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Socorro Black Fig Tree: Experience Exotic Sweetness
About the Fruit
The Socorro Black Fig is a unique and mouthwatering delight that transports your taste buds to a paradise of rich, honeyed sweetness. This exotic fruit features a striking dark purple skin that encases a deep red, succulent interior. Perfect for fresh eating, scrumptious preserves, or adding a gourmet twist to your favorite dishes, the Socorro Black Fig promises an unforgettable culinary experience.
What to Know About the Tree
The Socorro Black Fig Tree is a deciduous beauty that stands out in any garden. It exhibits large, lobed leaves that provide a lush, tropical appearance during the growing season and go dormant in the winter. This tree typically grows up to 10-15 feet, making it an excellent choice for both spacious gardens and smaller spaces when pruned. Its unique feature is its high productivity and the ability to thrive in various climates, ensuring a bountiful harvest for fig enthusiasts.
Harvest Season
The Socorro Black Fig Tree rewards your patience with two abundant harvests each year. The first crop, known as the breba crop, appears in early summer, while the main crop ripens in late summer to early fall. This extended harvesting period allows you to enjoy fresh figs over a longer season, adding continuous delight to your table.
Enhancing Your Fruitscape™
Imagine transforming your garden into a lush fruitscape™, where the Socorro Black Fig Tree becomes a centerpiece of beauty and productivity. Its broad, verdant leaves and striking fruits add a dramatic flair to your landscape, while providing a generous supply of delectable figs. Whether planted alone or paired with other exotic plants, this tree brings both aesthetic charm and a bountiful harvest to your outdoor space. Elevate your garden with the Socorro Black Fig Tree and enjoy fresh, homegrown sweetness right at your doorstep.
With Just Fruits and Exotics, you’re assured of a tree shipped 100% in pot, mirroring the experience of buying in person. Our superior packaging and easy shipping are designed for your convenience. As a nationally renowned, family-owned and operated online nursery, we bring a trusted, local-friendly vibe to your online shopping experience. Enhance your garden’s beauty and bounty with the Socorro Black Fig Tree and join our family of satisfied fruit enthusiasts today.
Recommended Fertilizers
Starter Fertilizer: Kickstart with Espoma Organic Bio-tone® Starter Plus. This potent blend boosts root mass and aids in mitigating transplant shock, ensuring your plants thrive in their new home.
Maintenance Fertilizer: For continued growth and fruit production, we recommend Espoma Organic Tree-tone Fertilizer. Designed specifically for fruit trees, this balanced formula nourishes your plants, promoting vibrant growth and bountiful harvests.
Fruitscaping™ with Fig Trees
Embrace the joy of Fruitscaping™ with our Fig Trees. Among the simplest and most rewarding fruiting plants to grow, figs are an excellent addition to any organic garden. Their inherent disease resistance and few pest issues can be managed easily without the need for harsh chemicals, ensuring a bountiful, eco-friendly harvest.
Our Fig trees exhibit a diverse palette of flavors, textures, and ripening seasons. Some varieties possess thin skins with succulent centers evoking the flavor of rich maple syrup – a delight when savored fresh from the tree. Other varieties offer a naturally sweet texture, perfect for drying or turning into delectable preserves.
With their compact growth habit, fig trees are perfect for integrating into the shrubbery border, adding an attractive contrast with their broad, deeply lobed leaves. Consider pairing these distinctive trees with the elegant pomegranate and the fine-textured blueberry bushes for a stunning visual mix. Complement this arrangement with a lush undergrowth of strawberries, creating a cycle of blooming flowers, ripening fruit, and vibrant fall colors.
The young fig tree’s smooth, flexible trunk lends itself to creative gardening techniques. Train it into an espalier for a living wall, or twist it into a striking specimen tree. If you’re dealing with limited space, lay the trunk flat against the ground, and watch as the vertical shoots transform into a natural, green hedge.
Fig trees are also well-suited to container gardening. The root restriction of a pot often encourages the tree to produce even more prolific crops. So, if you’re an urban gardener or short on garden space, our fig trees will prove a perfect fit.
Embrace the ease and joy of Fruitscaping™ with Fig Trees. Enjoy the journey from planting and care to the sweet reward of your homegrown figs.
Growing Guides
You can find many planting & care guides on our growing guides page.
Shipping Restrictions
Unfortunately, We Cannot Process Orders to California, Hawaii, Alaska, or Internationally: Please note that due to specific agricultural regulations, we’re unable to ship any plants to the states of California, Hawaii, and Alaska, or outside the United States. Additionally, citrus trees can only be shipped within the state of Florida.
Shipping Information
Before Your Plants Arrive: You can find many guides on unpacking, planting, & care, on our growing guides page.
The Journey From Our Nursery to Your Door: We NEVER ship our plants bare root. Your plant will travel in the very container in which it was nurtured. We thoroughly prune and water them before packing, and make sure they’re well wrapped to retain moisture during transit. It’s as though you’ve personally collected them from our nursery!
Choose Your Ship Date: We understand you’ll want to be available when your plant arrives. Our checkout process features a handy calendar that allows you to choose the Monday on which you want your plant to ship. Depending on your location, you’ll likely receive your plant by Wednesday, Thursday, or Friday of that week. Once shipped, UPS will generate a tracking number and send it to the email you provided. You can then follow your plant’s journey and ensure someone is available to unpack it on arrival day.
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