my Grantham's Royal, obtained from R. Watts.
Very large, juicy and tasty fig. Very productive too.
I obtained it as a last year rooted cutting and planted in the ground.
9/10 at least.

Enjoy!

Grantham's Royal is the same as Dauphine. It is a San Pedro fig that, without caprification, will drop it's main crop. If you are getting a main crop fig, you must have the wasp!
Congrats if so!
Richard Watts is a great guy and an excellent source of unique varieties that have been around for while.

Thank you!
Yes, we have the wasp here, I need to test the seeds from the next ripe fig.
I agree, RW is a great guy!
Was he the one who discovered the GR?

Beautiful fig! 
My Dauphine originally from Baud produced some super delicious black brebas similar shape.   

I haven't tasted a breba yet, maybe next year.
Interesting that the breba is dark and the main crop is green.

  Dauphin in Russia. The main crop.

Vladis,
Your photo means that the Grantham's Royal and Dauphine are the different figs (assuming what we claim is what it is)

I read a lot of posts on the forum about these two varieties. I believe that these varieties are different.

These are genuine Dauphine figs of the main crop (2012) !
No effort at all to pollinate them... may have taken wasps from the thin air!

 
 

Francisco
Portugal

Thank you, Francisco, for the photos!
They look delicious but not as the Grantham's Royal at all. Yours are going to be much darker and mine are green with a reddish ostiole.
They also could have been pollinated, I will test the seeds in a few days.

Igor,

The figs I show on those two pictures are very similar to the  figs shown by Pierre Baud on his catalogue. I do not think your fig is a Dauphine.
P Baud  says that the Dauphin fig skin collors of breba  and main crop are almost identical !

Francisco
Portugal

http://www.galgoni.com/ENG/Fotos_Maxi/015.htm .Francisco, the Spaniards made a mistake?

Violette Dauphine is not the same variety as "Dauphine". They are two distinct fig types.

Leon,
Which one corresponds to the Grantham's Royal and which one Francisco has?

A later main crop fig. I am getting about 2 per week unless the squirrels miss one , they love it.
This one is perfectly ripe, juicy with lingering aftertaste.
A large fig without a void inside.

Looks like a great fig! Thanks for sharing. Got any tips for fending off the wildlife?

Well, that's a million $$ question ...
Bird netting, cups, bags, dogs, people, .22, etc, all help combined for about 20%. :(
The wild life will find a way if your plants grow not in a green house.
I do not have a sure solution yet. Something works temporarily on a case by case basis.

Great looking fig.

Congrats, Beautiful fig and looks delicious!
How does it compare to the brebas in the 1st post?

Pino,

The first post had the main crop too. It is a young plant that is producing during its first summer.
What you see is how the first figs in the season compare to the last ones while the plant matures.
The more recent fig is also better ripened and more evenly, more heat was responsible for that too.

Greenfig,

Just curious, Do you have a preference between GR and Desert King? 

Don,

The DK and GR are very different, in taste, how they look and grow.
GR is more productive and can feed you all summer (breba and main if pollinated) but has a tendency to split if the weather is wet, the DK is more seasonal and better for the breba.
I would say, you need both but if the space is limited and the weather is dry, go with the GR.