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greenfig
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I am surprised how many figs I find spoiled this year.. |
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Ampersand
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My guess would be over watering. Of course, you are in Socal, so you may need to water everyday. Soil surface isn't a good indicator of overall dryness, make sure the pots are light or the soil is dry about 2" down. |
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cis4elk
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Are these closed eye varieties also? Fruit flys will crawl inside open eye figs that aren't blocked with syrup and spoil them here. |
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greenfig
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Thanks, guys, for your input. |
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ForeverFigs
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I'm not totally decided on the quantity of water needed for potted fig trees...last season I was watering on a 2 day schedule(sometimes every 3 days), and I was doing Ok until mid July, when half the leaves started shriveling up and falling off the trees...I thought they were goners, so I started watering every day again, and all the trees eventually came back, and by late Aug. / early Sept. I was eating ripe delicious figs....I know this goes against conventional wisdom, but I have been watering my trees every day since that frightful episode and the trees are thriving and producing figs(no splitting, no watery taste, no fig drop)...so I think this is going to be my schedule from now on. |
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cis4elk
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Vince, |
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ForeverFigs
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Calvin...I think the watering schedule has to be fine tuned to each growers micro-climate and growing conditions...the area I live in and, even the back yard where I grow the fig trees all has to be taken into consideration...I also think it maters greatly whether the figs are "in ground" trees or grown in pots..for example, with the 1gal. trade pots for new trees, I find that I need to water every day no matter what the temperature, because the roots in the botton of those little pots will burn up very quickly because the sun and the soil in the black plastic pot absorbs the suns rays very quickly...I try to follow the general principles for watering, and fertilizing, etc., but sometimes you just have to find your own way. |
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