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smelly fig tree?
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I have just moved in to a new house & my neighbour informs me that the tree growing up the front of her house & part of mine, is a fig. I have thought for a number of weeks that a tomcat was spraying at the front of the house. I have now cleared all of the overgrown grass & removed the first couple of inches of soil & replaced it. The smell still persists. The smell is very strong. It can be smelled in the upstairs bedroom just as strong as downstairs (so I do not think it is a cat). Can you tell me if a fig tree smells & what I can do about it? The tree is almost to gutter height (abt 15 feet) & has deeply lobed dark green leaves (each with 5 'fingers'). When a leaf is broken off a white sap (like a dandelion) oozes out. Many thanks. --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. So check it anyway!! No attachments unless advised in body of email. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.510 / Virus Database: 307 - Release Date: 14/08/2003 |
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smelly fig tree?
"Tony" wrote in message ... Hi I have just moved in to a new house & my neighbour informs me that the tree growing up the front of her house & part of mine, is a fig. I have thought for a number of weeks that a tomcat was spraying at the front of the house. I have now cleared all of the overgrown grass & removed the first couple of inches of soil & replaced it. The smell still persists. The smell is very strong. It can be smelled in the upstairs bedroom just as strong as downstairs (so I do not think it is a cat). Can you tell me if a fig tree smells & what I can do about it? The tree is almost to gutter height (abt 15 feet) & has deeply lobed dark green leaves (each with 5 'fingers'). When a leaf is broken off a white sap (like a dandelion) oozes out. Many thanks. Hello Tony, I've just been out and snuffed mine - no smell at all :~) So it must be something else that's causing the pong. here's an URL with fig info so that you can maybe rule out if it is or not: http://www.easyfruit.co.uk/figs/ Jenny |
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smelly fig tree?
Naaaaaaaaaaaaaa but we had the same problem with cats one year on the fig
tree but no trouble since for some reason Tony wrote: Hi I have just moved in to a new house & my neighbour informs me that the tree growing up the front of her house & part of mine, is a fig. I have thought for a number of weeks that a tomcat was spraying at the front of the house. I have now cleared all of the overgrown grass & removed the first couple of inches of soil & replaced it. The smell still persists. The smell is very strong. It can be smelled in the upstairs bedroom just as strong as downstairs (so I do not think it is a cat). Can you tell me if a fig tree smells & what I can do about it? The tree is almost to gutter height (abt 15 feet) & has deeply lobed dark green leaves (each with 5 'fingers'). When a leaf is broken off a white sap (like a dandelion) oozes out. Many thanks. --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. So check it anyway!! No attachments unless advised in body of email. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.510 / Virus Database: 307 - Release Date: 14/08/2003 Robert The Devil's Advocate www.pafc.co.uk |
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smelly fig tree?
"Tony" wrote in message ... Hi I have just moved in to a new house & my neighbour informs me that the tree growing up the front of her house & part of mine, is a fig. I have thought for a number of weeks that a tomcat was spraying at the front of the house. I have now cleared all of the overgrown grass & removed the first couple of inches of soil & replaced it. The smell still persists. The smell is very strong. It can be smelled in the upstairs bedroom just as strong as downstairs (so I do not think it is a cat). Can you tell me if a fig tree smells & what I can do about it? The tree is almost to gutter height (abt 15 feet) & has deeply lobed dark green leaves (each with 5 'fingers'). When a leaf is broken off a white sap (like a dandelion) oozes out. I've just nipped out and smelled my two fig trees (the dog thought I was mad). The leaves have a very very faint cat like odour, but this is only noticeable after rubbing them, and not from more than an inch or so away from my nose. I know an hotel where the dining room and conservatory is overhung by several mature, large, fig trees, and I have never noticed any particular odour from them. That doesn't mean 'your' fig isn't stinking, for some reason, but they don't all do it. |
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smelly fig tree?
I'm surprised by the three respondents saying that fig trees have no
scent - perhaps not everyone can smell it because to me they do have a scent which can be quite strong, particularly on hot days. It's a warm, pleasant, musky type smell which to me is very evocative of the mediterranean, as - due I suppose to the heat - fig trees there seem to be particularly strongly scented. We have several small fig trees growing in the garden and my wife goes out of her way to sniff the leaves because her family home has some large fig trees and the scent brings back happy summer childhood memories. Suppose it all depends on taste, but personally I'd be happy to have a figgy scent drifting in through the bedroom window. I expect you've been noticing it because of the recent hot weather - is it on a south facing wall, which bakes the fig leaves and encourages them to give off scent? Come the cooler weather I expect the smell will entirely disappear. Ask your neighbout to give you a few ripe figs next year and maybe you'll forgive the tree - they're delicious. Robert ---------- In article , "Tony" wrote: Hi I have just moved in to a new house & my neighbour informs me that the tree growing up the front of her house & part of mine, is a fig. I have thought for a number of weeks that a tomcat was spraying at the front of the house. I have now cleared all of the overgrown grass & removed the first couple of inches of soil & replaced it. The smell still persists. The smell is very strong. It can be smelled in the upstairs bedroom just as strong as downstairs (so I do not think it is a cat). Can you tell me if a fig tree smells & what I can do about it? The tree is almost to gutter height (abt 15 feet) & has deeply lobed dark green leaves (each with 5 'fingers'). When a leaf is broken off a white sap (like a dandelion) oozes out. Many thanks. --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. So check it anyway!! No attachments unless advised in body of email. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.510 / Virus Database: 307 - Release Date: 14/08/2003 |
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smelly fig tree?
Yes it is on a south facing wall.
No amount of fruit would make up for the smell, which is just like a tomcat spraying & VERY strong. I hope it is only in very hot summers that it smells & that next year is not hot!! Many thanks Tony "Robert Davies" wrote in message ... I'm surprised by the three respondents saying that fig trees have no scent - perhaps not everyone can smell it because to me they do have a scent which can be quite strong, particularly on hot days. It's a warm, pleasant, musky type smell which to me is very evocative of the mediterranean, as - due I suppose to the heat - fig trees there seem to be particularly strongly scented. We have several small fig trees growing in the garden and my wife goes out of her way to sniff the leaves because her family home has some large fig trees and the scent brings back happy summer childhood memories. Suppose it all depends on taste, but personally I'd be happy to have a figgy scent drifting in through the bedroom window. I expect you've been noticing it because of the recent hot weather - is it on a south facing wall, which bakes the fig leaves and encourages them to give off scent? Come the cooler weather I expect the smell will entirely disappear. Ask your neighbout to give you a few ripe figs next year and maybe you'll forgive the tree - they're delicious. Robert ---------- In article , "Tony" wrote: Hi I have just moved in to a new house & my neighbour informs me that the tree growing up the front of her house & part of mine, is a fig. I have thought for a number of weeks that a tomcat was spraying at the front of the house. I have now cleared all of the overgrown grass & removed the first couple of inches of soil & replaced it. The smell still persists. The smell is very strong. It can be smelled in the upstairs bedroom just as strong as downstairs (so I do not think it is a cat). Can you tell me if a fig tree smells & what I can do about it? The tree is almost to gutter height (abt 15 feet) & has deeply lobed dark green leaves (each with 5 'fingers'). When a leaf is broken off a white sap (like a dandelion) oozes out. Many thanks. --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. So check it anyway!! No attachments unless advised in body of email. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.510 / Virus Database: 307 - Release Date: 14/08/2003 --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. So check it anyway!! No attachments unless advised in body of email. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.510 / Virus Database: 307 - Release Date: 14/08/2003 |
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