Here i share a few pictures of first season producing Dark Portuguese, taste is similar to hardy chicago and if plant improves it fruit taste with maturity in seasons to come it may taste the same.
No fruit drop to date this season and it seems this season its 2nd to produce well setting good crop for its size in 10g container. I just may put this in a 20g container eventually i have as spare, it depends in future if i get another plant to bare and produce that may taste better. This is whats needed in my climate a fig that produces figs without drop and taste i enjoy and hopefully this 1 will continue to do so.

EL.Sals
few pictures of this fig. This is my ole reliable year after year producing many sweet figs in my biggest container i use a 30g.  Depending on how i feel sometimes i pick nice and ripe for the sweetness, today i pick less than optimum on purpose.

From these 2 trees i prefer dark portuguese for taste.

Very nice looking figs. I guess you are coming into full swing now.

Martin, the Dark Portuguese will produce a breba crop that is excellent tasting as well. Hoping you get a breba next summer from it. I haven't noticed any breba on my Sal's fig.

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Here i share a few pictures of first season producing Dark Portuguese, taste is similar to hardy chicago and if plant improves it fruit taste with maturity in seasons to come it may taste the same.

Well just a little bit ago i had about 8 of the dark portuguese and a few hardy chicago figs.
 
They were on seperate dishes.
They were exactly the same taste in every way this time today.
Honestly if i was to do a blind taste test this time around i could not have known the difference between the 2 of them.
I have been eating hardy chicago for years now and always my favorite fig and was quite surprised today, do i have same plant or are they that closely realated ?
 

Martin, one comes from Sicily and the other comes from central part of Portugal. It is a similar fig in taste, but it behaves differently, DP is possibly a better producer than Hardy Chicago. I had issues with the productivity of Hardy chicago, it doesn't seem to produce heavily unless it is pruned heavily by the cold or by hand. Dark Portuguese behaves differently, although taste is similar they are genetically differente.

My hc is 7 full seasons and does well at its size about 6 ft which i have kept it at and gives me about same crop production each season in container.


I might (not sure) next season propagate off each plant and grow side by side out of being very curious to compare the 2 in exact same size pot and soil as they grow.