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Ok my friends, either the new forum popped up at the right time or the Fig-did!
A couple of months ago,I,Mrs K and the lovely little miss K, were invited to attend a very good friends wedding that took place in Orlando Florida. All excited we packed our bags ,loaded the Ram and of to the magical land we went. The night before the wedding all the guests got together( mostly family members of the bride and groom and us) for the traditional dinner. It was a very casual event! Don't think suit ant tie. Just a comfortable gathering where everyone had a chance to meet and have a great time. Oh by the way the couple did all the cooking and the food was first class out of this world!some heavy drinking was also involved but"responsibly". During the dinner we were introduced to our friend's aunt, a very nice lady named Barbara. Mrs Barbara And Mrs K , after a couple of vinos were talking up a storm when my lovely wife though it would be qute and hilarious to reveal my hobbys. "By the way" she said , " my husband is into collecting and growing......." Oh noooo I thought in a panic, not at the wedding!!! "Figs"! " oh yeah he also plays soccer" she very masterfully added . Great ,now the lady thinks I'm a complete nutcase,I thought again but tried to remain as cool as posible . " is that true" Barbara said . Yes Ma'am it is I replied, I love soccer!" Well guess what" Mrs Barb said. "I have a fig tree in my back yard"! Holly cow, whaaaaat? I thought ,and the first thing I wanted to do was give my wife a high five! Turns out that Mrs Barb is not crazy about figs but her late husband and his family just loved them. She told me that the tree was there when they bought the house seven years ago and the previous owners had found it there when they bought the house ten years before that. That would put the tree in the 20+year old category! Another important detail is the location! Mrs Barb lives in Slidell Louisiana, a town about 30 miles east of New Orleans . Long story short, the wedding was as fine as weddings get and we all had a blast. I,a little more , thinking and cooking up a plan to go to N Orleans( you guys know why!!! The darn fig) well my friends I did not have to try very hard! Mrs Barbara invited us to go to Slidell for the Marti Gras. FF to this past weekend ! Loaded up the Ram once again and 467 miles and 6 hours later(oh I know ,hemi lol) I was staring at it! The tree is very dwarf like for its age but by the appearance of the bark you can tell that it is an old tree! Very grayish with lots and lots of nodes and stuff growing on it. Louisiana looking stuff lol.From her description , dark fig with red center. We looked at pics of figs online and the one she reacted to with an "oh that's it" was the Macedonia black from the trees of joy list of varieties . Please understand that in no way do I claim to have that fig! It could end up being anything but my gut feeling is that it is a good find. Looks like nothing that I grow, single trunk ,not even evidence of root suckers, dwarf size and all those nodes! I will take a trip down there in Augast and sample the fruit, maybe even meet and share with other forum members who can help identify it.
I gave it a hair cut and brought back a bunch of cuttings of different sizes. I will offer a minimum of 8 (according to size) for $10 including shipping and packaging! Please do not add any more money, 10 is plenty to cover my expenses! Please pm me and I will respond to all by this weekend with my PayPal address!
I would like to dedicate the story and all the figs we will eventually get to Mrs Barbara and her late husbands memory who unfortunately passed at a very young age from the bad disease ! we had a great time at the carnival and Mrs Barb made us all feel at home! Thank You mrs Barbara for sharing the legacy and Thank you all for your time!
A couple of months ago,I,Mrs K and the lovely little miss K, were invited to attend a very good friends wedding that took place in Orlando Florida. All excited we packed our bags ,loaded the Ram and of to the magical land we went. The night before the wedding all the guests got together( mostly family members of the bride and groom and us) for the traditional dinner. It was a very casual event! Don't think suit ant tie. Just a comfortable gathering where everyone had a chance to meet and have a great time. Oh by the way the couple did all the cooking and the food was first class out of this world!some heavy drinking was also involved but"responsibly". During the dinner we were introduced to our friend's aunt, a very nice lady named Barbara. Mrs Barbara And Mrs K , after a couple of vinos were talking up a storm when my lovely wife though it would be qute and hilarious to reveal my hobbys. "By the way" she said , " my husband is into collecting and growing......." Oh noooo I thought in a panic, not at the wedding!!! "Figs"! " oh yeah he also plays soccer" she very masterfully added . Great ,now the lady thinks I'm a complete nutcase,I thought again but tried to remain as cool as posible . " is that true" Barbara said . Yes Ma'am it is I replied, I love soccer!" Well guess what" Mrs Barb said. "I have a fig tree in my back yard"! Holly cow, whaaaaat? I thought ,and the first thing I wanted to do was give my wife a high five! Turns out that Mrs Barb is not crazy about figs but her late husband and his family just loved them. She told me that the tree was there when they bought the house seven years ago and the previous owners had found it there when they bought the house ten years before that. That would put the tree in the 20+year old category! Another important detail is the location! Mrs Barb lives in Slidell Louisiana, a town about 30 miles east of New Orleans . Long story short, the wedding was as fine as weddings get and we all had a blast. I,a little more , thinking and cooking up a plan to go to N Orleans( you guys know why!!! The darn fig) well my friends I did not have to try very hard! Mrs Barbara invited us to go to Slidell for the Marti Gras. FF to this past weekend ! Loaded up the Ram once again and 467 miles and 6 hours later(oh I know ,hemi lol) I was staring at it! The tree is very dwarf like for its age but by the appearance of the bark you can tell that it is an old tree! Very grayish with lots and lots of nodes and stuff growing on it. Louisiana looking stuff lol.From her description , dark fig with red center. We looked at pics of figs online and the one she reacted to with an "oh that's it" was the Macedonia black from the trees of joy list of varieties . Please understand that in no way do I claim to have that fig! It could end up being anything but my gut feeling is that it is a good find. Looks like nothing that I grow, single trunk ,not even evidence of root suckers, dwarf size and all those nodes! I will take a trip down there in Augast and sample the fruit, maybe even meet and share with other forum members who can help identify it.
I gave it a hair cut and brought back a bunch of cuttings of different sizes. I will offer a minimum of 8 (according to size) for $10 including shipping and packaging! Please do not add any more money, 10 is plenty to cover my expenses! Please pm me and I will respond to all by this weekend with my PayPal address!
I would like to dedicate the story and all the figs we will eventually get to Mrs Barbara and her late husbands memory who unfortunately passed at a very young age from the bad disease ! we had a great time at the carnival and Mrs Barb made us all feel at home! Thank You mrs Barbara for sharing the legacy and Thank you all for your time!
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