Poll: How many fig trees could you propagate and maintain?

General Fruit Growing
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For those interested in receiving a free bundle of cuttings from my fig repository:

How many fig cultivars do you have the resources to propagate from cuttings and maintain for years to come outdoors year-round? Assume you’d start with 2-4 cuttings per cultivar. Also assume you’d have no advance knowledge of which cultivars are in your bundle.

  • 0
  • 32
  • 64
  • 128
  • 256
  • 512
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I have 4/5 sets of stuewe and sons propagation trays and pots at 4x4 so i could do 64 at a time technically… but i don’t want to grab more soil :sweat_smile: 2cubic ft of soil is enough for almost 2 trays with what how much i use.

At this point, I’m doing it just cause i find it joyful

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We are always starting fig cuttings we pick up from old estates. We try to do a minimum of 25 at a time. But 50 is more average.

I currently have a tote of Celeste from one estate. Probably 30 cuttings worth. Plus another 30 SBT from last year.

But we just got a lot of pots and 2 truckloads of carbon composted soil I will mix. So we are set for cuttings. Working on finishing Plumbago starts now.

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I currently have 300+ rooting in the basement. Should be room for more soon if more were available.

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I can propagate alot… maintain thats another story… Im narrowing mine down to about 12 or so to keep.

I guess if i ever get Cherry Bomb i wont really need any others…right?

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@krismoriah
For some of us, it has always been about preservation of cultivars. Consequently I’m only considering results of the poll.

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I have 26 hardy Chitcago fig cutting in rooting compost.

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@poncirusguy
Chicago was the avatar of a collector. The original name of the cultivar was Chicago’s Hearty. It was obtained from East Coast immigrants who grew it in Abruzzo, IT.

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For bundle size 32, please identify these members :slightly_smiling_face:

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For me 2 max. I only have 1 now.

Simply dont need any more than that.

I might propagate one or two occasionally and share with family and friends.

My sister and daughter have a prop of my CH Fig.

TNHunter

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I could maintain 6-8 different cultivars

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I like puzzles. The color for jerry doesn’t perfectly match so I’m not confident about that response. What does @trust_level_4 think about the answers?

:black_square_button: jerry63

:black_square_button: dannytoro1

:black_square_button: uwtb

:black_square_button: sharq

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I click on 0 just for curiosity, but I could squeeze in quite a few more!

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Go for it Ruben!

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Thank you Steve!

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Would anyone want to go halfsies on a bundle?

I feel it would be impolite to ask for anything as Richards offer is extremely generous. Perhaps those of us who couldnt grow a large number of plants on our own could split a bundle amongst ourselves?

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@Josh6b

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Not looking for a bundle, Just wanted to vote and see what others said. I just set out 42 Fig cuttings to root yesterday.

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I am kinda thrilled. We only have SBT and the dwarf like Celeste. Of which we root a lot of cuttings from.

Just wrangled up two piles of small pots.

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Sorry, no. I read 32 cuttings at 2-4 cuttings per cultivar, but 120+ cuttings would be a little overboard. I apologize i read and replied quickly on my break.