My Edible Fruit Trees: Fig Trees VIC

Brown Turkey Fig ^10/10

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I have two brown turkey figs. Both are in pots. One is having developing figs while the other was thought dead till it started to produce green buds and now leaves. Am very very estatic that it is alive and glad that I did not give up and bin it...It is from Fleming's nursery.

The other one is just another brown turkey fig tree from a normal nursery and was much cheaper.However, this brown turkey tree did far better than the Fleming's in terms of growth/development and in fact figs from both trees taste equally good.

Fruiting Months January, October, November, December

Planted: 2009

Growing: In a Pot

Fruit Harvest: 10 Fruit Per Year

Sun/Shade: Medium Sun

Water Given in: Spring

Pollination: No

Fertiliser or Organics Used: Worm poo, homemade compost, seasol

When I Fertilise: When Fruiting and Winter

Pest Control:

No sprays but netting done to deter birds.

Organic Status:Organic

Fig (Cutting)

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Don't know the name of this one,

yellow fruit, very sweet

Fruiting Months February, March, April

Planted: 2008

Height 2 metres

Growing: In the Ground

Qty: 1

Water Given in: Spring

Fig ^9/10

Comments: - Planted by previous owner. Fruits very prolifically.

Fruiting Months March and April

Planted: 2007

Height 2.5 metres

Qty: 1

Fruit Harvest: 5 kilograms per Year

Sun/Shade: Medium Sun

Water Given in: Winter

Pollination: Self Pollination

Organic Status:Organic

Fig - Black Genoa

Planted: 2009

Height 1 metres

Growing: In the Ground

Fig - black Genoa (Grafted) ^9/10

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My partner bought me this fig tree. It gave us 5 fruits in its first year but I had to remove it to relief any stress caused during transplant. It lost all its leaves during winter but is showing sign of new growth now that spring is close. We put it in the ground and will be planning on pruning it to give a compact easy to manage tree as space is a limiting factor in our garden.

Other than the dog, it doesn't seem to have issues with pest. We give it plenty of manure and have grown it directly in the space where our compost bin used to be, hopefully the soil around the area received plenty of nutrients of the bin in previous years.

Update after winter: Lots of fruit like buds and leaves.

Fruiting Months February, May, June, July

Planted: 2012

Height 1.1 metres

Growing: In the Ground

First Fruited: 2 Months from Purchase in Pot

Sun/Shade: Medium Sun

Water Given in: Autumn and Spring

Pruned By: 20% in Autumn and Winter

Pollination: Self Pollination

Fertiliser or Organics Used: Manure and power feed

When I Fertilise: When Fruiting

Organic Status:Organic

Fig - St Dominque (Cutting)

Fig Brown Turky

Comments: - I had to remove this plant due to its invasive roots. Have taken cuttings and hope to grow in a pot.

Planted: 2004

Height 2.5 metres

Growing: In the Ground

Sun/Shade: Medium Sun

Pollination: No

Organic Status:Organic

Fig colections (Cutting) ^9/10

Comments: - All grow in pots size 430mm to 510mm . They are : Adam, Adam pride, Alma, Archipal, Black Genoa, Black Adam, Blackbutt, Black Mission, Blue Provence, Black Ischia, Black Madeira, Black Tuscan, Black Silicia, Brown Turkey, Brogiotto Nero, Celeste, Clancy, Conadria, Cyprus Honey, Deanna, Dessert King, Digger Purple Heart, Dotatto, Exel, Flanders, Golden Genoa, Golden Riverside, Goutte D'or, Hivenenca, Horai, Jenny Smith Blue, LSU Gold, Lemon lennie, Mary Lane seedless, MBVS, Panache, Paradiso, Peter Good, Peter Honey, Preston Prolific, Purple Virgilante, Purple Adam, RDB, Spanish Dessert, St Dominique Violette, Sandpaper Birds Eye, Strawberry Vert, Tena, Violet De Bordeaux, VDS, White Adriatic, White Genoa, Zidi, Capri type 1,2,3  and many unk green, Yellow, Brown and violet/black figs. Planted from 2017-2020

Fruiting Months January, February, March, April

Growing: In a Pot

Qty: 100

Sun/Shade: Full Sun

Water Given in: Spring

Pollination: Self Pollination

When I Fertilise: When Fruiting

Organic Status:Organic

Fig Deanna (Cutting) ^9/10

Comments: - There were only two fig types at bunnings, brown turkey and black genoa and wanted a bit more variety. I purchased this 2 year old bare-root fig tree from an online eBay nursery. Its supposed to have light greenish-yellow flesh and a tasty pulp. Its currently growing in a cut 200L drum. The cut drum is self watering and promotes healthier root system through air pruining. The fig has just started to produce some foilage. Potting mix is the same as my other figs. 1:1:1 coconut coir, potting mix and compost mixed in with dynamic lifter.

Planted: 2016

Height 0.8 metres

Growing: In a Pot

Qty: 1

Sun/Shade: Full Sun

Water Given in: Winter

Pollination: Self Pollination

Fertiliser or Organics Used: Dynamic Lifter, blood and bone, nitrosol

Organic Status:Organic

Fig White Adriatic

Planted: 2009

Height 0.25 metres

Growing: In a Pot

Sun/Shade: Medium Sun

Pollination: No

Fig White Genoa (Cutting) ^10/10

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Saw this at bunnings and quickly snapped it up. It was purchased as an advanced tree (250mm pot) about  2 years old and about 1.2m tall. 3 weeks later it has about 16 figs growing on it.  It has been transplanted in a 25L bucket in general potting mix ammended with compost, dolomite lime, sulphate of potash and dynamic lifter. I'll update on how the figs taste, size e.t.c.

