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Brown Turkey Fig Tree info

13 years ago

Someone asked about the fig tree and the Mandarin Orange tree that I mentioned planting today. The Brown Turkey Fig is supposed to be the same as the ones we had in Mississippi many years ago, but there is a difference. Here in Arizona, it gets confused and makes three crops of figs, beginning in June and lasting until December! The Mandarin Orange that we planted is a new one that we have not tried to grow before. We do have a couple of orange trees that provide the entire neighborhood with oranges plus a huge lemon tree and a smaller one (Meyer) that is covered in blooms now. We're hoping for another abundant crop!

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maire_cate
13 years ago
Here in the cold Northeast we can't grow citrus but I gave DH a tiny fig tree this week. It's a Chicago hardy and the name caughte my eye - if it can survive a Chicago winter then it should be fine here in the Philadelphia area.

How lovely to have fresh fruit from your own backyard.
kayjones
13 years ago
I have a couple of fig trees - the fruit, fresh from the tree, is delicious!!!
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If Brown Turkey has a large Breba or 'first crop', I would wait until you've harvested that and then prune. Could be in June for you. If it is not a 'breba' or first crop fig, then you could start after the worst of winter is over, like most other fruit trees, in late February. Do not try to take too much wood in any one year, or you'll get a bunch of suckers from the base and more of a thicket. Try to make mostly thinning cuts, but you may have to head back a few of the tallest leaders. Don't 'flat top' the tree. Here is a link that might be useful: Brown Turkey Fig care
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If you were to dig a hole 2 feet deep next to the tree, do you think it would ever fill with water when it rained; or, if you did fill it with water, how long would it take it to drain? Have you done anything in terms of fertilizing? If yes, what did you do? any other additives or spraying of either non-selective or broad leaf herbicides so that drift could have been a problem? Al
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OklaMoni
13 years ago
since I bought this house, I planted a peach tree, an apricot tree and a fig. I just went and looked, it is a Chicago hardy fig.

I also planted 4 blue berry bushes, and strawberry plants. I can't wait for fruit....

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rhizo_1 (North AL) zone 7
13 years ago
maire cate, you'd be surprised how many people grow citrus in containers, in the cold Northeast! Some varieties are surprisingly adaptable.

I just love the look of a fig tree, but HATE figs. I should plant one just for the really neat ornamental value, though.
carol_in_california
13 years ago
We have a 40 year old Meyer lemon tree here.....produces tons of lemons all year long.
Our neighbor has an orange tree and a tangerine tree and the people down the street has a fig tree and a quince.
The plum tree next door is nearing it's end but we have enjoyed great plums for years.
petaloid
13 years ago
We have a White Genoa fig tree that I need to re-pot into a bigger container. It's small right now but already has five figs on it. When they are ripe they are delicately sweet and yummy.

I remember a neighbor's Brown Turkey fig tree. It got to be at least 15 feet high and very wide.

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