Hello everyone
   I just found some pics i took in June of the fig cuttings my mom brought from Greece. I have the pics of the fruit from the mother tree and will post them when I find them.
 Paul

Nice looking plants Paul

Thanks for posting the Pic.

Very nice!

I guess, now you see them and now you don't. So I guess I don't.  Cecil, did you hijack them. lol Hopefully they come back.
"gene"

Gene,

For once I confess!,I didn't do it!!


HAHA

And if like magic, there they are. Thanks Paul, some very nice starts there. Good luck in growing figs to make us jealous.

Hi Paul, looks like they're off to healthy start---can't wait to see the figs.

have you confirmed that these are common figs?

good luck with them Paul

There are 3 types of figs:

1) Smyrna type, needing pollination, called caprification.
2) Common type, which does not require pollination and
3) San Pedro type, where breaba crop acts like a common type, and main cro acts like a Smyrna type.

The vast majority of figs seem to be common types. Calimyrna is the most common Smyrna type.

I met a Greek couple with two large fig trees that came from Greece. One is a white and the other is dark. They're not sure why their white fig dropped all their figs, but that same one in Greece produced large figs and were excellent for fresh eating and drying. I explained to them that this is a smyrna type fig. Then she remembered her dad used to hang figs in a string on
that tree back in Greece, but never understood why.

Here's something to help you understand the pollination of figs in Greece.
male figs

Thanks for posting that video Bass, that was quite informative. I always wondered about the size of those little wasps, now I know. That was great.

Thanks Bass that was a great video. I will call Greece and speak to my family and see if that pertains to what I have,and post

From what i gather watching the video and i could be wrong.
What they are doing is picking up the figs that dropped and saving the bug before it crawls out and flies away stated this around 1:50 in video.
She said they have to do this quickly or they fly away and may be lost.
They then hang string of figs in tree to pollinate the figs that have not dropped.

At first i thought they were trying to get the ones that fell to ripen but then i said wait a second the figs are already severed from tree and should not ripen even with bug inside.

Im not too familar with these type of figs i have seen small bugs similar here near Chicago but no no they are not the fig wasp but they are similar looking, what puzzles me is that those in video are not as small as the ones i saw in the video in Africa i think called Queen or something similar.
Im sure glad that there are fig types that most of us grow that are of the common type for i would not be typing here.