I got caught up in buying the BB10 from Cajun Dan off Ebay earlier this year.  The auction was for 3 cuttings but he sent 4.  They were longer than what I usually root, so I cut about 3 inches off each one and tried rooting them also.  Three of the four long cuttings rooted and 1 of the four short ones rooted.


Like I needed more cuttings to grow.

I'll take one off your hands, if you're looking to sell.

I would take one also, depending on price.

My email address is robertcharpe@gmail.com

Bob Harper

Mine is my best grower. Grows like crazy!

That's some nice growth. My plant is the size of your small one.

I acquired BB10 cuttings from Wills (ourFigs), Dan (via an exchange) and Brian (CajunB) and am rooting all three to compare them against Sultane which they may either be the same as or closely related.... Will be interesting to see the results of growing all of them together in the same medium, same grow conditions, same fertilizer, same everything (except one may be sitting in a pot to the left of the other)....

Any cuttings left please think of me.

I've got both Dan's and Will's BB10. Neither has fruit so I can't be sure they are the same but the leaves look very similar.

Dan's BB10 from cuttings I bought this spring. One plant in ground in the middle. The two outer plants with the airlayers are in one gallon pots. I guess you could say BB10 is a grower..!! I hope it's a fruiter when it settles down.

 

This is the in ground BB10 from Wills.

 


Leaves of both.

 

 

Beatiful plant.

too bad you started Air Layers before them fruiting.

Okay -- I'm a new figlet in this forum and I've had exactly one successful air layer. I have never seen this kind of "column" air layering before. Am I seeing this correctly, that you have several air layers atop each other on a single trunk? I would have thought that the top ones would suffer for the accumulated disruption below. Please advise, I'm so intrigued.  Thanks.

I have a couple of these multiple air layers going right now... but this one is my big experiment:
 
In theory, they should root top-down... I should see in a few weeks.

Just throwing it out there in re Comments 11 and 13.  I air layered a Green Ischia last year.  This year the air layer had a gumball sized fig on it while the mother plant and siblings from last year have much, much, much smaller figs on them.  Maybe it was a fluke. 

Steve you have an amazing green thumb!  Six feet of growth from a cutting rooted this spring and only in a 1 gal pot is very impressive. My air layers from last summer in 2 gal pots are not even close to that level of growth.

Is what you're showing for BB10 typical of most cuttings you root and grow?  If you're in a mood so share your growing techniques I'm all ears :-)

I agree with Steve. I when I got mine it was small and shot up 3 feet with in two months? I got mine in May and it has 3 suckers rooting and 3 figs on one side already. I'm waiting to mess with mine. I want to enjoy it to see what it does but I'm going to have to remove at least one limb. I'm interested in how your project turns out Steve :D. I believe I got a grafted BM/LSU Brandy from you off ebay? Love that plant!

fattyfigs I'm glad you like your grafted Black Madeira plant..!! That would be a good one to airlayer and get an own rooted BM.

cjccmc thank you again for the kind words. Experience and attention to detail goes a long ways in this business.

Hi Steve
Nice work on the BB 10 project, I appreciate your investigative skills as I am also growing a couple of Dan's. They dont look as fantastic as yours, but they're coming along. Very curious to read about your findings
Cheers,
Coop

I like it as the "black & white" lol I have 4 Black Madeiras for various types. Maybe in the future when it gets big. As now I'm enjoying it as is. I just ordeered the Black Koura from Bass, I hear it is similar so I want to compare them all ;)

Steve,

how long before you think you will see roots on your air layers?  I have a bb10 and thinking about putting one on.