PUSHING THE BORDERS

Anyone in the UK getting it to fruit? Thinking of removing one of the two remaining Figs from the fruit cage as it doesnt fruit (some fancy yellow striped variety) and replacing it with one of these.

In Trees and Shrubs Online they comment, under a picture of one against a wall in The Oxford Botanic Garden that it 'needs all the summer heat it can get to succeed in the UK'.

You'd be pushing your luck with our summer temperatures in Cornwall.

I think they are self incompatible as well, so you'd need to grow two different ones to get fruit.

Chad

Thought that may be the case - shame

Charlie, you are welcome to a 'Little Miss Figgy' plant. My plant (two years in the ground) has produced a good number of ripening fruits and a few clones from self layering.

Caution with Little Miss Figgy. An excelent fig, but how 'dwarf' it is is moot. Follow the link above.

Chad

Interesting article Chad, thanks. I imagine 'Little Miss Figgy' may stay quite small if grown in a pot, but it in the ground I have found it to be a fast grower and now is about 2.5M high and wide.
I am quite happy about it's size as it helps to hide the neighbours house which has recently been painted the most horrendous shade of pink.

This grower in The Netherlands has pre-orders for fruit available, with expected shipping in November: https://www.kwekerij-asimina.nl/. So successful fruit set must be possible it in our climate.
Personally I haven't even had much luck getting the plants themselves to grow. I planted two named varieties a year or three ago. One is still alive, but is only this year really starting to look healthy, the other has been declining ever since planting it out and it finally died this spring. I bought a small "sunflower" to replace the dead specimen which I'll plant out in the fall and hope for the best again.