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  • From: Elizabeth Hilborn <ehilborn@mebtel.net>
  • To: mailing list at ibiblio - Northamerican Allied Fruit Experimenters <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [nafex] Early figs
  • Date: Thu, 5 Jan 2017 12:48:32 -0500

I did notice that my Celeste took years (at least 4) to start bearing much fruit regularly. Now it is a very reliable cropper in most weather (wet or dry) but it is not early ripening.

On 1/5/2017 11:39 AM, Peter Chrisbacher wrote:
I had a potted Celeste when I lived in Royersford PA zone 6b that I gave a
chance to bear over several seasons. I may have gotten *some* fruit, but if
so (and I don't remember getting any) not much. If I recall correctly, it
was fruiting modestly, but not maturing its fruit. Around the end of season
3 it was "accidentally" not brought in over winter which freed up its pot
for something new.

-Pete
Kennett Square PA 6b


Pete Chrisbacher

On Thu, Jan 5, 2017 at 11:23 AM, Lee Reich <leeareich@gmail.com> wrote:

I’ve grown Danny’s Delight fig, which was also allegedly cold hardy. Here
in Zone 5, it was cold hardy — the roots, that is, just like many other
figs. The tops died back, then grew about 10 feet high by the end of the
season, but never ripened a fruit.

Celeste, in my greenhouse or in a pot, never sets hardly any fruit for me.

Lee Reich, PhD
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