All set for King treatment for these 'four' plus the 'Provider'
This is all potted business in 2014

The four are all one year old plants, rooted in March 2013
The Provider shall have four times more moons

Next year they will all be grounded and hopefully in good health.

Francisco

       

I don''t think any of my plants have red leaf stems.  What kind are they?

What is it?

Just a little memory effort..
Some of you dispatched it to the boiler!
DFIC0023

Francisco

Thanks,

I had high hopes for it but useless here. I sold the rootball and cuttings.
Gave some away too.

i'm reading it's immune to FMV? it's no longer listed at USDA/UCD list...

Francisco, are those newcomers for you? They are so... ahead of time in your garden compared to ours here in California.

Bob C, my little 3 in-ground ones have pink leaf stems but I have no idea what they are...remember the ones that I pinched the tips...I showed in the other (Pinching the Tips) thread. I am seeing some tiny figs, soon we will find out. Herman2 was suggesting they are some kind of Hybrids (DFIC 23) some numbers attached to the name...i doubt I have hybrids in my garden.
Edit: Herman had mentioned that they will require wasps...

Thanks for looking at these 4+1

Peter,

Yes, I am also told that it is immune to FMV..will see but so far this baby is the most robust and fast grower in my collection
It came from Italia, late 2012 thanks to a very generous Amigo - Grazie mille Sergio !!

It is an hybrid DFCI0023  -Carica x Palmata - and  behaves like a Smyrna fig

On the top of the pictures, you see another young fig - Pastillière -
Same age as the hybrid and showing a few figs

The third from the top again an infant tree,  (first year) is the controversial Zidi

Then the fourth, a cutting from a Smyrna seedling still unarmed, temporarily called LTK and apparently a winner in its family.

The bottom picture, shows the Provider, the  'Odel', a five year old Caprifig, soon  ready to send its pollen to help and make all those above to fruit under ideal conditions. I hope that some will ripen and promise to show you some more pictures in time.
Pastillière could ripen without wasp pollination, but given its traditional habit of jumping off  the tree I decided to try and bring it close to the 'Odel'- to see how it behaves.

Aaron,

Yes, they new in this yard .I also feel that they are a bit ahead of time
Having rooted first on normal 50/50 -perlite/root soil in one Liter plastics, 2 to 3 months later they were re potted into bigger pots, proportionally to their respective sizes at the time with a mix of normal soil enriched with either fish meal or warm compost.

Francisco

francisco,

i'll post pix of my Pastiliere on another thread. it has some nice looking young figs on them. some are very... not sure what the proper term is, but like turban... flat. i'm keeping the soil moist and not letting it dry out. hope that will help with holding on to the figs.

Francisco, do you have more pictures of the second variety? (the one with pink stems) different stages of growth...the buds and flower perhaps.

Aaron,

I have very few pictures showing fine details of this hybrid
See if these help
Francisco    

Interesting leaves Francisco, I hear those shapes (Unilobe?) are very common with Hybrids?
here is what mine looks like, I have no reason to believe mine's a Hybrid.