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30ft + tall heirloom Celeste

Yes to all but not the pomegranate. I do not think it grows in my zone. Let me know what I can pay you for them

Fig treehouse? 

I will be glad to send out fig cuttings from my Great Aunt's tree, sorry I didn't realize this thread revived.  I had people ask last summer but I never made it back to NC.  I have a few small plants from last year.

Tenesseefig let me know. I PMed you about getting some.

Micah, that's a beautiful tree!

A very large number of figs trees in NC are Celeste or Brown Turkey.  Once the tree gets some age and height, they become very sweet and amazing.   I'm in Charlotte, NC and my section of Charlotte is considered 8A by the USDA.  You can always tell Celeste from Brown Turkey in our climate b/c Celeste is a tad bit smaller and have a little reddish color when ripe.  Brown Turkey, depending on the strain, are a little larger and has almost a greyish brown color when ripe.  Both are excellent but Celeste is a winner and is hardier than BT.  Celeste in my climate never drop figs.  But be very careful though buying Celeste trees at Wal-Mart, Home Depot, and Lowes.  Most are Brown Turkey even though the tag says, "Celeste".  I know....that's for another post but is truly a huge problem for fig lovers/growers.

Again, that's a beautiful Celeste fig tree!  Auntie did a good job raising it!

Thanks Dennis, that fig tree is the reason I grow fig trees today.  My wife's family has a brown turkey that is about 30 years old and nowhere near the size of the Celeste.  However the Brown Turkey they have produces large greenish purple figs, in fact it is the fig that is my avatar.  I actually believe that I prefer their Brown Turkey according to taste and size.  Do you have any idea what type of Brown Turkey that is?  I looked it up and thought I figured it out last year but now I cannot remember.

I plan to have cuttings available this fall!

Hi.  Would you add me to your cuttings list.  I hope it will do well in a container.

Hello! Please add me to your list and I'd love to send you cuttings in return, if you have enough cuttings to go around this fall :)!

Gorgeous. I'm in NJ and mine aren't nearly as big!

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Yes just another one to be added if you don't mind. Thank you

I suppose that tree is to large to ship?

Lol

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