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	Subject: 2016 Fig Season in Maryland	Replies: 10
	Posted By: Maro2Bear	Views: 280

Greetings. Figs are all ripening now providing us with some tasty daily treats. Celeste, Hardy Chicago, Black Yugoslav, Carini, Ghosh, Black Mission, Longue d' Aout, and a few more, including the Negronne.

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	Subject: 2016 Fig Season in Maryland	Replies: 10
	Posted By: Maro2Bear	Views: 280

Things are starting to look good here now. We've picked a few tasty figs, but so far our Negronne is in first place.

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	Subject: Figs in Baku, Azerbaijan	Replies: 6
	Posted By: Maro2Bear	Views: 184

Greetings again, still in Baku and finding lots of figs. Was walking around the Olde Town bits yesterday, and there are some ancient fig trees growing there. Here are a few pix.

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	Subject: Figs in Baku, Azerbaijan	Replies: 6
	Posted By: Maro2Bear	Views: 184

Down an alley, and bam!, another fig garden.

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	Subject: Figs in Baku, Azerbaijan	Replies: 6
	Posted By: Maro2Bear	Views: 184

Greetings, just wanted to let you all know that fig trees abound in Azerbaijan! On every street corner and back garden trees can be found in all sizes, shapes and conditions.

Here are a few pix, hopefully more to follow:

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	Subject: 2016 Fig Season in Maryland	Replies: 10
	Posted By: Maro2Bear	Views: 280

Thanks guys, appreciate the quick responses.

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	Subject: 2016 Fig Season in Maryland	Replies: 10
	Posted By: Maro2Bear	Views: 280

Here are a few more pix of our in-ground fig hedge of Hardy Chicago and Celeste; newly started cuttings, and the Black Madeira.

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	Subject: 2016 Fig Season in Maryland	Replies: 10
	Posted By: Maro2Bear	Views: 280

Greetings all. Been a little while since I've posted, but the fig collection flourishes here in Maryland. No real over winter issues this year even though I housed all my containerized figs in our unheated garage. Had about 35 trees in pots in our garage and only lost one. My in-ground Hardy Chicago and Celeste trees have done well. All survived our MD winter, cold wet Spring and are all alive and pushing lots of new growth. I have a few newly propagated Celeste and Hardy Chicago trees, all doing well.

My biggest and most satisfying start is my Black Madeira. Started from a UC Davis cutting, two years ago, it's now a real, thriving tree!

The last few years I had our trees on our deck, but they really took over! This Spring, a new semi-permanent location on our driveway. One advantage is that they get full sun from morning 'til evening. Just need to reconfigure the drip irrigation system I had in place.

Here are a few pix of the motley crew of trees on our driveway.

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	Subject: Some figs and pawpaws	Replies: 11
	Posted By: Maro2Bear	Views: 199

Greetings, was out kayaking on the Patuxent River and Mattaponi Creek area in southern MD on Saturday and although we didnt find any figs, we did find many groves of Paw Paw. They were a bit over ripe, but smelled great!

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	Subject: Maryland Fig Season 2015 - Black Madeira - New Pix!	Replies: 81
	Posted By: Maro2Bear	Views: 3,102

Greetings all. It's been a pretty good fig season here for me in Maryland. Been picking an awful lot and bringing them in to share with co-workers. Here's a Brown Turkey that we just picked and ate yesterday.

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	Subject: Maryland Fig Season 2015 - Black Madeira - New Pix!	Replies: 81
	Posted By: Maro2Bear	Views: 3,102

Greetings all. After a massive set of thunderstorms rolled through the area yesterday, nice sunny warm day today. Figs are loving it! Wanted to provide a quick update on my Black Madeira that I started from a UC Davis cutting last year.

For reference take a look back to posting #58, pix no. 1, taken 28 March.

And here it is today.

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	Subject: Maryland Fig Season 2015 - Black Madeira - New Pix!	Replies: 81
	Posted By: Maro2Bear	Views: 3,102

Topic: Starting New Figs from Twigs

I know that a lot of folks get the fig bug during the Winter doldrums and start cuttings as soon as they can.

- Pros: makes you feel good; plants get started and are growing for a month or more, large starter trees, etc
- Cons: gnats and bugs all over; leggy growth; lots of heating and lighting requirements; lots of messing with getting things right and then keeping them right as plants gain height; dry indoor rooms during Winter means working harder to keep humidity at optimum levels; etc.

