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The goal of this trial was to determine which fig trees would grow and produce fruit for the average backyard gardener in the Western Arkansas River Valley. Credit to Charlie Little of Mansfield Arkansas and Figs 4 Fun for cuttings and information. LSU Fig Program, UC Davis Fig Data Base, Fig Bid, Brian Melton and the Fig Boss for fig information. Note: The fig wasp is found only in California and Florida. The fig trees grown in all other states are typically common fig tre

Fig report 2015-2020 All figs in The Learning Fields fig trial except for a few were started from donated cuttings received from fig enthusiasts across the United States. If you are not familiar with fig propagation the best way I can describe it is picture receiving cuttings that resemble a wooden pencil. No leaves no roots just pieces of wood taken from a dormant fig tree. Fig growers in the northern United States and around the world maybe able to use a mist bench or place

LSU provided some of the first cuttings to start the trial. I managed to destroy many of the cuttings by following instructions from the internet, another lesson learned the hard way. Fig cuttings like a dry environment not a mist bench. Second never follow instructions for what works in the tropics or Australia if you live in Arkansas. Luckily some of the LSU cuttings survived despite my bumbling mistakes. One good thing came from surfing on the internet, I met Charlie L

As humans we learn not by our successes in life but by our mistakes or at least that has been the case for me. The original thought of a fig trial came about by one of those life lessons of failure. This lesson started when I purchased 2 healthy fig trees for $60 from a big box store. Both figs had beautiful Italian or French names that I should have tagged onto the trees which wasn't done, and I promptly forgot the names. The trees loved the Arkansas heat and grew happily t