Every year, our big fig tree stops producing figs around the first of August and takes a break, then by the first part of September, it’s covered in baby figs. They will get ripe before the first frost but after a frost, the leaves all turn brown and fall off and there are hundreds and hundreds of green figs left behind on the tree.
Big Fig Tree
This year, the fig tree was very late producing and when it stopped around the first of August, it never produced any more figs. I’m glad I picked and freeze dried as many as I did but I expected to have figs to freeze dry at least through November.
We never know what Mother Nature is going to do!
dezertsuz says
Isn’t there another fig tree? Does it have any figs? Poor tree got totally confused this year!
Sherrill Pecere says
Mine tree started really late and they’ve just started ripening. But then this IS the first year it’s done anything.
Rebecca in SoCal says
When the leaves drop off, do the figs stop growing? It seems like the leaves are important to the “energy system” of a tree.
Judy Laquidara says
The leaves drop with the first frost and the figs are done then. They don’t grow any more after a frost.