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Growing figs in
Michigan
Dan Foster
4-8-17
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Growing Figs in Michigan
Why bother growing your own figs?
Propagation Methods
Favorite Varieties
A year in the life of a northern grown fig
Fig Shuffle
Growing
Winter Storage
What to do with all those figs?
Notable people from around the world recognized for
their work on Figs.
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Growing Figs in Michigan
Why bother growing your own figs?
Its fun. Duh!
It brings people together.
Many people enjoy knowing where their food
comes from and take great pleasure in growing
their own food.
They taste better!!!!! These are not Fig Newtons
and they don’t taste like “sweet dirt”
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The best tasting fig you will ever taste
will be one that is eaten right off the
plant at its peak ripeness. “Fresh”
figs sold in supermarkets don’t
typically ship well and they don’t
ripen any further once removed from
the tree. They are often either bland
or spoiled.
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Propagation Methods
Cutting
Air Layers
Seed
Tissue Culture
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Propagation Methods
Cutting
The way most figs are
produced and traded
between fig
collectors.
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Removing and labelling branches from figs
that are given away
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Cuttings
Taken off the stock plants when leaves have dropped in the fall.
Cuttings are labelled and stored in Long fiber Sphagnum moss to be held for later planting
Cuttings can be stored in a refrigerator for 6-9 months.
This is the main way figs are traded and shared between individuals
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Stored in plastic bins or Zip-lock
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I like to use the highest
grade moss for storage
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Rooting in Moss
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Rooted cutting leafing out.
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Cutting rooting station
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Propagation Methods
Air Layers
Another great way to produce a new tree from an existing tree in the
middle of the growing season.
I’ve also air layered whole tree trunks to improve the shape of the plant
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Air Layering
If set in May/June can be removed in
July/August
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Nero 600 Air Layer
using a soda bottle
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Main Trunk Air Layer – July 2016Set in August of 2015
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Air Layer removed
by using a saw just
below the pot.
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Air Layer ready to be
planted into a 20” pot
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Italian 258
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Propagation Methods
Seed
Not recommended.
https://crfg.org/wiki/fruit/fig/
The tiny flowers of the fig are out of sight, clustered inside the green “fruits”, technically a synconium. Pollinating insects gain access to the flowers through an opening at the apex of the synconium. In the case of the common fig the flowers are all female and need no pollination. There are 3 other types, the caprifig which has male and female flowers requiring visits by a tiny wasp, Blastophaga grossorum; the Smyrna fig, needing cross-pollination by caprifigs in order to develop normally; and the San Pedro fig which is intermediate, its first crop independent like the common fig, its second crop dependent on pollination.
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Propagation Methods
Tissue Culture Many online nurseries offer more common varieties.
Some are Wholesale such as Agristarts.
Some sell individual plants via Ebay. An example of this is Wellspring gardens or Baker Creek. Many of the smaller operations just buy and resell Agristarts plugs.
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Growing Figs in Michigan
Favorite Varieties
Over the past 5 years, I’ve grown and evaluated over 130 varieties with the desire to find the best tasting fig. When I’ve asked others what their favorites are, I could never get a straight answer. So I just began growing any that I could get my hands on.
Figs from the supermarket don’t usually taste as good as ones that are harvested directly from a local tree. For this reason, its best to grow your own, if you have the patience.
Each year I get rid of 20-30 varieties that don’t make the cut. My goal is to keep only 25. Problem is…. I seem to always add more than I discard. This is called “Fig Fever”
Here are photos of a few of my top Favorites.
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Genovese Nero AF
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Italian 258
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GM 155
Maltese
Beauty
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Six day ripening of Maltese
Beauty
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GM 155
Maltese
Beauty
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D’en Manel MP
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Nero 600
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Antonelli Unk
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White/Green Figs
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Some Varieties are highly
prized
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Growing Figs in Michigan
A year in the life of a northern grown fig
Fig Shuffle (April 1-May 15th)
Growing
https://crfg.org/wiki/fruit/fig/
Winter Storage
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Spring Time “Fig Shuffle”
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Repotting
Peat
Bark : Aged Pine
bark is best.
Compost
Professional mixes
Kroger Potting Soil
Aged Manure
Rice Hulls
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Setting the pots in place.
When do I bring them out of the Garage?
April 15th – May 1
As long as they are dormant.
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At this stage,
they are
susceptible to a
frost
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Winter Storage
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Winter Storage in the Basement
Dark and Cool is
best
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Another way
to over-winter
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Grower Related Challenges
Fugus gnats while rooting cuttings
Yellow Jackets and Wasps
Splitting
Birds
Rust
Fig Mosaic Virus
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Fungus Gnats
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Yellow Jackets and Wasps
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Splitting
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Bird Damage
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Fig Mosaic Virus
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Rust
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What to do with all those
Figs???
