On 8/3/2014 7:50 PM, Higgs Boson wrote:
Few months ago, bought some plants inexpensively from a man who was selling them off his back lot. Big, fat cactus, few other plants -- and a baby 3' fig tree that I bought just for its attractive foliage & potted up.

Well!!! Baby started making figs from the get-go. Was I surprised & thrilled!
Have harvested 2 dead-ripe figs already (indescribable taste) with more waiting in line.

Now why can't my apricot & plum, which are now 4 years in the ground, do likewise?

HB


Once you eat a fresh fig, you will never again touch a dried or canned
fig. My neighbor across the street has a fig tree. He showed me how to
unlock his side gate and told me to bring my own ladder and pail. He
also said not to bother him by ringing his doorbell, that I should just
go in and pick as many as I want.

Ripe mission figs are dark purple and very sweet. Ripe kadota figs are
pale yellow and not so sweet but still flavorful.

--
David E. Ross
Climate: California Mediterranean, see
http://www.rossde.com/garden/climate.html
Gardening diary at http://www.rossde.com/garden/diary