Originally Posted by tsparozi
Seriously Ross... I am disappointed.... your post is not up to your usually high standards. Nothing wrong with what ThaiFig is running up the flag pole.... ThaiFig ususally provides excellent instructional grow guidance without coming off as a smartass. You are quite tech savy so you don't need to be told that if you don't want to participate on a thread, you simply don't click into it...

Originally Posted by ThaiFig
You don't like my posts, I think there's an ignore poster button.  Others apparently do from the emails and PMs I've received.

Originally Posted by Rewton
Pino, that's great that you have gotten Pastilliere to fruit in container culture.  Many folks have had problems with fruit drop and have given up on it.  Did you treat it any differently than your other figs?  Mine is one season old and I am thinking of planting it in ground next Spring.

Originally Posted by Sas
Based on your Description, it sounds much more delicious than my Dorée. So far I have not been impressed with my Dorée's performance. And I know for sure that the Pied de Boeuf is a diffrent fig that what you're showing here. If I recall correctly, the Pied de Boeuf is a bell shaped fig that has brownish and yellow colors.

Originally Posted by fignutty


Figs don't push shoots from the roots, only from stems. So it was the buried stem that I was talking about.

Originally Posted by fignutty
I'd say professor Linda is just guessing or speaking about trees in general. The original roots of a fig planted 3ft deep aren't going to die in a well drained soil. In a poorly drained soil sure they might. But in a soil where figs normally root 3ft or deeper there's no reason to believe the buried roots will die. And for plants like figs and grapes that root easily even on older wood the new roots near the surface should be just as good as if planted shallower.

That said planting 3ft deep sounds a bit like overkill. It's not going to help survival after a winter freeze unless the buds can push up thru 3ft of soil. Will they do that? I don't know, maybe in a loose friable soil. But not thru clay.

Originally Posted by ADelmanto
I would do this only in the active growing season. Planting too deep in the fall leads to rot. I found that out the hard way.

Originally Posted by tinyfish
I guess figs are similar to tomato plants in that aspect that they will grow roots from the stem if planted deep.

Originally Posted by hoosierbanana
Hold the phone, Azores Dark is an Etna type...

Originally Posted by kingoceanos
Thanks Ross, wish I had watched this before starting to collect fig trees. I like many others start a collection and don't feel it's complete until I have them all... Obviously not all fig trees will do well in my location which is a lesson I have to constantly remind myself about. I live in zone 8b Gulf coast of Texas where we can go from one extreme to the other in the blink of an eye, drought, flooding, heat, freezing temps... and no fig wasp that I know of. So I should have done my research first before getting many of the cuttings that I currently have. I bought many because of the hype about flavor and history when I should have looked for ones that wouldn't split with our rains and take our temps during the summer. Hopefully some day maybe some one will make a master list of varieties suitable for different locations, of course that will be a time consuming task since there seem to be many duplicate types and new ones constantly showing up. I was thinking a color coded map that when you click on the state a list of suitable cultivars would pop up and show which ones are duplicates or close too a duplicate. Any way thanks again, sorry if I'm rambling on ( not enough coffee in me yet). :)

Originally Posted by VeryNew2Figs
Thanks for the video, Ross.  I watch them all.  I echo learning on inexpensive cuttings.  I was lucky to get my hands on a bunch to play with.  I learned a lot.

Ross, I see you use Google Photos.  Do you have any experience with Photo Bucket to make a comparison?