My old unknown fig tree?

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AltadenaMara

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Posted 1432833404 · Edited	Reply with quote #1

Could someone help me identify my old fig tree? Any suggestions would be appreciated. It was this size when I moved in around thirty five years ago. The green to pale chartreuse fruit is slightly sugar sweet with a hint of a soapy under-taste, but otherwise seedy and tasteless. However, its shade is delicious on a hot day so its a keeper. The main crop fruit looks the same as the brebas but will get vertical white splits when ripe. My oldest son built the tree house. My old unknown fig tree Leaves Brebas Main Crop ripening Breba -seedy and slightly sweet __________________ Mara Southern California Zone 1990= 9b 2012= 10a 2020=?

hoosierbanana

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Posted 1432842283	Reply with quote #2

Very cool tree! It looks a lot like Italian Honey to me. __________________ 7a, DE

greenfig

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Posted 1432843396	Reply with quote #3

A nice tree! I wanted to say a Kadota relative __________________ wish list: Violeta, Calderona. USDA z 10a, SoCal

ChrisK

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Posted 1432852430	Reply with quote #4

Very nice tree,love the fig house also. Are you sure that fig is fully ripe? You should let some of them stay on the tree until they fall of or start to dry. Perfect looking fruit also. Thanks for sharing! __________________ ChrisK Atl GA Zone 7b-8a

deerhunter16b

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Posted 1432854636	Reply with quote #5

Beautiful tree.......I agree with Chris ...that fig doesn't look completely ripe __________________ john Zone 7a

AltadenaMara

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Posted 1432907138	Reply with quote #6

Thanks for your comments. hoosierbanana, The leaves look close to Italian Honey/Latarulla but the main crop never gets the polka dots that the Latarulla picture in the Varietal Information shows. The main crop is the same as the brebas, except they split vertically. I don’t remember it having any other taste but a slight sweetness with a soapy undertaste. Igor, I’m not sure about Kadota. The main crop fruit stay a lighter green with a white interior. I never knew that a breba crop was different from the main crop until I read it here. On this tree, both seem the same. Varietal Info shows the Kadota interior as being yellow or pink. ChrisK and John, you can see the broken stem in the picture. The fig was drooping and practically falling off the tree, so it seemed like the most ripe of any of them. But these figs don’t seem to be fully ripe until they develop the vertical white spits. __________________ Mara Southern California Zone 1990= 9b 2012= 10a 2020=?

AltadenaMara

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Posted 1434140239	Reply with quote #7

Thanks for your suggestions as to what fig this could be. I wish I knew. The birds started pecking at my breba crop and white lines are beginning to appear on the sides of the fruit, so I guess they're ripe. I just noticed the faint polka dots for the first time on one of the over ripe fruit. The taste was still slightly sweet, but no soapy taste this time. They look different from my Laturella breba on a E.L. tree in a pot. The Laturella breba are a darker green with contrasting polka dots and don't have the ridges that I see on these fruit. Picked today: There were little gnat like insects clustered on the figs. They looked like the fig gnats that try to get to my rooting cuttings. Do fig gnats go for the ripe fruit? It's hard to get close enough to see any detail on them. __________________ Mara Southern California Zone 1990= 9b 2012= 10a 2020=?

deerhunter16b

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Posted 1434151563	Reply with quote #8

Those look very nice __________________ john Zone 7a

So_Cal_Mike

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Posted 1434155703	Reply with quote #9

They were probably not gnats, they were probably fig wasps. Fortunately we have fig wasps in Southern California. __________________ Sunset Zone: 21 • USDA Zone: 10a __________ Wish List: Lattarula

philos

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Posted 1434169968	Reply with quote #10

What an awesome tree house, in the best possible tree that could have ever existed: a fig tree. :) Totally clueless on what that fig is. But I love the pic! Thanks for sharing! :) __________________ Jerry - Zone 6B Westchester, New York. 2015 Wish List: Florea, White Greek, Italian 258, Galicia Negra and any M. Pons varieties.

DesertDance

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Posted 1434214152	Reply with quote #11

My first thought was that it could be a wild fig planted by a bird all those years ago. When you mentioned the gnats, and someone mentioned wasps, I then thought that your fig must be a caprifig. So now you need to figure out if those gnats are truly fig wasps. Lampo has posted many photos of them. If not the wasp, maybe just fruit flies. Love the treehouse! Suzi __________________ Zone 9b, Southern California. "First year they sleep, Second year they creep, Third year they leap!" Wish List: I wish all of you happy fig collecting! My wishes have been fulfilled!

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