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Blue Giant?

I today pick up this fid..We do have 3 days of rain here..
This one suppose to be a Blue Giant..
But, I'm don't sure, I got this one from Ebay..
If anybody else have Blue Giant, please, give me yours opinion or post pics, please..

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Here is a picture taken today of my blue giants. 


When we pick them, I'll post pictures of them cut in half.

Nice pictures ladies.Cathy does your BG have an open eye?Thanks

Yes it does and the ants just love them.

Thank you Cathy!
I don't think I do have a real one, but one I do have not bad and all..
I do have few of them and seems like all produce good amount of figs..Even very small one..
So, even I don't have a real Blue Giant this one not bad..
Hopefully soon I want to post a pics of St Jean...I don't think this one real too, but figs are huge, they still have a way to go, but very interesting what is a real name of this one also..
I got on Ebay a fig , seller call this one New Jersy, because this is where this fig grow..
I was have no idea what it is.. Fig taste good, I real like it..Now..I do have 2 Marseilles VS.. They have identical fruit, leaves.. I want try to eat fruit in same day also.. I almost sure they are the same..
Cathy, please, post a pics when you will pick them up..
I know..I'm bad.. I almost never can wait till fruit real ready..
Hopefully next year I will have more fruits, so I will be able to wait..
Seems like I always hungry for figs...

Hi Olga,


Seeing this is your thread I don't think I am outta line asking you this about your St Jean

Is your St Jean anywhere near ripening and is so how old is your tree?

I have one that I rooted last year and it only grew about 7" last year, but this year it is 22" from soil to growing tip, It has a couple figs on it now but it is not close to ripening!

Like you I plan on posting pix of fruit & dominant leafs.

BTW, all your plants that I have seen are beautiful. 

Yes they do! look great.

Hi, Cecil!
This pland "St Jean"..I think, I'm don't sure, but I think I got from this guy on Ebay , I speak about guy about everybody angry..I got from him like 30 figs..
So, this one grow very slow, I have this one about 2 years, may be little less, now this almost 2,5"... Have 2 figs on it..I was kind surprise to see this figs..I think this one will not produce for a long time.. They are still very green, but size is huge..I will post a pics when they will ready..I'm very interesting to hear other members opinion about this one..
So, I can't this is a St Jean.. this one just have a tag with this name..
About this "Blue Giant" next time I will wait till this one will real ready..I want to see how this will taste and look..And may be somebody can say what it is..

Olga,


I recieved my cutting (1) from a most reliable source (he is a very well respected member on both forums)

I will post pix later!

Hi, Cecil!
I order from UCDA St Jean for 2012..
So, I will try to root it, if I will get it..
I'm not angry with this guy... I just try to find out what I have and trying to get plants with right name..
One plant have tag Dark Portuguese, but fruit was yellow color:-) so I know for sure this is not a Dark Portuguese:-)
So, I got from Bass the right one:-)
I already order Blue Giant also, the right one, so hopefully till end of this year I will get it..
And I just love to eat figs..I think I can eat only figs all day long.. every day..
So, I eat figs even if they don't have a right name:-)
Biggest problem for me to wait till they real ripe...

HAHAHA......Olga that is about how it is around here..about waiting on the figs to ripen.


And I fully agree on what you say about a figs name.

Regards

Pictures of the 2 Blue Giants from yesterday cut in half.

Thank you very much Cathy!
They look fantastic!!
How they taste?

Hi Olga,


I did not eat them, way too many ants inside for my taste buds.  They will be turtle food in the morning.  I probably got at least 10 ant bites on my hands just carry them into the house.

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Figs look great Cathy!! Another turtle keeper alright!! I have 8 turtles and 8 tortoises. They get the figs that the birds destroy. 

What kind of tortoises?  We have Sulcata's, Red-foots, Stars and Leopards.

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Red foots, Hermans and a Leopard. Stars are beautiful, Sulcatas way too big for my yard

Here is the smaller suclata.

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Very cool!! I'm guessing the large one is too large to pick up.

You guys will real like to meet my girlfriend.. She have over 2000 turtles...
Cathy, this is so bad you can't taste it..
Did you try them before ot this is the first ones?
Interesting how Blue Giant taste...

Olga,

You said; Cathy, this is so bad you can't taste it..

Did you meant the turtle??? ;))

Hi, Navid!
I speak about Blue Giant..
I real will like to know how this one taste..
Ants got her figs this time.. But may be she try them before..
Or somebody else try them?

I don't think I want to try eat turtles..
But I know people who live around me.. eat them.. and not only turtles.. they go hunting and eat all kind..
not me..
I don't like when people kill animals period...
I don't think I can kill them...ever...

Olga,

I was just kidding :))

You know, few years ago I lived in Shanghai for a year, there turtle was on the menu of the most restaurants. On the other part of the town there was a market that used to sell them alive, plus some other types of animals that I do not want to name.
I have never tried turtles and really do not want to.


Hi Olga,

There were so many ants in them and when i cut the figs open, ants went everywhere and then the centers had a lot of "brown stuff" in them which I figured the ants brought in.
There where extremely soft and who knows they are still in the frig, maybe my husband will try one today.  

Cathy, I hope those Suclata aren't lap tortoises.  They don't look too cuddly and would take up some serious space in one's lap.  LOL

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