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Share Pictures & Variety Names Of Weeping Figs

I, like many, have a deep love of weeping figs. What different varieties do actually weep? Share pictures please!

I have a variety called Black Weeping.  I'l try to post a pic tomorrow.

My LSU Purple has a weeping growth habit but I don't know if that's typical of the variety.

Here's my Black Weeping (1st pic) with a close-up of the fruit.  It seems to be in the Palermo Red group.  This tree comes out of dormancy late, can bear good brebas, and matures main crop figs fairly late.  Branches come out more or less horizontally from the leader, then the weight of leaves, brebas and figs pulls the branches down.  The variety is productive if watered consistently and fertilized well.  Fruit (2nd pic) comes in tight clusters of ~3-5 near branch tips.  This tree has roughly 100 figs on a tree that is roughly 4-5' tall and 5-6' wide.

I think that any variety with branches that grow horizontally can tend to "weep" when there is weight.  Here also is my Sumacki (3rd pic) which definitely looks weepy.  Consistent with the note above, my LSU Purple can tend this way; also JH Adriatic.

WB1.JPG WB2.JPG Sumacki 1.JPG


I gotta get a black weeping.
Someone posted a pic of a beautiful weeping fig yesterday on Facebook. I would have posted the pic here, if It comes up again in my news feed I'll ask permission

If you like the weeping look, you could try taking any variety with relatively thin, horizontally growing branches and attaching light weights to the branches.  That will bend the branches down, and phototropism will keep the tips growing up.  You should get a nice wavy look.  I'm pretty sure that this would work for LSU Purple and JH Adriatic, maybe also Vasilika Zika.  I don't think the method would work well on relatively upright varieties with slower growing, more stiff branches, like the Mt Etnas.

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