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Produce => Edible Plants => Topic started by: otto_nowak on April 24, 2009, 20:45:03

Title: Fig " Siciliana"
Post by: otto_nowak on April 24, 2009, 20:45:03
Am growing a fig in a pot this year... Ficus Carica " Siciliana"    Has anyone had experience of this variety? 

Thanks!
Title: Re: Fig " Siciliana"
Post by: PurpleHeather on April 24, 2009, 22:21:12
Figs are not a popular subject on the forum.

Do not let it worry you. Figs can be and are grown in the UK.

Even though we think of them as exotic. They are tougher than we think.
Title: Re: Fig " Siciliana"
Post by: thifasmom on April 24, 2009, 23:06:34
Quote from: PurpleHeather on April 24, 2009, 22:21:12
Figs are not a popular subject on the forum.

why not ???
Title: Re: Fig " Siciliana"
Post by: Baccy Man on April 25, 2009, 07:03:49
Not one I have heard of before but maybe it goes by other names too. The only reference to it I can see gives a brief description of the fruit produced but no mention of hardiness.

Sicile (syn. Ficus carica siciliana Risso). Described by Risso (1826), Sauvaigo (1889), and Eisen (1901), as a Sicilian variety, introduced into France and grown near Nice. The description by Eisen of first-crop figs follows closely that of previous authors. Figs large, pyriform, the body abruptly narrowed to form the neck; stalk rather long; eye large; skin checking, yellowish green in color; meat violet; pulp pale red.


BTW despite what some people seem to think figs are regularly discussed on the forum.
Title: Re: Fig " Siciliana"
Post by: manicscousers on April 25, 2009, 07:16:31
we have 2 figs but they're both brown turkey..
they're both just getting pot bound so should have a bumper harvest this year, providing we get the warm  ;D
Title: Re: Fig " Siciliana"
Post by: sawfish on April 25, 2009, 17:41:00
well I've managed to keep my two small brown turkey fig trees alive in a cold frame over winter up here in Scotland so you should be OK.

I might even get an actual fig this year.
Title: Re: Fig " Siciliana"
Post by: otto_nowak on April 26, 2009, 17:02:33
Thanks for all the replies!   Oddly when I looked at the label today, it said "growing this plant in a container may stop it fruiting".... but I thought that was the best way to get figs to fruit?   It seems to be fairly healthy and is probably enjoying this early summer weather...
Title: Re: Fig " Siciliana"
Post by: Squash64 on April 26, 2009, 18:08:06
I've got a lovely fig tree on my allotment.  It was grown as a cutting taken from my brother-in-law's tree.  It isn't a brown turkey but I don't know what variety it is.
I planted it in the ground, with no restriction to the roots and it fruits abundantly every year.
I've just given my plot-neighbour a rooted layer-cutting that I started last year.
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