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Breba New World.

Counted 24 quarter-size brebas on Italian Honey planted in the North, residual heat side of my hoophouse today.  Celeste has one nickle sized one.

Ten of the eleven trees planted in the unheated addition to the hoop are showing growth, all were killed to the ground.  The Italian Honey there is barely showing growth, no actual leaves yet, just two little buds, all others have leaves.  I may dig the Honey up and put it in the heated side next winter to see if it produces brebas earlier than on the residual heat side since it most likely will not have wood to survive in the addition.  Temperatures got to teens a time or two if I remember correctly.  Nothing yet from what was a very small Blue Giant, looks like it may have frozen even the roots.

Elizabeth

A little late but:

few brebas unless noted otherwise:

Persian white 
Persian Black
Celeste (started to drop already)
Galbun (dropped the one it had)
petite negri
MD1943BT
Italian Everbearing - many formed and are quite large
Hardy Chicago
Votata
Marlow

Just looked at mine large trees on driveway, mine never get ripe as our spring cold nights kill them before they get to any size or i knock them off.

Hardy Chicago
Sals  E.L.
VDB  E.L
Italian Unknown  - Bologna Italy
Unknown Fig Tree
Maderia   currently under grow light has 2 brebas

Well, a new discovery for me. I always prune back my Bella - Unknown tree in the fall (in ground) but last year I put one in a pot and didn't cut it back as much. So, now I see what looks like breba! The white on the one branch is latex that ran last fall after pinching back the growing tip.

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Added Sicilian Bifara 64

Jon,

Is the Chris' Purple the one from Belleclare?

George,

Is this the unknown #14?

Richard

Hi Richard,

[Edit: A very keen eye observation/theory, and..]
I see the possible link.

I was given my unkown GM#14 by Chris of Belleclare himself.
This was fall 2006, just before they closed shop.
The only information given was that it is a 'purple' fig.
I believe that I gave Jon a (rooted) cutting off it, sooo
'Chris' Purple' maybe a good name for it (unless it is another Chris).

I leave the last word for Jon...



For the most part, how do brebas compare to the main crop in terms of size and taste?


In San Diego, they are about .01 on the 10 scale. They ripen in our cooler weather. No heat means no flavor and no sweetness. In shorter season climates they ripen during the heat of llater summer and are quite good.

Thank you for the follow up George. I appreciate it.

Gorgi,

I missed you question, I guess. No, Chris' Purple has nothing to do with BC. It was from a friend of a friend here in CA. Have no idea, yet, what it really is.

gorgi,

If I'm not mistaken, the "Chris fig" is from my boss's home, Chris's unk purple Portuguese fig. It was planted by a Portuguese family from a cutting brought with them from Portugal. They have since returned to Portugal so, unfortunately I can not question them further.

Jon, If I get the chance, I'll swing by and leave you some of the fruit for photography. I want to get down to Point Loma to check the 3 Madeira figs progress.

Sue


Had my Hardy Chicago Breba today July 28th first breba ever for me 
17 grams weight.

Edit July29th
Had EL.Sals Breba today weight 25 grams, much better than HC breba in taste which took me by surprise.



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Hi sergio

So, you like the Sal's Corleone?

Hi Cecil,
I have no idea what it's real name is, but I love the flavor.
I will grow it in the pot if it means I can have the brebas on it, even though
I only got 2 out of the 7 becouse it's worth it.
              Sergio,  in South Jersey.

Sergio,

I have a Sal's I was calling Sal's #2

Herman told me to call it Sal's Corleone, that is why I called it Sal's Corleone.

Hi Cecil,
I did not notice your post until after I posted mine. My mistake, I apologize.
Perhaps it is a St. Jerome.
                                             Sergio in South Jersey

No apology needed here Sergio

Sergio,

Your Sal fig does not look like a Sal's(C) [C=Corleone] fruit
to me. More likely, maybe it is a Sal's #1, aka., Sal's(EL)
[EL=Edible Landscaping] - also sometimes known as Gene's strain.
Also, you showed one leaf between 2 different fruits,
which one does it belong to?
The coin (for a relative size) is a very good practice.




Hi Gorgi,
The picture did not show the word breba, and that was the main reason why I had placed it on this post. You also have this tree along with Dan from LA.
Dan researched it and He came up with the closest ID being Schar. The brebas on the above pictures are from the same tree, one small the other over two inches. They started out with their multi-color appearance but as it got ripe, it became a deep purple, unlike the main crop.
                  Salute, from Sergio So. Jersey

Sergio,
Thanks much for the very clear explanision.

Since no one has mentioned Latarulla (Lattarula), I will mention that I had breba crop on this variety this year which I bought last year from Grimo Nut Nursery. The main crop needs more than a month to ripen.
Also, I confirm Jon's observation that Bifara has breba crop (really big breba fruit in my location).

Ottawan - is the breba Bifara great tasting ? Thanks. Will send Jupiter & plants come Fall.  Jupiter is at least 4ft tall now. Likely I have to prune for shipping.

Paully
When one does not get too many ripe figs, he cannot be a good judge about the taste because every fig with a little sweetness and having some fig like flavour is a great fig to have.
Relatively speaking, the two Bifara brebas were huge but the Desert King and Latarulla brebas were sweeter and flavourful than Bifara. The few Bifara main crop figs that ripened last year were more colourful (purplish) and sweeter. But I think BIfara is a keeper for me because it is reliable and it was my first fig purchased from Grimo in spring of 2007 (so it is a pet like sentimental attachment to it).

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