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Against all frost! Pix

A few cultivar are still churning ,one at the time ripe fruits despite frost for the last week,every morning.
Here are 2 example:
Paradiso Bronze
Atreano
Today,still very high quality and taste.
Yesterday I had a Scott's black that was also properly ripe.
So far so good.

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Vasile your a lucky guy 95% of my plants are already dormant. My Bronze Paradiso ripened all its figs this year by Oct. 15th the last 5 were picked.

The only ripe figs we still  have as of 11-3-10, is Brooklyn White. It has a nice sweet taste. The skin is to tough to eat. But, it's better then no figs at all for this time of year. The only other fig we have that has ripe fruit is Sal's Coreleone and it only produced one very, very late fruit it's first year in ground.


Marseilles Black VS, Violetta and Hardy Hartford have finished the season. This was the first summer for these three in ground trees.

The Hardy Hartford seems to have just a little more frost resistance then any of our other figs. It still has maybe 75% of it's leaves and about 50 % of those leaves have not been effected by the frost.

Both Danny's Delight and Sal's EL have had  all their leaves  knocked off by frost, and neither had fruits this year.

Bob - Connecticut - Zone 6

Hi Vasile.
It was great visiting with you yesterday and thank you for all the samples of ripe fruits that are still coming on your trees. As i said to you all my trees have dropped there leaves since my morning temps have been to 27 degrees. I does appear to me that some varieties are more frost tolerant than others since i could see that a number of your trees are frost burnt and a good number looked like nothing had happened. Thank you for sharing your knowledge and time with me, and i will take very good care of the new cuttings.
Albert & I went out and collected 5 more varieties of cuttings today and will be collecting more next week. 
Again thank you for your time

Al
NJ Z 6

Hi,Nelson:I think you can see that my Paradiso bronze is not as dark outside as your fig,but the inside is very similar if not identical and so are the leaves.
I think Adriano was right when he said that your tree is Paradiso nero just like his.
If your conclusion is just like mine I will send you cutting of my tree next to the other tree I owe you,for the plant you send me.
Best regards

Hi Vasile the later figs that ripened the Pulp was all red its the second season it does this. Its red close to the eye and then it gets lighter towards the stem and as the weeks go by the redness in the pulp keeps going higher and higher until the Pulp is all red. 

I agree I think Adriano was right about Dusan's Bronze Paradiso being Paradiso Nero. Paradiso Nero is not a Black fig but darker than Paradiso Bianco.


Hi Vasile.  You never cease to amaze me my friend: Great figs in New Jersey in November!

Our LSU Purple is still cranking out good numbers of tasty figs, and there are a few from the HC and VDB still, but I expect this will all come to an end with the hard freeze predicted in a few days.

It has been a great year though.

Best wishes to all.

John
North Georgia Piedmont
Zone 7b

Yes I am happy for you but my LSU purple did not get ripe only a couple of figs here and it had many,to date,the rest is still unripe.
I sent it to Virginia to a gardener farmer there for $30.

The results show LSU Purple is positivelly a late cultivar and for the north east will ripe only if it is grown in a pot,and started in a greenhouse early in the Spring to get an advanced head start.

My LSU Purple (thanks, originally from Herman;s cutting, rooted spring of 2008) ripened half dozen fruits near a south facing wall so I removed it from my 'so so list' to the 'list of further interest'. Yes, it was one of my late ripening one. If we get a good summer next year I hope it will show better results.
It was nicely purple.

Hi Ottawan.  The LSU Purple has yet another odd quirk, in that its taste and even shape seem to be variable over time.

The first few years I was considering digging it up because the flavor wasn't that great, but as time past the flavor improved dramatically, and the fruits tended to be bigger and rounder than in the earlier years.

Now the flavor is very good.  Not as good as HC or VDB to me, but far more productive with larger numbers of fruit over a longer period of time.

So it is a winner here in Zone 7 and higher.  Our figs are all in ground, but with some extra care and the ability to move the plant inside to sunny window or greenhouse, you could still have good success with an LSU, but it's not an ideal variety North of Zone 7, I would think.

Hope you are well my friend and very best wishes for an early Spring way up North.

John
North Georgia Piedmont
Zone 7b

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