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  • From: "Richard O'Barr" <aatopgunaa@mindspring.com>
  • To: "Nafex" <Nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
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  • Subject: [NAFEX] LSU Gold Fig; partial defense of
  • Date: Fri, 10 Oct 2003 17:56:22 -0500

I have several years experience with LSU gold and sometimes I like it and sometimes not. The first year I grew it the skin was so soft that it tore during the normal picking process and they turned an awful gray shortly after picking. It is very vigorous for me and this past winter while 23 types froze to the ground, the LSU Gold and the Greek did not die all the way back. The Gold came back from a 3 ft. level and the Greek was hardly touched.
Production was much less on the gold and the Greek this year than last. They are in their 4th growing season. The new growth on the gold is at 12 feet now at the tallest and several others close to that. Gold usually bears heavily and the figs are large so you can fill a container fairly rapidly. (It gives a lot of fruit before the drunkard beetle comes to sour it, and a good bit after the beetles are gone.LA experience )Leaves are quite healthy even now.. Gold was near the west wall but so were 6 others that went to ground including the golden celeste as it was given to me. Not certain of its I.D.
     I would like to hear of other opinions on the LSU gold.
                                                              Topgun
                                                              Zone 7


  • [NAFEX] LSU Gold Fig; partial defense of, Richard O'Barr, 10/10/2003

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