Update - All... Thank you for the great response. The number of requests has now reached a point where I can no longer accept additional requests until I ship out all the initial requests and determine what is left. I will update again at that time if there are sufficient cuttings available to offer.

-T

I am cutting two Bronx Italian Purple UNK fig bushes to the ground this week and expect the plants to yield in excess of 100 or so healthy cuttings of various thicknesses. I am planning on putting together about 20 or so packages of 5 cuttings to share with any members that might be interested in obtaining cuttings of a very prolific, strong rooting, fig variety of unknown lineage... one that could be described as being strong enough to root and grow in the middle of a multi lane freeway. If anyone is interested, I'll ship the free cuttings for just the cost of S&H, your choice either $3 for USPS first class mail or $7 for priority shipping.

There is not much I can tell you about this variety except what I already have, they are classified as UNK, they usually produce loads of medium size purple skinned figs that show surface cracking when fully ripe (except this year when a severe late frost nipped new growth; the plants sprang back with new growth again but produced no figs; that said, the plants are very cold hardy), have a light, sweet berry flavor and although likely having it, they haven't exhibited a lick of FMV that I can recall in the 25 years that I have had the plants in ground. Let me know by PM if you want them and we can exchange the necessary information...

T

Tony-nice offer.
Would you have any pics to share? Does this look and taste like a Mt. Etna type?

I would love some if possible

Would you put me on the list too.  Sending pm now.

pm sent

Why are you cutting it down ? Making room for a new tree

Pm sent

Ed, sorry for the late response... I do have leaf pictures but no fruit picture I tried attaching a photo earlier but had issues with a storage size msg so the picture post failed...

Rich... I cut the plants down to ground level because the tops always die back down to the ground in my area regardless of my best efforts to protect the plants from the biting cold. That said, I have gotten into the habit of cutting them down  to the ground every year to tidy up the yard area where the 2 plants live... I figured since I was cutting them, I might as well offer them up to members as a small token of paying forward the generosity that other members, like yourself, have shown me since I joined the forums.

Thought you were getting rid of them !!! Lol. Great effort on your part to give away cuttings. Fun to see others getting fruit from a cutting you gave

Thanks again for offering the cuttings.  Thought you might be interested in an update.  Here are a couple of mine. 

Mine are healthy as well:)

Cheryl, Chuck, Devin...

Glad to see that they are doing well for you...  showed pics to wife and she is very pleased to see that the figs her dad cherished for so long in the Bronx are getting to see more of the country...

Purple Bronx big boy ;)

You, my friend, are doing something very right.  Looking good!

thanks, I am growing these in a wine chiller this year

@PeterC   Wow... Super! Beautiful job... That really looks well on its way to producing figlets... If you watering with that nice red muscadine then perhaps we all need to adopt that method....

Does this fig happen to ripen mid-October?

Hi Mike... I am in upstate NY in Zone 6a and in my yard on my inground, the figs start ripening toward the end of August... figure after Aug 20th for the early ones. The bulk of the figs will ripen during early and mid September and the plant will continue to ripen until the frosts hit. Even then, the figs on the plant will tend to sweeten in place and depending on the weather could result in a tiny but sweet treat...

Locals are special in their own way.

It is great that the plant produces each year being cut back to the ground.

One of the pluses of RDB, besides being a great fig

Hey tony which part of the Bronx did your tree come from.. I grew up there and now live in Westchester county,

oh my! thanks, I think you are making me an offer I can't refuse.

@DeerHunter16b  - John... The fig derives from my wife's home on Haight Ave, just up from Rhinelander Ave.... I have a few other figs that came from my parents home in Flushing NY the the Bronx Italian Purple is her family's fig. In the Bronx the fig usually started ripening in early part of August and my father-in-laws tree had an 8"trunk and was winter protected each year by wrapping as per usual technique in that area.... Wife and I moved to Hartsdale after marriage and then to Mohegan and finally to Mahopac / Carmel... DeerHunter is an excellent handle... where do you hunt deer?

Hey Tony, I lived on the corner of Bronxdale and Muliner, just a few blocks away and I also have a few figs from there that i posted on ...if you look at a few of my topics that I started ,you can see pictures . I now live in Mount Pleasant. I had a spot in Ossining that i hunted for 10 years but I lost it this year. I also go up to liberty NY . A friend has some property .

John... I will take a look at your pics.... Still love that area of the Bronx.... Captain's Pizza, Enrico's Bakery... other places.... great.... and of course, Arthur Avenue... still go shopping down there.... A bunch of nice neighborhood figs and persimmon trees in those areas....