Hi everyone!!  What a wonderful spring it has been!  Birds singing, flowers blooming and neglected for almost 2 year fig cuttings are growing!!  Yes I have lost some, but there are still about 10 that are growing this spring.  I'm fessing up and admitting I haven't transplanted them since I rooted and cupped them in ------------ 2013!!!  The roots on some did grow through the drainage holes and into the ground where I had them.  Unfortunately most of the names I wrote on the cups are worn off, so I have no idea what I am - or should I say nature is growing!  I didn't even prune my in-ground tree this year.  I'm thinking if I let it go and grow, it will have a lot of figs for the birds to share with me :)

I did get carried away with the rest of the garden this year - I call it garden therapy!  I have been jobless since Feb 2, and succumbed to my feelings of woe and bought gardening things - flowers, veggies, fertilizer, you know, the kinds of things that make you feel good LOL!!

The pup (now 2!!) is doing well after her last hip surgery (glad she only had 2 hips!!), Glenn is still in the nursing home - coming up on 7 months!  And I haven't finished painting the back room yet, though it is looking real good in my mind!  I am a great "mind" painter lol!

I have cuttings in the fridge from, yes, 2 years ago and will attempt to root them this year.  Heck, I'll attempt to root the cuttings that have been sitting in the garage wrapped up too!

I hope everyone's figs grown strong and bear lots of fruit this year!

Good luck with everything Jo-Ann. I was laid off for almost 5 months about 6 years ago. My garden was thriving and despite the stress of having a 2 year old and a pregnant wife at the time, my time in the garden was long and peaceful, and my daughter and I became best buds. Looking back, I believe that happened for a reason...

Good to hear from you again Joann. I hope it all works out for you. You can rename your cuttings Joann ukn 1- 10 lol. The Chestnut st ukn is doing great and I just started the 7th St . Thanks very much for sharing. Our best wishes and keep gardening ;)

So glad to hear you are doing well!  Have a GREAT year!

Hi Jo-Ann!

I'm with the others in wishing you a much better future ahead.  Life gets in the way for most of us now and then.  If it helps, I sent you a small Desert King a couple years ago.  It was a rooted little plant.  Not sure if you were able to keep it alive.  But one of your lost ID's could be that.

I too have a few lost tags due to the move.  I like the suggestion to look at previous photos by sppsp.  I may do that.  I was thinking of just waiting for ripe figs to get a better handle on the lost tag bunch.

Suzi

Well Jo-Ann, I am glad to here from you!  I am so glad things are coming together.  Like you, I have a ton of cuttings in the fridge.  However, I did receive my UCD cuttings a few weeks ago and I just stuck them in some Promix and placed them inside my GH.  I honestly don't care if they root or not!  This is the second week I am able to breathe without coughing!  Spent the last weekend at Panama City Beach with the wife.  

Say, remember those cuttings you sent out about 2 years ago?  I got 3 or 4 small tree growing from those cuttings!  I call them Jo-Ann's Fig! LOL!

Thanks everyone!!  I have to admit feeling guilty for my "disappearing act" for a while.  I'm sure all understand.


ako 1974 - It is a bit stressful right now, but compared to the stress for the year and a half prior?  This is a piece of cake!  The reason is for me to relax a bit and smell the figs - or is it roses? 

ChrisK - Great idea for naming the "now unknowns" LOL

Frank - Thank you so much!!  I need a Great year!!

sppsp - FABULOUSO idea!!  I have pictures for sure - just hope they show the now secret names

Suzi - Of course I remember that plant!!  Have you shipped others out packed like that? 

Snaglpus - Woohoo!!  I am so happy they are growing for you!  I haven't even done my own yet!! Of course I love the name ;)

I will take pictures of them and add them to this post - please don't call the Pig Police and press charges against me for cuttings abuse.  They WILL get proper pots soon;)

Hey, ChrisK!  Glad your unk Chestnut cuttings are doing well!  Now that the mother tree has leafed out, maybe I'll take a few photos.  I really think that the unk 7th St. are some sort of Bordeaux figs, but we'll see if we can solve the mystery!  The old shack that was for sale (where I found that tree in the yard) sold, and they're fixing the house.  Maybe they bought it for that fig tree!
JoAnn