I've posted pictures of this fig before. This year, I want to I eat more than the birds, so it is under wraps. I don't blame the birds for going after this one. It is really good. It has a complex, sophisticated tang making it more interesting than your regular sweet sugary fig. It has different unique tastes throughout its maturing (from barely red to slightly over-ripe purple).
Even afer the recent deluge, the eye stays closed.

If anyone recognizes the leaf pattern, the fig shape and color or other characteristics of this fig to a known cultivar, I wish you would share your thoughts as to what it might be.

I have one that looks just like that. KK from Garden web sent me one but I will give a shot, "Sals", three lobes? Looks the same too.

Looks delicuous!

Jenn

Look's great.  Nice tree shape. 

nice looking tree large trunk how old is it ?

It is more than 10 years old. It is a slow, compact grower, almost dwarf- like.

Nice looking tree and fruits. I like those squat red figs.

Your fig hedge in the background is looking good too. :)

Wow what a beautiful fig! I'd love to know the variety.

Did you get this tree from NJ????


luke

Hey Luke,
I received the tree while living in Ocean County. I brought it down to Florida when we made our move...hence NJ Red.

Gina, the hedge is coming along, but the potted figs are succumbing to rust. :((

Looks delicious and a good size. 

Darn it Frank, now I'll be heading to OC,NJ in search. My wife works for a doctor who has a house in OC, I guess this will give me a reason to go. Normally if I head for the shore, it's N. Wildwood. Brother-inlaw owns a house on 9th about 1.5 blocks away from the beach. He's in a good spot because it's a couple blocks away from the boardwalk.

How'd you make out with the storm?

luke

Tropical Storm Debby? Thanks for asking. We lucked out with much rain but no major damage. 


Ah, the Jersey Shore before it was polluted by Snooki....

Luke, are you familiar with the term "bennie"? 

Frank, are you saying Snooki and her gang ran you out of NJ? Say it isn't so.

I want to say outsider, not a local..Bennie. Not really sure.

Please enlighten me. Also have to agree looks like a Sal's, beautiful fig.



luke

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If this is a Sal's variant, then Sal's is one hell of a fig!

I have Corleone and Gene so I will be able to compare later in the year.

If anyone has close-up shots of mature Sal's figs, please post for comparison.

Thanks

Hi Fmd
im curious when you first bite into the ripe figs in last post what did you taste.

Yes please, the taste. It sure is a beaut. I guess I'm not a bennie, I'm from salem county. Oc is an island and you must enter by a bridge so with out telling me exactly where it is, a little help. I go over the 34th street bridge (i think thats what it is ) now what? North or south, ocean side or bay side. I'm a retired boilermaker and used to work in Beesley Point  on Atlantic City Electric boilers during outages. We covered all of NJ, traveled alot.


luke

Is it fishing net? where to buy it?

FMD, These are my Hardy Chicago fruit from EL. I bought the tree in the spring of last year. I think I have read here that HC from EL is Sals. I put it in the ground this April. The few fruit I have had so far were relatively bland. I am hoping it will improve with age. The tree is struggling a little. It is next to brick wall that gets hot. I did notice yours are shiny while mine are not.

Martin,
This is what I wrote when I first tasted Frank's NJ Red last year: "It was not a sweet fig - not as sweet as Celeste but it was juicy, rich, and a complex berry like flavor with a nice crunch. I needed more than two fruits to say anything more and there are more to ripen. This Unknown Purple [now known as NJ Red] is definitely a good fig." Frank wrote this about NJ Red "spicy complex unique flavor".

Airymind,
It appears to be similar to the netting I use that was purchased at Lowes.

Martin, ditto Jimmie's post on taste....however, the bird netting (yes, from Lowes) allowed the figs to mature properly and the flavor doubled and tripled in quality. At this later stage, the taste is so much more concentrated, bursting in your mouth and shocking the senses. It is sweet, of course, but not syrupy sweet. It loses some of its spiciness, but gains in the deep fig flavor we all crave.
I had my wife do a blind taste test with the Celestes. Big mistake. Now she won't touch the Celestes and we are left fighting over one more fig type. :)

Luke, unfortunately, the tree was a gift from a friend from North Jersey (yes, a Bennie) and I don't have the source. But, if interested, IM me for some cuttings this fall.

Nana, thanks for posting pictures of your HC. They do have similarities. I also have an HC along with the two Sal variants which will have mature figs later this summer.

I wish Herman would give his opinion as his quick ID of Obama's fig was an incredible feat.

Frank,
Those NJ Reds look good. Now that you get to taste them, I know you must be really excited and now the wife is involved. Oh boy. we just got back from a week long trip and the birds went wild. They eat everything that was close to being ripe. I found everything from just stems to partially pecked to ripped open to just single pecks on everything that was ripening: Atreano, Black Bethlehem, Foxcroft, LSU Purple, VdB, LSU Improved Celeste, Stallion, Celeste, and Bealle.

Note: I have no expertise on the matter but my eye tells me that your Celeste (the one that you gave me for grafting stock) has unique characteristics. It is productive and vigorous. It has a long stem, golf ball size, and squat shape. It just seems different than the other Celestes that I have and have found locally. After a few more ripen, I will post a few photos.

Jimmie, my sympathies. Frickin' birds! 

The huge mother Celeste is pumping out a lot of figs (See my half baked ode to the tree at http://figs4funforum.websitetoolbox.com/post/I-Am-Not-Proud-5910416. )


If you can stand the heat and humidity, please drop by and help me do battle with the birds. I'm sure they would make a nice preserve.

BTW, your inbox is full.

Frank