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Following two years in Rome, I have since moved to São Paulo, Brazil. While the cat was allowed to come with, plants were not. Therefore, we were forced to give our plants away to safe homes, including the fig tree.
The fig tree loved Rome, producing some thirty sweet figs the second year. Thankfully, a good friend agreed to help it stay. And better than this, she freed it from the confines of potted life. Now it is happily planted in the countryside outside of Rome.
And, still in the care of a watchful animal. Here’s to many more harvests!
Since my last post I moved from Paris to Rome! Needless to say, the fig tree is happy about the new environment. It started going to sleep for the winter around the time of the move, and about a month ago began to wake up. I promptly gave it a new, larger pot, which is pictured below.
It’s been growing quickly on our sunny balcony, and already put out two early figs! Here’s a picture from a couple days ago.
And here’s a picture where you can see the whole tree.
In our apartment in Paris the tree wanted to grow horizontally to reach its meager light from the window. Here, it is going more directly up. I think it’ll be taller than me soon!
We have big fig news today on the blog: our potted tree just produced its first ripe fig! Here it is, freshly fallen from the tree:
And here it is, cut in half before consumption:
Late this spring, after making a lot of branch growth, our tree put out three little green flowers. For a few months these made no progress, until a couple weeks ago, when one of the proto-figs begin to grow and soften. Finally, last week it fell off! It hadn’t grown fully purple yet, but it was very soft, and it was also very tasty. Perhaps two more are on the way! Stay tuned…
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