Do you have figs growing in your garden?

Good afternoon

In Sweden (I live in the central part), figs grow, but they never fully ripen.

Maybe someone knows how to outwit nature? :)

https://vremenagodagarden.blogspot.se/2017/03/blog-post_29.html

Thank you,

Julia Merkulova

Try to water and fertilize it more often, perhaps it will ripen much faster this way, or perhaps the climatic conditions are simply not suitable for it. Has it always under-ripened for you or is it just this time?

Figs, of course, are a good, tasty fruit, but in our climatic region they do not grow, perhaps in winter, their roots may even freeze. Therefore, it is better not to plant such exotic plants.

You are unlikely to deceive nature in any way. Figs grow only in warm and mild climates, but there is an option to grow this fruit at home on a windowsill. There are varieties that bear fruit well. These are Dalmatica, Black Pearl, Gift to October, Muason and many others.

We had figs on the windowsill. They just put him in for a trial. It grew big, there were fruits, but not tasty. Some kind of "artificial" ones. It seems to me that figs should ripen exclusively in the south under the sun! Don't you think so?

“outwitting nature” can only be done in a greenhouse, with year-round heating to tropical temperatures. In the Botanical Garden, in greenhouses, various exotics have been growing since Tsarist times, and they ripen no worse than in their native nature.But purely for myself, this is absolutely not profitable, so I join the opinion that it is better not to plant a fig tree at all than to dance around the tree with a tambourine.

Figs in Sweden??? You're kidding. It’s surprising that it bears any fruit there at all. I don’t live in the south of Russia, so anyway, people here grow normal figs only on the coast (Sochi, Tuapse), and to the north - not so much. There is no way you can deceive nature. A greenhouse is the only way out.