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green ischia

houstontexas123
11 years ago

received my tiny green ischia from WellSprings yesterday.

not sure if seedling or tissue culture.

Comments (21)

  • houstontexas123
    Original Author
    11 years ago

    roots looked good, potted it up in a 1/4-1/2? gallon pot. sitting under a 6' pomegranate bush for a few weeks.

  • thisisme
    11 years ago

    Looks about four times the size of the LSU Purple I received from Hirt's Garden.

  • soaht
    11 years ago

    houstontexas 123-
    They are tissue culture, that's what I was told when I email them about their plants. I was about to order a green ischia also from them, but they told me it was TC so I pass. But seeing how nice and big yours is,I might reconsidering ordering one too.

    thisisme-
    I've seen a youtube video of some guy showing his black ischia fig he got from Hirtz and they indeed look smaller than the one posted here by houstontexas 123.

  • houstontexas123
    Original Author
    10 years ago

    update, its growing bigger

  • soaht
    10 years ago

    Looking nice and healthy, maybe you'll get some crops next season.

  • houstontexas123
    Original Author
    10 years ago

    update 8-31-2013

  • soaht
    10 years ago

    It grew nice and big, compare to when you got it. I should have gotten one too, when the growing season was longer, it's too late now :( maybe next year. My Egyptian fig cuttings, I got from a friend in Tx, is such a slow grower and is way smaller then your TC fig from wellsprings. I would've expected a cutting to be faster growing, but maybe, since it lacks a tap root, it's growing slower or maybe it's just the variety?

  • houstontexas123
    Original Author
    10 years ago

    October update

    starting to get some cool fronts.

  • soaht
    10 years ago

    Very healthy looking tree and how big it got is WOW. Most figs are fast growers, but mine isn't so, it's an Egyptian variety sent from a friend in TX. But she had informed me, that this particular fig variety from Egypt is a slow grower.

  • houstontexas123
    Original Author
    9 years ago

    spring update, it leafed out about 2 weeks ago, just put it in the ground this weekend.

  • soaht
    9 years ago

    Nice, any sign of fruiting this year?

  • houstontexas123
    Original Author
    9 years ago

    not yet

  • soaht
    9 years ago

    Awww...maybe next year in it's 3rd year. TC are like seedling in habit and fruit a little later than cuttings would.

  • yeehova
    9 years ago

    It is looking good. How did you overwinter this one?

  • houstontexas123
    Original Author
    9 years ago

    i just brought it in under the porch. we had a few freezes, just covered all my plants with frost blankets.

  • frozenjoe
    9 years ago

    Looks good. I've heard good things about Green Ischia. When it fruits let us know what you think.

  • shane11
    9 years ago

    Wow, your fig has grown quite well and looks fantastic. This variety is one of the richest and one of the best I have ever tasted.

  • yeehova
    9 years ago

    I just received a Violette de Bordeaux and an Olympia fig from Wellspring. Both figs are very healthy. I can only hope I have as much success as you have had. What do you feed them?

  • houstontexas123
    Original Author
    9 years ago

    i use regular Miracle Gro.

  • girlbug2
    9 years ago

    Started two green ischia cuttings 3 years ago from a guy I contacted on these forums, "Ben of South Florida". I traded some of my cuttings for his. Last year they fruited and I realized that they were almost certainly a variety I had tried previously called Italian Honey or Lattarula (pale interior green exterior). Aren't Green Ischias supposed to have pink or red interiors?

    It's a good fig so I'm not sorry, but I was really looking forward to growing GIs. :(

  • GeneDaniels
    9 years ago

    Green Ischia is a "strawberry" fig, that is red like strawberry jam on the inside. If the inside is not red, it's not GI

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