Figgerlickinggood
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Say I really like the new you avatar picture. It’s a keeper.
Cherry flavor fig
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GoodFriendMike
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Will do
ZomVee
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Do pineapples do well over there in Louisiana?
snarfing
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grafting plums onto krymsk 1 helps keep them small, supposedly. 6-10 feet
GoodFriendMike
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I am sure they would on the southshore most years. The northshore gets about 10 degrees colder during winter. I am on the northshore so I would need to protect them every winter.
snarfing
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Pluerries are on my list to grow, I have 2 sweet cherries in the ground new this year, but I have low hopes of success with them. if they fail i plan to put adara plum interstem and graft pluerries onto them.
I got paw paws, apples, sweet cherry, american persimmon, walnut, blueberries, blackberries, raspberry, red raspberry, black huckleberry, chokeberries, mulberry and serviceberry too.
I got paw paws, apples, sweet cherry, american persimmon, walnut, blueberries, blackberries, raspberry, red raspberry, black huckleberry, chokeberries, mulberry and serviceberry too.
superdave336
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Thanks for this. I’ve been grafting on Bradford but this might be better and I can plant where needed.
ZomVee
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That's awesome!
I put a Sugar Twist and two Sweet Treats in the ground this year.
I was wondering if it would work out or not. Just a thought, a whisper of a possibility
snarfing
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it might work with pluerry x plout or vice versa. at least with persimmon 2nd gen hybrids dont always requrie embryo rescue
Here what it looks like. This one dried on the tree, so super jammy. It was definitely planted a long time ago probably by whoever used to live nearby. The leaves are nothing like Dalmatie.
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Sure, if you are not in a hurry, our fig trees take forever to go dormant, plus I don’t live in that area anymore.
I know of a few more old trees like this that are not Black Mission in the old Italian areas, but some are Smyrna. One is a VdB type. They were most likely planted. I made a note of all of them even the Smyrna type lol. I want to graft them at some point.
ZomVee
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That’s an idea! I’m trialing a few Italian heirlooms already. One thing I notice that none of them produced decent fruits the first two years. One took three years before holding figs. If I didn’t tie a profichi next to it, I would have thought it was a Smyrna
ZomVee
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Are you saying after it was caprified it started holding on to its fruit better?
I mean I had a conversation with someone about selling figs a long time ago and I've thought about this and I think the market is wide open for something like a multi-graft tree of great varieties or heritage varieties for the Californian grower. Just an idea. I'm no longer in that climate, Harvey's farm being up for sale had me imagining the Frankenfig trees that could be created if I had the resources to run it haha
A heritage Old Italian Neighborhood Frankenfig, come on, that sounds awesome!
No, just maturity. It is common. I meant even when I hung profichi next to it one year, it dropped all the figs. I’m not ever going to sell though. It seems so exhausting. Coming up with fancy names too lol. I would just be calling them unk 1, 2, 3, … Nobody would buy it.
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NYC_Fignetic
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I had like 21 cuttings sent to me as a mistake and most did not make it.. I have 4 left out the bunch.. let’s see if they grow..
NYC_Fignetic
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9ah-figlet
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There's a thread on it here with good experiences and photos from people outside California: https://figfanatic.com/threads/crema-di-fragola-from-pot.2535/. I've tasted fruit from @JC Figgy's tree, and it was exceptional but more strawberry than cherry.