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For Aussie fig growers, where do you source your rare fig trees? LSU Gold in particular

Daleys have it but its out of stock at the moment. I just managed to get an excel from Diggers as they were the only nursery selling it (they sent me a white adriatic in poor condition before but its bouncing back). Hopefully this one will not be too bad.

Thanks in advance
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Originally Posted by FigColt
For Aussie fig growers, where do you source your rare fig trees? LSU Gold in particular

Daleys have it but its out of stock at the moment. I just managed to get an excel from Diggers as they were the only nursery selling it (they sent me a white adriatic in poor condition before but its bouncing back). Hopefully this one will not be too bad.

Thanks in advance


I have lsu gold cuttings. And many other lsu varieties. Richie
Louisiana
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HICKORY LOUISIANA ZONE 8B WARM HUMID
WINRERS ARE VERY MILD LOW 20'S BUT WARMS RIGHT UP DURING THE DAY. SUMMER IS EXTREMELY HOT & HUMID 100 degrees 100% humidity fig tree grow like crazy but some split from rain & humidity
Wish list. Col de dame blanc
Col de rimada
Lsu numbered figs
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ThaiFig

I might check with customs to see if they can help me out with importing figs
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Hi,
No you cant import cuttings or trees at all without the correct certificates, and i think the nurseries from where the plants come from have to be inspected and approved. Them when they do arrive in australia, customs blasts tgem with formeldahyde to kill any nasties. Unfortunately, this usually kills the plant too.
I do know of someone who imported figs througb the corrected channels who had this happen. Cost him tens of thousands of dollars. And he lost most of the stock in the process.
I have heard of others who smuggled cuttings ... they usually end up caught, the cuttings destroyed as well as the rest of their fig collection. Fines are hideously high, and then theres jail time.
Theres many many fig varieties in australia.
I am working on documenting them.
We dont really need to be bringing more in when we probably have 400 or 500 different ones already. Many of them utterly delicious.
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I'm more interested in importation of some of those Aussie figs. Like Blue Provence and especially St. Dominique Violette... especially St. Dominique.
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Most of our figs here have been smuggled in and continue to be smuggled in. The war on fig cuttings is being lost. All of our children will continue to grow up eating figs. There is a huge epidemic that cotinues to grow. Lol
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HICKORY LOUISIANA ZONE 8B WARM HUMID
WINRERS ARE VERY MILD LOW 20'S BUT WARMS RIGHT UP DURING THE DAY. SUMMER IS EXTREMELY HOT & HUMID 100 degrees 100% humidity fig tree grow like crazy but some split from rain & humidity
Wish list. Col de dame blanc
Col de rimada
Lsu numbered figs
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That's absolutely true, it'd a shame those two are originally French but haven't been sold in over 75 years anywhere except Australia.
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Really. I did not know that. It will make it here one day.
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HICKORY LOUISIANA ZONE 8B WARM HUMID
WINRERS ARE VERY MILD LOW 20'S BUT WARMS RIGHT UP DURING THE DAY. SUMMER IS EXTREMELY HOT & HUMID 100 degrees 100% humidity fig tree grow like crazy but some split from rain & humidity
Wish list. Col de dame blanc
Col de rimada
Lsu numbered figs
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There are different nurseries and collections selling several versions of what they claim is blue provence. So i have most of them here and am growing them out to see which is the true version, and maybe work out the id of the others, although they could be seedlings of blue provence.
The st dom fig was at the Burnley research garden and a teacher from the college there, took cuttings from it, or it was on his family orchard. Been told both versions. Anyway, it was saved before the collection was buldozed.
I have the complete list of the figs from the burnley research station and am gradually finding them. Others i have, i suspect are lost burnley figs but wont know for sure till they mature.
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Originally Posted by FigColt
For Aussie fig growers, where do you source your rare fig trees? LSU Gold in particular

Daleys have it but its out of stock at the moment. I just managed to get an excel from Diggers as they were the only nursery selling it (they sent me a white adriatic in poor condition before but its bouncing back). Hopefully this one will not be too bad.

Thanks in advance



Diggers are hopeless. Their blue provence is quite probably not blue provence. I have 3 of their bllue provence trees that unimpressed customers have passed on to me. They will be compared to the other versions i have of blue provence.

Having a discussion about this with their manager atm...
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Yeah diggers are not good. the excell fig i bought died in a week after i bought it. It was 3 times smaller that the stock you get from bunnings it was about 13cm tall. They re-funded me.

I ended up getting

1. LSU Gold from daleys
2. Dwarf Brown Fig from daleys
3. Pink Jerusalem from Ebay
4. White Genoa (Advanced ~1m tall in a 10 inch pot) from flemings nursery. 

Im still looking for an excel and a strawberry verte fig to complete my collection.....for now...

are the black and green picone figs any good?
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Yeah diggers are not good. the excell fig i bought died in a week after i bought it. It was 3 times smaller that the stock you get from bunnings it was about 13cm tall. They re-funded me.

I ended up getting

1. LSU Gold from daleys
2. Dwarf Brown Fig from daleys
3. Pink Jerusalem from daleys
4. White Genoa (Advanced ~1m tall in a 10 inch pot) from flemings nursery. 

Im still looking for an excel and a strawberry verte fig to complete my collection.....for now...

are the black and green picone figs any good?


I have all of the above but wont be selling any plants till next winter.

I have had green picone cuttings passed on to me by two other completely different collections. Found that both cutting sets, were not very keen to set roots, and were even dying at the base. Another collector had the same experience. But i think i have mine going.
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I have had green picone cuttings passed on to me by two other completely different collections. Found that both cutting sets, were not very keen to set roots, and were even dying at the base. Another collector had the same experience. But i think i have mine going. 


Awesome. Please let me know if you can successfully strike them.
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figcolt,
if you pm me your address i can send you cuttings of
excel
s/verte
st.dom.
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figcolt,
if you pm me your address i can send you cuttings of
excel
s/verte
st.dom.
clancy


Its great when someone gives new collectors a start with some of the nicer varieties.
Ive swapped amongst a handful of close friends and intend on supplying some scion at our grafting days next year in Vic.

I sell my spares now mostly so i can fund setting up an area undercover for my collection.
We have had an awful winter and spring, and is still quite wet and cold here. Some of my cuttings are only just waking up, while the older trees are not likely to fruit well this year.
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Well when St. Dom hits stateside I want to be in line ;)
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