Growing Fig Trees: Avoid These 11 Season-Ending Mistakes

1. Fertiliser regularly, 2. Don’t over water, 3. Enough sunlight, 4. Don’t prune apical tips, 5. Spring frost protection, 6. Avoid keeping indoor, 7. Sunburn occurs if plant moved from indoors to outdoors, 8. Harvest when neck is soft, 9. Keep in 3-7 gallon pots, 10. Improper winter storage >15F, 11. Choose correct variety. Hmmm 🇵🇰❤️🇵🇰

My three year old figs are covered in figs. Your wisdom is why. Thank you!

Im glad you mentioned how much time with trial and error you can be saving people with this information. Definitely earned the 👍

Hiya, Ross! Thank you for all the tips! ❤ No wonder I’ve been growing the same figs for four years now and never got any fruits till this year! 😂 Its mid July now here in WA zone 8b, but I’m hopeful that the fruits will ripen between now and October. The softness of the neck was SUPER helpful, as I do have a couple fairly large figs that I’ve been “squeezing the body” of to test for ripeness. 😂 SO glad I came across these tips today!!!

I’ll be saving this video for next spring. 🙄 I’ve almost made every mistake you’ve said and I’ve had a mature tree for over 3 years

Wow! Excellent information and presentation! Thanks Ross!

Really happy I found your channel. I’m planning on upping my fig game and you have some great information

Great fig video. It's awesome to find great gardening videos from the same zone/bioregion. Thanks!

Please write down 11 mistakes ,your doing excellent work,congratulations.

I can't double like a video but as a lurker I can comment on one. This was a great video with lots of helpful information!

Great video!

Great video Buddy!

Thanks ross for your enormeous help/"knowhow" with growing figs

My brown turkey fig is struggling. Grow😅ing it in a pot im in zone 7b NY. I keep it indoors during winter and take outside for spring and summer. Yup, you nailed it. When I brought the tree outside in late April the new branches got frostbite since NY had those 50s 40s temps at night but was in 70s 80sna few times. Plus the leaves got sunburn and fell off.

Thanks Ross, I’ve learned so much from you over a few years!

Thanks for sharing your mistakes! A fool never learns. A smart man learns from his mistakes. A wise man learns from the mistakes of others.

Hi Ross, these tips are really good. I ran into some of these issues myself, such as keeping them indoors over the winter, and then having to deal with spider mites for the first time. Indoors, the figs were dormant for ~2mths, which led to another issue, the sunburn. I ended up dealing with that (after sunburning them the first time) by putting up a solar canopy, which actually works pretty well. I think the sunburn really comes from the UV light, not the amount of light, because indoors, there is no UV light, while even on a cold day, the UV light outdoors can already cause sunburn. I do have a question, which I'm not sure is a mistake or what. I have some "Black Madeira KK" (I was told when I bought them), and they actually budded fruit actually pretty well after 1-2 years. However, after sitting on the tree for a month or so, the figs just start to shrivel up / yellow and fall off, or they shrivel up and start to turn purple and fall off. The same appears to be happening with some Col de dame noir figs, which they sit there green for a month, and then like clockwork, start to yellow and get aborted. Is this due to the figs not being the common variety, and thus they won't ripen? Or is there some other issue going on? This is the 2nd year this is happening, where not a single one has ripened out of 6+ that may fruit on a tree. I'm trying to determine whether to give up on those fig plants if they can't ripen the fruit. Meanwhile, I do have some other figs that do ripen, like smith. Thanks!

Thank you for this video! I’m also in the Philly area and I was gifted a fig tree last year. This year is the first fruits that have appeared! I’m excited about it! Not to sure of the type of fig though.

Thank you ❤

Hey Ross, great informative video. I have a fig tree that my wife and her mom got me years ago. It was about two or 3 feet high when we first planted it. Was told that these fig trees should grow on the east side of the home where the sun rises. So it’s been on that side of the house. The first year at fruited it was very productive. Then One year we had very cold weather, below zero and it died after growing almost 6 to 8 feet. But then the few years following it grew crazy. And every year we have several hundred to 1000 or more Figs. You mention to protect them in the winter if you can… What if they are 10 feet or taller? How do you protect them then? It’s now getting in to fall, there are maybe 20 or so. Figs left that haven’t changed or ripened. And there are quite a few branches close to the ground that I wanted to prune back so that the fig tree grows upward instead of outward. The other question I had was, should I prune these or just let them grow? And thanks again for the great video…