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Originally Posted by Smyfigs
Thank you so much for taking the time to give me your explanation. I sincerely appreciate it. I wish Giacomo would have taken the time to explain to me or perhaps even ask me what my concern was. I was taken back by his response. I wish he had taken the time to explain to me ahead of time what he was shipping to me. I would like to believe Im a reasonsble person. You can imagine my shock when i opened the package. But misunderstandings can be remedied through communication. I wish he would have explained to me. I could have understood.
QUOTE=FigWhisperer]Hello Meg,
I have been reading your post since the time you created.
I have heard only good things about Giacomo. He has also sent /exchanged very good variety of figs with Aaron for LosAngelesFigForest. I can not answer your question to WHY he treated you like that but this is what I can tell you: Those wound like marks are due to weather, heat and night moisture in the air. I got few trees this year with trunks damaged like that. They are just trunk cracks and the bark openings from over-watering sometimes after dehydration. They heal within a season.
If you look carefully, some of the cracks on your cuttings have already developed calluses. They are perfectly normal reaction of fig plant to the weather hazards.
If I were you, I would take just one cutting and split lengthwise and check for bugs. I'm pretty much positive that you won't find any leaving things in the trunk. (I pray that I am not wrong, LOL)
In fact those cuttings will root faster than you think because of the calluses on the surface.
Please keep us all posted.
Thank you so much for taking the time to give me your explanation. I sincerely appreciate it. I wish Giacomo would have taken the time to explain to me or perhaps even ask me what my concern was. I was taken back by his response. I wish he had taken the time to explain to me ahead of time what he was shipping to me. I would like to believe Im a reasonsble person. You can imagine my shock when i opened the package. But misunderstandings can be remedied through communication. I wish he would have explained to me. I could have understood.
QUOTE=FigWhisperer]Hello Meg,
I have been reading your post since the time you created.
I have heard only good things about Giacomo. He has also sent /exchanged very good variety of figs with Aaron for LosAngelesFigForest. I can not answer your question to WHY he treated you like that but this is what I can tell you: Those wound like marks are due to weather, heat and night moisture in the air. I got few trees this year with trunks damaged like that. They are just trunk cracks and the bark openings from over-watering sometimes after dehydration. They heal within a season.
If you look carefully, some of the cracks on your cuttings have already developed calluses. They are perfectly normal reaction of fig plant to the weather hazards.
If I were you, I would take just one cutting and split lengthwise and check for bugs. I'm pretty much positive that you won't find any leaving things in the trunk. (I pray that I am not wrong, LOL)
In fact those cuttings will root faster than you think because of the calluses on the surface.
Please keep us all posted.
