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Richard
01-27-2009, 01:21 AM
Yesterday I was helping a friend with his January pruning and came away with cuttings from his Hungarian Strawberry Fig tree. Today I cleaned them, smeared the bottom 1/3 of each cutting with Dyna-Gro Root Gel, and placed them in rooting pots on top of a warming mat. For a rooting medium, I am trying an equal parts mix of worm castings, horticultural sand, and horticultural pumice (3/16" black scoria). I'm treating the tap water with a 1/4 teaspoon of Peters 10-30-20 per gallon.
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Chironex
01-27-2009, 01:35 AM
I was just thinking about growing a fig. What variety is recommended for Las Vegas and where do I get one?
I was just thinking about growing a fig. What variety is recommended for Las Vegas and where do I get one?
Scot, Jon(pitangadiego) sells many varieties . He'd probably have a good idea what's good for your climate. They're at every garden center here but in the northeast you can only find "Brown Turkey" and "Celeste".
damaclese
01-27-2009, 09:32 AM
I was just thinking about growing a fig. What variety is recommended for Las Vegas and where do I get one?
Scot that fig i have in the back yard is Black jack it has done fairly well the fruits pretty sweet i wouldn't put it up at the top of my list for flavor but its grew over 3ft last year and its just 2 years old i had one that was called Italian Honey fig and it couldn't take the heat so it died
Richard
08-07-2009, 11:43 PM
Earlier today I potted up these seven fig cuttings from Lagniappe!
The 3 on the left are in Coir, the 2 on the back right are in 1/2 Coir + 1/2 Perlite, and the last two are in a soil mix of 2 parts compost, 1 part Perlite, 1 part ground Sphagnum Moss, 1 part Horticultural Sand, and 1 part Worm Castings.
http://www.bananas.org/gallery/watermark.php?file=20707&size=1 (http://www.bananas.org/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=20707)
Jack Daw
08-08-2009, 06:34 AM
I was once watching some nursery men do this rooting with Brown Turkey and Dalmatia, but they let it soak in the water for a few days, til those small root buds appeared and only then put those sticks into the soil. They claimed that more of those cuttings survive that way? Some1 wanna try?
Richard
08-08-2009, 10:20 AM
I was once watching some nursery men do this rooting with Brown Turkey and Dalmatia, but they let it soak in the water for a few days, til those small root buds appeared and only then put those sticks into the soil. They claimed that more of those cuttings survive that way? Some1 wanna try?
If you soak them for more than a few hours you risk fungal infection in the soaking ends. What the cuttings actually need are moisture and aeration. I soak the cuttings briefly (a few minutes) in dilute seaweed extract to introduce plant hormones, then place them in rooting pots. During the warm part of the year you have to be careful with ground forest products and peat moss in soil mixes because the soil can quickly become too acidic. I am trying Coir (ground coconut fiber) this time around because it is pH neutral.
Lagniappe
08-08-2009, 10:26 AM
Did you tent those?
Richard
08-08-2009, 10:31 AM
Did you tent those?
Nope, here I would have an 1/8th inch of mold on everything this time of year. However, they are in the plant shelter with 30% shade, in a location with only morning sun.
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