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["Mike Levine" <mlevine@umich.edu>]

It's been in the ground for 3 seasons.  It's my test plant to see just how
hardy it is.  Every year it dies back and gets pruned to the ground.  Then
in June or July it sprouts back larger than before.  I'm curious to see how
large it will eventually become in this climate.  I'll have to try the
petite negri figs while I'm waiting for the others.  I tried to bring in
some smaller Chicago Hardy for the winter, but I think I got them inside too
late because they dropped their leaves a few days later.  Now I'm not sure
what to do with them since they have no leaves.  Do they need a cold
treatment outside or will they flush out now that they are warm?

Mike

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "mIEKAL aND" <dtv@mwt.net>
To: "Mike Levine" <crunchy@oldweb.com>; "North American Fruit Explorers"
<nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
Sent: Monday, October 20, 2003 2:50 PM
Subject: Re: [NAFEX] Hastening Figs redux


> MIKE:
>
> A certain percentage of my figs always seem to do that.  Hardy Chicago
> seems to have a much higher percentage of figs which are hard unedible
> rocks.  It you just have one fig tree, bring it indoors & ripen the
> figs inside.  I have about 75 figs in 5 gallon containers & that's not
> something feasible for me.
>
> mIEKAL
>
> On Monday, October 20, 2003, at 12:00 PM, Mike Levine wrote:
>
> > I was checking out my Hardy Chicago yesterday and noticed one fruit
> > loot a
> > little purple.  I touched it and it just fell off.  I tried to eat it,
> > but
> > it was just dried out and tasted like nothing.  Did I wait too long?
> > Maybe
> > a frost got it?  Perhaps it was just a dud or something.  Last year it
> > had
> > one fig and this year it has three.  Maybe next year it will have a lot
> > more.  I sure hope someday they will ripen properly so I can enjoy one.
> >
> > Mike Levine
> > Ann Arbor, MI zone 5b
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "mIEKAL aND" <dtv@mwt.net>
> > To: "North American Fruit Explorers" <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
> > Sent: Monday, October 20, 2003 9:26 AM
> > Subject: [NAFEX] Hastening Figs redux
> >
> >
> >> Oiling the bottom of the figs seems only to be working on the figs
> >> that
> >> had already started to turn.  The rest that were oiled while green are
> >> shrivelling & don't appear to be ripening.
> >>
> >> Hardy Chicago are the only one's ripening with this year's much
> >> shortened season.  Conadria get the award for being the largest by a
> >> significant amount.  Now if only I could figure out a way to ripen
> >> them
> >> up here in the cold cold north.
> >>
> >> mIEKAL
>
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