Don’t figs only make fruitlets on new growth? I was under the impression that they never really produce on old growth.
Yes, Olympian is a Brown Turkey variety.
Brebas are produced on last year’s wood, for the varieties that set brebas anyway.
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Not always, some do 2 crops (current years growth and last year’s growth** wood). Some varieties need pollination for both, some only need pollination for 1 crop, some need pollination for none (common figs).
I’m still new to figs overall but I’ve read days on them.
If it doesn’t give me any fruitlets at all on the old growth, I’m going to dig a hole in the very front of my property or somewhere in the back for the deer/critter area. Keep thinking about planting a raspberry back there but i feel like that thing would find my garden beds within a season and I’ll be fighting it like i was last time with the neighbor’s patch
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Just to be clear it’s not all old wood, JUST the previous year’s growth
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Thanks for letting me know. I thought brebas were just early sterile flowers that formed on the first growth of the year. I always thought it was weird it wasn’t just crop 1 and crop 2, but that makes more sense (and sounds like the breba is actually crop 2).
Since your not sure what it is, maybe its a variety without a breba crop then? That would make sense to me.
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If it exist like this 
yeah.
Sketchy Etsy sellers, i swear
Breba does not need pollination.
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Y’all I bought a couple dormant fig cuttings the other month annnd I think I killed them lol 
It was my fault, I just stuck them in soil like I did with some elderberries and chokecherry thinking they’d be ok! …Well, now they’re rock hard up top with nothing green when scratched and one has molded at the end.
Feeling silly and sad but now I learned about the fig pop method so I’ll try that next time.
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Dont give up on it. How deep are you into your growing season?
I had a HC cutting last year that i had that scenario happen to. The cutting even broke off just below the surface. Two months or so later, i noticed tiny little leaves coming out of the soil. It didnt get very big or produce fruit but it survived.
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News to me! I love learning. 
Thanks for the encourage and apparently i’m about a week and a half into the season out of 200 days according to AI.
I’m not gonna toss em, we’ll see what happens thumbs crossed
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Sometimes sticking the cutting in the soil works, but generally you need warm summer temps and warm soil. Good luck.
If these cutting fail, try again. It’s really not too difficult.
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These are cuttings I started about a month ago obtained from Figaholics. Is this mottling a normal thing or is it FMV? Whatever it is, I’m guessing just sit tight and let them grow, right? Sorry photos came out weird when I copied them over.
Could be FMV, but also it is a sign of poor root support – which is exactly what you’d expect from a new cutting. I wouldn’t be concerned. In either case, the tree will likely outgrow it.
A month is really fast for so much leaf development. Make sure the leaves stay moist (e.g., spray, humidity tent) while the roots develop.
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But don’t make it too moist or you’ll have fungal issues 
Personally, i don’t spray them at all with anything and once they’re out of the rooting stage, you don’t need to keep it humid cause they’ll get their water from the soil
Early leaves on a rooting cutting are a grower’s nightmare.
After only 1 month, I’m assuming that there are no significant roots. So these leaves are relying on water from within the stick itself, meanwhile losing moisture to transpiration / evaporation. If the roots are incapable of making up that loss, the cutting will run dry and the leaves will (a) wilt then (b) die.
Fungus feeds on dead organic tissue. So paradoxically, the best way to cultivate fungus is to kill those leaves by letting them dry out. You don’t need to spray the leaves. But at minimum you should use a tent to create near 100% humidity around the leaves until roots develop.
I agree that it is best to remove any humidity tent and not wet the foliage once there are good roots.
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My three “LSU Cherry Bomb” figs are doing well! Still awaiting some figs so we can all see how great the Cherry Bomb really is! 
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What a service you are doing for all of us! despite what “the doctor” says we all hope they will be good
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