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godsavesthequeen

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Someone has an idea about that one?  

http://cgi.ebay.fr/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=161082214627&var=460198437345&ssPageName=STRK:MEWAX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1423.l2649


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De la Reina rayado? I never heard so far.
Strange variety...
(rayado=stripped)
Be careful, he sells seeds, not cuttings (except for request).

Note, as I have said many times, that in Spain there are many "De la Reina" figs, but different varieties.
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Chriss,

Interesting link. The potential buyers will get 'fig seeds' -250? - which have to be planted and...then !?
In 3 or 4 years he may have the chance to have a new small tree similar to the parent.. or not!
Am I right ?

The figs from where the seeds are taken MUST have been caprificated in full, otherwise the seeds will be empty shells, no kernel, thus no germination...
I am told that there are no wasps in southern Spain, so where those seeds come from ?

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I agree with you, except for wasps. In South Spain there are wasps.
South Spain has a Mediterranean climate, but caprified figs there are not popular in Spain, as opposed to other Mediterranean country, Turkey.
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Axier: quote: Note, as I have said many times, that in Spain there are many "De la Reina" figs, but different varieties.

Yes, I red the thread you debate on the forum concerning 'de la reina', very interesting indeed. I think I have something relative in garden, I will post pics ASAP, when fig will ripen, in mid-september.  

I notice you speak about "Agde" cultivar on the thread relative to 'delaReina'. I am interested in it. Marseille is not so far from Agde, it will be easy to visit by car. ('Agdos' for the Greeks  = ancient greek colony!). Perhaps that cultivar has an helenic ancestry? Note that Agde is ancient volcano. Possible that fig provenance is convective-resistant.

Lampo: Hello!!
quote:  The potential buyers will get 'fig seeds' -250? - which have to be planted and...then !?
In 3 or 4 years he may have the chance to have a new small tree similar to the parent.. or not!
Am I right ?

Yes, I agree 100%. If fertilization happened in 'panmixie", chance for obtaining a new "reina rayado" similar to mother-tree is weak. In fact, I dont know something about genetic determinism in Ficus carica (except the sexual determinism, well known and well understood...), and dont know about the inheritance of characters of  tree and sycone. I guess the caprifig communicates half of its genome, therefore the pseudo-dioicity of the sycone complicates the determinism. Of course, if the seeds have no kernel due to parthenocarpy, it is less evident:)
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