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Petite Aubique breba

Beautiful Fig but not super wonderful taste-wise, but . . .

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How old is the tree? It sure looks better than it tasted.

Hi Tami,
It was a cutting a year ago. 
Yea it was a pretty breba. The main crop is actually getting a blush so maybe ripe figs will appear soon.
thx
mgg

Michael,
I am so confused. I have read all the threads at least 3 times and I can't decide if I have 3 Petite Negri and one Petite Aubique or the other way around! 3 are from 1 source and the 4th from another. All started this year. One looks like my VdB's and the other 3 do not. What do I have or do you need pictures? I can take some tomorrow.
This chit can make one want to pull oneself baldheaded!

Tami,
Send pictures. I'll try to help. Don't pull them all out as you'll get sun burn.
mgg

Awesome Michael, I'll take pics in the morning. Thank you, I seem to be at a learning standstill on this one. Most of the time I can figure things out but I've met my mental brick wall and i absolutely need the help :)

I hope your main crop taste better. Sometimes it takes a few years for the tree to produce
good tasting figs. I have heard many good things for this variant for reliability, productivity,
and taste. Perhaps someone that has more experience in growing this variant can chimed in
on its earlyness.

Tami, I liked the figs I got from my Aubique Petite last year.  I can't claim to have a ton of experience with this variety, but I got main crop figs last year.  They're sweet and berry like... not overly sweet but very good taste.  I've never had a breba from that tree, but I got 10 or 12 main crop figs that I liked.  I posted about that tree on another thread last year ("looks like... Petit Negri... but is it?").  When I get figs from it this year, I'll post pics of those.  It's got main crop figs again this year, but not nearly ripe yet.  (Hoping for a nice warm September, since quite a lot of my trees set their main crop fruit pretty late this year).  As for how early/late they produce, last year I was getting ripe main crop figs by the beginning of September  (this is zone 5a, central NY state).  That's not the earliest main crop around here, but not the latest either.  (Early August for some varieties, earlier if you have a greenhouse of course, but I don't.  In contrast, last year Peter's Honey mains didn't ripen by end of September, and then the weather was too cold).  This year seems later.  Not surprising, as everything is later this year in my locale.

MGG - it'll be interesting to me to compare your main crop with the ones I've got... I'm always interested to confirm whether or not trees are correctly identified, but also so many other factors (culture, climate, weather) can affect the figs.  Like I said I've never gotten a breba, so no comparison to make there.  But if you get some main crop we can see how similar (or not) they are.  I've never gotten breba from this tree, but only had it a year (I bought a mature tree).   As an aside, this year the leaves on it look a lot like VDB (last year they seemed more distinct, more dramatically cut, resembling Valle Negra I think). 

Mike   central NY state, zone 5a

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