A record breba crop this season for this San Pedro cultivar - Lampeira Preta

 
 
 
 
 

LP main crop just pollinated showing 'twins' on this particular branch
 
 


Francisco
Portugal

Really nice pictures, Francisco!
Brebas will only start to ripen here in one month.
If things go well, I will be able to taste this variety too in a couple of years.
Maybe you could air layer that ‘twins’ branch?

Nice. For my zone the breba crop is the way to go. Hope my Lamperia will deliver next season.

Beautiful, Francisco. My brebas are still a couple of weeks from ripening, here in zone 9. Our weather is turning warmer, so I am very hopeful. Perhaps the Caprifig I got from Harvey will release some friends to help with the main crop!

Thanks for sharing the information on this variety with us. The pictures are great! I had a few cuttings of this variety root this year so hopefully will have some pictures of my own to post in the next year or two.

Thank you All for your kind comments.

Francisco
Portugal

Very nice figs, they look delicious. I see that even portuguese birds are fond of figs,
i could not taste a breba this year due to the fly larvae, ants, crows and jays.

I hope i can enjoy my first Lampeiras of my plant next year.

Nice ones Francisco. They look more fruity than the Nazrati.

Those main crop are packed and pollinated ready for the heat of the summer .

I am not going out of the closet here but portuguese male fig tree sure provide the stuff-hope to house them soon with some baby wasps.

Thanks Francisco!   Nice looking fig!
Can you tell how the breba tastes?

If anyone has an extra of one of these in the states, I'd love to trade. Been after this one for a while now for it's fantastic brebas.

Francisco thanks,

Did the main crop in your pictures accepted polination( i see some white dots on the skin) ?

Thanks.

The two pis are from main crop of Maya and Lampeira.
Both are San Pedro's I believe.

The one with 4 figs is Lampeira and it has some white dots.

Would it be a sign of captification?

Dear Francisco, you mention in your post above, that you dry,  and refrigerate the dried figs ? Do you mean freeze or refrigerate ? I had one of my big jars of dried figs go moldy this year, starting from one fig - thats why I ask. Also: Do you have a household-method to judge/measure if a fig is dry enough for storage ?

Have nice first year plants of Lampeira Preta and Lampeira Parda, so within the next couple of years, I expect to taste the breba crop of these fine Portugese figs.

Deliscious looking dried figs, Francisco. Okay so this is an expensive hobby. Every day I discover ONE more thing I (cross out "need") WANT. I must break the news to my husband...we need a clay oven (besides the LP cuttings!). Your method for drying sounds great, Francisco.

What an interesting method of drying !

These dried/ roasted figs look so much better than the one I eat from a commercial product. Francisco, you will make a killing if you package and sell them.

Hi Francisco, thanks for the clarification, -15C, that means the freezer will kill the bugs if any are present. If I just store the figs the Whole time in the freezer, I can also prevent mold. I guess now i have to clean out my clay oven and make pizza again, so we can have roasted dried figs for dessert ! Looking forward to tasting those dried figs of Yours with the famous crunchy seeds that only are present in the "real" lands of smyrna figs.

My oven is not an original portugese clay oven either, but a home made dry-stacked construction of fire-bricks, but It will have to do.

More semi off topic : Can you belive it Francisco, this summer here in Scandinavia, was so warm, long and sunny, that figs are still ripening at the end of September (Main crop starting now), and the Atlantic sardines and the Tunas that follow them, decided to swim all the way up here. One Norwegian fisherman caught 190 tunas in one go, and anglers are reporting tunas and sardines all over the place,  right now in Danish Waters for the first time in my 50-years lifetime. Umm the smell of Sardinhas asados, just like when you walk the sidestreets of any town in Algarve on a summer night  !  Now I am only waiting for the fig wasp  to arrive and work its magic ! (ok, thats very unlikely, I know, but I keep dreaming...).