Top 10 reasons why no figs on your fig tree

In this video I explain why you're not getting fig production on your fig trees and what needs to be done to rectify this situation with the right actions from you.
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[@sami23547]

I live in Raleigh, I am growing fig tree for three years but it doesn’t produce one fruit also,but tree is growing massively.

[@glennquagmire1747]

I live in New York, planted cuttings straight into the ground and its produces excellent figs after three years, winter time i put hay around base to protect roots from freezing and then i trim back fig trees n wrap black plastic around fig tree leaving little opening at top to vent excess heat, so far everything is fine.

[@geraldinebusch]

Many good pointers! I'm guilty of underfeeding, which I realized in your other video "The fig I choose above all" So glad I have what I need to remedy that! Thanks!!

[@Mona-fd5kf]

Thank you . I live in California and this my first fig tree. The first year I thought it was dead but, it was not and I was able to revive it. Now it is beautiful and in a pot, but no fruit. So now I know I have to wait another year or two. Thank you again for sharing your knowledge.

[@krisachar]

Thanks for this informative video and it was very helpful.

[@gabrielbodnariuc]

Thanks for the tips. We're on the South Shore of Montréal. Looks like more or less the same wheather.Great help!

[@shaneyaw4542]

I live in Hawaii and the researchers at the tropical agriculture department of our university demonstrated that the quantity and quality of figs are improved in our climate. I rooted a 2" bud that I doubted would even grow but within 3 months it grew to be 14" with at least ten figs. Now, it has been about six months and the tree is approximately 24" and it is loaded with figs. So, I would wonder if it may be the climate that is the biggest factor.

[@adam_1144]

A family friend who lives in Hawaii said nothing grows there except palm trees and pineapples due to the soil. Do you have a similar experience or know what he was referring to?

[@wsmaga]

@@adam_1144citrus grows extremely good in Hawaii.

[@Barrytong]

I am in Hong Kong. Thank for your video. I got the fig cutting and ut grow healthy. However, it have no fig and now I know I need waiting. Thanks

[@propyro85]

Thanks for the advice. I've had a Brown Turkish Fig tree for ~7 years and had been wondering why I rarely get more than 3-7 tiny figs a year from it. Next step is to figure out how to make it branch out.

[@upupandaway5646]

Great information thank you 😊

[@gmastacey5061]

I grow my fig tree's for both fruit and foliage. The leaves can be dried and made into lovely tea. As well as tinctures and extracts, medicinally beneficial and very tasty too 😉

[@jessicashifflett3905]

N is Nitrogen, P is for PHOSPHORUS, and K is for POTASSIUM. I think the video author meant to say phosphorus because they also mention using bone meal which helps add phosphorus to the soil.

[@inharmonywithearth9982]

My favorite fig quit producing once I began nitrogen fertilizing. A 10 year mystery solved once I stopped the nitrogen but took a year to use it out of the soil. It also lost its winter hardiness during those pampered nitrogen rich years. Now she is back in production.

[@RKfigs]

I'm glad to hear about your success. Too much nitrogen can be harmful. 👍

[@inharmonywithearth9982]

@@justafig White Marseille, the real one from the Thomas Jefferson Garden fig tree's cutting

[@rauljimenez8132]

You have to switch to Bloom fertilizer depending on the season, do not forget that figs are inverted flowers.

[@AyZeD]

I think you need potassium for fruit, nitrogen is for leaves and phosphorous is for roots, if I'm remembering that right lol

[@GardenerEarthGuy]

Peter's Professional Liquid STEM is something to look into.

[@Miami-zh4ld]

Thanks for your helpful video. Today I bought a bone meal fertilizer but not sure when to use it, some of my fig trees have a little fruit already. I don t want them to soak some chemical.

[@CaroleMcDonnell]

Thank you so much

[@ellieabk7659]

Great information 👍👍👍

[@RKfigs]

I'm glad you enjoyed it 👍

[@johnclarke6647]

Health of the cutting and the tree it came from is the most important part of selecting cuttings. I put out 31 cuttings from my new Galaxy and Pink Lady apple trees plus one from a questionable Ox Heart plum and an excellent Heart of Georgia peach tree. The apple scions and peach tree scions rooted well. The plum was iffy at best. They were all rooted in the same medium and same root e Han Dr. they were all watered at the same interval. The apples and peach tree scions rooted well. They plum not so well. Each variety had about 8 rootings, but the apples may have had more than the other two by a slight margin.

