Have you made fig preserves with that recipe? I might try it this year looks good.
If you look at the jar it appears to be hole figs and fruits for their spoon sweets. Here’s their webpage.
Plus the way they advertise looks to be whole figs but seems like they would fall apart in the process so idk I’ve never tried making fig preserves before. I’m very tempted to grab a jar though lol.
I’m over the moon! I have roots on a Col de Dame Gegantina and CCD Grise. The CCD curse is officially broken.
No, I make only homemade fig jam, and homemade pear jam. I have never made preserves of any type. Although I have a recipe for the whole fig type of fig preserves, that I have never tried.
I only know about that Greek company, because I discovered their loquat Jam. Which I have ordered and not received yet. Clearly I only looked well at the dark fig ‘Spoon Sweet’, which I oddly forgot to share in this post, which I will add to the list I shared. Now I see the photos of the green fig ‘Spoon Sweet’, and I see what you are talking about.
I am not sure about Greece, yet on the Island of Malta, I don’t think they have as much of a pest problem as we find in the USA. Once when we were visiting our family in Malta, there was someone selling perfectly ripe figs, and they were loose in a basket, not one ant, or any other pest.
The only pest problem I noticed in Malta was ants, Oddly none on the figs. Although berries and even the occasional baked goods covered in ants.
Sounds like a very nice trip. Was it before the bark beetle hit there? I have read it was bad for a while wonder if the beetle effects killed off a lot of other pests of Malta?
Yes, it was before the boring beetle hit the fig trees in Malta, although I believe that fig production is back to normal because the trees did not die, and not all the areas that figs are grown for the fruit in Malta were hit by the beetle. It’s mainly the major increase in construction in Malta that caused that disaster. Those wood boring beetles actually have a long history of being in Malta. They much prefer boring in to bamboo, than they do fig trees, as land gets taken up by new buildings, the less bamboo there is left, the beetles had to find something new to eat, and they choose fig trees. I myself usually go to Malta after the fig season is done, it was 2002 the last time that I was in Malta during the fig season, the beginning of the fig season.
I think that it’s in part because it’s so dry in Malta why there are less pests there
I wonder how good this really is Coffee Alternatives - Fig FAQs
From living on an Organic Gravenstein apple ranch for enough years, after processing, they’ll probably list that as “.5mg protein.”
But yes, this year I was mortified that SWD has found my strawberries. Now I fell an intense need to check every soft one, same with blackberries. I hope figs won’t share a similar, “high protein” fate here.
256 area code from Alabama? Wonder how they process them and where they get them from. Excellent ideal and marketing.
@CAvocado yeah I’m second guessing growing too many berries I saw a few SWD flying around but didn’t notice any maggots. I have so many neighbors that grow a lot of fruit and many just let it fall and rot.
Ten degree lows here a week or so ago will test the above-ground cold hardiness of my five in-ground figs. I hope fig growers post their survivors/casualties this Spring.
11.5 in my yard Last night. Later this week is supposed to be worse. We shall see.
I had 2 or 3 in grounds (of the 25) that I was going to leave uncovered as a test, but chickened out and covered them partially yesterday afternoon. Looks like 3 straight nights hitting around 9-10f. Not that bad if it is the last of the really cold for the year. I also did some shoveling of extra snow around the base of the covered trees.
256 is an area code for Northern Alabama, which is where Huntsville, Alabama is.
I am very curious myself, all I know is that they use figs that no one would want to actually eat, maybe stems, or tough skin.
I am not sure if you noticed, not only are some of their products totally coffee free. They have some products that are half coffee, and half FigBrew, for the people who must have at least some coffee in it, at least it’s only half coffee.
@sharq
About the cuttings I’ve rooted 
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Over the past week I found they were loosing water weight in the soil every other day. So today I transplanted them into Stuewe 512R treepots. The soil mix is my usual one 2.5 cu.ft. Kellogg’s Patio Plus and one 50 lb bag of all purpose sand. For stability, I put the pots into 2 gallon buckets with drainage holes. Then I watered the plants and let them drain before bringing them back indoors under the plant lights.
Some good looking roots there
I need to spread mine out, they are all slapping each other now. Which means I need to up pot them so they are in actual containers instead of mcdonalds cups.
Sounds like a Fig McFlurry
Tip growth still bendy after 7 degrees, a good sign.
anyone have experience grafting green to green or brown to green with figs?
@kinghat Ive grafted a few green scions and they took pretty fast and grew fine. I can also say if they’re pretty green especially if not large diameter they’re a lot harder because a sharp blade rips through so easy you have to be careful or practice a bit. Sky friend had some problems with rot so doesn’t wrap with parafilm just places a plastic bag over the graft. Don’t forget the foil or an envelope.
reason i asked is i have a fairly green BT that i want to graft to the trunk or its scaffolds which are currently forming. its in a tent but i still cover in foil.
ive only grafted figs when both sides were lignified. would you say the same for lignified scions to green rootstock as well? and what would you think about the same scenarios but doing bud grafts?
I don’t see why it wouldn’t take on a less lignified rootstock. I would do it just to see and know. I’d imagine bud chips would be a lot easier. Also I forgot to mention don’t forget to use a good splint.
