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Harvested Today

Today (10-2-2014) I picked 27 figs
  12 Ronde De Bordeaux
  1 Salem White
  4 Hardy Chicago
  3 Conadria
  5 Peter's Honey
  1 Aubique Petite
  1 Sal's EL

Here's a picture of 23 of them (the other 4 were eaten before making it into the house, where the camera is).  More pics later when I cut a few of them open.

The last few days have been great... 7, 15, 21, and now 23.  Can't complain at all about this nice stretch of warm weather here in late September / early October!

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Mike   central NY state, zone 5a


Very nice, Mike.  This week has been great for me too.  I picked 17 various figs on Tuesday.

  • PHD

Nice pic Mike. Which of the whites was your favorite?

  Thanks,   
   Peter

Very nice Mike, thanks for sharing. How was the butt shaped fig :) 

@Frank:  yeah!  I'm glad the good fall weather is extending to your area.  Sounds great!

@Peter:  Hard to choose between the Salem White and the Conadria.  They were both excellent.  This is the first year the Salem White has produced figs, and this is the third one.  And it was dead ripe... very juicy.  (Picture coming soon).  But a couple of the Conadria were very juicy and great taste too.  (I've described them in another thread recently).  And though that tree is just in its third year, it has already produced about 15 ripe figs this year, with another 20 or 30 in the process of ripening.  My Salem White tree is also in its third year, but just a few figs.  I'd say they're both keepers for my area, but the Conadria is (so far anyway) a superior variety, in terms of productivity.  The Peter's Honey has been a consistently good producer of sweet honey figs for the past three years, and it's also definitely a keeper for this climate.  But it seems more demanding of serious heat in the final week of ripening... these latest main crop figs from that tree have been a little bit bland.  But it has the added advantage of producing a great-tasting breba crop (around 15 breba this year, which were outstanding honey-flavored figs).  So all three are keepers, and for this year I'd have to give the edge to Conadria.  Salem White a close second (the flavor is pretty similar, and although less seed crunch, it has a tougher skin, at least here).  Both I'd put at about 9 out of 10.  I have to add:   interesting that you asked which of the whites is my favorite.  Because those top two are really excellent.  But the flavor of the dark ones, particularly the RDB, Aubique Petite, and Hardy Chicago... they're just so intense, it's like comparing apples and oranges.  I really like the flavors of all three of those (and all three are quite different, from the jammy berry sweetness of the RDB, or the Aubique Petite's figgy sweetness, or the differently flavored intensity of the sweet Hardy Chicago... those three dark figs get 10 out of 10 here.

@Daniel:  Glad you liked the pics.  I haven't eaten the conjoined twin Peter's Honey yet.  I've taken a lot of pics of that one throughout the summer, and if I get the ambition together, I might post a thread on that one along with a few other unusually deformed figs from this year.  Overall Peter's Honey had excellent brebas (10 out of 10), and inconsistent main crop this year (probably because it was so much cooler than other years).  Some of the mains have been really excellent, but some of them have been rather bland.  I think that variety just really needs higher heat to ripen well.  (And in prior years it has excelled).

All for now.  Maybe pics of the insides tomorrow (or soon anyway)... but it's late and time to go sleep.  Ciao!

Mike   central NY state, zone 5a

(edited just to fix a typo or two).


Had some Conadria this year and they were excellent.  Not sure if this is a variety that gets sweeter with age. Thanks for sharing Michael.

  • PHD

Mike, thanks for taking the time to give your assessment of the figs you grow. Its so true when you said comparing the light figs to the dark figs is like comparing apples to oranges. That was the reason I asked you to describe the whites only. I know the taste of most dark figs is more intense, but I like you appreciate the light and refreshing taste of the whites. Looking forward to seeing the interiors of those figs!

  Peter

Congrats Mike!
It is a pleasure to see fellow North Easterners harvest a bounty of figs like this!

Nice looking figs Mike.....congrats

Here's a picture of four of those figs on a plate, as hors d'ouvres.  From the  9 o'clock position and moving clockwise, they are
        Conadria
        Salem White
        Aubique Petite
        Ronde de Bordeaux
        (sequence repeats)

Taste was 9/10 on all of them except the RDB, which was 10/10.

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More pics later.  Enjoy.  (I did :-)

Mike   central NY state, zone 5a


it is crazy that some people say they do not like figs...what is not to like about these amazing pictures?  Nothing!

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