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Spring 2015 babies.

Late March and everything is coming alive! It took at least a month more last year for the trees to start blooming so it feels like a we're off to a good start! Here are a few pics of the some new baby fig leaves and Breba figs! Please feel free to add your photos! Thanks for your time and have a great growing season!

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Very healthy looking good job............................

Thanks Dave. Most are year old potted that are coming waking up!

Check this out! Any advice?

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Hey Chris, what a nice predicament to have. If anything, I would add some media as high as you can, hopefully to the first green shoot. This would provide an opportunity of a maximum root system and the rest will fall in place. The rest of the air roots will dry up. Good luck, this should be a nice variety and I am pleased to have a few.

Thanks Wayne. I thought about doing that but I got trigger happy and cut it above the green bud. I planted the top part leaning kinda sideways,and covered completely in a single gal pot! They seam to root pretty easily so maybe I'll get another tree to gift out of it! ;)! How are yours progressing?

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Check this out! Any advice?



Nice pictures!   congrats on the exciting moment.

I have (and have had) the same thing happening to my plants (due, mostly, to high humidity where they are located). What I have done before is to take them off.  While I am unsure whether or not it affects the plant negatively in any way, my thinking is that I rather have my plant put energy on the bottom (and established) roots and on the new growth.

Take care

Thanks Jerry. I usually pull them off also. This was a very long cutting do I figured I could cut in half and make two trees!I hope I didn't kill both!

Some more little ones.

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Nice!!  Such a beautiful sight!  Yours look so healthy.  As for the one with roots exposed to air, I usually split them, too.  It usually works fine.

Trees look really healthy, Chris. The one with your hand in the back is a black mission?

Thanks JoAnn. Both the top and bottom pieces look great. I'll post pics later.

Thanks Mathew. From left to right , two Brunswick , two folly beach green ukn and a Folly beach dark unk. The last pic could be a B M but too early to tell. All babies look very similar at this stage. keep an eye on the Brunswick ;)!

And some more. We have a freeze warning for Sat and Sun morning! I will be putting all of them back inside . Those temps will not last long,just the early am hours but sometimes it is enough to set everything back a couple of weeks!

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My Yuma, AZ babies. Here's my 6 year old Brown Turkey bush today. 20150328145421.jpg 
I prune it back about 50% each January. Today it has well over 100 breba and new growth babies showing!



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Ha, looks awesome. Very nice photos Sdpops. Love the way it grows into a ball. Please post some pics of the fruit ,Breba and main crop when they ripen!Thanks for sharing and enjoy the warm weather. Seems like you're about two months worth of growth ahead of me lol!It is 27 F here in Loganville Ga and way colder up north. It will warm up nicely from here on though! I hope.

Hi sdpops,
Nice tree, but not a brownturkey.
If it came from a nursery please refer to that tree as nursery's Brownturkey.
When you get figs, if you post pics, we can try and see what it really is.
I have a post here about Brownturkey with pics of the brebas if you want to compare .

Thanks ChrisK--I enjoy following what others are accomplishing, until recently haven't posted  but our desert climate is so different from most thought I would share more. My 3 established bushes are all against south and west facing block walls and are kept pruned to about a max of 8' as are all my fruit trees. The Br Turkey esp gets pruned back to 4'-5' because I have a netting cage that goes over it. The mocking birds would get every fig other wise. The green figs are seldom bothered by birds, it seems they don't realize  when they're ripe. When I prune I try to leave a balance of older established branches and late last years growth for brebas. This winter I plan to graft 4-6 closed eyed varieties of dark figs on to the Br turkey to mitigate the dried fruit beetle problem we have here late each summer. I will defiantly post pics of the ripened fruit as I get them,and just before they go into my oatmeal bowl!   pops

Nice cherry tree. I really hope mine blooms this year, 4th year in my yard.

Cool stuff pops. It seems my season was pushed back a couple of weeks or more! Read further down!
Thanks Calvin. It's a Royal Ann that my boys gave me as a gift on my bday last year. It is full of flowers and very nice looking. I bought a lapins as a pollinator about a month ago but has no flowers. Maybe next year!
Last nights freeze killed all the new growth and brebas on all my inground trees! :( Back to square one with them. The potted trees are safe. I had them put away a couple of days ago. Uhh ,the joy and hardships of figging !

Leaf wise this is definately no Brown Turkey. Sorry

Hello Brown Turkey doubters!!! I've had my Brown Turkey bush for 6 seasons now and have enjoyed 100's of delicious fruit from it! The fruit are remarkably consistent year to year, both breba and main crop and very comparable to any from a dozen or so other Brown turkeys trees of various ages that that I am aware of in this area. One thing that I have noticed though is that the leaf shape and size seems to vary, year to year. I think this change is determined by the length of our dormant season that has varied in my area from none to 2 months over the last seven years. After the season with no dormancy this particular bush had at least 4 distinctive leaf patterns. This past winter the dormant period was just short of 5 weeks.
As for BT types I would like to direct you to a forum thread from several years ago that might be interesting to you all. This was one of the 1st threads I read when I started to follow the forum about that time.
In the forum, search the title below for an interesting read. 
pops

 

I never doubt you have a great and productive fig.

But i am sure that it is not a BT. The BT never develop such leaf shapes...

Please take a look at those and compare the fruit and leaves with yours.

Sorry your link doesn't work sdpops!

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Chris there is no need to cut those air roots off. Philos is right on, just great humidity you got over there.

I've seen them on some of my smaller recently rooted cuttings and they will simply dry up and fall off on their own in their own time.  

It might be the sub soil roots cannot get what they want at the moment so the air roots may be doing the job for now. Plants know better than us.

 

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Late March and everything is coming alive! It took at least a month more last year for the trees to start blooming so it feels like a we're off to a good start! Here are a few pics of the some new baby fig leaves and Breba figs! Please feel free to add your photos! Thanks for your time and have a great growing season!



Chris, Good job Bro, If you need something, I have, you got it! Just let me know. Got to take care of a  Bro, so close by...!! : )

Thanks Vince. I ll try that next time. It's been happening a lot lately!

Frank thanks very much. I just might take you up on that. Same here though. Just let me know if there's anything I can help with. All my inground trees got hit very hard two nights ago. It dropped down to 26f and killed all the new growth and brebas. Even ones I had covered with heavy plastic.potted trees a ok! Thank God I had put them in the night before!

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