Peter's Honey Fig

Scientific Name: Ficus carica 'Peter's Honey'

Plant type

tree, fruit / vegetable

size

H: 15'-25'
W: 15'-25'

planting zones

7a-10b

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Peter's Honey Fig plant details

Peter's Honey Fig is a moderate-growing broadleaf deciduous fruit / vegetable or tree with green foliage. In spring cream flowers emerge followed by green and yellow fruit. Features glossy texture. Attracts birds. Grows well with sun and regular - occasional water. Does well in average and well-drained soil. A good option if you're seeking something heat tolerant.

CHARACTERISTICS OF Peter's Honey Fig

Plant type: fruit / vegetable or tree
Plant family: moraceae
Foliage: deciduous green
Mature size: 15 FT - 25 FT - wide, 15 FT - 25 FT - tall
Flowers: cream blooms in spring
Uses: big leaves, edible, tropical-looking

GROWING CONDITIONS for Peter's Honey Fig

USDA Zones: 7a - 10b
Sun exposure: sun
Watering frequency: regular - occasional
Resistant to: deer, heat
Soil needs: average and well-drained

Nursery contributed plant descriptions

Ficus carica 'Peter's Honey' is very productive and reliable especially in cool summer climates, producing abundant, yellowish-green figs with sweet and richly flavourful, dark amber flesh that tastes like honey. In coastal BC it ripens in early to mid August with abundant crops produced over about three weeks. Get ready to eat fresh figs every day, serve them with goat cheese wrapped in proscuitto, and make fig jam. You'll likely have so many you'll have to give them to friends and neighbours!

By: Phoenix Perennials and Specialty Plants Ltd.

The fruit on this Fig tree is especially sweet. Greenish-yellow with amber center. Brought to the United States from Sicily by Peter Danna of Portland. Self-pollinating Growth Rate medium

By: Garden World

Peter's Honey produces a good crop of small to medium sized, rounded, green to yellow figs with a wonderful honey-like, sweet white flesh and deep amber pulp. The figs are superb fresh, dried, or preserved and have a small closed eye. Peter's Honey Fig has a dwarf habit suitable for container culture and may produce a breba crop Fig trees do best where they get at least 8 hours of direct sun per day. Once well established they are fairly drought tolerant but extended dry periods can cause leaf and fruit drop as well as early dormancy. A deep organic mulch will help to alleviate extremes in moisture levels, reduce nematode issues, as well as to reduce competition from weeds.