Figsy do you employ fig wasps to achieve that level of size and jamminess? If not, it would be crazy to see what those figs would look like if they were pollinated

Thanks

No fig wasps here, or ripe capri figs yet. I have a 9ft tall persistent capri fig tree that I hope will produce figs soon. I will try hand pollenating some of them and see what difference it makes.

I think the size and quality of the fruits is due to the very mild climate here. It's never to hot or to cold. To much heat and they ripen to fast and produce lower quality fruit. To much cold during ripening reduces the sweetness of the figs. Kind of a goldilocks climate, except for the rain, which is not much factor since the trees are covered.

I picked a bunch of Preto figs today, I know enough with the Preto figs!  I got 12 to ripen in the last 3 days.  These are the last ones on my tree, 52 figs ripened on this one tree in 11 months since the cutting rooted.  

 

They look huge and delicious. Congrats on the early productivity.

Figgysid I would love to munch one of those ...

LSU pruple:  Small/medium size purple fig, amber pulp, tight eye, rain resistant.  Good flavor, sweet, thin skin, no seed crunch.  Better than I was expecting,  since many have said they were disappointing tasting the first few years.   

    

Some unusual finds this week.  I found a branch on one of my Violet De Bordeaux fig trees was variegated.  Looks like five variegated leaves so far.  

 This morning I seen something unusual, a drop of purple syrup coming out of one of my Grise Olivette figs..  When I opened it I was surprised by the color of the interior...

 The other unusual thing I noticed, is the seeds looked much darker, bigger, rounder and more developed in comparison to regular Grise Olivette seeds.  Normally they are very small and undeveloped in a normal Grise Olivette fig (last picture).  Your guess is as good as mine.....  

 

 

I'm suffering from acute fig envy here!  Beautiful fruit Sid.

That Grise Olivette fig has the colors of my alma mater.  Geaux tigers!

 

I didn't taste it, just in case it was radioactive.. I think it was glowing...

I also wanted to save the seeds, which sank in water. I cut one in half and it had white embryonic tissue, like a viable seed would, so I'll see if they are.

My best guess right now is fig X purple sweet potato hybrid..

I recently propagated 50 additional Grise Olivette fig trees. So I will have many more opportunities to taste one, if they turn purple again..

 Is the Grise olivette color real or photoshopped?

Never seen anything like it, can be a bud mutation (sport) that caused this color.
If so, it might be a really awesome new cultivar!

The anthocyanins in figs might be acting as a ph indicator? Does not explain why the seeds sink though, weird and exciting stuff!

The background of pics in post #32 has a fair amount of purple granules. If those colored sands were in the pot, could the roots absorb it and color the fig interior? Could be wasp doing work for the swelling, big size and sunken seed? Just throwing out very remote possibilities if it's not a mutation.

Either way, weird is interesting... at least to me. : )

That's cool and super random!

Wow, I've never seen color like that in a fig. Looking forward to updates.

What extraordinary colouring!  If it continues, it would be interesting to see if a cutting from that branch is able to produce the same results.     

Two more ripened today.  Peter's Honey and Napolitana Negra.  

Napolitana Negra:  A large black fig with strawberry light red interior.  Very prolific, fig size 70-100 grams, closed eye.  Sweet, refreshing mild berry with some melon flavors.  

 

Peter's Honey:  Medium size, very sweet honey fig.  Open eye but sealed with a drop of Honey.  It has rained for two weeks straight. Very impressed it formed a drop of honey and flavor had no watering down at all.  My favorite honey fig.  

 

 

Thanks for sharing!

Flander:  Green Fig with Purple strips.  Large 60-100 grams, sweet sugar flavor, refreshing, syrupy fig, thin skin and tight eye. Only fig that has never split in the rain, out of around 1,000 Flanders figs that ripened this last year.  Five trees are in ground.

 This year so far has had the most rainfall in 30 years and were already the rainiest neighborhood in America in a normal year... :p  So big thumbs up for rain resistance.  











 Nopalitana Negra pics of the outside of the fruit and weight.  

How did the Napolitana Negra taste? I've read a bit about them this year! Thanks for the rain update on Flanders. A good test is 1000 so that's veryerry good result!

They taste very similar to black mission, but are larger and more productive. There are a few different varieties called Napolitana Negra. I got my cuttings from Marius.

I will only have two more varieties ripen in 2016. Raspberry Latte and Violet De Bordeaux.

I just noticed my seed grown fig trees that sprouted between January and April 2016 are starting to form figs.

I read that seedlings can take as long as 7-10+ years to form figs... My seedlings are between 6-9 months old. So they appear to be able to fruit just as fast from seed as from cuttings.

2017 may be much more interesting. I may get to try 100's of new seedling variety figs! Hopefully some will be good common figs and I can name them. :)

How is your napolitana negra with regards to splitting?  Exciting news on seedlings, someday in the far future I am going to grow some of the persistent caprifigs and do some breeding projects of my own.  I dont have nearly enough space and time for such an endeavor now though.  You will certainly have a lot of grafting stock!