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NH Fig Plate

Late August ,and all of September so far has been great for figs in NH.
Picked these today to share with a friend who grew up in France.

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Looking Great!  Do you take your trees in during the winter?

  • PHD

Wow those look so good! The weather has been perfect in the Northeast. Thanks for posting

   Pete

That is lovely, Kerry. Nice screen saver. Is that LdA with the long stems?

Hi Kerry.
That's a great looking plate,enjoy.
This has been the best year up until two weeks ago, then we got two days of rain and now it got cool, my plants are dropping all they leaves, I guess it over for this year in the Northeast?

Vito

Nice

Wow how amazing for you to have so many to share. I have heard tales of the Paris figs! I have 7 trees full of unripe figs in the verde valley in az. I might try putting olive oil on the eyes to get them to ripen before the frost. New to this forum. Overwhelmed by all the yummy Fig stories!

Kerry, Great looking assortment you definitely have the secret for growing figs in NH.  I still have a few coming but most of the remaining figs will not not ripen before first frost.

Philagardener , except for 3 in ground trees , the trees come into the barn basement for the Winter.
Figgary , the long stems are on O'Rourke.
Vito , I have many more just days away from ripening so should get many more plates like this. RDB just won't quit and is the best overall fig for me.
John , I'm hoping for no frost until mid October.

Oh goodness me, those look so yummy!

Looks yummy! I am curious what varieties you have found that survive in ground up here?

Becky , I have Marseilles Black VS , Florea and Ronde de Bordeaux in the ground here at home as well as about a dozen others at a spot at work.
The ones at home are protected for Winter and all make it through with minor tip die back.
The ones at work and are never protected , all die to the ground and out of 14 planted 12 have come back from the base after these last 2 bad Winters.
I may give them some protection this winter if I have time.
Florea has done the best of all of them as far as producing , but nothing approaching the production from my sub irrigated containers.

Thanks Kerry, 
I will have to do some in ground tests in Vermont and see what happens. Did you wait a couple of years before planting the trees in the ground?

Becky , most were 2 years old when planted.

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