What to do when figs bear little fruit? Master this trick and the branches will be full of fruit, one fruit per node

Figs taste sweet and delicious and are very nutritious; they are even said to help prevent cancer. In fact, we can grow a potted fig ourselves at home, on a terrace or balcony. The method is simple, and even someone who cannot grow flowers can keep one healthy. Some friends told Xiaoya that the figs they grew bore little fruit, or even no fruit at all. What exactly is going on?

If your figs bear little fruit, try this trick; the branches will be full of fruit, one fruit per node

We all know that figs can be propagated by division or by cuttings to grow new fig seedlings. Division means taking a rooted section of branch from an existing plant and digging it out, and cuttings are easy too: just insert a branch cutting into the soil.

Before taking cuttings, soak them in rooting solution; if you do not have rooting solution, you can use water soaked with willow branches instead, and they will root faster. After cuttings are taken, keep the air humidity and soil moisture up; the current autumn weather is especially suitable for cuttings.

For potted figs, if you want more fruit, you need to pay attention to these aspects:

Sufficient light. Figs are quite tough, but if they are placed in a spot with too little light, they will only grow leggy, with branches that just get longer and never thicken, so they will also bear very little fruit. So just give them plenty of sun; even strong summer sun is fine, as long as the potting soil does not run short of water.

The flower pot must be big enough, because figs grow very quickly; basically the plant can double in size in a year, or even become a larger plant. If the plant is large and the pot is too small, the roots cannot spread out; if the pot is large, the roots are ample, absorb more nutrients, grow faster and bear more fruit. Generally, a pot with a diameter of 30 cm or larger is best.

The soil must be sufficiently fertile and loose; this point is the most critical. One friend's figs also bore little fruit at first, and one day while out in the countryside he saw lots of rotted pine needle soil and leaf mold, both fertile and soft, so he brought a bag home and repotted the fig with new soil.

After that, no fertilizing was needed at all; that year the fig bore a whole tree of fruit, with many fruits on every branch, one fruit per node.

Prune the branches a little in winter; you can cut off the tallest branches so that all the branches are at the same canopy width and the same level, which leads to more fruit. But newly transplanted figs and small seedlings are not suitable for pruning.

Before figs bear fruit, you must fertilize, giving some cake fertilizer, manure, sheep manure and so on. With enough fertilizer, the fruit will only increase.