Thread: Fruit, Nut, and Vine Grafting, Tree Propagation, Tree Care

I'm a Bachelor for a few days so staying busy. This year I collected a few gallons of Mayhaws from our trees but they are young or topworked and the production wood is young so I harvested and froze the fruit.

Yesterday I pulled them all out, about 4-5 gallons and put them in the biggest pot I have along with a gallon of distilled water. Setting the stove to a low-medium heat I just walked away from it for 1/2 the day (fruit was frozen to Zero degrees).

After they finally thawed and came to a simmer I cooked them for 1 hour then let them cool completely before starting the straining process. The fruit is pretty much mush so you don't want to squish them just pour the entire pot thru a colander first. Once the heavy solids are removed I strain the juice thru a series of colanders with finer & finer mesh wire till this juice pictured is the result. I will pick this back up during the jelly making process.

Big delivery today, 60 pounds of ripe Muscadines. I have a video to upload showing me stomping the Muscadines to mush in a 45 Yeti wearing White Shrimper Boots.

Anyway the reason for this post as while I was showing The Fig Man Stan how I propagated the fig cuttings using the Fig Pop method we reviewed several of his figs here he sold me a year or so ago. Well it turns out the Fig Tree he sold me as Green Ischia in a LSU Champagne. I downloaded my previous pictures posted as Green Ischia so a picture can be put with a name.



This is actually a LSU Champagne not Green Ischia. I wanted to make this correction to keep the blog as accurate as possible.

Ah ha, the mystery is solved. I’m thinking I’d like to collect all the LSU varieties. LSU Hollier is on my list and I mentioned it to Stan as well as RdB and he told me check back in two weeks and it would be ready. When I did he had forgotten and sold it already . So what’s your thoughts on the LSU Champagne?

Originally Posted by SuperDave336

Ah ha, the mystery is solved. I’m thinking I’d like to collect all the LSU varieties. LSU Hollier is on my list and I mentioned it to Stan as well as RdB and he told me check back in two weeks and it would be ready. When I did he had forgotten and sold it already . So what’s your thoughts on the LSU Champagne?

First I think Stan is at capacity and others are doing quite a bit for him. I emailed the splitting fig pictures but had to open them here so he could see them. He uses a flip phone, I think his family members are doing the Etsy stuff and he packs & ships. We were looking thru all the CDC posts on this thread when he saw all the pictures I posted of his figs. He did remember I bought a dozen trees from him and that fig tree was one he delivered. Man he brought some muscadines that are drying a bit due to the drought here and they are fantastic. Friday, if he remembers, will be delivering another bunch of those muscadines.

As far as the taste of the LSU Champagne it is very mild in Fig taste and sugar content. It wants to sprawl out instead of grow upwards which Stan said that is one of traits.

Had our first VdB (Violette de Bordeaux) fig this evening. Second fig of the year. I cut into quarters to share with the family. None of us were impressed. Tasted weak and watered down. Didn’t match the description of what it’s supposed to taste like.

Originally Posted by SuperDave336

Had our first VdB (Violette de Bordeaux) fig this evening. Second fig of the year. I cut into quarters to share with the family. None of us were impressed. Tasted weak and watered down. Didn’t match the description of what it’s supposed to taste like.

It's been my experience with these young trees in pots they don't seem to develop the flavor as a tree that has lots of roots. It can be roots in a pot but they need lots of roots. Also sun to make sugar. I have the same tree and it has figs but not ripening any of them. Give them time to grow, I read a 3 year old tree starts producing consistent flavor.

I dropped the biggest fig when picking so I had to crawl in the tree looking for it.

Red Wasps popped me in the shoulder, arm, & leg before I was able to get away from them. These figs better taste real good.

Ouch! Yeah let’s hope they are delicious. They sure do look good on the outside. Magnolia fig?

I assume the wasp will be dealt with too?