I have two young Zucchini figs (last year rooted)

My LSU Gold has a Breba crop this year.

Only 1  stayed on long enough to ripen and it was almost as good as main crop.

Ronde de Bordeaux
Grise Olivette
Native de Argentile
Black Bethlehem

have breba forming now.

My Alma, Celeste, and Brunswick started the season with brebas. Only the Alma and Celeste kept them.

Improved_not O'Rourke Celeste

Non-inground trees with brebas 2011

002              B Mad 001

006              B Mad 003

008              B Mad 006

014              GM-3

019              Lisa RN

026              Ficus afghanistanica

030              D'Or RN

041              Santa Cruz White DFIC0111

056              Johannes RN

097              Royal Mediterranean

182              Abandoned Orchard SV

328              Peter's Honey FN9

587              Catanzaro (#3)

648              Excel DW (2)

650              Turquoise

659              184-15 (3)

661              K-7-11 (2)

662              Mega Celeste (2)

682              Golden Celeste (3)

685              Santa Margherita (2) 1624

686              Stanford

1416            Nazarti

FU               Black Madeira

FU               Vista (1)

Picked 1 Black Celeste today.  I did not see it until I saw a red bird tinkering around my tree.  I picked the fig.  It was very sweet and needed 2 more days.

I found an LSU Purple breba that I hadn't removed when I picked off the others and it was almost ripe, but a bird had pecked a hole in it, so I picked it and ate it.  It was almost good, being almost ripe.  Next season, I'll leave the LSU Purple brebas on the tree.

Also, I found a Hunt breba, same scenario as the LSU Purple and no bird had bothered it.  When I first saw it, it was yellow, so I left it on the tree until it had softened and drooped as far as it could.  I picked it and tasted it, but it didn't have any flavor.  I don't know if I should have left it on the tree longer and if I had, would it have tasted any better.  It had only a shadow of flavor.

Dennis, I have two Black Celestes and picked off the brebas because I had split the tree in two and didn't want to tax them by leaving the brebas on it this season.  It's good to know that the brebas taste good.

noss

Noss, I'll leave the tree in the ground till October.  We have 90 degree weather and a lot of heavy wind and rain over the past 2 weeks.  My Hollier is full of brebra and I'm not sure when to pick them.  Do they crack, split and wrinkle like most?  Right now I have 2 that are turning a light green color and starting to droop.  Do they split?  I hope not, its been raining a lot here.

Yep, how bout those figs!!!

I don't know about Holliers--don't have one of those.  I've been told that, here, if there's enough rain, any fig will split, but I think they mean days and days of rain, or  heavy rains right when the figs are ripening.  It will even split and sour Celestes, but they have thin skins.

I'm anxious to taste the figs from the Black Celestes.  Dalton Durio said I could come taste the black Celestes of their tree when they are ripening, so I will, to compare the taste to mine, which are young trees.

If my Black Celestes do well this season, and they look like they are doing so and growing well, I'll leave the brebas on them next season.

The tree at Durio Nursery is sitting out on black nursery matting and is in a concrete planter and was doing fine even with all the heat and the place where the figs are are right near the highway, so there is extra heat from cars and the road.  They  have nice, overhead sprinklers there to keep the plants watered well.  I'm optimistic about the Black Celestes.

noss

Checked on breba crop on parent tree of Narragansett this week, and they look healthy, large, and fat.

Exactly how I like my women.....

I kid, I kid.

Exactly how I like my women.....

(ok, ok, I'm just kidding.)

Just picked my 3rd breba from my Negronne.

Aldo fig is almost ready to pick.

Well, I just picked my very first breba fig today, ever!

It's one of three fig trees I received from my late Uncle, none have their official name so I named each after him, a white, a dark and an unknown til this past week. Let me explain......:)

He gave me these trees approximately 4-5 yrs ago, the unknown had NEVER made any fruit til last season and it never ripened. So I got disgusted with it and decided it was going, well, last fall after I started hacking it up I decided to leave 3 shoots and use all the others as cuttings 'just for experimentation's sake'. I have no clue what snipping 3 shoots off did to this thing but I noticed a lil over a month ago the thing was the very first to show some figlets out of all my other trees. Besides the 4 larger figs, it also has a bunch of much smaller figs that I have to presume are the main crop. This morning to my surprise one of them felt very soft to the touch but it wasn't quite drooping as much as I like to see them but feared a bird or some other animal might spoil my party so I picked her and brought her in. I'm going to give her a day on the kitchen window sill before I dissect for photo and devour her as my first breba trophy. :)

This is probably one of the larger variety's I own so I'm hoping it's a tasty one!

The moral of the story is don't be so quick to quit on one of your trees before doing something dramatic. I'm going to have to assume the root structure wasn't large enough for the amount of shoots I had (about 6 since I was planning on keeping it bush like). The thing flourished since the hacking AND at least two of my cuttings have flourished as well.

Picked 2 Votato figs on Saturday.  One was 35g and the other 38g.  No photo, very sweet with a fruitly taste.  Figs were starting to split due to the daily rain.  Eye is open on these figs but excellent flavor.

Some one explain to me what a breba is? Tried to figure it out from context but couldn't. Tried to look it up on Wikipeda. No luck there either. 

Mike,
Breba are figs growing on last year's wood also known as the first crop. Main crop or second crop figs are figs growing on new wood produced this year.

Thanks very much.

macmike

Hi, does anyone have any know how the breba figs of Brown Turkey and Brunswick taste?  I'me growing my tree in pots indoors, and they are loaded with figs.

Here is the Brunswick with some breba figs ripening

My Brown Turkey breba figs. My breba figs are better than no figs. ;) Larger than the 1st main crop and not very sweet since there is an abundance of rain in the spring and lower temperatures 70's to 80's F when they ripen.

Several of the cuttings I've received this year appear to have brebas on them.  If I'm sure it is a breba and not a bud, I pull it off right away.  However, when they are small I can't distinguish between bud and breba, so I'm not sure what to do.  Some questions regarding same:

1.  If I use new uline baggie method and leave a breba on that gets covered in dirt, will it keep trying to grow and sapping energy from the cutting?
2.  Do brebas on a given tree always form on the same side?  In other words, if you're staring straight at the leaf scar with the bud/breba above, is the breba reliably on the right or left of the bud for all nodes on any given tree? 
3.  If there are two tiny buds/brebas next to each other on a cutting, is there any reliable way to tell which is which? 

Rob

There is no 'set' side they grow on. Some nodes on the same cutting can develop differently.