My most awesome breba variant in 2014 for productivity, good fruit size and excellent taste is GRANTHAMS ROYAL. The fig looks much like Dauphine. I would certainly recommend this variant to all folks who rely on a good breba crop. As for reliability, I will give it one more season to confirm. My tree is about 6 yrs old. Grown in-ground and never protected in winter. My tree was imported from Jon. Mr.Jack Rice told me he gave Jon some cuttings. Many thanks to JRice for his unselfish mannerism in sending Jon cuttings. This variant would be the King for brebas in my yard if it is reliable.

Very nice looking figs, thanks for sharing. 

Really beautiful and productive looking Paully.
Good to know about these , may need to give them a try here to compare to others.
For me Filacciano Bianco is very promising.

That looks beautiful Paully.  Where are you located?

Thanks for the info Paully. Great looking figs.

Great update, thanks Paully. I look forward to trying this variety!

Great looking fig there Paul! I had a couple breba from my young Vincenzo and they were nice too.
Tyler

Located in southern British Columbia, Canada, zone6/7.

@Kerry -- I will be sending my Filacciano away. It is quite similar to DK. I am taking out my extra DK and
planting another Granthams. I will be getting a replacement Olympian from a local collecter and hopefully
I can add Laradek BT to compliment my collection of awesome breba figs. Granthams Royal in my place is
awesome -- well balance taste, not overly sweet and juicy. My good friend Michael sample it and he too
concluded that it is better than DK.

Note -- I have Dauphine and thus far it is susceptible to die backs. Hence this season I have protected it.

Wow ,both you and Michael giving it the lead over Desert King ,the old workhorse breba for BC, that is very high praise.

Hi Paully22,
Seems to be a nice cultivar that "Granthams Royal".
You know we like to see them eyes and heart inside :) - we are poets - Do you have some pics ?
Do you have a pic were I could see some leaves in their whole .
At which date were those figs ripe ?

From what I see, this is not "Dauphine". Dauphine is darker and a late cropper . I have in the neighborhood a Dauphine that made her brebas ... in October ...
Or she had no brebas - I checked the tree in July and August for ripe figs and no fig was close to ripen ...
Well, I like to own the figs for myself, and I stumbled on one Dauphine at a nursery, so I now have one Dauphine planted in my garden .
I'll see how resistant and productive it will be . By the way is yours dropping the maincrop ? - Dauphine could be a San Pietro type. Mine will tell for sure in the future .

Some pictures here of a ripe Granthams Royal fig. They do get darker. I don't normally let them go to that stage as they tend to disappear. Neighbours or strangers pick them as the tree is located up front close to the road. I have a guy that rides his bicycle from town and comes around to snack them especially my RdB's. Hopefully I can find pic of leaf shape in my computer. My friend Michael was in France in late July and he send me pictures of Dauphine figs he bought at a store. I sure hope they don't ripen in Oct. My tree has
exhibited lots of main crop. As a san pedro fig, they never ripen. With winter protection this year, good chance I will get to sample Dauphine in 2015. Breba crop is key to enjoying figs for me as during Fall, I get too involve with my fishing buddies.

http://figs4funforum.websitetoolbox.com/post/pic-25th-july-2014-granthams-royal-in-pnw-7009906?highlight=granthams+royal&pid=1283771542#post1283771542

Wow Paul, that Granthams Royal does look great beautiful exterior color and pulp too and tastier than DK that's really something.

Nelson, I would not be sending you cuttings. I would make you an air layer so that you don't need to
wait 3 to 4 years. If it is reliable, DK would drop a notch as GR is really good tasting. This season I ate
5 or less DK because GR is so good tasting. GR ripens around the same time as DK.

The interior is very unique for sure!

Thank you Paul, that sounds great.

Im already a big fan of Desert king this Granthams Royal will be a lovely addition.

Grrantam's royal seems like an awesome fig. Nice reddish color, big and productive. The fact that it's grown in ground and never protected in Canada is pretty astonishing too. Best of luck paully22!

Respectfully, without trying to offend in any way, I had Grantham's Royal (JR) and Dauphine and grew them side by side. I thought that they were one in the same fig. The fruit quality of GR (and Dauphine) was excellent. The only problem I had was that it dropped the main crop and so both were donated. In their place came Violette Dauphine- very similar to Bourjassot Noire. By far a different fig with a similar name, except no fig drop.

Granthams main crop abort their figs here. It is a san pedro variant. With cooler summers here it is a happy choice.
Generally for main crop I rely on quite a few varieties like RdB, Latarrula, Osborne Prolific, O'Rourke, Salem Dark, Mt Ethna
type figs, Melanzana, Nebo, Genovese Nero, etc. A variant that I hope for main crop productivity is Jack Lily.

Looks nice, Paul.  I'm having a hard time keeping track and remembering but believe my favorite breba is still Jurupa.  Seems about on par with quality of main crop.  Not a complex flavor but nice honey type fig.

Great looking fig there Paul,
GRANTHAMS ROYAL seem as Lampeira preta

 as Francisco  describe Lampeira preta   : It is by far the most popular breba in Portugal

 

 


Link:
http://figs4funforum.websitetoolbox.com/post/lampeira-preta-ground-non-irrigated-6927739?highlight=lampeira&pid=1283112788#post1283112788

Productive Granthams Royal 2014 early June

Lovely tree you have there, Paul.

Figs look good too

Impala