Blueboy, Yes all different. He sent 3 cuttings of each variety. It was a trade for some pomegranate liners. I read the same thing about the nematodes and we have them here also. I have not had any trouble with my in ground figs yet but I keep them mulched. I already have the areas these figs will go mulched so it breaks down and is ready when the cuttings are months from now. A lot of people grow them in pots but that is a lot more work. The new varieties are: Panevino dark Hardy Chicago Giant Black German White Triana Takom Violet Bronze Paradiso Salem Dark LSU Gold Negrone Excel Panevino white JH Adriatic Sals el Gene Sweet George Black Mission Morle Paradiso Green Ischia Ronde De Bordeaux Genes paradiso Violet De Bordeaux Malta Black Macool Oregon Prolific Lindhurst White LSU Brandy Kathleens Black Already have: Celeste Latrulla Black Mission Pasquale Celebrity

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

When I was a kid, I would go to Virginia with my mom for the months of July and August each year. We lived in NJ at that time. I was an infant the first time I went for a visit and went each year after that. My grandparents had two large fig trees in their back yard and they were against a high board fence where it formed the right back corner of the yard. They were large, brown figs. No special care was given them and they grew just fine over the years. When I was tiny, my grandmother would sit at the small table under the one window in the kitchen and peel the figs and put them into a bowl. As fast as she would be peeling them, I would be reaching up over the edge of the table and taking the peeled figs and eating them. I was never scolded for that--Such a sweet, patient grandma, she was. They laughed at the number of figs such a tiny girl could eat. We would go out and pluck them right from the trees when I was a little older. We would split open the fig skins and eat the pulp off the insides of them and toss the skins away. They were so good and sweet. One person recently said she thinks they may have been Brown Turkey figs because they were evidently cold-hardy, growing with no real care in Newport News, VA, which is on the DelMarVa Peninsula. I now live in Lafayette, LA and have two trees that I think are Celestes, but not sure. One tree came from a friend who went to the property where she lived as a child. They had a big fig tree there where several funny stories of hers came from. The house is gone now, but the big tree is still on the vacant lot. Several years ago, she went to visit the tree and dug up several suckers and took them home. She gave me one and I've named it, Legacy. It's a tough little tree. The other, I got when I went to a craft show here. I was buying some fig preserves and saw a little fig tree in a pot and asked if the man was selling fig trees because my first tree had to be dug up when we built a workshop out back and I missed it so much. He said he wasn't selling trees, that he had brought that one to Lafayette to give to someone, but the person never showed up and I could have it. When I asked him how much it was, he said to just take it. That would keep him from having to cart it back to North Louisiana with them. I've named that one, Lagniappe, which means, "The gift," or, "A little something extra." (Has anyone else ever named their fig trees?) Whenever my figs ripen, I go out back and pick some and when I'm savoring them, I think back to the wonderful times in VA, with my mom's family. Sometimes, I just go out and like to smell the leaves--They have such a special scent to them--Takes me right back to my visits in VA, as well.

You can use ACCESS with PHP. Usually PHP is easier and faster than ASP. In my opinion, the leaf shape is not a good filter to identify the fig variety. In the same fig tree, you can find a different shape leaves. After a heavy pruning or when the fig is young, the shape leaves are very different. In Turkey, the main fig producer are using this method developped by Uygun Aksoy : The text below is written in Catalan, lÂIPGRI en publicà la versió defi nitiva, que diferia poc de lÂesborrany original: hi afegia alguns carà cters que consideram de poc valor descriptiu (mides del borró, arrels adventícies, color de la gota de lÂull, adhesió dÂesquames ostiolars, carà cters de les lenticel·les i sensibilitats a factors abiòtics) i dÂaltres que ja ens avançà rem a afegir a la nostra proposta de descriptor (color dÂesquames ostiolars i longitud del peduncle). Aquest descriptor ha estat pensat per a Ficus carica i altres espècies del gènere, i dóna molt de protagonisme a les fi gueres del tipus dÂEsmirna, fet comprensible per a una regió que és capdavantera en la producció mundial dÂaquest tipus de fi gues seques. SÂadapta a un format normalitzat del tipus IPGRI;8 això implica una detallada descripció dÂun elevat nombre de característiques de la cultivar, estandaritzat per a feines de recuperació, conservació, divulgació i utilització de germoplasma. Per tant, completa prou els carà cters morfològics (oferint diverses opcions de resposta), nÂamplia els fi siològics i els agronòmics i, fi nalment, nÂintrodueix de químics i reserva un apartat fi nal per als marcadors bioquímics i moleculars. This is the automatic translation to English. The IPGRI published the final version, which differed little from the original draft: it added some characters that we consider of little descriptive value (sizes of the bud, adventitious roots, color of the drop of the eye, adhesion of ostiol scales, characters of the lenticel·les? and sensitivities to unbiotics factors) and other that already we advanced to add to our proposal of descriptor (color of ostiol scales and length of the stem). This descriptor has been thought for Ficus carica and other species of the genre, and it gives a lot of protagonism to the figs the type of Esmirna, understandable fact for a region that is a leader in the world-wide production of these dried figs type. It adapts itself to a normalized format of the type IPGRI;8 this implies a detailed description of a high number of characteristics of the to grow, standards for works of recovery, conservation, divulging and utilization of germoplasm. Therefore, it completes enough the morphological characters (offering several options of answer), it broadens the physiological end and the agronomic ones and, finally purpose, introduces chemists and reserves a final section for the biochemical and molecular scoreboards. Bon courage, ...