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Hi F4F forum members!

My name is Laura, I live in GA, and I love FIGS! (I still don't know how so many people don't.)

I've been lurking here off and on for about 1 1/2 years.  I don't know what took me so long to join, but now I'm here.

I've enjoyed learning so much from everybody here: Herman, Jason, Dan, Jon, and SO many others.

I have a few unknown in-ground trees that came with the house - probably brown turkey (but I will still love them like they were my own, more precious varieties.)  I have about 15 other varieties that I have potted for now that came from friends, neighbors, forum members, ebay, and nurseries, as cuttings and trees.

The fig community is awesome and I'm glad to be a part of it!
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Laura, Welcome and what took you so long. It's always nice to see new members. Now that you are legit, we want pictures and pictures of your figs like a true fignut would do.
''gene"
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Welcome! Glad you decided to join in the conversation.
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welcome to the forum!  it took me a year or more of lurking to join also.  i couldn't hold back anymore.

where in GA are you?
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Welcome, Laura. Look forward to hearing about your experiences!
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Welcome to the forum. I'm not too far south, in Tallahassee, FL. My fig collection is small, but growing. This forum helped kick in the "fig virus" as JD likes to call it. A year ago I was just curious about what kind of fig tree we found growing in my parents new house years ago. Now I check out potential fig trees to snag cuttings from as I drive around town or visit new places and consider biding on high rolling fig tree ebay auctions. . 
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Hi Laura, from the posted 7-8a zone, you must be in North Georgia. If you are ever in South Georgia or North Florida, there are several forum fignuts here willing to share/trade. Welcome aboard.
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Thanks for the warm welcome everyone!

I'm in Pine Mountain, GA.  Some resources I've looked at have told me I am zone 7b, some 8a.  I must be right on the line.  I've got red clay like the northern areas of GA and no gnats like in south GA.

Question: Does anybody here with red clay soil have a RKN problems, or is it just less likely/severe?

Thanks!
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Laura,

You might be a fignut if you:

"check out potential fig trees to snag cuttings from as I drive around town or visit new places and consider biding on high rolling fig tree ebay auctions."

You have found a large and ever growing group of fellow fignuts. Hopefully many more will come out of lurking like you and tell us about the figs that they grow.

Dan
Semper Fi-cus 
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I'm in Pine Mountain, GA. 


Hmm, that is right around the corner from member 'warrior' if I remember correctly.  Haven't seen him around in a while, wonder what happened to him?  Seemed like a good guy.

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Some resources I've looked at have told me I am zone 7b, some 8a.  I must be right on the line.  I've got red clay like the northern areas of GA and no gnats like in south GA.


USDA changed the cold hardiness map in the last few years due to climate changes.  I remember looking myself up less than 5 years ago and finding that I was zone 8a, now I'm showing zone 7b.  Prior to 2003, I was zone 7a if I recall correctly.  I'm technically less than 2 miles from the capitol, and the city is a huge heat island, and I'm in a microclimate due to being in a valley, so ... who the hell knows?  ;)

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Question: Does anybody here with red clay soil have a RKN problems, or is it just less likely/severe?


It is present, although less severe than somewhere with sandy soil.  My opinion is that RKN is a way of life in the southeast.  I've never dug up any of my trees in the yard, but here is what I can tell you:  The raised beds I grow my heirloom veggies in have (as of yet, 4-5 years now) never shown signs of RKN on any of my plants.  On the other hand, if I walk to a plot less than 300' away which is used for the community garden and well taken care of each year, I've pulled heirloom tomatoes up at the end of the season and found roots that would normally be as thick as a pencil which looked more like the biggest slab of ginger root you've ever seen, some reaching the diameter of my wrist from RKN infestation.  (I burned my clothes after that one and haven't planted again since....)

Recently, someone one neighborhood over from me was giving away their in-ground tree, a Brown Turkey.  I warned the guy who was going to dig it up about RKN, what to look for.  When he dug up the tree, he found it was infested also.  The owner complained it hadn't done much of anything growth-wise in 4 years.  I speculate this could've had something to do with it.  (It's not clear if the plant was infested from the nursery, though... which does happen frequently enough to suspect it)

Thanks!

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Hello Laura...I want to also welcome you to the forum.  You are no longer a lurker, you've come out of the garden shed and in to the light!  Woo hoo!  I am sure we will enjoy your participation here and I look forward to seeing photos of your plants.   (I too need to take more pictures and post them...time to get a decent camera.)

Again, welcome!!
Sara
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