Genetic Testing

[figologist]

If you are chasing seedlings or hybridizing figs and would like to know the sex of the plant and you could do a mail-in test at home for $15, would you be interested?

 

[DELFIG]

No, but maybe a DNA test to tell me what variety of unknown fig tree that I have.....

 

[figologist]

No, but maybe a DNA test to tell me what variety of unknown fig tree that I have.....

Unlikely. This company doesn’t have a big database of knowns to compare against

 

[DCallahan]

If you are chasing seedlings or hybridizing figs and would like to know the sex of the plant and you could do a mail-in test at home for $15, would you be interested?

That would be an awesome tool to save time and space if the end goal was to solely utilize male or female plants. That would be half the split on finding common females

 

[FruitBrute]

My interest peaks at around $5.

$15 seems a little salty. What if I had multiple seedlings. Would they all be categorized as one test, or seperates.

 

[GoodFriendMike]

Many people use https://farmerfreeman.com/ for their fig trees. I find both the females and Capri's to be valuable. So I would not bother with the testing. But if you are only growing out a couple and only want females. The $15 would save you a lot of money in the long run.
Considering time, soil, fertilizer, pots, and water.

 

[figologist]

My interest peaks at around $5.

$15 seems a little salty. What if I had multiple seedlings. Would they all be categorized as one test, or seperates.

Usually it’s $25. $15 would be a promo price. And it’s per separate plant, not all in one test