Figs that are still ripening to high quality in my greenhouse are Black Manzanita, Ondata, and Calderona. CLBC is way lower in quality. Small and barely useable even in oatmeal. Nights have been near 40 for over a month.
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I don’t use grafting tape or anything but i do put the lid on my growing chamber.
This is what I’ve done that’s been working so far. I use perlite in a cup in the storage box with a heat mat until they’ve started rooting then i pot them up and do this
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I watched some videos on the fig, and it sounds really amazing! One thing that was said in this video was “plant it against a wall in 7a”. I have a south facing yard that I can plant this next to my house; would that be your suggestion for a good location for the fig?
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@Plants is correct that this variety splits badly in California zones 9-10, but I believe it’s not a problem in the PNW and it it might work for you.
As for placement in your yard, I’m hesitant to suggest where. There are others here more familiar with your climate and soils.
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I counted all my varieties and i have over 70 varieties 
That doesn’t include duplicates and multiple rooted of the same…
I have a theory that some plants can influence people like how parasites do once introduced into the human body. With figs, this goes on as a frequency brain wave pattern of sorts in my theory. Basically once we’re close enough to and introduced to the fruit of the fig tree, we catch on frequencies emitted by the nearby tree that encourage us to help it reproduce. Hence why the community of fig growers have a cult like following not equivalent to any other fruits. I, myself, still have dreams about the very first fig that I’ve ever tried at the age of 10’ish from a neighbor’s tree at my great grandma’s house. The house was a rental and they’ve since moved on many, many moons ago. Every now and then in my dreams, I’m pulled to that location and I’m yet again staring at that fig tree or just hanging out near it and i don’t know why. No idea what variety it is but I feel so strongly about it now that I’ve been contemplating about door knocking to ask for a cutting and to tell them my story. At the time that i had gotten the fruit, i remember them telling us that the tree is over 25 years old at the time and has edible fruit but we must wait until the fruit is soft before picking it. I had like, maybe 10 fruits overall with the first few being unripe but the ripe ones were great. I’ve been randomly dreaming of that fig tree for years now.
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We’re in the process of buying a new home on 2.1 acres and this first year will be trialing how each variety does in 15 gallon pots before putting them in the ground.
I’m going to make a YouTube video with all my gardening soon, maybe 
and i can’t wait to be able to actually plant things in the ground 
especially these fig sticks i have going
This is about a fourth of my fig collection so far. Some are in the greenhouse, some are downstairs, some are still in the rooting chamber. I think I’ve been successfully infiltrated 
(don’t mind the dog nose art on the windows)
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Your theory seems as reasonable (and as entertaining) as any, considering how fig growing can cause one, myself included, to end up with more trees than is probably reasonable.
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that’s why we’re here where we are now… they’re influencing us 
and I’ve fallen for it every time. Knowingly and with excitement
I just bought 3 Mango trees because my current ones tell me they’re happy i think my Ruby supreme Guava and longan are my only trees that don’t want friends because I’m not feeling that from them at all.
Yes, and it doesn’t even have to be your trees influencing you. After visiting someone’s orchard/garden and trying hybrid persimmons, I’m convinced I need at least one hybrid persimmon tree. 
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I took some cuttings a few days ago but they bled latex at the cuts. Does that mean they won’t store as well? Am guessing that means they’re not fully dormant yet. I plan to graft them in Spring.
Should I be moving my figs out to the greenhouse sonthey get some sun? I have them in my house rooting, but they aren’t fully dormant so they keep leafing out with sun deficient leaves (yellow and icky). Alot of them have pretty decent root development. Should I be thinking about potting them up as well?
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@sharq
Yes. I’d pot them up very carefully before putting them in sunlight. They will grow a lot faster there. Also, start them off with some serious shade cloth so the sunlight doesn’t burn them.
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They’ll be in my greenhouse, which is one of the green plastic ones. It filters the light pretty good, both my coffee and vanilla have no issues with sun exposure, and they are pretty sun sensative. So they should be fine on one of the shelves or under the table. I am running out of room though, I might have to officially cut myself off of new plants till I can take my tropicals out.
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Nice job. But from learning the hard way I wouldn’t up pot those figs yet. Figs are unstoppable when they’re older and more lignified roots but those fresh pretty white roots spell disaster. Let them get some color and fill the cup more.
When they start leafing out they need light and a small amount of fertilizer helps a lot too. 1/4 tsp per gallon of water.
Young rooted cuttings that I started late for the past few seasons never go dormant. I have a few out there now as all the other figs have dropped their leaves. Which can be a pita because you have to take extra care of them. They just slowly soldier on until spring.
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Thats a good point about the white roots. I almost exclusively root things in water, I always thought it was the water that makes them brittle. Makes sense new roots would be brittle though. I’ll give them a couple of days in the greenhouse before I pot them up. We potentially have a pretty cold weekend coming up and if theyre still in these cups I can bring them inside if I need the space in the greenhouse.
Dormancy is a fade in my part of Florida. If figs are anything like their cousin the mulberries, then they’ll immediately start growing their new leaves while the old ones are still falling off. Some things start dormancy and stay asleep until its time to wake up in March, and others just ping pong with the weather.
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Still have a set in the growing chamber downstairs. These are ones I’ve made sure are rooted.
Will switch them to bigger pots once we move
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Would I need winter protection in 7a for Italian honey and negronne/Violette de Bordeaux? I’d like to plant them in ground if possible
Two friends grow Violette d. B. in ground here in new 8A MD but in sheltered locations, but otherwise unprotected in winter. I don’t grow it in ground because I don’t have a sheltered location and I’m not confident it’s winter Hardy here in my situation. Its cousin Ronde de Bordeaux is regarded as more winter hardy and I grow it here in ground with no winter protection now that it’s seven or so years old.
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Thank you! I plan to plant at the top of a slope so cold air will go down the slope, and on the side of a fence to block some wind. I’ll also do some winter protection measures like mulch in case
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It’s best to wait until the rooting container is full of roots before up potting. Right now they don’t need more media. They need more roots. They can grow a lot more roots where they are. You may kill them by up potting at that stage.
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