Hey everyone. Brugmansia-Quebec has his 2013 catalogue out.
See it here: http://brugmansia-quebec.com/Catalog%202013.html
New varieties added too.
 I couldn't help myself, I just added four more to my collection.

Wow... 66 fig varieties for sale there!  Wishing it was OK to cross the border and bring some back... couldn't do that anyway until we get past the storm damage, but still, pretty nice selection there.

what is up with the 12.99?  I've never seen anything priced like this.  

Nice diversion from the storm devastation, news, and photos.  The stuff that dreams are made of.

Great eye-candy.   Thanks.



Frank

Awesome!  Thanks Sam for pointing this out.  I wasn't expecting an updated version for a while.  Very cool - I think I may buy a few too!

Just put in my order.... :) 

In southern British Columbia, Canada close to the coast --  not many varieties would perform well. The best so far is Desert King. It gives a nice big crop. The others like Latarrula & Osborne Prolific do give a fair breba crop but nothing compared to Desert King. Most varieties would have a productive main crop but few get to ripen nicely.
Ronde de Bordeaux so far does ripen its main crop but again nothing comes close to DK that ripens a large breba crop. Definitely a green house help. Hence before one rush out to accumulate variants, best to check with forum members in your zone what works well. Otherwise one will end up with fewer than a dozen ripe main crop figs. As for breba figs, the biggest threat are cold snaps. It will cause brebas to drop prematurely.

Hey Paul, do you have any of them planted in the ground?  Does it rain there like in Seattle?

Paully 22 - Definitely good to know, and to give some thought to as I look at the cultivars.  I have actually read a number of really good posts about DK.  But doesn't it need pollination for the second crop as a San Pedro?  Is that correct?  Does that matter?

I have a 10x12 glass greenhouse I intend to use to extend the growing season for the figs. I use it for growing fuzzy kiwi which definately wouldn't grow here without it.

so many great figs up in canada.. we have weather down here.. but some of those great figs are hard to get down here in states.. sigh..

Lots of figs from overseas here in the ethnic community. I have yet to come across any variants that will give me a good harvest like Desert King brebas. In the same respect, I have not come across any good tasting breba variant that will give me 50% of what DK produces. When they do, they taste inferior. Hence no point for me to waste space for inferior tasting figs. Trials on Ronde de Bordeaux have so far indicated that it is a variant with good potential & it was planted in ground.

As is, I likely have over 2 thousand unripe figs on the trees in my backyard. An excellent fig to have is Negronne or VdB. Green house is essential. Its taste beats many big name figs & it is productive. Unfortunately small harvest or none without GH.

@Dave -- DK 2nd crop does need the wasp. No chance of that happening here.

Wow. 2000 unripe figs in the backyard. I need to find another excuse to visit your garden. You need a good recipe to use them. I read here that somewhere people value unripe figs more than ripe ones.
http://figs4funforum.websitetoolbox.com/post/What-to-do-with-unripe-figs-6057534?highlight=unripe

Vancouver, British Columbia has large Greek, Italian and Middle Eastern population.

Sammy,
Thank you for posting.  I know it is probably only me but I was looking through and thinking how nice it would be to have a nursery like that down in the USA.  Then I remembered how fortunate we are to have Encanto Farms Nursery.  The wishing soon went away.  Looking forward to February and the release of their cuttings list!

any thoughts or experiences from others that have ordered from dany at brugmansia?
would love to hear....

i ordered few plants some 3 years ago.
white genoa have yet to fruit at all. excel had few breba fruit this year for the first time but they dropped after 3 weeks and i see no sign of main crop

getting fed up of waiting and i am starting to wonder if he sold me the right variety

thanks, eli

I just received another batch of trees from Dany in good condition. I treated the ones from last year like royalty and started them under lights in February and then out to a backyard greenhouse where they each have 5-20 figs from the tiny embryo stage to a few that should ripen in a few weeks. The leaves and habits seem to be consistent with what I have seen but it is a bit early to see fruit. Several of the trees had fmv - one so badly I thought it would die but this year there are no signs of fmv and it is growing like crazy and putting on figs without being pinched. Another forum member commented on RDB leaves from Dany. The one I just received also has some leaves that don't look like RDB but one of the small leaves are exactly the same as those from a baby RDB a very nice, trusted member gave me.

I received 8 from Dany this spring and all have done well. They were 12 to  16" out of the box and very healthy. Some are even putting out figs.

Tyler