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Nichole

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udaman has a nice little online inventory for his figs which inspired me to start my own. It was something I'd been meaning to do anyway. I've been working on adding all my edibles - berries, fruit trees, and figs.

Anyway, here's my fig inventory. First year into figs and I'm up to 15 varieties. I have some green cuttings of Marseilles Black VS  that haven't made it to the inventory list yet. Technically I have 16, a tiny panachee, but I don't think it will make it.

https://sites.google.com/site/nicholesgardeninventory/fig-trees
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Fig Inventory https://sites.google.com/site/nicholesgardeninventory/fig-trees
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Wow... Nice edible collection.  Please keep us updated about which fig varieties are doing well in PNW.  
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Looking good Nichole.  I compared my panachee rootings to my others started at the same time, and they're coming along, but at a much slower pace.  I'll be sure to send you another cutting, or small plant, if and when they get a foothold.  So far, I'm not impressed with the variety.

The Marseilles I took your cuttings from, is a great var, however.  It grows nicely in pots, doesn't show FMV, and now in their third year, loaded with figs.  I hope the cuttings produce some nice trees for you.  BTW, I got my trees from Kerry, aka. drivewayfarmer.

Both the blog website and your inventory site are nicely done.  Good luck.
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Yes it is nicely done and a great idea. Would take me quite a while to put together an inventory with pics and all like that, but it sure would be handy. 
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I started my site during a time that I couldn't walk too well, and had plenty of "spare" time on my hands.  Winter is when I should do more on the website, but the trees are in the cellar and there isn't much going on.  It doesn't take too much work to maintain, and I use Google calendar as more of a task journal, it's very helpful to keep track of what and when I do things.

It works for me.
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Very nice Nichole.  ; )
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Scott - I  will definitely update. Our weather in the PNW is so fickle. I went from being sure I would get rid of Chicago to make room for other more promising varieties to being excited about the crop of figs growing on it. I sure hope I can get something ripe off it come September.

Martin I have been trying to add in some dark figs into the mix. Aren't you proud? ;)
(I am not biased!)

Andrew - I looked at it again this morning and opted to toss it. I lost the battle to mold. RIP Panachee. My first lost fig tree. I don't want you to fret over it though. To be honest I'm not sure we have the heat to ripen one. They sure are beautiful. By far the most beautiful to my eyes of all the varieties. Bums me out.
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Fig Inventory https://sites.google.com/site/nicholesgardeninventory/fig-trees
Wish list: Barbillone, Black Triana, Brooklyn Dark, Brooklyn White, Figo Branco, Figo Preto, Grantham Royal, Grisse de St Jean, Honey Jumbo, LSU Gold, LSU Scott's Yellow, Matta, Noire De Caromb, Panevino Dark, Roja, Syrian Long, Uncle Corky's Honey Delight
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Nichole you should be proud because i hear you may be in one tough climate for main crop figs .  ; )
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Yeah that is pretty neat. It'll be all for naught if they still fail to ripen though.
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Fig Inventory https://sites.google.com/site/nicholesgardeninventory/fig-trees
Wish list: Barbillone, Black Triana, Brooklyn Dark, Brooklyn White, Figo Branco, Figo Preto, Grantham Royal, Grisse de St Jean, Honey Jumbo, LSU Gold, LSU Scott's Yellow, Matta, Noire De Caromb, Panevino Dark, Roja, Syrian Long, Uncle Corky's Honey Delight
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nice site. best of luck
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Very nice list, and envy your computer skills. As for me, I still need to ask my #3 son to take pictures and post them. Thanks for showing, nicely done.


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It's all about the generation you grew up in, I think. I barely made the cut into the 'internet generation'... I was in high school when our school got hooked up to the internet and I was terrified of going on there because I was sure I would see nothing but porn. Our highschool microbiology class had one of the first digital cameras and we felt soooo fancy lugging that huge monster around. We learned how to upload them to a website, basic HTML, that sort of thing.

Oh, and my husband is a software engineer. AKA total computer nerd. He helped me ;)
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Seattle area - Zone 8b http://www.niroha.com
Fig Inventory https://sites.google.com/site/nicholesgardeninventory/fig-trees
Wish list: Barbillone, Black Triana, Brooklyn Dark, Brooklyn White, Figo Branco, Figo Preto, Grantham Royal, Grisse de St Jean, Honey Jumbo, LSU Gold, LSU Scott's Yellow, Matta, Noire De Caromb, Panevino Dark, Roja, Syrian Long, Uncle Corky's Honey Delight
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Awesome Nicole!  Very Professional.  I am working on mine....got a lot of pictures to post.  Too many actually.  What's the cost per month if you don't mind me asking?
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It's free! Hosted by google
https://sites.google.com/

Not the most intuitive, user friendly set up. I had to spend a bit of time playing around before I finally managed to get it to do what I wanted and envisioned. I'm happy I figured it out though. I plan on using it to log various things I do. Fertilization mixes and timing, soil mixes, fruit production, that sort of thing.
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Seattle area - Zone 8b http://www.niroha.com
Fig Inventory https://sites.google.com/site/nicholesgardeninventory/fig-trees
Wish list: Barbillone, Black Triana, Brooklyn Dark, Brooklyn White, Figo Branco, Figo Preto, Grantham Royal, Grisse de St Jean, Honey Jumbo, LSU Gold, LSU Scott's Yellow, Matta, Noire De Caromb, Panevino Dark, Roja, Syrian Long, Uncle Corky's Honey Delight
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Reading through my inventory and getting a little bit of history on the trees to log, I realize I may have THREE brown turkeys. How disappointing.

Texas Everbearing
Black Spanish
Brown Turkey from Monrovia

The TXE is going up to my dads. I'm going to braid it with the Italian Honey and Osborne Prolific so that'll leave two with me. Tempting to chuck one of them. Who needs two brown turkeys? Let alone three.
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Seattle area - Zone 8b http://www.niroha.com
Fig Inventory https://sites.google.com/site/nicholesgardeninventory/fig-trees
Wish list: Barbillone, Black Triana, Brooklyn Dark, Brooklyn White, Figo Branco, Figo Preto, Grantham Royal, Grisse de St Jean, Honey Jumbo, LSU Gold, LSU Scott's Yellow, Matta, Noire De Caromb, Panevino Dark, Roja, Syrian Long, Uncle Corky's Honey Delight
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About six years ago, when I was still growing in containers and relying on friends to water while I traveled, I created a map in PowerPoint of my trees.  That way, if there was a problem with a tree while I was away, the person taking care of them could let me know which tree we were talking about.  Also, if a label got lost or became illegible, I had a back up identification on my computer.

Now that I am growing in the ground, I still maintain a map of where things are.  For me it is not necessary.  I know (for the most part) which tree is which, where it came from, when I planted it, etc.  I do copy the map at the end of every growing season and continue the next season on the copy. I do the same thing with my propagation area.  While it is interesting to see how things have changed from year to year, this really becomes helpful when there is a problem.

I transplanted a VdB (from the propagation area at the beginning of this year.  The leaves on the tree do not match that of VdB.  I thought I might have grabbed the wrong tree.  I was able to go back to my propagation map from last year to see what was alive near VdB that might be a match for the leaves on the tree.  Unfortunately the leaves do not match the trees that were around it either.  I'll have to wait until it bears fruit to ID it.

~james
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