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karima

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Dear friends, i'm new member to this forum.


I would like to share about our local fig and fig from cold climate that i try to grow.

Our so call local fig is known as Ficus Auriculata (it may not our native plant but being here since many many years).  This fig can grow very big tree in our climate and produced nice sweet fruit all around the year.


I have recently tried to grow fig tree from cold climate region which i bought from my friend in Indonesia. One of the tree that i have and identified by my Indonesian friend is called Flanders.

I hope that i would be able to have more variates of figs & learn to grow helthy figs from this forum. TQ


Ficus Ariculata


Flanders
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Welcome to the forum.. Did you get your Flanders from Zaitun? :-)
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That fig tree *auriculata?  is impressive, so you can eat those fruits? Wow... that is one nice looking tree. I am stunned.
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Hi Peter,

I got it from Surabaya Mr Kunta,if not mistaken Zaitun is from Indonesia.
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Ohh.. yes Zaitun is from Jakarta.
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Hi Grasa,

Yes we ate the fruit, same family ficus.  But not easy to get them as well
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Are the fruits on the roots? or are those branches that fell to the ground? what you mean "not easy to get them?
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Yes, some fruits are on the root.  The fruit grow from the same stalk of the previous fruits.  The stalk will keep longer and therefore the number of fruits will grow as well.

Not easy to get because not many people willing to plant due to the size of the tree and many of us do not know about the fruit is edible.
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Interesting!
The fruit growing on the same stalk of previous fruit and
also on roots must call for a different set of pruning rules,
for ficus trees that do that.
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Flanders will grow well in Malaysia. Healthy plant you have. Time to up-pot or plant in-ground especially during the rainy season. Most likely you will get to sample Flanders by year end. Are those durian trees in the black plastic bags ? Ya, I remember those Ariculata. They were every where in the kampung(village).

Welcome to the forum. Hope you catch the fig bug and be a fignut. Figs taste so yummie.
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Hi Paully,

Saw your old post about planting fig in Malaysia.  Hope we can see some photos.

hahaha Yes, musang king durian waiting to plant on ground
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I sure have plans to grow some figs there as I would love to escape winter and the hay fever season after my retirement. For now I am trying to gather a small collection mainly LSU varieties that one day I can plant in Malaysia or neighbouring countries. As is I have to depend on "pity" donations from kind fig friends for help in making my dreams come thru. Alternatively, I have to hunt for fig varieties here. There are lots of quality fig varieties here like Adriano's, Nelson & Ottawan etc. Hopefully I can accumulate an improve collection in the near future. I have some pic's in Facebook but not in F4F.

I see your wish list for B.Mission & Panache. Better variants would be Negronne(VdB), Conadria, JH Adriatic, Hardy Chicago, Sal's EL, Blk Maderia etc.

Luv durians and I have a good friend holidaying there for 5 months and he tells me all the good eats.
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Hi Karima ,

Welcome to the Forum , Nice to meet you here.

Salam ,
Zaitun
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Thanks Paully for your recommendation, added to my wish list.


Hi Zaitun,

Nice to meet you here too.


BTW, i tried to use the method discussed in this forum to root ficus auriculata cutting and lucky enough to have one of the cutting roots after almost one month.  Well maybe, i dont have the correct skill yet.
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Hi karima,

You sure Ficus Ariculata can be eat? My university at JB (UTM) got a lot! I guess now still have, I already graduate 8 years ago.

Hear that fig can reduce hypertension? Is it true?

According to one of my swiftlets farming friend, they also like to plant this Ficus Ariculata, cause it will attract the small insect ( I think is one type of bee), and this insect was swiftlets favourite fruit:)
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Hi hot101dog,

1. Yes the fruit is edible & i consumed a lot from the tree found in Putrajaya wetland. Anyway, the taste is not as good as common figs.
2. There are million of small insert when the fruit is over ripened BUT i doubt that they are wasp
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