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First fig of the year - unknown breba

Yesterday, 7/20 I harvested my first fig of this year, a breba crop fig(only one on this plant). This was given to me as an unlabeled cutting in fall of 2013, a friend said it was from his collection and had lost its tag. I grew it out last year (and gave an extra plant of the same to another rookie fig grower), and this year it is a nice plant in a 4g SIP. It was started on the fig shuffle around 4/6 and almost immediately put out a single breba. It has another 8 or so main crop figs and I have started rubbing out new ones developing. This fig was outstanding, comparable in taste to the best main crop figs I tried last year at another grower's orchard including Adriatic(JH) and Preto. This far exceeded anything I was expecting from a breba and from this unknown. I have a PM sent to the friend to see if he can identify it from the pics.

The flavor was sweet, vaguely berry-like, closer to strawberry than any other berry I have tasted, with a slight crunch from the seeds. The fig was green with a little bronze tones at the eye end. It looks darker in the photos than in real life. Anyway, here are the pics:

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Thanks for looking!


Looks great!

That looks absolutely delicious. Could it be DK? Those have been known to remove peoples' socks.

Nice interior color

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Originally Posted by donpaid
That looks absolutely delicious. Could it be DK? Those have been known to remove peoples' socks.

Dees DK get that darker coloration at the base end?  I have a DK that is the same age, did not get any brebas this year, has a couple of main crop I'm waiting to see abort, but leaves are not the same.  I also have a mature Adriatic(Grasa) which members have stated appears to be a DK.  All of the brebas fell off of it early when I exposed it to temps around 37-38 during the fig shuffle period.  Leaves don't look the same as this unknown, though it is an older tree.  Adriatic(Grasa) leaves do look similar to my younger DK.  

I think that we can wait to judge if the main crop figs fall off, since I have no fig wasps here.

DK's get more yellow with ripeness and the interior stays a light red pinkish hue. They do not get the darker bottom hue.

My DKs look like this.
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Hi binbin9,
Nice harvest.
How big is your tree? Do you have a pic with the figs still on the tree?
How many figs do you get on one branch ?

This is a tree from my parent's property. It's 20ft tall and just loaded in July every year.
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