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Thanksgiving day pics. w/figs

Here's some pictures of my greenhouse. I couldn't get in for a few days because the locks were froze. Even though it's freezing cold out, I still have a few figs getting ripe. A couple were over ripe, but I cut the bad parts out.
Happy Thanksgiving!

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Happy Thanksgiving Art.

No pics ?

Sorry, they should be there now.

Art, very nice pics. The snow is very pretty. We had about 1/2 inch yesterday. LOL

What variety is the first couple of pictures?

Nice! Is this the greenhouse you were working on a few months back? Can't believe you have citrus blooming this time of year--the best smell in the world.

Happy Thanksgiving Art.
Mark

Thanks for the pics and Happy Thanksgiving Art to you and your family.

Ed, The first picture of figs are an Unknown on top and a single JH Adriatic on the bottom..

Rick, Yes this the greenhouse that I built about 2 months ago. You are right about the citrus. They smell great.

Everybody else, Thanks for the comments and hope you all are having a safe and Happy Thanksgiving.

Wow it looks like you got a lot more snow than I did. We only got 4 inches of that white stuff.

Art in the first pic is that the one you call Mittica fig?

Did you try the spray oil on the locks yet?

Happy thanksgiving everybody ..... Very nice greenhouse and figs......


Ong

Jakarta, Indonesia

Congratulations on figs in the snow.  The red inside of that fig looks amazing.  Happy thanksgiving!

Art, every thing looks really good. I hope you and your family had a good Thanksgiving.
 Thanks for sharing.

Tony,  Yeah that is the Mittica. There are probably a couple dozen that are going to ripen.
I did spray the lock today with some PB Blaster. It's just the one on the east side that's giving me the problem now. Tomorrow I will take it out and bring it in to thaw out. I hope it doesn't need replaced.
The news said that New Castle got 12" of snow. I think you got rain when we were getting snow.

Bugs, It was a nice day. I ate too much as usual. Hope you and your wife had a nice Thanksgiving.

Bob, Happy Thanksgiving to you too.

Looks great, except for the snow! Meyer looks good and don't be afraid to feed feed feed it. After mine bloomed last year it took a turn for the worst until I gave it a huge shot of fertilizer. Figured it was going to die or I would kill it. Sure enough the plant responded and craved more. All the plants will be happy in there this winter.

Mike, My Meyer lemon has had blooms on it almost all year. It really went crazy with blooms once it got in the greenhouse. What did you fertilize with and did you fertilize in the winter?

Wow what a sweet set up!! What kind of greenhouse is that?? My Meyer lemon tree is doing terrible I didn't even get 1 lemon off it this year.

Art,
A nice setup! I was wondering, do you have gnats in the greenhouse? How airtight is it?

Art,

Belated Happy TG!  Great pics, well at least the ones without snow.  Can't say that I miss it, maybe in a few years after I haven't seen snow in awhile.  What is the fig, 2nd from last?  Is it LSU Tiger?

Will, The greenhouse is a Riga XL

Greenfig, I wouldn't say it's 100% airtight, but close to it. It's 26 degrees outside with sun and it's 82 degrees inside the greenhouse. The vents on the roof are open now. I haven't seen any gnats, but I did have to spray for spider mites.

Steve, The fig in the second to last is a Barnisotte. They don't seem to get as dark this late in the season. But they sure taste good.

Kubota - I kept my meyer indoors under a 400w MH grow light last year and fertilized lightly last year with foliage pro, hydrofarm, or whatever I had handy. It grew and grew, and then exploded with blooms in February. I put it outside in my hightunnel in early April and 80 percent of the flowers were now little lemons. Well over a hundred little lemons...and then things went down hill. It dropped leaves, leaves were turning yellow, it dropped most of the little lemons, etc. I thought I was over watering it so I cut back on the water. It didn't improve. I moved it onto the deck for more sunlight and still no difference. Eventually I got fed up and said this thing needs a kick in the ass....I mixed up a handful of miracle grow in a gallon of water and poured the blue juice in the pot. Sure enough about a week later the leaves were greening up. Another shot of the blue juice and things were begining to look slightly better. Since September, I've been hammering the thing with fertilizer that would otherwise kill or burn other plants and the tree is responding, thankfully.

Right now I have it in a sunroom and I've been fertilizing it with just plain old miracle grow about every other week. Everything I've read says use Foliage Pro, but I haven't had a chance to visit my local grow shop to pick some up. Over on GW in the citrus forum, there is a guy named John who is growing Meyer's in Guatamalla commercially. He feeds his in ground trees measuring in lbs, and says you can't overfeed a Meyer. I took his word for it and he's correct. Keep it warm and feed the hell out of it. I ended up with 7 ripe lemons the size of golf balls. Not bad considering all the stress the tree had.

Mike, Thanks for the much needed info. I've been treating my lemon tree like my figs. I haven't fertilized it since August. It's been losing some leaves and there is some yellowing. It must need some fertilizer.

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