@KS_razerback
In more ways than one …
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2/5/2026.
Three syconia that emerged last November on an LSU DC-6 clone. They are now about 1" diameter. It has been unusually warm here the past three weeks. The plant was brought indoors after dark for the photo.
P.S. LSU did not manufacture aircraft.
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Apologies if this is a stupid question as I don’t know anything about figs but find your project interesting to follow. How is the plant growing them without any leaves?
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The leaves dropped – as they did on many of the cultivars here, but the roots are still active. Thus, it is essential to water (moderately) during rainless weeks of our winter.
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All but one of the cuttings have sprouted. At least one of each cultivar is growing. A few of them have roots emerging through the screens in the bottom of the pots. They will soon go outside.
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Where did you get this pot? It seems like what im looking for for something.
I think this is what Richard uses https://stuewe.com/product-category/treepots-trays/
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jesus, the shipping is crazy on that site. 115.29 for 3 6 packs of the pot. and if i get 1 72 pack its 143.
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@snarfing
I purchased case quantities of the pot + tray kits. Contact Stuewe by email for information about number of kits per case and shipping costs to your location.
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Was the plant able to ripen the figs fully?
@Ethancactus
which plant?
The LSU DC-6.
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One of the syconia fell off in the winter, a second was removed unripe for examination, and a third is still growing. I believe the first was a late main crop and the other two are spring crop.
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Here’s the list of fig cultivars I had sequenced at the Arizona Genomics Institute. Libraries will start appearing on NCBI later this year.
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2026/5/11.
I’ve acquired 106 cultivars for closed-eye testing plus another few dozen cultivars for flavor analysis. Both will start in 2027. For the latter, I’ll perform laboratory flavor chemistry assay and then attempt to link the compounds to genetic loci currently under investigation elsewhere.
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