Hi,

I organically garden using raised containers in the back yard and clean
practices in the front yard. I do your normal suspects in the back
yard like tomatoes and such.

Anyone know much on fig trees and cross pollenation factors? I can see
the charts but live experience is always better!

On 3/3/2024 4:45 PM, cshenk wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I organically garden using raised containers in the back yard and clean
> practices in the front yard. I do your normal suspects in the back
> yard like tomatoes and such.
>
> Anyone know much on fig trees and cross pollenation factors? I can see
> the charts but live experience is always better!

Going back many years, my wife's grandfather had one and it produced.
It was the only one so I guess it was self pollinating.

On 3/3/2024 1:45 PM, cshenk wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I organically garden using raised containers in the back yard and clean
> practices in the front yard. I do your normal suspects in the back
> yard like tomatoes and such.
>
> Anyone know much on fig trees and cross pollenation factors? I can see
> the charts but live experience is always better!

Read up on "fig wasps". I have had a fig tree for 20 years, and this
last summer was the first time I've gotten more than a few ripe figs. I
did notice several other fig trees nearby last year, most smaller than mine.

On Sun, 03 Mar 2024 21:45:49 +0000, "cshenk"
<cshenk@virginia-beach.net> wrote:

>Hi,
>
>I organically garden using raised containers in the back yard and clean
>practices in the front yard. I do your normal suspects in the back
>yard like tomatoes and such.
>Anyone know much on fig trees and cross pollenation factors? I can see
>the charts but live experience is always better!
>

Sometimes, people who post such gardening questions -
will also reveal what part of this big old planet they live in.
Tuktoyaktuk or Timbuktu ? or somewhere in between ?
Just sayin'.
John T.

On Sun, 03 Mar 2024 17:40:45 -0500, hubops wrote:

> On Sun, 03 Mar 2024 21:45:49 +0000, "cshenk" <cshenk@virginia-beach.net>
> wrote:
>
>>Hi,
>>
>>I organically garden using raised containers in the back yard and clean
>>practices in the front yard. I do your normal suspects in the back yard
>>like tomatoes and such.
>>Anyone know much on fig trees and cross pollenation factors? I can see
>>the charts but live experience is always better!
>>
>>
>
> Sometimes, people who post such gardening questions -
> will also reveal what part of this big old planet they live in.
> Tuktoyaktuk or Timbuktu ? or somewhere in between ?
> Just sayin'.
> John T.

Not many fig trees in Montana so I guess we can rule that out.

On Sun, 3 Mar 2024 16:53:30 -0500, Ed P wrote:

> Going back many years, my wife's grandfather had one and it produced.
> It was the only one so I guess it was self pollinating.

Figs are a little strange:

https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/85340/fig-pollination-incredible-and-
probably-results-you-eating-mummified-wasps

Think about the poor little fig wasp when you're chowing down on your Fig
Newtons.

Fresh figs are fantastic but they're so delicate they seldom make it to
supermarkets.

On 3/3/2024 10:21 PM, rbowman wrote:
> On Sun, 3 Mar 2024 16:53:30 -0500, Ed P wrote:
>
>> Going back many years, my wife's grandfather had one and it produced.
>> It was the only one so I guess it was self pollinating.
>
> Figs are a little strange:
>
> https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/85340/fig-pollination-incredible-and-
> probably-results-you-eating-mummified-wasps
>
> Think about the poor little fig wasp when you're chowing down on your Fig
> Newtons.
>
> Fresh figs are fantastic but they're so delicate they seldom make it to
> supermarkets.

I used to see them once a year in the market. At best it was for a very
short time and you had better enjoy them in a couple of days.

On 3/3/2024 7:30 PM, Ed P wrote:
> On 3/3/2024 10:21 PM, rbowman wrote:
>> On Sun, 3 Mar 2024 16:53:30 -0500, Ed P wrote:
>>
>>> Going back many years, my wife's grandfather had one and it produced.
>>> It was the only one so I guess it was self pollinating.
>>
>> Figs are a little strange:
>>
>> https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/85340/fig-pollination-incredible-and-
>> probably-results-you-eating-mummified-wasps
>>
>> Think about the poor little fig wasp when you're chowing down on your Fig
>> Newtons.
>>
>> Fresh figs are fantastic but they're so delicate they seldom make it to
>> supermarkets.
>
> I used to see them once a year in the market.  At best it was for a very
> short time and you had better enjoy them in a couple of days.

