Members / Fig lovers,
   Last year, my first attempt with cuttings, I killed a few feet of fig wood, with impatience and too much water.
   This year, much better, by following your threads closely , I saved three Hollier, one Hunt and two Well Sweep (so far). My Marseille VS are down the tube! Also, some others.
   I know it is getting late, but I wish to buy a few cuttings.. possibly, Dark Portugese, Raspberry Latte and Brooklyn Dark. A few cuttings would sure save me another year. I'm not a beggar, just hoping!!
                     Fredfig (7b-NC)   kfterhaar@embarqmail.com

Fredfig,

Recently I was given some Portuguese cuttings.
I did not need them and the source that gave them to me simply forgot she sent me some and rooted well last year.

I am down to two cuttings of the 'Preto'.

If you are interested then send me a P.M. with your name and mailing address and they will be in the mail tomorrow.

I don't care about the couple dollars for postage, donate it to a Church or charity of your choosing.

This is the best I can do being this late. This is it! once gone all gone till Fall.

Good luck,

I may be able to help with a rooted MBVS if you were really interested in that variety.  It will be small (from last year, single-node cutting), I'll need to pull it and let it dry out due to excessive rain here.

I know someone with an MBVS tree that may have cuttings as well, I can ask if they'll send to you if you don't want a pre-rooted plant.  I don't have the others you're asking for, I have a Raspberry Latte, but it's not suitable for cutting.  Maybe next year...

Heard Preto variant is excellent -- like similar to Black Maderia quality. Anyone else have info on it. I may be lucky to get a fig from it.

I have BM and Preto rooted last year.  Both teeeeeerrribly slow growing, still teeny tiny in size.  If no action by summer, I'm going to start fertilizing the hell out of them.

Show them who's the BOSS Jason!

Better start growing or else.

But I agree, at least for the B/M.
Very slow grower with me too.

I had one from a very well known member couple Falls ago and made it all through the Winter in the house and looked good but just didn't do anything all last Summer.

It is in Fig Heaven now.

I do have a small one I got from Jon as a cutting last year.
We'll see what happens.

I have Preto just starting to root. What is the definition of a slow grower? Less than 10" a year?

Don't know the definition Dominick.

I think we base it on comparison to other fig we have in our collection.
Some are quick and some are slow.

That would be a question to be answered by the bigger guys.

According to the CRFG, <12" annual growth is an indication to fertilize. http://www.crfg.org/pubs/ff/fig.html

For me, less than 3" per year is sloooooooooow.  Preto, Black Madeira, Native De Argentile are all in this category of "if they grew any slower, they'd be dead".

I agree Black Madeira (edit: Not anymore. I have photos to refute this) and Preto grow comparatively slow. I suppose mine are outliers because they grew 6"-10" last year. Both survived a garaged winter and are outside braving the recent wind and rain. I'll keep a close watch on them both, take some notes, and consider fertilization after the next 30-45 days.

@Paul. Thanks to Sue V, while on a trip to San Diego in October, I tasted Preto. It was later in the season, had been raining, and it was still memorable. Read more. Beautiful tree with a complex tasting and great looking fruit.

@Jason. Leaves and bark?!?! Squirrels?!?! You need some camo and amo to go along with the recent 750fps purchase you made. I've been told that you want the coned shaped amo.

JD

So in my nexus of time-place-conditions, Black Madeira does not grow slowly as defined by < 12" of growth per year. I received and started rooting the cutting (C-FU) from Jon/Encanto on 19 Feb 2010. The first picture was taken on 6 August 2010 and the two that follow it were taken today 28 March 2011. The last picture has two Preto in it: one at the bottom of the picture and the one immediately above it with granite on top. That means only 6" of growth on the Preto cutting received 25 days after the previously shown Black Madeira. The leaves appear to be identical.

black madeira






preto

Jason..  Sorry that the squirrels are hitting you hard.
 My "Diana" air rifle, German made, and the cone shaped .177 pellets do a fine, quite and efficient job here.
  For some reason, I do not eat the ones from my yard. But, will go into the woods, come home damp and tired, but fix Squirrel and rice!
  Again, you offer was much appreciated. Fred

it may still be a viable little tree.  I'm waiting to see if it buds - but the sole shoot on this thing was about as big around as a pencil lead, so I'm not sure what will happen.

I won't lose hope yet!  I went outside today...just noticed they got my only Sudliche also... =(

(EDIT: The MBVS is trying to pull through!  It popped two buds this week on the pencil-lead-thin stump the squirrels left behind.)

Not to go to far astray but what color is the pulp of Sudliche? Hadn't heard of it until you posted it. It is not listed at Encanto so I went to Trees of Joy. Bass has the following image on his website (and possibly a typo..."sudriche").

JD

Südliche Weinstraße Klein, I believe is the correct name but I'm not looking at Bass' site, so he would be best to say.

I say this is the name because:

* Südliche Weinstraße is a district in southern Germany.
* Klein means "small".


My cutting is (or was ... thanks, squirrels) only going into its 2nd year.  I haven't seen the fruits.  It was a little spindly, I didn't think it would make it through the year.

@Fredfig, keep us posted on what progress you make in locating the varieties you're looking for. 

I'm also curious if there is anything else you are looking for that someone else may be able to help with?