I got this variety called Bari from a generous forum member last winter. The story passed on to me is that it was brought over from Bari, Italy about 90 years ago. Here's some additional information about the performance of the mother tree last season:
- It is an everbearing fig tree. In other words. Once it starts it just keep producing figs. It produced more than 300 figs this past season. It produce all the way till mid November this year.
- The figs are ripe when purple/black, red flesh very sweet very productive.
- It is very cold hardy. The tree gets no protection ( it's in the open) in Philadelphia.
- It grows in a tree form.
I got one cutting in February and it very quickly developed mold on 1/3 of it. I cut that part off, rinsed it with diluted, bleach and rooted that part separately. Both parts of cutting formed roots but the large part didn't survive being potted up. Surprisingly the one node moldy section resulted in the tree you see in the pics below. I pulled all the figs off except one and harvested it yesterday. It is not exactly blue/black but that is probably because of cooler temperatures, lack or sun hitting the fig or because the tree is so young. It wouldn't have hurt to let it ripen one more day but remnants of the storm from the gulf were hitting us and rain was starting. I was impressed with the taste for a first year fig (relatively sweet, somewhat jammy, somewhat figgy, along with some complexity). I'll keep a close eye on this one in the next couple years. It is a very vigorous grower with no sign of FMV.