** 12/20/16 1:45 PM EST All Cuttings Gone! **

Hello everyone.  Busy as usual here in NYC.  Most of the construction is over and life is just starting to get back to normal.  Putting together lots of cool projects for next year and have lots more planned for the winter including rooting, cooking some hot sauce and making maple syrup.  More importantly, the family is good and all of the figs are winterized.  

So.....  It's that time again! Our Sweet Diana Unknown had another good year.  She gave us lots of delicious figs and air layers that everyone enjoyed.  We completed the hard prune started a few years ago and Sweet Diana is now the final size and shape that we want.  She's a perfect 'cone' shape with 3 main trunks, each branching to a V.  So, that gives us 6 nice branches that will produce for us.  The V branches terminate 5 to 5.5 feet from the ground.  Nice size.  Our plan is to prune back to the 6 V branches every year making it easier to maintain.  By doing this we know there will be no breba, but we're more concerned with the main crop.

The cuttings are ready to go.



We had to raise the price this year to pay Dominic who helped cut, sort and bag all the cuttings.  He usually works for figs but sadly the season is over and there's nothing left.



We're doing 5 or 6, 9" to 10" cuttings for $5.50, includes postage. PayPal $5.50 to danny@nycfigs.com. Please PayPal as "Friends & Family" and PM your address.  So if you want to give your loved ones an inexpensive Christmas gift now is the time to do it.  Fig cuttings make great stocking stuffers!

Sweet Diana Unknown has been in the ground for 8 years here in NYC, Zone 7a. Last year was the final time that she would be protected for the winter.  In spite of the final hard prune this year we're going to leave her uncovered.  It's time to show her mama what she's got.  The mother tree belongs to a neighbor across the street and it is also in ground. The tree originally came from Italy 37+ years ago (Don't know the region) and has grown to two stories high. It is very hardy and has never been covered for the winter. She toughed out both years of the polar vortex like a champ.

Sweet Diana Unknown grows like a weed. She produces 2 crops of small green/purplish figs that are very, very sweet. The pulp is strawberry red and has just the right amount of juice. She has a nice texture with a thin skin and no seed crunch. She's probably a variety of Celeste but don't know for sure.  The cuttings have always struck well for us and reports from members that are growing Sweet Diana are the same.

                                     

• Yellow Long Neck was introduced by the late George Emerich of Fallbrook, CA, who was heavily involved with the CRFG.  The variety was developed as part of the UC Riverside fig breeding program and George collected it just before the program ended.  
• Long Yellow was collected from the San Diego Botanical Gardens, formerly Quail Botanical Gardens.  No further information is available.

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Hello everyone!  The season has wound down here in NYC.  VdS, I258 and CdDG are still producing very sparingly and will all but end very shortly.  Haven't had much time for updates (saving everything for the winter) but I wanted to update this thread on our Dall' Osso.  This variety gets high grades from us all around except for growth rate which is excruciatingly slow.  It was the earliest variety in the backyard orchard for both crops this season and it has been very productive (That's a real winner here in NYC by any standard).  The quality of fruit is outstanding.  Main crop very sweet and the kids are loving it.  It produced some deformed fruit but nothing two-toned like last season.  Can't wait to see what it does next year.  Added link to the slideshow.  Enjoy the pics.

http://s557.photobucket.com/user/nycfigs/slideshow/

         

         

         

       

       

       

       

 

2016 Staten Island Fig Festival

09/15/2016, 6:00PM

Killmeyer's Old Bavaria Inn
4254 Arthur Kill Rd
Staten Island, NY.

Nice turn out last year. It's going to be a great time! Anyone looking to trade?