Does anyone have experience and/or photos to post concerning lampeira? Has anyone tasted the breba (or for that matter the 2nd crop - note it is supposedly a San Pedro type)? Any comments on breba production would be most welcome!
For those of us in the Pacific Northwest where the breba crop is the more reliable, Lampeira would seem to be worth trialling. One doesn't come across it much in the literature. Vidaud in the CITFL publication has a brief piece on Lampeira and comments that it is a good 1st crop producer and rather weak 2nd crop producer, since the immature figs often drop. He also states that the quality is better than Dauphine although the breba size is smaller. Vidaud's cultivar descriptions appear to be taken at least partly from information supplied by Baud, though Baud doesn't seem to advertise Lampeira in any of his books. Condit has a reasonable description but does not comment on abundance of breba crop. Gallesio in the Poma Italiana refers to Lampeira as Fico portughese and also has good things to say about the breba crop.