Is Long Yellow a Capri fig? I had it for 3 years all the fruit fall off when they start getting large. They're also dry and hollow inside.

Not a problem here, at all. Large, juicy fruit, with a little splitting, some times.

Definitely a common fig, large size, splits like crazy on the coast, amber inside, tastes like a cucumber. I think it needs inland heat.

Hmmm...the two guys who have weighed in on this one are both in the land of the wasp :)  Is there any possibility this is a Smyrna type fig?  Anyone else gotten ripe fruit without pollination?

It's interesting that you say that. I have wondered about that myself. Is the wasp commonplace in socal? Living here do you not need a caprifig nearby to get something like a Zidi pollinated? The Long Yellows I have had were at Quail Botanical Gardens in Encinitas and a CRFG guy named Keith Harold's yard, also in Encinitas. Neither have anything remotely caprifigish anywhere near.

Hi Forrest,

I'm pretty sure I've heard Jon say that Smyrna type figs ripen for him even though he didn't have caprifigs nearby, but I may have this logged into memory incorrectly.  Jon?

I have viable seed, which everyone contends is not possible without pollination, which requires "the" wasp. Cannot prove existence of the wasp. Zidi figs appear to ripen here, but fall off after swelling and color change. Marabout is also falling off, though a couple look promising.   ??

The lady who wrote this article called "The Perfect Fig" (scroll down halfway)
http://www.edibleojai.com/pages/snippets/year2004/summer2004.htm

grows close to 80 varieties up in Ojai and told me that she has a Zidi planted away from her caprifigs and a Zidi planted near her caprifigs and the Zidi planted away sometimes matures some but drops most, in exactly the way Jon descibes. The Zidi planted near matures them all.

Paul Fisher out in El Cajon has knockout Zidis and he claims to not have a caprifig.

so... its a mystery

The Zidi look like is only partly Parthenocarpic.
In the world of figs every fig or hybrid of a fig is more or les one way or the other,Parthenocarpic or cauducous.
Very few are hundred percent Parthenocarpic,or ,No need of polination
So a fig can be 30 percent Parthenocarpic and seventy percent Cauducous,wich mean that without polination agent only 3 in ten fgs will stay on .
Hope this will help