Good day, I just received 2 fig trees, Janice Seedless Kadota and Mary Lane. Both have totally different ages. I will get the chance to taste Janice this year but not Mary Lane. Does anyone have both and can share how they both taste and grow in their area? And post some pic too.

Thanks,

looks like no one has these 2 figs but me! Ha! Go Figure! This year I will be the first to compare these 2 this summer. Awesome!

thank you!

dennis, i haven't looked into seedless (or it is less seed) figs yet. hope to hear more about them from you :) so far, i enjoy seeds :)

I have a janice seedless that is growing roots right now. Far too early to talk fruit from me :)

I should get to taste a Mary Lane, and maybe possibly a Janice this year.  We can compare notes.  :)

Thanks guys! This is what peaked my interest in Janice:

http://www.rootsimple.com/2010/08/black-mission-fig-vs-janice-seedless-kadota-figs/

dennis, i'm not sure what Mediterranean climates is like. does our weather anywhere near it? i would imagine our NC weather is too humid for another else other than just southeast humid. 

Did you see his wife's rebuttal?

Dennis,
I have a 7 year old Mary Lane in a 15 gallon pot that is a truly superb fig and never a single sign of FMV. Here's a pic. Sorry don't have the other one. I'm not sure why, but this photo is not accurate color wise. The MLS I have is very very yellow. It's a beautiful fig and was one of my top 5 figs last year.
It has a super clean taste. Very delicate with no after taste. Very different then my other figs.

Does anyone know why it is called a Janice Seedless Kadota? Here we go with names again. Does that mean it was bred from Kadota? Does it mean it is Kadota-like?

Thanks guys!

I researched the site for MLS. I found some good threads but the thread were a few years old and did not rate them as good. Plus most folks that had it were North of me. So, I'm assuming their climate is too short and darn cold for MLS. Here in western Carolina, we have 4 full seasons and our winters are getting milder and milder.

Pete the Med climate is just a lot of hot blowing air and some humdity. I lived in Turkey for 2 years and the Carolinas is similar. So, I think they will grow fine here.

Michael, you're the first person on this forum with good news about MLS. I appreciate that...... that's good news! Many thanks!

Dale, I have no idea why the name is called that. But I can assume that it was bred from Kadota. One reason I am so interested in JSK is....

1. I think its related to Kadota. My Kadota was excellent last year,
2. Excel was bred from Kadota and that is one of the best tasting yellow fig I have.

From what I remember it was a sport of an actual kadota tree (a branch that was different from the rest of the tree, in particular seedless or near seedless fruit).  This is common in other kinds of trees like citrus.  I believe another example of this in figs is Panache.  

Kadota needs a lot of heat to ripen (desert/ inland areas in CA).  Dave Wilson Nursery claims that Janice is more suited to cooler climates.  I have never tasted it.

Mediterranean climates have a distinct warm dry season and cool wet season.  Examples outside of the Mediterranean area would be western South Africa, California/Baja California, the Canary Islands, the Azores islands, Western Australia, and Chile/ southern Peru.  I respectfully don't think that the Carolinas are considered Mediterranean.  I believe that it is too humid there in the summer.

Good luck with your Janice tree!

*Just a friendly reminder that it is a patented variety so propagating without a license is illegal.

Same logic here for wanting those UCD figs with Sari Lop heritage.  I suspect that the Piedmont areas and the areas just south of it are excellent places for figs from more mountainous areas like Anatolia, near the shore.  Turkish and Syrian figs should be tried around here.

Thanks pads fan! I will thoroughly enjoy it!

People told me figs don't grow well in greenhouses when I first joined then forums. I proved them wrong. Oh well.....

HOW BOUT THOSE FIGS!!!!!!

Thanks Dennis and Padsfan. Always fascinated by these figs.

I thought that Janice Seedless and Mary Lane was the same fig.
Mine is 3 yrs old and goes by both names.  The fruits are really good.
I got it from Almost Eden

Thanks Gina.

To my surprise, Mary Lane has figs for the first time for me. I worried the heat from 2012 had harmed both of my figs. Both are alive so I kicked them out of the garage yesterday. I guess, I'll leave one fig per stem. 

I purchased a Janice Seedless Kadota fresh from DWN and planted it March of this year. The tree is pretty small. No sign of small figlets yet. I hope its as good as the taste reports imply and not just some slick marketing of a patented variety.

Dennis, I have a 3 gallon potted UCR 2009 Mary Lane and today after a long wait, my one Breba was ripe.  It weighed in at just over 2 1/2 oz.  The eye was tight shut with a very thick lower part.  The fig was  good, not watery considering all the rain we have had. The taste was very mild,lightly sweet but not fig like at all.  One main crop fig is about the size of BB, probably too late to ripen before cold weather. I don't have Janice.

My MLS has quite a few figs this year and hopefully it will stop raining and some of the figs will ripen. I'm worried about rust with all these constantly wet leaves.
MLS is one of my favorites as I love the subtle clean flavor and the wonderful yellow color.

Thanks guys! My tree was small when I got it a few months a go. Today, it's a tad bit over 6 feet but no figs yet.

Dennis,
My MLS took years before I got any figs. But when it finally did I felt it was worth the wait.