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Subject: Grafting Tool Replies: 22
Posted By: mayhawman Views: 376
 
Hello Guys,
If you choose to use a box cutter be very very careful. I close friend was an expert grafter for many years but one day he nearly bled to death on the way to the hospital when he cut himself while demoing a graft for a visitor.
Merry Christmas to All.
Travis in South Louisiana

Subject: Grafting Tool Replies: 22
Posted By: mayhawman Views: 376
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by lampo
Found that the so called 'omega' grafter is very limited and fail to produce clean cuts consistently on the average fig scions from the previous year... may be working soft, more herbaceous scions but, even so, for my taste the resulting job is very poor.
Bought one for trial , used it 3 or 4 times.. and gave it away.

Ideal tool is a dedicated grafting   knife with a razor sharp carbon steel 80 or 90 mm blade prepared for right or left handed grafters -   the knife I use is 6 years old,  still in very good shape and costed approx $5 .

same model as this one..
https://commerciol.com/Navalhas-e-Canivetes/Canivete-de-Enxertia-CIOL-1901

Francisco
Portugal

Subject: Celeste vs. Improved Celeste Replies: 22
Posted By: mayhawman Views: 581
 
Hi Sas,
The trees are twins and the crop is almost exactly the same. There has been a Celeste in my life since I was a child in my grandfather's orchard in 1952.
In my area there are many Celeste trees and they are very cold hardy. In 2014 when we had three ice storms in six weeks  and a low of 18 degrees there was a tiny bit of tip damage on the two Celeste trees. meanwhile I lost two mature citrus trees due to that cold event.
I have other trees, but these are my favorites.
Travis Callahan Abbeville, LA

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Subject: Celeste vs. Improved Celeste Replies: 22
Posted By: mayhawman Views: 581
 
Hi Folks, I have two Celeste trees in their eleventh year since planting and I have never seen a fig drop on those trees. I average 20 gallons a year on each tree and am down in South Louisiana on the coast near  the town of Abbeville.

Subject: Olympian Replies: 139
Posted By: mayhawman Views: 9,883
 
Mario,
Thank you so much for all your Olympian pictures. This is a new one for me here in zone 9 Southern Louisiana.
Nice fish

Mayhawman (Travis)

Subject: Olympian Replies: 139
Posted By: mayhawman Views: 9,883
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by pyxistort
Just read this article from local newspaper about Olympian fig:
http://www.thenewstribune.com/2010/05/12/1183238/big-on-figs-a-retired-biologist.html

It would be interesting to see the result of growing this fig in other states. 

Scott




Mayhawman has planted an Olympian here in deep zone 9 in July 2016.

Subject: first post, hello all Replies: 21
Posted By: mayhawman Views: 289
 
Hi Roy,
Welcome aboard. I too am a lurker.
Travis (mayhawman)

Subject: Pictures of your inground fig trees now in zone 6 Replies: 38
Posted By: mayhawman Views: 1,020
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by figpig_66
j have i lot of IN GROUND fig trees but i am in Zone 9b


Me too . I am in Abbeville.
mayhawman  east Celeste.jpg

Subject: Mistery thief Replies: 19
Posted By: mayhawman Views: 438
 
Hi Mario,
Squirrel damage  probable.

I did not know what damage a roof rat (fruit rat) can do to a citrus tree. But they eat the pulp and leave the peel nearly intact.  One evening I went out with a flash light and spotted the culprit.

Good hunting
mayhaw man in South Louisiana

Subject: off topic, looking for pear cuttings/rootstock OHxF 51 Replies: 9
Posted By: mayhawman Views: 174
 
Hi brackishfigger,
Perhaps consider using callery stock and graft the OH&F on that and the chosen variety on the top. The bullet proof callery will be retarded by the OH&F to some extent.
Travis

Subject: off topic, looking for pear cuttings/rootstock OHxF 51 Replies: 9
Posted By: mayhawman Views: 174
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by brackishfigger
I am branching out in my fruit tree grafting efforts (I'm the Frankenfig guy), including:

apples (anna/dorsett golden/tropic sweet) that I will be grafting onto several commercially available dwarfing and semidwarfing roostock ordered for this spring,

persimmon on native rootstock last spring,

Chickasaw/guthrie/odom native plums on rooted cuttings, planning multi-variety trees

and pears (biscamp/southern barlett/perdue).

The pears were grafted last year onto both p. betulifolia and callery rootstock, both of which are vigorous fireblight resistant varieties, but a bit too vigorous, with mature sizes as large or larger than the species.

