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[mIEKAL aND <dtv@mwt.net>]

I read somewhere (forgot to make of mental note of which site) that  
Tennessee Mountain is a selection from Celeste that was particularly  
fruitful & extra hardy.  I guess my question is can you select for  
these kinds of things by using cuttings, wont a cutting of a cutting  
always be an exact clone?

mIEKAL

can't remember the last day it rained


On Tuesday, August 12, 2003, at 05:43 PM, Sam Brungardt wrote:

> I spent a little time on the Web last night and found that Tennessee  
> Mountain fig is a synonym (that is the same cultivar) as Blue Celeste,  
> Celeste, Celeste Violette, Celetrial, Conant, Malta, Sugar Fig, and  
> Violette.  This information was garnered from the Auburn University  
> "Fig Production Guide"  
> (http://www.aces.edu/dept/extcomm/publications/anr/anr-1145/anr- 
> 1145.html), a California Rare Fruit Growers fact sheet, and (if memory  
> serves me right) a Web page put together by the NAFEX fig special  
> interest group.  So, the Tennessee Mountain Fig is readily available;  
> you just have to buy it under one of these other cultivar names. --  
> Sam Brungardt, St. Paul, Minn.