On my tree, they ripened fairly regularly for quite a while last summer,
which was nice.

On 3/3/2024 10:17 PM, rbowman wrote:
> On Sun, 03 Mar 2024 17:40:45 -0500, hubops wrote:
>
>> On Sun, 03 Mar 2024 21:45:49 +0000, "cshenk" <cshenk@virginia-beach.net>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I organically garden using raised containers in the back yard and clean
>>> practices in the front yard. I do your normal suspects in the back yard
>>> like tomatoes and such.
>>> Anyone know much on fig trees and cross pollenation factors? I can see
>>> the charts but live experience is always better!
>>>
>>>
>>
>> Sometimes, people who post such gardening questions -
>> will also reveal what part of this big old planet they live in.
>> Tuktoyaktuk or Timbuktu ? or somewhere in between ?
>> Just sayin'.
>> John T.
>
> Not many fig trees in Montana so I guess we can rule that out.

Well get going. You can be the modern Johnny Figseed.

On Sun, 3 Mar 2024 23:58:33 -0500, Ed Pawlowski wrote:

> Well get going. You can be the modern Johnny Figseed.

Gorbal warming has a ways to go although we did make it from Zone 5a to 5b
(-15F to -10) last year. The USDA might have to reconsider after that
spell of -20 this year. I had enough trouble keeping my aged butt warm let
alone a hothouse full of figs.

On 4 Mar 2024 03:21:03 GMT, lowbrowwoman, the endlessly driveling,
troll-feeding, senile idiot, blabbered again:

> Fresh figs are fantastic but they're so delicate they seldom make it to
> supermarkets.

NOTHING could ever be as "fantastic" as your incredibly big mouth, gossip
girl! LOL

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On 4 Mar 2024 03:17:09 GMT, lowbrowwoman, the endlessly driveling,
troll-feeding, senile idiot, blabbered again:

> Not many fig trees in Montana so I guess we can rule that out.

But possibly quite a few more bigmouths like you, you endlessly gossiping
Montana bitch? Maybe it's a Montana thing and those hayseeds there are all
like you: Trumptards, bigmouths and laughing stocks?

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about her great life:
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On 4 Mar 2024 06:24:51 GMT, lowbrowwoman, the endlessly driveling,
troll-feeding, senile idiot, blabbered again:

> Gorbal warming has a ways to go although we did make it from Zone 5a to 5b
> (-15F to -10) last year. The USDA might have to reconsider after that
> spell of -20 this year. I had enough trouble keeping my aged butt warm let
> alone a hothouse full of figs.

You REALLY love to hear yourself talking, don't you, you self-admiring,
pathological, senile shithead? LOL

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On 3/3/24 15:53, Ed P wrote:

[snip]

>> Anyone know much on fig trees and cross pollenation factors?  I can see
>> the charts but live experience is always better!
>
>
> Going back many years, my wife's grandfather had one and it produced. It
> was the only one so I guess it was self pollinating.

"Five Fresh Figs"

My grandparents had a fig tree, and AFAIK it was the only one around.
These were big figs and five of them was a lot.

--
Mark Lloyd
http://notstupid.us/

"If the fundamentalists are right, then all the cool people are in
Hell!" Jeffery Jay Lowder

Ed P wrote:

> On 3/3/2024 4:45 PM, cshenk wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I organically garden using raised containers in the back yard and
> > clean practices in the front yard. I do your normal suspects in
> > the back yard like tomatoes and such.
> >
> > Anyone know much on fig trees and cross pollenation factors? I can
> > see the charts but live experience is always better!
>
>
> Going back many years, my wife's grandfather had one and it produced.
> It was the only one so I guess it was self pollinating.

Thanks!

hubops@ccanoemail.com wrote:

> On Sun, 03 Mar 2024 21:45:49 +0000, "cshenk"
> <cshenk@virginia-beach.net> wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > I organically garden using raised containers in the back yard and
> > clean practices in the front yard. I do your normal suspects in
> > the back yard like tomatoes and such.
> > Anyone know much on fig trees and cross pollenation factors? I can
> > see the charts but live experience is always better!
> >
>
>
> Sometimes, people who post such gardening questions -
> will also reveal what part of this big old planet they live in.
> Tuktoyaktuk or Timbuktu ? or somewhere in between ?
> Just sayin'.
> John T.

Virginia Beach.