This year, I started my cuttings a LOT later, I took my Celeste pruning cuttings and had them in a sealed baggie, in unheated garage for a long time. A few weeks ago, I took a few of these cuttings, placed them in cups with a coco coir/perlite mix, sealed them with baggies overtop to keep moisture in, and they are growing. Pushing buds, then nice new leaves. No messing with roots and all those stages where most ppl mess up, no indoor gnat issues, more sun through windows, etc. I can leave these plants like this for a long time as roots get larger and larger. Then one up pot and I'm good for the Summer.

Here are a few pix of the process.

Pix one, baggie off to take clearer pix.

Pix two, cuttings in cups covered in baggies.

In pix three, you can see that I keep the lid on using the center straw hole to hold the cutting and keep more moisture trapped down with the roots.

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	Subject: Maryland Fig Season 2015 - Black Madeira - New Pix!	Replies: 81
	Posted By: Maro2Bear	Views: 3,102

Update as well on the weather: forecast low temps for this week is mid-40's - no way these will impact your figs in Catonsville. :-) and the high temps close to 70 daily, we'll take it!

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	Subject: Maryland Fig Season 2015 - Black Madeira - New Pix!	Replies: 81
	Posted By: Maro2Bear	Views: 3,102

Habib, thats way above freezing. No reason to bring your trees back inside, especiallybwith these long warm days ahead as well. I didnt see where they are calling for that cool of overnight temps. I'll have to check. Regardless, 38f is fine.

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	Subject: Maryland Fig Season 2015 - Black Madeira - New Pix!	Replies: 81
	Posted By: Maro2Bear	Views: 3,102

A relatively chilly and very breezy Sunday here in Maryland and we're expecting a good rainstorm to pass through here this evening. That said, the potted figs are appreciating the semi-overcast day and are not getting "baked" in the sun. Here's a few pix of the Conandria, nice new leaves and a few breba as well. These were very large and delicious last year!

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	Subject: Maryland Fig Season 2015 - Black Madeira - New Pix!	Replies: 81
	Posted By: Maro2Bear	Views: 3,102

One thing for sure, my plants that were over-wintered in our cold storage room are weeks, maybe a month ahead of any of the in-ground plants that went through the Winter "protected". The in-ground trees hardly breaking any bud growth.

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	Subject: Maryland Fig Season 2015 - Black Madeira - New Pix!	Replies: 81
	Posted By: Maro2Bear	Views: 3,102

Chad, Once the plants were outside, greening buds present, some small leaves as well, I gave them a few waterings with the MaxiGro fertilizer ref'd above. Ive fertilized them like this maybe twice or three times. Weve had a good dose of rain the last few days, so I plan to let them dry out a bit now.

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	Subject: Maryland Fig Season 2015 - Black Madeira - New Pix!	Replies: 81
	Posted By: Maro2Bear	Views: 3,102

Fig trees are doing well! I think I managed to move my potted trees outside on the perfect day a few weeks ago. Since that date, we've had increasing daytime temperatures with just cool, not cold evenings. I can see growth daily in these trees, I'm amazed at the beautiful new leaves. From cold, dormant branches, to nice spring green leaves and brebas. The Madeline de Deux brebas are amazing ( at least I think so ). They continue to swell and look fantastic. Attached are some pix of Madeline's brebas - looking pretty good!

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	Subject: Is this Breba?	Replies: 8
	Posted By: Maro2Bear	Views: 352

I would venture a guess here and say it's a breba, looks like it's forming from old growth, plus this year's growth doesnt look old enough to support a new fig. So, breba.

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	Subject: Maryland Fig Season 2015 - Black Madeira - New Pix!	Replies: 81
	Posted By: Maro2Bear	Views: 3,102

Well, the day time temperatures are increasing nicely, but overnight lows continue to sink. All my potted trees that I put out the other day have been soaking in the warm sunshine, thats for sure. The breba crop is growing as well, not impacted by the cool evening temps. Today, I was able to finalize the seating arrangement on our deck for all the plants, so next big project will be to hook my drip irrigation system. Should be easier this year since I left the hoseline in place from last year. Pots were all pretty dry so today I gave them all a drink using the newly acquired MaxiGro fertilizer.

Heres a few pix: look at those brebas!

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	Subject: Maryland Fig Season 2015 - Black Madeira - New Pix!	Replies: 81
	Posted By: Maro2Bear	Views: 3,102

Ive moved all my potted figs outside today! It's too nice to keep them inside now, temps are mild and swinging up! Supposed to be close to 70 by late evening and the better part of tomorrow.

