I have a fig tree that defies all logic. Sixty years ago a landscape gardener friend gave me a small fig tree. I put it's ceramic pot into an old iron cooking pot--with NO drainage It grew large, and has moved with me from New York to Washington and back. At one point the tree had a whole wide room-length window to spread out; for the last 35 years it's been living in a corner of my bathroom, with fairly minimal light (though South light). It still thrives. It gets no fertilizer; I water it once a day--every day. I presume it must feed living on it own roots About a month or so go it produced a fig after all these years. Now it has produced another fig.
I'll go on watering it once a day and it seems to give no sign of dying or decaying--every once in a while it drops a leaf, but then grows another leaf or two. It is still in this drainless cooking pot.
I don't think it needs me to do anything else, but I suspect it's a kind of wonder among fig trees. Meanwhile, is there anything I can/should do with this new fig? (I don't mean eat it. Can I bury it in soil and produce another fig tree?
