Kutfej black, early purple and a harvest & making some preserve

Great pictures! Thanks for sharing and good luck increasing your collection!

Hi All,

We cut our trees this weekend. I'm glad to say that we managed to contact a lot of enthusiastic fig collectors. First I was really concerned and preoccupied about shipping problems to USA, Canada or other overseas countries, but you reassured me that it won't be so problematic. Anyone who is willing to exchange cuttings with me, please contact and write adress, wish list, the list you offer. Especially those who contacted me already. It's not so urgent but we probably won't have time in the following 2 weeks to cut figs again and I try to avoid the Xmas chaos. I tried to reply to everybody but there is a chance I mistakenly omitted someone. Sorry if happened.

You've found our loophole, Pete. We'll just travel with bagpipes and stuff fig cuttings into the pipes. It's perfect!

hmm.. bagpipes made out of fig tree.. best of the both world :)

Wow I have to say that I am in awe of your varieties figfan !! Three in particular interest me , so I'm hoping that next year you will be making the offer of cuttings also ! I won't be able to participate this year .
Good luck with your trades this year!

Hi You have a very large fig tree collection & some very nice looking pictures i would very much like to trade cuttings with you but most of my trees are less than 1 year old
As i only started collecting fig trees a couple of years ago i do how ether have a few small trees available and 1 cutting [look under pieman ] I would still like some of your cuttings can /you or will you please send me some of your cuttings i will of course pay for the shipping/post + cost of the cuttings   [pieman] United Kingdom

figfan hungary -- welcome to this forum. Hope you will keep coming to
this site and let us know what is growing over there. Thanks for posting the photos.
Certainly hope you will get good response from fig fans all over.

Figfan_Hungary,
Check PM please--- :)

Last Sunday we collected the cuttings with my friend Janos (Ninovarga on Gardenweb forum). I sent them to many addresses yesterday (Wednesday). We can send more to the remaining partners who haven't sent their addresses yet. Please check in.

Hello Guys!

Today i recived my cuttings from Akos (Figfan_Hungary). The cuttings are very good. I also live in Hungary. The posting held 2 days. So those who are waiting for the cuttings, i just can say be with suffering. They will recive their cuttings. I think if there is no problem it takes about 1-2 weeks, so it's not a long time, but i know what is the feeling, when you have to wait.

IMPORTANT!
I marked our local varieties with coloured stickers. So you can break the codes with the help of the following list, please save it:

yellow: yellow round giant
brownish-orange: Kutfej black
red: dark elongated (szivarfuge)
white: black plate
black & white: brown plate hardy
black: most common local cultivar, brown pyriform, palmate leaves
yellow & black: Hungarian brown
purple: early purple
black & brownish orange: Italian brown 
green: drying-on-tree green
grey: fico zucca
striped: Vorcsok Dalmatian yellow (yellow round small)

All other varieties are marked with their proper names.
We hope that everything will be OK in transcontinental relations.

Thank you for your feedback!

On the black plate there are still some figs of quite acceptable quality. Meanwhile leaves are almost all fallen. Not because of frost but natural autumn yellowing. You can see the completely green leaves of the kiwifruit vine on previous pictures behind Janos. Those leaves are otherwise very sensitive to frost but usually reluctant to proceed into the fall season phenology (are not yellowing). In spite of this fact kiwifruit vines are much hardier than fig trees. In our region there are no frost damages neither in the least favorable locations (bottom of enclosured valleys, lowest levels of lowland areas).

Asian persimmon tree (Diospyros kaki). In case of any question i can explain how to prune it properly. But you can see well on the picture as I use this 20 year-old tree already without the leaves as a demonstration piece. Anyway we have 14 different asian persimmon varieties. We can collect cuttings for scionwood in February. 

I think it will be exciting next year to see these Hungarian trees popping up all over and seeing how they preform outside of Hungary, I bet there will be a bunch of happy people.

Important update info!
After several requests I can sadly assume that unfortunately some of my new varieties are finished. I had indicated earlier that these 30 are 1-2 y. o. trees. I cannot cut all branches as I hope for some brebas in the next season. I need to update the list but col de dames are definitely totally finished as the most popular choice. And sucrette as well and maybe piazzetta but I'm not sure. Approximately 20 of these varieties are still available. And of course cuttings from the big trees in the mother-orchard. 

Chivas, I hope so! And the other interesting result will be that maybe you can identify some of our local varieties. Since their origin is generally unknown.

those figs and those trees are to die for!   wow... wow.

Really they are worth living for....

Hi figfan,

yesterday I received your mail with a lot of cuttings. Thank you very much. I was wondering about the real fast shipping from Hungary to Germany (three days - that`s a advantage in the EU).
Hopefully you can say the same about my cuttings next week.

Thank you very much