Main crop is productive.

Hi Safar. May I ask, do you grow your plant in a greenhouse ( I ask because I thought I saw plastic sheeting in the background of the photos)? Perhaps this would explain some of the variation in color of exterior and interior of the fruit.

Dear bigbadbill

yes my Fig plants are in a rain shelter, with uv plastic as roof and plastic netting as wall. This rain shelter is necessary as we receive very heavy rain during certain months of the year from October to January. i do not know this could affect the plant and fruits. But is worth observing. I am only in my third year of growing fig plants.

Safar

We are having rainy season here in Hawaii right now as well. I also have my figs growing under uv plastic roof with plastic netting for walls.

Hopefully the color is off just because they ripened in rainy season in a shaded greenhouse. And in the dry season you will be able to be 100% certain that you have I258.

My greenhouse grown and ripen figs color does differ when grown & ripen outside greenhouse. Difference in taste too. I258 does rupture & sour with rain. 

It's your growing condition (climate, in green house and etc), that have caused your fruit to have a lighter color. I have shared my UDG with growers in US and other countries. Color and the shape of my UDG grown in Tuscany, Italy by a friend, does differ from what my own mother plant produces here in State in my 'climate'. I do believed you have the IT 258.

Navid.

It's too soon to tell since its your first fruit

I agree with Herman. Climate can play a huge factor

Nice photo, Dan!

Thank you everybody. I am glad in the end nobody disputed my i258.
When I posted the small story with some photos, it was to show that i258 can be grown in Malaysia.
I have not the slightest doubt that my fig plant is i258. Though I won it in a bidding in eBay, I know the source for several months and have been dealing for many months.
I accept the comments that the variations in the fruit were due to different environment and that the plant was under Rain Shelter which could affect it.

Thank you once again.

Safar

Hi Safar! I apologize for being late in seeing this thread.

The mother tree from which your I 258 came, I received from a well-respected member here as well as ourfigs.com. I'm glad you're enjoying it!

Please keep me posted :-)

Happy Holidays Everyone!

To me Italian 258 is sweet. I did not know how sweet it is until I used a Brix meter to measure it. According to this meter is it 23.5. Is it sweet enough. What other cultivars which are sweeter?

Persimmon is the,sweetest fruit ever but not as tasty as 258 !!!!

Glad your getting fruits that are that sweet. I had 3 ripe Figo Preto figs that were very sweet. I tried to think what to compare the taste to. To me it was not jammy or jelly, but sticky sweet. Like melted strawberry flavored lollipops.

I will have to pick up a I258 to compare it to Preto.

This is one I'm looking foward to, I got my tree last season and it was a little thing. It put out one fig but didn't ripen well because it was so late. It grew well and has a few figs on it this year so I can't wait.

I have two. One in ground one potted. The in ground has 10 figs. Potted has zero. Potted is much bigger then in ground. In ground is older

This is a super fig:    

If you got a very sunny spot,in your yard , get one.
I wish i had more than 8 -9 hours of sun in my yard so i can get it ripe to perfection every year.

Vasilika Sika?

  It has been posited by several giants in our hobby that It-258 is also known by the name Planera.    It'll be a tasty side-by-side comparison that I look forward to...

I had not heard that, Doug. I have a small Planera, I'll have to compare as it grows. IT 258 is a favorite.

Blue I would not agree that Planera in any way resembles 258, where did you hear that? Planera is an early ripener whereas 258 is a late ripener, they are not similar at all in my view, and I am growing both.

http://frenchfigfarm.com/fig-trees/planera

https://www.ourfigs.com/forum/figs-home/27773-planera-mp

How is the size of I258 fruit on average. I heard people say it's bigger than Black Madeira/Preto. It looks similar.

It is bigger,one and a half bigger,just look at quarter in ,my pix ,Pix #1and you will see it is a medium to large fruit while Madeira, Preto is a medium size fruit.!
Another pix here

I don't believe Planera to be similar to Italian 258.

Sid, Italian 258 fruits are considerably larger than my Black Madeira and Figo Preto.

Ok but my Preto figs have been as big 3.5 ounces 99 grams. Maybe it's the environment, does humidity makes the fruit larger? We get fog/clouds rolling in often here.

Thanks for the pictures with the quarter for scale. Here is my Preto fig next to a quarter.