Why do I love figs?

Author

Comment

WillsC

Registered:1348087628
Posts: 1,698

Posted 1407776340	Reply with quote #1

What other fruiting plant can you get a rootless stick in the mail in January 2014. Root the stick. Cup it.....then a 1 gallon and go from this newly cleared empty plot of land March 11 2014 To this in 5 short months.......AND get fruit before winter? Just an amazing growth rate. You can almost watch these things grow. Granted there are a few slow pokes. You can see in the background of the picture more brush that is being cleared for yet another new bed. The middle row are newly planted, just a couple weeks back and just starting to grow.

Speedmaster

Registered:1404377112
Posts: 385

Posted 1407776925	Reply with quote #2

Quote: Originally Posted by WillsC What other fruiting plant can you get a rootless stick in the mail in January 2014. Root the stick. Cup it.....then a 1 gallon and go from this newly cleared empty plot of land March 11 2014 To this in 5 short months.......AND get fruit before winter? Just an amazing growth rate. You can almost watch these things grow. Granted there are a few slow pokes. You can see in the background of the picture more brush that is being cleared for yet another new bed. The middle row are newly planted, just a couple weeks back and just starting to grow. Yep, I love them because they fruit really easy after 8-12 months and they even have different leaf patterns. Great plants almost care free. __________________ Weather: Winter: 10C+ Summer: 42C+ Growing: Syrian Unk., Atreano, Egyptian Unk., Lebanese Unk., Col de dame Gris, Beall, Negronne, Ronde de bordeaux, Brogiotto Bianco Wish List: Panache.

FiggyFrank

Registered:1347560723
Posts: 2,713

Posted 1407782672	Reply with quote #3

Yep, growing figs is a good hobby for impatient people (like myself) compared to other trees. So easy to multiply! __________________ Frank zone 7a - VA

rcantor

Registered:1309799312
Posts: 5,724

Posted 1407783010	Reply with quote #4

Nice! We should set up a Florida Fig Tour. You guys can charge admission and for sampling by the fig or by the pound in a few years. __________________ Zone 6, MO Wish list: Galicia Negra, De La Reina - Pons, Genovese Nero - Rafed's, Sbayi, Souadi, Acciano, Any Rimada, Sodus Sicilian, any Bass, Pons or Axier fig, any great tasting fig.

psilva8

Registered:1399311099
Posts: 67

Posted 1407783974	Reply with quote #5

I bought a 2' Hardy Chicago on Father's Day, and to date it is almost 6' tall. Like mentioned, you can literally watch the thing grow. __________________ Ontario, Canada Zone 6a

dkirtexas

Registered:1341345900
Posts: 1,330

Posted 1407788831	Reply with quote #6

You get to meet a lot of good people too. __________________ 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.

drphil69

Registered:1390113240
Posts: 803

Posted 1407789244	Reply with quote #7

I was going through some pictures of fig trees I bought and put in ground this year and I was thinking the same thing! WOW do they grow fast! Chicago Hardy I started from cuttings in January 2014 are 4ft tall with multiple branches in 6 gallon containers. All of them have figs, and even though I have been pulling new ones off since beginning of July, one of them has 16 figs on it. Even trees I started from cuttings as late as April and May are putting on figs! __________________ Phil - Zone 7A - Newark, DE Newbie fig lover just trying to learn.

DesertDance

Registered:1247674606
Posts: 4,518

Posted 1407792307	Reply with quote #8

What other tree? My Pakistan Mulberry has fruited and is 6' tall all from cuttings stuck in the ground last November. There are other fruits, you know? AND this mulberry will grow 80' tall, and we are going to stop it at ladder + JD high. Grand kids need a tree house. Suzi __________________ Zone 9b, Southern California. "First year they sleep, Second year they creep, Third year they leap!" Wish List: I wish all of you happy fig collecting! My wishes have been fulfilled!

WillsC

Registered:1348087628
Posts: 1,698

Posted 1407793019	Reply with quote #9

Suzi, As a "member in standing" you should have recognized that as a rhetorical question :)

Speedmaster

Registered:1404377112
Posts: 385

Posted 1407827741	Reply with quote #10

Quote: Originally Posted by DesertDance What other tree? My Pakistan Mulberry has fruited and is 6' tall all from cuttings stuck in the ground last November. There are other fruits, you know? AND this mulberry will grow 80' tall, and we are going to stop it at ladder + JD high. Grand kids need a tree house. Suzi I have a king white mulberry which is fruiting now after about 6 months from buying it hehehe... I thought it was weird because they are white long mulberries and waited for them to ripen to that brownish red Pakistan mulberry colour which it didn't haha! __________________ Weather: Winter: 10C+ Summer: 42C+ Growing: Syrian Unk., Atreano, Egyptian Unk., Lebanese Unk., Col de dame Gris, Beall, Negronne, Ronde de bordeaux, Brogiotto Bianco Wish List: Panache.

Previous Topic | Next Topic