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Produce => Edible Plants => Topic started by: David R on January 25, 2009, 17:19:40

Title: Recommendations for a conservatory fig
Post by: David R on January 25, 2009, 17:19:40
Does anyone have any greenhouse or conservatory fig faves?

I had a large houseplant die recently from exposure to frosts while i was on hols and the heating was off. I am thinking about replacing it with an edible fruit tree such as a fig and am not sure what to choose. I have looked online and there is a bewildering choice of figs - but im also considering an apricot or nectarine.

It will sit in my conservatory in a 2' pot with a hydroponic reservoir and could be allowed to get to 7-8 feet in height.
Title: Re: Recommendations for a conservatory fig
Post by: saddad on January 25, 2009, 17:50:11
Brown Turkey is relaiable outside and would love you for a conservatory but I would be tempted by White Marsailles...  ;D
Title: Re: Recommendations for a conservatory fig
Post by: tonybloke on January 25, 2009, 19:29:09
go with the White Marsailles for indoors, put a brown turkey in a pot outside!! (best of boyh worlds) ;)
Title: Re: Recommendations for a conservatory fig
Post by: Baccy Man on January 25, 2009, 19:40:33
White Marseilles does well outdoors too, in a conservatory I would go for something less hardy which you wouldn't normally be able to grow like Rouge de Bordeaux or Grise de St Jean.
Reads have a good selection of figs.
http://www.readsnursery.co.uk/acatalog/Figs.html