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Then and now

Last year I posted pictures of a newly-rooted Celeste cutting that was struggling with mold.

I washed off the mold with a tea of sphagnum moss (which probably had no significant effect), and on the advice of Jon & Jason, increased air circulation to the plant (which saved its bacon). This year when I planted it  in the ground and followed Dan's "deep watering" advice, it took off. This morning I noticed that it's ripening its first fruit--thanks, all, for the advice! Here's how it looked then, and today:

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enjoy ken - have a great weekend
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There ya go Ken.  ; )
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Ken,


Great progress.  My Celeste has been a slow grower in the 2 years I've had it.  Have you had any figs drop on yours?  Mine dropped about 50% of its figs so far this summer, but it is not as healthy as yours.
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Yes, it dropped about half of the first batch and then started putting out a second crop. The ripe one is a survivor from the first round.


Compared to my others, the Celeste has been pretty slow--only the Black Madeira was slower. It had serious FMV, but seems to have outgrown the symptoms early in the season. We'll see how if there's a repeat FMV performance next spring. Still, slow or not, it's made such good progress following its near-death experience that I'm very pleased.

The most vigorous fig in my cage is a UCR 135-15s cutting from last year. It grew taller than all the oters as a one gallon, and now, in-ground, it's thick and bushy with the highest bud at 54 inches and no sign of slowing down. It has lots of figs, but as with the Celeste, many of the first round have dried up and fallen off. Hopefully some of the later ones will ripen.
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Ken,


Thanks for the info.
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I love it when a plan comes together :)

I love it even more when figfriends come in and update posts!!
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Congra. I am new and jealous! I tried some cuttings but don't think they are going to make it.

Can you share Dan's deep water method? So i can try next summer! Thanks in advance
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Mak15, I had recently planted several one-gallon figs in the ground and was giving them each 1/2 gallon per day via an automatic drip system. One of them suddenly lost most of its leaves so I posted about it on the forum--see http://figs4funforum.websitetoolbox.com/post?id=5232318&highlight=blackened+madeira. It turned out that I hadn't been keeping the soil moist enough (see Dan's post in the same thread), but as soon as I started watering them deeply (filling soil basins with a hose) they began growing very quickly and are still going strong. A little fertilizer helped greatly as well.
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