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Hi All,

I'm a fig collector from the southwest border of Hungary and I'd like to exchange fig cuttings. I wouldn't like to involve money in, so I prefer the mutual way of exchange. I can offer about 50 cultivars but some of them are small trees, so cuttings are very limited from about 30 of them.

The cultivars I can offer and are from our big trees, so are not very limited (I post pictures from them later):

-dark plate, big, not a late variety but the season is very long, sometimes until november
-brown plate (hardy, first crop is not plate)
-most common cultivar of our region, large brown pyriform fruit, defined palmate leaves
-yellow round giant, fruits sometimes about 200 grams
-yellow round small, probably of dalmatian (Croatia) origin, few or no breba crop, but main crop is among the best
-dark skinned, probably of Dalmatian origin, late ripening, second crop in end of October here
-black round from the Hungarian village of Kutfej, strawberry pulp
-drying on tree, green
-dark elongated, breba crop is more round and lighter in color
-another traditional Hungarian variety, main crop quite late, brown, very abundant, breba crop also
-Italian brown, bit similar to the Hungarian brown above.
-yellow hard-skinned from the Hungarian city of Zalaegerszeg, hardy, strawberry pulp

Further to these cultivars I have the following ones, but they are 1 or 2 years-old trees, so cuttings are limited to 1-3 piece per tree (it means practically that I cannot send cuttings from these to more than 1-3 exchange partners and cuttings will be small):

-panachee
-parisienne
-ronde de Bordeaux
-portogallo
-sucrette
-salato
-col de dame (cuello de dama) black and white also
-napolitana (don't know dark or light, haven't fruited yet)
-big brownish-purple from Hungarian city of Pecs, hardy
-brogiotto nero
-albo
-dattero
-new bianco
-dauphine
-corso
-nero roco
-dottato
-sementino
-corvo siculo
-piazzetta (good for drying)
-luzzano (amber pulp)
-bianco gigante
-montesano
-bottaccio o.
-brown turkey (don't know which strain)
-raffaone (or possibly a misspelled faraone?)
-San Piero Na.
-verdino Giacomo (one of my personal favorite, green skin, deep red inside, very good for drying)
-montalcino rosa (pink skin)
-Madeleine des 2 saisons
-2 unknown Italian cultivars from Cesena

After all, I'm LOOKING FOR the following:

-Although all our fig cultivars are parthenocarpic and the fig wasp is not present here, I want to collect:

-caprifig trees (preferably good ones, for example persistent capri, capri Roeding) and wasps or larvae inside to settle down a fig wasp colony here. I'm also looking for female cultivars requiring pollination eg.:

-Smyrna, Calimyrna, Sari Lop Incir, Marabout, Zidi, Black Smyrna, Bursa Siyahi or any.

The reason for that is that I like challanges and they would be good rarities added to my collection. An alternative to the blastophagas could be artificial pollination, I like experiments.

-Any other good cultivars, for example:

-Genovese nero/black Genoa
-Black Madeira
-Black mission, better strains
-Celeste
-Negronne
-(Desert) King
-Sucre verte
-Vasilika syka
-Grise Saint Jean
-Hardy Chicago
-Marseillaise
-Noire de Caromb
-Noire de Barbentane
-Sultane
-Tena
-Nefiach
-Becane
-Verdal
-Bebera preta
-Verte
-Verdone
-Abicou
-Barnissotte/bourjassotte noire
-Beall
-Bellone
-Conadria
-Grosse grise
-Pied de Boeuf
-Longe d'Aout

-Any really hardy cultivar you know. Although our climate is very special in this tiny region (zone 8, winter absolute lows are generally -10 Celsius or warmer) but there are some harsh winters and I'd like to provide other collectors/friends from colder regions (zone 6-7) of my coutry with really hardy figs.

-A sangu, bursa siyahi, rigata rossa or any other good cultivar from the page ficuscarica.com

-Ull de perdiu, verdal from galgoni.com

-Any best US cultivar, you've talked about so many in this forum

-any other good, interesting French, Italian, Greek, etc. cultivar i don't have yet.

Some people have contacted us already from Gardenweb but I'd kindly accept any help or offer especially about the caprifig-wasp-smyrna fig staff. We also possess 14 asian persimmon (Diospyros kaki) cultivars, so we are interested in scion wood exchange of persimmon. We are interested in non-astringent japanese cultivars although we have some already.


