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Greetings from Germany! :-)

I'm relatively new to the subject. I came to figs while planning my "hardy exots corner" in our garden. I saw that at a botanical garden and wanted that for me, too - my personal happy place, if you like ^^ With big hardy bamboo, big ferns, Magnolia officinalis, Kiwis, Kiwais, Passionflowers, Paw Paw and other "jungel-stuff" like that.

Althoug I'm new to figs, I cultivated many other plants since my childhood. Today mainly hardy carnivores, cactus' & succulents and hardy & exotic fruit-bearing plants.

I have no fully grown Fig tree by now, only some cuttings with roots and leaves. They will attend the next 2 winters potted in the garage.
To this point, I own  RdB, Olympian and one unknown variant from Sizilien (from a friend's father, who is Sizilian). My first tries with planting figs outside in my garden were a dead end because of the winter. But I will try again, until that will work out well :-)
The 'Olympian' is my latest hope to succeed in that project.

I'm a member of a very active (mostly german) facebook group about figs and came crabwise to this great forum! :-)

Please excuse my rather bad school-english! (It may happen that I use german names/expressions if I don't know the right english vocab ;-S)

Regards,
Kai

P.S. my climate zone is 7
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Greetings, Kai - Please overlook my (rather bad) school english, thx! :-)
Germany, Zone 7-ish, 200 m altitude, cold westwind valley.

Owned: 'RdB', 'Olympian', 'BT', 'Black Plate Giant', 'Trnavska', Ficus palmata ssp. virgata, Ficus afghanistanica, "B&W", 'Ignaz 1000' (Mt Etna 1 km. alt.), 'Ignaz 1200' (Mt Etna 1.2 km alt.), 'Ribe' (unkn. Denmark), 'Bratislava' (unkn. Slovakia), unkn. Denmark/Sweden 2, unkn. green Italy, unkn. fig (possibly BT), unkn. fig (possibly 'Dalmatie' or 'Doree').
All of my figs are still "babyplants" (0-3 y, all still potted/rooting in 2016), so don't expect cuttings too early ...

Want: 'Michurinska-10', ultra hardy lokal figs, [hardy carnivor plants, (hardy and non-hardy) cactuses & succulents, (hardy and non hardy) orchids, miniature varieties of plants, corals/anemones/algeae] - if you have some offset of plants that could be interesting for me and you live in the EU (for shipment/customs issues), please don't hesitate to contact me! :-)


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Posted Reply with quote  #2 
Welcome to the forum, Kai.  Your english is excellent and well understood.  Good luck with all of your trees.
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Welcome Kai!

This is a great place for wealth of knowledge, especially for people like us who are just starting out. Good luck on future projects and look forward to seeing some of your garden as it expands.
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Please use the following thread if your growing my "unknown Sheepshead" to track your progress.
http://figs4funforum.websitetoolbox.com/post/saved-brooklyn-tree-unknown-sheepshead-community-growlog-7808733?pid=1290171384
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Hi Figfan,
Welcome to the forum.
What were your lower temperatures ?
You could keep the trees potted and bury the pots at spring time for the roots to expand out of the pot. And take them out of the dirt and back in the garage during the winter.
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Welcome to the forum Kai. Though your English may not be perfect, you convey perfectly.

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A (very late) THANK YOU for your warm welcome! :-D
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Greetings, Kai - Please overlook my (rather bad) school english, thx! :-)
Germany, Zone 7-ish, 200 m altitude, cold westwind valley.

Owned: 'RdB', 'Olympian', 'BT', 'Black Plate Giant', 'Trnavska', Ficus palmata ssp. virgata, Ficus afghanistanica, "B&W", 'Ignaz 1000' (Mt Etna 1 km. alt.), 'Ignaz 1200' (Mt Etna 1.2 km alt.), 'Ribe' (unkn. Denmark), 'Bratislava' (unkn. Slovakia), unkn. Denmark/Sweden 2, unkn. green Italy, unkn. fig (possibly BT), unkn. fig (possibly 'Dalmatie' or 'Doree').
All of my figs are still "babyplants" (0-3 y, all still potted/rooting in 2016), so don't expect cuttings too early ...

Want: 'Michurinska-10', ultra hardy lokal figs, [hardy carnivor plants, (hardy and non-hardy) cactuses & succulents, (hardy and non hardy) orchids, miniature varieties of plants, corals/anemones/algeae] - if you have some offset of plants that could be interesting for me and you live in the EU (for shipment/customs issues), please don't hesitate to contact me! :-)


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Greetings Kai,

I am also new to figs and this forum. Hope you find it as helpful as i have.

