continual raining ... Found light green scattered spots on leaves.

Please advise what should I do? Thanks.

Most consider FMV no big deal...I just ignore it.  Feed the plant well and generally the signs disappear or diminish greatly.  

Thanks, do you mean that it will not affect the yield?

Feed them better means, add more which kind of nutrients?

Can the fruit edible with FMV?

If it will impact human if our skin was being hurt by the leave edges with virus?

Any medicine can cure the FMV?


Thanks

Lola,

As the plants grow many times all signs of the virus disappear.  Could it effect yield, probably but in a mature healthy tree it would not be noticeable.

Just good general fertilizer to promote good growth.

The FMV can't hurt you through the leaves or fruit.

There is no drug that will cure the FMV.  

I find this illustration useful  

Lola,

Many use Dyna Gro Foliage Pro, you might want to look into it.  It is pretty concentrated, so it is economical to use diluted often. Not organic, but probably one of the better inorganic fertilizers on the market IMO.  I tend to also use Fish emulsion/liquid Kelp, or compost teas occasionally as well.

Spider mites, use Neem oil before they get out of control, spray religiously, they get worse as summer comes.  I never seem to kill them all, but you can keep them in check.  I noticed the Spider Mites, and Whiteflies a month earlier than usual even with our colder winter, the buggers are going crazy this year.

The post above with nutrient deficiencies is awesome.

Good Luck

Thanks Wills and Don for yr info.  I used neem oil once a week, and recently, found that my figs may have stressed, and symptoms appeared.

Is there any organic medicine can be used safely?

Especially thanks Gloria for yr picture on nutrient deficiency, it is very useful .

seems it cannot be cured, and which impacting one another. Should I destroy them all and buy new ones....

Or it should not be easy to buy new without FMV? I should have leave it and better feed them instead?

You have a few options, one take care and feed them and see if it truly is FMV, unless you have the fig wasp in your area it is harder to transfer if from one fig to another if you are careful about cleaning your tools between figs you can keep your clean one from getting and still keep infected ones. Eating fruit from a FMV fig will not hurt you, there is nothing transferable to people. If you fig does truly have it, it will be a slow grower and a low producer. You may want to not have to hassle with trying to care for it. It all depends on your goal, if you want an orchard to feed family and friends then you want as many clean trees as you can get, if you are a "collector" you may be willing to sacrifice production and health for having every fig on your list....

FMV is a non-issue for figs (if it was, Jon would have a sticky thread because it is ubiquitous). This sounds like a case of loving your plants to death. Try to do nothing for a few months. If that doesn't work you can get new trees next year.

i'll second glor's thots, mostly. clean trees grow better and faster. i've seen this.

further, it is said that clean trees survive winter conditions that kill infected trees.
i haven't tested this yet but it makes sense that sick trees can never be as hardy
as uninfected trees.

i don't share glor's belief that the disease is hard to transfer. sooner or later the disease will spread.
i have no proof but i believe that should a bunny or bug eat from an infected tree it can spread fmv to the
next tree it munches on.

this is a minority view on this forum.