Today I potted up well-rooted cuttings of Ischia Green, Excel, and Panachee!

congrats Stressbaby!

Hope you can pull some thru Patty!

Ive got my excel in a humidity bag now because i repotted the under-soil bud about even with the soil and it was getting gnarly looking.

ive got a deanna with a bud-spot slowly trying to break out, but nothing I could call leafing out yet.....

they say patience is a virtue.....?

Good for you SB!!! The baggie method did well for you. I never thought of trying that.
Garnet, send me some 'virtue' LOL.
I now have 2 Excel that have shoots growing up from under soil, but they have no roots! I think I see a small green bump on another cutting.
I must be getting patience cuz I didn't burn any yet LOL
Been busy all wkend potting up. I put the big 6ft IC banana inground (whew ... HEAVY) & potted up the Dbl Mahoi banana that you sent me Garnet. Thanks! It's doing very well! The other 2 unknown 'nannas are still small but doing OK. Oh, it is soooo nice to have a couple nice warm sunny days....except I feel all beat up from working outside but, it feels good to get a lot done I even carted out my Dragon Fruit in it's trellis "contraption" LOL.
Am dissapointed that my big BT fig lost a few leaves that got burnt. Figs around it had no damage . Hope I get figs on it.

I have an acutal leaf on one Excel, and 3 small leaves on another Excel. the Deanna is still a bud-nub.

Thanks Gaylord for being an inspiration of patience

When these cuttings leaf out, you can see some mottling which, I assume, is the FMV.

All of you seem to be really into figs-- is there a lot of difference between varieties. Figs are really common down here and most people, if they do anything with them make preserves. I can't imagine that there would be much difference in the taste of the preserves with different varieties, so I guess the difference is in the fresh figs--is that right?

I do know one guy that made fig wine--it was too sweet for my taste.

Uh Oh, FMV showing up already! So far all 3 Excel have growth from under soil. Seems we all had luck with Excel.
Skeet, I only have 5 varieties that I tasted & I like the dark ones best so far. Some are bland, some are sweeter.

Hiya Skeeter- Ive had a few different types of fig- black mission and calmyrna (yellowish) from Sun-Maid dried fruit in pouches, and then strung or crown figs from Wild Oats or Trader Joes- these are usually a golden fig.

It depends on what im in the mood for, but the Wild Oats type drier fig are better than pouch-dry figs IMHO. I think the pouch fruit are a bit funny textured (especially if left in the car as snacks- theyre kinda slimy but still tasty!)

the crown or string figs are occasoinally on the dry side tho...

As far as taste- the yellow pouch ones are a bit bitter. the black mission are richer deeper flavor, and the strung figs are a touch sweeter with crispy big seeds.

I think the biggest determinate in which ones to grow is your climate- big-eyed (the end of the fruit) fruits can sour in humidity or rain.

Ive never had fig jam.

I wish I could let you gals pick my figs. I usually pick a gallon or 2 that I make into preserves each summer, but the rest go to the birds and just fall on the ground. The preserves taste like the filling in a fig newton. Some people will add a pack of strawberry jello to the preserves when they are cooking them and it makes the preserves taste like strawberry preserves. I eat a few of them fresh off the tree when I walk by and see some that are ripe.

Last winter I bought a plastic "pouch" of figs in produce. They were a little slimey & they tasted awful...I threw them out. Same thing with dried figs. There is nothing like a fresh fig. If I get enough figs to make a jam, I will try that!

If you ever get enough for preserves I will be glad to give you a recipie-- I used to win blue ribbons with my fig preserves at the fair when I was a kid. I actually like to leave the stem attached so that the fig does not come apart when cooking and I cook mine down to a heavy syrup, but the judges at the fair always preferred the ones in a light syrup.

Skeet, I would LOVE to have your recipe! Could you post it in the "Recipe" forum? Thanks.

SB, I found some good news for you. Here's a quote from another forum about Alma fig trees:
"There is a comon fig in my collection(ALMA) that is imune and do not show any simptomes of Mosaic virus. So i am wrong again regarding the above statement.
It looks like any common fig that is a result of Ficus Carica x Ficus Palmata cross are imune to Fig Mosaic.
Alma has 25% Palmata and was enginered by University of Texas USA,and was relised to public in 1974." ( from Herman2 in NJ)
---So, no FMV on your Alma!
And here's another one about your Capri? Fig:

http://home.planters.net/~thegivans/faq.html

http://home.planters.net/~thegivans/figsex.html

"The ONLY way that figs get pollenized in nature is by the fig wasp, Blastophaga psenes which requires a caprifig host. You can artificially pollenate figs with caprifig pollen by hand and people have done it to breed new varieties.

I never thought of doing it by hand. I wonder if anyone can come up with a systematic step-by-step direction on doing this type of pollination. Would they have to crack open a caprifig to gather pollen, and then insert this pollen through the hole of a regular fig through the eye using some long narrow object? "

SB, is this the "Capri" fig that you have that can only be pollinated by fig wasps? Maybe you have a chance of getting figs on it...if you want the extra work LOL.

Also want you to know that -I think it's the 4 Heuchera (reddish colored low leaves) & the 3 fern-like plants you said would go well near them, have survived winter inground out front!!!!! Sorry that some of the smaller plants did not make it thru winter in sunroom. I tried. I really wanted the variegated hydrangea & blue ginger to make it Sorry you packed it for nothing.
I still only have the 3 Excel growing about 1/2 inch from under soil, but they have no roots yet. Am still trying w/ the rest.

That's great about the heucheras!

Unfortunately, the Alma is one of three varieties with no sign of life (with Flanders and Celeste). I have rooted and potted up the Calimyrna, Osb Prolific, Ischia Green, Panachee, and Excel. Genoa White has life but is not yet ready to be potted.

I don't know about the Calimyrna, I'll have to read your links. SB

I thought I would reawaken this old thread with a pic of one of the UCD figs.

I finally rooted Panachee, Excel, Calimyrna, Osbourn Prolific, and Ischia Green.

Here is a pic of the Panachee: