A nice size tree and beautiful fruit. Yea I would stand in a long line for one. Way to grow Tam..

Leon said that Grantham's Royal appears to be a synonym of Dauphine. Can someone please let me know if this tree is Dauphine? Thank you.

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Tam 

A beautiful tree, congratulations! Please update this thread when the figs are ripe.

Hershell and Greenfig: I will post more photos later when the figs are ripe. Thanks for watching. 

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Tam

I grew this variety side by side with Dauphine (not to be confused with a variety called Violette Dauphine). Grantham's Royal proved to be identical to my Dauphine. I would also be very curious to see if anyone else agrees. It is a San Pedro type meaning the first crop produce excellent tasting large figs but the tree would drop it's entire second crop. 

Tam, your tree is beautiful and appears to be very productive. You will be very pleased with the figs that it produces. Would love to see more photos as they ripen.

Hi! Leon,

Thanks for your comments. Can you please let me know how big the figs were on your Grantham's Royal second crops before they dropped entirely? Thanks for sharing.

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Tam

Paully grows this in Canada, he seems really happy with it.  I believe he has only the breba crop and the second drops.

Really gorgeous and healthy specimen! Nice good-sized figs, too.  Mahalo for sharing.

This is my Granthams Royal. An excellent fig - Nice dark color. As productive as
Desert King. Actually I like its taste over DK. This is a superb compliment to DK.
My tree is just over 6ft tall and it has over a hundred figs. Its leaves does resemble
my Dauphine. My GR is an in-ground tree & it came from Jon. I would certainly
recommend fig friends in PNW to trial this variant. It ripens slightly later than DK.
This timing is perfect.

That looks incredible Paully, huge figs too!

Please keep us updated. I have a Dauphine and hope I get some good brebas. I also have DK, Norman's Yellow and Zidi. If they do not produce in a couple of years then I will do some grafting.

Paully: Your figs are more healthy and they have more white specks. I removed a lot of roots from my tree before I plant it in the ground; therefore, I have to water it everyday because the figs got dried and soft very quick. Can you please post the photos of the interior of your figs?  Thanks for sharing. 

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Tam

Chivas, I am going to start a few air layers on GR today/tomorrow. I will make one for you.This
is an awesome fig. In fact, J.Rice who named this variant told me some 4 yrs back cited that it is
amongst his favourite. He told me Jon's mother tree originated from him. It is a large fig & it ripens
at a perfect time when there is little rainfall here -- around 3rd wk August.

Tam -- last year I posted pic's on GR. Will do so this season.

I took more photos this morning. The biggest fig was a little bigger than a tennis ball. Yesterday afternoon, the skin of the biggest fig was damaged by birds , so I picked that fig this morning. I saw white sap came out at the stem. It was not ripe yet. It had a little sweet and figgy taste. Thanks for watching.

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Tam

Nice fig! How did it taste? Thank you for the photos! 

Shailesh: Thanks for your comment.


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Tam

Hi! Everyone,

My mother-in-law came by my house about 20 minutes ago, she picked 2 nearly ripe figs from this tree. She ate the figs and told me that she liked them, but they were not very sweet. These figs were a little sweeter than the first one. I will let the roots of this tree develop more for 2 to 3 years, if its figs have the same taste like today, I will dig it up. Thanks for watching.

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Tam

Hi! Everyone,

This fig had a little berry, jammy, crunchy taste and it tasted better than the previous 2 figs. Also, it was a little more sweeter than the first 2 figs, but it was still not as sweet as a Celeste figs. Thanks for watching.

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Tam

Shailesh: Thanks for your comment. The figs from this tree were getting better. I am sure in a few years, the figs from this tree will be very tasty. Thanks for sharing.

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Tam

Congratulations Tam,
This is a very nice breba !

Francisco

Francisco: Hi! How are you? Thanks.

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Tam

Hi Tam,

I tried 3 years ago a couple of Dauphine trees with poor results.

Could only ripen 3 or 4 brebas and a few main crop. There is too much sun and dryness for this cultivar here. This is a fig born for Northern, much cooler areas with a higher degree of humidity and less sun!
Being a San Pedro, I thought it could perform  better than that.

Francisco

Hi! Everyone,

How are you all doing? Grantham's Royal pickles taste similar to olive pickles, but they do not have a strong taste like olive pickles. They taste good to me.



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Tam