Just wanted to share a couple pics of the "GM #25" I rec'd from gorgi earlier this spring. Thanks gorgi for sharing this one with me and allowing me the opportunity to grow it!

It's looking pretty good and has one nice little fig on it. I know there may be reccommendations on pinching that little figlet off but I'm going to let this one grow. The tree is quite healthy and doing well. I'm also anxious to sample the fruit. Hopefully it will hold on long enough to ripen.

George, I know you weren't sure if this one was going to be a capri or common fig. (Fig wasp is present on Gozo right?) Hopefully this little fruit will ripen and prove it to be a common fig :-) .

How are yours doing? Any Fruits?

Malta have fig wasps but many figs cultivars, in Malta do not need fig wasp,so we will see!

Yes, the fig-wasp does exist in Malta.

Saxonfig,

George, sorry about the incorrect assumption I was making. Although it is kinda easy to see why I assumed that. At any rate, I made the necassary correction. Thanks for giving me the heads up.

Yes the fig may just drop due to the tree being immature (or any given other reason). In that case we'll have to wait another season or two more to find out. But if it does fully ripen, then we will be a leap ahead on it. So, I'll keep my hopes up until we have the final result :-) . 

George, I also wanted to thank you for making the clarifications on the "types" of figs. I was incorrectly thinking that Smirna and Capri fig was the same thing. Still learning as I go here.

By the way, the fig on my tree seems to still be developing.........

Here's an update on this great little tree.

Shortly after I received this one it started putting on new leaf growth. Very healthy plant right from the start. Once the fruit(s) started developing, the new leaf growth has pretty much stopped (understandably since it's trying to produce fruit). I can see some obvious signs of FVM. I think this can be pretty clearly seen in the pics as well.

I was pleasantly suprised to see the second fruit starting to develope. Remains to be seen if this one will develope to the size of its big brother. The more mature fruit is beginning to darken a bit. I'm feeling like it just may go ahead & ripen (I hope!).

I'm starting to feel like this one may turn out to be a winner George ;) . I'm gonna stay positive anyway. I'll keep you posted.

Enjoy the pics:

Bill I am very interested in this thread. Bill please do keep us posted. Can't wait to see this guy ripen

celt,

Since this one was a generous gift to me, I feel obligated to keep close track of its health & progress. I will do my best to take pics & post them here as a pictoral record. Of course I will add whatever commentary that may be necassary with the pics as well.

I hope that one fruit starts turning dark, soft, & edible within the next few weeks :) . 

So do I

Here are the latest pics of this one. Sadly, the one fruit did not persist. It's still too early to say what this will mean for the future of this variety.

As can be seen from the pics in post #8, there was also a second fig that had started to form. But it dropped off within a week or so. I still had my hopes up on the one fruit though because it seemed to still be holding on well.

But as you can see, it finally gave up. Within just a couple of days it seemed to start changing color. Then when I took these last pics, it wasn't even attached in the one pic where it seems to be. It was just resting on top of the leaf stem. I only had to pic it up. The next strong wind would have likely just blown it off on the ground.

So George, we'll have to wait another season to see if this one is going to give us viable fruit. That is unless you, or one of the other recipeints, have better success than I did.

I am happy to see that it did put on a little more growth in it's second flush of the season. So that's the silver lining I suppose.

Anyone have a spare cutting or plant they wanna sell from this variety?Thank you.
Robert