Artfuldodger, is that a breba fig, and if so, how many will you end up with???

ummm.... I don't know what a breba is (I'm new to this forum and a novice).

Update:  I just read about the description of a breba.  I didn't notice where I picked it, but looking back at the branch where some were picked off, I think it is on "old wood" thus a breba.  I feel smarter! 

It's a Brown Turkey fig.  I usually harvest around 4 dozen throughout the summer/early Fall.  I let the birds have the figs at the very top, where I can't reach and I don't want to get on a ladder.  I have one fig tree in my small backyard that undoubtedly loves me as it produces such large sweet figs every year!  I had a Kadota fig tree right next to it, but it didn't do well at all (two figs the whole harvest season if I was lucky, the rest would brown shrivel and drop off never coming to maturity), so I replaced it with a Meyer's lemon tree.

I've had the BT tree for about nine years.

2011 Harvest Season

5/7/11 Unknown Yum (in ground. possibly UCR 276-49) began ripening breba crop (closed eye).

6/15/11 Unknown Yum began ripening main crop (small, open eye).

6/15/11 Unknown Giant (in ground) main crop is ripening.

6/21/11 Kadota (in ground) breba are ready.

6/24/11- Celeste (in ground) main crop figs are coming in! Good flavor.

7/1- Verte (in ground) main crop are ready for harvest. Average weight is 19.5g.

7/5/11- First of the Alma (in ground) main crop figs has ripened. They look like they will be larger this year. Last year's batch were more yellow/green with small to no necks. Could be due to the fact that this year they were produced on one and two-year old wood versus last year's all new growth from the freeze kill. Also, last year the first main crop fruit ripened in early September. The flavor was good. Rich and sweet.

7/16/11 Brown Turkey (in ground) variant producing main crop a full two months earlier than last year despite being killed to the ground the past two winters.

7/18/11 Brunswick (in ground) main crop are starting to come in a few weeks earlier than last year.


7/19/11 Unknown Coronado (in ground) main crop ripening. Grew back from ground after freezing.

7/28/11 Kadota (in ground) main crop is ripening now.

2012 Harvest Season

5/20/12 Verte (in gound) breba crop began ripening.

6/11/12 Unknown Coronado (in-ground) began producing ripe main crop.

6/14/12 Celeste (Willis) (in-ground) began ripening main crop.

6/18/12 Brunswick (in ground) main crop are starting to come in a few weeks earlier than last year.

6/30/12  Celeste (in ground) main crop figs are coming in! Excellent flavor.

6/30/12 Unknown Giant (in ground) main crop is ripening. Delicious!

7/1- Verte (in ground) main crop are ready for harvest. Average weight is 28.9 g. Very good flavor.

7/4/12  Texas Everbearing (in ground) main crop is ripening. Good flavor. Strong resemblance to Unknown Coronado.

7/9/12 Kadota (in ground) main crop is ripening. Good flavor. Almost 3 weeks earlier than last year.

7/11/12 LSU Purple (in-ground) began ripening main crop after being killed to the ground this past Winter.

7/12/12 Alma (in-gound) began producing main crop. Just a few days later than last year. Fruit are larger.

My Celeste fig tree went from June 25th - July 20th this year. Over 100 lbs.

First Brebas 2011 (from one to six per plant; seem delayed)
Lyndhurst White.... JUly 21
English Brown Turkey 22
Kala Heera (Ghosj) ...  July 24
Black Jack...  July 26
English Brown Turkey.... July 26
(To be updated as more breba ripen)

Edit: We got visitors for a week and they noticed brebas and helped themselves (properly ripened or not) so the ripening dates got mixed up.

Week of
7/30/2011
Peters honey
Black unknown
Black jack
Brown turkey
Black mission

Date of 1st Brebas that Ripened for the 2011 season.

Deleon                 07/03/11
Enrico                  07/15/11
Doçe                    07/22/11
Hollier                   07/23/11
Kadota                  07/29/11
Blk. Marseilles VS     07/29/11
Desert King             07/29/11

nelson 20vt,
are your figs in the ground? I was thinking about getting Hollier, but seemed like it would need some winter protection below zone 8.
Karla

Hi Karla its in a container for now. But Adriano from adrianosfigtrees does grow his inground with much success and he lives about 20 minutes west of me.

