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...Question for my SoCal neighbors...

Curious to know what is your earliest and latest producing variety of the growing season. Had a quick exchange with Igor about this yesterday. This will be my second summer with figs and would like an idea of good producing varieties fit years to come. Last year I only had Black Jack,  Brown Turkey and Kadota.

Adriatic, Verte, Bourjasotte Gris, Kadota, Marylane Seedless, Violette de Bordeaux.  Breba crops if that's what you are asking.  Mine are all in ground.  Jury is out on many others that are too young or haven't produced figs yet.

Suzi

I'm in Oceanside and my Filacciano trees started giving ripe fruit in late April last year; I suspect Desert king (another San Pedro variety) and others would perform similarly.

Saratoga/Chico strawberry is the latest for me; they ripen late August.

One main crop fig is forming on my Atreano... I hoped to see brebas, but the tree thinks not.

My earliest is the Bebera Branca ripening in late June. The breba are the size of a BT if not larger. The main crop is much smaller. The unk MacCauley St fig had good (not great but good enough) tasting figs the day after Christmas.

Thanks everyone. I forget there aren't that many of us out here with more then a couple years experience, this'll be a good project for us newbies... Gonna be hot the next couple days, take care of your babies...

Yep, hitting high 80's to low 90's starting tomorrow. I just came in from watering my trees. One of these days I'll get smart and put them on auto drip. :-)

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My earliest has been Atreano, but to me it's flavor is weak.

The latest is Vernino/Pasquale. Nice little dark fig that I've had ripen in Nov/Dec. Cant remember exactly when.

And, yes, it's been hot - with more to come.

True, has been hot, too hot :(
I am considering to shrink my heard and repot some into the larger pots. I think it is better to have fewer trees in good condition than just go for a quantity. I guess I am past the "want to have them all" stage. I am thinking to leave 15 or so best performing trees and keep them happy. With our drought it is hard to go 50 grownups in a city

I lost a couple of cuttings couple weeks ago in that other little heat wave.  
Greenfig, when would you say is too late to up-pot a tree? 
I think 10-15 is s good number for "favs".

Hey Sue, do you have a pic of your MacCauley unk? Dark or green? 
And Gina,  same with your Pasquale, pic?

Simon,
Jon has images on his varieties page: http://figs4fun.com/Var_M_info.html#MACAULEY
He thinks it may be a Kadota.

Sue

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