Ischia Black = Excelsior = standford caprifig

[jmaler]

Are the all the same fig?

http://www.ebay.com/itm/10-Fig-Cuttings-Ficus-carica-Ischia-Black-Excelsior-ships-free-/261929341573?ul_ref=http%3A%2F%2Frover.ebay.com%2Frover%2F0%2Fe11021.m43.l3160%2F7%3Feuid%3D48a01c4e5eb54fb7831c262721482261%26loc%3Dhttp%253A%252F%252Fcgi.ebay.com%252Fws%252FeBayISAPI.dll%253FViewItem%2526item%253D261929341573%26exe%3D11896%26ext%3D30527%26sojTags%3Dexe%3Dexe%2Cext%3Dext%26srcrot%3De11021.m43.l3160%26rvr_id%3D0

[cis4elk]

Not likely IB, all that healthy growth and no sign of FMV, plus the leaves look more like a Celeste of sorts. Unless his videos provide better confirmation of the variety..I would hold onto my money.

[Brian M]

Not Ischia black.

[Harborseal]

Definitely not. BI is common, Stanford a capri. I asked him about it last week and he claimed that a local college told him they were the same and those were the names of the variety.

[hoosierbanana]

The leaves left on the branches would have dried the wood rapidly, all that work he did and not a single one will root. eBay...

[Gina]

I asked him about it last week and he claimed that a local college told him they were the same and those were the names of the variety.

Unless the person identifying it was a fig specialist (which he would have stressed), that's just not the kind of information one would get from a local college.

I also don't think it's BI. No red petioles, wrong leaves, wrong fruits. Just 'wrong'.