Yes, a long hot sunshine-filled Fall would be nice.

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	Subject: Maryland Fig Season 2015 - Black Madeira - New Pix!	Replies: 81
	Posted By: Maro2Bear	Views: 3,102

Greetings all. Can you believe that we had a thin layer of frost this morning?! My vehicle's windscreen was fully covered in a thin layer of frost, dashboard temp read 28F! Luckily, I only moved a few outside the other day, and they were right next to house, seem unaffected. Warm day temps today, tomorrow. Yeah!

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	Subject: Maryland Fig Season 2015 - Black Madeira - New Pix!	Replies: 81
	Posted By: Maro2Bear	Views: 3,102

Nice warming day guys, I did a bit of the fig shuffle this morning with about five plants, all in now as sun lowers along with the temps. Here are a few pictures.

1. Sweet Diane with nice new growth
2/3. Brebas on my young Carini, from Sicily
4/5. Brebas on the Madeline de Deux

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	Subject: when to unwrap fig trees	Replies: 15
	Posted By: Maro2Bear	Views: 807

In my opinion, it's the potted trees that have really leafed out that you have to worry about the most. A few more cold nights here won't harm a tree that hasnt leafed out. But, given that we are only a few days or a week at most away from overnight freezing temps, might as well wait. Here in the greater DC area, calling for 26F tonight, but remainder is all on the up-n-up. Remainder of the week highs to be high 60s. Low 20's out right now this early Sunday morning, so nothing growing outside, and my outdoor figs are on hold.

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	Subject: Maryland Fig Season 2015 - Black Madeira - New Pix!	Replies: 81
	Posted By: Maro2Bear	Views: 3,102

Gordenia

Ive not used this particular product before, but have seen others on this forum hype it up, with what appears to be good success. Nice lush plant growth. I guess we'll see the results this year.

Never used any auxins, so can't comment, maybe others have and can comment.

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	Subject: Drip system installed	Replies: 19
	Posted By: Maro2Bear	Views: 666

I agree, drip irrigation systems on timers is the way to go, not only for potted trees but for in-ground figs as well. I installed my system two years ago, expanded it again last spring, and it worked so well. Had mini drippers to all my pots, some micro-sprayers as well. Even moisture levels through the summer I'm sure helped over all vigor of our trees, increased fig production.

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	Subject: when to unwrap fig trees	Replies: 15
	Posted By: Maro2Bear	Views: 807

Joe

Id say we are close to the end of the cold n snow. Daytime temps are now all on the increase, with longer days, shorter nights, etc. I would say you are good to unwrap your trees and let them enjoy the warm days, cool nights. It will take some time for them to pop, so let them free. Good luck.

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	Subject: Maryland Fig Season 2015 - Black Madeira - New Pix!	Replies: 81
	Posted By: Maro2Bear	Views: 3,102

Gretings all

This hot one day, cold for many is no good! Our figs are confused! We as keepers of the figs are confused! I had a few potted ones outside for Thursdays "hot" temps of 73f, but based on forecast of lots of rain, coupled with cold temps, I brought them back in. My outdoor bird bath formed a layer of ice! Supposed to be pretty cold again Sunday night - then warming up. Potted figs soon to go out!

Heres some quick pix of my Madeline de Deux with a ton of brebas, and my Black Madeira. The BM is from a UC Davis cutting started last year.

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	Subject: Maryland Fig Season 2015 - Black Madeira - New Pix!	Replies: 81
	Posted By: Maro2Bear	Views: 3,102

Steve, the fig pictured with all the brebas is my Madelline de Deux. Really quite a few pictured there, but also on many of it's other branches. MANY of our other potted figs have breba crops as well. I'll have to document which ones for our records.

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	Subject: Maryland Fig Season 2015 - Black Madeira - New Pix!	Replies: 81
	Posted By: Maro2Bear	Views: 3,102

Alright, enough is enough! Snow yesterday to the tune of 2 inches, a day later and we are in the low 60's. I couldnt resist, I did a bit of the fig shuffle today. My other dormant trees are all waking up as well.

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	Subject: Figs at Lowes in Maryland	Replies: 18
	Posted By: Maro2Bear	Views: 785

Kane - thanks for the tip. Our first fig that started this strange collection was a HC purchased a few years ago. We now get 100's of sweet tasty morsels from this one ! Since then, have been able to find Brown Turkey, black Mission, and Celeste. By accident, we picked up a HC that turned out to be a Conandria - now one of our most favorite. Might check Lowes and HD out, thanks.

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	Subject: Maryland Fig Season 2015 - Black Madeira - New Pix!	Replies: 81
	Posted By: Maro2Bear	Views: 3,102

Greetings. So much for our string of 10 days with above average temperatures, weathermen today now calling for ten days BELOW average, with the mixed precip coming as well. Springtime on hold, figs in holding pattern.

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	Subject: Maryland Fig Season 2015 - Black Madeira - New Pix!	Replies: 81
	Posted By: Maro2Bear	Views: 3,102

Greetings.

Nice semi-overcast, warm day here with temps in the mid-60's. I have too many potted figs to play the fig shuffle, but I did move the Vista outside for the entire day, and gave it an extra watering. Getting close to moving them all out, but this friday ther's talk of a mixed bag of precipitation, snow, sleet, rain. So we wait.

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	Subject: Maryland Fig Season 2015 - Black Madeira - New Pix!	Replies: 81
	Posted By: Maro2Bear	Views: 3,102

A few evenings of below freezing won't hurt anything. It's the extended deep freeze that does the kill tree damage. With high daytime temps now, I'll bet your safe to uncover. I'm getting ready to move my banana tree out soon. It can take a freeze or two.

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	Subject: Maryland Fig Season 2015 - Black Madeira - New Pix!	Replies: 81
	Posted By: Maro2Bear	Views: 3,102

Chris, yes it really is time to get the figs growing! Today in our area, close to 70F - now that's some Springtime weather we can all use in these parts. One could probably risk it now and put out potted plants. From now on we should only get an occasional overnight or early morning cold snap. The advantage is that on days like today, the trees would really snap into attention.

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	Subject: An initial estimation of 2014-15 winter damage in zone 7a	Replies: 12
	Posted By: Maro2Bear	Views: 502

Steve

Really nice recap of your winter protection methodologies. Who would have thought during last weeks snowstorm that we would be uncovering this weekend. Good luck with those survivors lets hope for a good hot long Summer to ripen those figs.

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	Subject: Anybody got figs breaking dormancy?	Replies: 105
	Posted By: Maro2Bear	Views: 3,401

I've read that it really is the cold temperatures that keep plants dormant. Once the daytime temps start to get in the 50's and low 60's and above freezing at night, it's pretty much hard to keep them dormant. You might have to start the fig shuffle.

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	Subject: Anybody got figs breaking dormancy?	Replies: 105
	Posted By: Maro2Bear	Views: 3,401

Hey Chuck

I over winter my potted figs (about 30 trees) in our attached, unheated sunroom that I keep darkened throughout winter. A month ago or so I open up the blinds and increase watering. To give you an idea how cold it gets, when we had that cold snap awhile back, water in my fountains actually formed a sheet of ice. These buds really just started to pop this past week to ten days.

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	Subject: Anybody got figs breaking dormancy?	Replies: 105
	Posted By: Maro2Bear	Views: 3,401

Greetings,

My dormant potted figs are coming to life as well.

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	Subject: Maryland Fig Season 2015 - Black Madeira - New Pix!	Replies: 81
	Posted By: Maro2Bear	Views: 3,102

Greetings all

Now that I have green buds, leaves, figs popping I plan to hit all the potted trees up with the much hyped about MaxiGro 10-5-24 hydroponics fertilizer. This product promises to promote the growth of strong stems, roots and foliage.

Pix of the product

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	Subject: Maryland Fig Season 2015 - Black Madeira - New Pix!	Replies: 81
	Posted By: Maro2Bear	Views: 3,102

Got some baby figs popping!

Yep, after close inspection of my "dormant" figs that are starting to green, my wife says, hey, you've got yourself some baby figs coming out. And sure enough, we have plenty of early baby figs starting to pop out.

Picture here is of our Madeline de Deux early figs and some of the other early leaves.

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	Subject: Maryland Fig Season 2015 - Black Madeira - New Pix!	Replies: 81
	Posted By: Maro2Bear	Views: 3,102

So, i was able to uncover my "fig hedge" today that consists of three HC and one Celeste. They all look really good and have survived yet another Winter. The interesting thing is that the HC to the far right was not pruned too hard in the Fall, but I tied it down horizontally as close to ground. This tree, on close examination, actually has some nice green buds protruding.

Key to pix:
1. The buried trees
2. A bit of top exposed
3. The process is slow...
4. One HC uncovered
5. Tied down HC
6. Hedge cleaned up
7. & 8. New buds!

