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As we all know Staten Island is only one small step from heaven.
When any Staten Islanders pass away I don't think St Peter bothers to detour them to purgatory for even a day

http://www.silive.com/entertainment/dining/index.ssf/2010/07/30_fig_trees_on_a_40_by_100_fo.html
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Pete Cundari is a great guy. He is one of the most generous collectors out there. I got a few Beleclaire fig trees from him. (free and rare) I got a fig from Sicily that he calls the Staten Island bomb. It looks like Vasilika Sika or Stella.
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Like the rest of the boroughs,
many of the inground trees that were established for decades here,
some 100+ years old,
died back to the ground.
Most are regrowing from the base,
but it was a hard winter for the trees here,
even with our maritime type climate on the island.

Container grown trees that we not protected and
supplied some heat on the coldest night suffered big losses.

Pete is a great guy,
I helped reunite him with Chris DiPaola  years after he lost contact with him.
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Is Pete Cundari a member of this fig forum?  Does he usually show up at the annual, Staten Island Fig Fest in September?

Interesting article.  Thanks for the link.  I'll read anything that has the word "fig" in it.

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I wonder just how many of us can trace our passion for growing figs directly from either our ancestors, or, to the DiPaola Bros. @ Belleclare Nursery?  I know my desire to grow fig trees was started by a very casual and very indifferent, 2007 visit to the old Belleclare Nursery.  I went there out of curiosity.  Although the nursery was on the wane and was soon to close, a friendly, and informative talk with Chris convinced me that I too, could grow a tree in a container.  Up to that point I never realized that fig trees could be grown in containers.  I went to the right place, at the right time. The rest is history.

I suppose I will continue to grow fig trees until I become organic fertilizer with trace elements.


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He always goes to the staten island fig festival.  He is not a member here but his brother goes on the site once in a while.
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Thanks Ed.

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Another Staten Island article...

http://www.silive.com/northshore/index.ssf/2013/09/long-time_staten_island_reside.html
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Oh, St. Peter may have quite a bit to say....

Think "covetousness" is mentioned somewhere in the top ten... 

heheh we are all in trouble if "neighbor's fig tree" was in the original verbage..
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Is Pete Cundari a member of this fig forum?  Does he usually show up at the annual, Staten Island Fig Fest in September?

Interesting article.  Thanks for the link.  I'll read anything that has the word "fig" in it.

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I wonder just how many of us can trace our passion for growing figs directly from either our ancestors, or, to the DiPaola Bros. @ Belleclare Nursery?  I know my desire to grow fig trees was started by a very casual and very indifferent, 2007 visit to the old Belleclare Nursery.  I went there out of curiosity.  Although the nursery was on the wane and was soon to close, a friendly, and informative talk with Chris convinced me that I too, could grow a tree in a container.  Up to that point I never realized that fig trees could be grown in containers.  I went to the right place, at the right time. The rest is history.

I suppose I will continue to grow fig trees until I become organic fertilizer with trace elements.


Frank

Well, I have to put in a good word here for the fig trees of Elizabeth, NJ, across the Arthur Kill from Staten Island. It is where my love of fig trees grew strong - thanks to those super brave immigrants who toted those clippings along with them from the Old Country to the New World. I often wondered how many young trees found their way to Elizabeth from across the Goethals Bridge?
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Staten Island Figs - brutal winter

http://www.silive.com/cooking/index.ssf/2014/05/fig_trees_on_staten_island_why.html
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North Shore fig tree story

http://www.silive.com/northshore/index.ssf/2013/08/many_tales_behind_giant_staten.html
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