Alma Fig Tree – Naturally Grown

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Description

A fig for the Deep South!  A Texas AM University release, highly resistant to fruit rot. Alma’s fruit is a beautiful light yellowish green, with light yellow flesh inside. A good drying variety with a high sugar content and excellent flavor. Continuously crops all through the summer. Small eye, moderately closed with a drop of sugar to block the eye from rain, ants, fruit flies and spoilage. This fig tree is one of our most cold hardy, surviving 6F. Fruit ripens mid-July until frost in the South, later further north.

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.

NATURALLY GROWN – no synthetic pesticides, fertilizers, fungicides, neo-nictinoids, or other pesticides or toxic ag chemicals used at our nursery 

Uses: Makes an excellent dried fig. Also top-notch fresh eating, good for jams and cooking also.

Resistant to: Figs are remarkably free of disease and insects.  This fig shows good cold hardiness and resistance to disease and humidity/rain.

Site Selection: Well-drained soil. Full sun location.

Pollination: This fig requires no pollination in order to set fruit.

Plant Size: CHOOSE SIZE. Bare-Root shipped February-April. May-October shipped potted in special tree pots.

USDA Zone 8 -10

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

Additional information

TREE SIZE

SMALL 6-12", MEDIUM 1-2', LARGE 2'+