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Offline bayou girl

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Fig Trees
« on: Jun 28, 2012, 12:15:09 PM »
I have a fig tree that I need to plant.  I need some good advice for a setting for it.  full sun, partial sun, will it survive partial sun, etc.  i know, i can (and will)  look this up but i want y'all's opinion too!
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Re: Fig Trees
« Reply #1 on: Jun 28, 2012, 12:45:11 PM »
It prefers full sun. But it can survive and maybe thrive in sun half the day.
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Re: Fig Trees
« Reply #2 on: Jun 28, 2012, 08:13:36 PM »
We have fig trees that came with the house.  They are beautiful trees and I love it when they start getting their leaves every year.  They all do very well.  They are all in full sun.  We have never watered any of them and they have never wilted.  So gorgeous.

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« Reply #3 on: Jun 28, 2012, 10:14:46 PM »
Fig trees are so pretty. I am not sure why we don't have any here... :unsure:
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Re: Fig Trees
« Reply #4 on: Apr 13, 2013, 10:01:33 PM »
Jen, did you get them planted?  Ours are leafing and they're so pretty.

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Re: Fig Trees
« Reply #5 on: Apr 14, 2013, 06:42:38 AM »
Figs require a male and a female to produce fruit don't they? 

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Re: Fig Trees
« Reply #6 on: Apr 14, 2013, 10:59:53 PM »
I don't think so.  We didn't plant the ones in this yard but the 3 hetr aren't any where near each other.

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Re: Fig Trees
« Reply #7 on: Apr 15, 2013, 10:24:03 PM »
i didn't get the ones i brought home in the ground, and they died.  but i got one on sale last week that will go in the ground in the next few days.  it is looking pretty good.
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Re: Fig Trees
« Reply #8 on: May 17, 2013, 09:22:31 PM »
Are they expensive to buy?  Do you like figs?  I can eat one or two but that's eat.

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Re: Fig Trees
« Reply #9 on: May 19, 2013, 12:15:31 AM »
i like them ok.  but the family likes them.  and honestly, if i had more, i might be more inclined to try using more.  i know that you can make strawberry fig jam by using figs with strawberry jello.  it is good and i can eat it w/o breaking out.

as for the cost of the tree, i paid less that $5 for mine.  on clearance.  but if you know someone with a tree, they send up suckers like you wouldn't believe.  and they get BIG.  we had one at my grandparents that was higher than the house, and almost as big around as it was tall.  and evergreen where we were.  at least i never remember it losing its leaves. i'll be honest, now is the time to buy fruit trees if you have the discipline to keep them watered.  all the big box stores have marked them down.  i got mine at walmart and it has tripled in size.  i'll get a picture up in the next couple of days.
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Re: Fig Trees
« Reply #10 on: Jun 26, 2013, 09:33:43 AM »
That sounds great Jenn.  Best of luck with them.

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Re: Fig Trees
« Reply #11 on: Jun 27, 2013, 07:26:44 PM »
Jenn, when I've had strawberry fig jam I couldn't distinguish either the strawberry or the fig so I've never made it.  I think strawberry freezer jam but I've never seen any plain fig jam.

Our fig trees do drop their leaves but the trees are pretty with or without them.  I love these trees.

 

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