I was wondering if anyone has ever used leaf mold in their potting mix? Actual leaf mold is quite different from compost made from leaves. It is basically produced by fungus (instead of bacteria) breaking down the leaves over a longer period of time resulting in a different product which has a much lower PH. My leaf mold has a PH of about 5.0. Peat moss has a PH of about 4.5 and people use that in potting mix so I figured why not leaf mold? In fact it shares some other characteristics with peat moss. Such as being hydrophobic when it dries out.

Why do I want to use it? Because I have an unlimited supply from raking oak leaves off my lawn and piling in my forest every year. I sift it through mesh and mix it with my very sandy soil and varying amounts of lime for other fruiting plants and it creates a nice soil high in organic material. If anybody has any experience with it for figs I would like to hear about it. Otherwise, I will take the path of trial and error (my normal path, LOL).

No personal experience, but I have heard of leaf mold as an ingredient for DIY potting mixes. I see no reason why you couldn't use it for figs, though you might need to experiment a bit to optimize your potting mix recipe.

Not using it in potting mix so much but did bury some gallon size black plastic pots in a pile of a mixture of composted leaf mold and wood chips, back in the early summer when it started getting hot.  The fig trees sent out roots from the pot holes in the bottom and really took off growing.  There's mushrooms coming up all in the pile too and in the pots where I used it for surface mulch.  This was taken a week or so ago when the mushrooms started sprouting.