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MichaelTucsonLook up "Sierra" and "Sequoia" to find a thread where this was discussed previously.
Here's a link to one of those threads (there are probably others)
http://figs4funforum.websitetoolbox.com/post/sierra-and-sequoia-4204605?highlight=sierraAs for your question "is it documented anywhere?"... yes, by definition everything that's patented in the U.S. is documented in the records of the U.S. Patent Office. You would need to do a patent search (perhaps by paying to have one done, but I don't know what all is involved in searching the records of the U.S. Patent Office).
Mike central NY state, zone 5a
Thanks, Mike.
When I asked about the documentation, I meant more about finding a description of what figs are patented, not to read the patents themselves.
It is a bit OT, but while following your link I found a process they used to create the Sequoia figs. The original is here: http://www.freepatentsonline.com/PP20038.html
This is how to make you own hybrids:
" The new fig selection ‘Sequoia’ is the result of a controlled cross, performed in June of 1992. The hybridization site was located in a small planting of collected fig cultivars growing near the town of Clovis in Fresno County, Calif. The cross was made between the commercial cultivar ‘Tena’ as the female (seed) parent and pollen from a proprietary caprifig (unpatented) identified as ‘D3-11’ as the male parent. The ‘Tena’ fruit was covered with a cloth organdy sleeve cage well in advance of fruit receptivity, in order to exclude any insects that might enter the fig fruit and effect unwanted pollination. At the receptive stage, the cage was removed from the developing ‘Tena’ fruit, after which pollen from the ‘D3-11’ was introduced into the interior of the fruit. The sleeve cage was then replaced over the fruit and remained in place until the fruit matured.Hybrid seed was extracted from the mature dried fruit in fall of 1992. The seed was then planted in small growing containers in a greenhouse in Parlier, Fresno County, Calif. in early spring of 1993. By late spring of 1993, the developing seedlings were transplanted into seedling rows in the field in Parlier. A total of 918 hybrid fig seedlings were planted in 1993, 353 of which were from the ‘Tena’ by ‘D3-11’ cross. From among the seedlings in this population, the seedling identified as ‘Sequoia’ first fruited and was first selected in September of 1998.
The first propagation of the ‘Sequoia’ selection occurred in spring of 2001 in a fig selection block in Parlier. The selection was grafted onto an existing fig tree (Ficus carica) that was 4 years of age at that time. The ‘Sequoia’ produced a few fruit the following year in September of 2002, and produced a normal crop of fruit in 2003, 2004, 2005 and 2006. The characteristics of the propagated tree are identical in all aspects of fruit and vegetation to the original seedling. The name ‘Sequoia’ has been given to this new cultivar. "