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JT or BT?

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  • FMD

http://figs4funforum.websitetoolbox.com/post/Jolly-Tiger-fig-5652215?pid=1274796819#post1274796819

I was one of the two lucky winners and this is what it produced.

Title edited to reflect new realities

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Not from me but i will tell you and i do not like to guess figs but that appears to be  a jolly tiger fig.

I'm certainly no fig expert, but it looks basically pretty much like the riper ones in the photos in the original thread.

Out of curiosity, what were you expecting?

FMD  i just took picture of 1 not dead ripe but it dont matter i dont care for them i just grow for it beauty of plant i have many figs to fill my belly otherwise.
I post in thread for you to see then i soon delete.

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  • FMD

I guess I was expecting a little piece of heaven rather than a BT look-alike. Silly me.

Looks like a BT to me, through and through.

Sorry bro, looks like you got suckered, and that really sucks.

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  • FMD

Not so sure Jason. Take a look at Martin's JT.
http://figs4funforum.websitetoolbox.com/post/Attn-FMD-Jolly-Tiger-Picture-5989597

Also, it tasted much better than it looked.

As I said, wouldn't it be a joke on us all if a JT was nothing more than a variegated BT.  HeHe. 

BTW, luckily, I paid a pittance the non-variegated cuttings. 

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  • BLB

Jolly Tiger is a Japanese cultivar, not a Brown Turkey. In the un variegated form it does have a cultivaar form. I believe Bass may know what it is called I can't recall.  It does not taste the same as BT to me.

Now any member may call it brown turkey or purple pop whatever they want or say it looks like this or that.


When i talk to Nursery owner of Asiatica to inquire about plant he told me his collectors that sought out rare plants for his business found this tree in wooded area in Japan sent him cuttings and the rest is history.

He named it Jolly Tiger according to him.


Here is some writeing i ran across that may or may not explain plant .
Family - Chimera's

Chimeras:Chimeras, presumably originating from somatic mutations, are not common in fig varieties. The few reported involve variegations in leaf or fruit. At least two accounts of fig chimeras have been published, the first by J. L. Collins (1919) and the second by Condit (1928a). Collins illustrated and described a sectorial chimera of a Lob Injir fig which differed from other chimeras "in that the cell in which the change took place was not in the developing of young fruit itself, but in a cell of the young shoot on which the fruit grew. A few of the leaves growing on the tree which produced the fig-chimera were characterized by white areas or sections."

Condit reported a still more striking chimera in an Adriatic fig (fig. 18) which showed one third of the surface to be green and two thirds purple, with this dark sector divided by a narrow ribbon of green. The bands of light and dark color persisted when the fruit became dry. Another Adriatic tree had one twig which produced dark colored figs instead of the normal green fruit. One large branch in a Lob Injir tree at Reedley, California, bore both albino and variegated leaves year after year, although the fruit showed only faint indications of variegations. None of these chimeras has been saved by propagation.

The most striking fig chimera yet reported is that exhibited by the French variety Panache and described by various horticultural writers. (See Condit, 1928a.) The immature fruits are beautifully striped with bands of green and yellow (fig. 18) which gradually become a sulphur to golden yellow as the figs mature. The branches of the Panache tree also show variegation during the first year\'s growth, but the leaves are of a normal green. Seeds of Panache from open-pollinated flowers did not produce any progeny with variegated fruits or twigs.


Here i show the paper work from him in the package that was sent to me, i shown briefly in past and also have shown in past the 6 inch dormant stick that i paid for , my address and phone # i blot out i have to watch that fella Barry as he might try to send me something that i would send right back to him. ROFL  ; )



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  • FMD

I'm just saying that my non-variegated JT walks like a duck, talks like a duck and looks like a duck.I'm pretty sure that figs were not native to Japan, so it isn't a stretch to assume that an imported BT variant could have mutated its leaves and was renamed JT. I am happy to say that the fruit is tastier than your typical BT and therefore will not trash the tree....just yet.

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  • FMD

Two more. They get pretty big.

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Wasn't this supposed to be striped, like Panache, but red/purple in color?

Jon with varigated leaf comes about varigated fig that turns all dark no stripes when ripe.
With fig and all solid green leaf fig comes out and stays green until it starts to ripen and displays same coloring as varigated fig all dark .

Looks like Brown Turkey to me.


luke

Jon

Here is both types side by side and when ripe you cannot tell the 2 apart except by looking at the leaf they were born on.

Martin - that kinda says it all!

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