This will be an ongoing story I hope will find future success. Today it began. This Hardy Chicago tree was located during this past year and the owner recently agreed to let me have the prunings for a portion of them back as rooted cuttings.
Hardy Chicago was chosen for several reasons. #1 I really love eating it. The rest are bonuses, it's cold hardy, has beautiful foliage, fast grower and prolific producer. Plus I get all the cuttings for a little effort and no expense.
He wanted all the limbs pruned off at two nodes above the main limbs. That's a five gallon pail next to the trunk for size reference. This tree is about 15-20 years old and is growing on the East side of this home so it's shaded after noon and has still done fairly well.
They all fit in the back of the car for the ride home.
Then it was five hours of cleaning, cutting and wax dipping ends, daubing side cuts. Ended up with three, five gallon pails worth, sorted by small, meduim and large.
A very few of these will fulfill trades, the rest are either going into one of two-hundred-fifty, 1 gallon root pouch grow bags and buried out back under compost or those not making the pot cut will be buried horizontally under a few inches of compost as was Unk Lake Spur last winter and air layered out next year.
There will be other figs going into the orchard and we'll post about those as they come.