My Turkish friend spent the fasting month and celebrates Eid
Mubarak in my house. His wife and his 3 children arrive a few days before
fasting months and he arrives a few days before Eids. Since i start growing fig
i asked him to bring fig cutting from Turkey for me but his father told him
that fig will not grow from cutting. Imagine my surprise when he gave me 2 fig
seedlings (in a polybag) instead of cutting that i asked for! It is really
amazing how he can bring these fig seedlings as hand luggage, carrying it all
the way from Turkey to Malaysia and not being caught by authority. Sadly he
does not know what cultivar it is but the fruit is for sure not purple. I hope
this fig is self pollinating. Thanks Mevlut for the fig seedlings.
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And these are the self pollinating fig that is grown from
cutting. Only 50% of cutting rooting and growing shoot, the rest of the
cutting become mouldy during shipping and rot after a few days. But considering
the cost of buying fig seedling, this method is still cheaper. The big
seedling is Adriatic and the other one is conadria. A few more cutting is
growing shoot (white patlican, calimyrna, abacou, adriatik and conadria)
Ooo, so the strike rate is 50%, not bad at all. Calimyrna is a Smyrna fig grown in California, and I believe they require pollination - caducous type (needs a male caprifig plant and wasps). Abicou is San Piero aka California Brown Turkey (NOT Brown Turkey) aka San Pedro. It is a San Pedro type (intermediate type) - breba needs no pollination (in Californian climate), the main does under certain condition.
ReplyDeleteThanks for your comment.From my reading smyrna fig needs pollination, however these fig is successfully fruiting in Indonesia, i do not think indonesia has fig wasp. It is imported by california grower from turkey.
ReplyDeleteWow, we must learn how they do it. Too bad our agricultural dept not as willing to experiment like in indonesia.
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