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Looking for green fig/red interior



I've got the above tree (Peter's Honey) in my yard. The picture is from the beginning of this year, so the tree looks different now. However this picture gives a good idea of what I'm going to do. I will be cutting the two bottom branches off and just have the top four, which all have 3 to 4 branches of their own now. Each one of these 4 sections will be a different fig. One will stay Peter's Honey (green fig/brown interior), the others: Panache (striped fig), Unknown Purple (Emma Prusch Park), and ? (I'm thinking green fig/red interior)

Any recommendations for a green fig with red interior? I heard Strawberry Verte is very good...
Any one have a variety to trade?

I have
-Peter's Honey (from Trees of Antiquity)
-VdB and Osborne Prolific (both from CRFG scion exchange)
-Unknown Purple from Emma Prusch fig orchard (EDIT: Confirmed VdB)

I tried about 15 figs before I found this one at Emma Prusch. If you ever ordered a flour-less chocolate cake and it had a raspberry sauce reduction on it, you probably ate the cake and tried to scrape up the rest of the sauce with your fork. This fig tastes like that sauce! Really rich, sweet, and berry like. 

The fig is the farthest one on the west side of the orchard. Some trees are labeled, this one wasn't. If anyone knows anyone who knows the figs at Emma Prusch let me know. Don't know why they don't prune their fig trees there, all the pomme and stonefruit gets pruned. 

I also have Santa Rosa Plum, IE Mulberry, Fuyu persimmon, Seckel Pear and some flowering currants in my yard that I can get cuttings from.

EDIT:
Oh well, the fig I'm describing is apparently VdB as I've been told by someone who has seen the map of fig trees at Emma Prusch. It's really good but maybe I'll have to find another purple fig to graft since I already have a young VdB in my yard. 
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Does your unknown purple taste like your VdB?
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JH Adriatic
Battaglia Green 
Green Ischia
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I will have Strawberry Verte cuttings approx 2/1 along with several hundred other varieties.
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From what I hear, JH Adriatic should be your top choice. 
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ohjustaguy - are you a member of CRFG?  Karl has a map of the orchards which I looked at a couple of weeks ago when I went for the scion exchange.  They prune some of the fig trees but only some that somebody once decided were worth bothering with, I think.
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I will have Strawberry Verte cuttings approx 2/1 along with several hundred other varieties.


Can't wait.....

Jennifer
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Calvert. only problem is ones from UCD is full of FMV. i'll find out of it put on the fig or have other issue this year.
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Stella, Vasilika Sika, Paradiso, ...

I want Sangue.
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Originally Posted by HarveyC
ohjustaguy - are you a member of CRFG?  Karl has a map of the orchards which I looked at a couple of weeks ago when I went for the scion exchange.  They prune some of the fig trees but only some that somebody once decided were worth bothering with, I think.


Harvey,

Got your email, replied to it with the two pictures here:


I should have taken a close up picture of the fruit/leaves. It's planted real close to another tree as you can see from pic...last tree in the fig orchard...

Not a member, came to the exchange @11am when it opened to public. Weren't that many figs there (when compared to everything else). When I went tasting in the orchard late September I thought many of the figs were pedestrian. However this one really stood out. It does remind me of VdB, I hope it's not that! Tastes better than my VdB but my tree is young and not getting as much sun as this one. 

I'll reply to the PM's I got later...
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Sent an email already, that tree is VdB.  The mulberry to the left is San Martin and the fig to the right is Jurupa.  I think the figs are largely ignored there.  They have a work day the first Saturday or Sunday of most months, though many get cancelled due to weather.  I have thought of getting more involved and helping out with those trees.  It is a very active chapter and I suggest you join, the cost is well worth it, IMO.
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What about Atreano?

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Kevin, I went back to Prusch on Saturday, sort of a last minute decision (fighting a cold for three weeks now).  That mulberry next to the VdB was recently cut down for some unknown reason.
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VdB ripen at right weather condition is extremely good. i mean, knock you off your socks good. dry, all sun, and hand watered. left in the out with rain all last year, wasn't as good. edible, but all the flavor has bled out. 2011 was really really good. no rain during the ripening time.
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Kevin, I went back to Prusch on Saturday, sort of a last minute decision (fighting a cold for three weeks now).  That mulberry next to the VdB was recently cut down for some unknown reason.


Wow.... I was looking forward to tasting that later in the year! 

It was healthy too, close to the VdB but not really competing. Oh well...
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Grafting more than one  cultivar on a tree,introduces more than one Fig mosaic disease on every each of the grafts +  the rootstock.
You  risk the situation that your new  tree ,is not growing or producing any better than the notorious Ischia Black.
If you do decide to create such a tree,you should let Know other people ,if you trade cuttings with them,that you have a combination fig tree,and cuttings come from that combination.
Just my 2 cents.
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Here is my Atreano from Belleclare Nursery. PM me if you're interested in cuttings of this green fig with red interior. It's delicious.

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