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Dan's Favorite breba

Got a cutting from Grasa a while back (she is not active on the forum any more).
A large, thin skinned fig, sweet and juicy. Doesn't look like a main crop.
I like it a lot.

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Cool keep us posted on this variety.
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Brebas look deceiving. Taste way better then they look. I just got a smith breba i thought it looked bland but it was very pleasant surprise. Not saying yours looks bad ;-) just main crop figs look prettier in the inside. I have a dannys delight. Is it the,same fig

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Hi,
Do you have some pics of the leaves ?
The breba is "european BT" alike. She really looks like the ones I get. Except that mine look more moist inside. But with just one fig, it is hard to really compare.
Still one month to go here for tasting the first brebas ... Let me open a new figjam pot to kill the envy ( I have some 40 left from last year)...
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JD,

Here are three types of leaves I can see.

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I seem to recall a few years back reading a couple of articles attributing this fig to Dan Ackerman in Washington state. The fig was alternately known as Dan's Pride, and later identified as Madeleine des Saisons'.
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John,

So what we have is

Dan's Favorite = Denny's Delight = Dan's Pride = Madeleine des Deux Saisons

Nice!
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Igor,
Not quite.
What I understand Danny's Delight is a fig that originated from a batch of Hardy Chicago cuttings or trees that were sold by Hartman's wholesale nursery around 2004.

Madeleine des Deux Saisons  is a very early fig that produces both a breba and a main.
I did find an old link that provides a little more info.
http://edible.wikidot.com/edible-plant:95

Then again I'm never really sure  with all the interchanging of varieties and names.

Check out Madeleine and see if it matches the leaves and fruit of your tree.
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So what we have is

Dan's Favorite = Denny's Delight = Dan's Pride = Madeleine des Deux Saisons


Greenfig,

I have my doubts about the claim that anything but Dan's Favorite = Dan's Pride!  With both a green and a brown version of Danny's Delight (Danny's Delite), and different descriptions of Madeleine & Madeleine des Deux Saisons by Condit and on the web respectively, there is nothing to substantiate the claim they are the same as Dan's Favorite.  In Malli's genetic testing of the UC Davis - Wolfskill collection (see FigLink1110 http://www.figs4fun.com/Links/FigLink1110.pdf ) there is no reference to Madeleine or Madeleine des Deux Saisons being in the collection.

Picture is worth 1,000 words.  It's time for people with any of these Figs in their collection to provide some photographs of whole & sliced Brebas or Main Crop Figs with a leaf of the dominant leaf pattern so we can see if there is any validity to the claims.  Please note with your photographs if you are showing the Breba or the Main Crop.

Happy Growing,   kiwibob, Seattle

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Thanks, kiwibob!
For the reference , here is how the main crop looked like last year:
http://www.figs4funforum.websitetoolbox.com/post/dans-favorite-main-2015-7561115?highlight=dan's+favorite&pid=1288430416

Is there a resemblence of this cultivar to anything already know with a more common name?

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Very nice...was it ripe? I keep checking my figs but not even close to ripe :-/
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