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Brown turkey fig in container

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  • Thanks for your advice @B3 I will keep mine in its new 350mm pot for this year and pot up as required in the future then.

    Out of interest, how large would you say the pot is that your plant currently sits in? I cannot make it out in the picture.  I asume that the reason you say you will be keeping it in this current pot is to keep it from growing any larger?
  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    I knew you were going to ask that!
    It's pretty big. I'll measure it for you in daylight. @justandnobodyelse.
    Yes I don't want it to get any bigger.
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    edited January 2021
    Internal diameter at top 46cm. Height about 45cm @justandnobodyelse
    Googled pot chart. I'm pretty sure it's 40 ltr
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • Thanks for venturing out and getting those measurements  @B3 very kind and much appreciated. Hopefully in a few years I might have a tree in as good a shape as yours. Fingers crossed!
  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    Just keep it well watered in the summer mine can take two buckets a day
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • LynLyn Posts: 23,190
    I bought a tiny one from Morrison a few years ago,  put it the garden, in a pot for the summer brought in the cold conservatory for the winter, every year when it grew new leaves it would drop the others, I’d got to the stage of throwing it away,  then thought I’d give it a chance so planted it in a GH bed,  it’s been in there only one year and reached the top and curling round the roof,  now I don’t know what to do with it,  the figs were very small, then dropped off. 
    I’ve never had a plant grow so big in such a short time. 
    Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor. 

  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    Mine didn't do much for the first year either. Hopefully someone here knows how to prune them. I believe they can be humongous if grown in the ground in the right conditions. You might have to get a bigger greenhouse @Lyn😉
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • LynLyn Posts: 23,190
    I thought I might take a couple of panels out of the roof, 😀 no, it’s got to be pruned, I’ve got a good book only contains info on pruning and very good. 
    Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor. 

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