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Looking for some toronto area figs

  • paolo
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Hello everyone I've been hanging around the forum learning tricks from everyone for a while now. I was wondering of anyone in the GTA has any cuttings available for sell or trade.

Welcome Paolo!

There are many members from southern Ontario here.  Great place to learn about figs.

Tell us a little more about yourself and the figs you have or like. 
Have you rooted fig cuttings before if not do a search on this site and there are tons of tips and methods. 

Send me a pm with your address and I can send you some good cold hardy variety fig cuttings for you to try your rooting skills on.

You might want to look into this nursery as well:

http://www.adrianosfigtrees.com

Thanks guys for the messages

Right now all I got is a couple hardy chicago trees, having just got in the hobby last year I'd take whatever varieties I can get my hands on lol. As for rooting this winter I rooted some chicago cuttings that seem to be doing well. Also did an air layer off the tree last year which turned out perfect. I've been reading posts on this forum for a while, Learning differnt methods etc.

Look for member John Parav he is in GTA and as good as they come.

Hi Paolo,
Welcome ! In what kind of usda zone are you ?
If you are in a Zone7 or under, you better be selecting what you grow or you'll get huge deceptions in future years... as some strains will never produce a ripe fig in such a zone.
If you take a cutting from a tree in your neck of the woods, don't assume that because it is growing there, then it will produce figs for you.

Here is a story for you: Long story short(sure, I tried to shorten): A neighbor planted a fig tree in 2008. The thing suckered like crazy and that tree got spread in 5 or 6 gardens. Later, I got a root-shoot from one of the daughter tree (I went Ninja style on that one). The mother tree being visible from the walkway, I noticed that it would drop most of the crop and would produce lately 4 or 5 figs a year.
... ... ... and so do all the daughter trees ... That makes for 7 gardeners pissed and one almost surely called an h*ssh*le ( the first spreader ) several times a year.
Last Fall, I cut that tree down and I will get rid of the roots - Not being confident on the results of that tree, I planted two root-shoots with two root-shoots of my "Dalmatie". "Dalmatie" will lead that place in the future. Last year, I already had 10 figs from those "Dalmaties" while harvesting 2 late bad-ripened figs from the bad strain. But the year before, I had 2 figs from the bad, and 0 from the Dalmatie in that spot. The bad strain seems to bare figs sooner.
But, if you have enough space of course that is not a big issue.
The "bad" strain is good at producing lots of root-shoots and small sized trees which will encourage people to propagate it... but for the fruits not, but as they don't know ...

Good luck !

JdsFrance I totally understand what your saying. I can't believe the number of types of trees out there most are just differnt names for the same tree, makes it realy confusing. Being in zone 5 your right I need to be careful on what I choose to put in ground, or even in a pot seeing as we can get frost here by the first week of October. Although this winter felt like spring usually minus 30 celcius is normal for a few days in a row to a week.(good for ice fishing )but brutal on everything else. I've been talking to a few local guys since I posted this, and they seem to be steering me I the right direction.

I'm planning on putting one of my hardy chicago trees in ground this spring. In a south facing spot against the front of my house. And build a enclosed insulated box, to go around it. The plan is to mulch it heavey, and place heat tape the kind used to keep pipes from freezing to keep it just above zero. This is similar to the removable green house my father built to keep his rosemary and sage bushes growing all winter.

Hey guys just a update the cuttings I got from a couple forum members seem to be coming along nicely. This one in particular is realy eager to grow. This is the col de dame blanc. Started in a cup with potting soil and extra perlite on March 9 2016

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  • ricky
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Your little fig tree looks very nice, you have a good plan using heat tape for winter in enclosed insulated box, it looks great.

Hi Jdsfrance, I agree with you, I have a fig tree for near 6 years now, It beared 200 main figs last year which all drop again, if it performs bad this year again, what should I do?






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