Mid-Atlantic Gardening: Yardening May 17+ 2014, 1 by Gitagal

Gitagal wrote:
Ny neighbor, Olga, had someone come and cut her BIG Fig tree down.
It WAS old and dead.

A year ago, I took some cuttings of her Fig tree--thinking someone on DG may
want to have one--if they make it. All but one slowly died out. ONE survived!
THE one!!!

I had it under my lights--and it seemed forever to sit in a 'frozen state" of ONE
green, tight leaf bud.

The other day,Olga was whining how she will miss it (????) and how all the
cuttings her son and grandkids had started. ALL dead!!! And--SHE" being the one
that hated it--as it was too big and sprawled and the falling leaves were a mess....

We were sitting at my patio table and chatting. She was so sorry the tree died....
I, calmly, got up and got my pot with her little fig tree cutting in it , put it on the
table and i said--"This is from YOUR Fig tree"...She almost cried.....

The tight bud had now leafed out and, I think, it has a future...but in MY care for
another year. I read here--somewhere--that new Fig cuttings need to be kept
inside for the first 2 years--and that is what i will do. She CANNOT have it--just yet...

Odd--how things work out. Gita