HI GANG,
  HOW FAMILIAR IS ANYBODY WITH ATREANO FIG
I HERE IT GROWS WELL HERE ON LONG ISLAND.
CAN ANYONE DESCRIBE FOR ME THIS FIG.


THANK YOU

MARCANTONIO

I had a half dozen fruit this year, on a new tree. They were not great, but I know some figs don't reach their potential for a couple years. And, several other very good figs were not so great this year, so weather may have been a factor, as well. 

I have a 2 year old Atreano and it does great on long Island, grows fast and produces a lot of large figs. The taste for me can only be described as average some what bland cucumber taste, but it did produce 70 large figs. Last year it seemed sweeter.

Atreano sounds like a fig that would produce well in New England, but I have enough cucumbers!  LOL
Could I ask how it was fertilized and watered?

 Mine is growing in a 15 gallon pot planted in a potting mix 20% manure,20% leaf mulch, 20% pine bark nuggets, 20% turface MVP, 20% ground oyster shells course. I have fertilized with Miracle grow which I was applying weekly and stopped applying at the end of July. Atreano I would still recommend for its productivity, and it's flavor and sweetness are OK its just not one of the best figs for my taste. pronounced flavor with high sweetness is what I strive to find. My atreano came from Paradise Nursery. I water once to twice weekly and usually wait to see some sign of slight leaf drooping as a guide to watering.
Ed

I have found my Atreano figs to taste excellent if harvested very late, when they have started to shrivel. They are my best-tasting fig at that point. The brebas I had this year took forever to ripen but they were also good.

Scott

Thanks Ed.   Where we are any figs are good figs.  LOL  But it sounds as if it's more than a decent fig.

Here is a picture of my Atreano from Belleclare Nursery on Long Island. This fig is about 3" across.

A couple more pics of my Atreano.
Medium sweet, fine flovor.

What year will it start producing figs from a cutting?

I liked it enough to grow in-ground. Like Scott says you have to let it shrivel on the tree. Fast grower as well. Mine died to the ground first year it was planted and grew to 6 ft in 1 season.

I live in Hicksville and purchased a Golden Atreano from DiMagio's in Bethpage. It was sold to me as being 15 years old. They also said the supplier is from Plainview. Dimagio's has a red and gold "Figs For Sale" sign that looks exactly like the old Belleclare sign in Plainview on Old Country road. I put it in the ground and had about 100 figs last year. Very large, juicy and slight berry fine taste. I left it completely uncovered this winter and seems to have come through fine. When I purchased my tree, DiMagio's must have had ten more, some, ten feet tall. I will ask if the tree is a Belleclare when I stop in next time.

I don't know about Atreano, but I got many varieties to produce figs their first season. Atreano was not one of them. Many did not taste great, but some did. I am hoping to get more, better figs this year, their second year. But they are still young, and I also fertilize with nitrogen, so they still might not reach peak flavor. I also live where the season is long... I ate a delightfully ripe Beall in January.

I still have that original Atreano from Belleclare, along with several more made from cuttings. This fig is a consistent producer of fine tasting sweet figs for me in Zone 5 Saratoga Springs (if left to ripen long enough). Grown in pots on my driveway. Fast growing for me. Cuttings should produce some fruit in year 2.

Scot, if your Atreano came from Belleclare then it has to be the same as mine. Belleclare obtained a number of fig varieties donated by their friend, the late Hanc Mathies (2009), including the one that he named "Atreano". Hanc gave me cuttings from the mother tree years back, which he kept until the time of his death. It was one of his favorite figs. Atreano is not a cold hardy fig, at least here in the high desert. I have one in the ground and another in a large pot. The one in ground always freezes from the elements. The tree grows fast however and will produce figs the very same season from stubble. The figs are large to very large in size and the tree is very productive. Atreano has to be very ripe to appreciate the fine flavor and sweetness of this fig. My Atreano has a solid amber pulp, not red.

As far as the variety called "Golden Atreano", I have no idea how this fig came into existence. If someone knows the origen of this fig, it would be interesting. A number of forum members have shared very good reviews on this fig.

Leon, My tree is an original Belleclare Atreano that I purchased at the Nursery in the Spring of 2004 or 2005. The picture attached shows the original Belleclare price tag for $189.00 (the same pic I posted on this thread in 2007). My tree, along with all of my others go in the barn (minium 40 degrees) for the winter. I have no trees in the ground up here in Zone 5. If you look closley at the price tag, you can see the discription of the fig: green with red center, so I'm not sure why yours would have amber pulp. Atreano is one of my favorities, consistantly giving me ripe figs every year. I know nothing about Golden Atreano, but I do have a tree from Paradise Nursey that i purchased back in 2005 that Sybil called Golden Alma. Nothing like my Atreano. Let me know if you'd like to see pictures of that fig.

