pwbum1
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Posted 1403055012
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Please take a look at my brown turkey and kadota. The figs are growing so tight together unlike my celeste. Is there something wrong, any help would be greatly appreciated.
RichinNJ
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Posted 1403055157
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Those figs look good Keep watering them and fertilizing them
Tonycm
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Posted 1403055968
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I don't see anything wrong with your trees. That's what we're all looking for in our trees. Figs packed together like grape clusters.
pwbum1
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Posted 1403056898
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Sweet, thanks for the info, that is the answer I was hoping for. Last year they were spaced about an inch or two apart, seeing this it caught me off guard.
cyberfarmer
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Posted 1403068816
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I hope my trees all have the same problems as yours.
Paul the Fig Tree Destroyer in Fallbrook, CA (Zone 10A )
MichaelTucson
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Posted 1403069770
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Maybe you already know about the stages of fruit growing and ripening. (This is only tangentially related to your question, but it seems you have your answer above). Meanwhile, here's a pretty good posting that Vasile provided about the stages of fruit development:http://figs4funforum.websitetoolbox.com/post/fig-tree-fruit-growing-stages-5912299
Pauca sed matura.
Savage270
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Posted 1403072532
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Just less intranodal space between the leaves on your BT and Kadota. The figs grow at each leaf. Usually when the tree has full sun they don't need to stretch vertically every time the plant puts on a new leaf. The celeste may not have had as much full sun so the space between each leaf grew to "stretch" farther up to get closer to the sun. That's why you see many tall lengthy cuttings sometimes when they are started in the shade and the ones started in full sun are shorter with less space between the leaves. I don't know if what I said is true or not and I know it's not that scientific but that's what I've learned recently.
cis4elk
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Posted 1403075925
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Also, with potted figs(maybe in-ground too I don't know because mine are all potted) when the fruit load reaches a certain point, most trees will stop growing new vegetative growth. Your trees look great, I would leave them be. But in a smaller tree if a person want's some figs, but still wants the tree to put on some growth, they would have to reduce the amount of figs on the tree. For example, my 4 year old Peters Honey(which is very similar to Kadota) grows it's figs just like yours, very tightly packed. But it puts on two figs at many of the nodes. This year I am removing all the second figs from each node, and I will probably limit the tree to about 3 figs per shoot. I want it to grow more than last year, and produce better figs overall(it made a handful of great figs and bunch of worthless figs last year). I'm hoping when it gets bigger I wont need to hold it back any.
BronxFigs
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Posted 1403086276
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It's hard to tell from the photo, but I do hope you will provide some support for those two branches, growing from that wide fork. The weight of those two fruit-loaded, leafy, branches can split at the fork....especially when you have strings pulling them into that horizontal position.
Chivas
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Posted 1403090165
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If figs form too close like that for me I thin them so they don't crowd each other, this will take off the stress out of the tree of having so many figs but also help in letting it start it's next growth spurt, it may not help with internodes but some varieties have always given me short internodes and later they become longer.
jdsfrance
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Posted 1403101315
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Hi pwbum1,
FiggieFive_0
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Posted 1403112269
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Man, that's a nice problem to have! I'm with Paul in saying I wish my trees had that same problem. I guess it could be worse; all tree and no figs.
GeneDaniels
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Posted 1403121904
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Can you send some of your fig "problem" over onto my trees? I would love to see them that packed with fruit!
Seven trees in the ground : Hardy Chicago, Celeste(?), LSU gold, Italian Black, Southern Brown Turkey(?), Strawberry Verte, and Unk yellow. Trees in pots: VdB, CdD, and Sicilian?
