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enjoying the brebas

This has been a good season for brebas of different varieties.
Here's the brebas on the Malone
  



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Looks good Bass I cut so many of my trees last fall for scion that I haven't had any brebas yet except one VDB which I picked today. It seems fig production has been delayed too by our cool wet spring. 

now that's nicely ripen figs..

Nice!  Let us see the inside when you pick them!

They look great.  I can't believe you were able to let them get that ripe without critters taking them.  My yard is crawling with birds and squirrels - everything that isn't netted gets disappeared!

Those look GREAT!

The weather here in Virginia has been so odd (cold and rainy) this year that it seems two things have happened with the old fig collection.
One is my main crop figs are way behind schedule ripening their main crop figs and
Two is my fig trees seem to have kept and ripened more brebas then ever before (I am taking into account that I have more varieties every year).
So far I've been able to harvest the following brebas which are ones I had not been able to sample before. These include; St Jerome, Negronne, Filiacciano Bianco, W Marsielles, Monticello Marseilles, Capeles,  . . . now the FB is a San Pedro so I'll wait and see if the main crop figs (it has a good number of these) are any good. I've been told a decent percentage of the main crop figs are pretty good. We'll see soon I hope.

Bass - what are you using as security? I move my trees around and try and hide the ones that are just so crazy tempting like the one in your picture or any number of fig thieves would carry these off in a heart beat.

Michael, I use the netting I showed in the one post. Let me find it.

http://figs4funforum.websitetoolbox.com/post/Protecting-a-fig-6360473

I've used this with great success with figs, blueberries and some other fruits.

Bass, is Malone fig as good as Dark Portuguese in taste. I personally like Dark Portuguese
and I have used it with VdB and a few more to gauge quality. This would mean whether it
has a spot in my collection.

Thanks for showing your Malone fig.

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