The oldest figtree. Photo: ©nini.tjader.2017
I’ve written about my figtrees before. Just have to write about them again. The one above is my oldest figtree. It has been cut twice now.
Figtree cutting May 20178. Photo:©nini.tjader.2017
My figtrees live outdoors on the patio during the warm season and I bring them indoors when autumn and cold comes, but before the frosts. My oldest figtree has a tendency to grow in the “wrong direction” which makes it take up too much space. Particularly when it is indoors. Had I known how easy it is to take cuttings from it and grew new figtrees, I would have done it earlier.
According to the expertise figtrees should be kept dark and cold but not freezing over winter. As I do not have such a place to store them, they are kept indoors over winter with extra special plant lights.
First time I cut it was spring 2017, some time in March I think it was. Image above is from May 20th 2017. That is about the time I planted the cutting in a pot of its own. Originally it was two cuttings but one of them died.
Planted figtree cutting, May 2017. Photo: ©nini.tjader.2017
End of May was also the time when the older and larger figtree moved outdoors.
The larger figtree. Photo: ©nini.tjader.2017
To begin with I placed it under an umbrella to protect it from the strong spring sun. The year before I didn’t do that which resulted in burned leaves that quickly fell off.
New branches on the old figtree. Photo: ©nini.tjader.2017
Where the old figtree had been cut, new branches and new leaves grew out pretty fast. The old figtree lost a lot of leaves at the beginning of the summer. That was expected. Happens when it has been indoors all winter and not losing its leaves to any great extent (which it normally should).
The oldest figtree had two figs on it when the tree moved outdoors. Not edible… tasted really bad.
The new small figtree. Photo: ©nini.tjader.2017
The new, small figtree came along fine and new leaves and branches grew on it.
The small figtree on August 8th 2017. Photo. ©nini.tjader.2017
Above is how it looked on august 8th 2017. Just like the motherplant it has a tendency to grew sideways…
Figleaves on the older figtree. Photo: ©nini.tjader.2017
The older figtree woke up as late as the end of August and then started to grew new leaves and branches. A bit late…
Sometime in October it was time to move the figtrees indoors again and give them extra lighting. I thought that October could not be a good time to cut the big tree and make new cuttings, but I took the chance and cut it anyways. I needed to make it smaller to be able to store it over the winter.
Figtreeleaves. Photo: ©nini.tjader.2017
Moving indoors of course meant losing some leaves now and then. Figtreeleaves are beautiful.
The old figtree with new leaves. Photo: ©nini.tjader.2017
By the middle of October the older figtree had plenty of small new leaves and branches growing on it.
Figtreecuttings 2017-10-23. Photo: ©nini.tjader.2017
The cuttings from the older figtree also grew and got roots on all of them. They are four cuttings. I would never have thought that it would work to take cuttings in October and get roots on them as fast as I did.
Fig 2017-11-07. photo: ©nini.tjader.2017
The older tree got one fig… I doubt it will be edible …
As the roots on the four (4) cuttings grew larger and stronger I decided to plant them all by the beginning of November.
Planted figtreecuttings 2017-11-22. Photo. ©nini.tjader.2017
All four cuttings were planted in the same pot. We are now on November 30th, and they seem to have survived the move to the pot and have only lost one small leaf so far. And they have all new leaves too.
The older figtree. Photo: ©nini.tjader.2017
The older and larger figtree is coming along fine and just grows and grows and grows where it was cut… It has grown a lot since I cut it.
They are all alive and thriving. Just hoping they will continue to do so and survive this dark period indoors.
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