I finally placed my order to UC Davis the other day. Question is do you get a email back confirming your order or is it a waiting game? Do you just wait to see if they send you cuttings in the winter or do they let you know ahead of time?
  Just wondering since I've never ordered from them before.

I'm wondering the same thing.   Do you have to have a Fed Ex account set up?  They didn't ask me for it before I sent the order through.  

Can you submit another order?   Of course I researched the figs available and I don't like some of the ones I asked for and want to change it, but don't know how.

Yes I set up an account before I ordered. On the order form it asks for a Fedex account number. They would need that so they can charge for shipping.

If you request a receipt confirmation, they may confirm. They did for me last year. I submitted one for this year on 6 June. No confirmation yet.

If you want to revise, just send a revision, and state the date you first emailed, so they can give this one priority.  I've revised quite a few times with no problem.  Got a confirmation once. 

I did set up a Fed Ex account, and keep it active, and I think you need it because they bill it for shipping.  They do so much work, it's amazing that it's free!

I love surprises, and when that box comes......... Smells like heaven!

Suzi

You will get cuttings full of FMV....good luck!!After that,all your other plants gonna get sick.This happend with at least 20 plants of mine.

first year, i placed order and never heard anything from UCD. second year, i place order and never heard anything back either. however, i found out that the name in the order form was not the right person to send the order into.. it seems that person doesn't process the order or something. i got a name from the forum to send the order to another persion. i think the person's name was mary parker. anyway, i got reply indicating that my order was entered into their ordering system a day or so after i send the order in. in march, i got about half of what i ordered. some of the cuttings i requested wer not available.

i'll have to look for her name again this year.

FMV.. UCD cuttings came to me very healthy and fresh. they all rooted great, even Black Madeira. only thing is you will notice FMV as soon as they start to put out the leaves. i started UDC cuttings in 3/25 of this year. now most of them do not show too much of FMV on the leaves. but it's still there.

i'm not too concerned about FMV. i only had 4 other trees when i got UCD cuttings, and i know they all have FMV. but everyone who gets any cuttings from UCD should be aware that they do have FMV. some cuttings like Calvert will show more issue than the others. Black Madeira showed least symptom of the FMV, but it grows rather slower than the others. i can't wait till i can try Ischia Black from UCD. i heard that one might be challenging.

Hi Pete,

A few years ago I requested a Ischia Blk from UCD, I was able to root it and eventually it produced one fig the first year, I did not think I wanted to wait years for it to ripen "a " fig so I sent it to Martin...I named it "Butt Ugly"because of the heavy FMD.

cecil,

i read a lot about Ischia Black, and i heard that one is hard to root, and hard to grow and will die on you without any reason. i'm sure it will be a great waste of time, but i also heard that it is one of the best tasting figs... along with few of the others at UCD.

Yes Pete

I have heard the same thing..I think it died on Martin too.

Marius- are you saying the FMV jumped to a clean variety from a UCD plant?

I've been buying plants for the last few months.   So far, I got plants from 1 supplier and the symptoms were very noticable.  Throw these out?   Everything I've read says not to worry about it so I figured the UCD option would be a good one.

Is this not the case?   

Most other options to obtain some of these varieties from say E-Bay...  require me to pay big money and I can tell when I look very closely at their pictures, they appear to have FMV too.    Free from UCD  vrs.  $100-200 from Ebay...... HMMM 

I would NOT worry about the FMV all the figs (well most all of them have it)

It is part of growing Figs

Others might say differently,  but that is M.O.

I have had fmv go from to my clean trees, unless they were just not showing symptoms before, the only exception so far is the colisanti dark fig; however, for 1 year old trees I am going to have a large harvest this year despite infection, as long as things keep going the way they have been.

I'm not worried about FMV because I didn't have any on my trees, or at least I didn't think I did then this year some of them showed signs of it. So apparently I've had it the whole time. Conditions must of been right to bring it out. I think it was this crazy spring that stressed the trees making it show. Now most of them are hiding it again. I figured "Oh well, it comes with it. Sooner or later it'll be knocking at your door". Ya just got to deal with it.

FMV is sort of like acne on a teenager.  Some have it, some don't but it is not a killer like those nematodes.  It might make your tree lack confidence at a prom, but will NOT kill it!

I don't worry, and I absolutely love and applaud the job UC Davis does with their research, and willingness to share cuttings with us for free!  The way they label and package for shipping is amazing!  They are princes in my book!

Suzi
PS.  Learned the hard way that their labels fade in sun and rain, and then you are growing "mystery" cuttings!  Immediately label with something more permanent!

It took 6 years for some of my UCD varieties to finally set some figs early enough, some still have not and seem like they will never "grown out of it". Sal's MBvs and Gino all are producing figs in their first year and if my mothers began producing trees that took six years to produce I would flip out. An ugly tree that does not fruit is a weed!

HAHAHA.....You tellum Brent.

Hoosier, You dont say where you are from, but I suspect Indiana where figs should never grow. 

You shouldn't downgrade UCD when you live in a climate that doesn't support figs.  You are one of many that try to grow what is not natural to your climate, and I applaud that, and wish you well.  But UCD is a great resource for cuttings, and I hope you appreciate that.

Figs are Mediterranean trees, and they love my climate.  In return, I love them!  Can I grow an apple tree?  NO!  A Pecan?  NO!  Do I wish to try?  NO!

Suzi

Hey Brent, let me do this!

Brent, DE/PA, z7a

Who is Brent?  The kid that drove my kids nuts, by strolling to a place, and then he sprints forward, and announces "I won", and they didn't' know they were in a race?

I should have mentioned I sent my order in sometime in May but I didn't get a response back, I only ordered once before and that was in sept two years ago but they gave me a confirmation in a week or two of sending it in, I haven't heard anything back yet and I am assuming they are busy right now with summer work and programmes; however, I am confident I will receive them.

I sent my order to bernard prins as well as the orders email adress, whom did you send yours in to?

Herman2 covered all of this really well over the years here, I agree with what he found and anyone living in someplace with a winter (op) would be smarter to pick one of his favorites, and pay him for it because he has gone through many, many figs to be able to offer the best for the mid-Atlantic.
I am very grateful for UC Davis, they were my first cuttings and they taught me some tough lessons. I also have a feeling that 6 years is going to be worth the wait for some varieties.

I am even more grateful to Herman2 though because I am having much better luck with the cuttings and trees I got from him.

I know it is kinda easy to miss my sig line Suzy, I like it that way ;)

brent,

have you tried pinching them? my Kathleen's Black which is not from UCD, didn't put out figs until i pinched them and i'm not the only one having this issue with Kathleen's Black. from the posts one of the member, Peg, also had this issue along with few others. i'm sure there are varieties that won't put out fig in first year. my Paradiso Gene only gave me 3-4 figs last year, this year, it's putting out good number of them and it was very early. they are all going into their 3rd year.

chivas,

the person i sent the email to was mary parker. check out following link on other forum.

http://forums.gardenweb.com/forums/load/fig/msg081938261584.html

i searched her email address in google doing search for "mary parker UC davis".

here is her contact info.

http://www.ars.usda.gov/pandp/people/people.htm?personid=33920