Good day, spent last weekend and this weekend to pull my trees out of storage after the freeze. There are several of my trees with breba. This one is one of my awesome trees, Improved Brown Turkey. Some folks don't like them, I do! IBT is the same as California Brown Turkey. I have several of these trees. They are NOT hardy but very prolific! This tree did not get any water since December 1 and look at these Figs! Can't wait to try these. Here are 2 pics!

Enjoy!

Hey Dennis! Those figs look awesome! What is the flavor profile of IBT?

Mike,
They have a Figgy sweet taste.

I have one but is slow grower for me. Your looks really healthy. Got a main crop last year. Is the breba different then the main crop

My first fig tree was gifted to me last June and I was told it was a Turkey.  It was a leafless stick in a pot and less than 12 months later it is a full size tree which will probably be my only producer this year.  Based on your description of not being Hardy, I would have to guess this tree is a plain variety Brown Turkey.  What are the differences between the 2 fruit (BT/IBT)?

 

I hope you get them before the critters do, Dennis!

I was reading in another forum that you can bury a bowl close to tree. Fill it 1/2 with bleach and it keeps rabbit squirrels etc away from tree. Birds i dont know. When whole fig is gone usally squirrels. Birds leave half of fig for you ! ;))

There are several different varieties of Brown Turkey. I wrote about them years ago in another post. You have the following....

Southeastern Brown Turkey. Medium size, Sweet with a reddish amber pulp
Monrovia Brown Turkey. Large size, splits badly, taste like crap (only if not pollinated by wasp)
Improved Brown Turkey. Large long reddish/yellow fig, sweet with a reddish pink pulp
Thompson'd Brown Turkey same as Improved Brown Turkey
California Brown Turkey. Same as Improved Brown Turkey
Tilsbury Brown Turkey. Small size, reddish black, rich tasting red pulp
Brown Turkey. Medium size brownish grey fig with Amber pulp---can be bland tasting

I have each of these. If these Figs were pollinated by the wasp, they would be to die for good.

Awwwwww, so looking forward to a fresh fig! PLEASE post pic again when ripe, Dennis

Loving the BTs over here too!

OK, so which Brown Turkey would be the one referred to in Ira Condit's book on page 430 That would be Lee’s Perpetual?
http://ucanr.edu/datastoreFiles/391-296.pdf
I recently started seeing some Improved Brown Turkey fig trees and would like to know more about Lee’s Perpetual if it exists.
I am wondering whether the following statement makes any sense:
"Rogers (1834) stated that if Lee’s Perpetual—bearing fig is “cultivated as it should be—that is, in pots, under glass—it yields fruit nearly all the year round.”"

There are also a few English Brown Turkeys and a Vern's Brown Turkey.

Yeap, Bob, you are correct!  I forgot about those 2.  I have those too.  I have "Turkey" figs growing in half whiskey barrels inches from each other.  I don't think Vern's a real Brown Turkey but it's a good fig!

Hey Dennis, is this the brown turkey that sort of resembles Lsu purple in shape but more of a brownish color instead of the purple?

Funny that out of a 100 trees i never ended up with the common southern brown turkey. And i tried to buy one too. Ened up being celeste. Lol. Have the California turkey

Ryan, yes.

I read that Bayernfeige Violetta is also a Brown Turkey. 

Here's what one nursery says about it: "First introduced in Bavaria, Bayernfeige Violetta (Ficus carica 'Bauernfeige Violetta') is a unique fig, as not only does

it have luscious, sweet dark red flesh with a superb flavour it is also extremely hardy to -20C. It can mature early in late July and is a very heavy cropping variety".

Went on the website of the nursery with the patent to clarify the -20 claim and it said: "Frost resistant up to –20° Celsius for a few days (about –4° Fahrenheit) at a protected location with winter protection".

http://www.baumschule-plattner.de/index.php/en/products/bavarian-fig-violetta

Well, many fig varieties would be able to survive for a few days if protected....

Thanks Dennis, those are pretty good figs, I never had this type but my dad had a good size tree like this and I thought they were pretty good but my dad wasn't crazy about them. He lives in central Louisiana about 30 or 40 min from Dalton durio and my dad's tree like this was the only one that would freeze to the ground every winter. Then every spring it would grow back more and more. The last year or two I was amazed at how much a fig tree could grow in one season after being froze to the ground. Every year the amount of shoots would almost double and they would grow so much longer. After I gave my dad all my extra fig tees the last few years he finally had enough of the brown turkey and pulled it out.  He's had a couple other young trees freeze back when it got real cold but that brown turkey would freeze to the ground weather it was a mild or harsh winter.

Really. Well that explains it. So i do have it. I have alot of trees i gatheted from around my area. They all look the same. Blueish brown and good

Honestly I don't know what the differences between the two are. There may be some easy way to tell them apart but I don't know any, lol.

In my climate, Brown Turkey looks or taste nothing like Celeste.  Texas Everbearing does favor Celeste fruitwise but their leaf pattern looks completely different.