Harvey, mine start to ripen at the end of August and well into Sept/Oct. Yes, Jon's tree is in a lot of shade, almost complete shade due to the bananas and cherimoyas/antemoyas. And my first year growth is also striped, like the figs.  I beleive the figs as the ripen lose their striping simply due to the green turning yellow with the ripening process.  If you look closely, sometimes you can see where the striping is. And, so far, the birds have not decimated that tree.  I know eventually they'll figure it out, but so far, I haven't had to net it, and I couldn't even if I wanted to, because it's just too big.  I don't get a breba crop, when does your breba crop appear?

My Yellow Long Neck ripened in December this year are were pretty good, even then.

Harvey, Panache color may have to do with the intense sun. If you look at the pictures at UC Davis the ones in the hotter year (2008 vs 2007) were more washed out. You will see the same thing on on other varieties which had more distinctive color in 2007, and less in 2008.

Patty, what somewhat surprises me is that every photo of Panache fig at http://figs4fun.com/Thumbnail_Panachee.html has more stripes than when I picked mine, though one is close.  Mine held up very good without splitting and without bird damage so I let them get very ripe and that might be the difference.

Last year was a strange year and on some trees I was picking breba at the same time as main crop since the year started out warm and then cooled down.  My first breba Panache was picked 8/17 but I think it could have been quite a bit earlier if the weather hadn't cooled in June.  I have pruned my tree to leave some branches for breba figs and plan to pay closer attention to when I pick figs from last year's branches and then from the main crop on the limbs I pruned (and I'll prune branches with breba figs after they're picked to see if they will still ripen a main crop).

Those UC Davis (Panachee) pics by Ken Love are mouthwatering!  I can hardly wait for my tree to also produce yummy looking figs

Harvey, my experience leads me to believe that sunlight causes the green stripes to turn yellow. Next year shade one and see :)

Hmm...I can try bagging a fruit.  Thanks!  I just wonder if some environments result in the different appearances since the photos look different than mine.

Beautiful photos of your figs, Harvey.

Isleton is a nice town. (I'm not so very far away, in Oakland.)

Thanks, Lisa!

wow they look great....

Can the long neck yellow be a reverted panachee?  It looks like my cutting I started last year survived so I guess it will be at least until next year before I can try one too.  Great red interior.

Fantastic looking figs. Thank you for the pics.

Just a quick update to show a picture of a nice big leaf on my Long Neck Yellow I took with my phone yesterday:

Look GREAT!!

Are Long Neck Yellow or Panache Cold tolerant enought to survive in ground (protected) in 6B?

Harvey,

Nice picture, HUGE leaves! The fruit description sounds very tasty. Is the eye small/closed?

Greg, sorry, but I don't know about that, though I'm sure someone will chime in on Panache.  I somewhat doubt the LNY has been tried yet.

NZ, I didn't pay attention to that when I ate them, sorry!  The second one had a fair amount of bird damage on the other side and I did make sure to avoid that.  I should have a lot more figs this year and will try to pay closer attention.

Despite the dark green leaves on the LNY, this area has not been fertilized for over 10 years.  Sure don't see any signs of FMV in this tree.

I have two long neck yellows in 5 gallon pots. They were the most vigorous growers of all my figs last year. At least they were the tallest, without doubt. Perhaps because of the long internodes.

Harvey, that's an insult.  It should have been at least a 10.  ;)

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Just a quick update to show a picture of a nice big leaf on my Long Neck Yellow I took with my phone yesterday:

Haha, Bob.  Low point of of year for cash inventory as a farmer; first cutting of alfalfa is next week then things will be looking up. ;)

what a beautiful fig!!! thanks for sharing the pics---^^, 

I purchased 4 Panache trees this winter (about 2.5' tall) from 2 different suppliers. They have the same tags from Dave Wilson Nursery. I can't wait to see if I can get these to ripen in pots on my driveway. They look delicious.