dkirtexas
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Are there multiple types/strains of this fig? I have 2 trees that are 2+ yr old with distinctly different leaves. I know that immature trees have different leaves but these are radically different. I would appreciate picts of your Black Mission leaves with your answer.
Likeo
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Posted 1460641587
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I don't think so, maybe different figs?
pitangadiego
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Posted 1460649973
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A lot of Brown Turkeys are labeled as Black Mission. Also, Black Mission can have a wide variety of leaves styles. Black Mission tends to have some reddish tint in the leaf stems. Some pix would help.
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Quackmaster
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dkirtexas
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I did not post picts as I did not want to "Taint" any input.
Quackmaster
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Oh, I can take the pics down if you like, I've been looking at this tree more and more as it grows and looks less like the missions I've seen.
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Quackmaster
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Posted 1460653905
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And I'm with you Danny, idk why a mature tree would be so different if they supposed to be the same cultivar. Does any of your two missions look like mine?
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Posted 1460672662
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Here's the leaf pattern on my 2 year old Black Mission, no red tint though. I traded for this little tree last spring from a nice older lady who runs a small nursery near me and she swore it was Black Mission. I also have a small rooted cutting from a 100 year old BM but the leaves are too young to compare this year. Was able to get 2 good leaves in the pic.
dkirtexas
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Posted 1460673896
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@Quackmaster - Ryan, I meant that I wanted to see other member's pict first. One of my trees has leaves like yours except my tree does not have the pinkish tint.
Quackmaster
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Posted 1460681982
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Oh, ok Danny. For the first two years I had this tree all the leaves were long narrow skinny finger type leaves, just over the last couple years the leaves started to widen out but it's always had a red tent to it, a good number of my trees have the red is tent but I have to say that this one is the most red. This is probably the best tasting fig in my yard over maltese falcon and beauty, vdb, rdb, and so on. The first two years it didn't produce then it started making a couple and since then it put out a few more then the year before, I'm hoping this season it finally let's loose and puts out a lot.
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Posted 1460682091
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Simon, that is a good looking tree.
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Thanks Ryan, I hope to get a good handful of figs this year. It gave me like 3 last year and they weren't that great but as we all know, the older they get the better the fruit... I do remember it having that redish tint last year and now I'm wondering if it comes later in the season when fruiting. I have 2 airlayers from my VdB and are now both in 5gal pots and are the same exact hight, one has that tint and the other doesn't, go figure...
Quackmaster
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I've noticed that with some trees, the red will come and go. I'm sure they will get better.
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Posted 1460752676
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I bought a stick of " Black mission" 2 months ago, it had red sprout earlier, but now new sprouts are not red, It grows so slow, slowest fig tree than 5 fig trees that I planted them same time in ground. Hardy Chicago grows much faster.
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