Hey All, Its that time of year. I'm getting restless and I miss the garden!
So what I do is look at pictures of the plants, the greenhouse, cuttings, etc. It helps me get through Feb which, in my opinion, is the worst month of the year in 6a.
Many pics made me smile, but I settled on just one, so I'm passing it on. I encourage you to post a couple pics of your set up, or your favorite plant, cuttings, a beautiful fig. Anything to help us all keep the blood flowing!
Nas
PS. Jon, I really think your manage attachments option is the easiest one I have ever used on a forum. Good work.
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Nas, your plants are gorgeous. They appreciate all your love and care and it shows.
This isn't my tree, but nice to look at. ...
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Vray1000 I am sure that tree looks like a lady dancing and rejoicing like a belle dancer standing on one foot with two hands stretched up and with long hair flowing in the air. That is what it is?
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Last two weeks I did not had a single day of work,so I been doing same thing looking at a pictures reading about figs .Those wore 2 longest weeks this winter ,can`t stop waiting till my cuttings arrive it will be exciting time to root them.
Hi Nas, first im very surprised that more "ahem Members have not posted some of there favorite pictures. Most have them thats for sure i have seen them here on figs4fun. C'Mon folks please please please post em i also love to look at them, anyhoot here are a few of mine gosh i could not pick one so....... I do have a more favorites but another time ! Best Health
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Italian Honey Fig (and olives when visiting Italy with my honey)
Italian Honey Fig with Leatherman for scale)
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Hi Everyone, great shots! I am getting all fired up for this season. I
Martin, those figs look knee buckling! By chance is the last pic a VdB? It looks very similar to the one I have...
Keep em coming everyone N
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Nas , yes its a violet de bordeaux the last picture.
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Pics I just took, Bronze Paradiso Breba from my little plant I have in my condo.
Dieseler, what is the second from the left? Nice pictures.
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Hi Ed, Hardy Chicago, the first one is EL.Sals HC last season in mid Sept i notice the inside of fruit was a tone darker than normal maybe because of the cold weather season we had, but oh so good for me.
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Here you go--Brown Turkey in Georgia last night. Are you jealous of us down south, Martin?
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no no not jealuos of you kind folks in the south, hope to join one day matter of fact. Anyhoot here is some photo's of what i went thru last april. Notice the time on the photo's hope there in order so there is an idea here. Heavy wet snow .
i had to go out there around 11:30 pm with trusty bow saw and cut some of the branches resting on the newer chainlink fence. Eventually i borrowed neighbors ax and with shovel dug and axed the roots inground out as pussy willow tree had 4 or 5 main trunks coming out of ground. Now one cannot tell it was ever there. What was nice was that this tree's buds were pretty as they opened but a messy tree and i dont really miss it but im sure the yellow jackets do.
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If you come far enough south, you can trade that snow for RKN. I honestly don't know which one I dislike the thought of more.
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I better take snow then RKN , You can make snowman from snow what good you can do with RKN ?
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Feed the fire ants?
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Nas33 like you said "to keep the blood flowing" another picture, click to enlarge, hold mouse over thumbnail it will give name of plant. Sometimes i forget to type in name this 1 i did . Keep the pictures coming folks still winter here.
Best Health
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Very pretty fig Sal. Is that the one dubbed "sweet yellow". If so, I can hardly wait. "gene"
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Gene yes it is, it was not even a year old and produced about 15 figs some soured and others were very good thin skin and I waited till skin showed cracking and they were very good IMHO not very seedy. I hope those take for you and keep me updated if you don't mind. Those were very easy to root last year as a matter of fact when I trimmed the tree I stuck 6 cuttings in a pot that had a old wilted tomato plant pulled out the plant and just stuck those in My mother in law didn't water or any thing and all 6 took not brain surgery with these.I'm hoping they get better with time
Sal
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Sal, those do look delicious. Mine are in bags waiting on roots along with your dark unknown. Hope they turn out as nice as yours. Tim
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Hey Sal that yellow fig of yours sure looks allot like the Yellow serbian I have, hope mine fruits this year as it will be 1 year old this july.
This is the only pic I have that Dusan the person who gave me the cuttings sent me.
Sal, that's great. I love the color. It reminds me of my yellow UK which has a amber center. My tree produces beautiful big and sweet breba dripping with honeydew. The second crop isn't as good and most don't ripen. My plan is after all the brebas ripen I will prune most of the tree and let it grow new wood for next seasons breba. Last year I pinched off the tips in August. It went on and grew more branches which put on figs that didn't ripen but this year they look like they will be loaded with breba. I hope my plan works. Here is a picture of my main crop figs. I don't have pictures of the breba. "gene"
Nelson, what variety is the dark fig. Looks yummy!
Gene, that yellow fig is a beauty too. WOW!
