BROWN TURKEY FIG

For your purchase, you are getting one rooted 6”-8” brown turkey fig starter plant. These starter plants are budding but will not have leaves- see pictures 3 and 4. The starter plant will be wrapped in wet paper towel and Saran wrapped to retain moisture. There will be no pots included. You may receive your starter tree in recycled box (cracker box, Amazon, Walmart boxes). Plants will be shipped on Monday but no later than Wednesday . This is to ensure these plants not kept in post office warehouse over the weekend.

MY FIG TREE SEEDLINGS ARE EXPOSED TO THE ELEMENTS. WITH RECENT SUMMER RAIN AND HUMID WEATHER, YOU WILL RECEIVE A TREE WITH FIG RUST ON THE LEAVES. FIG RUST WILL NOT KILL THE TREE. IT WILL NOT BE A PRETTY GREEN TREE.

I will replace your plant if you show me a picture of your death plant 48 hours upon receipt of plant. Broken stems does not mean it’s dead.

Brown Turkey fig is synonymous to AUBIQUE NOIRE, BLACK SPANISH, ENGLISH BROWN TURKEY, CALIFORNIA BROWN TURKEY (?), EASTERN BROWN TURKEY, EVERBEARING, NEGRO LARGO, SAN PEDRO BLACK (?) , SAN PIERO (?), SAN PEDRO, TEXAS EVERBEARING, AUBICON, BLUE BURGANDY, BROWN NAPLES, CALIFORNIA LARGE BLACK, BROWN ITALIAN, LARGE BLACK, LEE'S PERPETUAL, LA PERPETUELLE, HARRISON, RAMSEY, BRUNSWICK, FLUER DE RED, NISSE, VIOLETTA, BROWN NAPLES, FLEUR DE ROUGE. Whatever the name, The Brown Turkey fig is a sweet, violet-brown fruit. It's a self-pollinator that ripens in late July until late fall.

DESCRIPTION

Small to medium light brown to violet fruit with strawberry pulp. Turbinate to oblique, mostly without neck. Small eye which has a reddish color from very early stage (unlike Celeste) .Cold hardy. It fruits on new growth if winter killed. Often bears two crops a year. Very sweet, but not rich.

• Average mature height: 15-30 feet

• Light: Full sun

• Self-pollinating: Yes

• Soil: Well-drained. Will not tolerate excessively wet soil, but needs ample moisture during fruiting.

• Water: Keep moist

• Zones: 7-10

If you live colder zone, I recommend potting the tree and bring into your garage in the winter. Colder zone outdoor grown fig trees will die to the ground and MAY regrow in the spring. The mother tree is a prolific fruiting tree(see pictures 1 and 2) and will produce so much fruits that I share the figs with my neighbors, birds, squirrels, raccoons and other critters and still have loads leftover. The tree will grow very large if you let it and I recommend growing this tree far from the house. Once this tree is established, little care is required. I feed my tree with citrus fertilizer in February/June annually that’s about all I do for my fig tree. Fig leaves are delicious too. The young leaves cooked can be cooked like spinach. The older leaves are used as wraps for cooking meats or fish and tea.

DO NOT eat the leaves raw. While you won’t die from eating the leaves raw, the sap from the raw leaves will irritate your mouth, throat and gut. There’s a lot articles on using fig sap as rennet substitute for making cheese.