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I believe many folks here were once users of the forum at figs4fun. The forum there is now defunct (shut down by owner for reasons I don't care to get into), and that was disappointing to many folks. Of course, there are many other places we communicate and share information with one another but the historical value of 10 years of information appeared to be lost. A couple of friends of mine worked on archiving the forum. One was done after the desktop version could no lon...ger be viewed and it backed up a mobile view at archive.org. Another friend who had been a member at F4F had started earlier and, after much work, put together an archive of the desktop view at http://figs4funforum.arghchive.com/ (remember, this is an archive, not an active forum that you can log into). It contains a script he created for a search function to find posts in the archived forum. Looks great!

Here is the link to the other friend's archive.org backup of the mobile version:
https://ludios.org/figs4funforum/

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We have a few more listings at the new auction site figBid (U.S. shipping only for these listings, sorry) https://www.figbid.com/Listing/Browse?Seller=Figaholics

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Another reminder to check out the new auction site set up by a friend of mine, a fellow fig collector, called figBid. Presently it is only set up for U.S. transactions, but that may change in the future. I just put up another listing there with a Buy-It-Now price for last minute Christmas shopping! https://www.figbid.com/…/Martinenca-Rimada-cuttings-pruned-…

Freshly pruned cuttings from our mother tree. Each cutting will be 7 to 9 inches long with at least 3 buds, shipped within 1 business day of purchase. The price is for one cutting. This is a beautiful fig and was very productive for us in 2017, producing many outstanding figs, one of our favorites.
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We've just put up six more auctions (3 day duration) on eBay for fig cuttings. Sorry, only bidders with U.S. addresses at this time. Get your Christmas shopping done!
https://www.ebay.com/itm/362188216421 Ischia Black
https://www.ebay.com/itm/272984624800 Bordissot Blanca-Negra
https://www.ebay.com/itm/272984629162 Capoll Curt Negra
https://www.ebay.com/itm/362188214137 Paratjal Rimada...
https://www.ebay.com/itm/362188218170 White Madeira #1
https://www.ebay.com/itm/272984622175 Martinenca Rimada

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A friend has created a new auction site for figs. Presently only for U.S. bidders/sellers but that may change. We have 3 listings we just put up, check it out!
https://www.figbid.com/Browse?Seller=Figaholics

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Another set of 3-day auctions on eBay (U.S. addresses only for now):
https://www.ebay.com/itm/272979202656 Genovese Nero
https://www.ebay.com/itm/272979221636 Paratjal Rimada
https://www.ebay.com/itm/272979224484 Ischia Black (USDA Davis)
https://www.ebay.com/itm/272979218032 Bordissot Blanca-Negra...
https://www.ebay.com/itm/272979230715 White Madeira #1

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The worlds largest privately-owned flavor and fragrance company names Fig as the 2018 Flavor of the Year! http://www.firmenich.com/…/news/Fig-2018-Flavor-Of-The-Year…

We've listed cuttings of four more varieties on eBay this evening, auctions end in 3 days. Plenty of time for your Christmas shopping! At the present time, our listings are for shipping to U.S. addresses only.
https://www.ebay.com/itm/362180666911 White Madeira #1
https://www.ebay.com/itm/272973393770 Paratjal RImada
https://www.ebay.com/itm/362180618894 Ischia Black
https://www.ebay.com/itm/272973327800 Genovese Nero (AF)

We just listed an eBay auction for 2 cuttings of the highly sought after variety Paratjal Rimada. I've been contacted about this several times and our tree is just now going dormant. For this auction, U.S. shipping only. I sold this variety on my web site last winter and sold out in a couple of hours and, since I started mys ales at about midnight, all buyers of it were outside of the U.S. so now it's their turn. 3 Day auction
https://www.ebay.com/itm/362176663768

We've been growing this variety for a couple of years and picked several fruits this past summer. The fruit are of very good quality and both the branches and fruit are striped, though the stripes on the fruit mostly disappear as it ripens. | eBay!
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Hello friends, we presently have a grafted Ischia Black tree https://www.ebay.com/itm/272958210357 on eBay, available for buyers with a U.S. address. Auction ends Saturaday. This is the last tree we have ready for sale at this time but do have some cuttings rooting now (we pruned off some green cuttings before that wood is damaged by frost).
We do not ship trees outside of the U.S. but will once again be offering cuttings again in late January and those are available for export. We not "book" (pre-sale) take reservations and we won't decide on prices until January after we're finished pruning. At the present time, most trees still have leaves on them but they are starting to go dormant.

The first two photos are of fruit picked from one of our mother trees in our orchard. This tree was started by grafting a cutting taken from a mother tree in our orchard and grafting it onto a tree of the Panachee (Panache) variety which should result in it growing more vigorously than if it was gro...
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Hello friends, we presently have a grafted Ischia Black tree https://www.ebay.com/itm/272948858333 and a Bordissot Blanca-Negra tree https://www.ebay.com/itm/272948863181 on eBay, available for buyers with a U.S. address. Auctions end tomorrow.

We do not ship trees outside of the U.S. but will once again be offering cuttings again in late January and those are available for export. We not "book" (pre-sale) take reservations and we won't decide on prices until January after we're finished pruning. At the present time, most trees still have leaves on them but they are starting to go dormant.

This tree was started as an airlayer from our mother tree in our orchard late this summer and removed from the tree on October 2nd and the mature leaves were clipped off to reduce stress. The fruit shown in the first photo were picked from our mother tree and the tree being sold is in the second pho...
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Some more end of season surprises today, some very nice ripe Black Madeira were waiting for me. Even after heavy rains two days ago and cool weather, the flavor was excellent.

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I got lucky and actually found a few ripe and very good Ischia Black today, to my surprise. Flavor was very good, which is amazing after the cool weather we've had and 2+ inches of rain over the past two days. We will be getting frost soon so this is the end for this year.

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We had some heavy rains over the past couple of days (2 inches or so) and some cool weather, but found one last ripe fig on a White Madeira #1 tree. Flavor wasn't as good as a month or so ago but still quite good, especially considering the rain and cool weather. Looking forward to many more next year.

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We've been busy with other farm work but this evening listed some fig trees for sale on eBay (shipping to U.S. addresses only):
https://www.ebay.com/itm/272920027736 Bordissot Blanca-Negra
https://www.ebay.com/itm/362152705243 Martinenca Rimada
https://www.ebay.com/itm/272920007308 Ischia Black

This tree was started as an airlayer from our mother tree in our orchard late this summer and removed from the tree on October 2nd and the mature leaves were clipped off to reduce stress. The fruit shown in the first photo were picked from our mother tree and the tree being sold is in the second pho...
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