Color me happy!

Remember when I stumbled across a dying fig when we looked at a neglected, empty property?  Remember it had 3 tiny living branches, and with no scissors, I ripped one of those little branches off?  Stuck it in some bottled water, brought it home after a 2 hour ride in the cup holder of the car, and put it in damp peatmoss to try to root it. 

It's had little roots for a while now, and this morning I checked it, and it has barely green leaves from trying to grow in the dark.  So, it got potted up this morning, and as tiny as those leaves are, I believe the ID experts here got it right.  Think it's a Brunswick.

It will reside on the kitchen counter for a while in peat and perlite, until I think it's ready for the shade outside. 

Not much could make me happier than this has done today!

Suzi :-))

Congratulations, Nurse Suzi!

Nice work Suzi! It is so rewarding when a stubborn or notoriously hard variety roots out and grows, enjoy!

Nice little start. Hope it prospers for you. :)

"It's working". Gotta love that feeling.

Suzi,
         So we should start calling you 'The Fig Whisperer' .

Too funny Cody!  :-))  Rescuing one tree doesn't qualify me for that honor for sure!  I'm a little mother hen though.  I keep looking at it, imagining it's pale color getting brighter, and of course I've been misting it.  It's used to that baggy and moist Sphangum moss.

To everybody, now is the time to locate some dying trees and help them to live by taking cuttings.  So many houses in every town are in foreclosure, or are bank owned, and the first thing people do when money is gone is to cut down on the water bill.  They use water for the family, but not for the plants, and thus the chance of finding dying figs.

Many of these houses are dead empty with the foreclosure sign on the door.  Sad.  But, I now carry scissors with me in the car just in case! 

Actually, tomorrow we are viewing one that on paper and in pictures looks perfect.  Didn't see a fig tree in the photos, but I'll have scissors in my purse and a water bottle in the car for sure!  We've already made two full price cash offers and got beat out both times.  If it's meant to be, it's meant to be.  There's always another one!

Anyway, stroll by the foreclosures in your town.  You never know what you'll find in that empty back yard!!  Just be sure nobody is living there!!

Suzi

Bare hands, Suzi?? Are you listening, Jason? ;-))

The little tree is still doing fine today, and I went and looked at my other cuttings in Sphangum Moss in baggies, and more roots!!  I went back to that property a week later with pruning shears and got a couple more cuttings, so my little Brunswick isn't going to carry the weight of survival solely on it's little shoulders.  It's sisters are getting ready to join in the quest to become trees too!

The tree that inspired this thread was about a 4" very woody limb with a green tip and a couple leaves that I cut off.  The ones I got a week later were fully green with several leaves that I cut off, and now, they too are showing roots.  I'll let them simmer in there a couple more weeks, then I'll pot them up to get a good start before winter.

Suzi