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Got the cutting 11-6-2011, they have been in a SW. The taste was sweet jam like with a little crunch. Only picked 3 one needed 1or 2 more days. A keeper for me. I will pick the other when they are really ripe.
Thank for looking

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Posted Reply with quote  #2 
Yours are way ahead of mine.
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Posted Reply with quote  #3 
Thanks for the picture Bugs of Sals EL a good productive fig plant that was a mainstay for long time in yard .
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Those look excellent bugs and at least a year ahead of mine. The SWC's look like they really bring the figs along much faster than pots alone. What kind of a mix are you using in your SWC? The air pots seem to do nicely also so I think there is definitely a link there.
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Posted Reply with quote  #5 
I have a sal's G. Are these the same? I had some sal's C cuttings rooting very nice but gnats got them over winter.
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Bugs, very nice
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Posted Reply with quote  #7 
Bugs, Great pictures! I can't wait to get some figs from mine. Thanks again.
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Bugs, very nice thanks for sharing
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Rob, My Desert King did not do will for me this year,  thanks

Martin, It will stay in my yard

striveforfreedom, I am using 7-2-1 70% Sphagnum Peat
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garden_whisperer know idea if they are the same

Art, some day yours will be the same
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All about Sals: 

Sal's EL and Sal's G =the same. Sal's Corleone = different.

If you do a search, you will find some threads.
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They look great
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Back in the middle of the 90's, one of the people who got me interested in growing and testing northern climate, cold hardy figs, was Paul Tracesky. He and Hanc Matthies introduced Sal's EL.

After years of testing I have read that Paul got rid of all his figs, except his Sal's EL.

Here, our testing has confirmed it is a fig tree that will ripen sweet fruit even if the summer was cool. It has also proven to be northern climate, old hardy fig here in Connecticut's zone 5b/6a.

It became a heavy bearing fig in it's fourth year here.

Does not have a sophisticated taste like Danny's Delight. But, because it produces sweet figs even after a cool summer, and it is a heavy bearing fig. It should be in every collectors collection for those bad cool summers we have at times in the Northeast. It is a keeper.

Bob @ T. Pine Connecticut - Zone 5b/6a 
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thanks for sharing another one I am waiting for.

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All good information. Thanks.
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they wonderful looking figs. hope our weather will hold out for next few days for me to see my figs turning out like that...
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I have some sal's el cuttings in a baggy right now and they just starting to show roots, I hope it's not too late and they make it through the winter. Sal's looks and sounds like a good one to have.
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Martin,

Are you saying you no longer have Sal's EL?  If so, why?
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Here is Gene Hosey's notes on SalsEL: "

Tasty fig that does well on the east coast; similar to Hardy Chicago, but more productive. Mine originated from Edible Landscaping Nursery, which now considers it to be identical to Hardy Chicago. I disagree based on my own observations -- also, preliminary DNA testing by the National Germplasm Repository at Davis indicates that Sal's is closely related to HC, but not the same. Research by Byron Wiley indicates that Paul Traceski obtained this fig many years ago from a fellow named Sal in Huntington Station, Long Island. Paul gave the fig to Belleclare Nursery who added it to their inventory as #39. He also gave one to Hanc Matthies who in turn passed it on to Edible Landscaping. Note also that the UC-Davis DFIC 243 originates ultimately back through Edible Landscaping, and is not Sal's Corleone (BC #31)."

At the address where Gene used to live in Washington DC the yard still has a few of his favorite cultivars in-ground one of which is SalsEL.  Anyway, a few months ago Gene told me that one of the branches on the SalsEL in that yard is a sport that puts out two fruits at every node rather than the usual one.  He asked me if I wanted to propagate and then provide it to others if successful.  The pic shows one of the cuttings starting to leaf out.  The only problem is that I am not 100% I got cuttings from the right branch because the tree was nearly dormant (and no longer fruiting) by the time I drove there to collect cuttings.  The instructions from Gene were kind of cryptic.  I am hoping that by next summer I will be able to tell if I really did take cuttings from the SalsEL sport and the year after that I should be able to send it out to some people.  Stay tuned.

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