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Instant FMV?

You cant cure FMV, just like you can't cure thumb sucking humans.  They grow out of it!  Figs do grow out of FMV.  Think of it a designer leaves!  Fancy patterns!

Suzi

I planted a Kadota seed in the pot of one of my other trees a few years ago. I could see the FMV in the leaves the following summer. I wouldn't be surprised if it was there the first year but the leaves were just too small for it to be noticeable.

I have been wondering whether or not it wouldn't be fun to order fertilized fruit from Encanto farms?  Ring Jon up, ask for your favorite male flower, again the B Mad for me, and hook one up to fertilize some other specific fruit, like Zidi, and have the fruit shipped to you in the fall.  Then funsy times growing exotic fig seedlings like lotto tickets!

I don't give a fig, I'm a breeder of figs, and not just for underwear!

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There is one intriguing possibility that might supply a possible treatment for FMD. Aspirin. Salicylic acid (aspirin) is produced by plants in response to infection by pathogens and activates the plant's innate immune system. It has been demonstrated that treatment with salicylic acid can prevent or limit several plant infectious diseases.

http://segenetica.es/cng2/cng2008/biblio/Ref-Marc-Valls---Jones-and-Dangl-Nat06.pdf

http://igitur-archive.library.uu.nl/bio/2009-0512-200821/NatChemBiol-Pieterse-2009.pdf

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Two of my 3 Sicilian Black Italian cuttings are doing well and showing little, if any, sign of FMD. However, one started showing significant FMD several weeks ago. It had been doing well but slowed up as the FMD appeared. I do a foliar spray of worm casting tea that contains salicylic acid on my tomatoes roughly every week. So, I decided to spray the fig too. After 2 sprayings, the leaves have greened considerably and the mottling is clearly decreased. How much of that is due to the aspirin or nutrition from the worm casting tea or both I can not say. 


Has anybody else ever treated FMV infected fig trees with salicylic acid (aspirin)?

From what I've read, FMV can't be cured but the symptoms might be suppressed, resulting in healthier growth. 


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