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Isn't it much easier to get the figs in Europe? I mean, thanks for you generosity, but France, Italy, Spain, and middle east all connected by land and with EU working European countries. I'm not understanding why looking for figs from US. I could think it would be other way around us looking for European and middle eastern figs.
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You know the weirdest thing?  Doesn't specifically want any of our good ones.  No Excel, Sequoia, none of the stuff from the US South (Celestes, Hunt, Hollier), none of the better new strains from UCD, or any of the local mutants like Kathleen Black.  Virtually everything except perhaps Conadria can be got in Europe!  Someone's got reading to do!
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Probable desired fig: Smith, St Jean, JH Adriatic, CddB, Gulbun, Pastilliere, Sucrette

Rooting:  Smith, CDDB--this pretty much means I have my fun tries (tho' important since they are truly desirable), and only interested for this year: Gulbun, BM, 187-25, or something wildly exotic or precious that nobody has any good reason to send me.

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Isn't it much easier to get the figs in Europe? I mean, thanks for you generosity, but France, Italy, Spain, and middle east all connected by land and with EU working European countries. I'm not understanding why looking for figs from US. I could think it would be other way around us looking for European and middle eastern figs.


-That's why I indicated in the title: "exchange cuttings Europe" I know that this is a US-based forum, but I also realized the biggest international forum for fig fanatics. A lot of people from Europe follow it. We speak several languages and we probably don't have a similar international forum for fig exchange.

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You know the weirdest thing?  Doesn't specifically want any of our good ones.  No Excel, Sequoia, none of the stuff from the US South (Celestes, Hunt, Hollier), none of the better new strains from UCD, or any of the local mutants like Kathleen Black.  Virtually everything except perhaps Conadria can be got in Europe!  Someone's got reading to do!


I mentioned that: "Any best US cultivar, you've talked about so many in this forum" so I'd kindly accept any suggestion. I've read that there are more Celestes and heard about Hunt and Excel. Anyway, thanks for your recommendation!

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I wish I could trade with you, but mine are all spoken for, and I'll have more in a year or two.  I'm actually getting some cuttings from a member from Spain in exchange for shipping, and I'm delighted!  I like International trade and would not discourage you at all, but the only one I have tons of is Violette De Bordeaux, and that's not on your list. 

Maybe someone will step up with a trade for you!

Good luck!

Suzi

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A mixed plate:

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Our biggest trees:

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First: drying-on-tree
2nd: early purple
3rd: elongated
4th: the most common cultivar in our region

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Cross section:
-"szivarfuge" is the elongated
-"kutfeji lila" is the Kutfej purple(black)
-"korai lila" is the early purple
-"vorcsoki dalmat" is the yellow round small Dalmatian, but found in a local vineyard called Vorcsok

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Col de dame noire/cuello de dama negra

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figfan, and these are cold hardy right?  I live in a Mediterranean Climate where it never snows or freezes, so I don't need these varieties.  But in Hungary, I would assume your winters are cold, right?  The Szivarfuge is the one I'd like someday!  Please keep me in mind next year when I have more to trade, although, I'm content to just pay shipping for cuttings!  How about that?  A few dormant sticks, and I send postage?

Suzi

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Another from the small yellow (Vorcsok)
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sorry:

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Dear Suzi,
Our fig trees are in a USDA zone 8 climate, so winter minima are around -10 C/ 14 F degrees. Our well known cultivars are all hardy in this climate, the biggest trees never suffered frost damage in the last 20-25 years. I know that there are fig cultivars that freeze back to the ground in a -8 C/ 19 F winter so a can assume that our cultivars are hardier that average. Most of our country is in zone 7 or even 6 but snow cover and all-day freezes for several days or even for weeks are common phenomena here too. As far as I know Violette de Bordeaux is same?/similar to? Negronne, but not sure.

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OK figfan!  VdB IS also known as Negronne!  You are on!  I'll swap 3 cuttings of VdB for 3 cuttings of Szivarfuge.  My trees won't go dormant for a month or two, so keep your cuttings in the cold storage until then, and I'll be happy to swap!  I love the length and shape of the Szivarfuge.

Now, tell me about the flavor! 

Here is why Violette de Bordeaux was my first tree, and there are two and they are 4 years old with many cuttings available:  VIOLETTE DE BORDEAUX.  SYN: BORDEAUX, BEER'S BLACK, NEGRONNE (003), PETITE FIGUE VIOLETTE, DESCRIPTION  Skin and flesh colors: Purple-black; strawberry Widely adapted. Small fig with excellent flavor. Small tree adapts well to containers. Violette de Bordeaux figs taste and smell to some like raspberry jam. (022)  SKIN COLOR: PURPLE / BLACK FLESH COLOR: STRAWBERRY  BREBA CROP: YES 

Are we on for a trade?  Woo hoo!!

