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Temperate Fruit & Orchards => Temperate Fruit Discussion => Topic started by: cmichael258 on August 10, 2016, 11:28:55 AM

Title: Love the Fig
Post by: cmichael258 on August 10, 2016, 11:28:55 AM

Interesting article:

http://www.newyorker.com/tech/elements/love-the-fig (http://www.newyorker.com/tech/elements/love-the-fig)

Title: Re: Love the Fig
Post by: gnappi on August 16, 2016, 09:44:04 PM

I have had zero luck with figs in So. Fla. I gave up and pulled them all.

Title: Re: Love the Fig
Post by: SoCal2warm on October 21, 2016, 06:26:29 PM

Quote from: gnappi on August 16, 2016, 09:44:04 PM

I have had zero luck with figs in So. Fla. I gave up and pulled them all.

Strange, they're one of the few fruits that pretty much grows like weeds in Southern California.

Title: Re: Love the Fig
Post by: FruitFreak on October 24, 2016, 12:32:15 PM

Quote from: gnappi on August 16, 2016, 09:44:04 PM

I have had zero luck with figs in So. Fla. I gave up and pulled them all.

I'm sure this has to do with planting them in native soil which is inherently infested with RTK.  Grow them in pots off the ground with lots of organics.

Title: Re: Love the Fig
Post by: BajaJohn on January 24, 2017, 08:18:18 PM

Quote from: SoCal2warm on October 21, 2016, 06:26:29 PM

Quote from: gnappi on August 16, 2016, 09:44:04 PM

I have had zero luck with figs in So. Fla. I gave up and pulled them all.

Strange, they're one of the few fruits that pretty much grows like weeds in Southern California.

Interesting - I'll remember that if ever I return to SoCal. Here is a picture of a wild fig growing on the side of a dry arroyo in Baja California. There are loads of them around.
(https://s30.postimg.cc/lpw0cybh9/Desert_Fig_Tree.jpg) (https://postimg.cc/image/lpw0cybh9/)

Title: Re: Love the Fig
Post by: ClayMango on February 17, 2017, 05:01:41 AM

Any Fig Lovers Here with Black Mediera (KK's Strain) with cuttings for sell?