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My First Ronde de Bordeau

After 4 years I finally got a fig from one of my RdBs

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Lucky me  :)
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Is the inside brown ?

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Yes,i can see 4years of maturation ...:)
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Congrats!  Taste?  :)
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I think I saw one of those in a sand pile the other day.
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Was it worth the wait
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I do not know,:My fruits of this cultivar are ,red inside and wonderful tasting!

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I think that's last yrs crop!! Mine seem to swell, shrivel, then fall faster than most figs. So maybe it's last months fig.
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Hello everybody,

I'm curious, is it that difficult to get a RDB? Are they rare and expensive because I can get them here for like $8

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Originally Posted by kkk2210
Hello everybody,

I'm curious, is it that difficult to get a RDB? Are they rare and expensive because I can get them here for like $8

Can you get trees or cutting for 8 dollers. What rare in your area is very cheap in my area and vice versa. The nature of the beast. Richie from louisiana

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Originally Posted by nycfig
Congrats!  Taste?  :)


It tasted like moldy lime flavored cardboard.  :)

This is not the usual for RdB.  This is an aborted fig as can happen on any tree.  I just figured those of you who were jealous of all those 9.5/10 figs might enjoy a laugh at my expense.   :)
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Originally Posted by figpig_66
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Originally Posted by kkk2210
Hello everybody,

I'm curious, is it that difficult to get a RDB? Are they rare and expensive because I can get them here for like $8

Can you get trees or cutting for 8 dollers. What rare in your area is very cheap in my area and vice versa. The nature of the beast. Richie from louisiana


Richie,
RDB, violette de sollies, dalmatie, sultane, and lots more from a French nursery was €6 . Panache , white Adriatic, violette dauphine, Brunswick, precose de dalamtie from my local nursery was £3.99, £3.59. All in 1.3 litre pots. But there are expensive ones like black Tuscan , cdd family . Baud sells for €36 I think for 2.5 litres. Mr pons sells cuttings for €5 ( could be more this year ).

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I was wondering if pons would go up on his price. He might just be a nice guy !! Lol. He is a good man even if he goes up. They are the wanted fig varieties

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Hi,
Funny ! Is that what they call "dead ripe" ? LOL . Although that one was dead before ripe :P 
I'm still holding on to get that one, because of the supposed big size of the tree.
The last one I tried is "Pastiliere" -supposed to be a smaller tree- and I'm still biting my hands for that !

@kk2210: Are those trees TCs ? How many years do you wait to get fruits from them? Here it takes 20€ to get a fruiting fig tree, 8€ for a TC that will take her time to fruit (3 years in general).
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Originally Posted by figpig_66
I was wondering if pons would go up on his price. He might just be a nice guy !! Lol. He is a good man even if he goes up. They are the wanted fig varieties


Hi,

Yes he's an amazing gentleman . I don't think he will increase the price as people are not that crazy about figs in UK , In France and Spain they can easily get hold of varieties, but overall I believe if he sells cuttings for let's say €15 , then he might just get me and other EU forum members. But that's just my thought. Yes he got some amazing varieties. Love this guy .
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Originally Posted by jdsfrance
Hi,
Funny ! Is that what they call "dead ripe" ? LOL . Although that one was dead before ripe :P 
I'm still holding on to get that one, because of the supposed big size of the tree.
The last one I tried is "Pastiliere" -supposed to be a smaller tree- and I'm still biting my hands for that !

@kk2210: Are those trees TCs ? How many years do you wait to get fruits from them? Here it takes 20€ to get a fruiting fig tree, 8€ for a TC that will take her time to fruit (3 years in general).


Hi, yes they are not too big, maybe 2 year old but mine has got two main crop . The bigger ones are like £15 so maybe like $25. But I saw someone selling RDB for like hundreds of dollars . So I was just wondering if this was a rare variety.

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Originally Posted by alanmercieca
Vinny I could technically get Ronde De Bordeaux for cheap, just shipping or for a low price plus shipping. I do not think it's rare at all just that so many people want them still, a huge demand, I think the price, and the availability locally depends on where a person lives, how high is the demand in a certain place, how easy is it to sell fig trees in a certain place, and how many fig collectors live in a certain area. When I need something I contact someone I know has it whether or not the person is local.


Hello Alan,

I know what you mean, just like Richie said, a rare variety in my area might not be so rare in yours and vice versa. I saw a brown Turkey For sale in a local garden centre last week , but the fig was green with dark red interior lol yes I picked a fig and ate it

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Originally Posted by rcantor
After 4 years I finally got a fig from one of my RdBs

Lucky me  :)


That looks more like Rue de Pomme ;)
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