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pane vino dark or negretta

Esphani?

Melenzana

Souadi, please be Souadi.

Salem Dark?

Well, I can't decide if its Sudriche weinstrasse klein or LSU Improved Celeste.

Looks tasty either way!

Brooklyn Dark ?

Bass, you have everyone going! All the varieties I thought it could be have been spoken for...so I'm going to lay low.

Preto?

Looks like one of figs that came off my Black Triana a few days ago.  


Black Triana is my guess.

No one yet, then it must be a TyTy special purple blue black fig.
"gene"

And the winner is Debbie. This is a breba from a brooklyn dark. Debbie contact me. 

Last year I practiced grafting figs, so I used a bud from a Brooklyn Dark into a seedling fig. This year I got a breba on it. I had the Brooklyn Dark in ground for years, and I don't cover it and sprouts back, but I lose the breba. This year the graft produced a breba. 

Surprise, surprise! Now I do see it.

Congrats, Debbie.

BTW,
It is similar (but not same) to Sal(C).

Apparently, three NE fig-people found 3 differently-located
(very similar, and possible the same) mother trees in the NE area;
 me, Bass and Al.
"GM#17", "Brooklyn Dark" and "Sicilian Red".

I have seen the fruit skin changing colors.
It starts as red/green (some stripes), to all-red (wine), and finally almost-black (when very ripe).
The fruit shape also changes shape.
It starts almost round (think golf-ball for shape/size) and then it elongates as it fully ripens.

Fruit is very sweet.
It is a rather late fig. It does ripen a significant number of  fruits here,
but some does not make it before the cold arrives... 
[I do my observations of GM#17, mostly by visiting the inground mother tree.]








Way to go Deb!
That was going to be my next guess. No Really !(((:

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Nice Job Debbie!!!

Bass did the same thing earlier in the year and it was a Brooklyn Dark as well.


Sneaky...

@Dom, that's the main reason I didn't guess with that answer.  But I already have one that's about 18" tall right now so I would've wanted to re-gift the cutting.

I burned out all my cuttings of that because I was dopey with the process.

Let me doublecheck and make sure I don't have a spare.  If you don't hear anything from me in the next 24-48 hours, drop me a private message for a reminder to look.  If I have a spare, I'll be happy to send to you in the fall (after temps are below 75ยบ @ mid-day) if you're interested in the variety.

Thanks

I knew it all along but wanted someone else to win it.

Congrats to Debbie.
Keep us posted on the progress.

Nice work deb.

Rafed, yeah right!

Thank you all for such kind words.
People on here are the most wonderful.
I love reading all the things on figs and
how funny you put it. Thank You...  

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