@PharmerDrewee Suggestions are welcome! You don’t have to twist my arm here…
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@ DMend
If you need any Adiatic type fig, I get a few growing in my garden from cuttings. They look to be ready to be dug. I’m in greater Princeton area. Also have some Syrian black fig.
Is there a “list” somewhere that breaks down fig varieties by type? …and is easy to understand by noobs…?
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Yes there are, yet it’s confusing and different people give different names for the same group. I will make a list myself to help make it less confusing.
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Thank you @alanmercieca, that would be very helpful.
At a nursery now after a dt apmnt. Tag says “Black Italian Fig”, 10 qt pot, both have figs now. $29.99 each. Hat in pick is for a bit of size reference. Is that a decent price? And is “Black Italian” an actual variety, or more of a generic type name?
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I don’t think that your picture uploaded. I do not see it. The name sounds fairly generic indeed
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For that a size, $30 is very fair. I can’t speak much for that variety, not a standard name. In general, $30-$50 is good for a large size and $10 to $30 is good for smaller size. You may be able to find some end of season sales here and there. Limited selections and quality varies.
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I have left that nursery and gone to another while I’m in the area. I believe there’s another nursery that’s a couple more miles, may as well hit them while I’m up this way.
The fig in pics…I also put value in it having figs now and (if they stay on plant and ripen) being able to taste and enjoy soon…
Thanks for the offer! Just let me know the variety and how much you want when you get a chance.
‘Black Italian Fig’ is an unknown heirloom variety introduced on the old garden web forum about 13 years ago, yet I think that it’s just randomly used for black skinned varieties originating from Italy as well. It’s hard to tell. I am not sure how well the heirloom was distributed.
Well, I decided to go back and get one. The figs that were on them helped seal the deal. One of the other places only had brown turkey and Celeste, the other had 4-5 varieties, but they were $45-59, and I’m not quite ready to pay that yet. I also picked up a small Kadota from HD for $12.98.
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Not sure there is such fig named that way. The name is so common. Probably named by certain nursery.
A friend has a family fig that her Syrian father brought from Syria. So we call it Syrian Ammary Black fig…
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If you get chance to stop by, I can just dig it for you. Do not want to ship now. Still small. Here is the mother fig from my friend. Possible Adriatic JH. Not certain.
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My in ground trees’ brebas have all been dry and unripened. They get soft and droop and disappoint. We are in a drought here in Napa, CA.
While I don’t know that there are any hills in Florida, the nursery I mentioned, Florida Hills nursery, has come through with their shipment, very promptly actually. It was one of those large long triangle cardboard packages like a giant Toblerone chocolate bar, Packed inside where six fig trees, ranging from about 4 to 12 inches in size. They had very thin stems, characteristic of tissue culture and not rooted cuttings. Two of them lost many of their leaves, or potentially were dormant from the get-go, the rest were covered with healthy leaves, they were not yellow or dry. They were grown and translucent plastic baggies. The soil medium was saturated with water, but hopefully just for the short trip in the US mail from Florida to Maryland. I must say that the service and the plants look acceptable, perhaps even above average in terms of what I have bad mail order in my experience.
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@Naeem ,Every time I see your posts, my jaw drops, how you have so much variety and are able to cultivate such beautiful fruit, right here in Ellicott city. Perhaps my little plot is cursed.
. I wish I could figure out how you do what you do. Perhaps part of it is that my land is generally sloping northward, so any sun rays are warming it tangentially.
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