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Wanted: Pollen (and wasp) laden profichis

Hi all...

Can anybody send me some profichis in order to enhance caprification of my figs?

In return I can send some cuttings of my varieties or $$$$ :)

I am non-US member.

Thanks a lot.

Where are you located?

The problem might be that, by the time your figs have enough size to be caprified - usually about 1/2 inch in diameter), the areas with wasps might have already exhausted their Profichi production (usually warmers regions, caprifigs in a more developed state).

Where i live, i have located a caprifig, but i have my fig trees up North. Most of my figs still weren't receptive and all the Profichi had already dropped (most fully matured) from the caprifig tree.

A solution might be to collect the pollen and later try to hand pollinate the figs (not an easy job to accomplish - i have never tried it to date)

Fortunately, thanks to a good friend that has access to more caprifig trees, some with longer maturation periods, i received some mature Profichi a few weeks ago.
With luck, maybe some of my figs were pollinated (and hopefully, also some of my young caprifig trees).

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I have fig trees in Budapest, Hungary and in Malaysia.

In Pécs (Hungary), my friend reported the wasps did not really appreciated the -10°C during the last winter and the caprifig trees have also been damaged. So I am looking for some alternative place to get profichis this year. Maybe next year the wasps will come back to Pécs.

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