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Vitooch1

Vitooch1

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Today at 15 degrees I decided to pull out all my trees to give it a good watering but then rain started pouring so I decide to let it be and let nature take coarse 😃 . After rain settled I began to reconstruct my temporary greenhouse fo the 2026 season. Hope you northern fig growers are getting a nice head-startIMG_5327.jpeg as-well best of luck everyone. IMG_5328.jpegI slightly extended my greenhouse due to my trees getting larger. I should have enough room this year to actually walk in there.
 
ktrain said:
Everything is waking up in my garage, I opened the doors to let the sunlight in and watered them all.
Ready to bring them out but don't want to shuffle. lol
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Same here except those little figgies have been enjoying this weather on the driveway. Most are on pallets with coasters. 20 or so plants in or out in 30 minutes tops. It is supposed to be nice until Wednesday so shufle on!
 
BruceB said:
Same here except those little figgies have been enjoying this weather on the driveway. Most are on pallets with coasters. 20 or so plants in or out in 30 minutes tops. It is supposed to be nice until Wednesday so shufle on!
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I need to bring it back down to those numbers, after a big reduction I'm still around 150.
And haven't started rooting yet. lol
Hoping to start next weekend.
 
RedSkip said:
Curious why a 5 gallon would work with amended soil?
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Our heat, humidity, lack of airflow, the fig roots close to the sides of 15 gallon pots rot. I'm so close to the Gulf. Actually I'm working on a painting system to paint all the fig tree pots here. I've already posted here how I'm currently wrapping 65-200 gallon pots to reflect solar radiation heat.
 
I do cheat tho. 20 gallon SIPs just inside the overhead door. Open in the morning, eastern sun. Close in he afternoon when shadows fall. Only 6 of those so far. They are a bit too much to dance with!😉
 
I started off with some bad luck, freakin' voles got my Chicago Hardy, my two Sicilian Etna figs, and my two Sicilian white figs! With two they went right into the roots! I trimmed back the best I could and maybe got some cuttings. We'll see what happens from here--they've survived a lot over the years but NEVER voles. I couldn't believe the damage they've done.

I've never had an issue with voles until about three years ago but they only went after my potatoes.
 
Im sorry, @rayray. That's disheartening.

I think Im not too far from you geographically. I dont have any Sicilian varieties, but I'd be happy to share some cuttings and set some airlayers for you, on my CH and some others.

Natalia
 
cdh said:
I would say there's a good amount. Not a forest or anything, but everything is awake (but two!) and putting on green growth. Two of last year's new trees (now second year) were late going dormant and then early to start green growth, so they're out ahead of the rest.
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I see... yeah... if it's green for sure you can't let it freeze
 
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FigLab said:
Im sorry, @rayray. That's disheartening.

I think Im not too far from you geographically. I dont have any Sicilian varieties, but I'd be happy to share some cuttings and set some airlayers for you, on my CH and some others.

Natalia
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Thank you so much! I'm hoping that they come back from the roots, we'll find out.

I could not believe my eyes, I've had friends that have lost fig's to voles but until I've seen what they can do first hand I don't think I comprehended the damage they can do over a winter.
 
rayray said:
I started off with some bad luck, freakin' voles got my Chicago Hardy, my two Sicilian Etna figs, and my two Sicilian white figs! With two they went right into the roots! I trimmed back the best I could and maybe got some cuttings. We'll see what happens from here--they've survived a lot over the years but NEVER voles. I couldn't believe the damage they've done.

I've never had an issue with voles until about three years ago but they only went after my potatoes.
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@rayray, I don't have your varieties but I have some duplicate rooted cuttings that I can send your way if you need replacements for what the voles destroyed. DM if interested.
 
rayray said:
Thank you so much! I'm hoping that they come back from the roots, we'll find out.

I could not believe my eyes, I've had friends that have lost fig's to voles but until I've seen what they can do first hand I don't think I comprehended the damage they can do over a winter.
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Are you planning to install hardware cloth or some other preventative to stop them in the future?
 
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