Then you would want to be careful when pruning your fig tree. : )

yes I would imagine so .. thanks

Or even sometimes when you pick the figs - you might just want to cut the very top of the fig off where it detaches from the branch, sometimes it will have just a bit of the white sap on it. The riper it is, it seems the less there is and you can probably just rinse it off.

thanks!

Lynn, thanks again for the cuttings of your figs. I'll get them into some soil tomorrow.

Can't wait to see your fig babies grow into fruiting trees Mary.
It was good to see you again.

The USDA map, which has been recently revised, now has me half a zone warmer than previous maps. Very good for figs I think!

Here is the link if you want to see what has changed where you garden.

www.planthardiness.ars.usda.gov

I'm still the same, zone 8b.
What is your zone now Mary?

5b to 6a.

Wow, that should be good news for your figs.

The cuttings are in pots now, in the greenhouse but on a low shelf where the night temperature will be about 45 and they won't get direct sun in the daytime-. I will put plastic grocery bags on them before we get a sunny day when the greenhouse already gets hot! I put them in individual pots. If they all grow, I'll have a fig forest.

Fig forest.

I hope they do well for you.

I've been rooting my fig cuttings in water......

I've never tried that method.

I made this really great pork loin with figs last year...

I made raspberry fig preserves this year. They are so good on buttered toast as a dessert.

would love to try it!!

A friend of mine makes strawberry fig jam without any strawberries. She uses strawberry jello. Strawberry seeds and fig seeds look very similiar, and nobody seems to notice that there aren't so many seeds in her jam. It tasted great to me.

Yum, both ways sound delicious.

LOL, good job on the strawberry-fig jam - that's too funny.