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Alfig

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hello all..i am new to growing figs. was wondering what types will be suitable for a newbie.
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Welcome to the forum.  If you'd like to share your climate zone, we can tell you what might work best for you.
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Welcome from Southern California.  Frank is correct.  Please go to the control panel upper right.  Then, in the signature section put your location/planting zone.  We don't want your address, just something vague like South PA, Zone 5a or something like that.  Different figs do much better in certain planting zones.

Suzi
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Hi, welcome.  Check out this thread:
http://figs4funforum.websitetoolbox.com/post/Best-figs-at-your-location-4800578

Mike   central NY state, zone 5a
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Alfig

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Thanks. I am from Malaysia and it is hot and humid here all year with raining season in October till December. Constantly 38 degrees. i currently have a Brown Turkey. Interested to grow more and hope to learn from all of you here. Once again thanks for your help.
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Alfig, you might need to protect your figs from the rain.  Some will split and sour.  Figs natural climate is hot and dry.  You will need to find out a way to replicate that.  You have the heat.  Figure out how to keep them dry.

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No problem with the rain as i intend to keep them inside my polytunnel which i am building. Thanks DesertDance. i see lots of variety and many that i haven't heard of...
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Hi Alfig

Brown Turkey, Australia(Thailand) and Conadria have all grown extremely well here for me in Thailand and all 3 have begun showing figlets after only 3 months starting with air layers. They are also easy to find here.

A polytunnel will need excellent ventilation or you will bake your plants.
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Welcome!  Your local expert is https://www.facebook.com/figmalaysia?fref=ts.  He has lots of different types and sells them.  You can grow almost anything there in your tunnel.  Some figs will split just because of the humidity, like Panache.
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