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rafed

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This is one of my favorites in my collection. It was growing nice in a 15gl pot and produced nice sized fruit about the size, shape and appearance of a Bosc Pear.

I thought I lost it over the past winter but I couldn't bring myself to get rid of it. I held on to it and finally about two months ago I saw two tiny buds forming and I was excited.
So what I then did was I removed the rootball from the pot and cut it down quite heavily and placed it in a 4gl pot and filled with new UPM. I removed all the branches as they were dry anyway and only left a stump approx. 8" tall. And pumped it with 20-20-20 and a bit of Osmocote of course.

Today I am pleased to say this tree has made a remarkable comeback and looks healthier than ever.
The leaves are almost flawless.

The fruit pictured is from last year and the next picture is when the tiny buds were noticed. The rest are pictures taken from today.

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Rafed,

You got the touch! Nice and healthy now.
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Thanks, Art.

You have this one?
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No, It's hard to come by. I've read a lot of good things about it.
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My 3yr old capelas did the same thing.  It was stored in the unheated barn where it got down to -11C (10F) this year usually it stays around -7C in the barn. 
I was worried that I had lost it but July 1 it started growing.  Boy I was relieved.  However mine has only 1 breba fig no sign of main crop this year.

Some of the others (lattarula) in the barn also were slow to start growing but some (bifara and an unk) didn't have a problem at all. 
I was ready to plant the capelas in ground but now I am not sure it can handle the cold?
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No, It's hard to come by. I've read a lot of good things about it.


Who ever said they're hard to come by?
let's see how much more it will grow the remainder of the season. If not this season then next Spring for sure.
I'll keep you informed.
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That is a good tip about removing it from the old pot and repotting.  I have had to do that to about 5 trees so far, and it drastically improved them.
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  that's great.  I love a happy ending.
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rafed

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While I was trying to shoot a tree dwelling fuzzy tailed fig thief I accidently shot one of the branches. I was even more mad.
But had to act quick and made two summer cuttings off the damaged branch.

Time to go get a better air rifle. No more games!
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Congratulations!  When you're a master it shows  :)

What made you think of repotting it?
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Bob,

I was thinking when I first saw the buds forming that the new growth was going to grow too quick because of the size of the root ball. The energy was going to shoot right through the branches and quite possibly stress the tree and grow in all kinds of weird ways. Seen it happen before.

Because most of the upper part of the tree was indeed dead/dry I took may chances and cut the root ball to a more manageable size.

The gamble paid off.

Until yesterday when I shot one of the branches off. Damn tree rats.
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Good job on the recovery.  Better practice more before you blame the gun! :)
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there are some very accurate .177s on the market. some have scopes.

fun to shoot.

i sure hope the shot off branch roots for you.
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wish list:  nothing. i can't grow cuttings  . right now, i have  6 trees showing no signs of fmv. i'd like to keep it that way' 

i was told that if i couldn't deal with fmv, i should grow peaches, so i got a peach tree to live with my clean figs.
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Beautiful tree, Rafed!  How old was it before the die back?  Any chance of figs forming before it goes dormant?
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My Lattarula did the exact same thing. Now it's a 4' tall whip. It put on really nice growth since it came back. I kept the entire root ball but thinking of doing some root pruning this fall just in case some of the root mass was actually killed of last winter.
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Beautiful tree, Rafed!  How old was it before the die back?  Any chance of figs forming before it goes dormant?





The tree was approx. 3 or 4 years old before the dieback.
Fruit is not important at this point because it will be useless by not maturing enough to ripen. Plus, I want it to grow healthy and need it to harden off for the upcoming winter season. So any fruit will get removed.

I'm not out of the woods yet with this cultivar.

Got my fingers crossed.
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Good job on the recovery.  Better practice more before you blame the gun! :)


Stand clear.;)
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I bet it was the fuzzy little grey one that was watching you and waiting for all the figs to ripen. You better get prepared man!

BTW

The Calelas looked really healthy. Should be able to taste something next year I bet.

Thanks for sharing.
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Nice job bring it back....looks good
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I bet it was the fuzzy little grey one that was watching you and waiting for all the figs to ripen. You better get prepared man! BTW The Calelas looked really healthy. Should be able to taste something next year I bet. Thanks for sharing.


Had a bad dream about that grey fuzzy tailed tree rat.
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