I haven't been able to find much info on Giant Amber, other than it has a closed eye and is a pretty vigorous rooter/grower. Can anybody give a first-hand description of its fruit size, production, and quality?

Like the rest who looked, I have nothing on it either. Good luck.
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I have grown it for more than 10 years UCD sourced.  It is a vigorous grower.  Under my growing conditions it produce a light breba crop of very large figs and a moderate but continual main crop of good size until late in the season.   Grown side by side it is almost identical to Santa Cruz Dark  and like SCD takes at least 3 years to start showing what it can do.  

According to the UCD DNA comparisons published last June, Giant Amber and SCD are the same fig. 99% probability. Hope this is helpful.

Thanks for starting this thread Ken. I have a couple of Giant Amber ctgs that are looking pretty good at this point.

go4broek; I'm a little disappointed that it may be SCD. Not that I don't want SCD it's just that I requested SCD from UCD this year. So I may have extras by season's end. All depends if UCD sends me some or not. 

Has never stood out when tasted at USDA/UC Davis. Not in my top 100.

Thanks, everybody, for your comments. Jon, if it didn't even make your Top 100 list, I probably shouldn't give it space under my bird netting, given there are so many proven winners available. My memory now is foggy on why I ordered it in the first place, but it was probably the name. Initially I really wanted at least one large variety, and I think someone I spoke with at UCD had good things to say about it. Maybe I'll keep it in a pot or give it a try outside the cage, where it can serve as a decoy to keep the critters distracted while I enjoy the varieties growing on the inside--that way I can protect a few GA figs and see if I like them. After all, to my uneducated palate, Brown Turkeys still taste like heaven until the beetles arrive! ;-)