Currently 23 inches high. It was 3 tiny stems 3 months ago. They do exceptionally well with grow lights. Experimenting with different LED spectrums I found that red and white promote fast growth, thick stems and branching between leaf stems. Purple lighting promotes compact growth and large deep green leaves.

Good news folks. Dad said he can bring a good quantity of cuttings with him to Washington for me [what a trooper, huh?] Therefore there should be quite a few to go around. For people offering cuttings swaps, what I think I might do is have [at least some of] you send cuttings to my Dad in San Diego instead of me. This is because rather than yank out his tree, we're planning to do as Axier... grafting onto a full sized fig tree, and it's exactly my dad's situation; size of the tree as well as that the current variety needs more heat to ripen than the local microclimate can supply. I think I talk to my dad and Jon, to see both what varieties he might like as well as figuring out what will do well in his coastal climate. When I see Dad on Thursday I'll talk to him about it. Axier, I finished reading your excellent description of grafting onto a full sized fig tree. This is going to help my father immensely. Being inspired, I made a first draft of the Spanish>English translation. Check your F4F private messages, I cut and pasted it into the message body.

Mark, Many thanks for the offer, and I would be very glad to take it up. I was trying to e-mail you, but have forgotten how to do it from here. I have plants I can send you cuttings of too. I come to Garden Web still. I was amazed to hear about my post after all those years. Marguerite

Hi, am I too late for this? I have been looking for old fashioned busy Lizzie's for years. I noticed that I commented here 2 ,years ago, asking the same question. Does anyone still have them?I can pay onstage and even send you a plant of your choice if you would like to browse the plant catalogues, in return.