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how good is Panache?

It is an excellent tasting fig.....pretty close to an eleven on a scale of 1 to 10! Those at UCD will almost make you pass out!
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Originally Posted by Pete
in martin's defense, i believe Panache has darker green stripes. the fact it has "darker" part qualifies it as a "dark" fig. lol 

Come on Pete... you must know that's a complete "line of ______"!  Don't go getting tempted to play around with semantics to redefine "dark"!  We all know that Martin loves some light figs.  Even I know that, despite having never had the pleasure of meeting him face to face. :-)

Mike

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I think Panache is much better than VdB and have tasted them within a week of each other.
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Pete (bullet), it might be less white, but it isn't dark ;)

Pons has several chimeras which seems to exceed the population being talked about in the quotes from Condit.  Are many of these more recent varieties or just more recently discovered?
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Martin, if you're going to trash your tree please consider donating all or pieces of it to someone like me who will cherish it.  :)
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Bob --   "Cherish the Chimera"       (sounds like a song title, doesn't it?)     :-)  

Could even extend it to "Cherish the Chimera Chillin" (Children).

Mike
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Here are mine from last year we had allot of rain so a few of them exploded even though it wasn't 100% ripe it still had avery good taste to it. I can't wait to eat them this year 

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Originally Posted by snaglpus
It is an excellent tasting fig.....pretty close to an eleven on a scale of 1 to 10! Those at UCD will almost make you pass out!


Excellent tasting perhaps in the right climate such as California ; )

Here ones that did not split and ripened nicely had rubbery skin and were not as good as many of the figs in yard .
VdB so much better no splitting,Madeira, Hardy Chicago, Sals, Negretta, Madeira, Abruzesse and others put Panache to shame.
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Even some i discarded Mavra Sika, Dark Port, Black Bethlehem, Mission,Grise Olivette, Pastiliere when fully ripe they were all better or better performers than our Panache.
Only one that came under was Native de Argentile.
Pastiliere on palate was best next to Madeira but dropped to much.
Panache as stated in our yard does not do well so i not waste my time with it .
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Martin, thanks for posting that.  What was bad about Dark Portugal and Black Bethlehem in your climate? 
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He dumped them because of redundancy, mostly.
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Hello everyone, i m new here, but i have 27 vr in my collection and Panache is one of it. :)
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