Thank you, that is a great news.

Karla

What is a good tasting, sweet, fig that will do well in Zone 5?

mike,

following link has info you are looking for.

http://figs4funforum.websitetoolbox.com/post?id=4800578

pete

Figsonporch, does your celeste drop fruits on you?  Any pics of the fruit and how old is the tree?  100 lbs? 

Macmike. We are in a zone 5 in Connecticut, and have ground figs here, are, Marseilles Black VS, Danny's Delight, Hardy Chicago, Sal's EL, Hardy Hartford seem to be cold hardy here. We have been burying them for winter protection. But some are as tall as 8 to 10 feet 

Macmike. We are in a zone 5 in Connecticut, and have ground figs here, are, Marseilles Black VS, Danny's Delight, Hardy Chicago, Sal's EL, Hardy Hartford seem to be cold hardy here. We have been burying them for winter protection. But some are as tall as 8 to 10 feet 

Thanks for the information Robert. I like these forums. Can sure learn a lot. I spent 3 hour reading on here last night.  Good luck with your figs! I only have a very small Hardy Chicago right now.

Aug 14 2011.
VdB-paradise nursery. 1 fig riped. more on the way. 1.5 yr old tree. it might have been late due to all stress due to repotting. taste wasn't all what i have expected from reading on the forum, might be due to tree being young, first crop from the tree, or all the rain we have been having. the next fig will stay on the tree till it's all droopy and winkled up.

pete

Connecticut, zone 5. First in ground main crop figs to ripen here.

paradiso gene. little less than 2 yr old. ripe around early nov. 8 2011.

pete

This was taken yesterday, 30May2012, from a LAMPEIRA PRETA about to have ripe brebas (Figos lampos). Close to the bigger fruit one can already see a couple of fruit for the second crop (Figos vindimos) almost ready for the 'wasp's visit'
All the best - Francisco (Algarve)
http://www.flickr.com/photos/lampo2012/7308975000/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/lampo2012/7308975432/

The origins of this fig (San Pedro -Lampeira Preta) are similar to the fruit shown before on a message sent earlier this month. (*)
It  looks like that today, the photos are showing a different variety, if we look at the fruit skin and pulp colors, size, leaves, etc. - The variety is exactly the same and the difference resides mainly on the type of soil,  the lack of artificial irrigation, exposure to sunlight, more or less influence of dominant winds,,to name a few.
I am definitely convinced that the common problem of seeing people calling different names to the same variety of figs may have to with this sort of phenomena.
(*) weight - 82 grams  and ripening now.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/lampo2012/7410862276/

This is my first black Smyrna (Euchario Preto) of current season.
Hope soon to show the white brother which always shows up sometime later.For a while thought this fig close to the Zidi which I believe to be a Smyrna as well. But there are marked differences, notably the pulp color which I believe is deep red on the Zidi.
Francisco

Very nice figs, Lampo. Unfortunately, only a small area of the U.S. has the fig wasp and the rest of us can't grow those Smyrna varieties without considerable difficulty. Great seeing your pictures though!

Ruben, Thank you. I understand quite well what you say. Many times I think that if I were living in certain areas of the US where the climate is ideal or somehow milder, I would certainly try. From the distance I do not foresee insurmountable odds.
But I agree that 'waspless' projects are simpler and quite rewarding.
In the coming weeks I shall be also showing some of our common figs and (why not!) one or two more smyrnas.
Good luck and take care
Francisco

Here, an early COMMON black fig, (figo preto temporão)as it is called around my place. I am sure it may well have another dozen names depending on the regions where it is cultivated. It is a good fruit, juicy but for my taste, it did not get enough sun. Flavor is ok, fruity, but not very sweet. On some locations, the first figs are ready for pick-up by mid July side by side with the Cardinale grapes. I am inclined to believe that it may well be a close relative to the french variety Pastillière.
Francisco




http://www.flickr.com/photos/lampo2012/7638403306

http://www.flickr.com/photos/lampo2012/7638403740