Ok first breba of the season for me it was picked yesterday July 3rd. This plant was rooted last season and has another 2 breba that should be ripe any day. It tasted fairly good it was sweet and had a nice figgy flavour.

Nice looking Nelson, I've tried twice to root Deleon and failed on both attempts.
Thanks for the pictures.
"gene"

Hi Gene I dont know much about this fig but last winter it was still all tender new growth and survived in the garage with temps that reached -15 celcius with no damage whats so ever. I will try to take some pics of the plant, also we have had quite a bit of rain and high humidity the last couple days the eye was fairly open but did not sower it was actually quite sweet.

Here is the picture of the plant

I also have a Deleon rooted from last year but growth has been slow until the last week or two.  No breba crop this year, but the breba crop is supposed to be the  real winner with this fig.  I have read the main crop is just "OK".

I'm eager to have fruit myself.

Hi Jason thanks I didn't know that the breba was the better of the two crops will make a note of that. Considering how young it is breba was quite nice and the earliest to ripen for me just wish it was a little more meaty but im sure it will improve with age.

Pretty fig tree & figs.

Does the name mean, The Lion?  Or is that someone's last name, which might mean the same thing, come to think of it.

noss

Hi Noss, you know I wish I could tell you a little more about the name but I really dont know myself.

All I know is it is reportedly an italian heirloom fig, and supposedly it has good breba (when mature) which may be better than main crop (have this stuck in my head and forget why)

I wanted to update this thread, since it's dedicated to Deleon.  Here are three main crop figs of Deleon.  I wanted to post some details on this fig, which is labeled an 'Italian heirloom'.

this fig reminds me of "the best you can get from a Brown Turkey", which is like saying, "it's decent for being one of the worst".  It's better than a Brown Turkey, but barely.

This tree is ~3 years old and has 1.5" caliper, potted, around 6' tall. The figs you see ripened below were ripening with controlled water (no rainshower).

Notes about this fig:  When potted, this fig splits like holy hell if ripening when raining.  It has pinkish green skin when ripe.  Normally an awesome characteristic, it gets a dot of honey at the eye when fully ripe.  The flavor... 3/10 on the low end.  4/10 on the high end.  No figgy flavor, no berry flavors, only a sweet, watery flavor. 

The three figs pictured were picked 2 weeks apart - one two weeks ago.  The other two tonight.  LOTS of seed crunch.  That's about the only thing I liked.  Thick skin.  Pics:

PS - another pic of Deleon breba here : http://figs4funforum.websitetoolbox.com/post/Deleon-Black-Bethlehem-Unk-Owensboro-first-main-crop-2012-6008495

Breba was definitely better than main crop for me.  But even still, the breba wasn't flattering.  This fig is probably slated for a home in the ground north of Atlanta.

Jason, I am so surprised after seeing the pictures!  They look awesome - dark centers, no hole in the middle.  I guess you can't judge a fig by it's color!  By the way, this past summer at work we brought in figs for fresh tarts and they were not that good - BT. They were big (fine with me!!), but there was the hole in the middle, the flavor was flat, the fruit was watery.  They did have a figgy flavor, well the real ripe ones did, but if it wasn't for apricot glaze I wouldn't have served them!