You've been talking about Blue Celeste for some time. I love that fig!! the color of the leaves alone is gorgeous. I have one in the ground in 6b. Now I wish I saved cuttings. it's a special fig. It's a funny thing, with honey figs for example, there are some complex varieties, like Izbat, or comparable varieties like Lattarula, but Peter's Honey is just so solid and special like Lou says. I feel the same way about Blue Celeste, so many other figs are comparable but it's just more special in a way that's hard to describe unless you own the tree.
I noticed the bluish color on some Celeste trees in the 70s in Louisiana. My just plain Celeste trees have both long 5 finger-like leaves and some shield shaped ones with slightly jagged edges. They came in a 4-pack. None have three wide lobes like the leaves shown here. I did see my tree`s leaves shown as Celeste on a fig grower`s site. It`s puzzling trying to be sure you got what you ordered but they came from a Florida nursery. They didn`t fruit this year. They began growing fig nubs and those dried up and died. Maybe next year. They`re in the ground and most are in very poor soil in a hard packed gravel and red clay old parking spot but I`m creating mounds of compost around them of a mix of layers of all sorts of green and brown organic matter, forest debris and forest soil and topping with thick pine straw and leaves before winter. They`re small enough to cover if we get a bad freeze in Louisiana this year. No rain all summer so it`s daily watering to establish roots.
A lot of people think that 'Malta Black' is a strain of 'Celeste', the leaves are way more like 'Celeste' and so on, I forget the details off the top of my head. I personally think that it was named 'Malta Black' because 'Malta Black' reminded someone of the 'Celeste strain' called 'Malta'. Apparently in some climates 'Malta Black' does not have 'Celeste' like leaves, and instead has Mount Etna kind of leaves, I suppose that it could be a hybrid of both 'Celeste', and some Mount Etna like fig.
I have a Celeste in south Mississippi and it is taller then my house, it's to the roof and equally as wide and I've taken hundreds of cuttings. It's an amazing tree.
I think i saw that Celeste tree in ocnj, i thought that was brown Turkey. Did you get cuttings from that tree, how did it do? I do have a awesome Celeste, prolific and an awesome eye. Can i mail you some cuttings. I’m sure you get that a lot
please put these 3 figs near each other then put their leaves. This will simply too much. I cnat recognize what you said in the whole video. you talk too much. stop talking just give us the information.
You've been talking about Blue Celeste for some time. I love that fig!! the color of the leaves alone is gorgeous. I have one in the ground in 6b. Now I wish I saved cuttings. it's a special fig. It's a funny thing, with honey figs for example, there are some complex varieties, like Izbat, or comparable varieties like Lattarula, but Peter's Honey is just so solid and special like Lou says. I feel the same way about Blue Celeste, so many other figs are comparable but it's just more special in a way that's hard to describe unless you own the tree.
I noticed the bluish color on some Celeste trees in the 70s in Louisiana. My just plain Celeste trees have both long 5 finger-like leaves and some shield shaped ones with slightly jagged edges. They came in a 4-pack. None have three wide lobes like the leaves shown here. I did see my tree`s leaves shown as Celeste on a fig grower`s site. It`s puzzling trying to be sure you got what you ordered but they came from a Florida nursery. They didn`t fruit this year. They began growing fig nubs and those dried up and died. Maybe next year. They`re in the ground and most are in very poor soil in a hard packed gravel and red clay old parking spot but I`m creating mounds of compost around them of a mix of layers of all sorts of green and brown organic matter, forest debris and forest soil and topping with thick pine straw and leaves before winter. They`re small enough to cover if we get a bad freeze in Louisiana this year. No rain all summer so it`s daily watering to establish roots.
A lot of people think that 'Malta Black' is a strain of 'Celeste', the leaves are way more like 'Celeste' and so on, I forget the details off the top of my head. I personally think that it was named 'Malta Black' because 'Malta Black' reminded someone of the 'Celeste strain' called 'Malta'. Apparently in some climates 'Malta Black' does not have 'Celeste' like leaves, and instead has Mount Etna kind of leaves, I suppose that it could be a hybrid of both 'Celeste', and some Mount Etna like fig.
I have a Celeste in south Mississippi and it is taller then my house, it's to the roof and equally as wide and I've taken hundreds of cuttings. It's an amazing tree.
I think i saw that Celeste tree in ocnj, i thought that was brown Turkey. Did you get cuttings from that tree, how did it do? I do have a awesome Celeste, prolific and an awesome eye. Can i mail you some cuttings. I’m sure you get that a lot
The large one by the boardwalk? This is a different tree.
Where did your Celeste come from?
Thanks for the video. Ross how are the pomegranate and citrus trees going?
Citrus trees are about to ripen indoors. The poms are asleep.
They cut down the big fig tree on moorlan terr, hope you got cuttings of it
Had my first Black Celeste not too long ago, wow.
Excellent breakdown mr Ross ✅
Is it more how they feel and not how they look?
Thanks! Now I need more figs 🤣
Do you sell this fig
Good video Ross
Do u wanna try a variety called craven's craving?
Not really. It's a slightly different Black Madeira. That fig doesn't do well here.
Is black celeste as early as the other celeste varities
Around the same time.
please put these 3 figs near each other then put their leaves. This will simply too much. I cnat recognize what you said in the whole video. you talk too much. stop talking just give us the information.