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For reasons explained on my home page, I have a new web site and new URL: http://www.raysfiginfo.com  Feel free to send me e-mail at ray@raysfiginfo.com.

Ray

Ray,
i always enjoyed your website and information there.
Will you be acquiring more fig plants in the future or just keeping the one plant you have.

Best Health

..and just out of curiosity, which fig variety did you keep?
Sue

WOO HOO!

Finally a post from the fig-master Ray himself!
Thanks to YOUR website, and your little fig-booklet,
which I discovered (stumpled-upon) a while back looong ago
(before any FF existed),
I am what I am today, just one (other) fig-crazy-nut.

Thanks MUCH for everything Ray, and hope to hear some more from you....

Ray,

Your website has always provided great information about figs.

Scott

Thanks for the many compliments. To answer the questions, I kept a fig called Dr. O'Bar's Strawberry which might be a variation of Celeste. I am not acquiring any more plants or varieties at present. The wounds and financial damage from the divorce need to be healed first. Hopefully, I will be back into fig research one day in the not too distant future. If you check out my new web site's page for the year 2002, http://www.raysfiginfo.com/2002.html     you'll find new descriptions for eleven fig varieties, most of them ethnic.[Gotta find a better name than year 2002. It goes on the to do list.]

Just read the LSU release on Tiger, O'Rourke and Champagne. This gives a model for good and complete descriptions, better than anything I've ever done. I'm not keen on the name Tiger, but have to accept their right to use the name.

Ray

Hello Ray,
Sorry to hear about your situation. if in the future you got the room to grow some figs don't hesitate to ask us.

Bass
http://www.treesofjoy.com

Great to see Ray's posting even if it is less than good news. I wish you speedy healing. Thanks for posting. I have always enjoyed visiting your website.

Paully22

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Originally Posted by Dan_la
Ray good to see you posting here.

I saw my first LSU Tiger fig the other day. It is a large sized fig (about same size as LSU Gold) with very pronounced ~1/8" wide dark stripes (not ridges). It is an eye catching fig. Tiger is an appropriate name for it once you see it. It is the kind of fig that "Mike The Tiger" (LSU's live mascot tiger) would eat. I have no problem with LSU asserting their naming rights.......they made no money with the new cultivars that O'Rourke bred.

Dan



Did you get a chance to try one? 


Ray,
Funny you mention the Dr. O'Bar's Strawberry fig.
I few years ago I bought 5 fig varieties from an SSE guy from GA (not you).
Two of the boundles came with the name_tag loose, so I did not know which was which.
The 50/50 possiblity was O'BS or Old Home (with some date, I do not remember right now).
Off the two twig bunches; only 1 took. I had marked them source.A;B. So right now I have
an unkown fig, hopefully it is the O'BS. Will know for sure when it fruits...

George,

I have Old Home 1895, but the fellow was out of O'bars. I should be able to get leaf pix of Old Home for you. Email me.

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