The Tropical Fruit Forum

Hi S.O. Borneo. Just to confirm that my original grafted fig is still thriving and bearing heavily in the wet tropical climate of Cairns. F. opposita is a smallish shrub/tree and it appears to be a dwarfing rootstock, my original tree is still less than 1.5 metres tall. It seems to put most of its energy into the fruit I have gotten much better at grafting and I am now selling a small number of plants locally each season. I grow them to about 12 months old and their first crop of 2 or 3 figs before selling. it will be interesting to get feedback on how these plants fare, I will post any updates as i get them

And here's one I grafted myself, 18 months from grafting to (probably) F. opposita

Hi Mike T....I have a "birds eye" fig from Daleys that they list as either F opposita or F coronata - it looks very different to our local opposita and has really tasty fruit, subacid and strawberry like. After it's first prune I'm striking some cuttings and will try them as rootstock also . In the meantime the oldest of my own grafts is now setting fruit.

Dunno if you are still pursuing this topic. I live in far north queensland Australia , we had a local nursery that offered F.carica grafted to a "native fig" The nursery has changed ownership and no longer grafts figs. My tree suckered from the rootstock and I established some plants. They are Ficus opposita, our most common wild "sandpaper" fig locally. I have even managed to successfully graft f.carica to one of these, despite my lousy grafting skills. The original plant I purchased is a Black Genoa; now almost 4 years old, it bears almost continuously in our tropical climate with progressive leaf fall and fruit set. We must have had over a hundred figs from it.