Fig bud mite via cuttings

Figgin' A said:
I could never do that, not even if I were paid a lot of money to do so, but IT IS LEGAL to "kill most wild animals, if the animal is causing damage to your property" in Ontario. Figs are your property, and coons are not on the protected list.

https://www.ontario.ca/page/harass-capture-or-kill-wild-animal-damaging-private-property
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They’re definitely out of control around here with an unnaturally high population, and that’s pretty much our fault. It’s unfortunate that some people feed and house them… many intentionally. Also illegal but I’ve never seen enforcement on this.
 
TorontoJoe said:
They’re definitely out of control around here with an unnaturally high population, and that’s pretty much our fault. It’s unfortunate that some people feed and house them… many intentionally. Also illegal but I’ve never seen enforcement on this.
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I am not surprised about laws not being enforced. Law enforcement in Canada is, how do I put it mildly, lacking.

I got royally tired of dealing with raccoons and opossums last season. Out here in the west end, we don't have nearly as many raccoons as you do, but they keep coming, along with opossums and skunks pretty regularly. I closed all the holes under the fence, and that kept the skunks away, thank God... those are a pain to deal with... I almost got sprayed... well, he sprayed but not at me, though I was not far... the smell was so vile that I had to leave the backyard and come back an hour later... it was unbearable.

Opossums and raccoons climb the fence. I have used various methods to protect my crops and keep them away, with varying success, mostly good success, but I find it exhausting. Next year, I will reconfigure my susceptible crops so that it will be easier to surround them with an electric fence and finally do it.
 
Figgerlickinggood said:
That was my thought. After the cuttings root wouldn’t they sprout new buds?
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Nutrients and growth hormones are in the buds, so you typically do not want to remove them. They don’t grow back after removal, it needs to come from a different stem. You can remove the apical bud tip as long as you don’t remove other buds on the cutting, otherwise nothing will grow if they are all gone. But it’s not just the apical tip that can have mites.
 
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