Brian. I recently got into fig trees. I have 3 acres of land that I’d like to populate. Do you sell cuttings?

@@vmbanner If you don't live close to any old-fig-trees then get tissue-culture cuttings in hopes you can have a field with no plant-viruses. Some of the collectors here on YT have plants with what looks to be infected with all-the-plant-viruses.

@@SlackerU I’m in Vacherie

@@vmbanner yes I sell cuttings

​@@brianrodrigue6821hey Brian...I emailed you a few days ago

You have to catch the big cutting sales in Nov-Jan at Kremp, Offthebeatenpath, Wills, Figaholics or sellers at figbid.

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Year two with my in-ground Brown-Turkey tasted awful, like bland fiber or Taco-Bell's 'ground-beef'. Some say it takes about five years b/c the plant is trying to drop seeds near itself to takeover the area where then after it becomes established it produces more flavor to get animals to take the seeds far further away, an evolutionary theory I suppose but who knows.

@@SlackerU Thanks, Bob. Appreciate the info. Our in-ground tree is probably about 22 years old. My Mother-In-Law planted it there when they owned the house. It's only about 5 ft tall, though, as it is in stiff competition with a huge live oak and some water oaks. I've thought to put the LSU Purple and the Italian Honey Fig on the other side of the yard that gets good sun and is "far" from the trees.

How well & often you fertilize the trees in the pots makes a difference. The inground tree is always getting minerals & would-be fertilizer from natural sources in the ground whereas the potted ones are solely dependent on you for that.

@Robert Marshall Great advice on the low nitrogen. It stopped all production of figs in my orchard for several years before I discovererd nitrogen prevented figs' fruits from forming. Also the nitrogen made them extremely susceptable to winter freeze damage. No more nitrogen on my fig trees!

Trees of joy, based out of Pennsylvania. One green world, based out of Oregon. Just fruits and exotics, based out of Florida. Gurneys and Starkbros for national nurseries options. Shreveport/bossier & BR local nurseries only carry 2 lsu varieties, I haven't checked around NO. Other than those options, you have to get lucky. 😤

Fig bid. That's where I buy fig cuttings.

Ebay ..... Etsy.....

LSU O'Rourke & LSU Tiger are "Improved celeste" varieties, created by the LSU fig breeding program by O'Rourke, but they ARE NOT the tree whose namesake is LSU Improved Celeste, also known as ICON (Improved Celeste O'Rourke Not), that is a third tree. While fig trees can have multiple leaf shapes, the predominant shapes of those 3 trees are different from each other, so they are not identical. LSU Improved Celeste has not been officially claimed by LSU, but it's origin can be traced back to Ed O'Rourke's breeding program by the locals who are in the know. There was a well-known nursery in Abbeville, LA by ran by a man named Roy Young of which (from my understanding) Improved Celeste originated from because he acquired it from Ed O'Rourke who he was friends with. I don't know enough about LSU Strawberry to guarantee it's validity. Unfortunately, because of the actions of some in the past, O'Rourke's tree's have had to slowly be rediscovered over time. Sifting between what someone wants to be an LSU Fig Tree, & what actually came from the program is difficult 60-70yrs later. LSU Strawberry is one of the latest varieties to be scrutinized. I've seen people say that it is, & I've been told it's no such thing, that it's an already established variety. But I for one would like more info & am still open to the possibility.

FYI this person did not develop these figs, many professors and students at the Agriculture school at Louisiana State University (LSU) developed these figs in the 1950s and 1960s because figs, like almost all other cultivated crops, do not always grow well, taste good, or survive difficult conditions in every climate. Many people live in places, like the humid American southeast, where traditional figs do not necessarily do well overall, but they are delicious and long-lasting perennial crops that lots of people like. Therefore they used the old school natural way of "GMO" (aka a breeding program) which is to methodically breed tons of different fig varieties and keep the best ones. These happened to be the best ones out of thousands and thousands of trials and experiments, and now these fig varieties can thrive in climates that say Turkish, Italian, or even Californian fig varieties would not.

@@reverblueflame Yes! And unfortunately they closed down the fig research stations in LSU and California to the best of my knowledge.

@@reverblueflame Its very strange that they spent this much time and money doing the research, and nobody in the area is even selling most of these fig varieties. The only three that I have been able to find are O’Rourke, LSU purple and gold, and even those can be hard to find.

sorry. I mistake Taxas A&M University.