It was time to pick the first breba of the tree!

almost as big as a big apple,
over 100 grams-not sure I trust the scale.
simply delicious with an amazingly good after taste.

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The following two on white background are of main crop!
Enjoy!  
Note how the very ripe fig looses the stripes.

Nice!  Update us with the main crop.   :)

Hi Grass.
That's a beautiful and delicious looking fig.
Is that the cuttings that you sent out this winter?
Vito

Nice.  I have a healthy tree growing from the cuttings you gave me this past winter and now it has 3 figs getting ready to swell soon.  I hope they all ripen; I can't wait to try this one. 

Can you describe its flavor - berry, honey, figgy, melon? 

Grasa, that's a beautiful fig and impressive size.
Both cuttings are growing thanks to you :)

Vito, yes those were the cuttings I sent out. 

and for those who did not get it, I will be sending them out as  I remove the airlayers, sometime in mid winter.

Aaron, this fig makes awesome root stock also, so you may keep both and put a new top on one of them. 

My black madeira that I grafted onto its roots is a beautiful tree with no signs of that Mosaic virus at all.   perhaps a decent root will make the virus less active. Well, that is my lay lady's hope.

m5, I cannot describe the flavor, it is figgy with an aftertaste that stays for a while.  skin is sweet and soft, I ate the whole thing. it is very good. 

My oh my, I just spotted another almost twice bigger than this one...   I better protect it from curious birds.

Am I reading the scales correctly, 4 ounces? And you found one twice as large, 8 ounces? Seattle Purple Unk Beauty Half Pounder? I know, too long. It does look good, large as well as delicious, can't go wrong.

Holy mackerel. That is one gigantic fig.

Grasa,
 Wow, Wow, WOW!  Looks great inside and out.  I've only been getting ping-pong size figs from my other trees -- I can't wait until my Unk Seattle Purple Amber GB trees are big enough to yield figs.  This is a true test of patience.
Jim

It looks similar to the fig my friend brought to me off her tree, it was very good. I asked her for cuttings this winter. She doesn't know the name of the fig as she has had it for years.

Hi Grasa,
Congrats ! That's a nice fig with a nice look and shape.
Where did you get it from ?
Could you take a pic of the leaves and a stem with the last leaves and bud ? So that one can spot it if one day I pass by such a tree . Thanks a lot.
Are you planning to make more daughter of that tree for you ? I think, that I would . It would be a shame to loose that strain ...
I've got 6 trees of one strain to get more production and backup-trees in case an hungry pest snacks on the tree ... That saved me in 2012, when 5 (of the former generation ) of them died to the cold winter.
I replaced the dead ones with daughters of the only "real" survivor ...

Jd, here are more pictures of last year : http://figs4funforum.websitetoolbox.com/post/my-unknown-fig-fruits-6580150?pid=1280146822#post1280146822

This poor tree was mishandled in its early years, so the prunings too close to the trunk has left many scars from the die backs. Another reason, why, when pruning one should not prune without leaving the 2-3 node on the branch, to allow room for healing.  With that, I decided to lower its size slowly. I removed several airlayers last year, and removed one entire bad branch, which now is planted in my parking strip.  I will continue removing them to bring the tree to more manageable size, but slowly, allowing those year growth to produce. I am just thinning out the skinny without fruits (leaving 2 nodes there).  It was purchased at a nursery, but the tag is long gone and the nursery has no records of what it sold.  Regardless, like Kiwibob said, that some of the 'labels' are not true, so I have no hope to find out what variety this is wihtout a DNA testing, which I am not paying to have it done.   It is a special tree and fed of my boy's placenta when it was first planted (so I think), 24 years ago. My crazyness for fig was documented with my boy's birth.

Grasa,
important feature of this fig is that it is a Rimada( specially the pics from the thread you just included)... stripes are very persistent and uniform.
Interesting...

Grasa,

Big fig, looks like something almost got it before you did.  If you want to check your scale 20 nickels equals 100 grams so 5 grams per nickel.  It is how I calibrate mine.  

  Oh Grasa That's really  SOME FIG!   Thank you, thank you.  I'm delighted the cuttings from you are doing great!  I cant wait for  some fruit. 


  @ Wills good info about the nickels. Thanks

Two new pictures added of a very ripe main fig! What a delicious treat!

Very interesting.

Lovely fig!  Great size.  Is this the same that you previously had offered cuttings from?

I sent out lots of cuttings...if it was 'purple', yes! the pictures are fror Brebas on bamboo cutting board and main on white paper.   they are identical, huge, delicious.

Grasa,
If you have more cuttings available now or in the future, I would be interested in trying them here in Kansas City.  I would compensate you for your time and postage as well.  Just PM me sometime if you would.
Thank you!

Grasa,

Congratulations!
This is an awesome breba ...the pulp picture tells how delicious it has to be.
Wouldn't mind to try it one day and root one together with the Lampeiras.
Well done

Francisco

Francisco, 
watch what you wish for, it might come true, LOL

can you guys imagine if this fig is pollinated? :)

I have an idea, why don't we try grafting it on "John's Market Capri". It might give out 200 gem delicious green or purple fig maybe Smyrna or a self pollinator if we are lucky.

It would be a super fig if caprified for sure! The figs get bigger as the tree ages.  The airlayers from last year have figs, but much smaller.  There are a lot of them swelling up right now. I can hardly wait for them to be ready. 

Francisco, I re-edited: the 2 on white is of a main crop fig!

Bizarre or not, Slavi told me yesterday that he ate a 'main crop Desert King Fig', and that the tree has a few figs that were going to ripe. This is a large tree in the south seattle area.  So, is Desert King adapting to this weather or are wasps present here? Could someone have released them  there?

Nice fig! Reminds me a Wuhan inside.
I hope to taste both next year! Still tiny. Your cutting has grown quite well.

After fussing for so many years with the pruning of this tree, I am convinced that that method shown from the Canadian nursery for production of Brebas in the NW is the correct way of pruning this tree as well. As I re-shape it, it is getting better every year.  I have 3-4 feet of this year's growth that I am not touching, and will only prune the others thinner an older branches. It is a learning curve for all of us.

if you missed that video: here it is again: