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sunfish
02-15-2010, 10:37 AM
Off to Encanto Farms to pick up some Fig cuttings.

sunfish
02-15-2010, 12:09 PM
http://www.bananas.org/gallery/watermark.php?file=29737&size=1 (http://www.bananas.org/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=29737&ppuser=2868)

Plant and cuttings from Encanto Farms

http://www.bananas.org/gallery/watermark.php?file=29738&size=1 (http://www.bananas.org/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=29738&ppuser=2868)

momoese
02-15-2010, 12:14 PM
What's in the bag?

sunfish
02-15-2010, 12:31 PM
What's in the bag?

Fig cuttings

Abnshrek
02-15-2010, 01:04 PM
Nothing wrong with some figs (yum).. They sure don't taste like fig newtons (barf).. btw your weather stickers suck! lol :^)

sunfish
02-15-2010, 01:14 PM
.. btw your weather stickers suck! lol :^)

Thanks

harveyc
02-15-2010, 01:28 PM
Tony, looks like passiflora flowers in that bag or something...maybe there are fig cuttings in it also?

sunfish
02-15-2010, 01:31 PM
Tony, looks like passiflora flowers in that bag or something...maybe there are fig cuttings in it also?

That's just the flags marking the varieties.

Abnshrek
02-15-2010, 11:13 PM
Thanks

Sorry I have selective Weather sticker envy :^) only during the winter months of course :^) lol

tommyg
10-15-2011, 09:11 AM
Let us know how those cuttings do.

sunfish
10-15-2011, 09:23 AM
Let us know how those cuttings do.

Figs are one of the easiest plants to propagate from cuttings. :goteam:

tommyg
10-15-2011, 09:50 AM
Mine is very small right now. But I hear that when they are small they need a lot of light and grow very slowly as they work on growing their roots and later on they grow very quickly. Is that correct?

sunfish
10-15-2011, 10:56 AM
Mine is very small right now. But I hear that when they are small they need a lot of light and grow very slowly as they work on growing their roots and later on they grow very quickly. Is that correct?

Full sun and as much light as you can give it.Should be going dormant pretty soon.

Figs 4 Fun (http://figs4fun.com/)

sunfish
01-14-2013, 04:00 PM
Will they root ?

<a href="http://s950.beta.photobucket.com/user/musanamwah/media/2013/002_zps97b99b63.jpg.html" target="_blank"><img src="http://i950.photobucket.com/albums/ad348/musanamwah/2013/002_zps97b99b63.jpg" border="0" alt="Photobucket"/></a>:0519:

Dalmatiansoap
01-14-2013, 05:15 PM
Good idea! Might take some cuttings this week.

harveyc
01-14-2013, 06:16 PM
I suspect they will. What variety is this?

I've got cuttings of about 40 additional varieties this year. Gone a bit overboard, perhaps....

wolfyhound
01-14-2013, 06:18 PM
My aunt is about to yank up her fig trees(big ones). I have one in a pot. I got half a dozen figs off it the first year I had it.

sunfish
01-14-2013, 06:51 PM
I suspect they will. What variety is this?

I've got cuttings of about 40 additional varieties this year. Gone a bit overboard, perhaps....

Don't remember got them from Patice

harveyc
01-14-2013, 07:50 PM
Patrice likes Mission. Maybe that's what you got?

sunfish
01-14-2013, 08:09 PM
Patrice likes Mission. Maybe that's what you got?

Mission is one variety.I also got Panache,osborne and 7 other varieties

sunfish
03-24-2013, 04:16 PM
[QUOTE=sunfish;213207]Will they root ?

http://i950.photobucket.com/albums/ad348/musanamwah/001.jpg


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harveyc
03-24-2013, 05:19 PM
https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-AVI2I_RFG7g/UU92j8odU7I/AAAAAAAAAsY/510w3Y1CVOc/s755/13+-+1

I'm up to maybe 80 or 90 varieties, nowhere close to Jon

sunfish
03-24-2013, 05:41 PM
https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-AVI2I_RFG7g/UU92j8odU7I/AAAAAAAAAsY/510w3Y1CVOc/s755/13+-+1

I'm up to maybe 80 or 90 varieties, nowhere close to Jon

Amazing how easy they are to root.:08:

harveyc
03-24-2013, 05:56 PM
Amazing how easy they are to root.:08:

Most, but some have been very difficult for me but I think that it's mostly the quality of the cutting. It's a little perplexing, at times, because sometimes a small skinny cutting will root very fast for me and other times, not at all.

Illia
03-25-2013, 10:10 AM
Very nice collections! I'm only first starting with cuttings from my own trees for practice but will soon hope to get some more rare varieties. (mainly eyeing Genovese Nero)

Any fig growers here ever tried drying Panache/Tiger Stripe?

harveyc
03-25-2013, 10:46 AM
Genovese Nero rooted very easily for me. I've been growing Panache for several years and had some great figs from it last year so I'm going to plant some more.

yeehova
03-25-2013, 01:08 PM
I would love to get my hands on a very fast growing and productive fig cutting or small tree locally. I just bought two Hardy Chicago online from Hirt's.

Illia
03-25-2013, 04:10 PM
Do you have any decent fruit-tree/shrub selling nurseries nearby? Even in our climate, which is among the two worst for growing figs, we thankfully still have a nursery 2 hours away that sells a few good varieties for our region. (we don't have icy winters, but we never get summers long or hot enough)

sunfish
05-20-2013, 08:15 PM
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Illia
05-20-2013, 09:56 PM
Nice! I've started for my first time, some fig cuttings from one of my slightly older figs and also from a newly bought fig I figured was tall enough to snip back for cuttings before planting it - After a couple months, all 12 are growing perfectly happy but for one. :)

sunfish
08-08-2013, 12:09 PM
The worlds best tasting fig,somebody told me :woohoonaner:

<a href="http://s950.photobucket.com/user/musanamwah/media/001-38.jpg.html" target="_blank"><img src="http://i950.photobucket.com/albums/ad348/musanamwah/001-38.jpg" border="0" alt=" photo 001-38.jpg"/></a>

harveyc
08-08-2013, 12:24 PM
No, here it is

https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-_MhvEU8T5z4/UfSJ2mIH0vI/AAAAAAAABH4/wqXK3AH1L7I/w1259-h839-no/Panache20130727d.jpg

Illia
08-08-2013, 01:18 PM
Yes!! To harveyc, haha, sorry. I've got a much beloved Tiger fig in my greenhouse that I'm waaay too excited to try, but from the sounds of it, it is just about the best fig out there, and I know everyone thinks Black Madeira is the best, but, Tigers are prettier ;)

sunfish
08-08-2013, 01:18 PM
No that one is number 2

sunfish
08-12-2013, 11:03 PM
AE AE fig. Somebody said these are the best

<a href="http://s950.photobucket.com/user/musanamwah/media/019-7.jpg.html" target="_blank"><img src="http://i950.photobucket.com/albums/ad348/musanamwah/019-7.jpg" border="0" alt=" photo 019-7.jpg"/></a>

Illia
08-13-2013, 12:47 AM
Ae Ae fig, lol. My Tiger figs are just wee babies, about the size of that one on the far right. They'd be bigger if my greenhouse was fixed before June.

harveyc
08-13-2013, 01:24 AM
Tony, mine's bigger (the one above weighed 100 grams). You need some wasps. ;)

sunfish
08-19-2013, 07:46 PM
The worlds best tasting fig,somebody told me :woohoonaner:

<a href="http://s950.photobucket.com/user/musanamwah/media/001-38.jpg.html" target="_blank"><img src="http://i950.photobucket.com/albums/ad348/musanamwah/001-38.jpg" border="0" alt=" photo 001-38.jpg"/></a>

The worlds second best tasting fig someone told me

<a href="http://s950.photobucket.com/user/musanamwah/media/026-1.jpg.html" target="_blank"><img src="http://i950.photobucket.com/albums/ad348/musanamwah/026-1.jpg" border="0" alt=" photo 026-1.jpg"/></a>

harveyc
08-19-2013, 08:47 PM
What variety you got there, Tony? Had some visitors today. I think they liked Panache best out of the dozen varieties we tried, though they liked Flanders a lot, Marabout c. Smyrna, and Mega Celeste. So many figs, so little time.

sunfish
08-27-2013, 12:33 PM
The worlds third best tasting fig.Normal Heights Light Green. Was not fully ripe but still heavenly

<a href="http://s950.photobucket.com/user/musanamwah/media/011-15.jpg.html" target="_blank"><img src="http://i950.photobucket.com/albums/ad348/musanamwah/011-15.jpg" border="0" alt=" photo 011-15.jpg"/></a>

harveyc
08-27-2013, 01:20 PM
FIGAHOLICS (http://www.figaholics.com) :)

Dalmatiansoap
08-27-2013, 03:54 PM
FIGAHOLICS (http://www.figaholics.com) :)

Bravo
:nanadrink:

GreenFin
08-27-2013, 05:20 PM
FIGAHOLICS (http://www.figaholics.com) :)

1/4 acre of awesomeness right there! :bananas_b

I bet it smells amazing, or at least will soon. When I got my first fig plants about 18 months ago (tc's of Black Mission/LSU Purple/Green Ischia from Wellspring, and a VdB from EL that I promptly killed back to its roots), they reeked like cat urine. It was very unpleasant. But now that they're bigger, their aroma is heavenly.

