Very nice looking breba fig and plant Herman and always look forward to your pictures.

Combined with heavy rains very late last season and then with record breaking rains this spring many of mine had rotted roots when pulled to inspect what was going on.

Best Health

Martin

Thanks Martin, Yes,in pot it seem,at least with some cultivars, i will have some ripe fruits.

Whatever of them do not ripe fruits this way,next Winter they will not be living in the Garage anymore, because it means they need much more warmer climate.

That way i can select out the ones i do not need to do all that work of protecting from cold with no good result.

That is amazing Vasile, mine are not even close. May I ask what kind of potting mix you use? Thank you.

Some people have a green thumb, you've got a whole hand :) I've always had trouble with containers, I want to keep them organic also and pine bark uses so much nitrogen and leeches so much fertilizer I don't want to use it anymore. My favorite mix right now for fabric containers is 60% leaf compost and 40% .5 inch and smaller biochar that I make from trimmings. To make it all you do is stack them up and light them on the top, then feed more branches once it burns down to build coals and then douse with water, it adds air space and prevents compaction like perlite but absorbs water and the organic fertilizer in the compost.

When i see you use 60% leaf compost,i am going to try raising the amount of leaf compost in my mix for the future,may be about 40%.

I was afread to use a lot of leaf mulch because not to burn the plants,but i can see a lot of weeds growing from my compost pile,so even by itself it sustain strong growth.

Thanks for the information

Hello vasile F S and hoosierbanana, it was nice to read your conversation.

I like the sound of using leaves compost and charcoal to grow fig trees in.

I would like to try to do that and have a question.

How old is the compost or sell I ask how long does it take for the leaves to compost ?

Thanks.

It should be as old as possible, if unfinished it will continue to break down and shrink down in the container. There should be very few leaf and twig particles left, but some are OK.

Thank you for your response hoosierbanana, do you just somehow sshred leaves keep them wet cover for a few years and once they resemble light soil then you use it ?

Do you add any grass clippings to speed up the composting ?

I Googled a few videos on you tube, apparently it takes at up to two years for the leaves to dicompost, is that correct ?

I buy mine for $30 a cubic yard. The farmer who makes it gets mountains of leaves from landscapers, and they are mostly shredded because they are picked up with mowers. He also uses some horse manure and bedding, and some grass clippings. There are some weed seeds, and I usually screen out some rocks and wood pieces, as well as some plastic.

I think it does take at least 2 or 3 years to be finished and aged, the piles are only turned once a year in winter when the ground is frozen and he can get a bulldozer in there. I have made small quantities in garbage bags before, it also took 2 years.

Check on craigslist, there might be someone close by and you can save a lot of time and effort for a very reasonable amount of money. If you can get a small sample first that would be good, test it for broadleaf herbicides by mixing 50-50 and planting some bean seeds, and compare those seedlings to ones planted in just potting mix.

It is a little clearer to me now !

At first I thought that the compost was made using brown leaves compost only.

Thanks for your suggestion, to check some farmers that make compost.