I bought this plant from "Trees of Joy" forum member Bass website.
It was the smallest one he sells 4 inch pot (small) at the time around May 15.  Its growing nice and recently snipped ends of the 2 side shoots to slowly start the shape i prefer .
Thanks Bass for a nice plant, its a pleasure to watch them grow and shape  when there first starting out.

Beautiful plant Martin :-)

Talking about a GREEN thumb, ya got two!

You're welcome Martin, You're taking very good care of it. Thanks for sharing.
This variety seems to be very vigorous. I have started cuttings last fall and I have some trees in 5 gallon size about 2-3 ft tall already.
Using the right fertilizer and the right potting mix definitely helps to promote strong growth.

Here's the main crop of a Ronde de Bordeaux. The tree is in its first year and we've had heavy rains. It didn't develop its best taste. It is a very promising variety.

Bass thats against fig law to show a beautiful Dark Fig and not the inside. ; )
Glad you posted Part of it!
I look forward to mine next year as it is growing very well this season with figs on it but they will not ripen.

i just bought one yesterday from bass :).

Exactly after 2 months i posted picture at top of this thread here is todays pictures.Plant is 4ft tall and will get its top cut off.
Enjoy

growing nicely martin. you're doing a great job with the pots. i can't wait to get mine in the ground and get to warm weather. that thing is gonna zoom if it likes central florida weather :).

Martin,

Nice plants and beautiful pictures. Did you get recently get a new camera?

Steve, im laughing actually no its the same camera.
I think my pictures are like most everyone elses picture or were they that bad before. I feel more comfortable useing the camera and take lots of pictures for one shot and load em on hardive and pick the clearest one.

no offense intended of course. I just wanted to compliment you on some really nice pictures. I also take many pictures and then select the best for posting.

Steve,
no no no offesnse taken what so ever !!!
Last night i was out taken pictures useing the night picture thing on camera but i cant seem to get a clear closeup without the picture being sharp it comes out grainy.
I just experiment lately with it and last night i tried but no good.
For average night picture it does rather well though just not to close up.

Beautiful fig Bass

My winter just got longer thinking about the next growing season.
Looking at that fig makes it high on my list for beauty of the dark types, hopefully it will taste as good as it looks.

Now if i could see a rogue de bordeaux or is that really just another name for pastiliere as i see both names on ucdavis site as seperate scion just that rogue de bordeaux at this time is unavailable. I have pastiliere but now have room for rogue bordeaux if its not a pastiliere.

that is drop dead gorgeous bass.

What a pleasure to see a french variety of fig on FFF!!! Thank you Bass for your lovely photographs, your web site has been improved to! It's a great pleasure to come on FFF forums and find crazy fig lovers like me... I spend  a lot of time here, i just can't wait for the moment I'll have my own collection!

Coucou de la France!!! (Hi' from France)

PS. No Salam found in Tunisia this summer, maybe the season or the location (northern Tunisia). The only figs I found were the Zidi. Well, I ate a lot of them thinking of you guys. That's the fig you find on tunisian market on august. But there are so many of them, and i couldn't travel a lot to taste the others.

Hi Dauphine,
perhaps you have knowledge of Rogue De Bordeaux not Ronde.
Do you know if it is the same cultivar as Pastiliere fig plant.
Being in France maybe you have information on this.
Thanks in Advance

Hi Dieseler!

Rouge de Bordeaux and Ronde de Bordeaux are two french figs that Baud recommends for cool climates in France (except mountains places). Zone 8, for instance around Paris, (near Paris we can have zone 9 some say). I was looking on internet Zone 8 would corresponds to Texas in US, South East and South midwest. But Zones are not explaning everything, other factors i think are important.

Rouge de Bordeaux, Pastiliere, is said to be by Baud, a very fine tasting fig, it's first quality not to be very sweet  but my translation: flesh very smooth or delicate, fruity, fleshy, very few grains.55/60 grams. ('chair très fine, fruitée et charnue avec très peu de grains').

very small tree, very early variety, for areas where there are frost in septembre. Harvest august in Provence (south France, Baud's region).

But taste on this fig is not rated the same, some say it's insipid despite Baud's, other
concord, for instance Les chenevières, that sell fig jam in France say:  subtle, velvety, fruity, juicy. http://leschenevieres30.e-monsite.com/rubrique,14-varietes-de-figues,170620.html

Ronde de Bordeaux, Baud says its exceptional for it's taste, good for areas that have early frosts in spring. Very sweet, thin skin, smooth flesh, very sweet. As i read somewhere he said, if he had one to keep it would be this one. (well, in a newspaper, on internet...). Earliest with Pastilière. 40/55 gram.Harvest august.
Some say not very juicy but 'corsé', means marked taste, strong taste. Flesh very red. Very tasty. A big fig tree. I didn't read negative comments on it.

So far I didn't taste any of them. I know that Pastilière is commonly known in south french markets and that ronde is very small, often high rated.

http://foodintelligence.blogspot.com/2007/10/connaissez-vous-les-figues-de-monsieur.html

For pleasure see the interview of Baud, for people who speak french. (he talks about RDB and Pastilière, it's just the same I translated on those figs before...Pastilière : for people more on the fruity side, RDB very sweet taste. Ha Ha reminds me about Hardy Chicago/Sal's comparision, fruity side and sweetness side.

Have a nice time!

Dauphine, Merci.
les chenevieres website is really nice. Ronde de Bordeaux sounds like a good tree to be grown in the ground in northeast US.

I am thankful that my good figfriend here gave me a tree recently. I have a good feeling I will get some figs next year.

Dauphine,
thanks very much for the reply.
 so it seems Pastiliere is same as Rogue Bordeaux, but some say insipid. I will  start to find out next growing season along with Ronde how they taste for my palate.
Strong taste my very favorite taste . Sweet is good but many figs are just sweet and so strong taste i look forward to if that is the case in my climate.

I bought those because they are reported to be early ripening type figs which for me is a plus and if not i still make them make figs for me just not as many then. Time will tell in my area.

Hardy Chicago and Sals you say

Ha reminds me about Hardy Chicago/Sal's comparision, fruity side and sweetness side.

I have both and very true Edible Landscaping Sals very Sweet tasting

Paradise Nursery --  Hardy Chicago,  fruity figgy taste sometimes with crunchy seeds  my absolute favorite.

Sals Corleone i imagaine a sweet fig but i will see first hand soon how that taste, but bought for other reasons than taste. I know im the odd one (grower) in the fig family of forum members as i like to have a mix of things, personal, taste and looks in no particular order.
Best Health