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Hi Folks! It just dawned on me (many many posts later...) that I never introduced myself properly on this forum! I think I have a decent excuse tho, which is that everyone here is so friendly that I just sort of jumped right into posting, because I felt comfortable already. I hope that's a good excuse anyway
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I live in Central Florida, zone 9b. I'm relatively new to learning about figs, but have had a big fig growing in my backyard that I planted roughly 10 years ago. I don't know what it is, lost the tag immediately, because it never occurred to me that I'd have more than that one fig. Last fall, I bought another fig, a Black Mission that was 5' tall, from an exotic plant nursery, because it was on sale. I stuck it in the ground with no special treatment, and it's not doing quite so well. I first came here trying to find out what that fig is (and still aren't sure), and what was wrong with the Black Mission (doesn't fruit).
JUST from reading the posts here (you guys are such enablers!), I decided to get more figs... the taste descriptions did it! I wanted to know what all the different flavors were. As of now, I've only tasted my one big fig, and no other fig ever. It's a very yummy fig, but I wanted to try the full range (sugar, honey, adriatic berry, dark berry, Bordeaux). Heck, without a reference for fig tastes, I can't even tell you what category my fig is in!
So I found a fig ad in Craigslist and drove out there and bought one of each of all his varieties in 1 gal pots. So I added:
LSU Smith,
LSU O'Rourke,
LSU Purple x2
LSU Scott's Black,
Celeste,
Texas White Everbearing,
Conandria,
Tena,
Green Ischia,
Alma,
Georgia Giant
They are all growing nicely and have more than doubled in size. I should get figs next year from some of them I think.
I also got a brown turkey cutting, and just ran out and found a brown turkey plant too.
In addition to my figs, I have some Brugmansia (also known as Angel Trumpets- huge pink flowers), Avocado trees, citrus, almost dead miracle berry bush, Loquats, surinam cherry (which hasn't fruited yet), 2 Thai Giant jujubes, jaboticaba tree, goji berry bushes, passionfruit, coffee bush, ginger, taro, mom's mulberry tree, and a handful of orchids (used to own an orchid nursery and got very tired of orchids). Few of this stuff is very big, because I only got back into gardening again last fall (exceptions are avocado, loquats, citrus, which are all mature trees), but it's all growing very fast here.
I've already gotten trades from 2 incredibly generous members (my trade will go out in fall), MalibuBlue, who sent me a whole bunch of fantastic cuttings of really great varieties to try my hand at grafting and rooting (Violette de Bordeaux, Flanders, Beall, Calfornia Improved Brown Turkey, Panache, Green Ischia). Figgary, who is sending me a Lampeira plant to arrive TODAY!!! (I'm so excited!! My first 'rare' fig!). And got so many helpful tips from ascpete, thaifigs, and many others.
I feel grateful that I found this forum and met some of the really nice people here. Thank you for having me, and I look forward to learning and sharing information about figs and other plants from you all.
. I live in Central Florida, zone 9b. I'm relatively new to learning about figs, but have had a big fig growing in my backyard that I planted roughly 10 years ago. I don't know what it is, lost the tag immediately, because it never occurred to me that I'd have more than that one fig. Last fall, I bought another fig, a Black Mission that was 5' tall, from an exotic plant nursery, because it was on sale. I stuck it in the ground with no special treatment, and it's not doing quite so well. I first came here trying to find out what that fig is (and still aren't sure), and what was wrong with the Black Mission (doesn't fruit).
JUST from reading the posts here (you guys are such enablers!), I decided to get more figs... the taste descriptions did it! I wanted to know what all the different flavors were. As of now, I've only tasted my one big fig, and no other fig ever. It's a very yummy fig, but I wanted to try the full range (sugar, honey, adriatic berry, dark berry, Bordeaux). Heck, without a reference for fig tastes, I can't even tell you what category my fig is in!
So I found a fig ad in Craigslist and drove out there and bought one of each of all his varieties in 1 gal pots. So I added:
LSU Smith,
LSU O'Rourke,
LSU Purple x2
LSU Scott's Black,
Celeste,
Texas White Everbearing,
Conandria,
Tena,
Green Ischia,
Alma,
Georgia Giant
They are all growing nicely and have more than doubled in size. I should get figs next year from some of them I think.
I also got a brown turkey cutting, and just ran out and found a brown turkey plant too.
In addition to my figs, I have some Brugmansia (also known as Angel Trumpets- huge pink flowers), Avocado trees, citrus, almost dead miracle berry bush, Loquats, surinam cherry (which hasn't fruited yet), 2 Thai Giant jujubes, jaboticaba tree, goji berry bushes, passionfruit, coffee bush, ginger, taro, mom's mulberry tree, and a handful of orchids (used to own an orchid nursery and got very tired of orchids
). Few of this stuff is very big, because I only got back into gardening again last fall (exceptions are avocado, loquats, citrus, which are all mature trees), but it's all growing very fast here. I've already gotten trades from 2 incredibly generous members (my trade will go out in fall), MalibuBlue, who sent me a whole bunch of fantastic cuttings of really great varieties to try my hand at grafting and rooting (Violette de Bordeaux, Flanders, Beall, Calfornia Improved Brown Turkey, Panache, Green Ischia). Figgary, who is sending me a Lampeira plant to arrive TODAY!!! (I'm so excited!! My first 'rare' fig!). And got so many helpful tips from ascpete, thaifigs, and many others.
I feel grateful that I found this forum and met some of the really nice people here. Thank you for having me, and I look forward to learning and sharing information about figs and other plants from you all.
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