Violette de Bordeaux - any fans???

oat said:
To be a fertilizer?
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No, I have a Bobcat and a tree planting bit. I will plant the tree so not to care for it like a dedicated potted fig. Since our trees in the ground keeps freezing lately I'm using some of the figs SuperDave gave me scions of, those will be in a group that get to live out life in pots in a very large shade house. I move them into my shop in winter along with the Citrus trees.
 
Breba figs grow extremely well here so the strongest 24 trees that Breba crop are remaining in pots. I have a automatic waterer set up for the Citrus, I will just tap off that to water & feed the potted figs.
 
Rojo said:
Breba figs grow extremely well here so the strongest 24 trees that Breba crop are remaining in pots. I have an automatic waterer set up for the Citrus, I will just tap off that to water & feed the potted figs.
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Where are you located?
 
Charlie Dodgson said:
I spent 8 years amassing a collection of about 600 different fig cultivars and comparing them to VdB. I concluded there is no better tasting fig in my environment.
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Funny how that works. Things can be awesome in one place and mediocre in others. Olympian is supposed to be meh, and yet mine tastes great.
 
Rojo said:
This thread is older but I seem to have a Smith that doesn't fruit also. A rooted Scion off the tree on the other hand look to be setting fig buds on a very vigorous shoot. Does Smith need to be kept vigorous to fruit by chance? It has never been a enthuastic grower for me.
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I'm in the same boat. Huge Smith tree, no figs
 
The solar radiation combined with the heat and humidity makes for good conditions for some figs like LSU Purple and a big Lemon heirloom local fig that grows here. We had 3 weeks in a row of 80+ degree temps which got the sap flowing in the fig trees then we froze 2 nights in a row. Killed everything to the ground. It didn't use to be that way, I had 3 huge fig trees. Too much water killed them.
 
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