[@dishevela]

The 10 reasons start at 1:43

[@eddyarseneau4822]

Great video

[@RKfigs]

Thank you for your nice comment 👍

[@lablvr6000]

good video 👍

[@Lord_Joseph17]

I'm in Québec North of Montreal👍... I noticed you keep yours in 5gal buckets for inside winter isolation

[@RKfigs]

yes, watch my winterization video kzbin.info/www/bejne/b2i1apKdhbqhqJo

[@Pure-Crystal-Fire]

Thank you from North Wales where it's pretty cold ! Just got 2 on the way to me as I type, thanks for all the tips . God bless you and yours and your plants :)

[@RKfigs]

Thanks for watching cheers!

[@Pure-Crystal-Fire]

@@RKfigs And thank you Sir for giving us your knowledge, and sharing your experiences with these beautiful plants :)

[@nabillayoun3973]

I'm thinking to move my fig trees into a good size cardboard box that is caged with chicken wire . The reason is . I'd like to place the boxes on the ground where our ducks were roaming all winter when they were out of thier housing . The cardboard can absorb all excess watering. Some roots could penetrate the cardboard. It's easier for them to stretch . And the cardboard can soak in some of the Nutrients from the soil where the ducks spent thier winter days. Also I believe it's easier to move the tree from a cardboard box into thier winter container to go into a cold room I have for them in the basement?

[@nabillayoun3973]

@@Pure-Crystal-Fire I like you name . Pure fire of God

[@Pure-Crystal-Fire]

@@nabillayoun3973 Well hey I have just got my 2 little trees about 8 inches high or so. it sound's like a good plan for sure, but would the water and any rain wash the soil away over time I wander Nabil ? God bless you Sir :)) I love it when I find fellow believers in the Lord who created all these things :))

[@jameskownacki8639]

I live in pennsylvania. What would be a good fig tree to start with here ? Can I plant it in the soil ?

[@janiteeter4896]

How about some figs like celeste... in my second year she grew like mad and looked healthy but only two figs as she dropped most of them. I did some research and from what I can tell Celeste when young is known to do that? Is there something I can do to avoid that in this years cuttings next year?

[@conniecasale3593]

Love FIGS. IVE TRIED SO MANY TIMES. I DONT LIKE SPENDING 4 or $5 dollars for 2 FIGD. THATS CRAZY 😜

[@jonnyv5428]

Hoping you see this even though it's been over a year but is that a Loquat tree at the very beginning of the video?

[@bjl1226]

How are you setting up your buckets? Hole size? Mediumm Bottom liner? Medium? Mulch/cover? Watering frequency? Tha ks in advance Bobby. Zone 8B

[@muhammadkallouj5638]

What about getting a tree from seed? Thank you

[@melenelewis2955]

Great tips thanks. What growing medium do you use please?

[@RKfigs]

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[@jameskownacki8639]

I just subscibed !

[@drea4195]

The P you are emphasizing for fruit production is Phosphorus. You may want to put a correction in there somewhere.

[@lelaqualls8041]

I live in California have a fig years get a bumper crop every year healthy tree yet the figs dry up befor they ripen why???

[@pinayletbuhayamerica]

Can I buy purple figs to plants pls.

[@monteceitomoocher]

I know little about figs but I've grown one from seed from a supermarket fruit, it's doing quite well in my workshop!, how do i proceed from here?.

[@RKfigs]

I think you need to watch this kzbin.info/www/bejne/hInSonuDnc6Kibc

[@JJ-gx3ir]

hmm looks like my original comment got filtered... was trying to ask where can i find the tomato tone in canada,, cant seem to find it anywhere

[@RKfigs]

rkfigs.ca/product/tomatotone/

[@kicknadeadcat]

90% of my cuttings produced figs the first year. Usually around a dozen or more. Most ripened. Only a few of the long season varieties didn't ripen because they were started too late. All my second-year trees produced figs. It's all in how you feed the soil not the tree.

[@RKfigs]

That's fantastic. It sounds like you're in a warm region of the world.

[@kicknadeadcat]

@@RKfigs if you call Pennsylvania warm

[@almitamontes3897]

Can you please explain to me what do u use ? How often you water it ? I live in zone 9 Ocala fl

[@admuniz]

Three year old Black Mission and all I have gotten is frustration!

