I hope everyone had a great weekend!  I thought I'd share a few pics of some of the newer additions to the garden.

First, this isn't new but is worth sharing.  I started some Strawberry Verte cuttings from Jon at Encanto 3 years ago and have two beautiful and highly productive trees that continue to produce bountiful harvests of fantastic tasting figs.  Just about every limb looks like this:

 

This is a one year old Black Madeira started from a UCD cutting.  It is highly infected with FMV and, after a full year has only about doubled in size from the original 4" cutting.  It is now starting to branch out and seems to be holding its leaves which had been continuously falling off, so I'm hoping it finally starts a growth spurt:

     

At the same time I started the above Black Madeira, which I just up-potted this weekend to a 2-gallon container, I also started this Excel which got to over 5' tall, produced about a half a dozen delicious figs, was topped, and is now in a 25 gallon container:

 

Here's a new addition...a LSU Scott's Black received from a generous local member (thanks, Levar!):

 

About 45 days ago I received a single 9" CDD cutting from UCD.  I divided it into three 3" cuttings to try to maximize my chances of success.  All three rooted beautifully and had been inside until a few days ago.  When I checked on them today, the once beutiful green leaves on all three appear to have been bleached (probably leaf scorch from the sun), so I think I need to move to shaded area until they get a little stronger, but I'm sure all will make it:

 

Finally, an impulse buy today at HD's...

I found a fruiting Miracle Fruit plant for $24.95.  I've had my eye on these for a while and, due to the time they take to produce fruit (something like 4-5 years) and the value of the fruit (more than $1 for a single berry), fruiting size plants are often selling for more than $100.

This is an interesting fruit (which I've personally not yet tried!) in that the the berries they produce have little taste or nutritional value, but they coat the tongue with a substance that makes everything else taste sweet for the next hour.  So, you can eat a berry and then drink straight lemon juice and it will taste like lemonade!

Because of this effect, the berries are supposed to help chemotherapy patients whose sense of tastes get altered by the chemicals making everything taste metallic.

In any event, here's the nice, healthy Miracle Fruit Plant:

 

It had one over-ripe/split berry on it at HD's, but it was gone by the time I got home, so it fell off either in the store or in the car on the ride home, but there are numerous clusters of more berries forming:

 
I'd love to hear more about the Miracle Fruit, including any suggestions, from any growers that have experience with this!

Nice photos Figaro and nice fig collection!  Sounds like the sugar companies won't like your miracle fruit..LOL

I share your pain with Black Madeira. 
Mine is also sitting there.  8" high it started in December with 2 leaves grew 2 more and then dropped them.  Now it is down to 1 leaf.   I am not sure whether to water it, feed it slap it or throw it out.  Maybe BM needs a special soil mix that evades me?

Will do some research on BM and start a new topic on growing BM if I can't resolve this.

I had some miracle fruit in Costa Rica. It tastes okay, and when eating a sour fruit after it does take the acid away but makes an artificial sweetener type taste that my wife and I didn't like. Some people love to eat acid fruits after eating it, let us know what you think when you get to try.