Funny thing about the curling leaves ive had that problem for a few years they also go yellow,i also spray them but didnt know there name thanks.
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Did she tell you a pussy was tugging at your fig? :)
Funny thing about the curling leaves ive had that problem for a few years they also go yellow,i also spray them but didnt know there name thanks.
I'm back!
Another of my figs is almost ripe. My Black Genoa, in 1-3 days should be ready to pick and taste, and I'm excited! It is large and dark, and beautiful.
Update on taste in a day or two!
Any of you Australian figgers have pictures of ripe Zaharia, Pink Jerusalem, Blue Provence and Preseton Prolific?
Thanks
Thanks Bill,
I saw the Pink Jerusalem on the above post. I was hoping someone had a ripe one to share.
Hopefully someone has pictures of them.
I looked at the link you provided for the Preston. I somehow missed it. Thanks again.
[/QUOTE Beautiful.. just beautiful... your going to be loving it as it slips down your waiting gullet ... lol.Hey all, I thought I would share my collection, from Canebrra Australia. I have 11 varieties total, the 10 below and another which I don’t have a pic for right now for some reason – Prestons Prolific.
All are doing well except for my blue province which is heavily affected by FMV, and is kind of struggling. Another plant I got from the same nursery as a bare rooted plant St Dominque Violette never woke up after winter, so I am reservations about their stock, although they will replace the violette next winter. The third fig I got from their nursery the white nicollina is doing very well, as well as some cherries I got as well, so maybe I got unlucky with these two other figs.
Anyway here they are! I have only had them for about 9 months and have not yet had the chance to taste any of them, so very excited to wait the next few months!
White Adriatic
Brown Turkey
Black Genoa
White Niccolina
Yellow Excell
Italian Honey
Blue Province
Pink Jerusalem
My Mystery Cutting
If you go to a nursery it can cost approx $28-$40 Aussie dollars. Most nurseries have limited varieties which is weird given the history of figs in Australia and the multitude of varieties that were once available. Figs were grown here well before the Greeks and Italians settled in large numbers. A greater number of varieties are available in South Australia because part of it has a Mediterranean type climate.
I sold my spare plants recently for $15 which seems to be the average price on Aussie eBay etc. One guy bought 5 varieties from me in one go but I gave him one for free. I like to spread some joy. ;)
Well I ended up picking this fig two days ago, black genoa
It was quite a large fig, but tasted very average, not much flavour or sweetness.. thick skin, kind of dry inside! I am putitng it down to the horrible weather we are having, with days upon days in the high 30s to 40+o C. Will it never end?! My blueberries are really starting to get angry!
I also went back to the donor tree of my mystery cutting a few weeks ago, and by luck there was a breba ripened, or very close to, i think i picled it about 2 days early! Its a green fig with a bit of a wine mark stain.. quite tasty!
My mystery cutting is really starting to take off too, so I am quite looking forward to it having rapid growth over the next few years!
Blue provence is a dark fig
Its a late maturing fig, large undulated leaves and big figs
Over the last few weeks I have been able to try a few more of my figs.
Yellow Excel produced small, sweet but dry fruit, but I suspect this is due to all the super hot weather we have had.
My mystery cutting ripened two absolutely delicious figs, which I forgot to snap some pictures of. Green, sweet, tasty. MMMMMMM
White adriatic produced a couple of sweet yummy figs, honey like;
And this morning I picked a whopper of a Black Genoa, which was totally delicious to boot, so much nicer than the breba posted earlier! I am pretty sure this is the largest fig I have ever seen, and hope this tree continues to grow huge delicious fruit! We have had heaps of rain over the last few days so perhaps this contributed.. A nice change from the horrible hot, dry year to date.
Apple for scale!
I wished I weighed it! I cant even remember properly for an idea, I am a little sleep deprived, wife gave birth to twins last week :)
Heya, well to be honest Im trying to think back to answer some of these questions, we are in the final month of winter now, so its been a few months, and the new babies have left me quite sleep deprived!
Thinking back, I picked a number of other fruit from this plant, I cant say I know much about Black Genoa as a variety over any other variety, but I can tell you that my particular plant seems to starts off the season favouring 3 lobed leaves, and then later in the season favouring large 5 lobed leaves. It is quite a vigorous plant, but is particularly frost sensitive, losing many leaves in a frost at the start of the year, when others right next to it kept theirs. It also seems quite susceptible to rust toward the end of the season.
I recall the fruit being excellent, and next to my White Adriatic the best flavoured, but I cannot remember if it was a berry or honey type flavour. The fruit were always quite large, and I don’t recall anything particularly remarkable about the skin.
I cant recall the exact size of the apple sorry. The fruit was probably ripe when I picked it, though I get quite impatient, so it possible had a few days left in it. I believe it was main crop, although some of my plants had breba figs that seemed to take forever to ripen, perhaps into Feb…
Here is a picture of the full plant taken on March 18. I hope that helps!
