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Pingo de mel - an abundant crop soon on this healthy tee

Hey Francisco are you the one selling fig cuttings on ebay fro Portugal?

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Originally Posted by fighugger
Francisco, I am sure you are right, that Pingo de Mel has to have a good microclimate here. But any relatively early brebacropper with heavy loads of figs like that, Í will have to test in my climate. Because of my Island climate I don't have a lot of frost, but growing seasons are cool, long and with lots of sunshine. Of cause I will keep it in a greenhouse untill I know how it does here. Later I can test it on a wall or in a protected spot in the open. Thanks for your advice.


OK Michael
Let's keep talking and by the right time , remember me so we may do something about it including some additional acorns !!.

Francisco
Portugal

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Originally Posted by Hot_Stuff
Hey Francisco are you the one selling fig cuttings on ebay fro Portugal?


Hello Hot_Stuff,

No, no, I am not advertising and/or selling anyting on ebay, fig cuttings included.

Francisco
Portugal

Thanks for input  Francisco and Jaime, but there is no reason to test main croppers in my garden....only the good brebaproducers. So if Pingo de Mel is only main crop, it will never mature here. I guess I have misunderstood, (or there are several strains of Pingo de Mel).

But I would love to test any prolific breba-varieties you might have access to.........The Petrelli you showed Jaime, sounds promising. I actually tried to root one this spring, but it failed for me. Most of my italian origin cuttings failed for some reason.

Francisco, I just clipped my Prunus lusitanica windbreak hedge today - it is approaching two meters. Once I get my Collection of Quercus ilex up to a few meters height, my microclimate will be as good as possible, here on our Little Island. But still I will not have the sun and heat accumulation of the Algarve...........so most portugese figs will never mature here.

Michael,

I'm not in Algarve. I'm in the center of Portugal near the Atlantic Ocean and my summers are far from hot.

My main crops mature later than Francisco and i have problems with some that start to mature in September/October and are ruined by rain in most years.

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Medium temperatures around 14ºC

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