I thought Martin might appreciate my Brown Turkey:



It's serving as a host for a Black Madeira scion grafted 21 days ago. :)

Same thing I used BT for Harvey. Well, that's what the label said when I got it from TSC anyway. Remains to be seen if that's what it actually is.

lol my brown turkey got a black madeira graft too.  This has to be some kind of oppression? :-P

LOL, funny that three of us would being doing the same exact thing.  I bought six figs in 5 gallon pots for grafting and I think only one of them happened to be BT, I wasn't really paying attention to the labels when I bought them.  One ended up being a Panache which I decided into turning into a multi-grafted tree for my sister.

LOL
you know everyone getting into figs should start with a common brown turkey to learn the ropes like pruning , root pruning, storage etc for there expendable and easy to come by like many
of the paleface figs which also are just as expendable.

I feel sorry for the poor brown turkey.  If I would use anything for roots, it would be LSU Gold.  Nematode resistant!  If I could find a gopher resistant varietal, I would learn to graft faster than you can smile!

Suzi

I've posted a couple of things about my grafted Black Madeira but thought I should give an update.  This tree was planted in my orchard in August 2013.  At the same time, I planted a tree of Black Madeira growing on it's own roots that was rooted at around the same time this tree was grafted.  It's not a fair comparison since the Brown Turkey rootstock has a well established root system as it was potted in a 5 gallon pot when I bought it in January 2013.  Both Black Madeira trees are shown in this photo with the grafted tree on the left.  It would have been much larger but I did some considerable pruning of it in January.

 

When I took this photo last week the grafted tree had new growth of about 14" or so while the non-grafted Black Madeira had one new shoot of about 12".  Maybe it will catch up one day, but I sort of doubt it.

That is truly amazing Harvey, major difference with BT rootstock. Is that pine straw that you are using to protect from the heat and retain water?

Yes, I agree Wayne.  That is just dead weeds.  My figs are in an area on my farm where the water table is high (24-30" from surface at this time, higher during winter) so my figs are planted on berms so I can't mow any closer to the rows so I spray the weeds.