Is this Smith?

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cis4elk

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Posted 1416548785 · Edited	Reply with quote #1

So I had the last fig from my supposed Smith fig today. I'm not too sure it is Smith though. I bought the tree this time of year, 2 years ago. It is a slow grower, but appears otherwise healthy. Last year it only set two figs and didn't ripen either. This year it set a crop late, so I thinned it to about 10 figs. They all were ripened in the sun room where it gets fairly cold but not freezing at night and the sun intensity is pretty good but obviously not the same as outside in the summer. The figs all ripened to a yellow/green color and the eye is..well, non-descript not red and no honey dripping from or blocking it. The fig has never had any coloration to it other than yellow/green with maybe some sugar spots if I let it hang longer. The figs remove from the tree very easily with just a touch or a slight pull. The leaves have a sheen to their surface and shape which sometimes remind me of Black Madeira and sort of like Battaglia Green also. I know leaves vary with location and tree maturity, but when I see pictures of leaves from Smith trees that are larger than mine I think mine look nothing like them in shape. I'm wondering if I was sold a Vert that was tagged as Smith. Or will the leaves and figs of my tree change evem more with age? Or, like many other figs, are different nurseries selling different figs labeled as Smith?(Duh right?) In a handful of the pictures I see, the leaves have many similarities to mine. I feel like I have to get another tree from a different nursery to ensure I get a real one, but that adds another tree to a collection that is already way past where I'm trying to get to and I feel like I did my homework on where to get one the first time. The tree has dropped a good deal of leaves and obviuosly the remaining leaves are losing their green so the luster is gone, plus they are battered from this summers hail storms. But there should be enough here to recognize if this is Smith. What do think fellow Smith owners, have I been hornswoggled? __________________ Calvin Littleton,CO z5/6 Wants List: For everyone to clean-up after themselves and co-exist peacefully. Let's think more about the future of our planet and less about ourselves. :)

dkirtexas

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Posted 1416572741	Reply with quote #2

Definitely not Smith, may be Verte __________________ Thx, glad to be here Danny K "EL CAZADOR DE HIGO" Waskom Tx Zone 7B/8 Wish list: anything anyone wants me to have. LSU RED. Any LSU fig.

snaglpus

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Posted 1416576489	Reply with quote #3

Nope. Not Smith. __________________ Dennis Charlotte, North Carolina/Zone 8a

rafaelissimmo

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Posted 1416576824	Reply with quote #4

Not Smith. Where'dya get it? __________________ Zone 7b, Queens, New York

cis4elk

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Posted 1416577561	Reply with quote #5

Good Ol James Robins. This is the 2nd one, the first one he sent was a Marseilles. __________________ Calvin Littleton,CO z5/6 Wants List: For everyone to clean-up after themselves and co-exist peacefully. Let's think more about the future of our planet and less about ourselves. :)

cis4elk

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Posted 1416577639	Reply with quote #6

Thanks guys. __________________ Calvin Littleton,CO z5/6 Wants List: For everyone to clean-up after themselves and co-exist peacefully. Let's think more about the future of our planet and less about ourselves. :)

rafaelissimmo

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Posted 1416582582	Reply with quote #7

In one year I should have plenty of cuttings, for what its worth. __________________ Zone 7b, Queens, New York

figgary

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Posted 1416583961	Reply with quote #8

Hi Calvin, I have an extra Smith in a 2 gallon. I could bare root it in February and send it to you, if you'd like. It would save you a year. Let me know. __________________ Gary in CA 9A Seeking: Bebera Branca*, Colonel Littman's Cross

cis4elk

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Posted 1416589698	Reply with quote #9

Great offers, PM sent. __________________ Calvin Littleton,CO z5/6 Wants List: For everyone to clean-up after themselves and co-exist peacefully. Let's think more about the future of our planet and less about ourselves. :)

Yeehova

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Posted 1416615931 · Edited	Reply with quote #10

Looks similar to the Green Ischia I received from Petals from the Past __________________ Brian Wish list: Col de Dame

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