Anthony, I admire your persistence and am excited for you. Please let us know the quality of the fruit when the time comes.

V/r
Vinnie

Hi Anthony

Don't ya love it when a plan comes together?

Pretty Tree, beautiful pictures, you can be proud of that Baby.

Best regards
Cecil

We Have to assume there are more than one strain of Mission.
I also have two of them.
One has green stem like yours,and makes huge figs(double size,as Normal Mission).
Another one has red stems,and it was ill with fig mosaic,and this Spring just colapsed ,lost the leaves,and so it is recuperating,(or dieing).
I also have the Malta Mission,from George,wich is doing ok,but not as good as the one from Texas,that has green leaf stems.
The Malta Mission,also have red leaf stems,and Visible Mosaic marks.
I call the Texas Mission,Megamission,because of the large size fruits.
Best Regards
H2

Gosh, Thought I had the real McCoy. Herman was the mission fig similiar to mine tasty? I will post pictures of it ripe.I hope I have a good one.
Anthony

That's a very healthy looking tree you have there.

Yes it is very tasty,just,like a Mission should be.
I know the taste of Mission figs.
In fact the taste is the same as Malta Mission fig,except is twice in size.
And what makes it different is that the stem are not red pink,but green,with a little red on them too,but very little compared with other Mission figs I have seen.
I have no doubt this is a different strain,but it doesn't mean inferior,to other Mission, figs.
This year ,I had it inground over winter and was dec9imated by frost,so it grew back but is late fruitting,so I am not sure if I am going to have ripe fruits again,out of it,because only now it formed new embryios.
I had picture of the fruits,on Figs for fun,Mesage Board,on the post titled New Jersey Pixes.
You can search that and see the picture.
I have no doubt your exemplar is identical to mine.
Best Regards
H2

Herman,Did you say you got your mission from Texas? Because I have a Fannick Blue Giant from Texas given to me by Gorgi NJ.Last year I had a real surprise by how excellent these figs were tasting.They were large figs and the small tree was very productive.I just went outside to check the leaf similiarities of this strain of mission and the Blue Giant and it looks real close but you know how leaves could be misleading.I will check both fruits when ripe and post pictures.
Dan,How are you? Thanks for all the research! You help this forum tremendously.By the way they look healthy because of the chicken poop,it works wonders.You mentioned about fertilizing persimmons while the fruit is on the tree.What if you don't fertilize but the soil is rich in itself; How do you stop all the persimmons from falling?Thanks, Anthony

Yes it is from Texas,and it was bought from a Nursery as Mission,By the friend I was Trading Gino's fig with.
His Name was Justin.
Happy Gardening
H2

Anthony,

I recently learned of the effect of too much fertilizer on persimmons. A guy in my area planted an orchard with 5000 (yes that's thousands) trees and was observing that his pesimmons were falling off and this was going to be quite costly for his business. The LSU experts got involved and determined that too much fertilizer was the cause. They recommend not to fertilize the trees once the trees have set fruit. I have no idea how to stop persimmons from falling from a tree growing in a highly enriched soil area. Maybe this affect will be less as the trees mature.

Dan

Thanks,Vasile and Dan.With guys like you we can't lose!!!

Stay Well,
Anthony

I Purchased A Black Mission Fig tree just before the winter season. The tree was about 2ft tall and It had a few small figs on board but they didn't make it. By watering the tree and keeping it out of the winter weather, the tree survived the winter months. There is now new growth on the tree and I am very excited to get this baby into the ground. Planning to plant the tree this week. I hope this is a good time.....Let me know please

If you are in zone 7+,the time is right to plant in ground,from now on.

I curious to know what happened to the old tree is she a gay.

Naw. Don't let that short haircut fool you. She's straight.