Register  |   | 
 
Encanto Farms Nursery > Topics > some main crop clusters
 
 


Reply
  Author   Comment  
hblta

Registered:
Posts: 711
Posted Reply with quote  #1 
Looks like I will have some nice clusters on a few plants later in the summer.

Attached Images
jpeg IMG_1103_1.jpg (445.95 KB, 87 views)
jpeg IMG_1104_1.jpg (527.95 KB, 89 views)
jpeg IMG_1106_1.jpg (555.08 KB, 87 views)
jpeg IMG_1108_1.jpg (472.16 KB, 89 views)
jpeg IMG_1110_1.jpg (427.65 KB, 92 views)


__________________
*************
Grant
Kitchener Ontario Canada
Z5b

Maro2Bear

Avatar / Picture

Registered:
Posts: 732
Posted Reply with quote  #2 
Looking good there!
__________________
Mark B., Glenn Dale, MD Zone 7a
FiggieFive_0

Avatar / Picture

Registered:
Posts: 259
Posted Reply with quote  #3 
Aloha, Grant.  I like the way you've used a fruit crate/basket (pic 2) as a fig protector.  Looks like you're gonna be a happy camper come late Summer. 
__________________
Nate

Faith, Family, Friends, and Figs (not necessarily in that order).
musillid

Avatar / Picture

Registered:
Posts: 1,507
Posted Reply with quote  #4 
Nice shots. Happy eating!
__________________
Dale
non compost mentis in Zone 6a
drphil69

Avatar / Picture

Registered:
Posts: 803
Posted Reply with quote  #5 
Very nice!
__________________
Phil - Zone 7A - Newark, DE Newbie fig lover just trying to learn.
rcantor

Avatar / Picture

Registered:
Posts: 5,724
Posted Reply with quote  #6 
Congratulations!
__________________
Zone 6, MO

Wish list:
Galicia Negra, De La Reina - Pons, Genovese Nero - Rafed's, Sbayi, Souadi, Acciano, Any Rimada, Sodus Sicilian, any Bass, Pons or Axier fig, any great tasting fig.
Tonycm

Avatar / Picture

Registered:
Posts: 922
Posted Reply with quote  #7 
Good pics of things to come!
__________________
Zone 6a Sarver, PA Wish list; Rafed's Genovese Nero
rafaelissimmo

Avatar / Picture

Registered:
Posts: 1,473
Posted Reply with quote  #8 
Clusters of double figs all over my unknown italian white! (And one lone breba below).

Attached Images
jpeg image.jpg (120.80 KB, 24 views)


__________________
Zone 7b, Queens, New York

hblta

Registered:
Posts: 711
Posted Reply with quote  #9 
Nice doubles rafael,
Nate, the fruit crate protector was an idea picked up from the forum.
__________________
*************
Grant
Kitchener Ontario Canada
Z5b
tylerj

Registered:
Posts: 646
Posted Reply with quote  #10 
Nice pics Grant! Here are a couple I will hopefully be able to taste for the first time...

Panachee, Niagara Black, Noire de Corombe, and an UK Italian with a breba and main crop

Attached Images
jpeg Panachee2.jpg (171.38 KB, 24 views)
jpeg Niagara_Black.jpg (204.94 KB, 24 views)
jpeg Noire_de_Corombe.jpg (159.38 KB, 25 views)
jpeg UK_Italian.jpg (216.33 KB, 23 views)


__________________
London, Ontario zone 6a
Wish List: Martinenca Rimada, Genovese Nero AF, Galicia Negra, Brooklyn White

hblta

Registered:
Posts: 711
Posted Reply with quote  #11 
Hi Tyler.   good growing!!
Your figs are ahead of mine by a couple of weeks at least, 
My Niagara Black shows no  signs of any figs, nor is my Noire de Corombe.
my panachee might give me a few if the summer is long enough.
__________________
*************
Grant
Kitchener Ontario Canada
Z5b
Chivas

Registered:
Posts: 1,675
Posted Reply with quote  #12 
My niagara black started putting out figs a couple weeks ago and they are ballooning already, even the one that died back to a several inches above ground is putting them on, I am surprised at how fast they go from rice sized embryos to fingernail size.
__________________
Canada Zone 6B
sammy

Avatar / Picture

Registered:
Posts: 261
Posted Reply with quote  #13 
Nice figs Grant.
Here are my figs so far this year. I just pinched them last week so maybe more to come.
The big dark fig in the pictures is the Petite Negri you gave me. I had figs last year from this one too.
The pictures are Atreano, Petite Negri, and Desert King.

DSCF3735.JPG DSCF3736.JPG DSCF3737.JPG

__________________
Sam zone 4 Thessalon Ontario, Canada.   
tylerj

Registered:
Posts: 646
Posted Reply with quote  #14 
My Desert King isn't cooperating.... for the 2nd year now no brebas but it tries to grow main crop figs.

btw gentlemen.... happy Canada Day! :)
__________________
London, Ontario zone 6a
Wish List: Martinenca Rimada, Genovese Nero AF, Galicia Negra, Brooklyn White
Chivas

Registered:
Posts: 1,675
Posted Reply with quote  #15 
Tyler, I only kept my desert king for 2 years, it kept growing too vigorously and would break in storms so it got some rot in the branches despite pruning, plus I didn't really think the brebas were worth keeping for the taste, I would rather than 2 colars.  None the less it seemed like it need to be headed back as the new growth like to go vertical, perhaps either tying the branches down (gently) to force more new growth of the buds or pinching or pruning might help you get some good growth to produce brebas as well as making sure the branches don't get exposed to too much cold before winter and during winter might help?  I found it like to put out a ton of main crop figs as well but my assessments may not be fair since I only kept it for 2 years.
__________________
Canada Zone 6B
jdsfrance

Registered:
Posts: 2,591
Posted Reply with quote  #16 
Hi Chivas, tylerj,
if you prune, you won't get brebas from those branches . The same goes for pinching. The tree won't have the time to store new resources for generating brebas.
Do that test : don't prune and don't pinch for the next two years. Just cut some branches if they are misplaced but don't touch all the branches. Leave most of them to their own choices of growth. Tie them down or up but don't cut .
You'll get brebas then .
The first years the stems will store energy for the next stems to store energy to make brebas the next year . So 2 years of no pruning and no pinching are needed.
Just my 2 cents as always .

How do I know: Last year I pinched most of the stems on my bigger ufti (unknown from the Italian gardener) . Most of the maincrop did ripen last year. BUT None of those pinched stems showed a breba this year, although they made some two centimeters sub-stems.
Those stems started showing this year's maincrop two weeks ago .
The jury is still out to judge - if this year, I will pinch that tree again or not ... For now I'm on the not pinching side; but the results of this year's maincrop will make the decision !
So let's see what I'll get !
__________________
------------------------
Climate from -25°C to + 35°C
Only cold hardy figtrees can make it here
Previous Topic | Next Topic
Print
Reply