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	Subject: Maryland Fig Season 2015 - Black Madeira - New Pix!	Replies: 81
	Posted By: Maro2Bear	Views: 3,102

Greetings Steve. Pretty good day today to finish up the uncovering process. I just finished my others. Yes, i agree with giving them a good cut back in the Fall, that's pretty much what i did to all my in-ground trees. I'm sure garage temps are a few degrees warmer and will bud out earlier there then if u bring them out soon. The potted trees I have in our cold sun room are all starting to push green buds. One actually has some leaves i think because it was kept a bit warmer near in the garage with my banana plant.

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	Subject: Maryland Fig Season 2015 - Black Madeira - New Pix!	Replies: 81
	Posted By: Maro2Bear	Views: 3,102

Greetings. Post above shows the completely uncovered Hardy Chicago. All looks good, maybe a few frost burnt tips on the branches that I didnt cover up. But, no harm no foul - get those buds, leaves and figs coming.

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	Subject: GET OUT!	Replies: 9
	Posted By: Maro2Bear	Views: 546

Bill, nice looking hoop house, that should do the trick. Is that another fig tree wrapped in blue? Id think you could take the can off now and let it start to warm up.

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	Subject: Maryland Fig Season 2015 - Black Madeira - New Pix!	Replies: 81
	Posted By: Maro2Bear	Views: 3,102

Steve , Frank

I guess it is time! Good news Steve on your trees, I guess the protective measures taken on the in-ground trees worked. I'm getting ready to go outside right now and uncover my larger HC, the one that had top branches exposed, but bottom fully covered with shredded leaves and tarps.

Yes, the weather forecast does look pretty good. Rain today with increasing daytime temperatures, a few low overnight temps but nothing extended that will impact the tree growth. It will take a few weeks for these buried guys to really wake up and produce tender shoots. By then we will be in the clear. At least we better be!

Frank, you actually put your potted trees outside for good? I'll probably wait a few weeks yet, at least until Spring! Most of my dormant trees are showing greening buds, one that was in the garage all cold winter, actually has a few tender leaves just opening.

Happy MD figging all.

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1. HC as it was in the snow sleeping
2. Unwrapping begins, nice and protected inside
3. A young shoot looking nice and green
4. Unburied, about half way done. Main trunks all exposed.
5. HC, all cleaned up and looking good.

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	Subject: Use your Hot Water Heater!	Replies: 23
	Posted By: Maro2Bear	Views: 650

Yes, i agree, great job Frank.

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	Subject: Maryland Fig Season 2015 - Black Madeira - New Pix!	Replies: 81
	Posted By: Maro2Bear	Views: 3,102

Greetings All

Spring is around the corner, geese are flying, birds are checking out the new bird houses, spring peepers are chirping, and our snowdrops were in full bloom today, daffodil buds spotted, it MUST be time to start the uncovering of our in-ground fig trees. I uncovered the one that I had least protected, and it looks in good shape. Nice green hue on main trunk and branches.

Heres the pix:
1. Hardy Chicago covered in snow
2. The newly uncovered tree
3. A pix of our blooming snowdrops.

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	Subject: unorthodox method of rooting	Replies: 35
	Posted By: Maro2Bear	Views: 801

If it works for you, it works for us. Good post!

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	Subject: Cuttings at 3 1/2 months	Replies: 44
	Posted By: Maro2Bear	Views: 1,063

Quote:

Originally Posted by nepenthes

Quote:

Originally Posted by Dave

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Originally Posted by nepenthes
Quick questions, Dave. Did you start in cups of coir and pot up to 1 gallons or once they showed promise in the coir (ie. buried horizontally in a bag or container), you immediately placed them in 1 gallons? If you automatically placed them in 1 gallons, how long did it take you to start watering? It's been almost two months for me in 1 gallon pots and I still haven't watered.

I started them in a small cup in the coir and transferred them to the 1 gallon pots , I started watering immediately Pro-mix dries out every 4 to 5 days if yours is staying wet for 2 months you might have a problem with root rot , 2 months is way too long to stay wet , might be time to change your soil mix

My plants seem to be doing fine. After seeing initials, I placed them all into 1 gallon pots from the get go. There wasn't much moisture to begin with.. just a large pot for a small cutting :) Thanks!

Alma, you might want to drape gallon zip bags over the tops of your cuttings/pots to help keep the humidity levels very high around the cuttings. Ive found this really encourages growth. Good luck.

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