My Edible Fruit Trees: Fig Trees QLD

Fig - Brown Turkey (Cutting) ^7/10

Growing: In a Pot

Sun/Shade: Medium Sun

Pollination: Self Pollination

Fig - Brown Turkey

Fig White Adriatic

Comments: -

Also a new excel- both in pots. The excel is covered in fruit in its first year, the white adriatic is reliable (but not many fruit at a time so far).

Fruiting Months January, February, March, December

Planted: 2010

Height 1 metres

Growing: In a Pot

Pollination: Self Pollination

Fig Black Genoa (Cutting) ^7/10

Comments: - Fruit looks delicious

Planted: 2017

Height 50 Centimetres

Growing: In the Ground

Water Given in: Spring

Pruned By: 50% in Spring

Pollination: Self Pollination

Fig - Sandpaper

Comments: -

Brand new to my garden. I'm excited!

Going into a pot with compost and a little organic slow release native fertiliser in there. Mulched heavily, given seasol and worm wee until settled.

EDIT: Jan 2019. I left repotting a full fortnight after it arrived, and it was starting to look dreadful- too big for its little seedling pot. I ended up flicking all the soil off the roots, trimming the root stock back by half, and taking half the top off it, then repotting. Left out the fertiliser, and just used mild woodbark compost. Wondered if I'd killed it, as it lost a few leaves and sat looking sad for a few days, but then BOOM. It was off. Lovely little bushy thing. I'm calling it one of my tough nuts. Gets watered every few days, in a 20L pot which it is slowly filling, and in part shade- it gets sun from about 7-8am depending on season, and is in shade by 12. Have never fertilised, and it does great. Will be repotting when it starts to get cool, and I'll top dress with a mild fertiliser then. 

Qty: 1

Pollination: No

Fig - Picone Green

Planted: 2008

Height 1 metres

Growing: In a Pot

Qty: 1

Fruit Harvest: 3 Fruit Per Year

First Fruited: 6 Months from Purchase in Pot

Sun/Shade: Medium Sun

Water Given in: Spring

Pruned By: 30% in Spring

Pollination: Self Pollination

When I Fertilise: Winter and Spring

Pest Control: Keep in pot in chicken mesh covered chook run to keep pests off. Beetle borers have got in in and destroyed the trunks. 

Fig ^5/10

Height 0.5 metres

Growing: In the Ground

Qty: 1

Sun/Shade: Full Sun

Fig - Strangler ^5/10

Height 5 metres

Qty: 1

Sun/Shade: Medium Sun

Dwarf Fig - Brown

Planted: 2016

Growing: In a Pot

Sun/Shade: Medium Sun

Water Given in: Spring

Pollination: Self Pollination

Fig Black Genoa

Height 1.5 metres

Growing: In a Pot

Sun/Shade: Medium Sun

Water Given in: Spring

Pollination: Self Pollination

Fig - Sandpaper (Cutting) ^10/10

Comments: - Fruited immediately after arrival, purchased from Daleys. First couple of fruit dropped off, placed it next to my fruiting local Ficus opposita for cross pollination. Resulting handful of fruit large (grape sized) and lovely tangy strawberry flavour. No splitting even during a near record Cairns Wet Season. I pinched out the top and it is shooting and setting fruit again.

Fruiting Months March

Planted: 2018

Height 1 metres

Growing: In a Pot

Qty: 1

Fruit Harvest: 0.1 kilograms per Year

Sun/Shade: Low Sun

Pollination: Cross Pollination

Cross Pollinator Variety: F.opposita

Fertiliser or Organics Used: rooster booster

When I Fertilise: When Fruiting

Pest Control: none

Fig Black Genoa (Grafted) ^10/10

Comments: - Grafted to Sandpaper Fig. Fruits almost continually in Cairns with progressive leaf fall & fruit set; short dormant period in june/july/august. Fruits are large and tasty with minimal fruit splitting in extreme wet weather

Fruiting Months January, February, March, April, May, September, October, November, December

Height 1.5 metres

Growing: In the Ground

Qty: 1

Fruit Harvest: 10 kilograms per Year

First Fruited: 0.5 Years from purchase in pot

Sun/Shade: Full Sun

Water Given in: Spring

Pollination: No

Fertiliser or Organics Used: rooster booster

When I Fertilise: Yearly

Pest Control: neem spray on bugs

Organic Status:Pesticides Used

Fig - Brown Turkey (Cutting) ^8/10

Fruiting Months January and February

Planted: 2015

Height 0.8 metres

Growing: In a Pot

Qty: 1

Fruit Harvest: 2 Fruit Per Year

First Fruited: 6 Months from Purchase in Pot

Sun/Shade: Medium Sun

Pollination: No

Fig - Sandpaper Birds Eye (Cutting) ^10/10

Comments: -

I purchased this tree from Daleys only a few weeks ago and it is already fruiting at less than a metre high! Nearly 10 figs I have counted, which is more than the leaves that are on the tree! Not sure whether they will drop or not, but I am quite astounded. Arrived in excellent condition, growing in large pot. 

Update: all but 2 figs dropped. But these 2 are almost full sized :)

Planted: 2018

Height 40 Centimetres

First Fruited: 0.2 Months from Purchase in Pot

Sun/Shade: Medium Sun

Water Given in: Spring

Pest Control:  

Fig Black Genoa

Fig - Sandpaper

Fig Black Genoa

Qty: 2

Sun/Shade: Full Sun

Fig Black Genoa

Fig Black Genoa

Fig - Brown Turkey

Fig - White

Qty: 1

Pollination: No

Fig - Brown Turkey

Height 1.5 metres

Growing: In the Ground

Qty: 1

Pollination: No

Fig White Adriatic

Height 1.5 metres

Growing: In the Ground

Qty: 1

Pollination: No

Fig - Sandpaper

Planted: 2016

Height 1.5 metres

Qty: 2

Pollination: No

Fig Black Genoa

Height 1.5 metres

Growing: In the Ground

Qty: 1

Pollination: No

Fig - Brown Turkey (Grafted) ^4/10

Comments: - never had a fresh fig. Growing this in dwarf as an espalier

Planted: 2015

Growing: In the Ground

First Fruited: 6 Years from purchase in pot

Sun/Shade: Full Sun

Water Given in: Spring

Pollination: Self Pollination

Fertiliser or Organics Used: dynamic lifter

Pest Control: none

Organic Status:Organic

Fig Black Genoa (Grafted) ^5/10

Growing: In the Ground

Qty: 1

Sun/Shade: Full Sun

Water Given in: Spring

Pollination: Self Pollination

Pest Control: none

Organic Status:Organic

Fig - Blue Provence (Cutting) ^7/10

Height 0.4 metres

Growing: In a Pot

Qty: 1

Pollination: No