That fig is rather small for its age. Do you think the pot is big enough, and are you feeding the fig enough?
Re Alan's advice, I think you will find this year's fruit is in the leaf axils at the tip of the branches, so if you pinch them out you certainly won't get any fruit this year.
The time to pinch out shoots is before mid-summers day when you pinch out shoots beyond three or four leaves.
I'm worried that fig isn't getting enough water - although figs need good drainage they do need plenty of water to produce fruit, and with the surface of the soil piled up like that I can't see how you can water it.
My fig's a bit bigger than that but I've only had this one a year - it's in a square pot 16" x 16" x 22" approx - as it only has a small rootball at the moment the bottom of the pot is filled with chunks of polystyrene, making sure it doesn't impede the drainage. The compost is John Innes No 3 loam based with about 30% horticultural grit added. There's about a 3" gap between the top of the compost and the rim of the pot, so that when I water it I can fill that space up with water and let it soak through.
We had just a couple of ripe figs last year, although it produced about a dozen fruit late in the summer that had to be removed as they wouldn't ripen. There are at least half a dozen tiny fruits right at the tips of the branches so hopefully we'll get a good crop this summer. Last weekend I top-dressed the compost with a sprinkling of Fish, Blood and Bone.
Hope that's helpful
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
HI criss, im putting this return from Reads Nurseries so you can understand why we tipped the Repotted fig, its to get the fig to fruit which was as i understood what you wanted, so this is only for repotting you understand as in Stephens answer to me, the later cutting back of New shoots to 4 or 5 leaves is done in Mid spring No later as the shoots might not have time to ripen and as he says you might not need to this year, and please remember maincrop figs grow on previous years wood ,no new wood very few figs.
Hello, Alan Thank you for your enquiry. Tipping the shoots now will force the fruit to grow first, I would only prune again if really needed in late May - June, but this is often not needed or possible. Stephen Read
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Thank you Alan for you advice will do and keep you up to date..
That fig is rather small for its age. Do you think the pot is big enough, and are you feeding the fig enough?
Re Alan's advice, I think you will find this year's fruit is in the leaf axils at the tip of the branches, so if you pinch them out you certainly won't get any fruit this year.
The time to pinch out shoots is before mid-summers day when you pinch out shoots beyond three or four leaves.
I'm worried that fig isn't getting enough water - although figs need good drainage they do need plenty of water to produce fruit, and with the surface of the soil piled up like that I can't see how you can water it.
My fig's a bit bigger than that but I've only had this one a year - it's in a square pot 16" x 16" x 22" approx - as it only has a small rootball at the moment the bottom of the pot is filled with chunks of polystyrene, making sure it doesn't impede the drainage. The compost is John Innes No 3 loam based with about 30% horticultural grit added. There's about a 3" gap between the top of the compost and the rim of the pot, so that when I water it I can fill that space up with water and let it soak through.
We had just a couple of ripe figs last year, although it produced about a dozen fruit late in the summer that had to be removed as they wouldn't ripen. There are at least half a dozen tiny fruits right at the tips of the branches so hopefully we'll get a good crop this summer. Last weekend I top-dressed the compost with a sprinkling of Fish, Blood and Bone.
Hope that's helpful
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Christina go to http://www.readsnursery.co.uk/fig-trees-for-gardens-and-greenhouses/ the March pruning will be explained clearly, follow what it says,Reads are experts and very helpful good luck Alan
HI criss, im putting this return from Reads Nurseries so you can understand why we tipped the Repotted fig, its to get the fig to fruit which was as i understood what you wanted, so this is only for repotting you understand as in Stephens answer to me, the later cutting back of New shoots to 4 or 5 leaves is done in Mid spring No later as the shoots might not have time to ripen and as he says you might not need to this year, and please remember maincrop figs grow on previous years wood ,no new wood very few figs.
Hello, Alan Thank you for your enquiry. Tipping the shoots now will force the fruit to grow first, I would only prune again if really needed in late May - June, but this is often not needed or possible. Stephen Read