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Hi,
I've got two fig plants.One is the variety of dark purple one (like the one on your picture)and the other is longish green one. The purple one is doing very well and having lots of figs. The green one is somehow mistaken in the timing. At the spring has lots of buds,which most of them never mature and are dropped to ground. By the end of summer second batch of buds come.Of course there is no chance they could ripe. My question(s) is:what's wrong and could be possible to graft some branches from the purple fig to the green one to reverse the timing?
Thanks for your help and have a lots of figs.

some figs need pollination. and only thing that will pollinate fig is fig wasp, unless you want to try manually pollinating the figs. and in US, fig wasps are only in certain area of CA. so, if you have wron type of fig tree.. kind that needs pollination, the figs will drop.

other issues can be you have type that's known to drop figs, you have one that requires certain amount of heat and sun and it's not getting enough, or the tree is somehow stressed and can't hold on to the figs.

welcome to the forum.

Thanks for the advise,but I never saw any flowers to pollinate so how am I suppose to do it?

figs themselves are "flowers". they are not exactly "fruits". i'm not clear as to how it's done, but if you seach on google, i think there are some ways to pollinate them with hand.

Nero...welcome to the Forum...I hope you find the solution to your fig problem...maybe a search on the Forum data base will be of some assistance...good luck.

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Originally Posted by nero

Hi,
I've got two fig plants.One is the variety of dark purple one (like the one on your picture)and the other is longish green one. The purple one is doing very well and having lots of figs. The green one is somehow mistaken in the timing. At the spring has lots of buds,which most of them never mature and are dropped to ground. By the end of summer second batch of buds come.Of course there is no chance they could ripe. My question(s) is:what's wrong and could be possible to graft some branches from the purple fig to the green one to reverse the timing?
Thanks for your help and have a lots of figs.



In colder climate the first crop set can drop due to weather.

You mention - By the end of summer second batch of buds come. Of course there is no chance they could ripe.



If you have self pollinating fig plants  -

In future seasons you can knock off breba and just let plant concentrate on main crop instead of plant expelling its time to ripen its first crop (breba).

This is what i do growing them in pots near Chicago.
When a plant is very young it can set its main crop late but will adjust in future seasons .
Some figs plants need a longer growing season as well and best to get fig plants that are suited for growing climate when first starting out .






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