That made me lol. I’m with you most I ever spent was $20 bucks on a stick.
I’ve spent $50 or maybe even a little more on a few trees. But they weren’t a fast growing, easily propagated tree like a fig.
And yet you may be throwing away money on several things that I would never in a million years spend my money on. It’s the “One man’s treasure is another man’s trash” type concept. 
Plus, as I have said before, if money were no object, I wouldn’t blink at paying $2,000 for plant material that I really wanted. I would love to be able to support a small-time plant breeder or nursery in that way. I’m a little bias since I am a market farmer. 
@Richard I agree with @Josh6b . I really like the close out bundles of different varieties idea.
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That’s highly unlikely in my case but perhaps it is for others.
I would find it humorous to hear someone (try) and justify charging $2000 for any plant.
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@resonanteye @Plants
I’ve thought about bundles by the letter of the alphabet. Some bundles would have multiple letters of the alphabet. I would offer them for the price of shipping.
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My point is that there may be things that you would pay for that I or others would not pay for.
I have friends who do not own cell phones or have internet service, for example. I have friends who do not want to own a car. They have no interest in paying for these “overpriced” services. I do not eat meat and would never buy it personally to eat myself. I would never spend money on a television (I don’t have one). I could go on and on and I am almost positive that we could come up with something that you would buy that I would not.
At the end of the day, I don’t really care what you spend your money on. You get to decide what you think is worth spending your money on and it doesn’t bother me or make me laugh either way. That’s all.
@Richard let me know once you get the packages listed.
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Me either.
If I do that, I’ll post about it in the Trading forum.
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I know what your point is. I also gave you my answer. Perhaps I wasn’t adequately explicit. What is true in a general sense about any one person’s purchasing habits does nothing to convince me that price gouging of plant material is any less egregious. That someone may have banal entertainment pursuits has absolutely no bearing whatsoever on my opinion about the price of tea in China.
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Love it! Had never heard of Irene Kral. She has a smooth voice, smooth as silk. And she’s right, the movers and shakers are shaking and moving. The machine never stops. Our job is simple, make sure the widgets keep on widgeting.
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See poll:
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The top two winners of the fig breba race at my location are in!
1st place: Genovese Bianco
2nd place: Bardonnex Petite Violet
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A fig seller near me is selling figs and I’m considering going for a few varieties because his prices are so reasonable and he has a lot of interesting varieties. I was leaning towards the Sodus Sicilian because it is said to taste like peaches! Anyone have any thoughts on any of the figs below?
- Battaglia Green
- Black Bethlehem
- Black Tuscan
- Bourjasotte Noire
- Brooklyn White
- Brown Turkey
- Calderwood Unk
- Chicago Hardy (already have)
- Colonel Littmans Black Cross (I was considering this one but I’m afraid it’ll split)
- Dulce Rufino
- Godfather (I have Sal’s Corleone and heard these are similar?)
- I-258
- La Bourgeoisie
- Lilla
- LSU Purple
- Malta Black
- Molla Vermella
- Naples Dark
- Nerucciolo D’Elba
- Olympian
- Paradiso Bronze
- Papa John
- Peters Honey (already have)
- Preto
- Ronde de Bordeaux
- São Miguel Roxo
- Salem White
- Sayreville
- Sicilian Dark
- Sodus Sicilian
- Souadi
- Strawberry Verte (I have an unknown adriatic type already, otherwise I’d consider SV or similar)
- St Rita
- Sucrette
- Sylvester
- Tena
- Ventura
- Violet de Sollies
- Violette de Bordeaux (already have)
- White Gillette
- White Madeira#1
I get about 3500 GDD’s at 50F, and have a frost free window from mid April to early October, and it is quite humid here. the list includes above (AND MORE).
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Sodus Sicilian is a European Brown Turkey type, very similar to box-store Brown Turkey, Olympian, Laradek’s Brown Turkey, Valleiry, and others. If it tastes like peach, then it’s not fully ripe. That’s a bug, not a feature. Also, all EBT figs are very late to ripen a main crop. It’s not a good choice for Z7A. It could be that your seller describes them as peachy because he doesn’t taste them fully ripe.
My vote would be for early-ripening varieties that you could pick August to October. It’s hard to go wrong with one of the Mt Etna types, such as Black Bethlehem, Malta Black, St Rita, Sao Miguel Roxo. Ronde de Bordeaux is excellent and very early. With good heat, LSU Purple is an excellent fig.
Avoid other late-ripeners such as Battaglia Green, Brooklyn White, I-258, Strawberry Verde, White Madeira #1. These are great figs but late so you won’t ripen the full crop.
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I got the fig itch too tonight 
Any chance anyone has Borda Barraquer that they can take cuttings from? Along with BNR, Martinenca Rimada, Black Celeste/The One, Des Tres Esplets?
I have frost free days from mid April - Late October/ sometimes early November so at least 180 growing days now and I just up-potted a Tiger Panache…
Violet de Sollies
Souadi
Ronde de Bordeaux
Preto
Bourjasotte Noire
I would go with these.
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Also, I’m getting a 20x30 greenhouse!!! My mangos got hit with powdery mildew and black spot so it’ll be mostly figs in this one 
have to restart my dragon fruit but do i even want to at this point…
Going to turn my 24x10 into a citrus only house.
I may actually go 20x40 depending on the cost of the wood. It’s a house warming present and i was told i just need to buy the wood and they would cover everything else. But I’m like, in that case… go credit card max or go home right? 
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After 7 years of growth, your 20 x 30 greenhouse will be maxed out with 1 mango and two fig trees unless you are only growing the figs to sell cuttings and saplings. For plant sales, you’ll need to obtain certification to sell nursery stock.
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All the figs will be outside. I’m in 8b now, almost 9.
So far, 2 Mango trees have survived the mildew and bacterial spots. My beloved Mahachanok and Lemon Zest. If only those two hang out, I’ll be happy 
Planning on getting Orange Sherbert and coconut cream or M4 again.
Pickering is hanging on and desperately needs repotting which i may do thought.
There’s a handful of plants I could imagine being worth that much. Most of them don’t exist yet, but the odds of someone managing to breed them at some point are pretty good.
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A hardy, self-fruitful, early ripening, seedless, non-astringent hybrid persimmon with a mostly American flavor but the Asian texture and an intermediate size, especially if it stores/ships well.
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A truly disease-resistant, no-spray apple.
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Any half-decent stone fruit, so long as it is immune to plum curculio.
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A zone 8 hardy Araza-type guava that is soft-seeded, large, sweet, and continuous bearing until frost.
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A large, firm, well-flavored and importantly sweet raspberry with erect, thornless canes that thrives in the heat and humidity in the South, something suited for late-spring U-Pick operations right as strawberry season is winding-down. Bonus points if it is primocane and has a second season just before all the fall-time farm festivals.
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A late spring-blooming, summer-ripening loquat with good size, productivity, and flavor that can reliably produce crops in zones 8 and maybe 7b.
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A disease resistant muscadine-vinifera hybrid grape that actually produces excellent wine with good body, tannins, concentration, and acidity while still retaining some, but not too much, muscadine flavor.
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A very early, mostly seedless desert quality citrus hardy to zone 7 with decent vigor and productivity (i.e. not the Prague chimera).
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An early fig with the vigor of palmata types, the hardiness of Chicago Hardy, the split resistance and short hang time of Celeste, Col de Dame texture, and top tier flavor.
This list is very much a regional one, I’ll admit. I suspect most folks have a similar list for their regions though.
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