How is everyone’s fig cuttings and trees doing? Post pictures and age.
These are 3.5 months old. I moved them outside to the shade today to slowly acclimate them to the sun. They are in 4x9 treepots set inside 2gal pots so they don’t tip over
Left = Kesariani
Right = Red Lebanese
Left = Unk Sicilian Dark
Right = Kesariani
Left = Kesariani
Right = Campaniere
Left = Unk Sicilian Dark
Right= Chicago Hardy
Left = Smith
Right = Ronde Bordeaux
Left = Red Lebanese BV
Right = Smith
Left = Smith
Right = Ronde Bordeaux
they look really healthy
I started these 3 CH Fig cuttings on 4/11… in moist promix hp… and have kept them outside on the north side of my home (mostly indirect light) since then.
Buds started pushing already and I have kept them covered with another planter pot to reduce light even more. I dont want a bunch of shoots and leaves until roots have time to develop.
On 5/11… i am going to uncover them and gradually move them to morning sun… then full sun.
Hope those roots are growing… i did apply rooting powder when starting them.
Here’s my Beer’s Black. Basically bare root last year (severe cold damage, was on the brink of death last spring).
Here’s the batch I’m currently nurturing indoors. The 8 in front are cuttings that recently sprouted roots and were potted yesterday. The remainder I received as live plants earlier this year, mostly from Christian at tinkerbugfigs.com.
I rooted one last year that didn’t grow much. I didn’t tag it so don’t know the variety. I gave the little thing to my son so he could feed the leaves to his turtle. Twelve inches high, growing on his window sill, with two figs.
white Genoa getting tall
with a Chicago Hardy and black Bethlehem
toya
negronne
unknown, I lost the tag. it was rooted last year
hope the take off for you
looks like it will recover
looking realy healthy! tinkerbugfigs is great
looking good
looking good in the sun
Far right is Matewan. Middle is Cannonball. Both collected by hillbillyhort in WV.
Far left is a new find. Kanawha. Has been growing since the 1940s in a few lebanese family yards in WV.
I have been leaving them out and they have been frosted a few times and crisped the leaves.
I have no clue what im doing but it is gonna be fun.
I start all of my fig, elderberry, and canefruit cuttings in a cold mostly dark shed. Takes them alot longer but seems to give me alot more root growth than vegetative… so mine arent that pretty when they first wake up.
lake spur took, and ischia. there’s a florea in there too. all the figs out for now, we don’t have a night below 45F until the 9th. days in the 70s/80s.
Kremp Florist is another good online vender, as is One Green World – whose offerings have been doubling annually in recent years. Jon Verdick (Encanto Farms, figs4fun) has been scaling back and only selling on figBid – a place primarily for unlicensed sellers trying to get rich buying and selling figs. Harvey C (figaholics) is closing shop within a year so perhaps another large-scale stand-alone vendor will arise in the vacuum.
