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["Kristina & Bruce" <herenorthere@lycos.com>]

>Does anyone have any experience with growing figs as container plants? I'm 
>in zone 6a in southern Missouri, and think of an indoor/outdoor arrangement.
>Also, what varieties would you recommend?  I was thinking of the Brown 
>Turkey (Eastern).
>How about a source?  Any recommendations?
>
>Thanks,
>-----Suzi Teghtmeyer

I grow figs in pots here near Hartford, CT.  For guidance, you can do no 
better than the NAFEX fig interest group page by Ray Givans or his own site 
at http://web.infoave.net/%7Ethegivans/.  Mine are dormant outside right now 
and will get a few coats of WiltPruf and be wrapped up in burlap before going 
into the garage later this month.  It's a drafty, 80 year old detached 
garage, so they get pretty cold in there.  My main tree is a Hardy Chicago 
and I also have a couple youngish white fig trees, one of which might be a 
Brunswick.  That one didn't ripen the figs it started late this year, but the 
other, which gets large stripey amber colored figs with a white interior, 
ripened a couple.  Both of the white fig trees are from cuttings started in 
late summer 2001 and they're approaching 2 ft now.  A lot of cutting trading 
goes on and it's a great way to build a collection.  I can send you a couple 
from the Hardy Chicago if you want to try that variety.  Commercial sources 
(of anyth
ing other than the Brown Turkey) are rather pricey, given the ease of 
propagation and relatively fast growth.
Bruce in CT, Zone 6


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