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cameldog

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How do you determine if a specific var required polination if you dont see it's fruit?

This is how i "guess"...

1.) If i dont see small fruits dropping on the ground (small fruit/immatured fruit would dropped if not polinated ) for those which required polination.


but then... i have a question....

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For those var which need NOT required polination.... will the seeds from it sprout? Yes ? No? Why ?
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>How do you determine if a specific var required polination if you dont see it's fruit?
You cannot.

>For those var which need NOT required polination.... will the seeds from it sprout? Yes ? No? Why ?
No.
Same answer as with eggs. A rooster is needed to fertilize the eggs to hatch them into baby chicks, but hens will lay just as many eggs whether there's a rooster around or not.
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Hi Cameldog,
Search my topic on "fig pollination myth kill" .
I lost some seedlings but still have 3 growing for now .

For pollination, if most of the crop does fall to the ground each year, then that strain requires pollination - that is if no other problem made them drop, especially cold snaps make the figlets drop and that has nothing to do with pollination .
I have an "Ice crystal" that dropped most of the crop and I just got 2 ripe figs . I'll see next year what happens. But if the same happens, then "Ice crystal" is of the type smyrna and requires pollination .
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You basically have to know what you're buying.  Another way to tell is to research a fig you want or that someone is trying to sell you and give us it's name.  If the name is true to the fig more than likely we can tell you if it does need pollination or not.
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cameldog

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Hi guys.... thanks for your input, i might not make my question clear :)

It should be...

"What if when you are on travelling, and you saw a fig tree in the wild, and there are few riped fruit on the tree... and some riped/dropped/dried fruit on the floor.... can you tell by "theory" or "good way to guess" if this var do required polination ?
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What you can say for sure is if those figs HAVE BEEN pollinated. Take a ripe fig, extract the seeds in a glass with water (you may need a few hours before the flesh separates) and check if they sink.
Let’s say the figs came from the main crop (not breba).

1. If the majority of the seeds is on the bottom and not flowing on the water's surface, the fig was pollinated.

As far as to say if that variety is a Smyrna type (assuming the fig you found is edible and not a capri) or a Common, I would still say you cannot tell since all the fig varieties could be pollinated. 

2. On the other hand, if all the seeds float and the tree is covered in ripe figs, that var doesn’t require pollination, it is a Common type.

The middle ground is covered by the San Pedro types where the main crop needs to be pollinated and breba does not.
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