Really, I don't know. The abundance this year seems overboard. When we moved in my brother ate all of the lemons and apples that were on the tree. I think there were something like 4 apples of 3 lemons. There were figs when we looked at the house in June, but no figs in August. My brother would have cleaned the figs off too. Then last year the apple tree had apples and then one day they were just gone. The fig tree had figs, not a lot but enough. And the lemon tree just seems to be a good producer year round. This year . . . this year I have no clue. There are so many apples on the tree that the branches have bent to the ground. And the figs, oh lord the figs! The squirrels, birds, the dog and everybody else that will take figs have eaten figs. And I still have figs running out of my ears. I wish I knew what was up with the tree this year. I've walked the block looking at other fig trees and what's left on those trees is what I'm picking off in an hour. I'm going to try to root a piece of this tree though so when we move I'll have a fig tree that hopefully will produce as well as this one.
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Date: 2006-09-27 07:34 pm (UTC)Really, I don't know. The abundance this year seems overboard. When we moved in my brother ate all of the lemons and apples that were on the tree. I think there were something like 4 apples of 3 lemons. There were figs when we looked at the house in June, but no figs in August. My brother would have cleaned the figs off too. Then last year the apple tree had apples and then one day they were just gone. The fig tree had figs, not a lot but enough. And the lemon tree just seems to be a good producer year round. This year . . . this year I have no clue. There are so many apples on the tree that the branches have bent to the ground. And the figs, oh lord the figs! The squirrels, birds, the dog and everybody else that will take figs have eaten figs. And I still have figs running out of my ears. I wish I knew what was up with the tree this year. I've walked the block looking at other fig trees and what's left on those trees is what I'm picking off in an hour. I'm going to try to root a piece of this tree though so when we move I'll have a fig tree that hopefully will produce as well as this one.