Hello Again;
This fig is easy to grow and cold hardy. Medium to large size. Skin usually green but can also be yellow sometimes. Flesh is white, sweet and juicy. Great eaten fresh also very nice sun dried. If the weather is hot and dry this fig is delicious but if it gets rainy then the taste is watered down a bit. A little prone splitting.
This is the green fig my father grew for some 40 years and which he also gave me a sucker in 1990 and I have been growing it since. We are in Niagara region Zone 6 near Niagara Falls.
For over 20 years I have provide minimal winter protection to the figs planted in the ground. By the way my father used to flip these trees over and bury them. I simply create a microclimate around the tree (fence, leaves/straw, some 4x8 boards and then throw a tarp over it.
The fig trees are grown in various shapes and in containers. A bush with 6 stems trained low and an espalier near a wall.
This green fig always a huge breba crop with large figs that are slightly bigger and better tasting than the main crop. The main crop is also large every year. Breba ripens in July, the main crop September depends on how hot the weather is.
I am calling it Ciccio's Fico Bianco (pronounced chee~~choh) because the juicy interior flesh is white (almost translucent).


