This is my the most vigorous grower! With very unique leaves. This cutting was started this winter and has a number of figlets. It grows so fast that the leaves do not have time to harden and the ends are drying up in the full sun.
I cannot wait to taste them! The figs are fairly large, roundish, dark outside and red berry inside.

Great looking tree ! Keep us updated on the ripe figs.

Very nice looking!  Dark and berry inside - some of my favorite things!  When your tree gets sufficiently large, I'd be very interested in a cutting or two please.

I'm having the same problem as you with some of my fig trees. When they're young and well fed with fertilizer, they grow so fast. Maybe even a little too fast for themselves!
Is this an unknown fig you discovered?

Looking great! Well done and thanks for sharing!

Thanks, all!
Yes, it is an unknown that I discovered last year.
I had posted the fig photos.
Let me find the link.

Good looking plant, Igor! I'm envious again.  Has that fig tree always had single-lobed leaves?  I don't ever remember seeing any fig plants with just single-lobed leaves.  

Nate

Ah, here it is

http://figs4funforum.websitetoolbox.com/post/dark-berry-fig-id-please-6424893?highlight=very+berry&pid=1278732768#post1278732768

Nate,
About 90% are the single lobed leaves.
If you keep it in a shade, it may develop 3-5 lobed ones too.

Wow, very impressive! I will echo the wish that it is a common fig. :-)

Thanks greenfig! Keep the updates coming!

Looking at your original post, I take it that you never found information on this unknown black fig??

The original house owners who planted the tree cannot be found. So the history is a mystery at this point.
Not that it makes the fig less tasty :)

Hi Greenfig,
Just my 2 cents :
For me not a common fig, but a fig requiring caprification.
Do you know the origins of the original house owners ? Middle east ?

There is here in a botanic garden a figtree with single lobed leaves. I'll try to get the name to see if it does match. Of course here, the crop always drops :'( at that tree .
The name could be Ficus palmata .
I'll have to check .

From what I have read, this is not a F. Palmata. It could be a hybrid but not the pure Palmata. Alma is a hybrid, for example. The leaves are not single lobed 100%, there are some that are 3 and 5 lobed. If the branch grows slower, the lobes appear. There is a description of F.Palmata at http://waynesword.palomar.edu/arbimg10.htm and it is not the same.

If it needs caprification (pollination) is a totally different question. I traded some cuttings past winter and I hope by the end of this year we will know if the crop stays on the East coast.

I collected a ripe fig today. The timing is very off (it is an early ripening fig) because it came from a 1 gal pot rooted this winter.
Still, the taste was very good, slightly acidic, berry. The skin is very thin and the fig feels soft even when it is not super ripe.
I think the one you see on the photo could use one more day.
It is a very fast growing and vigorous variety (whatever known variety it is).
Enjoy!

 

Now the leaves and fruit match up to what??

When the "meat" (between the pulp and the skin) is thin and translucent as it is in your photo then you've picked it at the right time.

Nice! I really hope this is a common fig. The 2 main crop figs my bigger tree set both dropped. The smaller one that I am going to give to a friend set 2 figs also, it is still hanging on to one. If they both drop, I am going to let the bigger one keep some breba next year and see how they do, as well as another shot at the main. The bigger tree started to grow a couple brebas off of the old wood on the cutting after it really took off with growth, I removed them of course.  If all else fails I may do some grafting on it in a couple years. The tree grows like a toad.(fast,thick,green)