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["lester davis" <lhdavis8@knology.net>]

Group,

The raisin tree in my back yard in Columbus, GA is not astrigent, but sweet  
and slightly mealy.  I do not try eat  the stems until they mature and hit 
the ground, the seeds are also mature.  I don't think  it will be too much 
shade for the dogwood.  My tree shades a fig which produces every year.  

Lester H. Davis
zone 8B
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Doreen, Petite Negra has almost never ripens for me.  I got one ripe
fig off of one of the plants I have, the tree is full of fruit & it's
gonna hard freeze tomorrow night.  Celeste Improved is the earliest
ripener for me.  I have 2 young trees & they both have ripened all of
their fruit a couple weeks ago.  & of course Hardy Chicago is probably
the best place for northerners to start.

Tasted Atreano today, for container figs the fruits are ginormous,
really good flavor & the tree is quite productive for a 3 year old
tree.  I'm impressed by it.  I would need to have a greenhouse to
ripen most of the fruit tho.

~mIEKAL


On Wed, Oct 19, 2011 at 3:51 PM, Doreen Howard <gardendiva@charter.net> wrote:
> Yes Lon, the banana I sent is Raji Puri.  I love the taste.  Wish I could
> grow it here in the frigid north.  I struggle with figs, that's about the
> only warm-climate fruit I can grow.  Have my Petite Negra in the house, as
> of today, to finish ripening fruit.
> Doreen Howard