Hello, where can I buy plant or cuttings?

hi there,

you have so many figs!

are you in chicago?

do you have all of these in pots and bring them into the basement?

Chicago here, and growing my first year of petit nigra. Two years old, and about a foot tall.

no figs yet.

South of city in suburb , grown in pots except 1 inground.
They are brought in attached garage during winter.
Brought onto driveway for fig shuffle in spring.
Martin

thank you!

do you water them in the winter? like once a month or so?

Sometimes as going into each off season can different meaning the large pots can get much rain before storage and they will hold that moisture for a very long time during the dormant season.

The smaller containers will need a light watering just so the roots do not completely dry out .
In short what i do is dictated as to what mother nature provides .
Martin

Thitiponk
–Black Madeira is one variety that you have to be very careful about buying,
especially on eBay. A prominent nursery was selling what they thought was Black
Madeira for a number of years and recently discovered it wasn’t that variety at
all. But people bought it, made cuttings, sell plants they believe are BM, and
the wrong BM fig continues to be sold. Also, sellers from Madeira Island sell cuttings of black figs which they call "Black Madeira", but are different also. These are all probably good figs, but not BM.

Do a little homework on the fig forums before you
buy it to make sure you're getting the real deal.

The Madeira Black standard on the forums and in some yards is or was obtained as scionwood from UCdavis which i think but not sure that this serviced will no longer be available.

As mentioned in this thread there are others going around as the Madeira Black which may or may not be the same as the UcDavis strain which is the one i grow.
Martin

Martin, what is your soil composition in the pot?

When I re-potted last fall I used Happy Frog organic potting soil. Its doing ok. Although I think figs will grow in just about anything. I just wanted to put it in something lighter so its easy to move around and drains well.

Now, for the new figs I grew over the winter, I been mixing the soil with either peat moss and/or pine bark mulch.

Tobybul2,
My Madeira's are in promix
Yes they grow in most anything for sure i have tried most of them and in my opinion not much if any difference long as they are properly fertilized and routinely root pruned a must for
container growing.
Martin