Suzi

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Figfan_Hungary
I saw some of these pictures under the name ninovarga in GW forum.
Are you ninovarga at GW forum
http://forums.gardenweb.com/forums/load/fig/msg061221156216.html?85
 

Edit: Sorry, I missed reading that you are ninovarga friend as you mentioned in your later post.

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Figfun_hungary,pls pm me,i'm interested in your figs.
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Figfan_Hungary you might have better luck trading cuttings at http://www.fruitiers.net/

Fruit tree collectors from all over Europe trade cuttings on that french site. Good luck!

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First: I got so many PM-s I try to cope with them. Maybe you should all form a cooperation in the USA to gather your offered cuttings in one big pack and write a common wish-list so that I would send one big package and you can distribute them thru domestic shipping. Maybe one of our relatives come to the States for Xmas.
Ottawan: Yes indeed, the mother-orchard is Nino's, the new cultivars are mine, but we operate the same company.
Wildforager: thanks for the suggestion, I'll try it. I don't speak or write French but I can read and understand it more or less from my Italian and Spanish so maybe I can cope with that page.

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1: our hardiest  cultivar, brown plate
2: the same, breba crop is not plate
3: black plate
4, 5: cross section

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If you ship in a big package, the US custom surely will check its content. They will destroy the whole package because it's prohibited to import.
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we need government to allow importation of fig cuttings without limitation. sort of like no duty on bagpipes related items that kennedy passed. or so i heard..
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Jimmy: sure, i know it. That's why i'm waiting for a bit and try to organize, rationalize the demands. I'd really like to share our varieties with US friends and others from transcontinental distances but it would be quite hard to send 2-3 cuttings to 28 partners and spend hundreds of dollars for shipping. We have enough time to spring.
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yellow giant

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Kutfej black, early purple and a harvest & making some preserve

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Great pictures! Thanks for sharing and good luck increasing your collection!
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Hi All,

We cut our trees this weekend. I'm glad to say that we managed to contact a lot of enthusiastic fig collectors. First I was really concerned and preoccupied about shipping problems to USA, Canada or other overseas countries, but you reassured me that it won't be so problematic. Anyone who is willing to exchange cuttings with me, please contact and write adress, wish list, the list you offer. Especially those who contacted me already. It's not so urgent but we probably won't have time in the following 2 weeks to cut figs again and I try to avoid the Xmas chaos. I tried to reply to everybody but there is a chance I mistakenly omitted someone. Sorry if happened.

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You've found our loophole, Pete. We'll just travel with bagpipes and stuff fig cuttings into the pipes. It's perfect!
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hmm.. bagpipes made out of fig tree.. best of the both world :)
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Wow I have to say that I am in awe of your varieties figfan !! Three in particular interest me , so I'm hoping that next year you will be making the offer of cuttings also ! I won't be able to participate this year .
Good luck with your trades this year!

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Hi You have a very large fig tree collection & some very nice looking pictures i would very much like to trade cuttings with you but most of my trees are less than 1 year old
As i only started collecting fig trees a couple of years ago i do how ether have a few small trees available and 1 cutting [look under pieman ] I would still like some of your cuttings can /you or will you please send me some of your cuttings i will of course pay for the shipping/post + cost of the cuttings   [pieman] United Kingdom

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figfan hungary -- welcome to this forum. Hope you will keep coming to
this site and let us know what is growing over there. Thanks for posting the photos.
Certainly hope you will get good response from fig fans all over.
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Figfan_Hungary,
Check PM please--- :)

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Last Sunday we collected the cuttings with my friend Janos (Ninovarga on Gardenweb forum). I sent them to many addresses yesterday (Wednesday). We can send more to the remaining partners who haven't sent their addresses yet. Please check in.

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Hello Guys!

Today i recived my cuttings from Akos (Figfan_Hungary). The cuttings are very good. I also live in Hungary. The posting held 2 days. So those who are waiting for the cuttings, i just can say be with suffering. They will recive their cuttings. I think if there is no problem it takes about 1-2 weeks, so it's not a long time, but i know what is the feeling, when you have to wait.

