Is your fruit tree looking sick or bearing bad fruit? Fruit tree diseases are common: Here's how to identify the problem so you can effectively treat your tree.

Fig Tree Care. Figs are self-fruitful, so you need only one plant to produce fruit.Mature fig trees are wide and shrubby and can be 10 to 30 feet tall, with some varieties bred to be more compact ...

Touch the fruit. Not all figs show obvious signs of ripening. Some, including the popular LSU Gold cultivar, remain green ...

The best time to prune most fruit trees is in late winter or early spring, says Boersma, while the tree is still dormant, but before the buds start swelling. “That way, you're not exposing fresh cuts ...

Fig trees don’t require much to start producing fruit, but getting them to ripen is a different story. These fruit require a lot of heat to ripen up and this year extreme heat was lacking.

Finally, Rana Azimi asked, “Where can I buy an organic fig tree?” Organic Fruit Tree LA is the nursery you seek. It’s located in East Los Angeles at 663 S. Record Avenue.

In many countries, the number of fig trees have been declining. While there are numerous explanations, one key problem is fig-wilting disease. A recognized cause of this disease is a fungus ...

When you’re inspecting your fig trees, be on the lookout for puncture marks, small sunken areas on the fruit or signs of premature ripening — these could be the black fig fly’s calling cards.

Fig trees are so easy to grow, that it was actually the first fruit to be cultivated by humans! This year though many local gardeners reported that the fruit on their trees didn’t ripen. The ...