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["loneroc" <loneroc@mwt.net>]

Petite Negri does very well for me in Wisconsin.  I have it in a 20 gallon
pot.  It has produced perhaps 50 figs this fall.  There was a small breba
crop in July.

I grew a Celeste for many years in a large pot and would get a handful of
fruit, most dropping early.  I let it freeze after I got the Negri.  There
was just no comparison in fruitfulness

Evidently Petite Negri is either a sport of or the actual Negronne, also
known as Violette de Bordeaux.  I highly recommend it for pot culture.  I
winter it over in my semi-heated garage.  It hovers in the freezing range
all winter.  Once the garage door stuck a foot of the floor and the garage
dropped to 10F overnight.  Petite Negri was not damaged.  I did get
extensive damage one spring when the temp dropped into the low twenties when
the plant had started growth.  I covered the plant, but didn't slide her
back into the garage since the forecast was for a mere 30F.  Now I pull the
tree back in when frost or freezes threaten.

Steve Herje Lone Rock, WI   USDA Zone 3 where the low thus far this fall was
22F.


----- Original Message -----
From: "boyd manges" <bmanges@yahoo.com>
To: "North American Fruit Explorers" <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
Sent: Monday, October 20, 2003 12:35 PM
Subject: Re: [NAFEX] Hastening Figs redux


> same thing with my pot grown blackjack (woody when
> they drop). I have 8 or 9 left, but I'm sick of
> hauling the huge pot in and out depending on the
> weather. It doesn't look like frost, but cool and wet
> for the next week.
>
> I have a petite negri fig, however that has produced
> many delicious little figs and seems quite happy in a
> portable-sized pot.  THey all go into the chicken coop
> when they finally go dormant for the year--lit, but
> goes down to the low 30's/20's in the long cold months
> of February..we keep it a little warm so we don't have
> to refill the water dishes more that once a day before
> they freeze.
>
> Boyd Manges, z5--Petoskey, MI
>
> terrible year up here for most fruit due to the early
> warm/record cold snap.
>
>
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