My pictures were taken mid summer. All the trees are healthy, with the exception of the funny colored leaves. Three quarters of my 200 trees show signs of the virus in their leaves. Some do have a few deformed leaves, which seems to happen during certain parts of the year, or during certain types of weather. Leaf deformity is seen most often here, in the early Spring, followed by normal leaves, and then a few more deformed leave in late, late summer. One or two varieties seem to have severe symptoms, and sometimes deformed fruit (Black Ischia being one of them). Otherwise, I have seen no less vigor or other issues in any of my trees. Other climates may have greater expression of the symptoms. Rattlesnake Island has been a slow grower, but has no signs of FMV other than the leaf discoloration. If one tree has it, everything you have will have it sooner or later, whether they show it or not. I know one nursery that destroyed $10,000 worth of fig trees this year, because their new plants were infected. None of the parent trees had any signs or evidence of the infection. Probably some trees are carriers, just like people can carry diseases and have no symptoms. You cannot prevent it, and if you are going to collect more than a few fig trees, you will get it sooner ar later. I have friends with eczema, and trust me when I say they have far worse symptoms from that disease than any of my fig trees has from FMV. It won't keep me from being their friend, and I certainly wouldn't want to eliminate them from my collection of friends. Yes, sometimes their skin is pretty ugly, but often that makes them so much the sweeter.

Hi Sapphires, I just tried it and it worked. Are you sure you are downloading for 2000? I don't think downloads for 2001 or 02 would work. Here is the link I used. You will see a list of downloads "For Picture It 2000" on the right side of the page. Here is a link that might be useful: Picture It 2000 Downloads

I meant to say that block images is not checked, but still no pictures. Why do I get some but not others? I guess it's not that important "in the grand scheme of life" but I'm curious.

We ordered from plants express over the summer of 2021 to add the final touches on our pool project. Plants came in good time however the delivery person was not able to even get the plants out of the truck, had we not had help there would of been no way for them to move them as we ordered 7 24 boxed trees. All the trees looked great, except one tree. It came damaged but our landscaper said it should be fine once planted. Just after 2 weeks of planting them 5 turned brown and started to die. I sent photos at the 33 day mark just to document as I wanted to let them know of what was happening with the trees. I was told to give them more to time and to make sure our watering system was set correctly - they should be fine is what they ultimately said some plants take 1 year to establish. In Dec of 2021, 5 of the 7 trees had died, confirmed by our landscaper. So we emailed Plants Express to follow up on our options - we just really would of liked to replace them. Their first solution was we could purchase the trees again and they would give about $30 off each tree and we would need to pay the delivery fee of $100 again. We told them that wouldn't work for us and they needed to offer something else. After going back and forth several times they finally agreed to refund $795 of our $2300 order....they would not tell us how they got to this price but they said because we emailed at 33 days they would not honor their 30 day return policy. Had we known how this company handles these issues we would of just ordered them locally, although we saved money when ordering from them in the first place, in the long run we ended up having to spend $1050 additionally because now we have to replace the 5 trees and their "refund" did not even cover the cost of 2 trees. Buyers beware. Also if you really want to order from them I would suggest placing your order through Home Depot as you would be dealing with them regarding returns which would offer a lot less hassle. I mean 3 days is why they wouldn't stand behind their product....Costly lesson learned. In the end we are very disappointed in their service.