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Aldo's Palermo Red Breba

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Wow, huge! Is the tree in ground or potted? What’s the taste?

I have both in ground and potted trees, same variety. Both are producing same size brebas. This is my work horse fig year after year. Very productive and consistent. Main crop little smaller, same flavor. Excellent fig. Rich figgy taste, and sweet. 

Wow good looking fig

Leon,
I would like to try this variety, in case are sharing and have some cuttings when the time comes!

Leon, do you also grow Sal's Corleone and/or Sicilian Red?  Does the Aldo's Palermo Red seem very similar, if not identical to these?  Or am I mistaking the Aldo's for a different fig?  I'm growing Sicilian Red but it froze down to the ground and I'll be lucky to get any main crop this year.

Aldo's Palermo Red is synonymous with a lot of figs of which some of their names I have mentioned in other posts. In my opinion these are the ones which seem to have similar if not identical characteristic traits. Sal's Corleone, Black Weeping, Clem's 8-Ball, Palermo Red, Sicilian Black, Sicilian Red, Chico Malibu, Marios Green/Red, Dominick's fig, and others, including the use of the term Italian Everbearing (although there is a distinct cultivar known as "Italian Everbearing"). I did not grow it long enough but I also believe Panevino Dark may also fall into this category of figs as well. Would be interesting to hear of others' experiences.
This variety produces some figs almost black and others a beautiful mahagany red, even side by side. Perhaps that's why so many synonyms. Steve, you are in a marginal zone like me. I grow my in ground figs as trees not bushes. I also prune to keep them below 7 feet tall so that I can wrap them in the winter. I keep my potted trees at 5-6 feet and store them in a shed during the winter months.
Greenfig, PM me.

Looks great!

Wow, that is one huge, delicious looking fig!

Looks nice!

Hi Leon,
That's a beautiful fig !
Is that strain an heavy producer ? How many brebas do you get per wintering bud/stem ?

Yes, abundant producer of figs. I've never counted the brebas off of each stem - interesting thought.
If I can perhaps answer this way. One of my trees, 6 feet tall in 15 gallon container, I would say 3-5 brebas distal main branches. Does this help you? More main figs. I need to take some photos.

I would like to add a link to a thread posted several years back on a "Weeping Fig" that many were interested in. I obtained cuttings of this weeping fig and grew this fig next to my Aldo's Fig. They are without a doubt, the same variety. Folks thought that the weeping characteristic was a specific trait for that tree and the cuttings were very much sought after.  However, most of us figured out that the long weeping branches probably occurred as a result of not pruning the tree plus the weight of the figs that grew at the distal ends. Thus an elegant form of a fig tree! I will tell you that my Aldo's tree is not a weeping tree but it is exactly the same variety as in this link.

http://forums.gardenweb.com/forums/load/fig/msg0922514226580.html

That fig looks very nice Leon.  Thanks for posting it.

Gorgeous fig Leon, congrats.

huge fig

 Domenico Ital-Swiss fig looks like Aldo.

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