Hi everyone.  We just picked our first ripe Italian Honey breba here in the North Georgia Piedmont.  I wish I had a picture (I'm working on that) but it was very large and not bad for a breba.  Nothing like the main crop, but certainly welcomed in June.  The BTs and LSUs lost all their brebas as far as I can tell, and the Hardy Chicago just has a few which should be ripe soon.

But the Italian Honey came through first, and was pretty good overall.

Hope everyone else is having a good season.

Best wishes to all.

John
North Georgia Piedmont
Zoine 7b

Congrats!

Hopefully next season you'll have plenty more brebas to enjoy.

Thank you Rafed.  Hope you are having a good season also.

The main crops look very good, and the main crop on our Italian Honey usually starts ripening about a month from now, so there's really not that much time difference between the brebas and the main crop.

Our Italian Honey was supposed to be a "Celeste" but clearly it's not.  We have been very happy with it though, and have given starts to many people.  It is a strong grower and good producer.  And the figs are the size of small apples.  And because of the light green/yellow skin, the birds don't bother the figs on the Italian Honey.

The Italian Honeys are very good to eat right off the tree, and especially good for anything you need large quantities of figs for, drying, jam, etc., as these large figs add up really quickly when picking.

Keep us posted on progress there in Zone 6 my friend, and best wishes for good health and a good growing season.

John
North Georgia Piedmont
Zone 7b

Congrats!  By pure coincidence, I took a picture of one of my Italian Honey breba [and a few main crop] figs just a few hours ago.

Thank you!!!  We are not exactly high-tech down here on the farm.  We have no digital camara, and we are running a 10 year old archiac computer ("Windows ME"), but we have ordered a new computer and we will also get a camara, and then try to figure out how to use it!  ;-)

But that looks just like ours, so thank you so much for sharing this.  Other than the ripe one was bigger and a little more yellow of course.

We got the Italian Honey by accident, but we have really enjoyed it.  Hope you have too.

I checked this morning and the first Chicago Hardy breba is starting to ripen up as well.

Hope yours are ripe soon too, and that you have a great growing season.

Best wishes.

John
North Georgia Piedmont
Zone 7b

We picked the first ripe Hardy Chicago breba tonight.

Not as good as the main crop, as expected, but the flavor was actually quite good.

Best wishes to all.

John
North Georgia Piedmont
Zone 7b

Those look fantastic Paul.

Thank you for sharing these great pictures.

Hope your other figs will do well too.

Best wishes.

John
North Georgia Piedmont
Zone 7b