One potted plant on the balcony, and the fruit is so big and sweet the whole family can't finish eating it

When I was little I lived in the countryside and ate lots of wild fruits, and the figs in the yard were pretty tasty too. A few fig trees were planted in the yard and every year they bore more fruit than we could finish, and the little birds got them all, but now that I'm in the city, many gardening enthusiasts like to grow figs in pots to beautify their home environment, and they look really beautiful.

How to grow potted figs

Figs like a warm, humid environment, tolerate drought and poor soil, and in everyday care you can keep the soil loose and fertile, then simply grow them in sandy loam.

Fig tree cuttings

For fig tree cuttings you can choose vigorous branches 1-1.5 cm in diameter, then cut them into 30-50 cm cuttings, insert two-thirds into the soil with the rest left above the surface, fill in the soil and firm it down, and just be careful to water and keep the soil moist.

For summer cuttings, you can choose lignified green branches for cutting; after 1 month the cuttings will take root. Gardening enthusiasts can store fig cuttings in damp sand for 1 month, and once the wounds have healed they can be planted, with a little fertilizer applied regularly, so the fruit can be big and sweet.

Fertilizing fig trees

Fig trees are very tolerant of fertilizer, so you can apply plenty of phosphorus and potassium fertilizer, or use decomposed soybean cake; fertilize during the period when the fruit is swelling rapidly, so the fig tree can produce bigger and sweeter fruit.

Gardening enthusiasts now have some understanding of how to grow fig trees in pots, right? You can find a few branches in the countryside for cuttings, and if the cuttings do well, the fig tree will successfully bear fruit.