Here is the picture to prove itđ
It is from one of the hardy Chicago cuttings the kelby sent me, I rooted at the beginning of the year.
This is my first fig, I am just over the moon!
Thank you, Kelby!
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Congrats!
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Now your hooked! It looks nice and healthy, congrats. And you have a fig too.
Wonderful. I think youâll like the taste of CH.
Way to go, Sara! Congratulations! May that be the first of many figs your tree produces over the years.
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What a beautiful tree! Congratulations on your first fig!
Congrats! Theyâre in my eyes the best thing worth growing!
Congrats Sara,
I ate 2 brown turkey figs yesterday after work, and girl-they were off the chain. I describe the taste of those figs as sweet, rich and delectable. Figs are definitely worth growing no matter what kind you prefer! I know you will be anticipating that fig getting ripe! Enjoy!
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Thank you everybody for sharing my excitement! This is my first fig fruit, like you all said, I canât wait for it to ripe and taste it.
I rooted 10 cuttings, 8 survived. This tree is the smallest one, but the only one that has fruit. I hope all other 7 will bear fruit soon.
Buy some Organza bags - or cut up some pantyhose - and wrap around the fig.
Let it ripen inside a protective layer. Otherwise-- the birds or the bugs (or the squirrels!.. or a neighborhood dog!) might notice and steal it away from you.
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Sara- I just wanted to tell you how much I enjoyed your post (and congratulate you, of course). Your obvious excitement and anxiousness about your first fig is just great, and Iâm sure most of us can remember some of our first fruits, how excited we were, and what a big accomplishment it felt like. Its one of the great things about this web site. If you show that plant and fig to your ânormalâ friends, they will smile and say âthatâs niceâ or something similar. Only us fruit growers really understand what its like to scour the internet reading all about fruit and deciding what to grow, then making decisions about fruit and varieties of that fruit, then finding a source for it, then the excitement of getting it in the mail, followed by the work and anticipation of getting it to root and grow, and eventually protecting it from pests and getting it to ripen. So yea, us âfruit nutsâ to borrow a username, get it. When we say congrats, we know what youâve done and how you feel and we mean it. Its great to see your growing passion. Iâm new enough to not only remember what youâre feeling, but I still feel it and love to share my excitement.
Enjoy your fig. And for what its worth, I grow quite a few figs and my favorite one is Chicago Hardy, even though some say its not that great. I love it and you will to!
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I was almost as excited as Sara yesterday when I found a Strawberry Verte fig tree - previously razed by varmints and presumed dead - clearly re-sprouting from the roots. I weeded around it. Now hereâs what it looks like.
This thing survived last winter at my z6b mountain property (1,600 feet above sea level) totally unprotected and in spite of being chewed up by critters. It was small when I planted it.
Verte is proving to be one of my most rugged figs-- right up there with Celeste and Hardy Chicago.
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@Matt_in_Maryland, thank you for the tip! I will covered the fruit with panty hose. Glad that your verte fig survived the verminous attack.
@thecityman, Kevin, thank you for your long email! I appreciate it. Like you said, people here can understand why I am so excited about that one lonely fruit. With everything going on in this crazy world, I feel very fortunate that we have this forum to share our love of growing fruits and other hobbies. By the way, I follow your bee keeping thread closely. I live vicariously through your bee keeping experience:-)
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Good Job Sara! Hopefully many more to come!
Frank from Bama
Congratulations.
I hope you donât get the fig virus. I have it and itâs not a pretty sight. After less than 3 years the symptoms are quite bad - more than 70 varieties accumulated and counting and no signs of improvements with time.
Good luck with your plant and fig.
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Are you sure that the fig bud mite, Aceria ficus, was not also brought in with all of those varieties? The mites are microscopic and spread the virus. Often the tree will overcome the virus symptoms by sending up a fast growing shoot from the roots that is healthy, but if the mite is there it will make those growths sick also.
If you do detect the mite you should make every attempt to eradicate it, after that your trees will be able to make some healthy growths from the roots (the only part the mites cannot directly infect). If the plants are just sick chopping can also help, the fast growth often makes the symptoms disappear, cuttings from the symptom free branches should produce mostly symptom free plants.
hoosierbanana,
Sorry to have mislead you into thinking i was meaning FMV. I hoped the wink emoticon was self explanatory.
The âfig virusâ i was talking about is the fig collector virus i contracted myself and i hope Sara doesnât get also.
The âno signs of improvementâ was because after collecting more than 70 varieties my list of âwantedâ is still not finished.
Note- I do have some plants with FMV that came with some cuttings i received. The symptoms of FMV are strong in those couple of varieties but they have diminished with strong growth. I do worry about some grafts i made in an adult tree that where affected (didnât now it until the virus manifested itself), but i understand the virus wonât move from branch to branch without Aceria ficus helping it and i sincerely hope i donât have it.
Thanks for the help in explaining it.
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Apologies. The later stages of the virus caused me to plant fig trees all day long and I am a little bit groggy.
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@Frankallen, thanks! I am examining my 8 fig plants everyday to see if I have more fruit.
@Jsacadura, thanks for the warning about "fig virus"
I think I may have contracted it already, I keep showing my husband pictures from on this forum of rows of fig containers 
But I canât imagine what it is like to have 70 varieties !
@hoosierbanana, you are not the only one. For a moment, I thought "fig has some virus I have to worry about?"