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Hey Tim that dark fig is my Bronze Paradiso as you can see all the figs in october looked like this dark one completel different shape and colour compared to the earlier figs up to late sept. The late figs actually had more of a berry flavour but not as sweet as the earlier figs. If you look up a couple posts that I posted that is also the Bronze Paradiso pics taken in Mid August see the difference in the figs its crazy.
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Picture sent to me from a friend in madeira island, this is the Bebera or more commenly known as Abebereira. Hope to be eating some of these in the next couple years but my plants are only 6 months.
Nelson, Looking at your Bronze Paradiso, I'm sure happy the 'sticks' you sent me are growing so well! The first one was actually introduced to a shady spot outside today along with 24 of its friends. The others should be developed enough to go outside in a week or so. Sue
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Glad to hear that Sue, I hope you enjoy them as much as I do.
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WOW Nelson, now that is a beautiful sight. The only thing that would make it better is if it were sitting right in front of me, where it wouldn't last long. Alas, I also will have to wait a few years.
Sue I see you're having some great weather. Maybe a little cool some nights but still great. Our days are getting nicer but our nights are still getting into the low thirties with frost the last 4 nights. I'm ready to move some trees outside but mother nature isn't ready. By the way I think my vacation to Ca. will happen in the middle of June. We will spend a week in a house on Mission Bay. Will you have any ripe figs then. Looking forward to the trip.
"gene"
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Gene says - The only thing that would make it better is if it were sitting right in front of me
Heres another Gene right in front of you so get out the spoon ; )
Gene i could not help it !
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Martin, you really know how to hurt a guy. I think I can taste that one. No spoon needed I'd lick the plate clean.
Keep them coming, maybe it will make Spring hurry. "gene"
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I see a lot of "finished" figs which seem to trigger happiness. I understand that this is, like, the "final payload" of a fig. But I also get very much joy out of watching them root. So I want to post two pictures of things that make me very happy, and be the "oddball" of this thread.
The cupped fig is Sal (Gene's), one of my better cutting purchases.
The three cuttings are "Richards Unknown" from a generous fig friend.
Coming home to find these two things - 3 of 3 cuttings with super roots and no growth showing, and a cutting that has roots so vigorous that it could be root-bound in 3 weeks.... this makes me almost as happy as picking the ripe fig off the tree and eating it with some hundred year old sappy balsamic.
(and yes, the cuttings you see were wrapped in paper towel with plastic wrap, and ... well, the results speak for themselves! "baggie ... what?! we don't need no stinkin' baggies!")
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Jason, oh alright no baggie like you said, never used these 2 with baggie , went and stuck a ucdavis stick right into perlite mix then transplanted into pots. But i still like seeing ripe fig and plants ; ) No your not the oddball i still get soomewhat of a joy watching roots grow just not as much anymore. I also enjoy watching the figs ripen with much anticipation trouble with that though as it starts to happen i know the season in our area is growing shorter by the day.
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Gene,
It's been beautiful weather here, 80 degrees most of the week. We are getting rain tomorrow thru Mon though. It's good, we still are in a drought and need it.
My figs have started to leaf out. The first batch of new cuttings went outside today. It's all good!
I sure hope to have figs this summer when you visit. Some are in their 3rd year most are 1-2 years old so I'm not expecting much from them. But I do have a few older trees I'm looking forward to tasting. I'll try to save you some. ;-) Hope to be in a new home by then too...house hunting is a real PITA.
Attached are a few pictures of the roots (and breba) on my new trees.
Sue
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Well, I don't have any ripe fruit pics to share either but I do have some shots of some pretty green leaves.
I have been thouroughly enjoying my first season's rooting experiences. Hasn't all been positive but most have been successes over failures. I'm sure learning alot in the process. I thank you all for freely sharing info as well as cuttings to get me off to a great start :-).
Martin, I like that double water bottle set-up you had going there in that one photo. I have a couple of extra long cuttings that I just didn't have the heart to cut down so I've been exploring some similar ideas.
Sue, I know you've been using a pine/perlite mix but those pics look like you're using alot more pine than perlite. HEALTHY roots! What ratio have you been using on the pine/perlite? BTW I have been experiencing similar rootzillas since I started mixing in some pine last month. I'll have to get some pics of those. I have one Hollier cutting that seems just as content to send its roots out through the bottom of the cup as to grow in the media.
Anyway, here's some of my best looking candidates for fig trees so far this year.....
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Hi Bill,
I don't use perlite. I use cactus mix, which is a very fast draining mix and pine chips like used for orchids. I was so disheartened last year loosing so many promising cuttings to 50-50 MG and perlite I am trying something completely different this year. I don't really measure but it's approx 25%-30% pine chips to cactus mix. So far it's working very well.
I'm not sure yet what the final mix will be when transferred to 1-gal pots. I've been told the cactus mix may not be the best. Still new at this so suggestions are always welcome.
UPM is not sold in CA and it's too expensive when adding shipping costs so that's out. Don't have time to track down turface and other items in Al's mix. I work full time so I need something already bagged and local.
