Home Sweet Home Figgi Riggi moves to a unique home-plate Home-plate as in baseball? No, we aren’t playing baseball with figs. Although it could be fun to smash them with a baseball bat through a powerful swing. Because there are so many visitors noticing the Figgi Riggi blog, I have decided to move Figgi Riggi. It was changed from […]
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Killing Freeze
What is a killing freeze (hard freeze)? A killing freeze is when temperatures fall to or below 28ºF for at least a week. Most trees can survive brief periods of 32ºF. The killing freeze weather condition can kill a young fig tree if not protected. You can’t always make the best judgement when a freak […]
Training Your Fig Tree
How To Train Your Dragon Training your tree, not a dragon Training your fig tree, not training your dragons. Here are some basic examples on fig tree shapes. There are two common forms that a fig tree can be trained into: Single trunk [D], open vase type and the multi-trunk system [C]. Northeastern fig trees can be […]
Rust spots or dead brown areas on leaves
Rust spots on your leaves There are fungi that can attack your fig tree leaves. If you find large brown areas, or with a mold growing – immediately cut off the affected leaves and discard them so that the fungus will not spread throughout. Take note that there is a very dangerous common leaf mold […]
Rooting Materials
Rooting starter kit Rooting for the first time while propagating fig trees from clippings, then here are materials that you will need. Grow Medium — the type of soilless mix. I bought this FoxFarm Light Warrior Seed Starter Soilless Mix (Paid Link). Spray Bottle (Paid Link) — to mist water into the terrarium atmosphere inside the […]
Rooting From Summer Cuttings
Rooting from summer cuttings is very simple with this instruction Rooting with this method has close similarities to rooting from winter cuttings. It’s essentially the same, however it requires complex tools found in the Rooting Materials post. Materials required are in the root starter kit as mentioned in the page. (Humidity Dome, Plug Tray, Growing […]
Rooting From Winter Cuttings
Rooting from winter cuttings made easy Everyone seems to have their own favorite method of rooting, especially when rooting from Winter cuttings. The steps below describe one method that some people like because they can stick the cuttings into the grow medium and then set it aside until the cutting leaf’s out. Other people like to […]
Air Layering a Fig Tree Root
15 Steps to Air layering a tree to form roots Maybe you’re wondering what Air Layering is. When I first heard the words, I pictured wafer cookies with layers of air in them. Air Layering your fig tree is not too far from that concept. As you know, I love sweet figs and ever since […]
Lost Figs: Where are they?
Lost and Found Chances are that your figs are not in the lost and found at the police station. Knowing when the figs will grow and whether or not they’re being stolen or eaten by natures bugs and other critters is essential to being a backyard gardener. If you see figs, you’re either lucky or […]
Transplanting
The Thing with Two Heads No, this isn’t the art of making a two-headed freak as in the movie classic, The Incredible Two-Headed Transplant / The Thing with Two Heads (Midnite Movies Double Feature) (Paid Link). This is about transplanting the fig tree from a pot into the ground. When your fig tree is coming out […]
