Greetings,

I took a few photos that show the first crop figs produced this year on a plant from Switzerland my relative gave me. I call it Dominique Italian/ Swiss. The mother tree was taken from Italy and grown in Switzerland for many years hence the name. The leaves on my tree where damaged by one of the many frosts we had to deal with this spring.

I had sent cuttings to a few of the members hoping to hear something of what he fig tasted like. The people I sent it to where living in warmer planting zones. I have not received any reports back except for two guys that v reported back saying the trees died--don't recall the reasons. It is still rather young.

I did yesterday send these same photos to my relative who responded back as you can read below.

Lou

 Hi Lou,
The fruits look exactly like the ones on Dominique's trees here, but I have the impression that they are bigger than ours and of course I will not see ours on the tree before August. Congratulations - this is a very nice success you have there. The trees pay back the excellent treatment they get from you. I bet you are talking to them a lot !

Have a good day

Bravo Lou...nice work!

Hi Lou,

Like yourself and Joe, I am a big fan of Southern Italian (Calabrian) figs. Do you know where in Italy your Dominique Italian/ Swiss originated?

Are those brebas in the picture? Is this tree of the dark persuasion?

I have both a white and black Calabrian (cuttings obtained one year ago from a visit to the ancestral homestead) which I am hoping will fruit this year. Local folks did not have a varietal name for them. They called them "ficu yianca" and "ficu nivura".Duh, responded I..

Thanks for posting pictures. I hope you post more as they mature.

Frank

Frank,
Those are brebas. What my cousin told me was that the tree grew in a yard in Switzerland that had been owned by an Italian person and he had admired it for years when he happened by the property. He never met the person but one day he was in that area and he learned that the person had the property up for sale and returned back to Italy. He decieded to venture into the yard to get a closer look at the tree. While there he spotted a small sucker near the bae of the tree. He carefully dug it up and he did manage to get some roots with the plant.
 
It has been growing in his yard for years now. My cousin has since passed on but he did tell me that the figs where a good quality. He every year because of how many he had made jam with some. From what he told me they are a dark fig.  He never learned what area the tree came from in Italy.
Lou

My congrats Lou!

Any fig that originated from Italy, is usually a good one...