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SF Chronicle Article on Cool Weather Figs

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2010/06/30/DDNU1DPDNP.DTL

According to the article, Desert King is the "fig of choice for San Francisco." Some nice pictures, too.  The Desert King looks delectable. The Olymian looks huge. The Lattarula looks just like a fig one of my neighbors calls "California White." Sadly, the Violette de Bordeaux looks a little underripe.
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Thanks for posting the article. It is interesting and hopefully Olympian will become available soon.
The following part confuses me about the Desert King:

"Desert King' and the other cool-weather figs start to form fruit the year before, then enter autumn with a "breba" crop: marble-size fruit that overwinters, giving them a big head start for the following season's crop, Dolan explains".

I am confused because my observation in my location is different. I do not see breba forming before the dormancy but are formed in spring after waking up from dormancy followed by the main-crop which needs pollination to ripen where fig wasps are available. According to the above statement, breba are formed after the main crop. May be my observation is based on my location and the cycle could be different in different summer climates.
Someone more familiar can help clarify.
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Your climate is too cold and getting cold too fast for Desert king to risk and grow the little embryos late in the Fall.
So they are there ,Invisible till climate permits them to grow.
If the tree is not protected,from cold,those invisible undeveloped embryos will die,so there will be no breba crop,on Desert King for you,and the main crop will drop too from lack of polination,and you will end up with nothing.
If you do not have a place to take the Desert king early,before frost starts,and keep it at 40F,till Spring,then do not bother with it,because,those little invisible Embryos die first from frost.
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Thanks Herman
That is a good explanation.

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