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Hi Everyone,
I am located in West Central Florida zone 9b. I contracted fig fever last season after tasting a falling-from-the-tree-ripe black mission fig. Until now, I've only read posts and finally written a post to thank everyone for sharing their passion, knowledge and experience in growing figs.

I hope to have something to contribute and pass forward in the future.

-Dan
Figinfever, WC Florida -Zone 9b
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Dan, West Central FL 9a

Wishlist- Great tasting dark or light figs with deep red interiors: White Madeira, Craven's Craving, Portugal Black Madeira, Sultani, Violeta, USDA Black Ischia, Dall'Osso, CdDB or CdDB-N
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Welcome
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Wallingford CT, USA zone 6a would be happy to meet and get together with other members near me Wish list; Any fig from any specific place anywhere in Italy
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Welcome, Glad to have you!!! How far are you from Inverness, Fl?
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Mario_1: Thanks for the welcome.
Figfanatic57: I am 41 miles south west of Inverness in an offshoot of Spring Hill so about an hour's drive.
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Dan, West Central FL 9a

Wishlist- Great tasting dark or light figs with deep red interiors: White Madeira, Craven's Craving, Portugal Black Madeira, Sultani, Violeta, USDA Black Ischia, Dall'Osso, CdDB or CdDB-N
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Welcome to the wonderful world of figs.
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Just about ten months with the fever here. Warning: it doesn't abate. If you are going to get into the growing of your own from cuttings thing, understand that it can take more space than you imagined, and you might encounter a greater-than-anticipated failure rate. For that reason, I asked for/bought a minimum of three cuttings for each variety I was interested in. Glad I did

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Thanks, Jerry and Stephen.

Stephen, I totally agree with you about the fig fever and the minimum of three cuttings is wise. I would also add back up methods and other sources. For me, I'm practicing rooting with the coir/ perlite lasagna and the enhanced figgy pops methods on red eye unknown cuttings and Madeira island cuttings to increase the success rate when I'm fortunate enough to get a hold of those first line fig cuttings that are difficult to root and propagate. Mean while, I have five month old Hirts tissue culture figs: Hardy Chicago And Violette de Bordeaux in pots as future workhorses. Lowes 'Brown Turkey, Green Ischia, and Black Mission" in ground, to test growing conditions and as prepared rootstock for grafting practice of plan c backup.

All that might seem overboard, but the more I read about different forum members' experience with first line figs such as Black Madeira, the more I think the effort will be worth it. And it all started with the first taste of the homely Black Mission fig, whose frothy, figgy flavor and slightly, sugary taste reminds me so much of the Star Apple/ Cainito I tasted in my childhood. And now, the way that the latest star fig Ponte Tresa is described brings back memories of tasting freshly pressed sugarcane juice with a splash of orange ripe Key Lime on a past summer day, half the world away.

Yeah, I have it bad and I don't think it's going away despite the challenges.

-Dan
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Dan, West Central FL 9a

Wishlist- Great tasting dark or light figs with deep red interiors: White Madeira, Craven's Craving, Portugal Black Madeira, Sultani, Violeta, USDA Black Ischia, Dall'Osso, CdDB or CdDB-N
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Welcome to the forum... Hello from SoCal...
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Hi, Simon. Thanks for the welcome.

-Dan
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Wishlist- Great tasting dark or light figs with deep red interiors: White Madeira, Craven's Craving, Portugal Black Madeira, Sultani, Violeta, USDA Black Ischia, Dall'Osso, CdDB or CdDB-N
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Welcome to the forum!
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Hi Figeater. Thanks.
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Dan, West Central FL 9a

Wishlist- Great tasting dark or light figs with deep red interiors: White Madeira, Craven's Craving, Portugal Black Madeira, Sultani, Violeta, USDA Black Ischia, Dall'Osso, CdDB or CdDB-N
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Welcome!  I'm rather new and caught fig fever too!  And I don't want to be cured.  :)
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Welcome!  I'm rather new and caught fig fever too!  And I don't want to be cured.  :)


Haha. I know, right? Me either. The more I get into it, the more excited and curious I am about everything about it, especially how the top figs taste in containers and in ground. Too bad they are, for the most part, difficult to root, hard to acquire, and expensive on eBay.

That reminds me of something that you might be interested in too; do a search for $ 7 cuttings here or username greenfin. If I remember correctly, his name is James from Kansas and he's rooting many varieties. You pay reasonable prices for the varieties now and he sends them bareroot next year in March. He has been a long time member, very hardworking, and a trustworthy guy from what I could surmise from his posts and blog. Check out for yourself.

I ordered a bunch from him some months ago just in case I can't root anything. As I read and learn about different difficult but tasty figs and their unfortunate, inexplicable deaths, the idea of 3,4, or even 5 backups of ones' favorites, space/resource permitting, doesn't seem excessive. I'm leaning in favor of adopting that idea.

And I thought, months ago, a dozen or so Lowes figs will be it. Hah!

Thanks for the welcome and good figging!

-Dan
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Wishlist- Great tasting dark or light figs with deep red interiors: White Madeira, Craven's Craving, Portugal Black Madeira, Sultani, Violeta, USDA Black Ischia, Dall'Osso, CdDB or CdDB-N
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