The short answer is yes. You can grow figs in a pot, but you will have to amend the soil with all the nutrients necessary for the plant to grow tasty figs. From our experience, if you want to grow figs in a pot, we recommend you put your tree in a 15-gallon pot with a rich soil mixture. We highly recommend using organic liquid fertilizers that your tree can quickly and easily take up with its root system.

Most figs produce two crops annually. The first crop is known as a Breba crop growing on last years wood produces smaller yields from late Winter into Spring. While the second crop is called the main crop and is considered the main harvest for the year in late Summer into early Autumn. Figs are very perishable and fresh fruit are best eaten within days of picking for best quality. Figs are ready to harvest when they droop a little rather than standing erect on their stems and should feel soft when given a gentle squeeze. The fruit may even split slightly and the ‘eye’ at the base of the fruit may form a small opening where you can see it oozing a sweet syrup. To extract the fig from the branch, hold the fig from the stem and twist-pull gently to remove it. If it is difficult to pull the fig from the ranch, it may be a signal that your fig may not be completely ripe yet. In this case, leave it on the branch for a day or two, and try again. Ripe fruit can be stored in the fridge for several days. Figs can be harvested when almost ripe, and allowed to ripen at room temperature for a 1 to 2 days indoors and refrigerated thereafter.

Figs enjoy a Mediterranean climate with hot, dry summers and cool, wet winters. Fig trees are desert plants that grow well in our North Texas zone 8A. They need full sun but dislike strong winds, so choose a sheltered position, ideally a south-facing wall. Fig trees are deciduous, so that means that they lose their leaves at the start of winter and "awaken" in the spring when they sprout new leaves for the season. If you have heavy, clay soil, build up the soil in mounds to improve drainage or plant on a slope where water will drain away easily in wet weather. Although they grow happily in alkaline soils, they especially enjoy compost-rich, slightly acidic soil, so don’t hesitate to fertilize the soil in both spring and fall.

Judicious pruning can help you manage the size of your fig tree and impact the productivity of fig fruit from your tree. A newly-planted tree with a single stem should be pruned 12 to 18 inches from the ground to encourage branching out, then three of the resulting stems should be selected to form the main framework. Fruit emerges from the axils of leaves on the current season’s wood (new wood). Encourage vigorous fruiting by cutting back each season’s growth by about one-third each winter.

Figs are high in natural sugars, minerals and fiber. They also contain good levels of potassium, calcium, magnesium, iron, copper and manganese. Dried figs contain an impressive 250mg of calcium per 100g, compared to whole milk with only 118mg.

There are three types of figs. The first type can only be pollinated by a tiny wasp. In the United States this wasp is only found in California. The second type is the Male fig tree (caprifigs), and it bears woody, inedible fruit. The third type are the self-polinating fig trees that do not need a pollinator and bear fruit. This means that you only need one tree to bear delicious fruit. Our trees are the self-pollinating type.