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My grafted fig tree

At LSU field day when I mentioned that I had a grafted fig tree that produces three varieties, people seemed intrigued, so I figured I would post a pic of it. The right side of the tree is LSU Gold, the left side is Celeste, and if you look in the bottom middle you can see two LSU Purples ripening up. I also attached pictures of the figs I picked off of the tree today, in those pics the LSU Purple is on the left, LSU Gold is in the center, and Celeste is on the right. Enjoy.

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Cal, that is a nice looking tree. What tree is the root stock? I may try something like that in the future. It would be great to have an early, middle and late season fig all on one tree.
"gene"

They look delicious,,,, great job with the grafting. I haven't attempted it yet but soon.

Gene,
The original tree is an LSU gold, the Celeste was grafted from my grandpas old tree, and I got the purple cutting from a local tree.

All the grafting was done in late February or early march when the tree is just starting to bud out. My graft scions are kept dormant. I use whip, whip n tongue, and saddle grafts mostly.

Alan,
Pretty much full sun, maybe 1.5 to 2 hrs of evening shade

Nice,
I may try when mine get bigger

I just did some online research to start.  I would reccommend a grafting knife and grafting tape (although for those with a light budget, teflon tape and an art knife will suffice).  I ordered my grafting tape off of ebay fairly cheap.  The easiest graft is probably the whip graft where you make a horizontal cut on a branch of identical circumference to your scion, and a matching horizontal cut to the scion.  Cutting a matching slit up the middle of each makes it a whip n tongue, and you can interlock the pieces which helps hold the graft in place while you wrap it.  A saddle graft works really well, but you can really run into finger slicing danger there.  Anyway good luck if any of you guys try, and feel free to PM me with any questions or tips you may need in the future, and hopefully I can help.    Gene, I would be more than happy to help you out this spring with it if you would like to create the tree you are talking about, we can get together and make a couple of them.

That is great!!  I remember my Dad and my Grandpa would graft the pear trees.  Maybe someday I'll give it a try.

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