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Lot of fig trees!!!

This season went extremely well for me. I had an excellent percentage of my cuttings rooted, I have about 45 fig trees. Last season I was able to root 4 cuttings only. I killed too many cuttings last season...
Here are some pictures of the trees. I uppoted 25 trees, need to do the same for 20 more fig trees.

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What size pots are those? What is the tray they are sitting in and why?
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Originally Posted by Vlad
What size pots are those? What is the tray they are sitting in and why?


They are in varios pots sizes. From 1.5 gallon to 5 gallon. For some of the varieties I have several of the same, like MBVS, Late Black, Smith, White Ischia, Nero 600, LSU Gold, Black Madeira, Celeste, among others. So I only placed one of them in a big pot, the others in small pot.
Black Madeira, Galicia Negra, Panache, CddB and CddR got the bigger pots.

I was using the blue tray to keep them together because they were falling easily with the wind. Once I put them in bigger pots, I no longer needed the tray. The tray was perforated, so the water was not sitting there.

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Way to go. What did you do different then last year.
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Healthy looking trees. Great that your cuttings were a success this year. I hope you get many delicious figs from these plants.

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Very nice job! Please share your planting mix.

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Wow - beautiful fig trees.

Congratulations.

Tad
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Please share what you did differently. I killed most of mine so far. I'm so fed up with myself.
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Originally Posted by ourhappyhome
Very nice job! Please share your planting mix.


It's a local potting soil (nothing expensive) mixed with some perlite. The trick to get them bigger fast is to put a layer of potting soil in the bottom of the pot, then I put a layer of osmocote plus and I cover that layer of osmocote with another layer of potting soil. That way, the roots of the fig tree will be touching the potting soil and not the osmocote, it's not good for a recently transplated tree to be in contact with any type of fertilizer, you can burn the roots, that's the purpose of the layer in top of the osmocote. In a few weeks the new fine roots will be in contact with the osmocote, that's when you will see an explosion in growth.

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Originally Posted by Courtney
Please share what you did differently. I killed most of mine so far. I'm so fed up with myself.


Don't be hard with yourself. The same thing happened to me last season.

This year I used a perlite method posted by penandpike, here's the link: http://figs4funforum.websitetoolbox.com/post/the-best-rooting-method-i-found-over-the-years-6717809?highlight=best+rooting+method&trail=50 . I used the exact measures of perlite and water no matter if my instinct told me another thing. I also used a turbo kloner for the very fresh cuttings and for the last cuttings I tried the rooting method that Harvey describes in a video in his website. The method that Harvey use is one of the more simple ones and very effective.

I hope this will help you for the next season.


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Thanks for share!! Wonderful!!!
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