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Remove these figs?

Ann85Ann85 Posts: 64
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We have recently moved our fig tree / plant from the garden where it was I n the wrong place (sometimes shady) to a big container on a very hot south-facing patio area. It looks happier already but should we remove the old figs it tried to grow last year? I can’t be sure these browny coloured ones are from last year as we weren’t keeping the closest eye on it. But it has one bright green fig which has been getting bigger every week since the move, so that one I think we should keep. From ready Monty Don article, it seems all unripe old figs best removed in autumn but we have missed the window. I know we won’t get more figs for this year whatever we do but assuming we need to remove these old ones before new baby ones will develop? Thanks for any help! 

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  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    Noooooo!   Don’t remove them!  the tiny ones formed at the end of last summer are the ones that will ripen this year ... if the weather and Fig Gods smile on us and we make sure the tree is well watered. 🤞 



    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • LynLyn Posts: 23,190
    edited May 2020
    Do fig  trees come in male and female because I’ve never had a fig on mine! It’s got one last chance this year then it’s going. 
    Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor. 

  • Ann85Ann85 Posts: 64
    I’m not sure! We only have one...
  • LynLyn Posts: 23,190
    edited May 2020
    Me too, mine is now out of its pot and into an unheated greenhouse in the ground,  it’s survived the winter and got lots of new leaves, no  sign of a fig though😢
    Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor. 

  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    edited May 2020
    Figs don’t actually flower as such ... the flowers and the fruit are the same thing ... scroll down to ‘Pollination’ https://www.rhs.org.uk/advice/profile?PID=106

    We give ours tomato feed every couple of weeks from now until the end of September. 

    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • LynLyn Posts: 23,190
    Thanks Dove, I’ll tell it you said it will work, see if it bucks it’s ideas up.😀
    Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor. 

  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    👍 @Lyn

    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





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