Hey everybody, I just got a chicago hardy, black triana and golden honey. Growing them in containers in zone 6. I'm thinking of adding 2 more, to get a fun sample of colors/flavors. Which ones should I add?

Also, I'm thinking of taking a hippy dippy organic approach for the first couple of years and seeing what happens after that. I know everybody does it differently, but does this sound like a fairly decent plan? Soil: Vermont Compost Company soil, Coast of Maine worm castings, dolomite lime and wood ash. Fertilizer: Down To Earth bonemeal in spring then North Country Organics Gro-Pro 5-3-4. Also gonna put them into self-watering containers when spring comes.

Anyway, thanks for being a community and sharing so much with each other. It's a very fun and enlightening thing to see!

Not sure how well they'll do in zone 6 but Panache look really cool. If you want cold hardy, those offered by ADelmanto and Pino on this forum are pretty exceptional (others too)

If you want to be super-organic, rabbit manure is supposed to be the Cadillac of poop when it comes to fertilizing figs.... Also recommended is speaking to your fig in their native language :-)

You can't go wrong with RDB which is fairly cold hardy and in my area starts to ripen around the 10 of August and it's a delicious fig. My second choice would be a Green Ischia which is a very underrated fig, or my new favorite...Niagara Black which is a large fig but ripens in September for me.

TorontoJoe - Is that the Sicilian flag? So some of your figs must speak Italian.... And the Panache looks awesome!

Deerhunter16b - those sound absolutely delicious! Green Ischia's got that rich red flesh.

Thank you for the advice. I'll try to find some local rabbit poop.

Indeed that's a Sicilian flag......And in the case of my Sicilian figs, they yell back :-)

Those Brooklyn and Bronx figs....talk to them when the neighbors aren't around. You need to threaten them or they won't take you seriously.

Hi,
You should be light on wood ashes in a pot. In the ground some of it will get washed away. In a pot, it will almost all stay in the pot and you could burn roots of the tree.
Dolomite lime can and will raise the ph and that would lead you to problems with nutrients up-take.
You should use a potting medium first, and then add fertilizer.
As fertilizer you could use a closed hand full of wood ashes, and/or dolomite lime and/or some other fertilizer.
For the potting medium, I always use loam from the nurseries. Some would mix their own medium with loam and pine bark and/or perlite ...
What ratios are you planning to use for the compost / worm castings / ashes / lime ?

jdsfrance - thanks for the advice you're totally right. The guy who runs Vermont Composting Company actually called me to explain a lot of that (he's really cool and they are doing some great work over there - I highly recommend them). So I'm thinking of mostly relying on a VCC compost-soil for the first couple of years at least and probably not add anything to it. Later, if I want to adjust something or there's a problem then I'll think about the dolomite, ashes, castings, etc. What ratios would you recommend? And thanks for taking the time to help me!