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Hi All,

Does anyone have a Brandy fig tree that has produced any figs for you?  If so, what do the figs look like?  Do you have any pictures?  What is the shape of the leaves on your tree?

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Viv,

If Brandy is LSU Scott's Yellow and if what I have is actually LSU Scott's Yellow, then here are a few photos of leaves and unripe fruit from a tree that I purchased from JR. I have seen a few other photos of LSU Scott's Yellow and my leaves appear to be different. I am neither comfortable nor confident that this is LSU Scott's Yellow. Please share some of your photos as well.

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Hi JD,

I got my tree from James and this is the first year it's gotten figs on it.  They are getting very dark, so they can't be Brandy, or Scott's Yellow figs.  The tree has to be mislabeled because it looks exactly like my Scott's Black tree in every way, figs and all.

I'm so disappointed by this, as I was looking forward to seeing what the figs look like and how they taste, even if they are different from Scott's Yellow.

They're way too dark to be any lighter fig.  This stings.

It would be easy to mislabel a tree like Scott's Yellow and Scott's Black, but Brandy--How did that happen?  LOL!

So, I guess I'm looking for someone who would sell me an air layer of the Brandy.

I do want a real Scott's Yellow, though, but they're hard to find.

Thanks for the pictures.  Would you show some photos of the figs when they're ripe so I can see what they look like?

Viv
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Posted Reply with quote  #4 
Will do Viv.

I am also in line (behind you) requesting LSU Scott's Yellow.
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Hey--We can be in line together, but I'm sure you have many more contacts than I, so we'll see what turns up.

Am looking forward to seeing what your Brandy figs look like and hearing how they taste!!

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My Brandy came from fatnsassytexan.

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Well, Y'all,  I haven't seen this thread for quite awhile.

Those pictures of figs don't look yellow, to me.  Did you paint them?  LOL! 

Sorry.  This has all become so funny to me over the past couple of years and I have a real weird sense of humor about things like this.  Heck, I just have a real weird sense of humor about everything.

I got some Brandy cuttings from Tim a few weeks ago, so we'll see what turns up--IF--If I don't manage to kill them.  Gene dubbed me, "noss, killer of figs" and said it should actually be, "noss killer of cuttings."  Believe it, or not, I actually have a few little trees from cuttings that I didn't kill and they're two years old, now!

Since Dan locked out so many people from his blog, we can't run over there and see the pics of his Scott's Yellow like we used to, but if there are any of you who were invited by the Dan, you could go and look.

Gardencrochet, Those leaves look like some of my Scott's Blacks to me, but it's hard to tell from just leaves,  Because of my hunt for Scott's Yellow figs, I have a few SBs and the leaves look pretty much like these.  Are the figs brebas?  I don't remember SBs having long necks like that.  How do they taste?

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Hey Vivian, do you still have your cdd blanc? If so how's it doing?
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Hi Ryan!  I've been meaning to get in touch with you.

Email me, please?  My PM box is full, so please use my email?

Thanks,

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I believe Tim made a comparison of the two already. You can see a picture he posted. The fig was very sweet with a light crunchy berry flavor.. I would give it a 9 out of 10 in sugar content. Other members have posted fruit very similar to mine from the same source.

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Gardenchrochet,  My SBs have leaves that look like both those leaves in the pictures and, as most of my trees do, have variations, so I can't tell anything by the leaf photo.

Is that just one fig, or is it different figs?  It looks like the same fig and it looks like a breba to me, but I don't know what every fig looks like.  It could be a purple long neck fig, for all I know.  It does look purple, or a brownish purple in the photos.

The story I got is, someone actually brought some Scott's Yellow cuttings to JR some years ago.  He rooted and evidently sold all of them, not keeping any of the rooted cuttings to have his own trees.  I was kidding JR one time and told him I wish I'd gotten into figs and met him sooner, when he still had the SY trees!

I wish that everyone who has a Brandy would post a picture, not just of the leaves, but various fruit, as well.  The fig looks like it would be tasty, no matter what it is.   I had seen the photo of the leaves before, but don't recall seeing the photo of the fig until now.

Tim had told me the Brandy is a yellow fig when I asked him a couple of years ago and I've not heard anything else until now.  I don't know what to think and I hope more people will have input for us.

Dan said he knew the Brandy wasn't a SY for certain, that the Brandy is a larger yellow fig than the SY and they are NOT the same fig, so there is that much.  Maybe.

Dan said the SY is a little fig and the eye is a bit open and it has a good flavor with vanilla overtones to its taste.  At that point, my ears went up because I am crazy for vanilla and wanted to have a fig that tasted of vanilla.  I imagine that it might be more of a vanilla caramel flavor, but that would be delicious.  That's why I wanted one, not because it's an LSU fig, which it might not even be.  I wouldn't care if it were from Antarctica--If it tastes like vanilla, I want it!!!

I'm still waiting for someone who has an actual SY to say something because if there really is a SY, there have to be some people around who have them, but no one is saying anything.  Strange, IMO.  From what I've heard, even LSU can't find their SY tree!!!  Now, what's up with that?

Anyway,  I'm not a fig collector, nor am I a fig researcher.  My goal is to have figs that do well where I live because all I want is delicious figs that do well here, that I can EAT and enjoy.  I don't any longer care what their names are.  If they're good and do well here, those are the ones I want.  Thanks to some very special people I know, that goal is much closer now and I'm thankful for that, but even more thankful that I've met such truly good people through our love of figs.

Now, since LSU has evidently decided to have an official Scott's Black on the market, we will need to see if we can find the REAL SB, which according to LSU, has a red pulp.  Wonder what the market will do with the SB to mess it up?  LOL!  I have SB trees coming out my ears and have no idea what color the pulp on any of them is.

