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Raspberry Latte

I spoke too soon while watering today I inspected the RL and to my surprise what did I find 

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I'm clapping for you!

John it would still be nice to know how your tree(s) are doing.

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Someone contacted me through eBay and asked that I comment. The picture below was taken fall 2014.  The tree was about 1 1/2 years old, cutting rooted mid 2013, not that big, had about 10 figs.

2015 was a complete loss for me. Removing the containers from the garage I hurt my back. I pulled the 1st 20 gallon tub into position and that was it. I couldn't walk for days and was in pain the whole summer. I was terrified to move/pull/lift anything. All my containers (except 1) spent the whole summer outside the front of the garage in 90-100% shade. Some varieties did not put on figs, all formed figs very late and the ones that did, less than normal. We'll see how it goes this year.

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on a side note, Home Depot was closing out these half priced Mini Oyster Mushroom Farms. Bought 6 of them, started this one about 5 days ago.

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Boy these things are really cooking, 12 hours later

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supposed to look like this when ready

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Well Alan if I can prune it enough to fit in the van then it will not be getting as much fertilizer at my house.  I still think it may go in the ground next spring but we shall see.

The figs have an interesting shape.  One of the green ones looks like two figs fused together.  Thanks for sharing the pictures.


Some of my Raspberry Latte display this same segmented fused manner as KKs.
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I have a few of KK's raspberry latte's from cuttings.  They are about 2 years old now.  Very hardy, aggressive growers.  I had 1 fig in year one and about 4 currenlty on the branches. They look identical to the ones KK posted above.

From a very limited perspective, for a two year old tree it is stingy compared to a Sals or Black Mission.

tk

It would sure be nice if someone who has a Raspberry Latte fig in ground for over four years could give us a report on what a more mature Raspberry Latte fig does.  Does it ever really become productive?  How does fruit quality improve / change as the tree matures?  How aggressive of grower is it once its mature?  God bless

Marcus

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