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A good white fig! Pics.

Martin would say there is no such thing. But.... I thought this was a very good fig. Second to JH Adriatic.
My wife actually gave it a 10, but she loves all of my figs. It was sweet and jammy with lots of crunch. It was more fruity than figgy.
It also has a nice tight eye and is decently sized. Surely a keeper.

If anybody knows what it might be please share.

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Kubota types in part - Martin would say there is no such thing. But.... I thought this was a very good fig.


In response - there are very good white figs  , but very good figs are a dime a dozen if that is what one wants .  ; )




LOL! You got me on that one.

Actually, I'm with Martin on this one.

More and more, I simply don't think there is too much separation between figs, on any given sunny day.  So the only top figs that truly matters are the figs that both produce, have large figs (more than 35g and being around 60g or more ideally), and have top quality dessert taste.  I think I can list every white common fig that meets these qualifications.  CddB (clean strain), Emerald Strawberry (if it's as productive as I think), Galbun, Stella, Drap D'Or, Alma?, so forth.  How many non-berry white figs have any sort of real character are out there?

With dark figs, well...Plenty of them do better than a berry taste.  They do honey, molasses, stronger peach flavors, etc...

Art, I'm right off the turnpike I gladly take free fruit ;)

Travis,
Looks like you are about an hour away. You should come by sometime.

Art, very good looking fig, nice red in side. What are you calling this one? How old is the plant?

Bugs, I started this from a cutting early last summer. I found it in Koppel, Pa.
This one will have ripe fruits from June until frost. Loads of breba and they are good also.
Here is a link to the breba.  http://figs4funforum.websitetoolbox.com/post/ripe-breba-pic-need-an-id-6412907
For now I will call it Mitticca White Unk.
You'll like this one. You will have figs the first year.

Looks like atreano to me.

I thought the same. My known Atreano plants haven't produced yet.
Some of the leaves on this one have real long finger leaves like RDB.

Well I hope it is Ateano.  That would mean I can look forward to this one.  

goss

It does not resemble Atreano at all. Atreano are roundish figs, these are pear  shaped. Also Atreano has different leaves and the fruit is more yellowish when ripe. I just have a big bush loaded with fruits ripening right now, so the difference is evident for me.

Art If you have the wasp i think i may know what is it..

with the miserable weather this yr, only figs that stood out for me was Paradiso Gene. even my VdB was lacking this yr. i'm hoping Kathleen's Black will do better, but unlike last yr, towards just being ripen, they are blowing up. White Greek has potential. so... in my backyard, white figs are dominating my taste bud this yr. of course, this might change once Black Madeira and Figo Preto get on with programe and ripen already. then again, CdDB is on its way to being ripen also...

Art,
IMO, Conadria EL resembles your unknown. The fig turned a pale yellow when it started swelling, then changed to a darker green when approaching ripeness. note the attached pictures. The flesh was also stained red. The tree was started from a cutting in late Winter 2012, and was frozen solid earlier this year (past Winter), so it leafed out late.
FigS_ConadriaEL_10-21-13.jpg FigS_ConadriaEL1_10-21-13.jpg LeafS_ConadriaEL_8-25-13.jpg LeafS_ConadriaEL_9-21-13.jpg LeafS_ConadriaEL1_9-21-13.jpg  .


A very nice fig...

Stella.

Currentlyl available here:
https://www.onegreenworld.com/Fig/Stella8482/522/

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Very nice, tasty figs, thanks for sharing.

Best,
Tam

George, 
You think it's Stella?  Art has another thread where he shows a few figs that he picked same day, and shows side by side in pics.  One of those is Stella, and another is this Unknown.  They don't look the same.  Here's a link to that other thread:  http://figs4funforum.websitetoolbox.com/post/vasilika-sika-stella-and-others-6583480 (or maybe you were just commenting that Stella is another very nice fig?).

Pete, I'm not thinking it's Conadria.  At least, if it is, then it's a pretty different version of Conadria from the one I have.  I do see the resemblance to the one you posted though.  (Looking at the varieties pages, it looks like there might be different kinds called Conadria).

Art, I've got those same Corelle plates you've got.

Mike   central NY state, zone 5a

@Mike
I do have some id resemblance/questions between Stella and Vasilika Sika...

@Tam
Thank you, thank you and more "thanks", re you comment:
"thanks for sharing".
Quite recently, more than a baker's dozen times, I clicked on a new post,
only to see "thanks". Are you by any chance trying to build-up your post-count?

Art,

Nice fig, no doubt it will be a keeper... see this..there may  answers to some questions
its shape made me look  for a Greek white.

http://figs4funforum.websitetoolbox.com/post/vasilika-sika-4903112

Francisco

@ascpete
Here is a pic of my Conadria fig leaf.

And to my best recollection; the fruit was small/medium sized,
skin was of a pale green/yellowish color, and pulp was amber? (not red).

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George,
Thanks, They seem to match my Conadria EL leaves also. There are descriptions of pulp ranging from amber to strawberry in color

The Stella leaves are more Brunswick like, but the figs are much more elongated. When fig trees are fertilized (over fertilized) they sometimes produce elongated, more defined and increased lobed leaves along with increased inter node spacing. That's one of my reasons for the Conadria guess. Attached is my Stella Leaf picture, it doesn't produce broad leaves like in the last picture in the Opening Post.
Leaf_StellaAE1_8-3-13.jpg  .

Mike,
Jon V. mentions that there is at least 2 different Conadria cultivars in the varieties pages (early and late). There are probably more than 2 based on the origination and the length of time in circulation. My Conadria was purchased from Edible Landscaping as a rooted cutting in May 2012. I do not know their actual source, but they have trees growing on site.




On the topic of white figs with the slender, defined VdB-like lobes, is anyone growing Dalmatie? I've read that that it's cold-hardy, but it's apparently also often confused with Dalmatian (which is a synonym for Brunswick?), so I'm confused a to IDing the real thing. It seems a real Dalmatie also has the long, slender lobes like VdB and Brunswick, but has a green fruit that turns quite yellow when ripe. Is that accurate?

Thanks!

P.S. The only white fig I grow is SC Lemon--which has a very light flesh, but I'm absolutely enthralled with these wonderful pics of green fruit with blood-red flesh. They look so delicious!  

Thanks for all the comments. I know for sure it's not Vasilika or Stella. I'd lean more to Conadria or Atreano. Here are some more leaf pictures.

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I thought the fig looked like a CCDB, shape size and color, but not sure about the leaves. Anyway, glad you have a good one. As I see it a good white fig is equal to any descriptions of a Martin's dark

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