Harvey, Here is a link that you posted in last year. Look at Nelson's leaves, they look just like mine. It seems like there are more GN out there that resemble your plant. http://figs4funforum.websitetoolbox.com/post/pix-genovese-nero-and-cddb-6512689?pid=1279528911#post1279528911

My personal opinion on leaf patterns tells me it is extremely difficult to pin leaf patterns to
what is the real GN. I have 2 GN trees from same mother tree and there are variations.
Both produces & share similar high quality taste. Other high quality variants that rivals or beat
GN in taste preference in my collection are I258, Nardi Blk, Enrico etc or even a Brunswick under
right growing conditions. Frankly, my season best 2014 to date is BRUNSWICK. This is a surprise
as I wanted this tree dead. It was a discard that I never got around to killing or giving it away. I am
sure glad my wife discover how superbly it tasted under right growing conditions. The tree still has
its 1 gal pot.

Here is a photo of the most prominent leaf patterns from my Genovese Nero (AF). These leaves are slightly larger than my hand.

Thanks, Leon. How old is your tree?

About four years old- grown from cutting.

Thank you, Leon. It looks just like mine.

Leon, thanks for sharing this picture 

" I am sure glad my wife discover how superbly it tasted under right growing conditions."

Is this good tasting Brunswick fruit the breba or main crop?

Since Brunswick supposedly has such an unusually early breba crop, I've decided to try growing it (in pot) for that reason alone. Even a mediocre early first fig would be very welcome.

Also, it seems to me that most any fig cultivar can be grown to produce tasty fruit. A lot more easily done with certain cultivars than with others, no question.

picked mine too soon, even when soft they still have a while to go.     

Holy smoke! Assuming that is an average-size hand, does a fig that large have a diluted flavor?

Fig is real, photo cropped hand. That fig is huge. Congrats, Daniel? sent you a PM.

the taste was sweet even with it picked early but was not as juicy as I'd like it be. in ground my figs don't get watery, only my potted figs get watery from time to time. I think it needed another 3 or 4 days. I have about 15 others ripening soon mid- late september I'll try to take more photos as they ripen. I'll include some leaves also. I have 6 genovese nero plants in ground only the original plant has produced so far and that took about 3 years. the other will have a main crop this year. haven't seen the breba figs because my plants don't get wrapped in winter and these tend to suffer from a little dieback. I don't wrap my trees because I have a few hundred fig trees and it would be too much work. I may wrap GN and a few other this year though just to see the breba figs  

Daniel, Could you take some pictures of the inside of your GN? Also if you don't mind, could you PM me with your source? Harvey and I have been trying to figure out some things with GN.

I picked one of my smaller Genovese Figs today, probably 1-2 days from being ready but wanted to show for comparison.



     

Leon, It seems that our leaves and figs are a bit different than the others. Thanks for the picture.

Nice to see Dan E. posting again.

Are the large figs from this variety an exception, or, typical?  I see widely varying fig sizes from the "GN" in most of the postings regarding this variety....ranging from smaller figs, to very large-size figs.  So what's "normal" for "GN"?  Is it climate, season length, and culture that makes such big differences?  Are some photos of breba?....or, main-crop?  A notation accompanying photo would always be helpful.

Interesting thread and postings.  Good information too.  Thanks to all.


Frank

Frank, Nelson says that the main crop is supposed to look like Black Madeira in shape. I know that is how mine looks.

Here is fruit from one of mine last year when I don't believe they were caprified.  This year I believe pretty much all of my figs are caprified.

 

Nelson's observation of Adriano's fruit is valuable information but I believe there is a moderate chance that fruit appearance can/will vary in different climates.  Nelson also told me earlier today that the main crop figs at Adriano's was more bluish than black.  Below is a picture of a breba fruit Nelson took, he said the pulp was red.

 

Thanks guys...so it's the breba figs that can grow to be quite large, and the main-crop figs are typically smaller, and variable in size due to climate, culture, etc.

Photos in posting #112 are breba figs, and posting #117 shows some main-crop figs?   It should have been obvious to me, but I had to ask.  I don't think any variety would have main-crop figs as large as the figs in photo #112 and the fig shown in the Adriano photo of "GN" in posting #121.

Thanks for the information.


Frank

I had a GN fig the was almost that size last year. It swelled up to that overnight after a rain. It didn't split though.

Just to add some more pictures to show the variations in leaves. These are two other Genovese Nero's that I have from the same tree that I posted pictures of earlier. One is a sucker that I pulled out from this spring and one is an air layer that is two years old.

This is the sucker


This is the  air 

 leaves of Genovese nero 

Here are photos of my Genovese Nero (BREBA) fig taken on July 6th, 2014. It was the only breba fig that my young tree produced this year. The taste was excellent. Compared to the main crop figs, the breba is considerably larger. Compare these photos to the main crop figs from the same tree in #117. Those are obviously smaller.


   

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