I have two questions: What town are you from and can you post a link to the facebook page for german figs?

Cheers!

Johnny
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Welcome!  You have access to some great figs in the EU so you might want to start looking at a few acres under glass.
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Galicia Negra, De La Reina - Pons, Genovese Nero - Rafed's, Sbayi, Souadi, Acciano, Any Rimada, Sodus Sicilian, any Bass, Pons or Axier fig, any great tasting fig.
FigFan

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We happen to have 2 smaller Greenhouses, a medium vegetable Garden and a big orchard (where I plan to plant out ~12 of my collected varieties next june (with some kind of wind-protection and/or heat storage). My family furthermore owns some acres of farmland, which is let for (very small) rent to some farmers of our area to maintain its worth. (My grandfather was a part-time farmer, I can remember helping him reap the potatoes at one field with our whole family as helpers some decades ago - it always was a big happening with a big potato-fire and tinfoil-baked potatoes in it. :-)).

I planned to plant a medium to small sized burgundy truffles-plantation on one part of one field with some perigord-truffle inoculated trees (I believe in the climate change, so it will get warmer here).

Perhaps I will plant some figs as a hedge on the edge of one field soon, too, as I have the space. That would be easy and no big thing. :-)

But I don't want greenhouse-figs - my explicit hobbyhorse are ultra hardy figs outdoor-figs - just because they don't need greenhouses. :-)
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Greetings, Kai - Please overlook my (rather bad) school english, thx! :-)
Germany, Zone 7-ish, 200 m altitude, cold westwind valley.

Owned: 'RdB', 'Olympian', 'BT', 'Black Plate Giant', 'Trnavska', Ficus palmata ssp. virgata, Ficus afghanistanica, "B&W", 'Ignaz 1000' (Mt Etna 1 km. alt.), 'Ignaz 1200' (Mt Etna 1.2 km alt.), 'Ribe' (unkn. Denmark), 'Bratislava' (unkn. Slovakia), unkn. Denmark/Sweden 2, unkn. green Italy, unkn. fig (possibly BT), unkn. fig (possibly 'Dalmatie' or 'Doree').
All of my figs are still "babyplants" (0-3 y, all still potted/rooting in 2016), so don't expect cuttings too early ...

Want: 'Michurinska-10', ultra hardy lokal figs, [hardy carnivor plants, (hardy and non-hardy) cactuses & succulents, (hardy and non hardy) orchids, miniature varieties of plants, corals/anemones/algeae] - if you have some offset of plants that could be interesting for me and you live in the EU (for shipment/customs issues), please don't hesitate to contact me! :-)


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Hm, how could I manage to save a profile pic? Tried it many times, but it just won't work :-/
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Greetings, Kai - Please overlook my (rather bad) school english, thx! :-)
Germany, Zone 7-ish, 200 m altitude, cold westwind valley.

Owned: 'RdB', 'Olympian', 'BT', 'Black Plate Giant', 'Trnavska', Ficus palmata ssp. virgata, Ficus afghanistanica, "B&W", 'Ignaz 1000' (Mt Etna 1 km. alt.), 'Ignaz 1200' (Mt Etna 1.2 km alt.), 'Ribe' (unkn. Denmark), 'Bratislava' (unkn. Slovakia), unkn. Denmark/Sweden 2, unkn. green Italy, unkn. fig (possibly BT), unkn. fig (possibly 'Dalmatie' or 'Doree').
All of my figs are still "babyplants" (0-3 y, all still potted/rooting in 2016), so don't expect cuttings too early ...

Want: 'Michurinska-10', ultra hardy lokal figs, [hardy carnivor plants, (hardy and non-hardy) cactuses & succulents, (hardy and non hardy) orchids, miniature varieties of plants, corals/anemones/algeae] - if you have some offset of plants that could be interesting for me and you live in the EU (for shipment/customs issues), please don't hesitate to contact me! :-)


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Hello Kai,

Welcome to this forum

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That's a spectacular setup, congratulations!  If you visit a tropical grower you might think differently.  Some of those tender, long season figs are unbelievably good.
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Zone 6, MO

Wish list:
Galicia Negra, De La Reina - Pons, Genovese Nero - Rafed's, Sbayi, Souadi, Acciano, Any Rimada, Sodus Sicilian, any Bass, Pons or Axier fig, any great tasting fig.
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Welcome to the forum.
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