Whichever you think would do well in the Puget Sound lowlands, let me know. And let me know the best rooting media, in your opinion.
I’d like 3 each of what you suggest.
Tell me what the postage is and cost.
Zip code is 98366.
David
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About the Reservoir Fig
What is it like?
Photos?
I will be taking cuttings when the plants go dormant in November. PM me your address and I will send some cuttings. I know nothing about your area, so I don’t know what will grow there.
Mike.
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I took more cuttings of Reservoir fig, so please let me know if you’d like some.
Also, I found and pulled up what I think are suckers. But I suppose that some could be seedlings. Has anyone in the northeast had figs self-seed, or are these almost certainly suckers from the roots?
I know some are suckers based on the big roots they come off, but am not sure about all of them.
Also, can figs be sent bare-root while dormant? Some may be small enough for me to send.
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They are suckers. You can’t have viable seed without the fig wasp to pollinate them. You’d also need a male caprifig to supply the pollen. Dormant fig trees can be barerooted and sent, no problem.
Yes, fig trees can be sent bare rooted. Most of the older trees are sent that way since it is close to impossible to ship a 3 or 5 gallon tree.
You can just put in some damp peat moss or even wet paper towels around the root ball. Then wrap the root ball with plastic. Since the plants are dormant, this won’t kill the roots.
Hiya Mike – would you still happen to have fig cuttings available? I’m just getting started with my fruit collection. Thanks!
Mine figs are not dormant yet and have not taken any cuttings. Which figs are you looking for cuttings of?
@Silverfoot Resevoir and/or Black Mission. Also, love the pic of the fig plant in the tire 
Thanks!
@BobVance if you still have fig cuttings/suckers, I would like to have some to plant in ground. Since yours is in ground and I hope I can replicate it as am also in CT.
Sure. Do you ever get out this way? If so, I can give you some of the suckers without cutting them back for shipping.
@BobVance I drive to NYC <—> NH quite often. If you live not far off I-95, I def can stop by on my way and pickup.
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Here’s a few pics of a reservoir fig that I started from cutting in late 2018 (around the time as starting this thread) and planted in ground the next summer at a rental.
I placed it along the SW wall, and near an AC unit and window, under the theory that it would leak a bit of heat during the winter. It doesn’t look like it had any dieback at all this past winter, which is good for a relatively young plant.
The figs on it are a variety of sizes. I’m not sure if only the big ones are brebas, or if even the small ones are, since they are on last year’s growth.
I’ll need to keep an eye on when they ripen (or disappear to wildlife).
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Figs/figlets on last year’s growth are always breba, one year I had seen a tiny breba figlet on my Croisic fig tree in August, I picked it and ate it on November 16th. In our location Croisic can only have breba since there’s no fig wasp here. This is a photo of that fig, fruit was better than expected since it was a fig picked in Mid November. It was a small fig, if looks large in the photo, climate can effect the size of a fig
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Bob was nice enough to send me some cuttings of this fig. I have an extra rooted in a gallon pot. If anyone is interested you can have it for the cost of shipping and packing materials.
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This is the first time I’ve had a significant harvest of breba from the Reservoir fig. In the past, there may have been a few, but animals polished them off before I ever saw one ripe. I stopped by the house today for the first time in a week or two and there were a lot which were ready.
Regrettably, I didn’t plan for them to be ripe, so I didn’t have any containers to put them in. I managed to find a spare shirt in the car and also used my hat. All told, there were 8-9 pounds of them ripe, not including those I ate on the spot.
They were pretty good. Maybe very slightly less sugar than the fall, but they were close. My youngest daughter loved them, immediately eating about 10, before I could convince her to slow down a bit.
And I think they were larger on average than the ones ripe in September. Aside from a few which had ants, most seemed to be sound (I expected SWD & fruit flies). It is supposed to rain all afternoon, so I’m glad I was able to pick the ripe ones today. There is still more that look to ripen soon- I didn’t pick most of the partially colored ones, except those which were soft.
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Those are nice looking figs!!!
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I sure appreciate how you shared this fig with us all @BobVance !!
I’m getting excited about it!!
Last year I rooted the cuttings in my tomato garden, thats where i have the best rooting success…
Well, i just left one there to overwinter…
It was about 18" tall…
Well, we got super cold a 10 year blast this past Feb(the one that hit @tonyOmahaz5 and @k8tpayaso being that I am about halfway between yall!)
We got -12F here, coldest Ive seen, i believe coldest since the 1990s!
Well, the little young plant died back to the ground, but this spring it resprouted and grew like crazy to 5 ft tall!! And a week ago it started setting fruit so i pinched the tops to stop upward growth and hopefully put more energy into the fruit…
… Here is a picture:
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These looks great! The cuttings you gave me are growing in ground now and I can’t wait to taste home grown figs (next year?).
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