On Jul 3, 1:08*pm, "Tom J" wrote:
sueb wrote:
On Jul 1, 3:08 pm, Dermot66
wrote:
Dear all

My fig tree for the 1st time since planting (5 years old) has no
fruit. Could anyone tell me if I've done something wrong or do they
sometimes have dormant years.

Thank You

Dermot

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Dermot66

Did it flower?
Figs are pollinated by a wasp, if something disrupted their cycle
then
the tree wouldn't have been pollinated. *There are definitely
problems
with bee populations where I live.

QUOTE:
"Flowers: The tiny flowers of the fig are out of sight, clustered
inside the green "fruits", technically a synconium. Pollinating
insects gain access to the flowers through an opening at the apex of
the synconium. In the case of the common fig the flowers are all
female and need no pollination."

I live in the South East USA and I've never seen a flower on a fig
bush/tree UNTIL I cut open the ripe fruit.
Figs are self pollinated in my area. I just don't see that as the
problem unless you are in the Mediterranean.

Tom J- Hide quoted text -

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This is from a website of a professor of Biology at the Imperial
College London:
"Phylogenies of insects and their host plants
There are several hundred species of fig trees (Ficus species) found
throughout the world and each has its own unique species of
pollinating wasp. The fig is totally dependent upon the wasp for
pollination while the wasp is similarly dependent upon the fig fruits
for the development of its offspring. Consequently this relationship
is an obligate mutualism. In addition, each fig species also supports
a number of non-pollinating wasp species whose offspring develop in
the fig fruits but provide no pollination service."


You don't have to live near the Mediterranean to live in a
Mediterranean climate. Most of California has a Mediterranean
climate.

Susan B.