Mid-Atlantic Gardening: PLANT ADDICTS CHAT #3, 2 by Gitagal

Gitagal wrote:
Well--here's the cutting I rooted 2 years ago. It is now 3' tall.
Before she knew that her cut down Fig tree (impulse..as always--regret later)
was actually GONE--she was so remorseful, because it was her deceased
Husband's tree. He cared for it--so this id like a "transference of a person on a tree.
It is as if this tree was "HE"--and then she cut it down.. She was so sad...

She was sitting with me at my patio table and talking about this.
I got up--went and got the growing cutting (then just 1' tall) and said to her:
"It is NOT gone! look--here it is!" She almost cried.

Now, of course, it is no longer so "special"---as her re-growing Fig that died
last winter is now re-growing from the roots in a massive jungle of stems.

She is not back from her trip yet--and I have not had time to mess with the cuttings--
but, I will, next week. There will be many...

Jill--do you remember a picture I posted of her huge Fig Tree a couple years ago?
It was up to her 2nd story window~25' tall and wide.

WHERE on your property would you have room for something like this?
"Brown Turkey" is but a shrub compared to this Fig.

I am not really looking forward to 10 more pots to coddle and take care of under my lights.
Yes! I kept it inside under my lights and then as it grew bigger--by the window.
BUT--I will.

1--The re-growing "bush" of stems from the roots
2--The lower part of this mess of stems
3--The cutting from 2 years ago--now 3' tall.

I think several, if not all, will make it from the cuttings....

Gita