** 12/20/16 1:45 PM EST All Cuttings Gone! **
Hello everyone. Busy as usual here in NYC. Most of the construction is over and life is just starting to get back to normal. Putting together lots of cool projects for next year and have lots more planned for the winter including rooting, cooking some hot sauce and making maple syrup. More importantly, the family is good and all of the figs are winterized.
So..... It's that time again! Our Sweet Diana Unknown had another good year. She gave us lots of delicious figs and air layers that everyone enjoyed. We completed the hard prune started a few years ago and Sweet Diana is now the final size and shape that we want. She's a perfect 'cone' shape with 3 main trunks, each branching to a V. So, that gives us 6 nice branches that will produce for us. The V branches terminate 5 to 5.5 feet from the ground. Nice size. Our plan is to prune back to the 6 V branches every year making it easier to maintain. By doing this we know there will be no breba, but we're more concerned with the main crop.
The cuttings are ready to go.
We had to raise the price this year to pay Dominic who helped cut, sort and bag all the cuttings. He usually works for figs but sadly the season is over and there's nothing left.
We're doing 5 or 6, 9" to 10" cuttings for $5.50, includes postage. PayPal $5.50 to danny@nycfigs.com. Please PayPal as "Friends & Family" and PM your address. So if you want to give your loved ones an inexpensive Christmas gift now is the time to do it. Fig cuttings make great stocking stuffers!
Sweet Diana Unknown has been in the ground for 8 years here in NYC, Zone 7a. Last year was the final time that she would be protected for the winter. In spite of the final hard prune this year we're going to leave her uncovered. It's time to show her mama what she's got. The mother tree belongs to a neighbor across the street and it is also in ground. The tree originally came from Italy 37+ years ago (Don't know the region) and has grown to two stories high. It is very hardy and has never been covered for the winter. She toughed out both years of the polar vortex like a champ.
Sweet Diana Unknown grows like a weed. She produces 2 crops of small green/purplish figs that are very, very sweet. The pulp is strawberry red and has just the right amount of juice. She has a nice texture with a thin skin and no seed crunch. She's probably a variety of Celeste but don't know for sure. The cuttings have always struck well for us and reports from members that are growing Sweet Diana are the same.