Update:

The fruit is quite sweet, even sweeter if left for longer on the tree. The sie of the fig is around 85g in weight. The fruit are succeptible to splitting if it rains while they are on the brink of ripening. Great eating fig!

Fruiting Months January, February, March

Planted: 2016

Height 1.2 metres

Growing: In a Pot

Qty: 1

First Fruited: 1 Months from Purchase in Pot

Sun/Shade: Full Sun

Water Given in: Spring

Pollination: Self Pollination

Fertiliser or Organics Used: Dynamic Lifter, sulphate of potash

When I Fertilise: When Fruiting and Spring

Organic Status:Organic

Fig-\'Preston\'s Prolific\' (Cutting)

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Dwarf Fig - Brown (Cutting) ^10/10

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I purchased this fig in Late November and planted it in a 300mm pot with a protting mix of 30-30-30% coconut coir, compost and potting mix and mixed with organic fertilizer and some lime. Within 3 weeks it started to produce figs as well as push new growth. I will update on the taste of the figs and and growth behaviour.

UPDATE:

So it has fruited! The fruit is medium size and quite sweet. The tree itself has doubled in height and still growing despite it having fruit on it. Highly recommended! 

Fruiting Months January, February, March, April, December

Planted: 2016

Height 0.4 metres

Growing: In a Pot

Qty: 1

First Fruited: 1 Months from Purchase in Pot

Sun/Shade: Full Sun

Water Given in: Spring

Pollination: Self Pollination

Fertiliser or Organics Used: Dynamic lifter, sulphate of potash

When I Fertilise: When Fruiting and Spring

Organic Status:Certified

Comments

FB - Have some grafted cherimoyas if your interested - marcus05australia at yahoo com au can swap honey gold for some dwarf brown come winter?

I have sent you an email.

Dwarf Fig - Brown (Cutting) ^10/10

Planted: 2018

Height 1 metres

Growing: In the Ground

First Fruited: 1 Years from purchase in pot

Sun/Shade: Full Sun

Water Given in: Winter

Pollination: Self Pollination

Pest Control: nil

Organic Status:Organic

Fig - Sandpaper Birds Eye (Cutting) ^9/10

Comments: - Looked interesting and I love native plants. Native plants that I can eat are even better.  Growing in pot for 7 months, has really taken off since October (four months old then) and now growing about 13 fruits that I can see.

Planted: 2018

Height 1 metres

Growing: In a Pot

Qty: 1

First Fruited: 7 Months from Purchase in Pot

Sun/Shade: Full Sun

Water Given in: Spring

Pollination: Self Pollination

Organic Status:Organic

Fig - Blue Provence (Cutting)

Fig - Brown Turkey

Fig - Brown Turkey

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Has always grown well and been disease free however not one fruit in all the years it has been in. Will move this winter to a much hotter area of the garden.

Height 160 Centimetres

Growing: In the Ground

Qty: 1

Sun/Shade: Medium Sun

Water Given in: Spring

Pollination: No

Pest Control:

Fig - Brown Turkey

Fig - Brown Turkey

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Struck from a sucker from a friend's tree around 1993. Took quite a few years to establish. I do nothing to it - water only in the hottest part of summer and has never been fertilised. Fruiting well last few years after a heavy prune to keep it under 2m ... and I now actually GET the fruit since I started netting it from the birds! Lovely fruit when dried.

Planted: 1993

Height 2 metres

Growing: In the Ground

Qty: 1

Sun/Shade: Medium Sun

Pollination: No

Fig - Brown Turkey (Grafted)

Comments: -

very prolific

Fruiting Months March, April, May

Planted: 2007

Height 2.5 metres

Fruit Harvest: 40 Fruit Per Year

Sun/Shade: Full Sun

Water Given in: Summer

Fertiliser or Organics Used: complete

When I Fertilise: Spring

Organic Status:Organic

Comments

Fig - Brown Turkey

Height 1 Feet

Growing: In a Pot

Qty: 1

Water Given in: Winter

Fig - Brown Turkey (Cutting) ^9/10

Fig - Brown Turkey (Cutting) ^9/10

Comments: - Growing extremely well in full sun with watering. Cutting has already branched out.

Growing: In a Pot

Qty: 1

Sun/Shade: Full Sun

Pollination: Self Pollination

Organic Status:Organic

Fig - Brown Turkey (Cutting) ^8/10

Planted: 2017

Growing: In a Pot

Sun/Shade: Full Sun

Water Given in: Spring

Pollination: Self Pollination

When I Fertilise: Yearly

Fig - Brown Turkey (Seedling) ^7/10

Water Given in: Spring

Fig - Brown Turkey

Fig - Brown Turkey

Fig - Brown Turkey (Cutting) ^9/10

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This was my first fig tree. I was tired of purchasing bland figs (that are picked too early) from the store so i decided to purchase some fig trees. This one was purchased from Bunnings who inturn got them from Humphries nursery.  Potting mix is 30% coconut coir, 30%pootting mix and 30% compost. I mixed in with a handful of dynamic lifter and some blood and bone and planted it into a 300mm pot. 

Update (Oct 2016): The tree is rapidly growing and responds really well to charlie carp organic

Planted: 2016

Height 0.7 metres

Growing: In a Pot

Qty: 1

Sun/Shade: Full Sun

Water Given in: Spring

Pollination: Self Pollination

Fertiliser or Organics Used: Dynamic Lifter, nitrosol

Organic Status:Certified

Comments

Hi Figbarron, Since you have variety of different figs, wanted to know how they both compare with the quality of fruit. I got a brown turkey (planted in ground) this year, but heard that it has the least tasty fruit of all figs. Don't want to waste time and effort on a fig that it mediocre. Got a white adriatic and violette de bordeaux this year as well (both kept in pots). Regards, Devang.