can anyone name your Lowes figs.
I got cuttings from two landscape plants .. no one eats the figs or does anyting to the fig trees at all......that have survived 10 years in zone 6a in a hole and in shade , with no help protections or fertilizers anything ever. both fig trees die to the ground every year!


any way went yesterday to prune them before this big freeze that is coming in.
both are different figs .

# 1
one fruits tiny nickel to almost quarter sized fruits with red pulp and brownish ( maybe green with purpleish blush).in august wasn't very sweet a bit dry but may not have been ripe fully, but was soft. when we went to prune the figs, figs were dried on the tree. fruited tiny figs at nearly every leaf bud . 10 years old base of shrub was about a 4+ ft circle of suckers and suckers from base were 7 to 8 ft tall. remember this tree dies to the ground every year.

#2
doesn't fruit on one year old/new wood. but every once in awhile a part of a branch doesn't completely die. so one such part of a branch had farely large dried figs on the part/side of one of those branches that didn't completely die last year. I put my tongue to a large quarter sized freeze dried fig. very red inside and it was intense almost berryflavored a bit sour// like berry coolaid without sugar. don't know out side color of figs but it has a very wide base,( like a tangerine or beef stake tomato) squat type when green and growing.
on the tiny bit of branch that didn't freeze about 6 inches long there was like 10 dried figs on it.. it was trying hard to make fruit when everything was going against it.
10 years old , is at least 6+ ft circle of suckers at the base. the base suckers branches 8- 12ft tall. yes it dies back every year. put it this way I got nearly 400 cuttings and only took it down to 3-4 ft tall . and we did not take it to the ground.
60 of those cuttings are over 2-3 ft long and 1 1/2 inches thick . can I plant those size?

these are both lowes figs of some kind.
anyone want to tell me what your named Lowes figs are and what they are like too?

so we unknown hardy Lowes figs owners can reference this thread in the future.
with a little protections that second lowes tree is going to be a great one I think. it sure is aggressive and huge.... these figs are in a cold trap and shaded.
I read Lowes had some tiny brown turkey.. but I can't even guess if these tree #1 are tiny because of poor conditions , no thinning . no fertilizers, no mulch either. no nothing in 10 years. so maybe the figs are little and maybe the figs are stressed? what do you think?

I would never buy a fig from Lowe's, but I've only seen Brown Turkey and Kadota here.  Tim

I bought one and never another one. It was suppose to be a LSU Gold and.... well they got the gold part right. Nothing else to say about it cuz I don't know what it is. Perhaps this spring I will find some clues as I watch it bud out and grow. Armed with knowledge I've picked up here hopefully I will be able to tell the different between breba and main crop if that's what it doing. Also by taking pictures of plant, leaves and fruit I'll continue my search for a name.

Who knows what they really are, you only know what they are labeled at the store. Here I have seen figs labeled Celeste, Brown turkey, and Mission at Lowes. I bought a Celeste (some years ago). Here it is compared to a real Celeste...
  I do like the fig, though. It splits and sours in wet weather, but when it is dry when it ripens, it is very good/juicy with a nice taste--just not a Celeste.
  Do yourself a favor and buy known figs (or get cuttings) from someone you can trust who knows what they are selling.

Our Lowe's here in central Florida had brown turkey and magnolia.  They were from a Florida nursery.  I am guessing that other states have figa from growers in their general area.  The plants were a nice size and inexpensive so I bought two and planted them in the ground as an experiment.  So far the brown turkeys have all split because of the rain.  But there are plenty more to ripen.  My magnolias have not yet started to ripen.


Lisa

Boots:The second fig you are talking about is a hybrid of Celeste,I called Megaceleste,after growing it and realizing ,it is not Celeste but related to it(a hybrid).
The Large fig Scott is showing is that Hybrid.
It is too sensitive to rain and it will sour easy.
I discarded mine.
H2

I would fertilize them and care for them, then try to identify them.  The fruit may normaly be larger with the extra nutrients, the other tree may fruit every year if the fert is there. 
I say that because all figs that are identified or growing in someones back yard is cared for so match the living conditions for the plant and it may make idenitification eaiser.  However, like Scott said, who knows what you have. 
  Its eaiser to say what is is not than what it is, you will only know that you have a dark varity fig.

hi Herman .how are you? I was going to bid one more time on those english turkey. not expecting to win though. not when it takes like 10 minutes to load a page. when I start screaming and yelling and throwing things it is time to give up on ebay though. :P

well the little ones were that color not that size . but the big ones were different shape I think I remember .
more poochy,pillow like, more of a " I dream of Genie" bottle like ( sorry don''t know the words for the shape). not lemon, not pear, not round, more like a tangerine shape. I am hoping it is a kadota maternal line. so I can dry it.