[@lostinspace2780]

I have many varieties of fig trees which produce figs early, easy, and are prolific. Four of my inground 'white' fig trees are extremely vigorous and grow every year to LARGE heights, but don't produce many figs. The tree that these cuttings came from always had loads of figs. I do not fertilize them, but only prune them in winter. I have tried NOT doing an 'extreme' prune one year, then doing a more extreme prune for a couple of years. Hardly any production. The tree is unaffected by me attempting to keep it a manageable size. All four trees get lots of sun and in Zone 8 (Southeast US), they grow like I fertilize them daily! Any ideas? If I pinch them, they seem to product a few figs, but nothing like my other potted fig trees.

[@RKfigs]

Try adding bone meal or any a fertilizer that is low in Nitrogen and high in Phosphorus. Sounds like your soil is rich in Nitrogen and low in Phosphorus.

[@gofigure4920]

Most definitely your fig bushes need like 🍅 fertilizer (fast feed for potted) or 10-10-10 inground. Start feeding end of February. 1/2 cup of fertilizer and 1/2 cup of slow granule lime (fast lime will kill it). Do it every 2 weeks. Stop feeding by mid October. Stay 2 to 3 inches away from trunk. Figs loves full SUN no shadowed areas. Plant will not produce figs in shadow areas. Give plenty of water but don't drown it in water. 👍🏻

[@k.d.8924]

are figs self-fertile, or do they need a mate of the same variety in order to fruit?

[@RKfigs]

Some figs will ripen without beings polinated but you won't believe what happens! watch this video kzbin.info/www/bejne/b3apY2ugm9mkjsU

[@connieefurulee]

I planted a fig “bush” about 30 years ago. I stopped pruning and neglected it. Of course it grew into a massive tree. It continues to fruit but always at the top that’s unreachable to me but the birds love it. My question is I’d like to cut it way back it to a manageable size without killing it. Any suggestions would be appreciated.

[@kimiwaffles]

yes. you could saw it almost to the ground and it would come back!

[@robertl.fallin7062]

​@@kimiwafflesI don't ever remember killing a fig tree even after severe cutbacks.

[@gtavtheavengergunnerlegend3340]

just cut it about 3/4ths of the way down. you'll get more growth if u go a little lower

[@pondholloworchards]

Subscribed

[@RKfigs]

Thanks for subscribing and thanks for watching 😊👍

[@EddyFeyen]

Ok just subbed

[@mariecastillo8360]

My fig tree had a lot of figs but were very small and they did not mature, Now it's having beautiful leaves. It is now October in California. Will it have more figs? Can I trim it now? It is over 7 ft. Tall in a pot. Help. I fertilized them this year.

[@aleale6277]

It could be a caprifig

[@angieceballos7628]

I'm in California, the weather here is hot 🥵 95°114° the highest, right now we are on the 100° i bought two fig trees, they are already giving fruit, there small about 3 ft tall. When should I prune the tree? Thank you

[@RKfigs]

In the late fall or during the winter

[@khaledgorila]

100 digrees is cold we get 122 digrees you guys are so spoiled

[@pondholloworchards]

What are those bags called you are putting on the figs

[@RKfigs]

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[@jenlarryhomesteadinarkansa5811]

We bought property last year with a fig tree. It has multiple branches coming out of the ground (shoots?). It produced no fruit last year nor this year. It looks healthy with big green leaves, but no fruit. Curious about these multiple trunks?

[@RKfigs]

Where are you located?

[@jenlarryhomesteadinarkansa5811]

@@RKfigs North central Arkansas

[@RKfigs]

It sounds like you have too much nitrogen and not enough phosphorus in your soil. I would buy a fertilizer that is high in phosphorus if you want to stay organic something like bone meal would work. I would also trim off many of those extra branches that are coming out from the ground they are robbing the trees power to put out fruit and instead it's focused on putting out branches. The other thing I would do is pinch off the tops of whatever branches you leave on which will give the tree a signal to stop growing for a little while and focus on something else. Watch my video on why you're not getting any figs on your tree it should also give you other ideas. kzbin.info/www/bejne/g4emc4usZtqmoa8

[@jenlarryhomesteadinarkansa5811]

@@RKfigs Thank you!

[@Lord_Joseph17]

where do you geothermal cheese cloth baggies to cover the fruit? and why? do all fig fruits have a decomposed wasp in it?