I do want to know who took the SY at LSU that they can't find.  The SY mystery deepens.  Did someone buy it from them to keep everyone else from having it?  Or, does it not even really exist at all?  Why is it that if SY exists, no one is posting pictures of their trees/figs?  If only a couple of people have them and are keeping them to themselves, that's a shame and those people don't really care to keep good figs in existence, but that's their problem because there are so many kinds of figs that everyone is going to be able to find one, or more they love.

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Posted Reply with quote  #12 
Hey noss, thanks for sharing this information with me. I seen you wrote on this thread a while back:

http://figs4funforum.websitetoolbox.com/post/new-brandy-scotts-yellow-6366096?highlight=brandy&pid=1280146900


If you take a look at the pictures Kerry posted. You will notice that our trees are producing very similar figs. Seems both of our original plants came from Tim. Which he acquired from JR. I find it odd that a fig tree would be named brandy yet expecting it to produce yellow figs. But then again I'm just the middle-man. As long as the tree keeps producing these wonderful delicious figs I'm a happy camper. :-)
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Gardencrochet,

Brandy is a caramel-colored beverage, right? (I don't drink alcohol--I'm crazy enough sober.)  Yellow figs, when they get ripe tend to get tan with sugar spots, as Dan calls them.  That's when you know they're real ripe.

So, it's an apt name, I would think?

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noss,

To be quite honest with you..... I'm here to share my experience with what I have personally grown. I've shared my source and pictures. The fig in my pictures is a breba . More of a brownish reddish tint color. I'm not quoting anyone's opinion nor am I contradicting anyone. Just sharing my two cents. It is beyond me to call anyone selfish for not sharing. We are all here for the same purpose. To get true facts not prove who is right or wrong.

Caramel, brandy, brown or even yellow. May have different hue variations . Hence every computer monitor can display colors based on the calibration the user has set up.

Would be nice of you to share your experience when you have finally grown those cuttings Tim shared with you. Since he is the same source of my Brandy fig tree.
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VIV - I have a 2 yr old SY, or at least I hope I do.  I bought it from Charles and it is covered in figs this year so I will know soon.  If it is, and if i can get an air layer it is yours.  It has been the fasted growing tree that I have.  I haven't paid any attention to the leaves as I believe it has to pass the color test first.

Regardless of what the figs look like or turn out to be, I will keep it if the figs are good because of the production of figs is so good.
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James Robin gave the name Brandy to LSU Scott's yellow. He told me on a phone conversation "I just looked at it and it looked like a Brandy, so I called it Brandy".
He had issues a couple times with labels being switched, he had his grand daughter once removing some labels he mentioned once. But it's just a simple error most likely, and for sure not intentional. 
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Hi Danny K!

I hope your tree is the real thing.  It's hard to grow a tree, then find it's not what you thought it was, but if it's delicious anyway, it's not much of a loss.

I can still see me, looking at my "Brandy" figs, waiting for them to ripen, then seeing the dark coloring spreading on them.  Then, I noticed that they looked just like my Scott's Black figs, that I also got from JR.  I was very chagrined, but wasn't upset and just decided to, chagrin and bear it.....

That would be very good of you to share your Scott's Yellow with me, thank you.

The little heirloom Celeste you gave to me is doing nicely.  I think I already told you that, but just in case I didn't, am telling you again.  :D

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Hi Bass,

Yes, JR told me the same thing.  He was beside himself when the labels got switched around, but what are you going to do?  It can easily happen, too, and I know the problems with labels were honest errors.

I offered to go look at his trees when they were, "with fig," and we could take pictures and also try to see if we could identify what kind they were, but that never happened.  It would have been fun, as several of us who know James were wanting to help out.

I wish we still could do that.


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I just came across this thread, if I'm not mistaking a while back I asked Charles about his Scotts yellow and  it's the same as the brandy fig. 
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Saw my friend Brandy fig and LSU Scott Black in Malaysia -- they are the same. Ripens same time and same taste.
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Hello Paulie,

LOL!  I hope your "friends" were enjoying themselves in Malaysia and the same for you.

Gardencrochet,  Who did I call selfish?  I just saw that, so I thought I'd ask.  I was speaking in general.

People have the right to do with whatever, whatever they wish.  There are some people who do keep things to themselves and they have that right.  I said I thought that was a shame.

I don't think like that, is all.  I'd share any fig I have with others if the figs would only stop ending up being something other than what I thought they were.  There is no guarantee that some of the figs people want most could get knocked out of existence and then what?  But there are so many different varieties of figs, they'd probably not be missed except by the people who loved them.  We can all nicely live without a Scott's Yellow, or any other fig.

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@ Noss, you are 100% correct on living nicely. I am in the category of happy with what I have and can happily go on
without trialing some fig varieties. My trialing days are just for fun and it is great my family enjoy fresh figs from the
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Paully,

There are so many different kinds of figs that it would be hard not to be happy with some of them.  All along, I've been wanting figs that do well in my climate and have several that don't do well in the rain, so they are brought under the carport when they are ripening and it's wet outside, so I can enjoy them and they are delicious.  But the rest need to do well outside of the carport.  I have several good fig and fruit friends in the area who have different varieties from what I have and they are very generous and like to let me taste the figs and talk about them when they're ripe.  I am so blessed to know them.

I always think fondly of you,

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thanks Noss.
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Paully, I think what you mean is Brandy=LSU Scott Yellow
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Brandy happens to be a dark fig. Saw pictures of LSU Scott Yellow on Ourfigs forum and they do resemble
Champagne or Cajun Gold -- except that my Champagne appears not as round. 
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