Winter Indoor Fig Growth

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johnnyq627

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Posted 1392037414	Reply with quote #1

I thought I'd share some pictures of my first year over wintering figs indoors. I was hoping to get an additional summer of growth off of them. I have had to deal with a lot of pests, from fungas gnats to spider mites, but most are going strong. Recieved this RdB at the end of September: Here it is today along with an RdB I rooted around the same time: They have been a steady grower, only pausing when the spider mites got bad. They are in 5g SIPs and require water twice a week. The next one is a black madeira. I can't find a pic of the original from September, but here's a pic of another BM I got at the same time that didn't make it, but was the same size: It grew very little until last month and then exploded in new growth: I have a bunch of other cuttings growing for fun. I've tried a few different methods of rooting and cup potting. All have worked about the same. I still lose the occassional cutting in the cups for unknown reasons, especially my Sodus Sicilians, which were extremely hard to get past the cup stage. Nick __________________ Nick- Youtube: PA Figs \| eBay: tdepoala Zone 6B/7A - Douglassville, PA Wish list - Galicia Negra, Paritjal Rimada, Black Ischia UCD

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Posted 1392037993	Reply with quote #2

nick, is that pix of BM in the box one that i sent? one you won in the contest? if so, can you let me know how it died? i heard BM dying without a reason. just want to see if there was specific reason. the cuttings that i rooted at the same time are all growing, not as fast as that one did. i noticed how i pack my plants. __________________ Pete Durham, NC Zone 7b "don't talk to me about naval tradition. It's nothing but rum, sodomy and the lash." - sir winston churchill "the problem with socialism is that eventually you run out of other people's money." - the baroness thatcher *** all my figs have FMV/FMD, in case you're wondering. * * and... i don't sell things. what little i have will be posted here in winter for first come first serve base to be shared. no, i'm not a socialist...***

FiggyFrank

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Posted 1392038261	Reply with quote #3

That's some amazing indoor growth! __________________ Frank zone 7a - VA

johnnyq627

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Posted 1392038409	Reply with quote #4

Hey Pete! Yeah that was the one I won in the auction. My best guess as to why it died was that I left all the figs on it when I brought it inside. The figs just never ripened and my best guess is the young tree just didn't have enough energy to handle all the figs. Lesson learned, I won't try to ripen figs indoors anymore! So far it's the only tree I've lost in the house, __________________ Nick- Youtube: PA Figs \| eBay: tdepoala Zone 6B/7A - Douglassville, PA Wish list - Galicia Negra, Paritjal Rimada, Black Ischia UCD

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Posted 1392038992	Reply with quote #5

yeah.. that one had good number of figs on it. i started knocking figs off my BM soon after sending you that tree. i heard trees suffering after putting on too much figs then it can handle.. but didn't expect it to die. sorry about it. __________________ Pete Durham, NC Zone 7b "don't talk to me about naval tradition. It's nothing but rum, sodomy and the lash." - sir winston churchill "the problem with socialism is that eventually you run out of other people's money." - the baroness thatcher *** all my figs have FMV/FMD, in case you're wondering. * * and... i don't sell things. what little i have will be posted here in winter for first come first serve base to be shared. no, i'm not a socialist...***

johnnyq627

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Posted 1392039176	Reply with quote #6

No problem, it happens! Hopefully, others will learn from my mistake. __________________ Nick- Youtube: PA Figs \| eBay: tdepoala Zone 6B/7A - Douglassville, PA Wish list - Galicia Negra, Paritjal Rimada, Black Ischia UCD

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