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Your Favorite Picture-Fig Plants & Figs Only

14 years ago

A similar thread Subject was posted on Figs4Fun site but i dont think that member is member on this forum so i thought it was a good idea and now post simialr here.

If you like please post pictures of something you thought was nice picture or your favorite ( fig pictures and plants only please) ; )

Most of us enjoy to see others pictures i know i do.

I have many pictures to share also and will do so if there is enough interest in this posting as well.

Best Health

Martin

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svanessa
14 years ago
Ahh, Spring! My VdB last Valentine's day.

Sue

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svanessa
14 years ago
The visitor...sorry, my trees are really too young to show much fruit, maybe this year...until then, leaves and bugs.

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Tell us more about what you want, a shade tree or figs to eat. If you want to eat figs, that 'bush' is well formed. I had 4 plants in a 12' x 14' space between 2 driveways in Palo Alto, CA. Each year there is at least the chance of a few days in the mid to upper 20's F. I learned about controlling height after the largest had grown so that I needed a ladder to reach the top. I used it to test out new varieties by bark grafting fresh new growth on the donor tree. I'd suggest pruning to restrict the tree to main crop figs; they are the best tasting in my experience. After the last chance of a hard frost I'd cut last year's growth back to 1 bud facing where I wanted the branch to grow. When that reached 6-8 new leaves I'd start pinching out the new growth buds until the season ends. Some varieties only need one pinching, others send up a new shoot that must be removed before it grows to a point that is out of reach. Do an image search on your favorite search engine for the string "fig pruning" to see the possibilities. Remember, main crop figs form at the leaf nodes. Enough for now, baumgrenze Below are 2 photos, one after pruning in late January 2016 and another in mid-May.
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genecolin
14 years ago
Young Martin's UK, Spring is near.
rafed
14 years ago
Sue,
That's a nice picture you posted.
Is that insect in the Grasshopper family?

I'm guessing it's harmless too.

Rafed
bjs496
14 years ago
From a couple of years ago... if I remember correctly, this is a Paradise Nursery 'Atreano' that split in Houston.
svanessa
14 years ago
Rafed,

Actually I was wrong. It's not a leaf hopper but a Katydid. It is in the grasshopper family and some are considered pests as they feed on leaves, stems, fruit, etc.:

Learn something new every day!

Here is a link that might be useful: Katydid
dieseler
Original Author
14 years ago
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Martin
giants_2007
14 years ago

Sal
dieseler
Original Author
14 years ago
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Best Health
Martin
giants_2007
14 years ago
Martin what variety is the last Pic
Sal
dieseler
Original Author
14 years ago
It is called Negretta.
giants_2007
14 years ago
The stem color is neat how was the taste I know they are a dark fig is the pulp red and seedy
Sal
dieseler
Original Author
14 years ago
Hi Sal,
those figs did not ripen . This plant overall is somewhat of slow grower for me and wants to grow like a bush but i wont let it. It has only the two side branches as i kept the others pruned off and left figs on to get an idea of what they looked like somewhat i was curious.Hopefully this season i get to taste a few figs.

One of the branches will be air layered for a member that asked last season and if that person reads this please email me.

The other has to stay for now. This is my second favorite plant to look at and shape . Only a few plants now i can let grow decent size because of limited storage space this one will be one of the bigger ones if the figs taste good to me.
One day its my hope to be live in a climate where most my plants will be inground and not so darn constrained in a pot.
Best Health
Martin
giants_2007
14 years ago
I did a search on the other forum and found your post and some pics that is one nice looking plant I'm thinking a Panchee would be neat to just for the way the figs look but I also understand it is a good tasting fig. I might have to break down and get some cuttings but I really don't have the room maybe just one more
dieseler
Original Author
14 years ago
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danab_z9_la
14 years ago
Sal "has room for maybe one more". ha ha.....many of us fignuts have said that very same thing only to later justify to ourselves in getting just one more after the last one more acquisition.

Dan
satellitehead
14 years ago
Hey Martin - your last picture... is that a picture of what is called a "mule flower"? It looks like the drawings of mule flowers I've seen in books, but I've never seen a true picture of one. I guess they are common of Adriatic figs, but until this year, I've never personally owned an Adriatic!
dieseler
Original Author
14 years ago
Satellitehead
This was a picture of a fig on one of my plants last season.
Im not sure what a mule flower is.
satellitehead
14 years ago
Please see link to Eisen's book for pictures and info - this page, and the page preceding discuss them. Others have brought up the topic of mule flowers in the past, but it's not something you hear folks talk about often. If I hadn't read Gustav's book, I wouldn't know what they were either.

Here is a link that might be useful: Mule Flowers, explained
dieseler
Original Author
14 years ago
After reading that pehaps it was a mule flower.
This growing season i should get figs from this young plant unless it keeps snowing out here.
Thanks for posting the link.
Martin
dieseler
Original Author
14 years ago
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Best Health
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