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May 12, 2014 2:24 PM CST
Name: Elaine
Sarasota, Fl
The one constant in life is change
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Nope, no pollinator needed - as far as I know my little tree is the only one for blocks.

The one thing I've learned, after fertilizing as soon as the leaves start to appear, it needs consistent water, then after fruit appears, generous water to size up the fruit. I had not been watering enough up til now, and the fruit was dropping, or ripening sort of tough and not juicy. Last fall this little tree set a second batch of just a few fruits, and they got lots of water. The couple I ate were fabulous.

This time, there were literally no fruits visible when I left for my 'Grandma Trip' to Salt Lake. Two weeks and one heavy rain later, when I returned there were dozens of 1/2in. fruits all up and down the branches, and since I've been watering generously they've more than doubled in size in just over a week! Your gully washer might just inspire your fig tree to put on some fruit, keep an eye out, they are in the leaf axils and on the bare branches.

Btw, you probably won't see 'flowers' as such. Figs are sort of an oddity in that the flower is actually inside the fruit. Shrug!

This explains it better than I can http://www.figweb.org/Interact...
Elaine

"Success is stumbling from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm." –Winston Churchill

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