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Lindhurst White

I have this tree in the third year 2 foot tall,a cutting from another older Lindhurst White I sold  5 years ago.
This young cutting is loaded with large yellow figs,with nice tight eye,and doing great.
I am going to let them ripe properly and judge them again about taste and flavor.
I had a breba from it this year,it was strawberry inside,and very good.
My opinion ,so far is that if anyone is looking for a comercial white for the purpose of selling the fruit,look no farther.
O ,yes,I forgottrn to mention I tested it last winter,by letting it without frost protection,all winter.
No frost damage what ever.,at 8*F.
The forth pix,is my other fruit harvest today:MM good

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Lovely photos Herman, I rooted a few of these this past winter but unfortunately lost all of them due to rookie mistakes. Definately on the top of my list on figs to get, thanks for posting the pics & Info seems like a great fig to try in Canada.

Herman, I agree, of my trees, this one seemed to be a fighter against the cold. No die back.

I have been picking ripe lynnhurst white since last week. It's a good producer of large sweet white figs. 

Bass, which do you like the most, Lindhurst White or Brooklyn White, and why?


Bob

Herman, Looks good!  Your fig look exactly like the tree I have called "Green Turkey".  I got this tree from HD last year....I let it sit outside all winter unprotected in a 5 gallon pot and it came back in rare form.  The interior is very sweet and some are pink and some are red.  I thought it was Arteano but the leaf patterns are not the same and interior color is different and taste was different.  I need to see more pics of Lyndhurst White leaf pattern before labeling it.  But it look very much like it.  If anyone has leaf patterns of this fig please post them.  thanks

The first two years I had Lynnhurst white it was tasteless. However it was a small fig. Now it has grown and I have it in a container, It produced good figs last year and this year. Brooklyn white I have it now for several years and has been the most productive fig. It produces two crops, and has a honey like flavor. It's a bit different in flavor than Lynnhurst white. 

I have to try the Lynnhurst white in the ground next summer so I can judge them better. 

This WAS my LW mama (RIP) when it was still very young.
Back then it was still an unkown fig.
Later KK (the finder), dubbed it with its current name LW.
The fruit pic was the first one and it had exceptionally
red pulp (later fruit was with AMBER pulp).


LW plant:



LW Fruit:


LW split fruit (unusually red pulp):

gorgi, is it possible that it was a breba fig that had the darker pulp?

I have no idea; most probably it was the bottom-most fruit on the young
plant shown. Looking at the old pic, it seems to be JUST below the
green/brown junction of the twig, i.e., so yes a breba?
[E: looking at the same dates of pics, it must have been even more below.
also, it must have been GH-wintered for the first year.] 

I had 2 Breba and both were that strong strawberry color.
I remember about 3 years ago,when I had the older tree I sold,then I had main crop and it was pink inside.

Well, I have been in search for a LW.  I asked Bass the other day if he had any.  Jon, I hope you have some cutting for sell this Fall.  If so, please think of me.  cheers!

Herman2- Has Lindhurst White performed well this year in all the rain? Is it still your top pick for a white commercial variety?

It is Performing just as Well,but Atreano has better late Fall fruits(October).
The Summer fruits are same quality but Lindhurst ripe them all in the Summer,and that is it.
Yes if I had commercial I would choose Lindhurst,but for my needs Atreano is better.
One other reason is that Lindhurst is getting ripe exactly in the rainy period here(August 1st to Aug 30),so that is a problem for my climate.

Thank you for the good advice.
A shorter cropping window would make picking much more efficient, and sales in August are much better than later in the fall.
I see clearly how you have come to your conclusion.
I will grow LW and Atreano both and decide later which one to have more of.

Herman, I have both Lyndhurst White and Conadria and they look pretty much the same to me.  Are there any major differences?

You must not Be Fignut from Rhode Island,because MaryAnne,will see the difference right away.
Of course they are different,Conadria is ill with FMV,dies in the Winter,makes smaller figs that are amber,inside and not pink.
Conadria is an inferior fig compared to Lindhurst White.


Herman, I wish it was that easy, LOL.  I got my Conadria from Paradise just before they closed and it isn't showing any noticeable FMV symptoms.  I got my Lyndhurst directly from Keith so it's the true variety.  This is the two trees together.

Conadria left, Lyndhurst White right



Conadria leaves
 


Lyndhurst leaves
 


Conadria on tree
 


Lyndhurst White on tree
 


Conadria left, Lyndhurst White right
 


I mentioned the similarity to Keith and he said they were different figs.  But I can't see any difference.

Last Pix is: Lindhurst white ,top!
                 Conadria Bottom!
I see a lot of difference.
Interior color,neck,size,are different.
As for the leaves,yes they are similar,but it is not same fig.
My opinion,is that,A lot of large white figs were hybridized using a mother fig with that type of leaves,so the new hybrids,show very similar leaves.
Atreano,143x36,278x128, and others,also have this leaf type.

Herman,   When I uploaded the fig interior picture to Photobucket, it rotated to vertical.  I had to rotate it back to horizontal by editing.  (I think Photobucket automatically orients the date to the bottom.)  The editing doesn't seem to take effect for a while.  I had changed the wording on a previous post only to have it be wrong when the editing kicked in, so I left the caption on this one knowing that it would eventually rotate.  It has fixed itself and is showing left to right now.  The Conadria is the fig to the left.

I've seen Conadria pulp almost black.

Conadria breba
 


 A lot of normally light figs darken in cooler weather.  I don't know if it's the temperature directly, or if the temperature dropping slows ripening and allows more time for color to develop.  Or if it is light intensity related instead of temperature related - I have no proof of what's going on, but it happens.

I absolutely agree that there are figs in that family that are very similar - add Jurupa and Galbun.  There are usually subtle differences, but I can't tell these two apart.  That was why I asked for some particular difference I could look for.  

I have to say that variations you noted seem normal to me - even within fruit on the same tree.  If you notice, the on tree photos are very similar.




Breba if Caprified will have a dark interior like that.
It seem you live in a climate that pollination is possible.
Yet even on the tree the neck on Lindhurst is longer.
These are different figs,for sure.
If they are similar you keep only one for yourself but if you intend to distribute you positivelly need to have 2,so you do not trade or sell one as the other.
Because,there are other things that are different like cold tolerance.
Someone buy Lindhurst white to have the crop get ripe all of once and to push the envelope of growing it in a colder climate for comercial.
If you send him Conadria instead ,the first winter ,after that the person leaves his 50 new figs unprotected and next Spring all are dead.?
That is what will happened,in a hypothetical example if we think they are the same.

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