[@GinaMastro]

the bags look like jewelry or party favor bags from the craft store.

[@tonycattani454]

They prevent the birds and ants from getting them as they finish to ripen

[@drea4195]

No, figs do NOT have decomposed wasps in them, especially if they are grown outside of zone 9/10 *which is the commercial fig grower's area. A few years ago there was some article circulating on social media that got everybody up in arms that made a lot of false claims about "dead wasps in figs" and it kind of went viral in gardening communities, but it is simply not true. However that article keeps getting forwarded and posted all over, and it will not die. So frustrating.

[@marybeh4545]

How long can u plant your grafted fig tree

[@RKfigs]

FIg trees live for hundreds of years

[@ragtop326]

Please explain why you have the little nets over the figs.

[@lisalisa5557]

Keeps bugs from eating the fruit

[@maryaevins547]

Hahahaha. I only had one beautiful plump fig on my 2 year old Brown Turkey this year.

[@carolparrish194]

I have never seen any blossoms on fig trees so how do fig trees get pollinated?

[@RKfigs]

That is a fantastic question and the answer is so interesting and fascinating. full explanation in this video kzbin.info/www/bejne/b3apY2ugm9mkjsU

[@linlaonong]

you already got this much growth as of March 27?

[@rkawli1]

Lol noooo this is footage from last year but the purpose of this video is just to explain the top 10 reasons why people can't get figs on their fig trees.

[@jermainemcquay]

Can your figs grow in the Caribbean namely the bahamas

[@RKfigs]

Yes they're are people growing then in Florida

[@dinoshark4396]

Please tell me why my figs are falling off !! My tree is loaded but now the fruit is falling off! Thank you

[@FigsNorth]

It can happen for variety of reasons: - immaturity - lack of needs or stress - variety and crop needs wasp pollination

[@rekharao1358]

My figs are growing only on the trunk of the tree and not ripening

[@FigsNorth]

Figs don't ripen in linear growth pattern. After the set they grow until a certain size and then stop until the final ripening phase when they will grow again quickly, turn color and soften.

[@jacobbengera7035]

Thank you from 🇮🇱🇮🇱

[@sharonousmankobo3602]

I purchased two small fig trees in 2020. Last year each tree produced two figs each. They are Chicago Hardy fig trees and I'm in zone 7a. This year the trees came back and getting taller and bushy. What's the best fertilizer for them. They are in 10 gallon containers.

[@RKfigs]

Follow this video for great success kzbin.info/www/bejne/b6SUg4ONabqZf8U

[@loganv0410]

"P" is phosphorus. "K" is potassium

[@goosejohnson3197]

I came here many months later to say the same thing.

[@carolparrish194]

Why would an inground fig tree produce fruit but the fruit never gets ripe before the cold weather starts?

[@RKfigs]

A short season for example of you live in a climate like mine, another reason is it could beat variety that requires more time to ripen.

[@alfredopampanga9356]

P in NPK is not potassium

[@AndYourLittleDog]

I’ve had my fig for 5 years and no figs. I threatened to take a flame thrower to it this year if it doesn’t fruit.

[@RKfigs]

Well what kind of a fig tree is it?

[@AndYourLittleDog]

@@RKfigs I’m not sure. I inherited it. I’m in nj 7a and our winters don’t bother it. I took some of the advice in your videos today and pruned so fingers crissed

[@rauljimenez8132]

Have you tried pinching?

[@williamwaters4506]

You mention ten reasons but not variety. In zone 5 you need ti grow cold hardy varieties.

[@undinia]

Getting dizzy watching this. Mind you, I do play videos at 1.5 speed.

[@chrpchr1christodoulou476]

This is not fig growing. Flower pots. In the Mediterranean region you may get up to 300 kg from a single adult tree (15-20 years).

[@RKfigs]

I wish I had Mediterranean weather 😢

[@brenda8877]

I meant to also say i live in Arkansas if that helps ty

[@brenda8877]

Is it better to grow fig trees in buckets if yes should i dig them up and put them in buckets, iplanted them in the spring of this year, is it to late

[@lisalisa5557]

If you have healthy soil and warm environment there’s no need to remove it.

[@muahlakaparak]

Thank you so much

[@mmankalehutamo5856]

I am in SA I need fig tree how can I buy one