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Crafts makes fig tree propagation sound and look easy in a recent demonstration at his home.
A burly six-footer with white hair and crystalline blue eyes and a pair of sheers in his right hand, he circles a 10-foot tall, leafless fig tree like a wrestler ready to pounce on his opponent for a take down.
Bundled against the late November cold in a gray wool cap, black-and-red plaid coat and black chinos, he studies “grandpa’s” fig tree, searching for branches to clip and propagate.
Crafts knows his prey. He looks for ones as thick as a pencil and with pert, green tips that interfere with the” tree’s shapely growth.
In minutes, he cuts eight branches, each about a dozen inches long.
He deftly bundles the specimens with a strand of white surveyor’s tape, securing them with a half-hitch knot.
He places the cluster, branch tips down, into a hole he’d dug a few feet away from the smaller of two substantial fig trees in the backyard of his 10-acre spread off Cliff Mills Road near Orlean.
He trowels soil over the branches, careful not to cover a 12-inch length of the surveyor’s tape, which serves as a marker and which he labels
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