Hey Conor, I really enjoyed this tour of all of your figs, I have accumulated 5 fig trees this year so it's a new obsession of mine! I have 1 my Aunt gave me which I'm not sure of the variety, I brought 3 as mixed varieties in the garden centre sale but they weren't labelled and I have 1 Brown Turkey 😊 seeing all of your varieties makes me want to add to my collection!
@GemInTheGarden Thanks! Glad to hear the obsession is spreading 😅 Ah nice! Often, even the labelled ones in garden centres incorrect, which is why I am mainly getting mine through other collectors on FB. But brown Turkey is a solid producer so I hope it fruits for you soon 🙌
We got a figcutting, don't know which, but that took ages to grow outside. Now that it is established it grows like hell and gives fruit juli/august. Second harvest never ripened. (SW Netherlands zone 7 / 8)
It was great to see them all, Conor. Looks like they've done pretty well for the first year. Hopefully next year you might start to get a few fruits from them 🤞. The Perretta/LDA fig looked very tasty! I want to propagate another LDA so that I can trail it out at my allotment. I plan to do a similar experiment on my allotment although it will be heavily centred around breba-producing figs to see which produce the best tasting fruit and quantity in my location. I might also put an RDB in the ground just to see if it might ever produce main crop outside. It's also great to hear I'm not the only one that uses spreadsheets to keep track of varieties of plants lol 😂. Although to be fair I haven't updated it with the new varieties that I've managed to get to root this year.
Thanks Peter. Yeah they've done their job for year one, just putting up the main stem, and hopefully next year they'll kick into production. Will be interesting to see your breba trial at your allotment! And I'd definitely plant a RdB in the case of a year with a warm long summer. 🌿
Great selection of fig varieties in your collection now Conor 😁
Hey Conor, I really enjoyed this tour of all of your figs, I have accumulated 5 fig trees this year so it's a new obsession of mine! I have 1 my Aunt gave me which I'm not sure of the variety, I brought 3 as mixed varieties in the garden centre sale but they weren't labelled and I have 1 Brown Turkey 😊 seeing all of your varieties makes me want to add to my collection!
@GemInTheGarden Thanks! Glad to hear the obsession is spreading 😅 Ah nice! Often, even the labelled ones in garden centres incorrect, which is why I am mainly getting mine through other collectors on FB. But brown Turkey is a solid producer so I hope it fruits for you soon 🙌
We got a figcutting, don't know which, but that took ages to grow outside. Now that it is established it grows like hell and gives fruit juli/august. Second harvest never ripened. (SW Netherlands zone 7 / 8)
It was great to see them all, Conor. Looks like they've done pretty well for the first year. Hopefully next year you might start to get a few fruits from them 🤞.
The Perretta/LDA fig looked very tasty! I want to propagate another LDA so that I can trail it out at my allotment. I plan to do a similar experiment on my allotment although it will be heavily centred around breba-producing figs to see which produce the best tasting fruit and quantity in my location. I might also put an RDB in the ground just to see if it might ever produce main crop outside. It's also great to hear I'm not the only one that uses spreadsheets to keep track of varieties of plants lol 😂. Although to be fair I haven't updated it with the new varieties that I've managed to get to root this year.
Thanks Peter. Yeah they've done their job for year one, just putting up the main stem, and hopefully next year they'll kick into production.
Will be interesting to see your breba trial at your allotment! And I'd definitely plant a RdB in the case of a year with a warm long summer. 🌿