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Rooted cutting,fruitting the same year? Wich Cultivar,was able to do it?

Out of Many cultivars I trialed,only 2 produced fruits the same year:I rooted them in March and they had ripe fruits at the Begining of October,the same year.
My 2 cultivars are:
Marseilles vs Black
Adriatic JH
Do you have a cultivar so generous in producing ripe fruits for you?  If so list it here.
In my opinion cultivars that can do the above are to be considered base  fruitting cultivars,and should be grown ,and trialed first, by new Gardeners.
  Here is pixes taken in OCTober,for the new plants.          
Both plants are inground.

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brooklyn white, brooklyn dark, + LSU gold

I had experience with Marseilles vs Black that had 5 figs on the first year rooted plant. The cuttings were rooted in February and fruits started in late May and stayed until late July and then dropped. The fun started the next year with ripe fruits.

Vicenzo & JH Adriatic.





Hi H2.

This one may not qualify in the strictest sense but I think it's worth mentioning.

This is one of the local fig varieties I found back in the summer. It dies back to the ground every winter but shoots back up very vigoruosly and produces fruit the same season.

I acquired a couple of small pieces that had a very small amount of roots on them. The larger piece had about four nodes on it so I laid it on its side on the ground just in front of my front porch. I then covered it with a little soil & some pine mulch leaving just one node above the soil line. By seasons end this thing had sent one shoot up to more than 5' with at least 3 more smaller shoots down lower. It put on about a dozen figs but only a couple of them ripened enough to enjoy.

The other piece I had of this one was about 3" long X about 3/4" diameter and only had a few bumps near the base that resembled roots beginning to form (it had been taken from right down at soil level). It only had one node on it so I put it directly in a pot with just the node above soil level. That one node shot up to about 18" & even put on a few figs but they never ripened before frost.

The parent tree gets plenty of ripe fruit each year but also loses many green ones to the frost.

So this one doesn't quite make it into the category you are talking about H2. But I was rather impressed with how fast it shot up with some fruits developing.

Here are some pics of it:

The first two pictures are of the one that I placed in front of my porch. The last 2 pics are of the parent tree. All of the wood in the last shot is completely dead except for what's right down @ ground level. In the third pic you can see a couple of small shoots starting to come back.

It's a very vigoruos grower & I'm interested to see how it will do in a greenhouse. In a warmer climate I feel like it would grow quickly into a pretty large tree. 
  

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LW for one!

I lost it (cold) last year and currently re-starting it.
Some other newly rooted figs do produce even from cuttings,
which I pick-off, unless they are 'unknowns', and me being
eager to have a 'clue' how the fruit looks like.

My first LW (from KK):
(most  probably cutting was first GH wintered)

A few Latarolla ,1  Marseilles vs, 4 out of 10 sals (genes), 1 vdb, 1 jh adriatic, 1 hardy chicago.  Possibly more  but cant remember right now.    

JH Adriatic and Malta Purple both produced good tasting figs in same year mine were rooted.

Dan

Danny Delight dark. rooted in April and produced five figs, same year. Only one fruit ripened in October after the weather had turn cool. Nothing special in taste Hoping it will do much better next year.


The other fig to produce the same year it was rooted was Sal's EL. Three fruits the first year. But none were able to ripen.

Bob

J.H. Adriatic, cutting started in Spring of this year and I ate a very very good fig on the week end after Thanksgiving. Seems like a lot of you had the same experience with the J.H. Adriatic.
"gene"

Yes George I agree Lindhurst White is a healthy strong unpretencious cultivar.
I know it produced very early for me but I am not sure if it had ripe fruits the first or the second year,so that is why I did not place it on my list.

Had a sals gene give me ripe fruit two I believe on first year cutting. Thanks to pinching I believe.

That's a great pic Gorgi. I am motivated with what I see.  I could picture my coming LW plant laden with figs for the 2011 season. Thanks to a generous donor in Canada.

I actually had a few plants that were rooted early in  2010 that did ripen.

BT-MD
Doçe
Large Greek Black
Natalina
Preto
Salem Dark

BT-MD, Large Greek Black & Salem dark ripened the most figs between 10-12 figs each all tasted very good. Cant wait to see how they will taste in their second season.

My UCD cuttings arrived fairly late in the spring, but nearly all of them started trying to develop fruit at some point during the growing season. I removed most of these but often left a single fig per plant to see what it would do. I was surprised yesterday to see that the lone fig on an otherwise bare Violette de Bordeaux actually looked ripe, so I picked it and cut it open, and then ate it. Not quite ripe after all, and too small to be worth the trouble, but still an edible fig in December!

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That's a nice, stocky little tree, Ken.

noss

Thanks, Noss--I'm looking forward to seeing how it does in 2011 with a full growing season.

I forgot to mention a few others that fruited in its first season but I picked the figs off as I thought they would not ripen in time. Should of left atleast 1 fig on each plant though.

Branca
Chico Strawberry
Enrico
G+A ( Unknown Greek)
Hardy Chicago
Nardi Black
Pane Vino White
Sal's Corleone
Sal's EL
Violette De Bordeaux EL

Abebereira

Schar Amber

Sorry Nelson,Your Last list does not count because,just forming green fruits is not a proof that they would have getting ripe if left on.
Yet at this point  we have a good ideea what cultivars needs short season,and low heat units to get ripe.
Usually in first year Fig trees form fruits later and if they get ripe fruits ,is a sure sign they are early ripening cultivars later on in life,and can be counted on them in short Sommer,and low heat.

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