This fruit tree is incredibly easy to grow: just snap off a branch, stick it in the soil and it takes root, bearing more than 100 fruits the following year

More and more people are growing vegetables and fruits at home these days. The point of growing your own is the fun of it, plus you get to eat fruit you grew yourself with absolutely no pesticide residue, which makes it a really interesting thing to do. Speaking of growing fruit trees, I generally don't recommend that gardening fans grow apple trees, persimmon trees or the like, since they are hard to care for and take far too long to bear fruit. But there is one kind of fruit tree that is well worth growing. Even though it doesn't flower, it produces plenty of fruit, and usually a cutting taken this year will bear fruit next year. By now most of you have probably guessed it, right? That's right, this plant is the "fig tree."

This fruit tree is incredibly easy to grow: snap off a branch, toss it in the soil and it lives, bearing more than 100 fruits the following year

In rural courtyards, basically every household grows a fig tree. I remember as a child, the fig tree at home had a trunk as thick as a bowl's rim, and every year in August and September it would produce several hundred jin of fruit. Sometimes we couldn't pick it all, and the rest ended up eaten by birds. This kind of fruit tree not only has a high yield, but is also especially easy to grow. A fig planted in the ground needs hardly any day-to-day care, just watering. Of course, if you apply a dressing of farmyard manure such as chicken or duck droppings a few months before it fruits, the figs will be bigger and sweeter.

Fig trees can be grown in pots; snap off a branch and it lives, making them fairly easy to care for

Many gardening fans ask me: now that I've moved into the city, I no longer have a big courtyard, just a small balcony of a few square meters. I still want to grow my own figs - can I grow them in a pot? Of course you can! Growing figs in pots is very simple, since they are so easy to keep alive. Get a fig branch or a fig seedling from a flower market or from your hometown, bring it home and plant it straight into a pot. There are a few details to pay attention to when potting it up, though. First is the size of the pot. I suggest choosing a pot with a diameter greater than 20 cm, so the soil can hold a bit more nutrients. Second is fertilizing; after all, a pot's space is limited, so to ensure a good crop of fruit, it's best to apply plenty of nitrogen-phosphorus-potassium fertilizer.

When is the best time to take fig cuttings

This fruit tree takes root as soon as it's cut, and cuttings can be taken in either spring or autumn each year. If you take a cutting now, it will bear fruit by this time next year. If you take a cutting next spring, with proper care it can bear fruit the same year. One last bit of care advice: when taking fig cuttings, try to choose slightly thicker branches or seedlings, as these have more growing vigor and grow faster. In addition, for the soil in the pot, I also suggest making your own, using leaf mold and garden soil mixed with a little farmyard manure or crushed eggshell fertilizer as a base fertilizer, which gives better results.

What nutritional value do figs have

Besides being called fig, this fruit has many other names: ari, ayi, yingri guo, youtanbo, honey fruit, wenxian guo, milk-juice fruit, and pinxian guo. Its nutritional value is extraordinary: it contains all sorts of trace elements such as calcium, iron, sodium and potassium, and is especially suitable for people with high blood lipids, high blood pressure, coronary heart disease and constipation. Figs are suitable for young and old alike, and precisely because their value is so remarkable, their market value is good too - these days a jin of figs sells for several tens of yuan per jin!

That's all for sharing about growing figs in pots. Thanks for reading!

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