I will find one kind of the shape or sort of like it in the variety section.

more like petea figs in her avatar picture even a bit more pillowy . well that is what I remember anyway.

I have seen a couple figs sold here in our Lowes. They were all labeled Black Mission, I didn't buy them because I don't know anything about black mission and the people that worked there didn't know anything about any of their plants, even flowers I questioned about. They had spider plants in the full sun and Figs in the shade under shelves. Didn't make any sense to me. I think they should be trained a little better about what they're selling in Lowes. Home depot was much better customer service and knowledge. I don't buy many things in the garden centre in these places anymore, just dirt, and the one bag of dirt I got, Miracle grow I used it to help pot up some of my plants and all these little weeds grew from the soil. I was constantly pulling them out. Why would they do this?  I got my money back.  The quality and care in the goods you get now a days is nothing compared to how it was even 25 years ago. People once took pride in their work and making their money, seems now all they really want is that check on fridays, and not work for it.  I don't like my local Lowes store at all. This is not to say all lowes is this way, but the one here, I don't care for. I wouldn't feel comfortable to buy a fig from them. Also, alot of their plants, even their flowers are miss marked. Not the right name tag on these plants.

Lowes, like other big-box stores do not propagate plants
from their "own" mother-stocks. They get the stuff from
who-knows-what nurseries, which tend to change from year
to year. Unless the original tag shows the real source
(e.g., good Monrovia), good luck with the [name] tracking...

thanks for your help everyone ,( there for awhile I was wondering if we were on a dog breeding list)

I just found a place on ebay that said that Lowes also sold figs labeled "Conadria", of course they may or may not have been.

But at least folks who buy a house or find a fig that grows in their areas can start looking at the most likely types sold at their local super handyman centers.
darn I just found out home club sold figs too. we could probably list those too.


at least people might have an idea what to start looking for leaf type and fruit size and color to compare them with pictures here .
thanks for your help.
edited to add.
after spending a few hours at least reading and looking at pictures.
the number #2 green fruit was like the green fruit here under adriatic in the top row 4th picture , also with a intense berry/ lemon/lime tart taist. and with a dried fruit here that looks quite simular to that orange one pictured there also in the 4th picture top row , only this one is smaller but with the same indented pillow looks.. only these the eye sticks out .. maybe because they are dried down a lot harder.

I sure think it might be possible it is in that family of the Adriatic somehow (linear line /descendant). we will have to see.

I purchased a celeste fig from Lowes while I was on delivery to Brownsville, Tx last year.

The label attached to it was one of the ones that is approx. 3" by 5" with a picture and name of the type of fig on it.

The label is also plastic and hard to tear.

I've also purchased fig trees from a local nursery near Sterling Heights, Mi with the same label/grower that had mis-identified the type.

I will be home in a week or so and I will update then on the growers name.
It sounds like we are dealing with the same person.

I just found this

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RE: growing LSU Gold fig-'fantastic'

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Posted by glenn9643 z8 LA (My Page) on Thu, Dec 21, 06 at 8:56
Seems that this thread veered off to LSU Purple and stayed there.
My LSU Gold didn't yield any figs until the third year. I was going to dig it up after the fourth, but it gave us figs that year they were so much better than the Celeste which was our only other. This past summer was the fifth year but production wasn't much improved, but the weather may have impacted in that respect.
I found my LSU Gold at Lowes' garden center, and have seen them at Home Depot locally. They often have LSU Purple also, along with BT, Celeste."

so LSU gold or variant of LSU gold and LSU purple was sold in LA the supposed source of all LSU golds. MO and LA aren't that far away from each other. so maybe LA is a source of some figs in MO.

Boots, which side of the state are you from? I'm in the Gateway to the West. The box stores around get a lot of stock from IL and TN. I have not found any figs there yet.  I have only found one nursery in the area that had a Chicago Hardy fig.