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Corkey's Honey Delight/ Uncle Corkey's

I'm lucky to live across the street from a property owned by the family that discovered this fig.  It's a delicious green fig with red interior, sweet with honey background but not super honey.  It always ripens here despite the mild climate.  I would recommend this fig for cooler summer areas.  This tree is very productive as well! IMG_0240.JPG  IMG_0239.jpg


Can you post pictures of the leaves?

How can this possibly taste anything other than delicious? Look at it, it looks delicious.

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Originally Posted by waynea
How can this possibly taste anything other than delicious? Look at it, it looks delicious.


Agreed. She looks nothing but delicious.

Padsfan, thanks for posting this.

Does anyone have this tree where the wasp isn't around? If so, and you have harvested figs, is the flesh red inside or more amber? 

When I first got started with figs, Monrovia was offering this one and my local nursery carried fig trees from Monrovia, but they never had a Uncle Corky's for sale. I was really curious about it, but there isn't a large amount of information here or out there about it. Anymore, I have enough light figs to keep me busy, but it's still good to get more information on known varieties which are available through retail operations.

I'm starting to think this one needs wasps.  Mine is totally loaded with fruit, but they keep aborting and dropping off rather than swelling and ripening.

No wasps here in NY but the inside color was much more of an amber color last season. My tree is loaded with breba and main crop this year. I will post pics when the time comes for sure.

Does anyone have an update on this topic? I recently bought a tree from a nursery in Tucson and they told me it absolutely yielded fruit for them without the wasp. Other than GreenFin's claim on this thread, I can not find another reference on this variety needing the wasp...

JohnnieB, did your fruit abort like GreenFin's?

GreenFin, are you still confident that it needs the wasp?

I'm 99% certain it does not need the wasp

I might not have the same variety as padsfan.  My purported Corky's came from figfinatic and has yellow skin and amber pulp.  Here's a pic of one of the two figs I've gotten from it:

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Season 1 it dropped 100% of its figs, season 2 it dropped about 95%.  None of my common varieties drop figs like that, so maybe it needs the wasp for its main crop, or maybe there's something about the environment I provide (it lives in-ground inside a greenhouse) that affects it just enough to cause the dropping problem.  For example, I noticed that it tends to drop its figs right after being watered with our well water (even though none of my other varieties do that), so maybe it's super-sensitive to bumps in pH or something along those lines?  I don't know.

My tree is extremely vigorous and sets many fruits, and the two figs I've been able to get from it have been very good, but I don't want to wait and hope that it'll stop dropping, so I got Peter's Honey to replace it.

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