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Sat, Sep 22, 12 at 13:38
| With the cold weather coming can you pick figs before frost
and rippen them in the house. If so how is the best way Vince |
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- Posted by foolishpleasure 7B (My Page) on Sat, Sep 22, 12 at 19:06
| I don't think so. I do that for pears and tomatoes and it works. I am really obsessed by the idea of green house. If I have green house I don't have to warry about freezing weather. |
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| I've seen videos where the tree has been pruned heavily to encourage ripening. The idea being that the tree is recieving a stress similar to the onset of winter telling the tree to hurry up and ripen the fruit. |
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| Well:Removing branches that do not have any fruits on them is a good idea,now at this point ,to make the sun penetrate the canopy,if tree too dense. Other than that a very large plastic bag over the plant ,with 6 inches of clearance at base will help create a minigreenhouse inside and the fruits will ripe faster. But it has to be done just before first frost date. |
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| If your trees are containerized, and easily moved. try the "fig shuffle"...that's when you leave your trees out in the hut, full sun by day...and bring them into a warm area (garage...sun-room, etc.) at night. Do this to ripen your late figs. Many growers do this routine. Next year, pinch your tree's terminal buds after 6-8 leaves have formed. This will re-direct all extra energy into forming earlier crops of figs, and force these main-crop figs to ripen sooner. Most importantly...pinch out all breba figs. If allowed to grow and ripen these brebas will probably delay main-crop figs from forming earlier in the season. Better to ripen quality main-crop figs, than to ripen inferior brebas. Figs can only reach ripe stage on the tree. Hope this helps. Frank |
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