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Here is a little gem that I purchased from Baud, really excellent tasting fig, very honied, sweet but not sickly sugar sweet and has fruity notes to the flavour, very juicy, hoping for a big crop next year.

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Chivas thanks for the pictures thats a long looking fig.

I think it is long because this tree is only 2 years old so I imagine that they will shorten up and fatten up next year, although only the very tip wasn't tasty but it did take about 3 bites to finish it.

Chivas,
Thanks for posting the pictures and commentary.
Are they breba or main crop?

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They sure are long, very cool looking figs, nice pics

As far as I can tell this is a late breba that formed on older wood and judging but the interior I am sure this is the breba as it doesn't have a deep red colour, more of the whitish pulp that I associate with brebas, next year I should be able to get main crop on them as well and see if they drop, I am hoping they don't, this year they formed too late so I knocked them off.

Thanks for all the comments I hope that people have access to this fig, for me it is an excellent fig so far, and for me it is the best tasting I have had so far but I have only tasted maybe 10 varieties so take what I am saying with a grain of salt.  The coming years should show if it is worth it or not, I think it will but I am bias.  I will post updates on how it does next year as well with hopefully the same or better results.

I am interested if anyone else has this variety to post and comment their experiences, weather it's same or different sources I am curious how others are doing, if there are different variants being passed around, there could be a better version.  

Have this fig on my radar because of breba production potential.

According to figues du moundes it may be a synonym for black mission which for me only produce a few brebas. 
Synonyms listed; Albacor, Colar Elche, Ficus franciscana, Beers Black, Franciscana, Black Mission

https://figuesdumonde.wordpress.com/2017/01/19/mission/

It may just be that there are several colar figs.  ( Colar d'albatera, Colar Elche & maybe others.  Colar in Spanish means strain.

So wondering if someone knows which Colar is the big breba producer & how the names corelate? 

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