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I've seen pictures on here of young fig trees that grew huge in a very short time and was amazed. Now I understand what fig trees are truly capable of.
LSU Champagne, MBvs, and Green Ischia were all started in the fall/winter of 2019/2020, grown in containers last year, and then put in ground in the fall of 2020. Almost all my in ground fig trees died back to the ground in February 2021 due to our artic weather week (got to 7 degrees F). Now all three of these varieties that are not even 2 years old stand probably 10+ ft tall with multiple shoots (MBvs with two shoots, one of which did partially survive the winter, Green Ischia with 3+ and LSU Champagne with 2).
While my in ground trees are ripening figs much later in most cases (close to 1 month behind my container figs of the same variety that were protected over winter), many are still loaded with figs that we should be able to enjoy in September and into October.
If you can get fig trees in the ground, they are so much easier to manage than in pots! All they need is water, mulch and full sun. Now my problem is finding some spots for the varieties that I really like but kept in containers because I wanted to see how the transition to the ground worked with the less expensive trees first.
MBVS (we've been picking figs off this one for weeks already)
LSU Champagne (probably the biggest leaves of any variety I have):
Green Ischia:
LSU Champagne, MBvs, and Green Ischia were all started in the fall/winter of 2019/2020, grown in containers last year, and then put in ground in the fall of 2020. Almost all my in ground fig trees died back to the ground in February 2021 due to our artic weather week (got to 7 degrees F). Now all three of these varieties that are not even 2 years old stand probably 10+ ft tall with multiple shoots (MBvs with two shoots, one of which did partially survive the winter, Green Ischia with 3+ and LSU Champagne with 2).
While my in ground trees are ripening figs much later in most cases (close to 1 month behind my container figs of the same variety that were protected over winter), many are still loaded with figs that we should be able to enjoy in September and into October.
If you can get fig trees in the ground, they are so much easier to manage than in pots! All they need is water, mulch and full sun. Now my problem is finding some spots for the varieties that I really like but kept in containers because I wanted to see how the transition to the ground worked with the less expensive trees first.
MBVS (we've been picking figs off this one for weeks already)
LSU Champagne (probably the biggest leaves of any variety I have):
Green Ischia:
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