I will add some pix later.  But as I was looking at the huge bunches of brebas on Danny's Delite this season, and wondered if the quantity of brebas was related to or affected by the amount of winter water. We had a lot of rain this late Winter and Spring and now I have some good quantities of brebas on this tree and others, much more so that the last few years which have been considerably drier. Any thoughts or experience? Is this a way to induce a heavier breba crop for those people who rely on that crop?

That's a good theory. last year I planted in a self watering container a variety I call Red Lebanese. It didn't make brebas before, but this year it has at least 25 brebas. The self watering container had water when stored overwinter, so it always had a water source through the winter. However many other varieties that were bone dry through winter in my garage also have a couple brebas. 

Jon,

Are the brebas ready to pick?
I am in the area.

If you were in my area, then you would have seen the brebas. ;-))

Dauphine is real close and Nsazarti is looking promising.

Jon,

Jon,

Don't want to break another promise.
I will let you know only if I'm 100% for sure I can visit.

I will be in the area till Tuesday and from there I will be on my way to Tampa.

Here is the Danny's Delite:







Norman's Yellow: Had figs it when I bought it, and nothing last year. This year some brebas:

Hi Jon.  We went through 10 hard years of drought here and the breba crops were light.  The drought ended with a vengence last year and we got heavy rains all winter, and by far the heaviest breba crops ever (all trees are in ground).  Most of them ended up dropping unfortunately, but the original quantity of brebas was very, very heavy.  And the main crops that have set for this year are very heavy and rapidly moving toward maturity.

Best wishes.

John
North Georgia Piedmont
Zone 7b

In my case I will be on the cautious side to induce brebas by more watering my plants which are in pots and are stored in cold cellar. Over the last three winters I have never watered my plants in dormancy when taken down to the cold cellar and find the pots still fairly moist in the spring when it is time to bring them out. I am afraid that watering may cause root rot by becoming unknowingly more than moist until spring.

Tucson had a wetter late-winter than I've seen for a while, and it may have had something to do with the larger-than-normal brebas on my Brown Turkey--but there aren't many of them (I counted only 6 yesterday that were close to ripe). It could also be due to a fairly heavy pruning I gave it this spring.

I picked this breba today, and though it tasted okay, it had weird dry patches inside and seemed to have ripened somewhat unevenly. Hopefully the rest will be better.