Will the "REAL" Texas Everbearing stand up

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dkirtexas

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Posted 1412805084	Reply with quote #1

Bought 6 trees tagged as Texas Everbearing at Lowe's back in Spring. There are at least 3 different trees, one may be a Brown Turkey, one is most likely a English/Eastern Brown Turkey (EBT), and one is what most people around East Texas call the Everbearing, which in my opinion is a Brunswick/Magnolia sport/mutant, based on the leaf. It is no wonder how these things (fig identities) get screwed up. It doesn't make sense for production nurserys to mistag so many trees, I think there is a reasonable expectation that a consumer can expect to get what you think you are paying for. This is not the same as a figister naming an unknown, as bad as that may be, there remains an expectation that the name may be incorrect, if properly tagged as XXXX, unk. As it turns out, the EBT is one of my favorite figs, and the others are doing well, but that is no excuse and I intend to address the issue with Lowe's. I will try to get picts showing the differences, as soon as I get over this crud. __________________ Thx, glad to be here Danny K "EL CAZADOR DE HIGO" Waskom Tx Zone 7B/8 Wish list: anything anyone wants me to have. LSU RED. Any LSU fig.

pitangadiego

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Posted 1412807866	Reply with quote #2

You should have at least gotten 6 trees of the same variety (whatever it was), since they were all tagged the same. __________________ Encanto Farms Nursery http://encantofarms.com http://figs4fun.com http://webebananas.com "pitangadiego" everywhere

drphil69

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Posted 1412821456	Reply with quote #3

Its sad. I'm sure Lowe's will say they got them labelled as such. __________________ Phil - Zone 7A - Newark, DE Newbie fig lover just trying to learn.

jdsfrance

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Posted 1412857628	Reply with quote #4

Hi dkirttexas, At least you got what you were looking for ... Just one question: did you buy the trees while dormant ? if not didn't the trees expose different leaves pattern ? Here in a sales, I saw trees all labelled "Brownturkey" - between 8 and 10 trees for 7€ each... They were not exposing the same growth habit nor leaf pattern nor colors... Well for that price, I chose one that looked pretty and let's see what comes out. For now, the tree has exposed no figlet ... But I bought her in April/June so I'll see next year ... Perhaps what some refer to as TC trees . __________________ ------------------------ Climate from -25°C to + 35°C Only cold hardy figtrees can make it here

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