Fertilizing Fig Trees for Simplicity: When & What I Use

[@RossRaddi]

You can find links to all the fertilizers I use in the description and for more on fertilizing fig trees, check out my detailed article here: www.figboss.com/post/fertilizing-fig-trees-a-guide-to-optimal-growth

[@khalildurranai1825]

I went through the whole article on fertilizing fig trees, and it was really interesting and helpful. Thanks

[@nolagirlhomestead]

Lucky to have organic compost co that sells unfiltered compost. It's gathered from local restaurants and contains small oyster shells. Great thing in the garden 👍🏽

[@pearlablewoman2815]

This approach to fertilizing figs trees is SO SIMPLE! This is what I need. The links to the items are very helpful. Thank you so much!!

[@RossRaddi]

Glad it was helpful!

[@GrowingWhatIEat]

Great information. Thanks for sharing and explaining 👍

[@taraskorzhak153]

Thanks for your guidance, Ross! If it weren’t for your videos, I wouldn’t have over 50 fig trees in my backyard. I usually don’t comment on videos , but I wanted to share how helpful his videos are for anyone interested in starting fig growing.

[@RossRaddi]

So nice of you. Thank you!

[@tarekharb8978]

Great video, Ross. Just keep it simple and enjoy the growing season . See ya, buddy .

[@RossRaddi]

Thanks, you too!

[@RayRay-dr7og]

I have a koi/gold fish pond, and I usually water my figs with the pond water, and spread all that pond waste in and around the figs. I also buy mushroom soil for the vegetable garden, and the figs. Using that pond water is like miracle grow lol.

[@BattleAx342]

I live along the coast in Georgetown SC. I just went and got a 1/2 5gal bucket of Oyster shells today for the recycling areas we have in our town. Put them on my grill for about 30 min let cool and crushed them up. I just added the Oyster shells I crushed up to my fig tree in the ground and containers. It might just be me put all the fig trees leaves are pointing up just like when add fertilizer to my garden. I just got a really nice Kadota fig from the nursery yesterday growing this one in a 18gal container. Great video...

[@causeforchrist4730]

Excellent guidance-thanks Ross!

[@RossRaddi]

My pleasure!

[@lukeott58]

Nice work. I have a hard time finding some of the products that you mentioned. Especially 50lb bags. The smaller bags are so expensive. Oyster shells is news for me but now that I know about it I can search for it. Thanks for sharing this info and I appreciate your advice 😊

[@lynseybender]

Love all your videos ❤

[@MatthewsFabrication]

@RossRaddi Just curious if you noticed you have less Fig rust after using Diatomaceous Earth as a top dressing?

[@RossRaddi]

I've had very little to none compared to years ago. It could be the humidity levels of recent years. However, I'm confident that the increase in silica is helping.

[@MatthewsFabrication]

​@RossRaddi That's good to hear. I'm in St George, Utah where it's Hot & dry like Arizona. I just started get small spots of Fig Rust, but I think it's from my Sprinklers. I have the pots where they can get the most sun back behind my concrete grass curbing about a foot or two, I have 5 varieties so far. And the sprinklers get the leaves wet a little 3 times a day 3 times a week... I think I need to add sprinkler spray guards to my heads so the Figs stay dry. I watched your other video about Fig Rust from 3 years ago & I knew I watched a video about Diatomaceous earth & I bought the same bag you did, but couldn't remember where I saw the video when it came to applying it, finally found this video last night, so I'm applying it today... mine doesn't like as powdery as yours though, hope it still works well. Thanks again, Matthew

[@dominictomasino3707]

Ross can i do this in Florida? I am new youninspired me to start growing figs starting with 15 varieties

[@danielaredi-pessin8588]

Hi there, love all the information but I have a special request, what kind of fertilizer do you recommend if I'm growing a "ficus carica" small tree in a cointainer indoors. Yes, indoors! I have a wonderful window will tons of light and will have to try this as I have no outdoor area. Just confused as which will be the best numbers for N, P, K Thank you!

[@RossRaddi]

This is what I use: amzn.to/3XwsENo

[@RossRaddi]

A 10-10-10 is great. Or a 20-10-20 is even better.

[@stevendaniel8126]

Common Sense Rules !!!! What a guy.....😊😊😊

[@dougzuckerman]

Hey Ross - What do you do with all the leftover fertilizer beads in the soil at the end of the season? Don’t they keep accumulating year after year? Do you remove the top layer of soil and beads each year?

[@RossRaddi]

I leave them. I'm not exactly sure what happens to them. Eventually they breakdown into salt, which one of the main complaints against chemical fertilizers.

[@superdave336]

Which CaliberCote did you get?

[@RossRaddi]

18-6-12, 5-6 Months.

[@Omoloya1]

Thank you both.

[@superdave336]

@@RossRaddi Thank you Ross

[@philipmartin9351]

Im new at this, just going with homemade compost & some espoma organic stuff and will see if we get fruit - I worry about using chemical pellets in edible plants

[@mattluedtke5458]

Appreciate the videos, new subscriber, what npk, of osmocote do u suggest??

[@RossRaddi]

Anything in between a 10-10-10 to 20-10-20.

[@Chris-bx4vk]

Would love to see you and ncgardener debate. Osmacote, pinching, etc. Both of you are so knowledgeable, the perspectives would be interesting.

