Scratching bark... and my head....

2Bites said:
Hit it with some triple 20 to stimulate it or just wait it out maybe by October it will be budding then next spring it will take off.
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I've it with Jack's 20-20-20 a couple times this year. You think Ammonium Sulphate is too much? It was preached to me as the go-to when a real kick in the pants is required... but yeah.... it's heavier stuff than I like to use unless necessary
 
In my experience a few doses of synthetic fertilizer such as 20 20 20, or even 10 10 make the difference as the salts in the synthetic fertilizer Force the plant to uptake water and with that nutrients. Synthetics seem to kickstart some thick fast growing whips. Also it's a good formula to wake the dead
 
@TorontoJoe Did your weather go from cool spring temps, right into the hot streak like mine here in NE Indiana. Have you ever topped that tree like that before? If that is the case, my guess would be that you are dealing with older latent buds. Those buds would have woken up later anyway, and assuming you got the heat wave, the tree might be protecting itself by not breaking those lower buds. Does that tree just sit out in the sun like that all day? If so, move it to a dappled/full shade area. That way you don't have to worry as much about soil drying out and it might just trigger those buds, since shade temps would would be closer to spring season temps.
 
Here at my house it seems if I keep my eyes on it looking for it to do something, it does nothing. I have actually put things aside and ignored them and next thing I know it’s budding out. This happened with a rooted black mission cutting that a friend sent to me, I worried and worried. Finally I set it aside and basically forgot about it and it finally started budding out.
 
FruitBrute said:
@TorontoJoe Did your weather go from cool spring temps, right into the hot streak like mine here in NE Indiana. Have you ever topped that tree like that before? If that is the case, my guess would be that you are dealing with older latent buds. Those buds would have woken up later anyway, and assuming you got the heat wave, the tree might be protecting itself by not breaking those lower buds. Does that tree just sit out in the sun like that all day? If so, move it to a dappled/full shade area. That way you don't have to worry as much about soil drying out and it might just trigger those buds, since shade temps would would be closer to spring season temps.
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This is exactly what happened
 
I hit it with the AS to see if that's enough to give it a jolt. That and the really warm water. I didn't take the temp. Basically just really warm to the touch. Definitely warmer than the cold municipal water that they all get from the drippers
 
ClayFig said:
Here at my house it seems if I keep my eyes on it looking for it to do something, it does nothing. I have actually put things aside and ignored them and next thing I know it’s budding out. This happened with a rooted black mission cutting that a friend sent to me, I worried and worried. Finally I set it aside and basically forgot about it and it finally started budding out.
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It's a fact.... figs really do play hard to get!
 
rayray said:
@TorontoJoe

What about the "Notching Method"? You notch above a node, it releases/disrupts the sap and in return energy and hormones is redirected to that node in return the energy and hormones encourage leafing and branching in that particular area of the tree.
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I may be wrong, but I don't think that'll work without an apical bud somewhere above.
 
TorontoJoe said:
I may be wrong, but I don't think that'll work without an apical bud somewhere above.
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I'm not sure?

Well, my step grandfather use to take a 2 by 4 or a big stick and beat the side of his fruit tree's that stopped producing fruit--he said the shock of being hit would stimulate the tree to start producing fruit again. I don't know if he was BS'ing me/us but man-oh-man it seemed to work lol. He was at one time a real farmer (his father's 50 acre farm) and a master gardener most of his adult life after the farm.

Take a smaller stick and beat it lol
 
rayray said:
I'm not sure?

Well, my step grandfather use to take a 2 by 4 or a big stick and beat the side of his fruit tree's that stopped producing fruit--he said the shock of being hit would stimulate the tree to start producing fruit again. I don't know if he was BS'ing me/us but man-oh-man it seemed to work lol. He was at one time a real farmer (his father's 50 acre farm) and a master gardener most of his adult life after the farm.

Take a smaller stick and beat it lol
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lol was there much physical damage?
 
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