On Thu, 11 Jul 2013 Vicky wrote:

David Rance wrote:

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

Oh. I thought you were /not/ meant to remove the unripe fruit, cos it
carried on growing the next year. Mine all dropped off last year cos
the watering system dropped out of it and it dried up. :-/
But it seems about to give its first crop this year.

Well, I didn't get any fruit to ripen on the fig tree for years and then
one of my daughters said that she had heard that you need to remove all
the previous year's immature fruit. Then the tree will produce new figs
earlier and they will ripen satisfactorily in the same year. So I tried
that - and it worked! - though I've never harvested very many. But this
year the immature fruit from last year *is* growing well.

David

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David Rance writing from Caversham, Reading, UK