This fig was my best producing,best tasting young fig last year.
I tought and i still do,that I have a treasure,here.
So I grew another one babieng it for 2 years.
Yesterday,without warning,my young fig went limp and is dieing.
No reason,for it,it has good drainage,was watered just fine was growing fine.
It had the fifth leaf coming out,so it was well ahead of others.
My older,three years old,was inground,and it looks totally dead with no live buds.
I am so ashamed because I was promissing to make young figs to my friends out of it this Sommer by making a handfull of leyers.
Also,I leyered,it last Sommer but they never rooted,and Most are dead,and 2 of them has minuscule one live bud at the base.
I am going to place the picture of the culprits,that broke my heart.!!!!!!!
Best Regards

Herman,
the first picture of plant with leaves has what looks like a bud on trunk, have you decided what you might do with plant, i know you will try something with it.


Please let us know good or bad what you do and the results, whatever happens please dont be ashamed as many if not all here learn a lot from you.

Best Wishes

Yes Tom:It was the best tasting unknown,out of the 40 young cultivars i managed to fruit last year.
The name means nothing,the results are everything.
There are more than a thousands names of fig cultivars,with 90 percent,of them worthless.
If we are looking for the cold climate then ,about 99 percent will not make here to produce acceptable quality fruits.
This fig was in that about 1 percent cultivars that will make super tasty fruits here.
I hopre I can grow it again.
Her is a picture of fruits from last year;

Herman, sorry about your loss. I have been a little more proactive these days of doing select trades with really good friends of varieties I cannot afford to lose. Can you describe the taste?

The pictures are great!

Hi Herman,

I'm sorry to hear about your tree.  You may want to leave it potted for a while longer to see if sends up any suckers from the roots.  I have a 'Green Ischia' that I thought did not survive Hurricane Ike last year.  This year, it has a sucker coming up about 7 inches from the main trunk.

~james

Hi Herman,

I have lost a couple of young plants this year also!

Even one of my established Celeste has leafs on one limb that is wilted looking like the one you posted pic. of.

Hate to hear your bad luck, but if anyone can figure out what happened it would be you.

Best regards

It tastes like The Best ,Mission,but these main crop figs you see in the above picture are twice the weight of the Main crop Mission,reaching up to 80 grams each.
To Dieseler:I did not decide what to do:For now I keep it in total shade and I replaced all the potting soil.Thinking may be Horse Manure burn,the cause of the problem.
That is Why I replaced the potting soil,with just planty Scott ,premium potting soil.
I see a green bud lower,on the little plant ,yet I am still waiting to see if it recover.
Also I checked today,the old plant that look dead.
The roots are alive,so it should push new growth,later in the Sommer.

H

Herman i see, Scotts is what i use when i ran out of the UPM .
Horse manure yes might be the culprit now that you mention it. i sincerely hope it comes back for you and somehow have good feeling it will in time.
Please let us know and i wish the Very Best.

Thanks Martin!.Thanks everybody.
I will let you know if it comes back,later in the Summer.
This is an outstanding excellent cultivar when about taste ,flavor,non splitting,but it positivelly is not cold hardy to grow inground here.
Yet it is one of the variety ,i will not mind growing up in container,and moving it back and forth from Garage to Garden.
Best Regards,to all!!!.
Vasile S

Hi Herman,

Sorry to hear about the bad news.  From what you said, you still should
have some such (little) specimen going. If not, let me know.

By unkown #5, I presume that you meant of my GM#5 that I gave you.
It was smugged from Malta (actually from  little sister-island Gozo).
My small original (chopped down) specimen looks good - just out of
the garage.

As of now, I'll like to dubb my (unkown) GM#5 fig as

Hi George:Yes I am talking about the Unknown #5 from you(Thank you for this champion.)
Ok:I will call it "Maltese Falcon",as you wish.Yes it was my best young fig in 2008,with the best tasting,best adapted to rain fruits.
I do have 2 very young,cuttings that got 2 leaves each,so I think I will make another one.
Also the roots are alive on the old one.
Best Regards

All I can say is that is a great looing fig Herman and Georgi, good find!

After seeing Gorgi thread on what he calls that unknown i have to post here that that is a beautiful name for a fig plant in my opinion.
Best to you Herman and Gorgi with your plants this growing season.

Herman
So what eventually happened to your GM#5. Was it able to recover after soil change.
I am asking this because on my 3rd try in three years I was able to root a beautiful Pastillier plant in extra perlite mixed ProMax which had 5 good erect leaves and nice looking roots so I brought it to the living room and placed it in front of the window to get natural light. I was going to write to Nelson to let him know about my beautiful plant from his cuttings. But I procrastinated to write and a day or two later the Pastillier leaves looked exactly like Herman's picture of his GM#5. It was not over-watered or under-watered. I put it back in the big plastic box for humidity but does not seem to show any erection of leaves. I am not sure if leaving it there will eventually help.

I am thinking of gently washing away the soil and re=plant it in medium chunky perlite. Any comments?

No need to sulk or teary eyes Ottawan. Ever ready one here for you. Just let me know.

Thanks Paul.
That will encourage me to experiment with this one with the drooping leaves and on the way out. Don't be surprise if by chance it rebounds just like the way there was no reason for it to go limp. Of course there may be reason but I don't know.

That happens last year to my Corynth, Brog.Bianco and Genovese Nero that suddenly went limb and gone to fig heaven. Could not figure out why.

My Young plant died Totally but my old plant grew Back to a nice 2 foot high bush in the past Sommer.
I have made a special Fig box for the plant,wich I filled it with leaves,and at the last check last week ,it is alive to the top,so I have High Hopes it will fruit and get ripe fruits the coming Sommer Season.
Since 2008, Sommer when it did ripe fruits,----to now it only produced a few green fruits that never got ripe.
I suspect it was my Fault for letting it mature too many fruits at too young age,and so it exhausted itself totally.
Finally in 2009,it had a few reserves left in the roots only,and it grew again very slow,and continue growing trough 2009,to the present.
I did remove a lot of green figs in 2010,to give it a chance to grow stronger,and it did.
I have no doubt in 2011,will taste again some of those wonderfull fruits ,this cultivar is capable of producing.
Happy Gardening to all.