PapaFig's cutting count-off contest!

DCallahan said:
My guess is that he's going to finish out the case of cups he bought and have a few dozen tree pots in addition. Someone had already took my first guess.
Thanks for the game.
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This was accurate - but I didn't have the energy to do the tree pot ones yet. I saved the cuttings with large internodal spacing or large diameters for those.
 
ktrain said:
@PapaFig That is truly an insane number of cuttings.
How many varieties is that?
I usually do 2 of everything, but I do have 5 of one and some are just 1.
98% are 2 cuttings per variety though.
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How many varieties - approximately 250 total, of which about 81 were our own and about 82 were from Harvey. The balance were from OTBP (37), Fig 'n Fruit (16) and share/trades (35).

Harvey's we cut most of those in half so those are double strikes - a few valuable/hard to root ones I saved backed for grafting. And we have about 35 varieties still on the way from Harvey's sale (USPS says those are Florida right now?? go figure), which would make it 285 varieties, give or take, that we are rooting this season - mostly with 2-3 copies each.
 
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PapaFig said:
How many varieties - approximately 250 total, of which about 81 were our own and about 82 were from Harvey. The balance were from OTBP (37), Fig 'n Fruit (16) and share/trades (35).

Harvey's we cut most of those in half so those are double strikes - a few valuable/hard to root ones I saved backed for grafting. And we have about 35 varieties still on the way from Harvey's sale (USPS says those are Florida right now?? go figure), which would make it 285 varieties, give or take, that we are rooting this season - mostly with 2-3 copies each.
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Impressive Sir, you are a glutton for punishment 😂
I look forward to seeing your success.
 
@Fig Gazer (Angelito is waiting to be graphed after the last freeze) ... I've been Groking everything from cypress mulch, to pond sludge... still working on our plan for that (we have a few hundred pots free from last season though) - and I usually buy perlite in bulk from an expander in Benton, AR (about 90 miles of interstate from here). So our formula will probably look like perlite, pine bark from a local mill, chicken manure (if I can find it aged) from a farmer up the road, and maybe some sand/clay from our place (or sludge from the pond, I'll check that out when I set up the solar-powered pump we just got).

@DianaNE So far I've been potting them up in 3-5 gallon pots - probably north of 500 (with trees in them). And last fall we planted 40 on our houseplace. I think most of those have died - but I guess I have to learn things the hard way (I think some drowned because of our high clay/low perk).

I'm going to try again this spring with rootstock and duplicates, I guess we'll see how that goes :)
 
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