About 5 years ago, as I was getting into figs, I found a tree that I called Center Street, because that is where it was. I got starts from it, and planted one at work, one at home and many in pots. Well, last year when I did some pollination experiments, I found conclusively that it is a smyrna type. It had always dropped its figs every year but I thought it was too dry or too hot or something. Then, when I pollinated one each on the ingrounds at work and at home, they ripened nicely. I have started some of the seeds since the pollen parent was a persistent caprifig.
But, late last summer after coming to this conclusion, I decided to keep the in-ground at work, and graft several other varieties to it. I tried four grafts then, and only one survived. It is from an unknown tree very similar to Hardy Chicago. Then this year I have put over 10 graft attempts onto it. Several have taken place. Pictured are the graft from last august , the first one from this year to take off and one that is just starting to grow.