Daniel's Pacific NW Garden

Stella De Oro Daylilies One Month After Dividing.   8.4.15 Bean Patch at One Week.  8.4.15 Sprouting Beans at One Week.  8.4.15 ...

Image via vintageprintable.com Today I started a few fig cuttings.  These were from a fig forum member in Marshall TX.  Celeste and ...

El Dorado Peach Tree, Uprooted.  10.29.14  I have been meaning to dig up the smallest of the genetic dwarf peach trees - this is El Dora...

Lattarula Fig Cutting The last of the Lattarula.  Impressive bunch of roots.  I did not remove more paper towel.  It will dissolve in th...

1st Carini cutting to root.  Start 1-11-14.  The Carini cuttings are rooting nicely.  At 13 days, I've potted the most rooted one in...

Opening the Package - Will there be roots? It's fun starting fig cuttings this time of year.   These are "Dominick's Fi...

Carini Fig Cutting 12/31/13  I was concerned about the Carini Fig tree after freezing to 8F a few weeks ago.  Today the tree looks like ...

Sal's Fig (left) and LSU Tiger Fig Eyes of LSU Tiger (top) and Sal's  First fig of the year for Sal's fig.  Not much on...

This was the first ripe Carini fig.  A fig forum member in the East Coast sent me cuttings from his family's heirloom variety.  I star...

Reflective, insulating sleeves This was a bubble-pack type material with reflective mylar surface.  I originally bought it to cover th...

Celeste fig cuttings Fig cuttings, paper towel / plastic bag method I found these Celeste cuttings in the fridge.  Maybe there si...

Sal's Fig Truncheon Cutting.  Lattarula. Petite negri Vancouver Brunswick tree was already discussed this week. Sal's F...

These are started 2 to 4 weeks ago.  Depends on the cutting.  The Lattarula is covered on 3 sides with the start of roots.  What fig hobb...

Lattarula before pruning .  This was a challenge.  Growth this year was rampant, making thick tall canes, as tall as the house.  Lattarula...

Most of the figs have a lot of brebas - little early figs resulting from overwintering buds. They have small tufts of leaves at the ends of...

So far, so good. The little grafted fig tree has started to open its terminal bud. If it was DEAD that would not happen. Still not proof ...

From a scanned book from Google's project, accessible here. . This is public domain, not copyright protected, so OK to post here. Title ...

Here is the result so far, of the ziplock fig cutting experiment. basically, fig cuttings were wrapped in moist paper towels, left on high...