My most expensive fig tree... to date
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My fig tree grafting experiment.
Comments (19)Eukofios, Thank you for your thoughts on sealing and binding the fig cleft-graft. In reply to your interest about my own experiences with fig grafting, I can summarise my personal observations in the field, thus far, as follows- Chip budding using current season's growth as buds matched onto rootstock material of similar growth maturity, has proven to be VERY easy and successful in my trials recently (we are now in the middle of autumn here in Australia). "Patch budding" (which is different to T budding or chip budding) has also proved successful for me, however it has many disadvantages over chip budding....The patch budding proceedure can only be done successfully when the bark of the recipient and the donor both slip easily....Also if the bark of the patch is much thinner than the bark around where it will be placed, it will always fail to take in the fig. I have therefore come to the conclusion that chip budding is BY A LONG SHOT more versatile than patch budding, and should be the preferred method of budding figs. I would also suggest that it is to be preferred ovet T-budding, if only for the obvious reason that T budding also reuqires the recipient bark to easily slip, which adds restrictions on the timing of the grafting. I have not as yet tried cleft grafting onto figs. Anyway, keep us posted on your results!!...See Moretempted to cut back a few of my young fig trees
Comments (2)thanks for the feed back herman. most of the trees i lost this winter were improved celeste although a black mission, golden celeste, kodata, native black, and a few others. the results of seeing the new grow from young trees that died during the winter still amazes me. my thoughts are that if roots supported the tree although dormat til it died, then topping it in the fall and allowing the roots to force its energy downward during the winter. come spring a healthier root system that slept during the winter without nurturing a tree should be able to really force its energy upward into a faster growing tree. i fertilized in early spring to prevent tender growth from going into the winter. i have a few young trees that i may try this with in the fall. i will compare them to the others not cropped and comppare their growth in the spring. it's a good way not to worry about your tree dieing in the winter if it isn't there. we shall see....See MoreHelp!! My husband tripped on my beautiful fig tree!
Comments (4)If the branch is complety off then remove all the figs and most if not all the leaves so it will concentrate all the energy into rooting. If you have rooting hormone apply it to the branch and put in soil. Keep the branch in shade or inside for several weeks. Cover the tear in the branch in fungicide to keep fungus from attacking it. Figs are survivors and it will live. Do you have a picture?...See MoreProfessional Style (not the most expensive) Appliances
Comments (14)The rental will be short term (ie a few months at a time) for engineers and other professionals in the oil industry, typically with families. It's a four bedroom townhouse. They pay well but expect a great deal. I have to buy a professional sized built in (ie tall like sub zero) because I don't want to spend the money to remove the brick (and frankly it's really a nice feature). But I'd like to avoid the seven grand I spent our a sub zero for our place. In the long run we may sell the place, but again, in this neighborhood they'll expect to at least look higher end :) I'm not sure I can even get Bertzatolli in Alaska, but I'll do some research. I'm not worried about getting my money back if I can keep to below $15,000 in appliances in the kitchen. I expect the rest of the work will be around $85,000 and want to have a better figure so we can write that into our offer (ie we're low balling because it's in bad shape!) If we do "short term" it would be a minimum of 30 days because we don't want to do the hotel tax thing...and it's against the rules in the associations. But here in Anchorage there's a great need for higher end short term, furnished etc., places. For instance I'm paying $2000 a month for a 1970's duplex in the hood, on a month by month rental because our house is still under construction. So, long story short :) That's why we want to put nicer things in it (we'll be asking between $4000 and $5000 a month in rent in the summer months). You'd expect a lot for that wouldn't you :) Even if you don't use it LOL...See Morebjs496
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