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I was admiring the huge, lovely leavrs on my Excel this evening, thought I'd share. From UCD this spring, suprisingly healthy looking. No fruit yet. Might plant in ground next year.

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My hand for scale.

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Healthy looking tree. Thanks for sharing.
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Growing good and looks nice, thanks for sharing.
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Very nice. How big is your hand?
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Looks great! Yours has grown much faster than mine in a 1g SIP.
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Looks good hope it continues to grow for you.
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Dale - I guess my hand is average or slightly large for a guy? I should put a coin in the photo, it is a big happy leaf though. Only one other variety of my dozen has leaves that size.

Nick - Thanks for the cutting, it's my most successful of the year! I'm looking forward to this one and testing it's hardiness. I personally wonder about SIP containers, maybe different people have different results. I like growing them the old fashioned way until they go in ground. HC and BW are doing smashingly well, 2 figs on BW I'm waiting to see the droop...any day I hope.
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Kelby,
Thanks for sharing.
IMO, a tape measure is a better scale for leaves.
Lemon-tapemeasure_9-16-13.jpg .
It's not an Excel, but it was one of three cultivars that had giant leaves last year.
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My Excel is in a 5 gallon SIP and it has several of the most perfect looking figs I've ever seen.  Very nice green with a light peach fuzz on them.  They're large already, but another 3-4 weeks from being ripe.  I'll see if I can post pics later today.  I haven't tasted Excel yet so I'm excited.
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