Today,pixes:

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Atreano
Paradiso,
These cultivars did ripe in this bad Sommer so i see promisse here!
And Green Ischia,wich i,had pix last year and it was,very similar to Paradiso(Gene),as fruit goes,but different as tree.
Stella was getting only one ripe fruit to date this year,but is loaded with stagnant figs.
White figs seem to be more dificult to ripe in cold climates,according to my results.
H2

Hi Vasile, I agree Atreano is a great tasting fig and Gene's Paradiso is also great tasting. I don't have the other; however the fig that is a couple of notches higher is JH Adriatic. I rated Atreano and Paradiso an 8. J H Adriatic is a 10. Even with the cool summer and with all the rain this fig is my number one fig of all time so far!!! I highly recommend this variety for our zone 6 climate.
      Stay Well,
             Anthony

Anthony

There are many peple looking for Adriatic cuttings, if you have a source.

Is JH Adriatic the same as Adriatic? UC Davis lists Adriatic under their list of available cuttings, if that's of any help.

This is good news. I have all 3 variants. I was disappointed that my Stella had no ripe figs. Likely my fault as I had applied olive oil & they all rot at the spot where oil was applied. I hope to acquire J.Morele Paradiso variant to complete the known Paradiso collection soon.

Tuksonken:I have Adriatic,from UCDAVIS fo 6 yrs now.
I work hard and protected it ,but to no avail.
every couple of years I get a couple of fruits that gets ripe.
The tree is very ill with fig mosaic,and so it will never produce much.
If you relly want o have Adriatic,do not waste your time with UC Davis Cuttings.
Get another strain from another source that is healthy,enough,to produce a harvest.
If Antonio say his JH strain is good,then it is good.
I know the guy, I know you can take it to the bank,when he say it is good.
H2

Herman2--

Thanks much for the caution. Now I'm really worried, because I placed an order with UCD last week for a bunch of cuttings! Have people had a lot of problems with UCD's other varieties as well, or could it just be one bad tree? After reading about all the problems people have had with mis-identified plants on ebay and various nurseries, I figured UCD would be a good bet because I'd be sure I was getting true varieties, the price was right, and they had many of the figs I was most interested in trying. But--if their stock tends to perform poorly or bring other problems, then maybe it's not such a good idea.

What kinds of experiences have other people had?

It is not bringing other problems,because the desese does not spread to other trees easily,but the respective specymens do not perform,in my garden.
It is the true and the true will make us free!!!!!
Happy Gardening
H2

I had the same miserable weather but somewhat different results with my potted figs.

For what its worth my Adriatic , UCD sourced,  bears heavily though is slow growing and most years ripens all fruit. This was not one of those years but still got about 25% to ripen.

Stella is a tremendous producer but does suffer in heavy rains. It ripened some edible fruit this year.  The flavor was good but not great.

Genoa ripened large fruit of very good taste but is not overly productive.

Verte ripened a good crop of very good figs.

Green Ischia ripened a heavy crop also of  vg to excellent taste. 

Montreuse ripened part of a very heavy crop but quite late mid October on. The flavor was excellent and not much splitting.

Leon's Green, a trojano type, ripened early w/ excellent taste.  It did split in heavy rain.

Marseilles produced poorly as did Green Italian 1906.

The variety I have had the longest,  Green German ripened  over half its crop but even in the best of years they never all ripen as it just keeps producing  figlets to leaf fall.

Calvert remained worthless.

Herman,

The pics are nice but you need to use the close-up (Macro) mode on your camera so the Figs are in focus :)

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cmdrzog....I agree with you on Calvert.  Mine is 5+ years old and while the last few years it has formed fruit, they haven't ripened for me and its probably the most heavily FMv infected plant I've got (seen).

~Chills

cmdrzog:I see that the results we got are close,but of course we have a little different cultivars.
I am happy you are very hapy with your green Ischia,.
I have 2 of them because I did not fill of trading any of them or selling it because of the ugly fig mosaic,it show(the UCD,exemplar,i mean).
But I allwyes seen and felt,that this is a good cultivar,so I kept them both.
I am so excited,when you sayed it had a havy crop, with fruits of excellent taste.
I hope you are talking about the same thing I have.
Happy Gardening
H2
 
 

Yes the same plant UCD sourced.  The mosaic on mine is not troublesome nor even very noticeable.  This is the case in most of the types I have tried.

For me Black Ischia , Castle Kennedy, and St. Jean are  the only UCD sourced figs where the mosaic  limits growth and probably affects fruit production and ripening. 

cmdrzog:This is very important what you said about the Green Ischia being from UCDAVIS,and not showing a lot of Fig Mosaic.
I am starting to suspect that it is possible that the sickness and health of a cultivar,is variable and depends on how deasesed the particular  branch(the cutting) was on the original tree.
In other words,very healthy and very ill Young plants can come from cuttings from same tree.
H2
 
 

Reading a lot about FMV i have ran across articles that stated that it travels slow thruout the plant, the slowest part being a newly emerged bud. Worse case scenario with FMV is that it slow the cells from multiplying and therfore can slow growth considerably ( ischia black is good example in most cases) Best case of plant which many of us see is plant leaves have some loss of chlorophyl or mishappen leaves. This is main reason why labs extract the meristem and propagate it thru a long sterile process for the highest success rate of getting a FMV virus plant and its too bad its to complicated for the regular gardener to do.
I've seen firsthand on a few of mine this happens such as my VdB and Santa Cruz Dark where some branches show less than others but have yet to date cut 1 of those branches to propagate as the ones i have are doing very well (best case scenario) except one particular one (worst case scenario )