Fellow Fig Growers,
For 2012 I am looking to obtain 5-10 cuttings of each of the following Fig Varieties in the hope of rooting them to add to the Puget Sound Regional Fig Variety Test. Please let me know via private message if you can provide cuttings by taking still dormant cuttings around April 1-15 and mailing them to me.
San Pedro type Figs:
+Castle Kennedy (Sp), 364
+Dauphine (Sp), 365, 418
Fracazzano Rosso (Sp), 367
Gentile (Sp); 360
Lampeira (Sp), 368
+Pied De Boeuf (Sp), 368
San Pedro (Sp), 363
Tiberio
Common type Figs:
Abakor (C), 381
BARBILLONE (C), 415
Brown Turkey (C), 325, 428 = Eastern Brown Turkey
Cascitello, (C), 430
DOREE
Excel (C) (large fruit but light Breba crop)
FLANDERS
Gouraud Rouge (C), 440
+Grantham's Royal
Ischia Black (C), 443
Longue d’Août (C), 446
Marlow
+Mission = Franciscana, (C) 325, 437
Monaco (C), 397
Moscatel Preto (C), 452
Paradisio
San Piero (C), 467
+ = tried to root this year without success!
(C) or (Sp), 123 = Type & page number from Ira Condit's "Fig Varieties: A Monograph" available as a downloadable PDF from my website:
http://sites.google.com/site/kiwifruitsalad2
Some of my wish list are available locally as cuttings. For the purpose of advancing the Puget Sound Regional Fig Variety Test, it would be much better to get 5-6 rooted plants of each for distribution next year, but only if from sources in Washington State to avoid importing possible soil pathogens. Again, please reply to me via personal message if you can provide any of the above cuttings.
I have the following in my collection and would be willing to exchange cuttings:
Adriatic
Beall
"Vashon Violet" (Brunswick)
"Brown Turkey" (don't know if this is the real Eastern BT)
Bryce (variety unknown (too small for cuttings in 2012))
"California Brown Turkey" (1 cutting barely rooted this year, hope it's San Piero and not just another BT)
Chicago Hardy
"Dan's Favorite" (variety unknown)
Desert King
"Gene's Vashon" (variety unknown)
Gillette
Lattarula
Marlow (2 cuttings barely rooted this year)
"Marseilles" (from Burnt Ridge Nursery, incorrectly identified)
Monstrueuse (2 cuttings barely rooted this year)
Negronne
Neveralla (just barely rooting 1-2 cuttings this year)
Peter's Honey (I question if this is correctly identified, it doesn't match the Peter's Honey descriptions in nursery catalogs)
Petit Negri
Royal Vineyard (got 1 rooted cutting this year)
Tashkent (plant is too small for cuttings)
"Tilbury's Turkey" (variety unknown)
"Vancouver" (from UC Davis, variety unknown)
Violetta (patented, can't provide cuttings)
Happy Growing, kiwibob
Seattle