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Does anybody know if there is a way to tell how a fig tree was propagated.  There is a local nursery in Westfield,N.J. that has some flats of small fig trees($12.95 per tree) that have many suckers growing but no main stem.  Is this a sign of tissue culture?  The employees said that their supplier doesn't tell them this information.
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Well it depends if the tree ever died back they may have cut all the dead wood off (if it died to the ground) and it sent up the suckers
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Well what's the variety?
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I'm willing to bet that being in flats they are TC plants.  Post a pic if you can, be sure to get some detail on the stems. 
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Both of the TC figs I have bought quickly developed multi-stems, even though they did not start out that way. That said, I have been very pleased with both my Hardy Chicago and Strawberry Verti TC plants. I bought the HC a few years ago and started fruiting in its second year after dying back to the ground. The SV was overwintered in a shed and is now covered in figlets - this being its second growing season.

I had heard from some that TC figs take a long time to bear, but that has not been my experience. I would buy a TC over a cutting if it was a rare variety I really wanted.
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Yes
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Both of the TC figs I have bought quickly developed multi-stems, even though they did not start out that way. That said, I have been very pleased with both my Hardy Chicago and Strawberry Verti TC plants. I bought the HC a few years ago and started fruiting in its second year after dying back to the ground. The SV was overwintered in a shed and is now covered in figlets - this being its second growing season.

I had heard from some that TC figs take a long time to bear, but that has not been my experience. I would buy a TC over a cutting if it was a rare variety I really wanted.


Gene, what I said that I believe started the "take a long time to bear" comments is that tissue culture plants may revert to a juvenile state in which case they will take longer to bear.  This was a comment I repeated after meeting with a professional that had worked for several decades breeding figs and other fruits.

I don't believe there is any way to tell when buying a plant whether it is in a juvenile state or not.  The Sierra trees that I bought (and which later passed on some to Jon which he sold) did seem to definitely be in a juvenile state while the Sequoia trees bought in the same batch did not.  My Sierra has not fruited on lower branches.
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Both of the TC figs I have bought quickly developed multi-stems, even though they did not start out that way. That said, I have been very pleased with both my Hardy Chicago and Strawberry Verti TC plants. I bought the HC a few years ago and started fruiting in its second year after dying back to the ground. The SV was overwintered in a shed and is now covered in figlets - this being its second growing season.

I had heard from some that TC figs take a long time to bear, but that has not been my experience. I would buy a TC over a cutting if it was a rare variety I really wanted.
Ditto. Gene is correct. :-)
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