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Posted Reply with quote  #101 
Thank you Mike. The leaf texture is soft with no gloss but that is also because they are all new leaves. Until now the leaves have been all over the place but at this point the plants are putting out mostly uniform leaves.
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Posted Reply with quote  #102 
Herman can you please give your opinion? I would really appreciate it.
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Posted Reply with quote  #103 
Michael, I agree with you that all of mine are Herman's Petite Negri. I believe the Petite Negra that Joe Morle is selling is what Herman labeled as Aubique Petite. What do you think?
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Posted Reply with quote  #104 
OK, here are some new pictures (2014-07-15) of my Aubique Petite.  This year it is loaded with main crop figs.  Not yet near ripe, but they've been around since late June, so there's a good chance a lot of them will ripen this year.  Here are pics  (and if I can link these posts to Marius' recent Aubique Petite thread, I'll do that too... not sure I can do that without removing the "?" from the thread title though).  Four pictures of different branches of young main crop figs, and two pictures of different leaf styles.  This tree has consistently had both of these leaf styles, for each of the past three years.

Some of the young main crop figs  (it had rained this day, hence water droplets)
Aubique Petite 2014-07-15 Main Figs1.jpg 

Another pic of main crop figs:
Aubique Petite 2014-07-15 Main Figs2.jpg 

Another pic of young figs:
Aubique Petite 2014-07-15 Main Figs3.jpg 

Last pic of the more young figs:
Aubique Petite 2014-07-15 Main Figs4.jpg 

Here's one of the leaf varieties... the 5-lobed (sometimes 7-lobed) leaf:
Aubique Petite 2014-07-15 Leaf2.jpg 

And the single-lobed leaf style:
Aubique Petite 2014-07-15 Leaf1.jpg 

Mike   central NY state, zone 5a

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Posted Reply with quote  #105 
And for contrast/comparison, here are some photos today of the Petit Negri from EL  (two years later).  Somewhere I've got pics of this one from 2013 as well.  It ripened a few figs then (maybe 5 or 6, I don't remember exactly).  But this year it has a good number, maybe 25 - 30, young main crop figs on it.  They've been here since late June also, maybe a week or two earlier than the Aubique Petite formed.  This tree also has two breba on it (visible in one of the pictures).  Anyway, hopefully this post plus the previous one can point out some of the differences between the two varieties, which seem to have suffered from some confusion/mislabeling in the past.


Young main crop figs with 2 breba visible:
Petit Negri 2014-07-16 Breba and Main Figs 1.jpg 

A leaf... one of the 3-lobed leaves:
Petit Negri 2014-07-16 Leaf 1.jpg 

Same leaf, with a white paper behind it to show the edges better:
Petit Negri 2014-07-16 Leaf 2.jpg

Another leaf... this one with more lobes.  The tree makes some huge leaves, fairly glossy.  That paper is 8.5 x 11 inches.
Petit Negri 2014-07-16 Leaf 3.jpg 

Another leaf picture.  Different leaf.  Young main crop figs visible. Some other trees in the background.
Petit Negri 2014-07-16 Leaf 5.jpg 

A young main crop fig:
Petit Negri 2014-07-16 Young Main Fig 1.jpg 

And another:
Petit Negri 2014-07-16 Young Main Fig 2.jpg 

Another pic of young main crop:
Petit Negri 2014-07-16 Young Main Fig 4.jpg 

Last picture of young main crop from today:
Petit Negri 2014-07-16 Young Main Fig 5.jpg 

Mike   central NY state, zone 5a
p.s. I sprayed them with clove oil and mint oil shortly after these pics were taken.

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Posted Reply with quote  #106 
I might as well jump on this bandwagon...

So I bought a Petit Negra from Joe Morle -- is this a synonym for a VdB? I have both, but since they are very young trees, Im wondering if Ive gotten myself duplicates -- considering my relative lack of space, something Im trying to avoid...
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