I have a couple if these from Jon growing well now.

Does anyone have experience with them? What do they taste like?

They are biferes. Is the second crop early or late?

Discuss.

Hi,
If my Lda continues like that I'll toast her. All my trees are in ground with some winter protections.

I bought her in September 2010, and got 6 figs to taste since that date. Those figs are really good .
But since 2012, the weather is crazy here. Last year she had 2 brebas, and they dropped because of the cold spring and no maincrop appeared because of late Spring - but some other cultivars did that bad as well .
This year, I don't see brebas hanging on for now, but, it is perhaps still too soon.

The tree is growing for now, and is a meter high from dirt - one stems split in two at half height- without any pruning ! So a sloooooooooooooow grower for me - and with no root-shoot at all ! --> that gets me *#*#*# !!!
To compare I bought a "Dalmatie" at the same time, and Dalmatie is two meters of height with 8 stems from the dirt and a dozen root shoots that I removed. Had some 20 Dalmatie figs for now.
To compare I had bought a "Sultane" at the same time, and she died to the cold of February 2012 !

How old are your trees ? When did you root them ?

They were twigs 3/8" in diameter. I rooted them a couple months ago. Some of the leaves are "6 long now

Longue d'août is said to taste quite good. It hates heavy, wet soil and doesn't do well when there is a lot of rain. It is quite hardy but its resistance to frost gets weaker the less
drained the soil is.
Breba fruit ripen in July, in a banana-like shape, fruit are light red inside, the autumn crop is from end of August to October, figs are then a bit smaller, rounder and red inside.
Bushy growth, does well in pots as it doesn't grow very high.
I hope this can help.
Have a nice day.
Lilli

leaves and breba. i want quarterly reports from your LdA and action plan on how to make sure it will survive next few yrs. 

 

 

Hi Rich
I have that fig and love it, it's a fast grower, very productive, very large figs and very tasty, it's a must have fig.

Vito

Is the eye closed on LdA ? Was wondering about it for FL growing.

Pattee I plan on taking my to Florida, will see what happens?
Vito

It's not liking rain has always been my concern in growing it in FL. I'd be interested in hearing more about it also.

I'm assuming yours is in a pot since it's going mobile. Do you harvest both crops?

Calvin all my fig are in pots.
I do harvest both crops when I don't knock the off during the fig shuffle.
Vito