@Melon you shouldn’t join ourfigs though. Those folks would be a bad influence for you. You’d end up with 400 varieties by this time next year.
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well thats not good. tangentially, i would keep posting all my fig content at ourfigs, and i do like the community, but i just cant stand working with that forum software.
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Many of those persons are sellers, offering information about plants they have in stock but no real experience cultivating their inventory for fruit production. Further, their experience with names is limited to those they’ve acquired from other sellers. On top of that, the FigBid seller with the largest sales volume every year for over eight years is prone to misspellings and creative names for plants with lost tags. Consequently, that site is a poor source of information as a whole.
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Last i checked, i was at 75 but fungus gnats took out half of them so… I’m back up at around 75
And to your point, if I were thinking about bidding $$$$ on figbid, I’d be very cautious of any online information.
That said I am mostly looking for varieties common enough to 1: Have been tried by people in a substantially similar climate to mine already and 2: be available enough I can find it cheaply or through trades. I think, though I could be wrong, that there will be a lot less likelihood of bad actors in that category.
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@Nutbush-VA
There are plenty of folks who are willing to trade cuttings but unknowingly have mislabeled specimens. I’m not saying that mine are any better.
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That’s definitely a possibility. Probably a decent one. Of course there’s also the possibility the cutting has maintained its label, but become a “sport” through mutations. Everyone has an opinion about how often that happens, but it definitely happens.
That’s one reason, at least when the trading partner is in a similar climate, I’ve been asking them to send the variety or varieties that have worked well for them. That way, while it will screw up future “trade-ability” if mislabeled, at least I’ll get good fruit, and that’s really what it’s all about for me. The main reason I want to try so many different varieties in the first place is to try to determine the best varieties on my property and with my care routine according to my family’s preferences. In all honesty some of those questions can’t be answered definitively by anyone else anyway, no matter how honest, knowledgeable, and well intentioned. Especially with taste. You and I could stand side by side on the same day in the same orchard and pick a different winner for “best taste”.
I suppose that’s maybe what makes it such a fun adventure! There will always be an element of personal discovery.
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I recommend 5 years in the ground before making any long term decisions.
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Oh, you must not have sensed the sarcasm in my reply /s
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You can’t spell fight without fig.
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I’m gonna steal that.
I’m gonna rebrand it as “LSU Fig Joke.”
And I’m gonna charge people crazy amounts of money for me to tell them the joke.
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“Originally thought to be an Adriatic type, genetic sequencing has revealed that LSU Fig Joke belongs to a class of its own. Bitter berry flavours, slightly acid, with salty notes.”
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Sure you can. Just use a non-English language.
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Pugno, where we get pugnacious
Ficus
yep, not much overlap in Latin
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Well fighter in Latin is pugnator…. Sooo maybe that theory doesn’t exactly hold up. Pretty sure it’s where the word pugilist comes from.
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But pugno comes from pugnus, which means fist, and which resembles the fig gesture, which is a good way to start a fight.
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You can easily have luchar without higo.
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Oh, that is funny!
There’s a scientific name for the phenomenon but i came remember it right now
