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Homeowner Forum / Lawn and Garden / July 2008Fig Tree
Dear all My fig tree for the 1st time since planting (5 years old) has no fruit Could anyone tell me if I've done something wrong or do they sometime have dormant years. Thank You Dermo -- Dermot66 > Dear all > > My fig tree for the 1st time since planting (5 years old) has no > fruit. Could anyone tell me if I've done something wrong or do they > sometimes have dormant years. Was it get killed in winter back to ground level and have to put new growth from the roots?? If so that's the cause, otherwise I have no answer because I'm having a record harvest this year with some of mine over 2 inches long. Tom J > Dear all > [quoted text clipped - 5 lines] > > Dermot Needs direct sun and plenty of water.  SignaturePeace! Om "Human nature seems to be to control other people until they put their foot down." -- Stephan Rothstein > Dear all > [quoted text clipped - 8 lines] > -- > Dermot66 Did you have an unusually big crop last season? If so, it may be your tree just taking a rest. To prevent this 'biennial' (every second year) behavior, thin your fruit early in their life cycle to take a load off the tree. By the way, this principle holds for almost any fruit tree. Sherwin On Jul 1, 3:08 pm, Dermot66 <Dermot66.2e09...@gardenbanter.co.uk> wrote: > Dear all > [quoted text clipped - 8 lines] > -- > Dermot66 Did it flower? Figs are pollinated by a wasp, if something disrupted their cycle then the tree wouldn't have been pollinated. There are definitely problems with bee populations where I live. Susan B. > On Jul 1, 3:08 pm, Dermot66 <Dermot66.2e09...@gardenbanter.co.uk> > wrote: [quoted text clipped - 17 lines] > problems > with bee populations where I live. QUOTE: "Flowers: 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." I live in the South East USA and I've never seen a flower on a fig bush/tree UNTIL I cut open the ripe fruit. Figs are self pollinated in my area. I just don't see that as the problem unless you are in the Mediterranean. Tom J > > On Jul 1, 3:08 pm, Dermot66 <Dermot66.2e09...@gardenbanter.co.uk> > > wrote: [quoted text clipped - 33 lines] > > - Show quoted text - This is from a website of a professor of Biology at the Imperial College London: "Phylogenies of insects and their host plants There are several hundred species of fig trees (Ficus species) found throughout the world and each has its own unique species of pollinating wasp. The fig is totally dependent upon the wasp for pollination while the wasp is similarly dependent upon the fig fruits for the development of its offspring. Consequently this relationship is an obligate mutualism. In addition, each fig species also supports a number of non-pollinating wasp species whose offspring develop in the fig fruits but provide no pollination service." You don't have to live near the Mediterranean to live in a Mediterranean climate. Most of California has a Mediterranean climate. Susan B. > "Phylogenies of insects and their host plants > There are several hundred species of fig trees (Ficus species) found [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] > fruits > for the development of its offspring. That writer knows not of what he writes. That's just not the case in the SE USA. In 70 years of eating fresh figs right off the bush and 60 years of making fig preserves and fig syrup, I have yet to find a wasp or wasp larva in or on a fig. What I have found are yellow jackets, ants and gnats where some were left until they were over ripe and split, but that's it. Tom J In article <f4d5fee5-2a4f-43ec-9052-750429bdefcb@i76g2000hsf.googlegroups.com>, > > > On Jul 1, 3:08 pm, Dermot66 <Dermot66.2e09...@gardenbanter.co.uk> > > > wrote: [quoted text clipped - 51 lines] > > Susan B. And every fig you eat contains at least one dead adult bug. ;-) SignaturePeace! Om "Human nature seems to be to control other people until they put their foot down." -- Stephan Rothstein In article <a9a7ec8f-0cef-4510-8c11-85bfc6661aa8@a9g2000prl.googlegroups.com>, > On Jul 1, 3:08 pm, Dermot66 <Dermot66.2e09...@gardenbanter.co.uk> > wrote: [quoted text clipped - 15 lines] > the tree wouldn't have been pollinated. There are definitely problems > with bee populations where I live. http://www1.pressdemocrat.com/article/20080627/NEWS08/806270374 Warning on losses in bee colonies Crisis could worsen, boost food prices, House told Published: Friday, June 27, 2008 at 4:30 a.m. Last Modified: Friday, June 27, 2008 at 3:44 a.m. The Press Democrat, 2006 Honeybees are declining rapidly, experts say. WASHINGTON -- A record 36 percent of U.S. commercial bee colonies have been lost to mysterious causes so far this year and worse may be yet to come, experts told a congressional panel Thursday. Food prices could rise even more unless the strange decline in honeybees is solved, the lawmakers were told. "No bees, no crops," North Carolina grower Robert Edwards told a House agriculture subcommittee. Edwards said he had to cut his cucumber acreage in half because of the lack of bees available to rent. The year's bee colony losses are about twice the usual seen following a typical winter, scientists warn. Despite ambitious new research efforts, the causes remain a mystery. (cont.) > Susan B. SignatureBilly Bush and Pelosi Behind Bars http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9KVTfcAyYGg&ref=patrick.net http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l0aEo59c7zU&feature=related |
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