very cool figs Mike! Great specimens.

You guys are enablers.

This got me thinking about figs so much that I just ordered two more including a Hardy Chicago. 😳

Good luck with them, Jack! 😆

enabling is liek giving just free 😀

In abundance, as now I will have 3.

Thanks boys. 8)

Here's a pic showing the growth of the figs over the summer. The fig on the right has grown the most, the one on the left has grown the least, and the rest are all in between:

Not to bad dude! Multch the hell out of that thing this winter to make sure.

Did you know their main taproot goes down 60 feet + ??

Yeah, I'll be providing lots of mulch! I didn't know it went down 60'!! 😯

Oh yeah, thats why they can survive in zone 5, they just regrow like a peony - herbaceous, so dont expect much trunk to survive.

I hope it does well over the winter

I'm going to cut the trunk down to just a couple of inches above the ground, and then cover the whole thing with mulch.

THat should work. When I plant mine, im going to have to used a layer of fleece/old blankets to keep a little bit more heat. Your zone 6 or 7 if i remember , so you wont need that kind of protection.

I think we talked about this years ago, but does anyone remember an old Victory Garden TV program where an older Italian or Portuguese fellow had a 15-foot tall Fig tree in his back yard in Toronto (I think).

The episode filmed him digging a long trench a couple of feet deep.
The fig was partially uprooted (on one side), and then bent down horizontally into the trench, followed by huge amounts of mulch.
Process is reversed, obviously, in the spring.
Says he gets a fig crop every year.

I miss those Victory Garden shows.

Barb

Ah ive read about this method. THey do it with the lower branches as well, and wrap the trunk. Or they do a large version of hilling in roses, as the portuguese method talks about.

The one thing that amazes me is how well they apperantly take to being dug up, dispite their massive root systems.

Barb, that might have been Adriano, of Adriano's Figs. I was planning on purchasing some figs from him, but it takes months to get an email response (if you get one at all) 😡

Jesse, basically the entire tree is almost horizontal.
Figs must not mind the annual root pruning to achieve it.

It may have been him, Cameron.
I recall being amazed at what a person can do with a lot of thought and planning.
Kind of like at PN
😆 😆

Barb