Thanks to the generosity of some members here, I have cuttings of Celeste and Hardy Chicago going. Roots are showing, and even leaves are beginning to show. And that's even after some mold and those pesky fleas showed up!

I decided to go with the bag method. And had fleas not shown up, I would never had to water them, as that is how to apply the beneficial bacteria that stops the flea life cycle. Dah...

Anywhoo, hello everyone.

You'll always remember your first time...

Well I killed every last fig cutting I had... but I am back now. So hello everyone! Maybe I had such ill fortune because I didn't stick around these boards? I messed up this winter, having brought them in from the garage on the coldest nights and then promptly forgot about them tucked away in the basement the rest of winter. 

This time around I declare no perishing! I am so far rooting fico pesco d'oro, VDB, Texas Everbearing. Have decided LSU Purple, Valle Negra, Bryant Dark, and Vesuviana Bianca should join the milieu as well.  

Any thought's on Desert King?

I guess the goal is to have a wide range from early to late bearing trees growing in pots. Closed eye split resistant yada yada for those hot humid days, and the way winters have been bone chillingly frigid lately, some cold hardyness too! Ha...

But this fig fever I've got makes almost any fig worthy of joining the ranks regardless of it's suitability to the climate here. 

I do have a question I guess. If lots of rain is an issue during ripening, is it because the rootzone is too wet that the figs get watery and drop/split? Or is it just the humidity in the air? Because I could control to some degree the water at the root zone in pots if that were the case?

It is the humidity in the air and the water on the fruit itself if I am not mistaken.

Well I guess that settles that ha! There are things I can do to control the potted environment, but the atmosphere is a whole other world.