I rooted all these in March and here they are now. These are the varieties:

LSU Gold 
White Triana 
Violette De Bordeaux 
BT Simpson lowes 
Hardy Chicago 
Celeste Holland 
Valle Negra 
Celeste Goss 
Black Jack 
Tacoma Violet 
Dark Greek 
Sal's Corleone 
Mary Lane Seedless 
Conadria 
Sicilian Red 
Emerald Strawberry UCR 143-36 
Gino's Black 
Florea 

Which ones do you like best on my list? Trying to streamline them next Spring.




























Tony

Very nice! Congratulations!

Jesus where do you live? 

I lived Omaha, Nebraska Zone 5. I found fig rooting in the Baggie method was not too hard to do. I Just brushed the figs cuttings with 1/5 bleach/water solution using a toothbrush. I air dry them to prevent molds and wrapped the bottom half of the cuttings in moist paper towels and blew some fresh air into the Ziplock and zipped it. I placed them in a warm dark drawer and blew fresh air into the bag each day while checking for roots formation. I potted the ones with roots first. Tony

I live in the same zone. What are your plans for overwintering? I'm having trouble deciding what to do with the few I have. I only have 4 that are in 5gal buckets. I also have about 10 in ground. Those will just be heavily mulched, and have to do the best they can.

I have a large unheated storage space under my sunroom. I will move them all in there for overwinter in early November before hard frost. I will water them once a month just to keep the soil moist and move them back out in early April and keep an eye on late frost. Figs are very sensitive to frost. The main crops will suffer greatly with frost. I have some Celeste and Hardy Chicago in ground. I chopped them down to 2 feet tall and pile some dirt on the base and mulched them well. They will be fine.

Tony

Excel are loaded.




Lattarulla and Dark Greek.




I also really like the taste and sweetness of Bari, Pavino Dark, Sal's, and Dark Greek.

Tony

Nice setup! Congratulations!

Amazing photos. Quite a collection. Congratulations.

Those look great! Did you find any particular varieties to be a lot slower to root/grow (or vice versa) in the first year?

They all rooted about two and a half weeks. Just follow my Baggie method. The most important part is to clean them with 1/5 bleach and water to avoid molds. Molds will rot the cuttings in no time.

Tony

Thanks for sharing your inexpensive baggie and paper towel rooting method, Tony. It is a 100% "Keep It Simple" way to start figs. 

For what it's worth, I liked the two Black Jack figs that I have tasted so far. Black Jack's slower growth habit may make that variety easier to keep compact since you must move pots indoors during Nebraska winters and outdoors again for your growing season.

Good to know, sounds like they rooted quick for you. I have been looking at old posts and comparing methods, it does seem that the less complicated you make it, the more successful it is. I recently received some cuttings from another grower, and am trying to root a few in case I don't have good luck starting them later. I did clean them, and have been keeping an eye on them to make sure they are not molding. I know it is a little early to try to start them and if they take I'll have to keep them under a light through the winter, but I already have to do that with a pineapple and lemon tree. 

I didn't know that the Black Jack grew slower/was easier to keep compact, that is good to know. I am in limited space and will be bargaining with my parents for storage space in the future so that is a good point to keep in mind.

Here are my two Black Jacks. The fruits are pretty large.

Tony

amazing growth
did you have a fertilising regime? soil mix?
thanks

I used Miracle Gro moisture control potting mix. In early May and June, I applied the big gun farming fertilizer call Urea Nitrogen 43-0-0. Those applications gave them a big jump start. Strong stuff and be careful not to burn the roots. In addition, I pinched the tip on young trees at the 5th leaf indiscriminately on how big or small the fig trees were and continue to do so on each tree or branches when the new shoots grew the fresh new 5 leaves. Most figs fruit will mature around 90 days. I stop pinching the tip if I only had less than 90 days before hard frost. The tips pinching will stimulate branching and early fruits production.

Here are my other fruits that benefits early from the Urea Nitrogen 43-0-0.

Asian pears







Shenandoah Pawpaws


Wabbash pawpaws



Susquehanna pawpaws



Large Shanandoah pawpaw with a quarter on top


Honey Jar Jujubes










Honey Jar on the top row. Sugarcane on the bottom row. Honey won the tasting contest big time in terms of sweetness, crunchiness, and more juice.



Prok American persimmon













Veggies






Tony

Nero 600M is ripening. It was as tasty as Bari fig.

Tony

kkearns, The advantage of slower growing figs is that they will require less pruning to keep them short and grow them in pots that can be moved indoors during winter. You might be interested in this Black Jack description: http://ucanr.edu/blogs/blogcore/postdetail.cfm?postnum=22478

Violette de Bordeaux is slower growing: http://homeguides.sfgate.com/care-violette-de-bordeaux-fig-68151.html

Celestial and Little Ruby are also slower growing fig cultivars. Lots of online nurseries sell them.

Tony, this is Bob from Arkansas, you are all over the place. Very nice collection!!!

Here are my inground figs.

Thanks Tony, the Black Jacks look great, as do the rest of your trees! My parents tried some pears (I think...) in the past but unfortunately they didn't make it (northern VT). I don't have a place to put anything in ground so I can't try too many fruit trees, but I have a small community garden plot where my one fig tree is currently living. I've been getting a lot of tomatoes and peppers from my garden, making lots of sauce and salsa to make it through the winter. Since I won't have any figs this year, I'll at least have that to get me through!

I appreciate the links crademan! I knew that whatever I grew I'd have to prune, but I hadn't thought about slower growing varieties, they would give me a bit of a safety net when it comes to pruning. I think that is one of the things I am more nervous about, I haven't grown anything that I've had to prune before so I'll need to think ahead before I just start cutting.

Thanks Kathryn. I just loved growing all kinds of fruits. A very healthy hobby.

Bob,

You and I are persimmon nuts. Yeah, We used to hang out for many years with the Fruits and Orchard forum on Gardenweb but since Houzz took over with all the crazy ads interrupting the forum so Dr. Scott Smith decided to create his own growingfruit.org and all the experts and orchardists including Olpea, Harvestman (now goes by Alan), Fruitnut, Drew51, Mamuang, Mrs G, Kelby Ampersand, Bob Vance, Auburn, ClarkKS, Bradybb, Rayrose, Murky,Bhawkins, Strudyldog, Hoosierbanana, and I are the regulars over there and We are getting larger by the minutes. I think our growingfruit.org forum are the top fastest frequent traffic forum out there right now with all the expert fruit growers. Houzz is kind off dead these days. We do all kinds of trading scion woods with fruit trees just for postage only even with with rare figs. Take care my friend.

Tony

Tony, i am there also but what i don't like about Scot is all fruits, small fruits, tree fruits are all mix in and also veggies.

Yes, Scott has a mixed bags of posts in his forum. You just have to flags what you like to read or search the topic like figs, pawpaws, or Nadia cherry plum cross etc....

Tony