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I was admiring the huge, lovely leavrs on my Excel this evening, thought I'd share. From UCD this spring, suprisingly healthy looking. No fruit yet. Might plant in ground next year.

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My hand for scale.

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Healthy looking tree. Thanks for sharing.

Growing good and looks nice, thanks for sharing.

Very nice. How big is your hand?

Looks great! Yours has grown much faster than mine in a 1g SIP.

Looks good hope it continues to grow for you.

Dale - I guess my hand is average or slightly large for a guy? I should put a coin in the photo, it is a big happy leaf though. Only one other variety of my dozen has leaves that size.

Nick - Thanks for the cutting, it's my most successful of the year! I'm looking forward to this one and testing it's hardiness. I personally wonder about SIP containers, maybe different people have different results. I like growing them the old fashioned way until they go in ground. HC and BW are doing smashingly well, 2 figs on BW I'm waiting to see the droop...any day I hope.

Kelby,
Thanks for sharing.
IMO, a tape measure is a better scale for leaves.
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It's not an Excel, but it was one of three cultivars that had giant leaves last year.


My Excel is in a 5 gallon SIP and it has several of the most perfect looking figs I've ever seen.  Very nice green with a light peach fuzz on them.  They're large already, but another 3-4 weeks from being ripe.  I'll see if I can post pics later today.  I haven't tasted Excel yet so I'm excited.

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