Please avoid "Papapari" . This seller is uk based and have stolen my Pelligrino pics for his auction. Also most of his other sales have stolen pics. Last year he had auctions for Brogiotto Bianco, Black Bursa and Green Ischia. He claimed that they all produced main crops in ground in London which is a joke . He used pics stolen from this forum for his green ischia and his Brogiotto Bianco looked like white Marseilles . Black bursa is a Smyrna type . He had the audacity to lie to me that they ripened in London .

Cheers for the heads up Vinny,sad to see,I considered bidding on plants from this guy last year,glad I didn't,will avoid this seller

That's crazy, like people won't figure it out, if I don't have fruit pics of my own all i post is a pic of the plant.

Glad I have sincere fig friends offering to share their best for trials in my zone.

Thanks Vinny, i've browsed some trees from this seller, but didn't buy luckily

Oh no! hello I am new to figs and I have bought from this guy. I bought that Turkish fig he sells a lot in spring. I am not usually keen on unknowns but thought I would give it a try based on the picture of the fruit. I guess that pic is stolen too. Lesson learned I suppose.

Well you have a fig tree,so that's something,but who knows what it is,he was also selling Laechana fig (Leitzana- a Cypriot variety probably) with a stolen pic,was tempted but the pic put me off.Sad thing is it will be some time before you know what you have,it could be a random Green Turkish fig as described or it could be a random unknown he has access to locally.Lets just hope he has access to a random unknown that is in fact a valuable,rare,great tasting fig that someone here can identify for you from the. Leaves and fruit and then you have a bargain and HE is the one that got ripped off!

Garden centres here are pretty bad for it,they buy the fig trees in wholesale and just resell,they haven't got a clue.There are fig trees in eBay,obviously bough in by the seller wholesale,with pot labels and plants tags which say brown turkey and have a picture on it as well,they a re NOT brown turkey,probably Brunswick from the leaf shape,but there are hundreds of them,the wholesaler is the culprit in this instance I believe,they must know and just perpetrate the deception,or maybe they don't know or care either and it's the seller of the cuttings to them who is deceitful..I don't blame the garden centre,they probably just don't know any better but the wholesaler of either the figs or the cuttings is perpetrating a deception.There is a big difference between listing what you think is one thing based on the information given to you,and listing something you know not to be what it is and using stolen pictures.Maybe Papari does have these figs he is selling,but doesn't have a camera or phone with a camera,in which case he is just stealing pictures and thinking nothing of it(which is bad enough)but from what you have said here Vinny you have pulled him up on it more than once and continues to do it without explanation or response,that just throws his whole operation into question.I bought a Rouge de Bordeaux from another seller on eBay which obviously isn't,Herman2 ID'd it as Ronde de Bordeaux,which based on the leaf and it being another Bordeaux fig is a good probable ID,in which case is actually probably got a better fig,here's hoping Papapari has access to some cool rare tree and just doesn't know it.Ive bought a couple of figs from eBay,if they don't turn out to be what they were sold as I'll be contacting the seller and posting on my earlier topic regarding UK eBay sellers so others will know

I am glad that I joined this forum. A lot of times buying things off the internet can be a bit if a gamble, unless it is something that most people use, such as a vacuum cleaner. With most household goods there are enough reviews out there to make an informed decision. With plants though, it isn't always possible to find reviews.

After several emails to Reads nursery I still haven't had a response about the bad plants that I got from them. So even with an established company like them you can't be certain of good service.

This eBay seller appears to have now listed under the name Kapri10108,see listing almost identical to his ones for LdA, unless someone is now scamming the scammer https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/142113554750

Disappointed in Reads,just goes to show even the nurseries can't get it right,but at least they hopefully did provide you with what you ordered?,you have any pics of the problem tree?,please share if you do,I want to see if I'm going to risk it,was planning on ordering cuttings from them,if they can't care for a tree wondering how they would care for a twig?

Here is a pic of one of the plants from Reads. This is after I put it into a bigger pot.

The annoying thing is that I paid for these three times the amount that my jurassic plants figs cost.

Hi Doricdragons,i have a Desert King from Reads received last autumn,2-3 litre pot and 50 cms tall , leafless.I put in the ground in May and it is now 2.4 metres tall and looking well apart from some leaf marking.I emailed Reads and am advised it is rust and will grow out of it. Ray. East Sussex.

That is looking a bit ropey,looks like it's been sat around for a while if it was that big with lignified wood and in a smaller pot than that probably stressed it,looks rust on this one too maybe?.

I had some good little plants from Hotplantsco on eBay which were a bit smaller but in better condition,they cost me like £7 each,would recommend if you don't mind waiting for the plants to grow up a bit.

The plant from reads looks like it should bounce back fine with s bigger pot,some fertiliser and some TLC,as it looks like it has been pinched I'd expect it to branch out well
Next season(probably pinched too late to do much good this year)

Yes, I am sure it will recover. As I said it was the fact that it cost more too that annoyed me. I got 5 plants for £30, including postage, from jurassic plants. They were only small, in 9cm pots, but excellent roots and really healthy. I still haven't got round to more photos today but will post a pic of one of my jurassic plants. They have been romping away and I had potted them on three times, I finally started putting them into 56 litre root pouches.

Here's one of my Jurassic plants figs that got moved up to a 56 litre pot, it was sold to me as Nero del Portogallo,

Those Jurrasic plants are looking really happy,I'd rather pay good money for something like that's,Jurrasic plants are good value,maybe because their varieties are a bit obscure here and they are small plants,from what I've seen £12-15(+postage) is kinda the going rate for 2 ltr plants,any smaller and it's like £5-10 for a ltr/9 or 10cm pot,so Jurrasic plants are bang on point with their pricing

Thanks Ray, yes the Reads plant has rust, it must have been in too damp an atmosphere, maybe they had it in a greenhouse with not enough ventilation. The british climate is ideal for those types of diseases to prosper. I tend to have both ends of my polytunnel open most of the time, same with my greenhouse. I haven't had problems before with rust and I would expect this Castle Kennedy plant will be ok next year.

Do you have a link to Jurassic Plants?

Try Searching: seller:jurassicplants On eBay,it will bring up their items