Taste wise:as good as it can be in our condition,early and excellent tasting.

Stella start ripening on August 21,(See post #15),and today I harvested 4 fully ripe fruits and many more are in the course of getting ripe.
This fig,has many names in my opinion,like White Greek,Vasilika Sika,Dalmatian,San Pietro,and Stella.
The proper name for this fig in my opinion,is Dalmatian,as it originates on the Dalmatian coast ,today Croatia,and not Greece.
The fact it is early and cold and rain resistant,tells it is from Dalmatian coast adapted to rainy climate,and if it was ,originating in Greece,it will not need to be cold and rain resistant as Greece is mild and dry.
This fig resist rain very well,the eye is very small and it fills with amber stopping the water from getting in,which is a must for my climate.
As long as you got one of the name enumerated above and the plant is healthy,you got a Winner,but be noted,diseased plant will never produce or resist Winter like my plant does.
I had San Pietro from The Germaplasm collection,at Davis,and it died in third year despite heavy Winter protection,tho not before it made a couple of fruits and yes it is the same cultivar.
here are pixes,of this Winner 5 years old plant!

Herman,

If your cuttings turn out anything like the mother tree as far as not dropping any figs and with the same taste you will like it I guarantee. At least we will know soon huh! a BIG plus is how many figs come from the mother tree year after year!

Herman,
 It is true that most of Greece is much milder and warmer than the Dalmation coast, but the mountanous northwest interior of Greece is much wetter and colder than other parts of Greece so it is possible that the origin could be there as well and then later spread to the Dalmation coast through trade roots of the Roman Empire.

 Peter

Atreano main crop ripe today,pix.
Very good and  resist rain and water in soil better than many others.
I also had Kathleen Black main crop,figs yesterday(second pix) excellent tasting.

Thanks for the pics, those figs look awesome!

Pete

From reading Herman's ripening dates for various cultivar over the last few years, I learned that on the average I just have to wait two to three weeks for the same cultivars to ripen at my location in zone 5a. I am happy with that even though we get frost earlier here.

Tacoma Violet, from Gene Hosey collection,very good tasting,but due to climatic condition this year the color is off,tho a little violet hue can be observed,but in 2010 they were much nicer looking and excellent tasting,drying on tree.
A good early cultivar no doubt,and here is the pix with today harvest.

Herman. would I be correct if I said that your Tacoma Violet, ripens, about three weeks after your Marseilles Black VS?

Ottawan, which is your earliest ripening fig cultivar, and do you have any figs in ground?

Bob - Zone 5 Connecticut

I would say 2 weeks later than Marseilles black vs and Improved Celeste(Not O Rourke),because it was already ripening fruits for about a week now but ,only a couple a day.
Today I had a larger amount so I took a pix.

My Florea ripened ahead of my every other cultivar this year. It is a two year old plant. Somehow my other early ripening cultivar lie Marseilles VS Black, Natalina ripened after Florea, Gino and surprisingly RDB. I did not know I was eating an RDB fruit but the taste was so good so I decided to check the tag and it said RDB.
Probably my Marseilles VS Black, Natalina need root pruning for more vigour which coupled with heat waves delayed ripening even though one may think the heat waves should have helped which may be true only if properly watered which was not the case.

For the last two weeks i've been picking main crop Cali Brown turkey on my inground tree. Taste is superb. This may sound weird, but you almost taste cocoa in the fig.

HC and Barry's Honey Unknown will be ready this week. Northern NJ

Yes Otawan,Florea has no rival in earliness here,it is 2 weeks before any fig in my backyard,no other cultivar ripe as early as Florea.
It has a hard time here because of rain and humidity,but in your locale could be much better tasting.

Edit Note:Today ,1 inch + rain fell at 10 am,and sometimes pouring water ,while sunny outside,and very hot after rain,which lasted one hour only,but dumped a lot of water on already moist soil.
A lot of my figs spoiled again .
The most resilient,of the rain damage, today was Atreano and Improved Celeste,and here is the pix with them:

Herman,

These figs, the Stella in particular, are fantastic. What a collection you have!

My brown turkey started to show signs of ripening out of nowhere the other day. It seemed like within a day one of the figs had doubled in size and was coloring near the eye and on the top. When I checked it today the eye had opened and I could see all the innards clearly. Hopefully the recent rain won't ruin things.

I know this is only a brown turkey, seems silly even mentioning such a plant with all the more exotic names floating round. Still, I'm very excited this could be my first fig. Might post a pic If everything works out.

I'm in Wilm DE.

Thanks Tim:I have to select the most rain resistant or else other cultivars can't satisfy here.

Ronde De Bordeaux,had  first harvest today,in the forth year,and tho rain was present in the last 5 days,manage to ripe very good flavored and sweet fruits.
I think it got potential to become one of a handful of excellent tasting fig cultivars that can take the rain here,especially when getting older.
I see why so many people rave about it,but for now my fruits were only very good tasting ,one notch down from, excellent,due to rain.
Here are pixies:

Today we had the first Takoma Violet and my wife liked it better than the Ronde de Bordeaux.
I remember last year TV was a real favorite.
Still eating Florea(in ground) , RdB , LSU Improved Celeste(a  few) and had one very large Lyndhurst White that had split so we picked it early.
Waiting on many other varieties to ripen.
Picture of TV is somewhat fuzzy.

Very nice crop as usual Herman!


In all the years I've been at this, this season is the FIRST time I've been picking ripe figs almost daily in the month of August. It started about 10 days ago, in all the years prior, it was primarily September and even as late as first week of October, weather permitting.

Overall so far, I'm very happy with what we've picked, decent looking and average to above average in taste.

Today,I had some decent tasting,Stella and Kathleen Black,one notch lower in taste than in 2010,but very good considering the difficult climatic conditions this Summer,and here is the pix.

More Takoma Violet ripening now.
A great full rich fig flavor , no berry notes .
My wife says she would eat all of these TV fresh and make jam out of the Improved Celeste if we had enough.
A real keeper here.

Thats a great looking fig Kerry. I should be able to taste one or two next year.

luke

Yesterday I had 2 cultivars getting ripe properly,after a couple of days without rain.
They were :
Ischia Black
JH Adriatic
Last night i couldn't wait anymore and I removed and ate the JH Adriatic,but left the Ischia Black on.
This Morning I found only the peduncle of the Ischia Black fruit on the ground,and the next one ,that was in course of ripening missing too.
And I had a net over the little tree.
The JH Adriatic was excellent tasting for a white fig.

Sorry to hear you could not taste that Ischia Black Herman i know you treasure eating that fig because you mention its top notch in taste.

Hi Martin:There are about 6 more but now I am at a loss:I have no way to protect the fruits any better.
I think it was Field mouses coming from underground and ate the fruits over night.
This is happening only to very short trees,like this Ischia Black that after 8 years it is only about 1.5 foot tall now.
Field mouses do not climb on tall trees but they will on short ones,and they come trough the ground under the nets,and there is nothing we can do about it,net will not work!.

Herman are they crawling under the net and getting in or actually leaving holes in the ground near the bark they are digging through to get to the fruit?

I have had some luck deterring chipmunks crawlling under the net to my blueberries.

You can probably protect them if you know exactly the mechanism of their attack.

One can see the hole in the ground they came up to the surface,real close to the tree.
I also see them sometimes,they have sharp long noses and short tail,grey in color.
My dog kill some of them but not all.

Maybe try this:

Lay cheap tarp under the tree extending out a foot or two beyond where the netting is fastened to the ground. Fasten tarp and netting to ground. Overlay tarp with big and small rocks.