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Fig farm from brazil

enjoy:
http://agricultura.ruralbr.com.br/noticia/2013/02/produtores-do-interior-de-sao-paulo-comemoram-boa-safra-de-figo-4034238.html

whats with the leaf color there? is it a pesticide?

Translated:

FRUTICULTURA
04/02/2013 | 6:24 p.m.

Producers from São Paulo celebrate good harvest fig

Period of sunshine interspersed with rains in January benefited fruit

  • Cristiane Viegas | Valinhos (SP)
Photo: Carlos Macedo / Special
Producers celebrate good harvest

 

The climate of sun and rains interspersed in January favored the production of purple fig. In Valinhos, São Paulo, producers celebrate the good harvest of fruit  with the expected increase in sales. distant approximately 80 km from the state capital, Valinhos is responsible for the increased production of the country fig.Eighty producers grow purple variety-of-valinhos. The crop is geared to the domestic market and for export. 's first seedlings were taken to the county at the beginning of the last century by an Italian immigrant. In 1910, the fruit was already sold on a commercial scale. Since then, Valinhos became known as the capital of fig. On an area of 25 hectares, the grower ALCI Roberto Previtali has 31,000 feet of purple fig. Productivity is, on average, 300 tons of fruit each season. The harvest began in November and runs through March, and, according to the producer, is a good crop. - The weather helped as well. We harvested about 50% of production. Have a late harvest, which is from March to October, more or less, depending on weather. The late harvest gives a fig a little kid, but good quality - explains the grower. This year, 35% of the crop land of Previtali exported. The remaining production will supply the domestic market.

Unfortunately, roxo-de-valinhos (translated above as "purple variety-of-valinhos") is brown turkey.  :)

Hi
did somone watched the video?
what is the color on the leafs and fruit? looks like latex maybe to deter the birds?

Eli...that grower has a nice operation going there...we really have our work cut out for us, don't we?

You are right since starting with this hobby i lost 10% of my body weight...

growing figs remind me i have to work for the good stuff...

I have a fig tree from Brazil. It was brought here by a man I know from Brazil. He told me he brought it here with him about 60 years ago.  I had this tree before but lost it at a very young age.
All I can tell you about the tree right now is the lateral and terminal buds are Maroon in color in the spring before they open, very pretty. I will
 see the tree in production later this summer and will know more about it.
J.A.

Eli, the sun is so hot there, there is why you see the blueish tone to the leaf.  it is a variety of Brown Turkey.

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