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| Champagne Fig. 2nd year in container. 9.20.14 |
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| Carini Fig. 9.20.14 |
This Champagne fig is 2nd year from cutting, stored in container in shed last winter. The figs are smaller, glowing yellow, and very very sweet. I like them a lot.
Saturday, September 20, 2014
Figs. 9.20.14
This Champagne fig is 2nd year from cutting, stored in container in shed last winter. The figs are smaller, glowing yellow, and very very sweet. I like them a lot.
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Delicious looking figs. You forgot to pick one on the bottom! I never know the name of my fig which I rooted from a cutting in a parking lot. The mother plant was a giant and now the lot's been converted to condominiums; I saw the mother plant being bulldozed :-( This little cutting's been travailing with me through several moves. I just call it"honey" figs.
ReplyDeleteI've 3 different kinds with unknown names, started all from cuttings. There was a gifted cutting that I thought won't have mature fruits each yr it will have tons of green unripe ones such a tease and I want to pull it out and plant something else. Yr 5, it finally gave out the sweetest biggest ones, I'm ever see. It proves me wrong.
Nice! Where did you buy the Carini? I might look for one, but wasn't sure how hardy it was in PNW. I plan to keep my potted figs in a shed this winter too after losing one last year.
ReplyDeleteThat bottom fig is now picked, thanks! The Carini was from a fig forum member, who offered them to other forum members. His grandfather -I think - brought them from the town of Carini, Palermo region of Sicily. The trees were passed on through generations in his family.
ReplyDeleteGrowing plants from gifted cuttings and found varieties is one of the great pleasures of gardening. Glad yours are doing well!
ReplyDeleteThe yellow fig is "Champagne". It comes from the Louisiana State University program some time back. The female parent is Celeste. The pollen parent is, I think, a California capri fig. They are brilliant yellow and very sweet. I don't know yet if they will survive the winter here. I have one in ground, which will be the test. The container plant will go into the shed for the winter.
ReplyDeleteI'm born in New Orleans, Ahaa, wow brings back memories. I think my parking lot fig is just a plain "Italian honey figs" better to have any figs then no figs that's my motto and I swear by it.
ReplyDeleteIm hoping to get a Smith fig to bear. It's a Louisiana special. So far no luck but it's growing nicely. LSU Tiger and LSU Champagne are both fantastic!
ReplyDeleteNothing wrong with Italian Honey figs. They are delicious!
Too bad LSU football team lost yesterday better stick with figs. Every backyard in Baton Rouge where I was raised have amber figs. Not sure the specific name.
ReplyDeleteI think the Champagne fig is a hybrid of Celeste and a California capri fig. It was part of the legendary O'Rourke fig hybridization program at LSU. Since the varieties never really took off in nurseries, they are untested in most other places.
ReplyDeletehttp://www.lsu.edu/departments/horticulture/new_figs.pdf