On 29/10/2013 18:43, sacha wrote:
We have a fig tree in the field which has loads of fruit on it which has
never got to edible size this year and Ray has had one fruit from it. He
doubts they'll go through the winter to ripen in the spring/summer of
next year and suspects our cold spring has affected our tree, so may
well have affected others. Otoh, and this is my two pennorth, for what
i's worth, could the concrete of the planter affect the tree in some
way. I don't know.

Just a thought,
We say to grow a fig with it's roots confined.
What would happen if you trenched around a fig and root pruned all the
large roots?
David