Fig cuttings

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rayray

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Okay, I had a heck of a couple of months—doctor apts between the wife and I etc etc one operation on the wife but everything is okay

But finally got to pot the cuttings, after trying too hard I decided to go back to the basics.

Trim the cuttings, put a little grafting tape on the top, if cut, cut the bottoms at a slight angle, and scrape the bark then dip in rooting gel—I use clonex cause I like the purple lol.

We’ll see what happens!!
 

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What I started

Long Yellow Neck
Vasilika Black
Joe’s Jersey
Gino’s Black
Malta Black
Sao Miquel Roxo
Dark Portuguese
Red Lebanese
Ronde de Bordeaux
Pastilliere Baud
San Martin
Maltese Beauty
Red Silician

From the forum

Brooklyn White
Bourjasotte Grise
LSU Gold
Mavra Sika
MBVS
RLBV
STRAWBERRY Verte
Succrete
 
You have A LOT of Mt Etna types in there.
Nothing wrong wioth that as they do very well and are very tasty.
Lots of other good ones as well.

Hope much success for you! :)
 
ktrain said:
You have A LOT of Mt Etna types in there.
Nothing wrong wioth that as they do very well and are very tasty.
Lots of other good ones as well.

Hope much success for you! :)
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LOL I suppose so...not sure which one's will take off or not--and after a while I'll keep the one's I like or do the best in my area.

So far, only my Chicago Hardy,and 3 of my local figs all unk two black, one white are waking up--looks like I might have lost the VDB, one local unk dark and a local unk Lebanese--either that or just taking a long time to wake up idk yet. The Chicago Hardy is the farthest along.

Oh, an unk Celeste is up. My two buddy's got hit hard this year, and a Lebanese couple I know there's are still not coming up yet--really cold winter this year--coldest we had in about 14 years, very little snow.
 
ktrain said:
You have A LOT of Mt Etna types in there.
Nothing wrong wioth that as they do very well and are very tasty.
Lots of other good ones as well.

Hope much success for you! :)
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I'm also interested to see how they vary, especially from the one's I got from my Sicilian buddy. Because I'm fairly certain the one's he gave me are also Mt Etna's, not sure what the White is?? His path in life was born in Sicily, moved to the Bronx (1963/64) then Mt Vernon then to Pennsylvania in 1983/84. In Pennsylvania he planted 43 fig tree's by the time him and I became good friends he was down to about 20--then a really bad snow storm got him in April about 12 years ago??--so now I think he's down to about 6 figs?? Not sure which one's he brought over from Sicily and which one's he might have acquired in NY?? Knowing him they all came from Sicily and from family members here in NY.
 
ktrain said:
Well, I have like 13 Mt. Etna varieties, they do good here and in the winter unprotected.
Can't say I'd get more but I'm happy with the ones I have. :)
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Yea, they do well up in the NE area too. My old neighbors had a Portuguese type, they must have had 20 to 25 but they were all the same from their old village--they were on the smaller side and very seedy, like beyond seedy! They weren't my favorite.
 
I forgot, I'm also rooting one Blue Celeste (I love Celeste figs), and cuttings of the Nixon Peace Fig (China).

The Nixon Peace Fig came from a tree in Arizona that is 25' tall by 30' wide. The figs are the size of basketball's, jk'ing of course but they're HUGE.

Hopefully they root for me. I don't know what happened cause I never had failures rooting when I didn't know what the heck I was doing, even though I was told it was wrong lol. Then I tried to do it the right way and got strangled by failures, go figure. So, I'm roughing it now with tough love!
 
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