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IMPORTANT!
I marked our local varieties with coloured stickers. So you can break the codes with the help of the following list, please save it:

yellow: yellow round giant
brownish-orange: Kutfej black
red: dark elongated (szivarfuge)
white: black plate
black & white: brown plate hardy
black: most common local cultivar, brown pyriform, palmate leaves
yellow & black: Hungarian brown
purple: early purple
black & brownish orange: Italian brown 
green: drying-on-tree green
grey: fico zucca
striped: Vorcsok Dalmatian yellow (yellow round small)

All other varieties are marked with their proper names.
We hope that everything will be OK in transcontinental relations.

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wish list: Galicia Negra, Ponte Tresa, Zingarella, Igo Prusch, Persistent caprifigs, high quality smyrna figs, Italian 258, Abebereira, or any high quality fig
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Thank you for your feedback!

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Hello Guys!

Today i recived my cuttings from Akos (Figfan_Hungary). The cuttings are very good. I also live in Hungary. The posting held 2 days. So those who are waiting for the cuttings, i just can say be with suffering. They will recive their cuttings. I think if there is no problem it takes about 1-2 weeks, so it's not a long time, but i know what is the feeling, when you have to wait.

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growing: selected local Hungarian varieties of good quality, about 130 varieties from abroad
wish list: Galicia Negra, Ponte Tresa, Zingarella, Igo Prusch, Persistent caprifigs, high quality smyrna figs, Italian 258, Abebereira, or any high quality fig
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On the black plate there are still some figs of quite acceptable quality. Meanwhile leaves are almost all fallen. Not because of frost but natural autumn yellowing. You can see the completely green leaves of the kiwifruit vine on previous pictures behind Janos. Those leaves are otherwise very sensitive to frost but usually reluctant to proceed into the fall season phenology (are not yellowing). In spite of this fact kiwifruit vines are much hardier than fig trees. In our region there are no frost damages neither in the least favorable locations (bottom of enclosured valleys, lowest levels of lowland areas).

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growing: selected local Hungarian varieties of good quality, about 130 varieties from abroad
wish list: Galicia Negra, Ponte Tresa, Zingarella, Igo Prusch, Persistent caprifigs, high quality smyrna figs, Italian 258, Abebereira, or any high quality fig
Currently I DON'T SELL cuttings or plants

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Asian persimmon tree (Diospyros kaki). In case of any question i can explain how to prune it properly. But you can see well on the picture as I use this 20 year-old tree already without the leaves as a demonstration piece. Anyway we have 14 different asian persimmon varieties. We can collect cuttings for scionwood in February. 

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wish list: Galicia Negra, Ponte Tresa, Zingarella, Igo Prusch, Persistent caprifigs, high quality smyrna figs, Italian 258, Abebereira, or any high quality fig
Currently I DON'T SELL cuttings or plants

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I think it will be exciting next year to see these Hungarian trees popping up all over and seeing how they preform outside of Hungary, I bet there will be a bunch of happy people.
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Important update info!
After several requests I can sadly assume that unfortunately some of my new varieties are finished. I had indicated earlier that these 30 are 1-2 y. o. trees. I cannot cut all branches as I hope for some brebas in the next season. I need to update the list but col de dames are definitely totally finished as the most popular choice. And sucrette as well and maybe piazzetta but I'm not sure. Approximately 20 of these varieties are still available. And of course cuttings from the big trees in the mother-orchard. 

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wish list: Galicia Negra, Ponte Tresa, Zingarella, Igo Prusch, Persistent caprifigs, high quality smyrna figs, Italian 258, Abebereira, or any high quality fig
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Chivas, I hope so! And the other interesting result will be that maybe you can identify some of our local varieties. Since their origin is generally unknown.

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Assuming the cuttings go through the post I think it will be exciting next year to see these Hungarian trees popping up all over and seeing how they preform outside of Hungary, I bet there will be a bunch of happy people.

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wish list: Galicia Negra, Ponte Tresa, Zingarella, Igo Prusch, Persistent caprifigs, high quality smyrna figs, Italian 258, Abebereira, or any high quality fig
Currently I DON'T SELL cuttings or plants
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those figs and those trees are to die for!   wow... wow.
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Really they are worth living for....
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Hi figfan,

yesterday I received your mail with a lot of cuttings. Thank you very much. I was wondering about the real fast shipping from Hungary to Germany (three days - that`s a advantage in the EU).
Hopefully you can say the same about my cuttings next week.

Thank you very much
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