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Fig Jam
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Dried Figs
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Ice Cream blends
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Thinning the Herd
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Tagging
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Container Grown
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Fig in a Tub
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The Godfather of Figs
adrianosfigtrees.com He’s the “AF” in Genovese Nero AF
All grown in a northern climate, Adriano
Ferreria has over thirty years of experience
cultivating fig trees in Canada. He sells
cuttings or plants. He will trade with any fig
tree he doesn't have. Adriano has over two
hundred varieties of fig trees, one of the
largest private collections in the world. Due
to export regulations and inquiries, Adriano
will only sell to customers in Canada and
due to the volume of inquiries will only
provide advice and information on the
cultivation of fig trees to those customers.
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Monserrat Pons
http://monserratpons.com/
In the heart of the Marina of Llucmajor (Mallorca), the estate of Son Mut Nou. Rough earth, and clay. Dry land
where rain is a rare and rare good. Land of low mountain, of steppes and gamones, of woods and acebuches, with some scant pine that perfumes the plain. Wild land, with stalks stolen from the forest, with sweat and fatigue, for cultivation. Land of few trees, where the cultivated fig tree knows how to take advantage of the scarcity, knows how to survive because it adapts prodigiously to a medium that
is, for reasons of remote, familiar origin. Earth where the fig tree, generous, extracts from the droughts and the clay the delight of its most delicious fruits ...
This is the telltale framework in which Montserrat Pons and Boscana, Llucmajor's pharmacist in love with the biblical tree and the microcosm that history and life have built
around the fig trees, has embarked on a unique experience in the world ...
Montserrat, spurred by unusual behavior, has designed and developed, from the fig tree shoots of Miner, provided by his friend Pep Sacarés and Mulet, the project, today a very real reality, of constructing an experimental field of fig tree
cultivation In order to contribute to the study and scientific knowledge of the tree and its fruit, the safeguarding of the heritage, the maintenance of our plant genetic resources, the promotion of traditional and popular culture, in search of the potential exploitation of the figs ... A work, ultimately aimed at promoting science, humanism, ecology and economics, with an altruistic and almost visionary dedication of the fig trees and figs.
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Figs are very popular in
Malaysia
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Belleclare Nursery
http://www.marthastewart.com/907952/fabulous-figs
Chris and Bill
Dipaollo pictured
with Herman from
F4F.
http://figs4funforum.w
ebsitetoolbox.com/po
st/belleclare-
brochurehandout-
from-the-nursery-
6189106?pid=1276708
038#post1276708038
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Steven Biggs
http://www.grow-figs.com/the-book-
grow-figs/
https://youtu.be/4mpqNgnDUas
Probably one of the best videos
on the web dedicated to
growing figs in cold regions.
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Harvey Correia
http://figaholics.com/
The Correia family is a third generation
California farm family specializing
mainly in Chestnuts. They began
growing figs for their own home use
beginning about 15 years ago and in
2012 began greatly expanding their
collection to evaluate the many
varieties they had heard so much
about. By the summer of 2015 they
had grown to approximately 300
varieties.
http://www.facebook.com/Figaholics
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Pierre Baud
http://www.fig-
baud.com/choixfiguiers.html
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c
seW0zvJKOw In case you can speak
French.
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Bass Salaam – Trees of Joy
http://www.treesofjoy.com/
Trees of Joy is located in a suburb of
Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, cold
hardiness zone 6. They’re
experimenting with growing all types
of edible landscaping in their garden.
For the past 11 years they’ve
evaluated different care-free fruit
trees that are uncommon for the area.
They currently grow a few types of
Pomegranates that proved to be
hardy in zone 6, as well as Prickly pear
Cactus, Oriental Persimmon, Jujube,
Pawpaw, and a large collection of
figs. Their primary purpose is to find the
best suitable varieties for their climate.
They mainly sell Fig trees and
occasionally different grafted fruit
trees when available, such as Jujube,
Pawpaw, Persimmon, kiwis. They also
carry the rare Cedar of Lebanon trees.
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Bill Muzychko
http://figs4fun.com/bills_figs.html
Bill Muzychko Owner
of Bill’s Figs
329 Old York Road
Flemington, New
Jersey 08822
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http://encantofarms.com/
http://figs4fun.com/basics_Intro.html Probably the best
source for information
on growing figs on the
internet. Jon as the
owner of Encanto
Farms and is the
moderator of
Figs4Fun. He is said to
have over 800
varieties of figs.