[@ngohung49]

Thank you do much 🎉so informative

[@RossRaddi]

Glad it was helpful!

[@user-su5du9ln8r]

I seem to recall that rice hull was among your soil amendments. Over 90% of the weight of rice hull is silica.

[@RossRaddi]

Too expensive nowadays.

[@NYHunter27]

Hi Ross, is that a 5 gallon trade pot you’re referring to in the video? Thanks!

[@RossRaddi]

Yes.

[@NYHunter27]

@@RossRaddi thanks dude!

[@anthonyscalise3090]

Where did you buy that Caliber Cote? Online?

[@RossRaddi]

I got it locally actually. Nolts greenhouse supply.

[@esmeraldareitz849]

Hi Ross thanks for all your videos. I’m using the 3 products as shown. It’s quite different than what I did last year. My ? Do you not give any soluble wkly ?

[@RossRaddi]

Not anymore. It's more work.

[@deaconseptember2002]

I see you have a big bag of the ozmocote. I didn't catch the trade name of that product and/or a link to where it can be purchased. Would appreciate knowing that. Thanks.

[@RossRaddi]

I got it locally actually. Nolts greenhouse supply.

[@deaconseptember2002]

@@RossRaddi thanks, Ross.

[@edslim718]

Hey Ross - great video thanks! Question: in the past, you've talked about fig plants loving sulfur. You covered all nutrients in this video except for sulfur. Do you still add extra sulfur? And if so, how do you do that? That's the mineral I am struggling with. I add green sand, azomite and biochar. Am I covered?

[@RossRaddi]

It's in the slow release fertilizer I use. You can also use gypsum.

[@edslim718]

@@RossRaddi You rock!!! TY very much. That's what I needed

[@evanborge494]

Can you use ground up egg shells instead of oyster shells

[@RossRaddi]

Absolutely. That would be nice.

[@chrisfisher3900]

You can use gypsum as well for calcium. Doesn’t affect PH but helps condition soil. Also really cheap

[@khalildurranai1825]

Hi Ross, suppose, I have only di-ammonium phosphate and urea(nitrogen) chemical fertilizers, what are your recommendations and advice for me to fertilizing my fig trees? Thank you

[@RossRaddi]

Have you completed a soil test, Khalil?

[@khalildurranai1825]

@@RossRaddi Ross,I am your fan from Afghanistan south, and you might better understand this region that isn’t as much developed as the rest of the world. Whatever fertilizers we have here, are imported and the quality isn’t assured as well. unfortunately, I didn’t complete the soil test, and the concept of soil and water PH is just limited to agriculture and horticulture books.🤔 Everyone here is just using di-ammonium phosphate(DAP) in late winter and Urea(nitrogen) in early spring for agriculture and horticulture purposes despite considering the PH. More, as per my observation after watering the plants, the soil surface seems acidic due to deep well water. Thanks for your kind responses to my comments. ❤️

[@Abbasshahsso]

Thanks for valuable information s ,I mostly use bone s,rusted nail s ,ash &cow dung .One you recommend can’t be available at Islamabad.

[@joshuaphilbert7995]

You didn't mention Azomite at all in the video unless i missed it, and ive read that osmocote fertilizer uses microplastics. Have you heard anything on that or is it even worth being bothered with?

[@Califigging]

azomite is rock dust

[@GrowsTheCoastSD]

I did a fun experiment with some cuttings Im’ growing in pots with low nutrient sandy soil. They took off growing very well from small cuttings and some have grown over three feet with plenty of growing season left, but the leaves were a sickly yellow. So I started peeing in a 5 gallon bucket and diluting the urine with water and giving it to the trees. In less than two weeks the leaves changed to a healthy green. LOL, free fertilizer

[@CubanMofo]

I water my fig trees everyday during this time . My trees are full on green leaves with fruit forming already.

[@NYHunter27]

Great video, Ross! Do you ever use fish emulsion? Thanks

[@RossRaddi]

If I were to use something organic, it would be that.

[@beskamir5977]

I think specific amounts of everything would be appreciated for those of us who'd use different fertilizers... so ummm I did the math :) The slow release fertilizer results in the following percentages for the lower bound of about 0.5L/40L application and the higher bound of about 1L/40L application. N: 0.1875, 0.375 P: 0.1125, 0.225 K: 0.15, 0.3 Mg: 0.01625, 0.0325 S: 0.075, 0.15 B: 0.00025, 0.0005 Cu: 0.00075, 0.0015 Fe: 0.00575, 0.0115 Mn: 0.00075, 0.0015 Mo: 0.00025, 0.0005 Zn: 0.000625, 0.00125 So for example, according to the first fertilizer's concentrations, you'd want the final amount of nitrogen to be somewhere between 0.1875% and 0.375% of the total soil volume over the course of a 6 month period. For fast release fertilizers I'd probably use weekly or biweekly applications. So every other week, I'd add somewhere between 0.016% to 0.031% of the pot's volume (could be mass too since water's density is 1 and healthy soil with lots of organic matter should be around that density too) of nitrogen fertilizer. Calculating the rest of the values is left as an exercise to the reader.

[@johnaustin8089]

Most plants, even vegetable plants benefit from a fungal dominate soil. Now brassica like spinach, kale, radish prefer bacterial dominate soils.

[@edslim718]

What does bacteria in the soil do?

[@JonSteitzer]

Fig Tree Jared Leto is the man