im pretty sure my smith is dead in my garage rn. i checked on it yesterday and it was frozen solid somehow. the rest all seemed fine. I might bring it inside … hard to decide.
Figbid.com has a facility for receiving email alerts when a specific name is offered. In my experience, you should not have trouble with simple names like Ondata. However, there are many creative spellings of Michurinska. I recommend a shorter, less error prone text such as Mich.
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Any experience with Hollier? I was considering it, but I decided not to get it because of my limit on my collection.
I only considered a collection of no more than 10 cultivars.
I’m strictly limiting myself to 10 because I can easily see myself getting out of hand with the collection.
(I’m laughing as I write this because I can easily relate to the three Sources mentioned in my earlier post who themselves are fig fanatics) -
Note my profile name FruitsFanatic.
As for my Smiths, we have experienced a few hours at 5F in the past and they survived in my garage. It seems like the cold wind burn and frost is what really kills the trees. But, if protected from this, they do fine.
Being in zone 7 is another reason why I am limiting my collection.
i feel that, i was only going to do 5 and now have 60+ (but i will be selling many once they fruit, i just dont want to wait till im 80 to find my favorite figs)
havent had hollier
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I have found that when the tree is growing new branches, that if I cut an approximately 0.5 inch diameter green branch at about 6 inch length, that they clone very easily. At this time in the growing cycle the hormones in the plant seem ideal for cloning cuttings. Plus, the weather is also perfect at this time; so, I keep them in one gallon pots under my shaded front porch. By the time winter arrives, they are perfectly rooted.
However, there are some varieties like Battaglia where they grow so slowly that I prefer the air-layering propagation method.
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I’ve checked out Fig Bid before, but never considered setting up alerts. Thanks, for the recommendation.
By the way, you have the perfect zone for figs (Black Madeira) and some of my favorite fruits: Mangoes (Highly recommend Irwin and Carrie), Barbados Cherry/Acerola (great juice but needs some sugar), IceCream Banana / Blue Java, Soursop, Passion fruit, … [My mouth is watering].
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@FruitsFanatic
By the way, I have grown nearly 600 different fig cultivars. At present I have narrowed my collection to about 120 for the study of closed-eye female figs and characteristics of Caprifigs. I also grow banana, mango, pineapple, blackberries, and many other fruits which I’ve documented with threads on this site.
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Now that is the good life. I would love to grow fruits professionally.
Ever since grad school (Applied Math), I use to spend all my free time growing fruits and experimenting for fun.
Back then, I was in Melbourne, Florida; so my collection was different then what I grow now.
Mangoes were my favorite.
Two years ago, peaches became #1. I went to Jaemor Farms here in GA and tried almost every variety of peach they grow from June to September. It was the best ten pounds I gained (I ate so much).
If I had the resources, farming fruits is literally how I would spend my days.
How&why did you start?
Did you inherit a farm or did you build one yourself?
Do you do this commercially?
I’ll check your posts out. Thanks.
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@FruitsFanatic
You have made several assumptions 
. I am also an applied mathematician.
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HaHaHaHa… I love it.
I am currently checking out your publications.
This one immediately stood out Diversity of Pawpaw (Asimina triloba) Cultivars in USDA Repositories and Selected Retail Nurseries c. 2022
Did you visit KSU? I don’t have subscription so I can’t access it.
I miss having access to so many databases. It’s a shame how information is restricted or made difficult to access ($$$).
Your “Flavor categories of ripe fresh figs” also caught my eye.
I will definitely read.
You are a very interesting person. I will keep in touch.
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Here you go:
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I don’t think I’ve asked this question here yet - I am looking to multigraft a fig tree (well, I’m going to do multiple). I want one fig tree to be exclusively main-crop bearing fig varieties (I’m in the PNW where breba figs are more popular). I currently have Chicago Hardy, Improved Celeste, and Neverella to use as the tree’s rootstock. Any guidance on which to choose, if it matters? I’m not familiar with what transfers from rootstock to graft in terms of traits for figs, if any (vigour, fruit set, timing, etc). Cold hardiness isn’t a big issue (8b/“9a”) - I mostly want a medium sized tree as loaded as possible with fruit (I have Desert King rootstock too if I wanted to just use the rootstock and not let it branch at all, but they get too big), and minimal suckering would be cool too. I’ve only grown the Neverella myself and only had a few years with it and not sure how the other two would compare. Any guidance is much appreciated!
@BiffAlmond
VdB is a slower growing cultivar. In addition to being an excellent fig, it is a good rootstock when space is limited.
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It’s time… don’t want them to root too quickly caused I’m tired, so letting the vents do the heating lol.
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Is this how you usually root your cuttings? What is your success rate?
New 10 fig varieties:
Carabasseta figa turca, Dauphine San Pedro, Diamante, Longue D’août, Madeleine Deux Saisons, Noir De Caromb, Panachée, Paratjal Rimada, Précoce De Dalmatie, Yellow Giant.
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I’d be interested in hearing your list of top performers/best flavor given your great climate and tons of varieties
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I have two big Pingo de Mel fig trees. Last year i start to get interesting diferent fig scion varieties and thought to graft them on my trees… but they didn’t took. So first im planting the scions to have backup trees and then start to graft.
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just fig popped some pingo del mels 
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I love Pingo de Mel. Its one of our local varieties. Seeds are soo tiny you don’t feel them and very very sweet.
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