This one still small, but interesting color

all i see is white?

Olga,

There you go Olga now it appears not white anymore.   ; )

Maltese Falcon will become your favorite in the future,and it will do much better in Florida compared to New Jersey,as the winter goes.

Olga, did your M.F. ripe? Any pictures?

Thanks

I eat one Maltese Falcon, second rat got..
Sorry, I didn't make pics..
Hopefully for the next one all rats will be dead, so I can wait till this one will real ripe, so I can make a pics and say something about taste..
I still have 3 more on a plant..
Interesting, but rats go for the best tasting figs..
They got White Greek... actually 3 of them, lots of Sal's Corleone, Maltese Falcon and they got my first Parsotta when this one still was very green..
So, I hope to try this one this year too, I do have few more on a plant..
So, hopefully when next Maltese Falcon will ready I will make a pics and post them..

Olga, you said, "Interesting, but rats go for the best tasting figs.."
Well, them rates have a good taste in figs they know which cultivator is the best :) Hey they might even taste good as M.F.
No seriously, get some glue traps and place them around the pots, that should help. Will be waiting to see the pics of your M.F.


Navid.

Olga, sorry to hear about your rat problem. I seem to be having the same. I checked my LSU Tiger yesterday and two of them had started to swell. The rats ate them last night. I've tried a rat trap but always fail even though the trap is snapped. I will try the glue traps also. Good luck with the rest of your M.F.
"gene"

@Gene....can you call Billy the Exterminator??

If anyone has grown Maltese Falcon from cuttings, is it an overly difficult cultivar to start from a cutting as opposed to other varieties?

Yes Rats and squirrels,go by smell,and the fruits that smell good get taken out first.

Sara, my rat problem is over for now. One Saturday morning after checking my in ground trees I walked to the other side of the house to check out my potted trees. There on the ground layed the RAT, dead as a doorknob. I don't know what happened to him. There are a couple of the neighbors cats that like to hang around my yard so maybe one of them got it and delivered it to the area right next to where I get in my truck every day. Cat like to show off their catch. OR, maybe it died of a concussion delivered to it by the trap that was always snapped. Maybe he took it on the head too many times. I also got rid of two pesky squirrels while I was at it using my special formula. The birds are not much a problem as I use my armor on the figs that are swelling. All is well in figland. Today I ate a couple of LSU Tigers, a Conadria a Strawberry and a Mead. Leaves are starting to drop fast here and it won't be long before I will be looking forward to that first bud break next year.
"gene"

@Gene...that is great to hear, all around.  I am saddened by the leaf drop, but I know in order for the plants to return in the Spring they need to go dormant.  It is strange, plants "hibernate", so do bears, snakes, many other animals...but not humans.  Though in winter, I would like to hibernate.
   Mead fig...have not tumbled across that one yet. Will need to read up on that.

Sara,
The Mead I have came from a generous forum member. The cuttings came from a tree growing in his Aunt Mead's, thus the name. It makes a nice round purpleish fig with distinct flavor. My tree is young and the taste might change but for now its sweet with an acid ending. The tree is very productive and has given me a lot of figs for a young tree.
"gene"