Sicilian unknown

[Dave]

A friend of mine was on a job yesterday and saw a fig tree in the backyard and asked the owners about it and they told him they brought it over from Sicily many years ago and they said if you want a piece of the plant be my guess so my friend calls me back and asked me how he should go about this task I told him to get a shovel and dig up a small shoot and make sure it had roots Well instead of using a shovel he used a claw hammer and I guess he thought these were roots LOL Well I potted it up yesterday kept it inside and checked it out this morning and all the leaves were drooping I cut off a few of the leaves and put a bag over it and with in a few hours the leaves picked up I have no clue what kind of tree it is or what kind of figs are on it I guess I will find out in a couple of years LOL

[Tonycm]

Good find Dave. Hope it turns out to be an excellent fig.

[Italianstallon99]

Sweet find!!

[ako1974]

Very nice, hope it recovers. A coworker told me about his landlord's fig tree in Queens and showed me a picture. The trunk looked to be about 6" in diameter and put out lots of green figs. I gave him precise instructions on how to take cuttings and bring them in. One morning, he gave me a stick he'd "torn" off the tree, bark stripped halfway up. Literally walked past the tree and tugged/tore off a small branch. Needless to say, it didn't survive. And the tree died either the next year or year after.

[Dave]

Surprises are nice I found this little sweetheart about 2 years ago so far it just has a main crop but boy does it produce figs