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Sister Madeline's Fig Trees

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Originally Posted by BrightGreenNurse
Hi Charlie, I went to St. Scholastica for a youth church retreat or two as a teenager. Really beautiful place! Best of luck with your new figs!


Neat how things work out eh Jenny!  You told me about the fig trial startup.  I got with them for a mutually beneficial endeavor.  Sister calls Susan who tells me they want me to come.  You went to the same place.  I think you need some of these cuttings. :)
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Thanks so much for the clarification of the California plant material regulation, Charlie!  Even though that regulation was intended to protect the citrus industry in CA, I still see "no shipping to CA" everywhere!  It is such a pain!
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Great find Charlie. Thanks for sharing and if by any chance there's a package left please let me know.

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Originally Posted by alanmercieca
The fruit of the mystery fig looks nothing like the figs of Peter's honey to me. I am clueless what it may be, maybe it's a seedling, only ways I could think of it being there

01) Some bird ate some figs in a place like California that the fig wasp exists and it pooped it there, which would be a miracle staying in it's stomach that long. California is not a quick fly for a bird.
02) Someone imported dried or fresh figs from a place that has the fig wasp, by mail, from a store, or some place online and somehow that grew in to a tree.
03) Also sometimes a common fig can have some fertile seeds even without the fig wasp as rare as that is, yet in that case it's be very close if not identical to the original variety leading to the question of what variety and from where?
04) Someone could have planted it there like was mentioned above.


Alan thank you for the possible scenarios. 2 and 3 would have never registered as a possibility in my brain. 

I have some information from the California Agriculture Dept. regarding shipping cuttings there and will make a new thread of interest.
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Charlie
Over at Ourfigs, Andreas has posted quite a few pictures of greek figs.
http://www.ourfigs.com/forum/figs-home/44923-greek-figs
A couple look like yours but unfortunately not many leaf pics. So an ID would be hard to make. You might try contacting Andreas and see if he can id the fig for you.
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Charlie, I'd be honored to grow them, thank you for the kind gesture!
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Charlie, All I can say is WOW!!! look very delicious. 
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Originally Posted by Charlie
A few weeks ago I was contacted by this Sister at a Catholic retreat kind of place, I guess that's what it is.  I'm not actually sure what it is but the Nuns live there.  Anyway, she called the lady in charge of the Fig Trial after seeing an article about it in the paper and wanted me to come...to give me cuttings.

So I go during my lunch hour and time was limited so I haven't gotten the full history on any of these trees yet.  Will learn more in a few weeks.

She is Sister Madeline and the trees are only known by names they call them, as I will put in quotation marks with the pictures.


Charlie:  After reading all of the postings about ficus restrictions to California, it sounds as though there are NO restrictions.  Is this correct?  And if so, would you consider sending me cuttings?  I would be happy to pay for your trouble and for shipping?  Funny thing...my husband said yesterday "hey there's a fig tree near the Good Will on ...street."  He's getting into figs too now and he doesn't even really care for figs!  I guess the excitement is contagious.  I love your story and THAT makes these figs so much more beautiful...their story!

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