Re: Planting a Fig Tree

	To Robert Finkel:
	My wife and I bought a fourplex. While the building was sound, the
plantings outside were miserable. We took out everything but a giant black
acacia, Acacia melanoxylon, that the city wouldn't let us take out!. One of
things we took out was a miserable FIG!!
	It was right next to the sidewalk. Someone previously had cut it
off at ground level when it was about eight inches across. Five sprouts had
grown up till they were almost as big. They splayed out like the fingers of
an open hand and dropped big leaves and figs all over. They fouled the
sidewalk and I was thoroughly unhappy with it and was glad to take it out,
this time completely!!
	I consider it a rank grower and a dirty tree. Somehow what I saw
did not look like a good candidate for an espalier! Try a peach or an
apricot (or anything but a fig!) I don't think you will have any trouble
getting fruit if my experience is a guide!!
	---Chas---
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>Nancy,
>
>A friend of mine who lives in Berkeley, CA has a great fig. I'm not sure of
>the variety, but the fruit has purple centers when ripe and the tree is
>prolific. She had enough over-ripe fruit once to make a delicious, creamy
>fig ice cream. Great. When the tree blew over two winters ago, several
>'offspring' appeared from the roots. I dug up a couple and held them in a
>pot for a year. I planted out one in the garden last year in my heavy clay
>soil. It's still small, but already is forming fruit. At least in this
>climate, confining the roots doesn't seem to be necessary.
>
>Bob Finkel
>
>>Subject: Planting a Fig Tree
>>Author:  flamenco@bc.sympatico.ca at ~INTERNET
>>Date:    10/28/98 8:57 AM
>>
>>
>> I've been given a good rooted cutting of a fig tree in a one-gallon
>>pot. I was told the cultivar is "Genoa". I want to plant it this
>>weekend and I'm hoping for a bit of advice.
>> The spot I've chosen is on the south wall of my garden shed --
>>the wall space is about 8' x 8'. (I want to try to prune it and train
>>it to keep it reasonably flat against the wall) The subsoil here is
>>very sandy and gravelly.
>>        My question is this: Two different magazine articles I'vecome
>>across say it's important to restrict the roots or I'll wait
>>forever for fruit production. One article said to dig a huge hole and
>>fill it with lots of big rocks before planting. The other article
>>said to plant the fig in a 15 gallon plastic pot and to sink the
>>whole pot. Before I do anything that's really too bizarre, I thought
>>I'd ask for help. Thanks in advance.
>>
>> Nancy Jakusz
>> Southern Vancouver Island -- Canada -- Zone 7/8
>> (We're at the height of beautiful fall colour right now!)
>>

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