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How to Grow Fig: Growing Guide to Planting, Care & Harvest

A deciduous fruit tree that crops young, suits a large pot, is pruned hard in winter and picked only when fully soft.

Fig

Ficus carica

Growing calendar

Typical timing for central Japan (Kanto region). Shift it for your own climate, and record your actual dates.

GrowingHarvest

Guides

Common problems

Start from what you can see on the plant.

Pests and diseases (37)

Problems recorded for this plant, most serious first.

Longhorn Beetles

CommonPest

Sawdust-like frass is pushed out at the trunk base or branch crotches. The wood is hollowed out, the tree loses vigor, and the trunk may snap in strong wind.

Sooty Mold

CommonDisease

A thin black sooty mold spreads over the upper leaf surface, shoots and fruit. It does not invade the tissue itself, but it blocks photosynthesis and badly spoils appearance.

Late BlightBrown Leaf SpotSclerotinia RotCrown GallRustSouthern BlightAnthracnoseBacterial Soft RotRoot-knot NematodeGray MoldWart DiseaseWeb BlightAspergillus RotScabArmillaria Root RotMosaic DiseaseFruit RotTwig BlightCrown BlightPlant-parasitic NematodesWhite Root RotFusarium Wilt and Damping-offViolet Root RotBacterial DiseaseCankerDefoliation DiseaseLeaf BlightBrown RotPink DiseaseYeast RotYellow Leaf SpotBlack MoldBlack BlightSmutAlternaria Leaf Blight

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