Description
This Southern heirloom is sure to please with it’s sweet, large fruit and adaption to the humid, wet, rainy, hot summers of the Southeast. Performed surprisingly well for us even in the very rainy summer of 2018. Along the sunny south side of our house it has thrived and it’s LARGE, plump figs begin ripening in September. Magnolia figs are large size for a cold hardy fig, as can be seen in the photos (a friend was amazed and said they resemble tropical figs). They quickly turn from green to a lovely reddish-magenta color when ripe. Fruits are firm, with a nice melting texture and great fig flavor; spicy and sweet. The fruit is resistant to mold, rotting, splitting after rain and fig rust (fungal disease of leaves). Vigorous, robust and fast growing tree. This fig seems to need a long season to ripen it’s fruit well, so it seems most suited to a southern location. Cold hardiness is good but needs winter protection in zones 6-7. This fig would really shine anywhere south of Kentucky and TN, especially in the Deep South and Texas, although with winter protection it survives in KY.
NATURALLY GROWN – no synthetic pesticides, fertilizers, fungicides, neo-nictinoids, or other pesticides or toxic ag chemicals used at our nursery
Sorry, we cannot ship POTTED FIGS (May-September) to: CA, TX, AZ, NM, NV, OR. We can ship DORMANT fig trees to these states bare-root when ordered in October-April (as available). Bare-root shipping to CA, TX, AZ, NM, NV, OR happens in mid-February-April.
Site requirements: Full sun location. Figs will grow in a range of soil types provided the planting location is well drained. Protected yet sunny locations, such as on the South, East or West side of a building is ideal.
Size at maturity: 8-15′, depending on location, climate and care.
Pollination: This fig requires no pollination in order to set fruit.
Resistant to: Figs are known for remarkable disease and insect resistance. Magnolia is resistant to mold, rotting, splitting after rain and fig rust (fungal disease of leaves). Ants can get interested in figs and heavy rains can make the current figs rot, so keep well-picked. Figs continue to put on new fruit constantly until frost.
Hardiness: USDA zones 7b-10. Winter protection in zone 6-7 recommended.
Plant size: CHOOSE SIZE. Bare-Root shipped February-April. May-October shipped potted in special tree pots.
OUR NURSERY IS AND ALWAYS HAS BEEN 100% FIG BUD MITE FREE.
“…Thank you for the fig plants. They looked great, strongly rooted and ready to grow, which they’re doing now.”
-Lee Reich Ph.D- Famous author on growing fruit, renowned fruit grower, and organic gardener
