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Aaron4USA

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He sat there breathless, after completing a task that resembles a battle ground to a massacre of entire new fig generation.
The scene was heartbreaking.
Looking back sadly, he noticed the pure white sap slowly flowing out of each wound, caused by the sharp and quick cut of the merciless high tech cutter and dripping down gently, like the tears from the eyes of Angels... and as if they were looking at him, innocently, and asking for the answer to...WHY?
The silence was deafening! ... and although it lasted only a few moments, it felt like eternity to his guilty heart. So he stood up in discomfort and screamed "It's for your own good!", as he walked away ...


...To be continued...
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Nice retaining wall

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dang... 50 leaves of carica...
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I've got the fever, as Ms.Javajunkie gifted me so very many cuttings.
Experimentation in progress... all of my own cuttings got slimy. Ms.Javajunkie gifts are showing tiny leaves and roots. So very excited Black Greek, Po di Limone and Black Triana are growing in little cups.  
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Figicide is a capital offense.
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Yeah, he needs well deserved A-Rest!
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Removing some leaves will allow the sun to harden lower areas of the new grads.
In the morning, as the running saps dry, they will all get a drink of pure joy...SuperThrive in Reverse Osmosis Water.

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Next step ...After a week, Pinching the heads off!
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Aaron,
I would do it the other way around. Pinching first and then trimming in a week or two. The leaves you removed would provide extra food for the new growth. 
Leaves use parts of water and carbon dioxide to make sugar. 
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Aaron,
I would do it the other way around. Pinching first and then trimming in a week or two. The leaves you removed would provide extra food for the new growth. 
Leaves use parts of water and carbon dioxide to make sugar. 


There is the right way,
and then there is Aaron's way.

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Looks like a lot of fig leaf tea to me.
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Hi Aaron4usa,
Is that a test ?
No judgment here, the trees are yours !
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aaron, why are you wasting those great leaves?
if you like herb teas  at all, you'll like fig leaf tea.
it's yum n needs no sugar.
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wish list:  nothing. i can't grow cuttings  . right now, i have  6 trees showing no signs of fmv. i'd like to keep it that way' 

i was told that if i couldn't deal with fmv, i should grow peaches, so i got a peach tree to live with my clean figs.
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For me it is always advantageous to remove older leaves especially if they are shaded, they just suck resources from the plant or tree and take away from production.  Also if you find a crowded area in your trees it may help to cut a few leafs off (not a lot) to just open up the canopy to allow airflow and sun penetration.  
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Glad you chimed in, James.

I did the same thing yesterday before this thread was posted.

I also want to add that it is a common practice with many fig growers to remove the leaves next to or near the fruit to help the sun get to the fruit in an effort to get them to ripen a bit quicker.
I have done this too.

There have been many posts on this practice in the past. Very interesting discussions on this method/practice.
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I hope this turns out the way you explained Aaron. Keep us posted. Don't take off to many more leaves, if we are to trade I would like to have leaves on them...LOL
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If all goes as planned, I will see some serious crop developing, then I'll be in serious trouble... With Creators that is!

All those leaves (all 182 of them) are being dried swizzle and Susie. I am familiar with the wonderful Fig Leaf Tea... I had even created a nice thread on that subject earlier this year ;)
Date With Fig Leaf Tea

jd, this is not a TEST, it's a pre-meditated act of guilt, LOL

Armando...you shouldn't doubt me! ;)

and finally, Jack-A.., for the first time you were absolutely right about something! There is only ONE way, when it comes to my way of doing things.
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I hope this turns out the way you explained Aaron. Keep us posted. Don't take off to many more leaves, if we are to trade I would like to have leaves on them...LOL
Armando, along with a baby fig tree i'll also send you Levaes...lot and lots ...:)
leaves as packing material.
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mmm, you should smell this.

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