I have been growing "Atreano" since 2007.  The trees were purchased from Zaino's Garden Center, Westbury, NY (Long Island), and the trees are labeled "Atreano Gold"  I well respected fig grower/collector told me that these trees came from original, Belleclare stock.  My guess is that these are the famous, "Atreano".

My trees produce huge, golden-yellow figs with pinkish-amber centers when fully ripe.  The figs are sweet, and thick with figgy honey.  The trees are disease free, prolific croppers, and very vigorous growers. I pinch back all new growth to 6-8 leaves.  I grow in large 18-25 gallon containers, and trees are in full, blazing sun, fertilized until the end of July, and given  very little water when figs start to go from pale green, to yellow.  Let the figs hang until they turn golden-yellow and start to shrivel.  Then, you will taste a great fig.  Protect from rain water at the roots when figs start to ripen.  I never let any breba figs grow.  The trees are hardy in Zone-7b...since 2007...with little, or, no protection, in containers.  A gift that just keeps on giving.  A classic, "white" fig.

I was told by another well-respected fig grower that this original, "Atreano" variety, was hybridized, and bred in Italy for fig production, vigor, and possibly for the commercial markets in Europe.

Frank

Great info, Frank.  Thanks for those details.

Frank, sounds exactly the same as the Atreano I purchased in 2004-2005 from Belleclare. I wonder how it picked up the name 'Atreano Gold' because in my above photo the name on the Bellclare price tag has just 'Atreano'. Either way, it's a great fig. I'm sure you enjoy it as I do. Just curious, did you pay as much in 2007 from Zaino's as I did 2 years earlier from Belleclare? Mine was a 6' tree when I bought it for $189. Not sure if you've noticed with yours, but its one of my fastest to root from cuttings.

Here are a couple pics of one of my Atreano cuttings. The most vigorous of my starts from 2 months ago. This one seems to have taken off the fastest of the entire bunch.

The "Atreano" trees that were purchased back in 2007 from Zaino's Garden Center cost me $49.00 each plus a 20% discount.  Each tree was about 5-6 ft. tall, single stem, standard...and, loaded with figs.  Clean too!  How can you beat this price?  How much is my time worth if I had to nurse some cuttings for 4-5 years to taste the first figs?  Now, I buy big, and ready to roll.  At 63 years old, I don't want to wait....Tick-Tock.

As far as I know, Zaino's will still stock these trees, and others, this season.  They usually carry "Atreano", "Brown Turkey", "Petite Negri", "Black Mission", and maybe a few others.

Considerably cheaper than Belleclare's prices.

I think Zaino's is "responsible" for starting the "Atreano-GOLD" name.  That's how they sell this variety, and how the name-tag reads.  The qualifier somehow stuck, but it should just read: "ATREANO".  The Belleclare version makes a huge, and sweet, golden fig.  There are a number of threads showing and discussing this fig variety on the other GW Fig Forum...with plenty of photos.

Frank

Frank, you are so right. Why wait if you don't have to. Most of my Belleclare trees were 6'-7' tall mature trees. I had tons of figs the first year.

I was always impatient, even in my younger, "salad days", and my attention span is annoyingly short.  I really would prefer not to wait for a tree to make fruit...so I buy the biggest, fruit bearing trees that I can find.  I only grow figs, and thankfully, they start puttin' out at a young age.

I figure a good rule of thumb is about $10.00 per year.  A $50.00 fig tree should give you fruit within the season purchased.  A $40.00 tree ...maybe you wait one season, then get figs the next season, etc.  The time, that I might spent waiting, is worth more than $10.00 per year...

Scott...
Instant gratification, and you ate figs the first season.  You really just paid for someone else to grow your trees, water them, feed them, etc. until you came along, and bought them.  That sounds like a plan!  : )  Why do the work if you don't have to?


Frank

Getting back to the original question....both Atreano and Atreano Gold are very sweet.....BUT forget about the sweetness if the figs are trying to ripen with a huge climate of rain. I got several sources of Atreano. Two of mine came from Bellclare (Atreano and Atreano Gold), one came from VS and one came from One Green World. All are very good, heavy with juice and sugar when ripe. For those who think there is no such tree as Atreano Gold, by all means....think again. Only my Atreano Gold BC produces golden color figs. The others are just green as pea soup!.
cheers!

Lots of soon to be Atreano tress in this batch of cuttings.