| 1. | When a caprifig ripens, another caprifig must be ready to be pollinated.
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| 2. | When a caprifig ripens, another caprifig must be ready to be pollinated.
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| 3. | Common fig caprifigs have three crops per year; edible figs have two.
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| 4. | Called caprification, the process is named for the caprifig, the original native fig tree.
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| 5. | Nonetheless, the wasp pollinates the flower with pollen from the caprifig it grew up in.
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| 6. | Vegetative propagation is quicker and more reliable, as it does not yield the inedible caprifigs.
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| 7. | The caprifig has both male and female flowers, whereas other varieties often only have female flowers.
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| 8. | Early growers learned to place branches of the caprifig tree near the trees they wanted to cultivate.
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| 9. | If the female wasp crawls into the caprifig, she can successfully lay her eggs and die.
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| 10. | The males hatch first, mate with the females, dig tunnels out of the caprifig, and die.
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