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Turning another leaf

Well I had a great visit with another forum member yesterday.  We walked around and talked about growing in our area, fertilizer and starting plants from cuttings.  If any of you want a real nice looking plant contact Steve (omotm), his plants are just beautiful!

As it happened we were looking at one that is putting on figlets and he points out that there looks to be another fig variety coming up in the middle of a 3 year old nursery clearance rescue of mine.  I think this was labeled Texas Everbearing, but really I can't be sure.  But what do y'all think?  This shoot is coming from the ground, not a branch off the existing tree.

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I don't know what it could be but I'd sure be interested to know if anyone else has an idea. 

my old tree puts out suckers looking like that. It fools me each time. leaves change as it ages. This time, I threaded the suckers through small plastic pots, so that they root up. They are very strong, after I see a good root ball on them, I will have little trees to send out in the fall, rather than just cut them all.

That's a real neat idea Grasa!  Thanks for sharing.  I have heard that figs are prone to changing their leaves so that isn't a surprise. 

Kinda looks like a TEB, mine is real "limby".  I got this on a rescue mission, was headed for burn pile, it was growing in total shade and had never done much.  Local nurseries sell them for $15 per gallon size.  I don't expect much from it. We'll see.

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