<a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-e45J45Luoyg/Uh0f780GNoI/AAAAAAAABKc/6WqRG2DVE7Y/s1600/SAM_8435.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-e45J45Luoyg/Uh0f780GNoI/AAAAAAAABKc/6WqRG2DVE7Y/s320/SAM_8435.JPG" width="320" /></a>

No fruit yet, maybe next year.

sunfish
08-27-2013, 05:50 PM
The worlds third best tasting fig.Normal Heights Light Green. Was not fully ripe but still heavenly

<a href="http://s950.photobucket.com/user/musanamwah/media/011-15.jpg.html" target="_blank"><img src="http://i950.photobucket.com/albums/ad348/musanamwah/011-15.jpg" border="0" alt=" photo 011-15.jpg"/></a>

I think this one came with Leif Eriksson.

harveyc
08-27-2013, 08:43 PM
That's a figment of your imagination, Tony! :P

harveyc
08-27-2013, 08:46 PM
1/4 acre of awesomeness right there! :bananas_b

I bet it smells amazing, or at least will soon. When I got my first fig plants about 18 months ago (tc's of Black Mission/LSU Purple/Green Ischia from Wellspring, and a VdB from EL that I promptly killed back to its roots), they reeked like cat urine. It was very unpleasant. But now that they're bigger, their aroma is heavenly.

<a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-e45J45Luoyg/Uh0f780GNoI/AAAAAAAABKc/6WqRG2DVE7Y/s1600/SAM_8435.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-e45J45Luoyg/Uh0f780GNoI/AAAAAAAABKc/6WqRG2DVE7Y/s320/SAM_8435.JPG" width="320" /></a>

No fruit yet, maybe next year.

I don't really get much of a negative or positive smell from figs myself (trees, that is). The new orchard is .61 acres (138 trees, 12' x 16' spacing), but only about 100 are ready and planted at this time. I've got about 100 varieties now. I also have about 14 older trees that are keeping me fed pretty well.

sunfish
08-27-2013, 08:59 PM
That's a figment of your imagination, Tony! :P

and many others

GreenFin
08-27-2013, 10:51 PM
The new orchard is .61 acres

That's right, I misremembered the size from your thread over at F4F (http://figs4funforum.websitetoolbox.com/post/Harveys-New-Fig-Orchard-6471886). Not sure where I got 1/4 acre from.

sunfish
08-27-2013, 11:26 PM
no wonder

harveyc
12-28-2013, 02:39 AM
Five years ago I thought I'd never go over two dozen fig varieties and did okay until some mania took over a year ago. Then I thought I'd stop at 100 but I still picked up about five more in the past week and had another offered to me tonight. May need to add another row to the orchard or I may just start removing some duplicates.

Darkman
12-28-2013, 07:39 PM
Five years ago I thought I'd never go over two dozen fig varieties and did okay until some mania took over a year ago. Then I thought I'd stop at 100 but I still picked up about five more in the past week and had another offered to me tonight. May need to add another row to the orchard or I may just start removing some duplicates.

I have run out of open space to plant more figs. From what you are growing what are your smaller trees. I might be able to plant some smaller trees in between my others! I know I can prune but if naturally small varieties are available why not use them.

GreenFin
01-01-2014, 06:28 PM
The call of the fig is growing louder.

I'm getting increasingly desperate for new cuttings, but Jon's cutting sale is still 2 months away, so I've started lurking on ebay just to wrap myself in the warm feel of fig shopping. I even made my first bids ever, which was fun even though I didn't win.

harveyc
01-01-2014, 07:54 PM
I have run out of open space to plant more figs. From what you are growing what are your smaller trees. I might be able to plant some smaller trees in between my others! I know I can prune but if naturally small varieties are available why not use them.

Sorry, missed this post. It's too early for me to judge on that since most are new and they all start out small. Some are certainly more vigorous than others but I haven't kept very close track of that since I'm pruning and training them onto a wire trellis with the goal of facilitating an easy harvest down the road.

Greenfin: Jon's cutting sale is only a month away, not two. :)

GreenFin
01-01-2014, 08:09 PM
Greenfin: Jon's cutting sale is only a month away, not two. :)Holy cow, you're right! You just made my day :)

:goteam:

Snookie
01-10-2014, 06:15 PM
The call of the fig is growing louder.

I heard dat:} I might give figs a go this year myself?

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