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Capri Fig from Glendale Church Parking Lot

I dug out this Capri branch and it came out with root but was attached to the huge trunk that was under ground, so i used my new cutter to separate it from the mother trunk. Will this survive and still hold the Capri figs on it? How can I make this work all around without any loss?

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I just planted it and watered with B6 water mix.
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Plant it, fertilize it and hope for the best.

I put in water with  Vitamin B1, the nursery guy said B6 helps to root

Hi Aaron4USA,
if the plant has roots, just treat it as a rooted cutting or as a tree if the roots are enough developed
and water as appropriate.
If the temp is ok at your location, I would just treat it as a tree - Fig trees are resilient .

Cant get pic to show but if roots look good treat it like an airlayer.
If roots a bit skimpy and a lot of foilage, trim back most of the leaves so transpiration does not cause too much moisture loss the roots cannot keep up with.
I typically do this with my Airlayers.  Cut off half of the leaves and trim remaining leaves by half.  Teh plant will respond with leaf growth related to what the roots can support.

what bob said. 

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Originally Posted by greg88
Cant get pic to show but if roots look good treat it like an airlayer.
If roots a bit skimpy and a lot of foilage, trim back most of the leaves so transpiration does not cause too much moisture loss the roots cannot keep up with.
I typically do this with my Airlayers.  Cut off half of the leaves and trim remaining leaves by half.  Teh plant will respond with leaf growth related to what the roots can support.
Greg, as you see in the pics now there aren't many leaves , should I trim them anyway? seems like they are staying firm so far, this is since last night...it's been more than 16 hrs.

Hi Aaron4USA,
Can't see the pics, try reposting them

Aaron,
for whatever reason I still cannot pull up pic.
Just keep an eye on it and if it does not droop or wilt too bad it should be ok.  good luck!

I don't know why you guys can't see the pics, I reduced the sizes, and I see them now., Bummers.
the original from January when I had just discovered...
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Hi Aaron,

A swift transplant on good soil and the right amount of moisture (with or without vitamins) will make it.
Have done similar exercises with far less roots without problems
The Caprifig fruit (adult Mamme)  will usually hang to its branch and with their 'reserves' will live without problems.. the question mark may go to the following crop (Profichi) still very young and delicate.
See if around those figs on the picture are there any tiny figlets.

Francisco

There are Profichi at the top portion of the branch Francisco, and they still look OK so far, I have my fingers crossed on this. :)
And BTW, the eye on the Mamme are open already, seems like the Wasps are out?, because there were a lot of Profichi on the mother tree, all firm and green but very large.

The young Profichi on the top of the branch on the same (2013) wood as the Mamme is OK..they will grow very fast to be receptive by approx March 20th and by that time they will be the size of your index nail.

Open ostioles on the Mamme figs now, is not normal.. wasps will only leave the winter fig by about above date to go inside i the Profichi and lay their load of eggs.

Francisco

NOW I can see them,, you should be good i believe!

Thanks Greg for reassurance:)
 Francisco, you can see the opening on the top Right pic, the top fig has opening... maybe it's not fully open yet?

Aaron, that opening could be enough for them to escape and try and find some receptive figs (which I doubt as they still too small as you say)
Francisco

I took these pictures just now, the mother tree is full of these sizes, from huge to all the way smallest , barely visible.
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Hi Aaron4USA,
I can see the pics now .
You planted the tree just right. Just keep looking at the leaves. As long as they stay firm, the tree is doing good.
That tree as really big roots - I would have given it a bigger pot because of the size/length of the roots.
Just let the tree like that now - I is important to not stress the tree by re-potting too often .

Nice tree and.. prolific! 

Assuming this is a good Caprifig, at this time of the season they could only be winter figs (Mamme)
Have you looked inside one of these figs ? open a couple of them in halves and let's have a look.

As per Nature's calendar, Mamme will only be ripe in approx a month time, so if these are in fact genuine, they will be still very hard, with a tightly closed ostiole
The amount of stress created when the rooted branch was cut, may have altered the normal behavior of the plant and  aborted the natural sequence... I guess

Never seen such clusters of Mamme figs.. (Profichi's yes it's quite normal).. see pic
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thanks for the input jdsfrance.

Francisco, that tree gets so much sun , maybe that's the reason it's ahead of the game so much, it's facing west, also is surrounded with barricading 3-4 feet walls that keeps the root and trunk so warm all the time. Here's what the insides liik like... I think you have seen these pics before..
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here's the mother tree and the way it's barricaded with buildings and walls. This pic is few weeks old now, the gigs on it are what above pic of branches are.
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If we are talking on capri figs-- i have a question..
do capri figs usually have hair like texture on the figs? 

nnnoish, lol

Updates to the above Capri Tree from Glendale Church Parking Lot
the pics of tree, flower (you'll see closely why it's called Flower and not fruit) and if you are really careful you'll see few Wasps.
One add thing that I noticed that's common within these capri figs is that they are extremely light and spongy to the feel in hand.
Enjoy ;)

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Awesome pics! I have seen a few wild caprifigs growing near my house. Along with the clusters of unripe profichi,  I noticed that some of the profichi were very dry and easy to pick off, no sign of wasps inside. Maybe it's just water stressed? I only opened one that looked dry and shriveled. I didn't try to open one that was hard and unripe, but it would be interesting to see if they produce viable pollen for pollination of the females. 

Are you thinking of doing some fig breeding experiments? 

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