Happy New Year !
To start the this New Year i thought i would ask this question.
What are you looking forward to regarding your fig plants for 2010, perhaps a new type , a stubborn type, some small plants producing for the very first time etc, etc.
Plant related please give a name and have fun most of all !
Best Health
Martin

Martin, 1st day of the year oreadi stressed out by your call to fig duty. Its call fig withdrawals, so addictive. Thanks & hope you had a great start to the new year.  Your cutting of the Unknown Black is doing well in the pot. I have 2 more cuttings to start.

Well, for me its a year where I am going to consolidate my collection, just slow down a bit and enjoy what I have and weed out the less tasty ones for my zone. Main issue is I have to get my green house up. With a larger GH, I hope to have more peace in the house. Peace in the sense that I am not call with complains that I have figs or fig items everywhere in the house and garage. In addition, a good supply of figs this year to please the voracious preference for them would be very, very welcome in my household. No more complains about just a few more would be nice. So fig friends, if you have a must have fig variant please let me know. I need help in this area. I will find room for one more ha ha ha.

Martin,

Last season one of me Negronne/VBD produced well over 200 figs for the first time ever.
Never experienced anything like this from the time I started growing figs.
The disappointment was most of them went to waste do to weather.

And this included most of the figs from the rest of my collection.

It was like a kid unwrapping a bunch of Christmas gifts but couldn't keep most of them.

Fig wise,
My hope/wish for 2010 is to have a much better growing and harvest season.
But what ever Mother Nature throws at us, We will have fun with it.

And we will be right here next year talking about ( LOL ).

This is my first winter with figs so right now I`m just hoping my figs will make it through the winter :-)
This year I am planing to start few different fig varieties from cuttings so I can`t expect too much this year it will take 1 or 2 years till they start bearing fruit.
Can`t stop waiting until my figs starts braking dormancy especially my big trees Martin`s unknown and Brown Turkey.
Remis

Many of my trees are entering their 2nd year. I'm hoping to see some vigorous growth and a lot more fruit this season. I had maybe 20 fruits off all my trees last year.

I'm also enjoying figs during the winter by all the wonderful new varieties I have rooting in bags. Several are showing initials and will be ready to pot in a week or so. I'm using S. Moss in all of them and so far no mold! I'm amazed.

Sue

Maybe one of my trees will actually grow past 12 inches. They always seem to die or be killed by something/someone. I might have luck once I get settled down in Japan

In 2009 I only harvested figs from one variety: Hardy Chicago.

In 2009 I starting out only owning Hardy Chicago.  But as the year went on I expanded to also own Desert King, Black Mission, Celeste, LSU Gold, Marseilles VS, and an unknown I call Jersey.  I also have cuttings coming from UC Davis for Barnisotte, VDB, and Black Madiera.

I know that not all of these new varieties will bear fruit for me in 2010, but I think that some of them will.  I hope that in 2010 I can taste several of these new varieties.

I also hope to root cuttings that I took from my Hardy Chicago to give away to friends so that more people around here start growing fig trees.

Happy New Year!

Joe

happy new year to all!
staying healthy. having enough time to start with my own greenhouse and having the self-control to complete my collection:)

I hope to simply get 50% of my cuttings for each variety to root, and be able to take and live to healthy enough that I get them into the ground.

I hope to have two really good black/dark figs to put into our community garden for next year, so we may have two neighborhood fig trees that everyone can enjoy.

I hope to see some of the bitterness and drama coming from certain fig nuts in the community come to an end, or at least back off a bit.

I hope I can find some place to put all of the potted figs I bought this year ;)

In 2010, I have the following fig hopes:

To harvest just one ripe fig from my newly started collection of fig trees (Alma, Excel, Hunt, and Strawberry Verte...thanks Jon).

To get just one of the variety of scion that I requested from UCDavis.

To successfully complete the process - just once - from cutting to viable plant.

To add just one - well, two or three actually - of the following trees to my collection: Adriatic, Bayernfeige Violetta, Beall, Bourjosotte Gris, Hardy Chicago, Hollier, Marseilles VS Black, Smith, Socorro Black.

JD

2009 grow-season was soooo rainy. I still got some tasty figs to mature and so I am full of optimism for 2010.  I hope for sunny days and many ripe figs for us all. 

More varieties were added to my little collection this past Fall and I keep thinking about them and imagine them even fruiting for me. 

The varieties that I want are Scotts Black, the lovely reddish stemmed Negretta(I just want to have the Negretta so I can watch it's beautiful red tints as it grows and any fruit would be a bonus), Unknown Pastileire, Maltese Falcon,  Col de Dame and Martin's Unknown.

I am going to build a reinforced HF green house and extend my short season with it.  That is going to be exciting and fun. 

My last 3 wishes/hopes are:

#1. To learn to post my pictures here so I can share.

#2. To be able to share and spread my fig addiction(I prefer fig adoration) with my friends, and neighbors.  There must be so many others, who would like to grow figs and just don't know how fun and possible that it is to be successful, even in our cooler NorthEast area.
 
#3. For figs to become a part of each of my children's heritage/lives.  I want them to understand all that the fig stands for.  From the heart,

Eve
Buffalo, NY area
zone 6  brrrrrrr

 

Eve,

For #1, please check out this post:  http://figs4funforum.websitetoolbox.com/post/show_single_post?pid=36692329&postcount=4

If you find your pictures are too large, consider downloading a free program like Irfanview - http://www.irfanview.com - to resize your photos so the forum will take them.

Hi EVE
my daughter showed me so i kinda cheated.  ; )
I went to what they call photobucket easily found on google.
I take picture with camera and download to hardrive, i open photobucket and sign on, then i download picture to photobucket , after download completes i click on the photo there and it shows it in another window and i right click that which shows a menu and i click save to hardrive  and for some reason it shrinks it perfect to load on this forum from hardrive.
Afterwards i delete from hardrive. Sounds like a lot but well least for me it works.
I tried taking pictures with phone and wholly cow its hard for me.