u/quixotic_mfennec

I've only ever successfully overwintered figs my first year, and since then every time something goes wrong, they get gnats even though they're not overly wet and are only watered once a month while dormant in the walled off area behind the house, etc..they just don't bounce back. This last summer they came back but never bore fruit. They were in a spot where they got great sun, were fertilized with trifecta plus once every two weeks, sometimes with a little extra phosphorus added in, were kept consistently but not overly watered. All things that worked great the first year and then never again.

This last fall I decided to just bring them inside and put them under a mixed LED to see if they would actually bear fruit. After about a month they did -- one of them has 7, another has 16, another one has 22...but they've been on the branches for a couple months and never ripened. These are all dark fig breeds but the figs are still green (a little speckled now) and have been since February or March. One of them has all these stalled barely-purple figs on it and just started sending up another shoot from the base of the trunk. The leaves look great. Do still have a chronic issue with gnats that I can't seem to get rid of, though that's abated some recently.

I freely admit that I am an idiot. That's fine. But does anyone know why this happened? They're warm, they're getting good light, regular watering and light fertilizer.

I pronate super bad and have for a long time. I also have weak hips, deep core and low back, major disc degeneration etc, but I'm trying to strengthen them. Just a rant, I guess, but if anyone has any insight I'd love to hear it.

Right ankle: Small tear in a tendon just in front of the inner ankle bone. My podiatrist said it was "with the grain," taking a piece of gauze and separating the fibers out into kind of a purse-opening shape to demonstrate.

I wasn't necessarily surprised to hear that because there are times when I can't flex that ankle at all while walking, or it feels like bones chipping together and it takes my breath away. (Fun fact, that symptom developed in high school when I got a pair of house slippers that had a stiff high ankle, kind of like an Ugg boot, that didn't let me walk like a normal human.) When I asked her why it happened or how to keep it from getting worse, she said she didn't know. My pt said the same, and he was actually the best pt I've had so far. Whatever.

I also have a cyst on the right side of my foot, maybe an inch and a half down from my outer ankle bone. It's been scanned and it's perfectly ovular. It switches from being big and soft to being hard and crispy and, like...pokey feeling. Again, they say it's not really worth it to do anything. I have no clue.

Left ankle: I think I have another one of those cysts basically in the ankle joint, at the front. In the area of the inferior extensor retinaculum, according to a diagram I'm looking at. Can't see a lump or anything but it feels like there's something there. When it's acting up, which it is now, I can't stretch or strengthen my ankle. Can't do calf raises. Can't really go for my daily walk without making it worse. This flareup was caused by, you guessed it, doing foot and ankle pt.

I don't know what to do, you guys! A few years ago I healed my plantar fasciitis without even doing pt and I guess I got cocky. I'm at a complete loss now, especially since my docs haven't been particularly insightful. My feet are so ganked I can't even activate my arches without scrunching my toes. That's so far beyond me, I keep trying but I can't get my head around it. I just want to get stronger!