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On Wednesday, July 10, 2013 9:05:05 AM UTC+1, David Rance wrote:[i]
I seem to be getting a bumper crop of figs this year for the first time.
The tree is about twenty years old and either produces nothing to
maturity or only about half a dozen or so mature fruit. Yes, I do know
about root pruning and removing all unripe fruit from the previous year
but this year I did nothing to it and as my reward it is producing
masses (well, a hundred or so) of figs.
I suspect it is more to do with the long, cold spring - but could I be
right? Has anyone else had the same experience this year?
Yes I also have a bumper crop this year and so does a friend, we both have
quite old trees. Like you, I didn't do much to mine last year.
Now it is how to stop the birds from eating them!
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Yes, Mine's doing quite well too.It's always seemed to me that the second crop - the one that falls off over winter - is larger, but not this year. So could it be to do with less than ideal weather last autumn limiting the second crop so that the tree has more energy for this year's first crop?
Lesson learnt from last year, when I had a good crop but lost most of it in the "june drop", is that I need to make sure the tree has enough water. We think of them as being plants of dry mediterranean countries, but they've got very long roots, so I don't think they suffer water shortages in the S of Europe. Here, we restrict the root run, so they\'ll have a harder time getting water if the weather is really dry.
Never had any problem with the birds. maybe it's because there's plenty of apples and mulberries around when the figs are ripening.
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