Adding different varieties to mature fig tree, by patch budding
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I can't believe this! I'm seeing BUDS on my Kaffir Lime tree!
Comments (52)Chris, NICE job!!! Can you take a pic of the whole tree? Anirbn, My mom fell and hurt herself badly after she got out from a week in the hospital, so I totally forgot too. My bad. It started getting lighter in coloring..It was loosing it's vivid green look because the temps have gotten so cold. But I stuck it in the house and it seems to be coloring up again/. I will take a pic tomorrow..) I have been trying to grow it Bonsai style since I don't need it to be big and take up room. So it's pretty small.....See MoreFig's do not mature
Comments (9)I'm Sergnic from Italy. Is true that some plant are very sensible to photoperiod, but I think this is not absolutely the case of the fig. Sustantially the fig is a semitropical tree adapted in quite cold lands. In tropical and semipropical lands vegetation and fruiting are continuous, as in Sicily where, in more warm site, the fig ripes fruits also in December, (colder month is February), and the period whitout leaves is very short. All the varieties of fig (carica) are come from Mediterranean regions or Middle East (Syria, Turkey, Black sea, and oriental). I'm living quite at North (42° North, North Italy), but the varieties that are living here are absolutely the same of two thousand kilometers south in North Africa, and also in all regions of Mediterranean !, cuttings come from South Sicily (37° N), regularly fruits thousand Km North and vice versa. The only limit is the heat supply by the summer and how many it is long. For this the "Natalino" that in south Sicily fruits at Christmas here, in the North, fruits regularly but only two times (the second in September), in November the trees are loaded of lot of fruits that drop for cold in December. The only limit is that in North Italy (northern of the Central coastal Tuscany) noone cultives Figs for dry the fruits, because also if they are apparently very sweet the (high) percent of moisture do not permit a good drying, and also because this type of fig is not very appreciate as fresh fruit, (is considered too much rough). I don't know which is Latitude of Annettelu, but I think is not very away the limits from north-south mediterranean regions. However common figs made from mediterranean usually ripe also in north France and in south Sweden (I've fig-friend here, , and they have only problem about heat and hardiness for cold; but these varieties are also common (as I know), in more southerner lands than Pantelleria Island (36° North). Ciao, Sergio...See MoreI.D. Fig Variety please...
Comments (37)george, i have a black variety already it's violette de bordeux i purchased it in 1996 and i really like it for flavor and productivity.It grows a fig at almost every leaf.I am looking for a true Celeste,I purchased one from miller nursery in 1993 and got crap results from it.I still have it staying loyal to it trying to nurse it every year, but this year it's going in the garbage.Until I met you guys i truly thought it was a celeste but it isn't. So george i've noticed paradise has it. Do you think it's the real celeste?also thanks for reserving those fig cuttings for me I would love to try them.We'll set a date to meet early spring. P.S.Marc the violette de bordeux would be a great choice for you. I will show you how to cover it next fall if you wish. anthony...See MoreFig Bud Mites and Spinosad
Comments (12)Hoosierbanana, thanks for your response. I thought that perhaps that was the case---that they had a sort of last bastion in the buds and the spinosad/spiromesifen wasn't reaching them. The new spots---and they're not numerous, maybe one or two on a leaf---have reappeared on some of newest leaves; and typical of mite mottling, they do become more noticeable as the leaves grow. The hot weather is probably increasing the activity of the survivors in the buds. Did you use an adjuvant/surfactant when you sprayed? I think I will next time---might help it get in there better. I've also thought about removing terminal buds and maybe wiping out a lot of them that way, but would hate to arrest the growth of these young plants at this juncture. Perhaps that would be the lesser evil, though? Expiration date, applied via sticker, was okay on my bottle---if the seller was honest; and as they've apparently been selling this stuff for a while, you think somebody would've noticed if they were passing off bad product and left appropriate feedback. Anyway, it did kill aphids over the course of a few days---which spiromesifen is supposed to ---, so it's probably okay. Unfortunately, I'm yet to see any predatory mites---just the very bad kind---or much else in the way of life on the leaves. Some folks have suggested purchasing some predators, and that might be worth looking into. They might've indeed been the deciding factor in finishing off your infestation: Avid and Forbid maybe weakened the mites and the predators dealt the final blow, perhaps getting any holdouts in the buds. There sure are a lot of variables involved in fighting a fig mite infestation! If I come through this with any healthy plants, I don't think I'll ever bring in any new ones again. Then again, if I'd wised up earlier and given my cuttings a Forbid/Avid soak before starting maybe I would've nipped them in the bud(s). Who knows? (I know the 1955 Flock and Wallace study used sulfur to 'sterilize' cuttings and plants of mites, but do you suppose they were sure? I wouldn't think a dusting of sulfur---no matter how deadly to eriophyid mites---would reach all those ensconced in the buds.) Sorry for going on at length. Thanks again for taking the time to help out a frustrated new fig grower. Jeremiah...See Moreboizeau
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