Geaux Tigers!!

Dan
Semper Fi-cus

Hi Noss and Dan.

LSU and Dr. O'Rourke have done the world a great service with the LSU figs.  They are most definately among the very best in my opinion.  Great taste and very, very productive.

Louisiana is a great State with great people.  They offered me a faculty position at LSU some years ago, but honestly, we didn't think we could take the heat and humidity.  The North Georgia Piedmont as about as hot and humid as we can take, and it's mild compared to South Louisiana swamp country.  You Cajuns are some tough folks!

Give our regards to Mike the Tiger.  The kids visit his website periodically to see what Mike is up to.

Hope you are having a great fig season.  They are coming in faster than we can pick them right now!

Best wishes.

John

John--I'm pleased to hear you're having a good fig year and that the quality of your LSU Purple continues to improve! Speaking of LSU Purples with "roots in Georgia," here's how mine looks as of this morning. It took quite a while for a shoot to get started, but then it took off and hasn't looked back. And, after a long slow-down, the little cutting is taking off as well.

Thanks for the picture Ken.  It looks great!  Our kids enjoyed seeing this picture and what happens to those sticks we mailed out.  You must be taking excellent care of it.  Hope you will enjoy this variety as much as we do.

The flavor of the LSU Purple this season has had a richness that surpasses all of our other figs.  I can't stop eating them!  ;-)

I think this may be because of the unusually hot summer, so in Arizona the flavor should be excellent.

Hope you are well my friend.

John

@GeorgiaFig

Scrolling through this thread and what an odd coincidence, my wife-to-be and I met and graduated at IU Bloomington and are now in the process of relocating to her native Georgia! Small world it is