@@lamontefarms I said he popularized it. That's all. If you want put up some videos you might help other people learn. That would be great thing for you to put your energy into.
I've visited Italy a couple of times in the summer and not only do the figs there taste better than any I've had here (including the ones my parents grew), they are larger. Some were the size of small pears.
Thanks Ross ! I'm just starting to experiment too, thank you for the confirmation for the type of syringe, it will be very useful to me. Living in France 300km from areas where the wasp lives, I will also try (with global warming) to bring wasps by buying Caprifiguiers with figs containing wasps. Long live to the experiment !
I've been wondering how this is done! Thanks for the tutorial! Also, I've found a good way to mark my pollinated fruits (I crossbreed peppers) is by using twist ties. Makes for a easy visual que to find them.
I find 18ga needle is the best. Also to get the last bit of pollen out. You can use the syringe to squirt water over the pollen area of the Caprifig. Be sure to do it over the strainer. Great video Ross! Are you going to grow out any seeds?
Thank you for the video! You may already know it, but let me share you what I learned from Paper "A Fundamental Study on Cross Breeding of FIｇ(Ficus carica L.)". This is not summary, but my understanding. *English summary is in the end of paper. ‐There are two types of Smyrna varieties, one of which almost always drops fruit without wasp. ‐According to Beck Lord (1988), fig pollen, when stored at room temperature, showed about 50% activity in FDA tests after 30 days. Regarding hand pollination, ‐Sugar concentration of 10% is optimal. ‐Temperature is optimal at 25-30℃ ‐The best timing is dransition stage from enlargement phase 1 to 2. ‐Appropriate transverse diameter depends on variety; Smyrna Stanford 25.8-29.8㎜ Gok Lop 16.6-27.9mm Zidi 15.1-25.0mm Umur Bey 18.7-25.9mm Sun Pedro Violotte Dophine 20.0-26.2mm King 19.3-25.4mm Tanikawa 18.7-26.8mm Sun Pedro White 15.2-25.9mm Common Masui Dophine 25.1-28.2mm Loyal Vinyard 19.7-23.4mm Celeste 13.3-19.6mm Kadota 15.1-22.9mm ‐Appropriate female flower length has little varietal variation. It was 2-3mm. I think if there were a common correlation between the lateral diameter for pollination and the lateral diameter of ripen crop, it would make it easier to determine the right time.
Thanks for the helpful video and amazing information. They seem like great people too. I want to purchase capri fig from their site, so I can try hand pollination. I believe I said that right. How should I know which capri fig type to buy? Not seeing much of an explanation. Im sure there are explanations I’m just not seeing.
When caprified, those seeds can be grown out right, or is it just certain varieties? Another question: Are you going to be saving any viable seeds? If so, can I purchase some from you?
@@richiec6068 You have a 50/50 chance of being male or female. If you add in a persistent male/Capri you have 25% chance of common female, 25% chance of persistent Capri, 25% chance smyrna and 25% chance caducous Capri. Odds are not that bad.
Another note I seen someone he uses syringe and it i a big syringe and he goes with it squeezing the water inside the fig and suck the water out back in the syringe and he goes to the second fig squeezing the water inside of the fig and suck some of the water back and he keeps doing that till the water gone of the syringe inside all of the figs he pollinated he ran it as an experience didn't see the result yet
since there are some figs they are self polinated can we use that figs out of them to pollinate other fig trees? I might try this experince in my fig collections ...but i love to hear your input this one
Pretty sure by self polling you mean a common fig( fig that produces fruit without pollination). These figs are parthenocarpic. So they don't produce pollen to pollinate themselves but they produce fruit without viable seeds.
Would love to but can't get the caprifgs or the pollen... I would love some persitent pollen so i could experiment with seedling fig trees, however i'm still doing it anyway to a lesser degree.
