I would like to hear of your experience with Jurupa in all areas of the US as to fruiting, quality, vigor, etc.

My Jurupa has a bad case of FM. I tried to push it hard to see if it would outgrow the FM but it came right on with the new growth. An interesting note is that this is my only plant showing FM and I have several dozen that came from UCD, Jon and others.

Herman....have you ever given Jurupa a trial?

Jon, you have had a lot of experience with FM and I would like your opinion. Should I give it a good boost next year and see what it will do. Actually, the plant is very vigorous even with the FM.

Thanks,

Jack
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Very nice tasting fig. Definite winner here.

As for FMV, I have trees that grow more than 10 feet in a year that are infected, and produce "tons" of fruit, so it is not an issue. Crappy weather this year stunted growth more than FMV ever has. Fertilizer will not eliminate the virus, just helps the tree put on growth.

I have a Jurupa in third year.
Mine is healthy,but did not produced any fruits.
I think from my experience that most of the time,what we think that is fig mosaic virus is only stress due to,soil,climate heat cold etc.
The simptom of disfigurated leaves are the same for stress and for fig mosaic.
On the other hand we can rationalise that all old fig cultivars ,being grown from cuttings had a chance in their history to aquire the virus,so most cultivars have it.
So your best Remedy:give it what it likes,a little fertiliser,alot of compost and manure around the tree,and not deep in the soil.
It should come out of it or grow a new healthy trunk from soil level.
Then later when the new trunk is strong enough,cut down the sick trunk.
You will end up with a new healthyer tree.
And try to grow a succesfull fig next to it so you forget about the frustrations with this one.
For example :How many fruits I could eat if I only grew Black Ischia in my back yard in the last 5 yrs.
Answer:about 5 very tasty figs.
But I grow Marseilles vs black,wich is very good but one class lower than Black Ischia in Taste,yet I made 65 ,10 ounces jars of fig jam last year also from a 5 yrs old tree.
I hope this will help

Herman,

Thanks for your reply. Your advise and info is appreciated. Hopefully, Jurupa will fruit good in my area with long hot summers and quite humid at times.

Jack

Jack,

My Jurupa fruited this year, and the figs were at least as good as any other white fig with lighter colored pulp I tasted.  In fact, I'd have to say it was definitely the best in that category.  Based on the disappointment in several other light/light figs that ripened before Jurupa, I was very pleasantly surprised at how good it was.  I'm not sure, but I don't think mine has FMV.

Henry

Got an Adraino cutting from a friend this in April 2008. He had tree in ground for probably 2-3 yrs but no fruits. The cutting I got from him is at least 2 ft  now & well branched and has at least 6 fruits. I pinced off all the fruits last week. It was in a 3 gal pot. Funny, mine fruited in under a yr & his still no fruits. It  took off very fast & I fertilize lightly almost every week until 2 wks ago with miracle grow.

Paul,It is the fertiliser no doubt that make it fruit,but in my climate one has to stay away from them if i want my fig to stay hardy.
Fertiliser take away the hardiness,of figs.
I grow mine inground,and has to survive the winter.
I want the slowest grow possible in order to harden the wood.
So it seem that one can't have it both way.
Best Regards

I think you made an important point about fig mosaic, Herman--about cutting down the old trunk. Although this is my first year sprouting UCD cuttings, it seems the ones that have the smallest amount of the old cutting above the ground or none of the old cutting above the ground show the least effects from mosaic. It almost acts like the bark of the infected cutting slows the movement of nutrients from the roots. Any thoughts on that?

Scott

i am resurrecting this old thread because it's been 6 years now and no one talking about Jurupa anymore.  Well, they should!  Jurupa is one excellent tasting fig.  i have 2 trees.  They were tiny little sticks when I got them.  But like VS said, the tree need to harden off in your climate.  I do exactly that to my trees until they reach a certain age.  I let my 2 trees stay out last year.  The center leader died, I chopped it and this past summer the tree came roaring back in bush form.  My trees are in a 15g pots but the root ball is huge.  One tree is rooting through the bottom of the pot.  The other is in a SWP.  Both look exactly the same!  

I give my trees compost tea.  Figs don't need much fertilizer but mine love composted liquid drink.  My trees fruited this past summer and boy were they good!  And now, they can take my climate pretty good.  Jon has Jurupa listed as the same as Dottato.  I disagree.  My Dottato is a tad bit hardier and the figs on my Jurupa are larger and longer.  But Jurupa is excellent.  I don't know why a lot of folks are talking about it.  But they should.

Mine got ripe fruits only once but,yes they were top of the line tasting as a white fig.
And I only had 4 ripe fruits.
It grows well better than Ischia Black but in my climate is just a poor fruit producer.
Maybe it does not like the climate here.
It is in ground planted.
Totally different than Kadota.

Jurupa is one of the first three figs I started growing I've written about it a couple of times.  I like Jurupa a lot and it is usually my first ripe fig of the season. In my opinion, the breba are close to or as good as the main crop.  My tree grew slowly the first couple of years but survived on infrequent watering and no fertilizer.  It now gets a little bit of water every week when I irrigate my chestnut orchard since I added a drip line for figs in that area.  Different people have different tastes (both taste preference and taste detection) and I do prefer figs with a balance of acidity and Jurupa has no acid I can taste, but I do enjoy a wide variety of tastes and Jurupa fits the bill nicely for a large sweet fig with good flavor.

Herman, I suggest trying to fertilize your trees with at least potassium.  Potassium is needed for fruit formation and is also said to help improve cold hardiness.  I also believe use of nitrogen early in the season (i.e., maybe up to early July) should help with growth and therefore fruit yields and should allow time for wood hardening by October.  If you use a form of nitrogen with ammonium (vs. nitrate) it takes a while to break down so maybe stop in June.

I just sold a few Jurupa cuttings for a pretty low price.  There are a couple left if anyone is interested.  (Search for the recent thread from me if you care to... I didn't come to this topic just to advertise with a link).

But I wanted to post to this thread because I agree with Herman's advice about it.  I think this is a variety that does better in warmer climates.  (I said as much before).  Though the tree itself has been a hardy tree here (very little winter die back) and a vigorous grower overall, it doesn't produce a lot of fruit in my location.  Probably a variety that's better suited to someplace warmer, in terms of productivity and fruit quality.  I'm not sure "how much" warmer really matters, and it looks like a desirable variety for people with the right climate.

Thanks Dennis, for posting about one of the varieties that are very good figs but don't get much attention.  I'm happy to see this sort of information still lives on F4F (rather than just all of that recent drivel).  Thanks Dennis!  Your posts are always worth reading.

Mike    central NY state, zone 5a