Tom thanks for presenting your video on Black Madeira .

Still have an original from UcDavis from 2008 that over the years been airlayering to try and get a cleaner example by selecting certain branches that seemed clean then growing and repeat process on new plant and finally did get a clean one it grew for 3/4 years clean.

But it died this spring it was CLEAN and have pictures to show if needed.

The original one also died or so thought but came back and before storage this fall now looked much better.

So the process to get more starts again as it is the best tasting on personal palate even pot grown here near Chicago.

Tom as a note lost a few other types this spring including the younger clean madeira as last fall's rain were heavy then cold set in suddenly then in spring roots were rotted to make long story shorter.

Regards

Martin

Are you trying to grow them in the ground? I should have tried burying the older Negronne I had to see if it would survive during a New England winter. I wanted to try that technique.

I grow them in 30g containers then in attached garage for winter storage.

Only inground is elder hardy chicago cut down low each season and covered with 30g pot with a stone on top it ripens late because of awakening late each spring .

Madeira figs when first appear take longer than most other figs to ripen so inground here it probably would not ripen figs before cold set in if our inground hardy chicago is usually late.

In the mid 1960s i recall being there some years uncles used to dig around rootball of grandmothers tree and push it down into a dug out trench then covered with wood and then dirt mounded high.

It was grown as single trunk tree at the time ,she brought it from Sicily when she came to this country .

Martin