There are apparently precious few (any, really?) semi-dwarfing pears that tolerate the heat and humidity in the gulf south, fireblight USA.

I have read that OHxF 51 did very well down here and is semidwarfing, but suckered poorly or otherwise didn't lend itself to propagation as a rootstock.  Plus it didn't do well further north.

I ordered some from the USDA and anticipate getting two cuttings.  I will be grafting some onto other trees for a ready supply in the future, but also hope to try both rooting some for future grafting, and using some as an interstem between the callery and the fruiting pears.  I'm gonna run out of wood real quick like.

The crux: does anyone have access to OHxf 51?  an old tree that died back to the rootstock and regrew?  an intact grafted specimen that suckers?  li'l help?

Subject: If you give Brown Turkey a Bad name, Check this! Replies: 74
Posted By: mayhawman Views: 1,589
 
Hello Frank and Group,
Thirty years ago I had a very large orchard and one of the first figs I bought at a local nursery was a "brown Turkey". I was not really happy with that one since the eye was very large and about a day before I would consider the fig ripe the ants would attack the fruit followed by weevils.

So I removed the tree.

Nine years ago after leaving my orchard with 400 trees due to flooding from Hurricane Rita I started all over again, this time with just a half acre yard and space for only six figs. I started with 2 trees of the Celeste which are my food figs and which each produce at least 20 gallons of figs each every year.

Then I went to another nursery and bought what was supposed to be a Brown Turkey to try it again with the exact same results as before. Then I pulled that one and planted an O'rourke with the same results, losing the figs to insects just prior to harvest.

I now have a completely different way to get a fig tree for myself. I go taste the fruit and if it is acceptable I get cuttings from that tree and raise my own. Another classic example is the LSU Gold fig. I have tasted LSU Gold at the LSU Station in Baton Rouge which were wonderful. Then I tasted some other so called LSU Golds in peoples orchards that were terrible. So I put out the word that I was in search of a good tasting LSU Gold. A friend named Rick friend called me over and his was so good that I am certain that it was the LSU Gold from the LSU Research station. I removed cuttings that day and am now growing my own.

We are at the mercy of the person placing the label on a fig tree. Our tastes are different. I am limited to about a 100 mile radius, but I taste the fig first and if I like it I take cuttings from that specific fig. Then I call it for example  LSU GOLD RICK.
Travis ( Mayhawman) in South Louisiana

Subject: yet another unknown fig needs an identity Replies: 14
Posted By: mayhawman Views: 579
 
Hi guys,
The Alma will have nearly round leaves.

But I have seen many fig  trees with several leaf shapes .

I grew Alma in 1991 for many years (until 2005) and my cuttings came from TAMU .

Nine years ago I moved here after hurricane Rita and the purchaser of my former orchard pulled up every fruit tree on the place. Recently one of my local Fig Friends provided me with another Alma . I am so happy to once again have Alma.
Alma Ferd.jpg

Subject: Cajun Fig Fest Wrap Up Replies: 35
Posted By: mayhawman Views: 2,089
 
One of the problems with forums is that you really don't know who you are talking to. I think that for a first time fig event it went very well. Things learned yesterday will be a part of next year. I am new to the forum so I don't know most of the people's names . I am
Mayhawman,
Travis J. Callahan,
teejcee@cox.net,
http://www.tandeecal.com/page3.htm

Subject: Cajun Fig Fest Wrap Up Replies: 35
Posted By: mayhawman Views: 2,089
 
Hello Noss,
Norris Fontenot and Wife Phoebe were in attendance. Norris had a professional camera since he is a photographer professionally . That was a nice get together that reminded me of the Southern Fruit Fellowship activities.

As someone who handles very large reunions I know that Sign in sheets are a necessity . Food was great, facility was great, I give you and the other organizers and A +.
Travis

Subject: LSU Purple Replies: 18
Posted By: mayhawman Views: 1,976
 
I have grown ten varieties of figs for the past 27 years. I have had the heaviest crops of the best tasting fruit on my LSU Purples. Here at a new location I am fruiting three other varieties and have purchased my new LSU Purple this morning. I waited till the nursery had little trees with fruit on them to purchase my tree due to the misname errors I have seen over the years.

You will find that the LSU Purple will be VERY vigorous in it's second year and prepare to be pruning more than you think you should every year. The fruit when dull black tastes like Fig Jam.I find this to be, in my opinion, the best of the figs I have ever tasted.

Hello To the forum members.
Travis Callahan, Abbeville, LA