hello all,  I just joined and have to thank the person/s for starting this forum. I came across this site trying to ID my new fig tree to help me with care and maintenance. I am a mailman in north jersey and always saw people wrapping there fig trees up for winter. I know figs are a challenge with great reward. My mothers told me stories about my grandfather and his ritual wrapping, He even built a green house around his. Experience and knowledge is what i seek today and hopefully in time i can achieve them. ID and tips are welcome and thanks in advance for your time.

welcome newfig

What kind of tips are you looking for?
There are loads of questions to be asked so ask away

figboy

Newfig09

here is the very most helpful link about Figs on the WWW

http://www.figs4fun.com/

And welcome to Fig Growing

FMV=?

breda=?

It would be too speculative to try to ID your fig based on the young tree with a single fig since there are literally hundreds of varieties of figs.  If your single fig ripens take some more pictures of the outside and inside when ripe (as you've seen here).  Post those pictures, and you could begin to narrow down the ID of your fig.

FMV = Fig Mosaic Virus  (do a search - there is LOTS of info available)

breba (breBa) is the term for the figs that some varieties produce on last year's wood.  Some varieties set a crop on the previous year's wood (breba crop) and another crop (main crop) on the current year's growth.  The breba crop (if produced) ripens around 4-6 weeks before the main crop.

Newfig,

It sounds like you inherited a lot of experience from your family. Don't minimize that.

Newfig,
welcome to fig forum!
Soon if not already you will be more and more hooked on figs.
Like Pitangadiego the moderator of this forum said don't minimize the experience from your family, as what worked for them in your area will work for you in same area.
See lots of folks here implement different techniques for there area because of climate.
Any questions please dont be shy here on forum, no questions is a dumb question in my opinion when trying to learn.

I wish I was around to learn somethings from my GF.  he pasted before i was born, but I grew up on my mothers stories. She kept saying she named me correctly because I always reminder her of her father, same interests. I think she just tried to remember him threw me, and now I am thinking that i am using my new fig as a symbol of my past generation/s. Its funny that a gift that happens to be a plant can bring emotions and memories to the mind, and its not even an heirloom. The more I read about figs the more I enjoy the stories behind them.

Side note:  the Gift Giver was an old Italian man that spoke broken English, if i can recall correctly I think he said it was a "black fig" but was not positive. he also explained what he did to propagate his trees. I do not know the true botanist names/terms so bare with me. the sprouts that came out of the main trunk near dirt level, he would just pile dirt at there base and wait till they rooted then, remove,pot, then set in shade. he also cut off green wood and just stuck it in the dirt about a foot away from original tree then pot it when it went dormant.

Albert Einstein " never stop questioning"

how do you  put zone info and what not at bottom of everyone of your post? do you have to type that every time, or can you set that some how?

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